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48 results for affinity bias

New algorithm mitigates affinity bias in hiring feedback loops.

problem Mitigating affinity bias in hiring decisions to avoid unconscious favoritism.
method Introducing affinity bandits, a new bandit variant that accounts for evolving biased feedback.
result Elimination-style algorithm nearly matches the derived regret bound, outperforming classical algorithms.

MASC balances dataset representation using affinity clustering and distribution discrepancies.

problem Representation bias in datasets due to group imbalance.
method MASC uses affinity clustering and pairwise distribution discrepancies to balance non-protected and protected groups.
result MASC effectively debiases target datasets, comparable to existing methods.

BN refines local partition geometry in piecewise-affine networks during training.

problem Understanding the effect of BN on the function realized during training in piecewise-affine networks.
method Analyzing the geometry of switching hyperplanes and affine-region partition conditioned on a mini-batch.
result BN increases expected local partition refinement in ReLU and piecewise-affine networks.

DNF-Net tackles tabular data challenges with neural architecture.

problem Handling tabular data efficiently using neural networks.
method DNF-Net uses a neural architecture with inductive bias corresponding to logical Boolean formulas in disjunctive normal form over affine soft-threshold decision terms.
result DNF-Net significantly outperforms fully connected networks on tabular data.

PCL tackles collaborative learning for diverse agents, reducing sample complexity.

problem Balancing collaborative speedup with personalization for heterogeneous agents.
method AffPCL, with bias and importance correction mechanisms.
result AffPCL reduces sample complexity by a factor of max{n1,δ}\max\{n^{-1}, δ\}, where nn is the number of agents and δ[0,1]δ\in[0,1] measures heterogeneity.

Recent work has shown how to embed differentiable optimization problems (that is, problems whose solutions can be backpropagated through) as layers within deep learning architectures. This method provides a useful inductive bias for certain problems, but existing software for differentiable optimization layers is rigid…

2019-10-28abs ↗pdf ↗

We study affine maps between affine manifolds. Even when the fibers are compact and diffeomorphic, two of them can inherit different affine structures from the source space. This leads to a fixed linear holonomy deformation theory of the affine structure of an affine manifold. We found various conditions which make the…

2001-05-22abs ↗pdf ↗

In this article, we propose the notion of the general pp-affine capacity and prove some basic properties for the general pp-affine capacity, such as affine invariance and monotonicity. The newly proposed general pp-affine capacity is compared with several classical geometric quantities, e.g., the volume, the pp-var…

2017-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

An affine manifold is a manifold with torsion-free flat affine connection. A geometric topologist's definition of an affine manifold is a manifold with an atlas of charts to the affine space with affine transition functions; a radiant affine manifold is an affine manifold with holonomy consisting of affine transformati…

1997-12-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved convergence rate for kNN graph Laplacians with adaptive bandwidth.

problem Enhancing the efficiency of graph-based data analysis methods.
method Introducing a new class of kNN graph with adaptive bandwidth and proving operator convergence rate.
result Operator convergence rate of O(N2/(d+6))O(N^{-2/(d+6)}) for the kNN graph Laplacian, up to a log factor.

Two families of general affine surface areas are introduced. Basic properties and affine isoperimetric inequalities for these new affine surface areas as well as for LφL_φ affine surface areas are established.

2009-08-15abs ↗pdf ↗

This thesis is devoted to the study of affine processes and their applications in financial mathematics. In the first part we consider the theory of time-inhomogeneous affine processes on general state spaces. We present a concise setup for time-inhomogeneous Markov processes. For stochastically continuous affine proce…

2015-12-10abs ↗pdf ↗

A (flat) affine 33-manifold is a 33-manifold with an atlas of charts to an affine space R3\mathbb{R}^3 with transition maps in the affine transformation group Aff(R3)\mathrm{Aff}(\mathbb{R}^3). We will show that a connected closed affine 33-manifold is either an affine Hopf 33-manifold or decomposes canonically to conca…

2014-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

We study affine Jacobi structures on an affine bundle π:AMπ:A\to M, i.e. Jacobi brackets that close on affine functions. We prove that there is a one-to-one correspondence between affine Jacobi structures on AA and Lie algebroid structures on the vector bundle A+=pMAff(Ap,R)A^+=\bigcup_{p\in M}Aff(A_p,\R) of affine functionals. Som…

2002-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper shows affine constraint is unnecessary for high-dimensional data.

problem The necessity of an affine constraint in affine subspace clustering.
method Theoretical and empirical analysis of conditions for correctness of affine subspace clustering methods.
result Affine constraint has negligible effect on clustering performance for high-dimensional data.

In this paper we discuss some affine properties of convex equal-area polygons, which are convex polygons such that all triangles formed by three consecutive vertices have the same area. Besides being able to approximate closed convex smooth curves almost uniformly with respect to affine length, convex equal-area polygo…

2011-03-14abs ↗pdf ↗

An affine Cartan calculus is developed. The concepts of special affine bundles and special affine duality are introduced. The canonical isomorphisms, fundamental for Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of the dynamics in the affine setting are proved.

2003-03-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Calculates affine transformations for specific homogeneous spaces.

problem Computing groups of affine transformations on homogeneous spaces.
method Analyzes conditions for affine connections and uses them to establish group isomorphisms.
result Groups of affine transformations are locally isomorphic under specified conditions.

In this paper, we introduce a new structure, namely, affine Szabó connection. We prove that, on 22-dimensional affine manifolds, the affine Szabó structure is equivalent to one of the cyclic parallelism of the Ricci tensor. A characterization for locally homogeneous affine Szabó surface is obtained. Examples of two- a…

2016-04-19abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we introduce a new parameter, the affine twist parameter for the affine deformation of a sphere with holes. We show that the affine deformation space can be parametrized by Margulis invariants and affine twist parameters. The affine twist parameter is canonically regarded as a correspondence to the Fench…

2015-06-01abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper studies a new class of affine maximal surfaces with singularities.

problem Understanding the properties of affine maximal surfaces with singularities.
method Defining a new subclass of affine maximal surfaces and applying Euclidean minimal surface theory.
result Affine maxfaces satisfy an Osserman-type inequality and do not contain non-trivial improper affine fronts.

We give a new characterization of flat affine manifolds in terms of an action of the Lie algebra of classical infinitesimal affine transformations on the bundle of linear frames. We characterize flat affine symplectic Lie groups using symplectic étale affine representations and as a consequence of this, we show that a …

2019-02-05abs ↗pdf ↗

A branched affine structure on a compact topological surface with marked points is a complex affine structure outside the marked points. We give a proof of an unpublished foundational theorem of Veech, stating that any branched affine surface can be decomposed into affine triangles and some annulus-shaped cylinders. Th…

2019-11-30abs ↗pdf ↗

New methods classify convex lattice polygons for affine dimers.

problem Not all convex lattice polygons are characteristic polygons of affine dimers.
method General constructions and algorithm for finding affine dimers with prescribed polygons.
result All lattice triangles, generalised parallelograms, and polygons of genus at most two admit an affine dimer.

In this paper we exhibit a family of flat left invariant affine structures on the double Lie group of the oscillator Lie group of dimension 4, associated to each solution of classical Yang-Baxter equation given by Boucetta and Medina. On the other hand, using Koszul's method, we prove the existence of an immersion of L…

2017-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Yau's Affine Normal Descent optimizes smooth unconstrained problems with geometrically adapted directions.

problem Optimizing smooth unconstrained problems with geometrically adapted directions.
method Yau's Affine Normal Descent (YAND) uses the equi-affine normal of level-set hypersurfaces as search directions.
result YAND converges globally under standard smoothness assumptions and locally quadratically near nondegenerate minimizers.

An (flat) affine 33-manifold is a 33-manifold with an atlas of charts to an affine space R3{\mathbf R}^3 with transition maps in the affine transformation group Aff(R3)Aff({\mathbf R}^3). Equivalently an affine 33-manifold is a 33-manifold with a flat torsion-free affine connection. We show that a closed affine 33-mani…

2014-07-16abs ↗pdf ↗

We give characterizations of affine transformations and affine vector fields in terms of the spray. By utilizing the Jacobi type equation that characterizes affine vector fields, we prove some rigidity theorems of affine vector fields on compact or forward complete non-compact Finsler manifolds with non-positive total …

2018-11-22abs ↗pdf ↗

In this work we study the affine principal lines of surfaces in 3-space. We consider the binary differential equation of the affine curvature lines and obtain the topological models of these curves near the affine umbilic points (elliptic and hyperbolic). We also describe the generic behavior of affine curvature lines …

2019-01-18abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper deals essentially with affine or projective transformations of Lie groups endowed with a flat left invariant affine or projective structure. These groups are called flat affine or flat projective Lie groups. Our main results determine Lie groups admitting flat bi-invariant affine or projective structures. Th…

2014-08-31abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we study time-inhomogeneous affine processes beyond the common assumption of stochastic continuity. In this setting times of jumps can be both inaccessible and predictable. To this end we develop a general theory of finite dimensional affine semimartingales under very weak assumptions. We show that the co…

2018-04-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Quantum affine bundles are quantum principal bundles with affine quantum structure groups. A general theory of quantum affine bundles is presented. In particular, a detailed analysis of differential calculi over these bundles is performed, including the description of a natural differential calculus over the structure …

1999-08-10abs ↗pdf ↗