A new algorithm trains experts to safely guide agents in partially observed environments.
problem Existing imitation learning methods for POMDPs can lead to sub-optimal or unsafe policies.
method Derive an objective to encourage the expert to maximize the agent's reward, then use it to train both expert and agent.
result The algorithm produces an expert policy that the agent can safely imitate, outperforming fixed expert policies.
Hybrid GP/NN framework for operator learning improves performance and enables zero-shot predictions.
problem Approximating mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces for solving PDEs.
method A hybrid GP/NN framework that approximates the bilinear form of an operator, allowing recovery of the operator.
result Improves performance of neural operators and enables zero-shot predictions.
Paper characterizes nc-rank using gradient flow on symmetric space.
problem Characterizing the noncommutative rank of matrices.
method Interprets residuals as gradients of a convex function on symmetric space and uses unbounded gradient flow.
result Noncommutative corank equals half the minimum gradient-norm of residuals.
Study homeomorphisms on fine curve graph of surfaces, revealing new types of dynamics.
problem Understanding dynamics of homeomorphisms on fine curve graphs of surfaces.
method Analyzing the action of homeomorphisms on the fine curve graph and relating to classical curve graphs.
result Homeomorphisms induce parabolic isometries, and all positive reals are realized as asymptotic translation lengths.
We propose a linear-time, single-pass, top-down algorithm for multiple testing on directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), where nodes represent hypotheses and edges specify a partial ordering in which hypotheses must be tested. The procedure is guaranteed to reject a sub-DAG with bounded false discovery rate (FDR) while satisf…
Kernel methods outperform neural nets in operator learning tasks.
problem Learning operators between Banach spaces from partial observations.
method Kernel-based framework with a priori error analysis and numerical comparisons.
result Kernel methods are competitive with neural nets in cost-accuracy trade-off.
Solving sequential decision prediction problems, including those in imitation learning settings, requires mitigating the problem of covariate shift. The standard approach, DAgger, relies on capturing expert behaviour in all states that the agent reaches. In real-world settings, querying an expert is costly. We propose …
The paper identifies redundant columns in matrices for feature selection and clustering.
problem Identifying redundant columns in matrices for feature selection and clustering.
method Proves that after re-ordering columns, a matrix can be block-diagonalized revealing linearly dependent columns.
result Identifies redundant columns in matrices, aiding in feature selection and clustering.
New method shows multi-objective bandits are not harder than single-objective ones.
problem Comparing multi-objective bandits to single-objective ones.
method Upper and lower confidence-bound estimators for every arm-objective pair, using top-two races and uncertainty-greedy rule.
result Achieves Pareto regret of \(O(
icefrac{\log T}{g^\dagger})\), matching lower bound of \(Ω(
icefrac{\log T}{g^\dagger})\).
The paper studies complexes of hypersurfaces in homology classes and proves their connectedness and simple connectedness.
problem Investigating complexes of hypersurfaces in homology classes and proving their topological properties.
method Defining and analyzing simplicial complexes S†(M,φ) and T†(M,φ) for properly embedded hypersurfaces in n-manifolds, proving connectedness and simple connectedness. result Proves connectedness and simple connectedness of the complexes S†(M,φ) and T†(M,φ). Let X be a compact Gauduchon manifold, and let E and V0 be holomorphic vector bundles over X. Suppose that E is stable when considering all subsheaves preserved by a Higgs field θ∈H0(End(E)⊗V0). Then a modified version of the Donaldson heat flow converges along a subsequence of times to a sol…
The paper finds commutator formulas for Gradient Ricci Shrinker metrics and applies them to linear stability.
problem Linear stability of Gradient Ricci Shrinker metrics.
method Found commutator formulas and generalized a stability theorem.
result Generalized a necessary condition for linear stability.
The paper proves conditions for the triviality of L2-harmonic forms on Riemannian manifolds.
problem Conditions for the triviality of L2-harmonic forms on Riemannian manifolds. method Study of a covariant Schrödinger operator HX,V and its L2-kernel. result Sufficient conditions for the triviality of the L2-kernel of HX,V. Study of geometric analysis on asymmetric metric spaces, including heat flow and Sobolev spaces.
problem Analysis of geometric properties on asymmetric metric measure spaces.
method Introduction of upper gradients, q-Laplacian, and q-heat flow in asymmetric settings. result Extension of concepts from symmetric to asymmetric metric measure spaces.
Interactive IL beats BC by state-wise annotation cost.
problem Behavior Cloning struggles with annotation cost in sequential decision making.
method Proved Stagger and Warm Stagger algorithms to outperform BC.
result Interactive and hybrid IL methods outperform BC with state-wise annotation.
New metrics for Anosov representations defined from Thurston's asymmetric metrics.
problem Defining metrics for Anosov representations.
method Generalizing Thurston's asymmetric metric to Anosov representations.
result Provides a (possibly asymmetric) Finsler distance in some cases.
Generates semigroups for differential expressions on Riemannian manifolds.
problem Analyzing differential expressions on Riemannian manifolds.
method Study of generalized Ornstein-Uhlenbeck differential expressions and their maximal realizations.
result Generates analytic quasi-contractive semigroups in weighted Lp-spaces. Generalizes Thurston's asymmetric metric to flat metrics.
problem Defining an asymmetric metric on flat metrics.
method Defined an asymmetric metric on the space of unit-area flat metrics.
result Discussed two different topologies from the asymmetry.
This study examines asymmetric cross-correlations in cryptocurrency markets using fractal analysis.
problem Exploring asymmetric multifractal cross-correlations in cryptocurrency markets.
method Fractal analysis and MF-ADCCA method to investigate asymmetric volatility dynamics.
result Cross-correlations are stronger in downtrend markets than in uptrend markets for maturing BTC and ETH.
Theoretical justification for asymmetric actor-critic algorithms in reinforcement learning.
problem Lack of precise theoretical justification for asymmetric actor-critic algorithms in reinforcement learning.
method Adapting a finite-time convergence analysis to the asymmetric actor-critic setting with linear function approximators.
result A finite-time bound reveals that the asymmetric critic eliminates aliasing errors in the agent state.
This work presents deep asymmetric networks with a set of node-wise variant activation functions. The nodes' sensitivities are affected by activation function selections such that the nodes with smaller indices become increasingly more sensitive. As a result, features learned by the nodes are sorted by the node indices…
We consider the problem of designing locality sensitive hashes (LSH) for inner product similarity, and of the power of asymmetric hashes in this context. Shrivastava and Li argue that there is no symmetric LSH for the problem and propose an asymmetric LSH based on different mappings for query and database points. Howev…
New asymmetric kernel methods improve feature learning.
problem Improving feature learning with asymmetric kernels.
method Coupled covariance eigenproblem and Nyström method.
result Empirical evaluations show benefits of KSVD.
The article confirms two quasi-alternating surgeries for 9 asymmetric L-space knots.
problem Understanding quasi-alternating surgeries on asymmetric L-space knots.
method Using the Montesinos trick to confirm known surgeries.
result Confirmation of two quasi-alternating surgeries for each of 9 asymmetric L-space knots.
Asymmetric expansion preserves convexity in hyperbolic geometry.
problem Maintaining convexity in hyperbolic geometry under asymmetric expansions.
method Generalizing earlier results on radial expansion to asymmetric expansion.
result Asymmetric expansion of hyperbolic convex sets remains convex.
The paper improves asymmetric causality tests by addressing inefficiencies and statistical significance issues.
problem Inefficiencies and statistical significance issues in asymmetric causality tests.
method Improved asymmetric causality tests via partial cumulative sums for positive and negative components, explicitly testing differences between causal parameters.
result Efficiently tested hypotheses on asymmetric causal interaction between financial markets.
We propose Deep Asymmetric Multitask Feature Learning (Deep-AMTFL) which can learn deep representations shared across multiple tasks while effectively preventing negative transfer that may happen in the feature sharing process. Specifically, we introduce an asymmetric autoencoder term that allows reliable predictors fo…
In this paper we show how the study of asymmetric R&D alliances, that are those between young and small firms and large and MNEs firms for knowledge exploration and/or exploitation, requires the adoption of a coopetitive framework which consider both collaboration and competition. We draw upon the literature on asymmet…
Classification of torus homeomorphisms on fine curve graph completed.
problem Classifying actions of torus homeomorphisms on fine curve graph.
method Proof involving slow rotation sets for torus homeomorphisms.
result Actions of torus homeomorphisms on fine curve graph classified.
The limiting behavior of the normalized Kähler-Ricci flow for manifolds with positive first Chern class is examined under certain stability conditions. First, it is shown that if the Mabuchi K-energy is bounded from below, then the scalar curvature converges uniformly to a constant. Second, it is shown that if the Mabu…
Bayesian VI copula models capture asymmetric intraday equity dependence.
problem Modeling asymmetric and extreme tail dependence in financial data.
method Bayesian variational inference for skew-t copula models in high dimensions.
result The copula captures substantial heterogeneity in asymmetric dependence over equity pairs and time.
This work describes compactifications of metric spaces and vector spaces using asymmetric norms.
problem Compactifying metric spaces and vector spaces using asymmetric norms.
method Nonstandard methods, ultrapowers of the spaces at hand.
result Polyhedral compactifications of vector spaces with stratified structure.
Abstract: Proves generic torus diffeomorphisms act parabolically and non-properly on fine curve graph and have generalized rotation sets.
problem Generic torus diffeomorphisms on fine curve graph.
method Proves generic torus diffeomorphisms act parabolically and non-properly on fine curve graph.
result Generic torus diffeomorphisms have generalized rotation sets of any point-symmetric compact convex homothety type.
Extends multidimensional scaling to analyze three-way asymmetric proximities.
problem Analyzing asymmetric and three-way proximities in a Euclidean space.
method Unified h-plot methodology for three-way asymmetric proximities, including symmetric and conditional frameworks.
result Identification of archetypal profiles and clustering structures.
Extends metric to Margulis spacetimes for convex properties.
problem No specific problem stated; extends metric.
method Extends Thurston's asymmetric metric to Margulis spacetimes and proves convex properties.
result Established convex properties of the extended metric.
In recent years, correntropy has been seccessfully applied to robust adaptive filtering to eliminate adverse effects of impulsive noises or outliers. Correntropy is generally defined as the expectation of a Gaussian kernel between two random variables. This definition is reasonable when the error between the two random…
This paper introduces constrained mixtures for continuous distributions, characterized by a mixture of distributions where each distribution has a shape similar to the base distribution and disjoint domains. This new concept is used to create generalized asymmetric versions of the Laplace and normal distributions, whic…
Enhances reinforcement learning with partial state information.
problem Improving learning under partial observability with limited privileged signals.
method Introduced informed asymmetric actor-critic framework that uses arbitrary state-dependent privileged signals.
result Unbiased policy gradient estimates with arbitrary privileged signals.
This paper studies gradient flows in asymmetric metric spaces and proves existence results.
problem Investigating gradient flows in asymmetric metric spaces.
method Discrete approximation and natural convexity assumption on potential function.
result Existence of curves of maximal slope in asymmetric metric spaces.
Paper defines saddle points in asymmetric Dynkin games using martingale theory.
problem Tackles saddle point conditions in asymmetric Dynkin games with partial information.
method Uses martingale theory to identify super and submartingales related to equilibrium payoffs.
result Characterizes saddle point strategies in terms of equilibrium payoffs' dynamics and Doob-Meyer decompositions.
Study uncovers new phase transitions in asymmetric causal inference scenarios.
problem Understanding typical phase transitions in asymmetric causal inference.
method Combining Causal inference (C-inf) and Low-rank recovery (LRR) with Random duality - Free probability theory (RDT-FPT).
result Discovering a doubling low-rankness phenomenon in asymmetric scenarios.
Modified asymmetric hidden Markov models for time series with autoregressive components.
problem Dynamic relationships between variables in time series data.
method Introducing an asymmetric autoregressive component to recent asymmetric hidden Markov models.
result The model can choose the optimal autoregressive order for better likelihood.
Mixtures of multivariate contaminated shifted asymmetric Laplace distributions are developed for handling asymmetric clusters in the presence of outliers (also referred to as bad points herein). In addition to the parameters of the related non-contaminated mixture, for each (asymmetric) cluster, our model has one param…
In this paper, we propose a novel asymmetric ε-insensitive pinball loss function for quantile estimation. There exists some pinball loss functions which attempt to incorporate the ε-insensitive zone approach in it but, they fail to extend the ε-insensitive approach for quantile estimation in true sense. The propo…
Study proves value of non-Markovian games with partial, asymmetric info.
problem Value of non-Markovian Dynkin games with partial and asymmetric information.
method Probabilistic and functional analytic approach based on Sion's min-max theorem.
result Existence of optimal strategies for both players in randomised stopping times.
We highlight several analogies between the Finsler (infinitesimal) properties of Teichmüller's metric and Thurston's asymmetric metric on Teichmüller space. Thurston defined his asymmetric metric in analogy with Teichmüllers' metric, as a solution to an extremal problem, which consists, in the case of the asymmetric me…
Innovative extensions to option pricing models using asymmetric Brownian motion and random walk approaches.
problem Capturing empirical phenomena like return skewness, heavy tails, and volatility asymmetry in option pricing models.
method Developing the Geometric Asymmetric Brownian Motion (GABM) within the Bachelier--Black--Scholes--Merton framework.
result Deriving closed-form option pricing formulas and a discrete-time binomial tree algorithm that converges to the GABM limit.
Online Active Learning (OAL) aims to manage unlabeled datastream by selectively querying the label of data. OAL is applicable to many real-world problems, such as anomaly detection in health-care and finance. In these problems, there are two key challenges: the query budget is often limited; the ratio between classes i…