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48 results for clamped boundary

Study curves evolving by gradient flow of elastic energy, proving existence, smoothing, and convergence.

problem Evolution of curves with fixed length and clamped boundary conditions.
method Negative L2L^2-gradient flow of elastic energy, existence, parabolic smoothing, constrained Lojasiewicz-Simon gradient inequality.
result Convergence to a critical point as time tends to infinity.

Euler's elastica with monotone curvature is uniquely minimal.

problem Global minimality of planar elastica with monotone curvature.
method Proof of global minimality using clamped boundary conditions and length penalization.
result Every planar elastica with non-constant monotone curvature is uniquely minimal.

The paper sets lower bounds for Laplacian eigenvalues and clamped plate problem eigenvalues.

problem Eigenvalues of the Laplace operator and clamped plate problem.
method Sharp lower bounds for Laplacian eigenvalues and clamped plate problem eigenvalues.
result Sharp lower bounds for Laplacian eigenvalues and clamped plate problem eigenvalues.

Paper proves rigidity estimates for hyperbolic shells and applies them to \(Γ\)-limit theory.

problem Rigidity of hyperbolic shells and their \(Γ\)-limit behavior.
method Nonlinear rigidity estimates for \(H^1\) deformations and hyperbolic shells with clamped lateral boundary.
result Derives the optimal exponent \(h^{-4/3}\) for hyperbolic shells.

Affirm Lord Rayleigh's conjecture on curved spaces for clamped plates.

problem Lord Rayleigh's conjecture for vibrating clamped plates on curved spaces.
method Nodal-decomposition argument, Lévy-Gromov isoperimetric inequality, Gaussian hypergeometric functions, sharp spectral gap estimates.
result Positive curvature enhances genuine differences between low- and high-dimensional settings.

We examine the effect of clamping variables for approximate inference in undirected graphical models with pairwise relationships and discrete variables. For any number of variable labels, we demonstrate that clamping and summing approximate sub-partition functions can lead only to a decrease in the partition function e…

2015-10-01abs ↗pdf ↗

New isoperimetric inequality for clamped plates in RCD(0,N) spaces, sharp and stable.

problem Fine properties of the principal frequency of clamped plates in RCD(0,N) spaces.
method Analyzing the RCD(0,N) spaces and applying isoperimetric inequalities.
result Sharp isoperimetric inequality for the principal frequency of clamped plates in RCD(0,N) spaces.

This paper studies eigenvalues of the clamped plate problem on a bounded domain in an nn-dimensional Euclidean space. We give an estimate for the gap between Γk+1Γ1\sqrt {Γ_{k+1}-Γ_{1}} and ΓkΓ1\sqrt {Γ_{k}-Γ_{1}}, for any positive integer kk. According to the asymptotic formula of Agmon and Pleijel, we know, the gap betwe…

2016-10-19abs ↗pdf ↗

CLAMP uses neural manifold packing to improve self-supervised learning.

problem Improving self-supervised learning for vision tasks.
method CLAMP recasts representation learning as a manifold packing problem, introducing a loss function inspired by particle systems.
result CLAMP achieves competitive performance with state-of-the-art models and separates neural manifolds effectively.

The paper studies eigenvalue inequalities for a clamped plate problem involving a generalized elliptic differential operator.

problem Eigenvalue inequalities for a clamped plate problem involving a generalized elliptic differential operator.
method Extending the LII\mathfrak{L}_{II} operator to Lν\mathfrak{L}_ν, establishing a general formula for eigenvalues, and applying it to estimate eigenvalues on Riemannian manifolds.
result Established eigenvalue inequalities for the Lν2\mathfrak{L}_ν^{2} operator on translating solitons and other geometric settings.

The paper connects eigenvalue problems for various operators and establishes inequalities and asymptotic formulas for heat traces.

problem Eigenvalue problems and heat trace asymptotics for different operators.
method Establishes connections and inequalities for eigenvalues and heat traces.
result Eigenvalue inequalities and three-term asymptotic formulas for heat traces of various operators.

We study Lord Rayleigh's problem for clamped plates on an arbitrary nn-dimensional (n2)(n\geq 2) Cartan-Hadamard manifold (M,g)(M,g) with sectional curvature Kκ2\textbf{K}\leq -κ^2 for some κ0.κ\geq 0. We first prove a McKean-type spectral gap estimate, i.e. the fundamental tone of any domain in (M,g)(M,g) is universally bounde…

2019-09-05abs ↗pdf ↗

The Poisson problem consists in finding an immersed surface ΣRmΣ\subset\mathbb{R}^m minimising Germain's elastic energy (known as Willmore energy in geometry) with prescribed boundary, boundary Gauss map and area which constitutes a non-linear model for the equilibrium state of thin, clamped elastic plates originating f…

2018-07-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper studies eigenvalues of a specific operator on Riemannian manifolds.

problem Eigenvalues of a specific operator on Riemannian manifolds.
method Established a general formula for eigenvalues and derived estimates.
result Obtained universal inequalities for the eigenvalues on translating solitons.

Analyzes Willmore flow for graphs with boundary data, proving existence and convergence.

problem Willmore flow of graphs with boundary conditions over bounded domains.
method Developed low-regularity theory, reformulated graphical equation, used time-weighted parabolic Hölder spaces.
result Proved short-time and global existence for initial data in C1+α(Ω)C^{1+α}(\overlineΩ) and Lipschitz, with exponential convergence.

Neural networks are commonly trained to make predictions through learning algorithms. Contrastive Hebbian learning, which is a powerful rule inspired by gradient backpropagation, is based on Hebb's rule and the contrastive divergence algorithm. It operates in two phases, the forward (or free) phase, where the data are …

2018-06-19abs ↗pdf ↗

New method improves model reconstruction using counterfactuals and polytope theory.

problem Reconstructing models with minimal input changes and avoiding decision boundary shifts.
method Using polytope theory to derive loss functions that treat counterfactuals differently from ordinary instances.
result Improves fidelity between target and surrogate model predictions on multiple datasets.

Sharp spectral gap estimates for higher-order operators on hyperbolic spaces.

problem Estimating spectral gaps for higher-order operators on Cartan-Hadamard manifolds.
method Symmetrization-free proofs based on general functional inequalities.
result Solves a sharp asymptotic problem from Cheng and Yang and answers a question from Kristály.

Recent work (Pennington et al, 2017) suggests that controlling the entire distribution of Jacobian singular values is an important design consideration in deep learning. Motivated by this, we study the distribution of singular values of the Jacobian of the generator in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). We find th…

2018-02-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Sharp bounds derived for eigenvalues on specific geometric spaces.

problem Eigenvalue problems on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds and submanifolds.
method Sharp bounds derived for three types of eigenvalue problems: pp-Dirichlet, polyharmonic, and weakly Poincaré-Einstein.
result Sharp bounds and their implications for asymptotic sectional curvatures and mean curvature.

Study on hyperbolic elastic flow, proving convergence and quantifying singularities.

problem Understanding singularities and convergence of elastic flow in hyperbolic plane.
method Analyzes closed and open curves with clamped boundary conditions, proving convergence without small energy assumption.
result Each singularity carries an energy cost of at least 8, and blow-ups are explicitly classified.

In this paper, we establish universal inequalities for eigenvalues of the clamped plate problem on compact submanifolds of Euclidean spaces, of spheres and of real, complex and quaternionic projective spaces. We also prove similar results for the biharmonic operator on domains of Riemannian manifolds admitting spherica…

2010-01-27abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper bridges stochastic control and deep hedging for European call options with transaction costs.

problem Hedging and pricing European call options with proportional transaction costs.
method Complementary perspectives: stochastic control and deep hedging. Two architectures proposed: NTBN-Delta and WW-NTBN.
result WW-NTBN converges faster, matches no-transaction bands more closely, and generalizes well across transaction cost regimes.

The paper explores inequalities between eigenvalues on Riemannian manifolds.

problem Investigating relationships between eigenvalues on Riemannian manifolds.
method Constructing gradient estimates for a first eigenfunction to derive inequalities.
result Obtained some relationships between weighted pp-Laplacian first eigenvalues.

Study proves inequalities for eigenvalues of fourth-order elliptic operators on Riemannian manifolds.

problem Eigenvalue inequalities for fourth-order elliptic operators on Riemannian manifolds.
method Proves inequalities using Payne-Pólya-Weinberger-Yang type for eigenvalues of fourth-order elliptic operators in divergence form on complete Riemannian manifolds.
result Generalizes eigenvalue inequalities for the clamped plate problem to complete Riemannian manifolds.

Probabilistic graphical models are traditionally known for their successes in generative modeling. In this work, we advocate layered graphical models (LGMs) for probabilistic discriminative learning. To this end, we design LGMs in close analogy to neural networks (NNs), that is, they have deep hierarchical structures a…

2019-01-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved lower bounds for poly-Laplacian eigenvalues in arbitrary dimensions.

problem Lower bounds for higher eigenvalues of the poly-Laplacian operator.
method Sharp inequalities and eigenvalue bounds in low and arbitrary dimensions.
result Improved lower bounds for eigenvalues of the poly-Laplacian in arbitrary dimensions.

Near-optimal private tests for simple and MLR hypotheses developed under Gaussian differential privacy.

problem Developing private tests for simple and MLR hypotheses under Gaussian differential privacy.
method A private mean estimator with data-driven clamping bounds, constructing private test statistics.
result Private tests achieve the same asymptotic relative efficiency as non-private most powerful tests.

We introduce the hierarchical compositional network (HCN), a directed generative model able to discover and disentangle, without supervision, the building blocks of a set of binary images. The building blocks are binary features defined hierarchically as a composition of some of the features in the layer immediately be…

2016-11-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Hypothesis testing plays a central role in statistical inference, and is used in many settings where privacy concerns are paramount. This work answers a basic question about privately testing simple hypotheses: given two distributions PP and QQ, and a privacy level ε\varepsilon, how many i.i.d. samples are needed to…

2018-11-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhances drug discovery models by understanding human language.

problem Low predictive quality of activity prediction models in drug discovery.
method Proposes a novel architecture with separate chemical and natural language input modules and a contrastive pre-training objective.
result Improves predictive performance on few-shot and zero-shot learning benchmarks.

RAGuard improves safety in LLMs for offshore wind maintenance.

problem Conventional LLMs fail with specialised or unexpected scenarios in offshore wind maintenance.
method Integrates safety-critical documents alongside technical manuals in RAG framework.
result RAGuard increases safety recall from almost 0% to over 50% while maintaining technical recall above 60%.

IGSD separates task-specific content channels in transformer components by comparing activation replacement with zero ablation.

problem Mechanistic interpretability of transformer components
method IGSD: paired-intervention framework for comparing activation replacement with zero ablation
result IGSD identifies an early-layer content channel in transformer components that standard importance methods underestimate.

Proves well-posedness for Einstein equations with specific boundary conditions.

problem Well-posedness of vacuum Einstein equations with twisted Dirichlet boundary conditions.
method Proves local-in-time well-posedness for the IBVP of the Einstein equations with specified conformal class and scalar densities.
result Proves well-posedness for the Einstein equations with twisted Dirichlet boundary conditions.