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48 results for critical weights

Study semilinear equations on weighted manifolds to prove rigidity.

problem Prove rigidity of weighted manifolds via classification of semilinear equations.
method Classify positive solutions at the Sobolev-critical exponent, proving rigidity and weight triviality.
result Existence of positive solutions implies rigidity and weight triviality under certain curvature conditions.

WAVE improves stability in reinforcement learning by adaptively weighting critic's loss.

problem Inherent instability in actor-critic reinforcement learning algorithms.
method Wasserstein adaptive value estimation with Sinkhorn approximation.
result Achieves $\mathcal{O}\left(\frac{1}{k} ight)$ convergence rate for critic's mean squared error.

New theory predicts deep neural networks can operate in an extended critical regime without fine-tuning.

problem Understanding the dynamics and computational principles of deep neural networks.
method Combining theories of heavy-tailed random matrices and non-equilibrium statistical physics.
result Deep neural networks can operate in an extended critical regime without fine-tuning parameters.

Study extends eigenvalue formulas to weighted manifolds and proves global rigidity theorems.

problem Eigenvalue formulas and rigidity theorems for weighted manifolds.
method Extends variational formulae to weighted manifolds, proving global rigidity theorems.
result Global rigidity theorems for critical domains in Gaussian half-space.

Study estimates personalized effects of maternal PM2.5 exposure on birth weight.

problem Identify critical windows and heterogeneity in maternal PM2.5 exposure effects on birth weight.
method Heterogeneous Distributed Lag Models and Bayesian Additive Regression Trees.
result Evidence of heterogeneity in PM2.5-birth weight relationship, with some dyads showing 3x larger decrease.

Study resolves polynomial germs, proving no mixed critical points and strict transform properties.

problem Resolving mixed critical points and properties of strict transforms of polynomial germs.
method Toric resolutions and modifications of weighted homogeneous polynomials.
result No mixed critical points and strict transform properties as germs.

In this paper we study the functional $\SW_{λ_1,λ_2}$, which is the the sum of the Willmore energy, λ1λ_1-weighted surface area, and λ2λ_2-weighted volume, for surfaces immersed in R3\R^3. This coincides with the Helfrich functional with zero `spontaneous curvature'. Our main result is a complete classification of all …

2012-01-22abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper considers the actor-critic contextual bandit for the mobile health (mHealth) intervention. The state-of-the-art decision-making methods in mHealth generally assume that the noise in the dynamic system follows the Gaussian distribution. Those methods use the least-square-based algorithm to estimate the expect…

2017-08-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper finds relations between Willmore-type energies, weighted areas, and vertical potential energies for cylindrical critical points.

problem Tackles relations between three types of energy functions for cylindrical critical points.
method Uses differential equations and critical point analysis for Willmore-type energies and weighted areas.
result Generating curves coincide for Willmore-type energies and weighted areas, and similar results hold for Willmore-type energies and vertical potential energies.

Utilizing a weight matrix we study surfaces of prescribed weighted mean curvature which yield a natural generalisation to critical points of anisotropic surface energies. We first derive a differential equation for the normal of immersions with prescribed weighted mean curvature, generalising a result of Clarenz and vo…

2007-11-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved SAC with AWMP for better control tasks.

problem Discontinuous and non-smooth optimal policies in reinforcement learning.
method Advantage Weighted Mixture Policy (AWMP) for SAC, learning state-specific weights.
result SAC with AWMP outperforms SAC in four control tasks.

We prove the existence and uniqueness of a *projectively equivariant symbol map*, which is an isomorphism between the space of bidifferential operators acting on tensor densities over RnR^n and that of their symbols, when both are considered as modules over an imbedding of sl(n+1,R)sl(n+1,\R) into polynomial vector fields. Th…

2000-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

We study the relation between critical exponents and Hausdorff dimensions of limit sets for projective Anosov representations. We prove that the Hausdorff dimension of the symmetric limit set in P(Rn)×P(Rn)\mathbf{P}(\mathbb{R}^{n}) \times \mathbf{P}({\mathbb{R}^{n}}^*) is bounded between two critical exponents associated respe…

2019-02-05abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper proves inequalities for hypersurfaces in weighted manifolds.

problem Willmore-type inequalities for closed hypersurfaces in weighted manifolds.
method Analyzes weighted manifolds with nonnegative Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature, proving sharp inequalities and characterizing equality cases.
result Derives sharp Willmore-type and Willmore-like inequalities in steady and shrinking gradient Ricci solitons.

Solves a 30-year-old problem on singular solutions for Yamabe equations.

problem Constructing singular solutions to semilinear equations without phase-plane analysis.
method Careful gluing in weighted LL^\infty spaces, exploiting semilinearity and stability of linearized operator.
result Provides an alternative construction for the Yamabe problem with maximal singular set.

Symmetry proven for positive solutions of a weighted p-Laplace operator inequality.

problem Proving symmetry of positive solutions to a specific type of inequality.
method Analyzing positive critical points of Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities with a weighted p-Laplace operator.
result Complete classification and symmetry result for positive solutions in a range of parameters.

A new trading model uses deep reinforcement learning to optimize portfolio weights.

problem Optimizing portfolio weights with risk and return considerations.
method Improved deep reinforcement learning with actor-critic architecture, quantile regression, and asset short selling.
result The proposed model outperforms benchmark strategies in backtesting.

Policy gradient methods are widely used for control in reinforcement learning, particularly for the continuous action setting. There have been a host of theoretically sound algorithms proposed for the on-policy setting, due to the existence of the policy gradient theorem which provides a simplified form for the gradien…

2018-11-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are powerful generative models, but suffer from training instability. The recently proposed Wasserstein GAN (WGAN) makes progress toward stable training of GANs, but sometimes can still generate only low-quality samples or fail to converge. We find that these problems are often du…

2017-03-31abs ↗pdf ↗

New spinorial functional connects Perelman's W- and F-functionals.

problem Unifying Perelman's functionals for spin manifolds.
method Introduced a new energy functional on spin manifolds, computed its first variation, and established a gradient flow.
result Critical points of the functional are twisted Ricci solitons and eigen-spinsors.

In [LS], it is shown shown that the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian restricted to the space of invariant functions on a toric Kähler manifold (i.e. λ1Tλ_1^\mathbb{T}, the invariant first eigenvalue) is an unbounded function of the toric Kähler metric. In this note we show that, seen as a function on the space of toric…

2017-08-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Since nn-dimensional λλ-hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space Rn+1\mathbb {R}^{n+1} are critical points of the weighted area functional for the weighted volume-preserving variations, in this paper, we study the rigidity properties of complete λλ-hypersurfaces. We give a gap theorem of complete λλ-hypersurfaces with po…

2014-03-17abs ↗pdf ↗

New method improves tensor completion by selectively preserving important elements.

problem Recovering corrupted high-dimensional tensor data with missing entries and noise.
method Tensor weighted correlated total variation (TWCTV) regularizer with ADMM algorithm.
result Superior performance in image completion, denoising, and background subtraction tasks.

MSD removes dequantization bottleneck in LLM inference by approximating high-precision activations.

problem Dequantization bottleneck in LLM inference on modern AI accelerators.
method MSD decomposes high-precision activations into multiple low-precision components for direct multiplication with quantized weights.
result MSD avoids INT8-to-BF16 weight conversion, reducing dequantization cycles and HBM traffic.

It has been widely observed that capitalization-weighted indexes can be beaten by surprisingly simple, systematic investment strategies. Indeed, in the U.S. stock market, equal-weighted portfolios, random-weighted portfolios, and other naive, non- optimized portfolios tend to outperform a capitalization-weighted index …

2018-09-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Study proves no minimal surfaces can be contained in certain half-spaces or cones.

problem Prohibiting minimal surfaces from certain geometric configurations.
method Analyzes weighted minimal surfaces in R3\mathbb{R}^3 with height-dependent weights.
result No proper surfaces can be contained in specific half-spaces or cones.

Similar to humans and animals, deep artificial neural networks exhibit critical periods during which a temporary stimulus deficit can impair the development of a skill. The extent of the impairment depends on the onset and length of the deficit window, as in animal models, and on the size of the neural network. Deficit…

2017-11-24abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper introduces a novel method for training neural network Stein critics with staged L2L^2-regularization.

problem Learning to differentiate model distributions from observed data in high-dimensional settings.
method Developed a novel staging procedure for L2L^2 regularization over training time, leveraging the advantages of highly-regularized training at early times.
result Theoretical guarantees and empirical validation show that the method improves the approximation of the training dynamic by the kernel optimization, leading to faster convergence and better performance.

In information retrieval (IR) and related tasks, term weighting approaches typically consider the frequency of the term in the document and in the collection in order to compute a score reflecting the importance of the term for the document. In tasks characterized by the presence of training data (such as text classifi…

2019-03-28abs ↗pdf ↗

A large portfolio of independent returns is optimized under the variance risk measure with a ban on short positions. The no-short selling constraint acts as an asymmetric 1\ell_1 regularizer, setting some of the portfolio weights to zero and keeping the out of sample estimator for the variance bounded, avoiding the di…

2016-12-21abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper improves model-based reinforcement learning by using multi-timestep objectives.

problem Compounding errors in one-step dynamics models as trajectory length increases.
method Developed a multi-timestep objective as a weighted sum of losses at various future horizons.
result Exponentially decaying weights significantly improve long-horizon performance.

This study analyzes global oil trade networks to assess their efficiency and robustness.

problem Dynamic monitoring and warning of international trade risks in global oil trade.
method Constructing unweighted and weighted global oil trade networks (OTNs) using UN Comtrade data from 1988 to 2017, and applying complex network theories.
result Efficiency of oil flows increases with complexity of OTNs, and weighted efficiency indicators highlight major events.

Gradient descent converges to perfect classification in neural nets for non-separable data.

problem Classifying linearly non-separable data using neural networks.
method Analysis of gradient descent dynamics in neural networks with sufficient but not large number of neurons.
result Gradient descent converges to global minima with perfect classification in the landscape of minimization problems.

The Kac-Ward formula allows to compute the Ising partition function on any finite graph G from the determinant of 2^{2g} matrices, where g is the genus of a surface in which G embeds. We show that in the case of isoradially embedded graphs with critical weights, these determinants have quite remarkable properties. Firs…

2011-01-28abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper proves criticality criteria and spectral splitting theorems for manifolds with Ricci bounds.

problem Understanding criticality and splitting theorems for manifolds with spectral Ricci bounds.
method Proving criticality criteria and spectral splitting theorems for manifolds with more than one end and spectral Ricci bounds.
result New insights into Li-Wang's theory and applications to stable and δ-stable minimal hypersurfaces.

New method diagnoses criticality in deep neural networks, improving performance.

problem Improving theoretical understanding and practical initialization of deep neural networks.
method Introducing partial Jacobians and deriving recurrence relations for their norms to analyze criticality.
result Proper stacking of LayerNorm and residual connections leads to a critical architecture for any initialization.