Deep learning classifies corn hybrids' tolerance to drought and heat.
problem Classifying corn hybrids' tolerance to drought and heat stress.
method Unsupervised deep convolutional neural networks approach.
result 121 hybrids labeled drought tolerant, 193 heat tolerant, 29 both.
These days human beings are facing many environmental challenges due to frequently occurring drought hazards. It may have an effect on the countrys environment, the community, and industries. Several adverse impacts of drought hazard are continued in Pakistan, including other hazards. However, early measurement and det…
Study predicts droughts using ANN models and hydro-meteorological data.
problem Accurate prediction of short and long-term droughts.
method Employed Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models to predict droughts using SPI at different time scales and various hydro-meteorological variables.
result Hydro-meteorological variables significantly improve SPI prediction at different time scales.
Study assesses drought and late-frost risks in Bavaria using vine copulas.
problem Assessing risks of late-frost and drought in Bavaria due to climate change.
method Used vine copula models for non-Gaussian and asymmetric dependencies, with univariate and bivariate regression analyses.
result Identified 'at-risk' regions for forest adaptation.
Botswana's agricultural credit scheme is unsustainable and needs reform.
problem The current scheme is unsustainable and based on flawed actuarial principles.
method Proposes a new subsidy and premium rate setting method considering non-drought years.
result A sustainable agricultural credit guarantee scheme is recommended.
New model identifies anticyclonic patterns causing drought and heat.
problem Identifying atmospheric drivers of drought and heat.
method Smoothed convolutional neural network classifier for anticyclonic circulations.
result Helps identify important drivers of hot and dry extremes in climate simulations.
Droughts, with their increasing frequency of occurrence, continue to negatively affect livelihoods and elements at risk. For example, the 2011 in drought in east Africa has caused massive losses document to have cost the Kenyan economy over $12bn. With the foregoing, the demand for ex-ante drought monitoring systems is…
SwiGAN generates drought scenarios for climate risk management.
problem Natural catastrophes and droughts increase insurance costs.
method Conditional GANs for generating spatio-temporal SWI maps.
result Simulates drought patterns up to 2050 for French regions.
LSTM model predicts climate impacts on floods and droughts.
problem Predicting climate impacts on individual watersheds is challenging.
method Large-scale LSTM training on extensive data sets.
result LSTM model outperforms state-of-the-art models in predicting extreme flows.
Recent droughts in the midwestern United States threaten to cause global catastrophe driven by a speculator amplified food price bubble. Here we show the effect of speculators on food prices using a validated quantitative model that accurately describes historical food prices. During the last six years, high and fluctu…
Understanding the adaptation process of plants to drought stress is essential in improving management practices, breeding strategies as well as engineering viable crops for a sustainable agriculture in the coming decades. Hyper-spectral imaging provides a particularly promising approach to gain such understanding since…
Novel Orlicz regrets consistently bound environmental variable statistics.
problem Consistent evaluation of stochastic environmental variables like water quality indices.
method Proposed novel Orlicz regrets for upper and lower bounds.
result Explicit linkage between Orlicz regrets and divergence risk measures.
We introduce a differential geometric framework for describing families of quantum error-correcting codes and for understanding quantum fault tolerance. This work unifies the notion of topological fault tolerance with fault tolerance in other kinds of quantum error-correcting codes. In particular, we use fibre bundles …
Study examines how risk tolerance impacts long-term investment returns.
problem Understanding the impact of risk tolerance on investment returns over time.
method Used Malliavin calculus and Hansen--Scheinkman decomposition.
result Risk aversion affects long-term investment utility through eigenvalues and eigenfunctions.
We analyze the adversarial examples problem in terms of a model's fault tolerance with respect to its input. Whereas previous work focuses on arbitrarily strict threat models, i.e., ε-perturbations, we consider arbitrary valid inputs and propose an information-based characteristic for evaluating tolerance to diverse …
Framework for private, noise-tolerant, and efficient learning algorithms.
problem Private and efficient learning of large-margin halfspaces in noisy environments.
method Simple framework using differential privacy and noise tolerance conditions.
result Noise-tolerant and private PAC learners for large-margin halfspaces with sample complexity independent of dimension.
Fault-tolerant neural networks inspired by biological error correction codes.
problem Achieving reliable computation with unreliable neurons.
method Using biological error correction codes from grid cells in the mammalian cortex to develop a fault-tolerant neural network.
result Noisy biological neurons operate below a fault-tolerance threshold, suggesting a mechanism for reliable computation in the brain.
TOCO framework compresses neural networks based on tolerance analysis.
problem Deploying large neural networks on edge devices with limited resources.
method TOCO uses tolerance analysis to perform fine-grained compression, allowing flexibility to hardware changes.
result Fine-grained compression of neural networks on edge devices.
Paper addresses fault-tolerance in distributed machine learning with stochastic gradient descent.
problem Fault-tolerance in distributed stochastic gradient descent (D-SGD) for machine learning.
method Proposes norm-based comparative gradient elimination (CGE) to robustify D-SGD against Byzantine faulty agents.
result CGE guarantees fault-tolerance against a bounded fraction of Byzantine agents under standard stochastic assumptions.
This paper reviews quantum machine learning from NISQ to fault tolerance.
problem The challenges and opportunities in quantum machine learning.
method Comprehensive review of quantum machine learning concepts.
result Coverage of NISQ and fault-tolerant quantum computing approaches.
Recently, new defense techniques have been developed to tolerate Byzantine failures for distributed machine learning. The Byzantine model captures workers that behave arbitrarily, including malicious and compromised workers. In this paper, we break two prevailing Byzantine-tolerant techniques. Specifically we show robu…
Methods for prediction and tolerance intervals in non-normal models.
problem Constructing prediction and tolerance intervals for non-normal data.
method Two approaches: pivotal quantity approximation and confidence interval for mean.
result Intuitive, simple, efficient methods with proper operating characteristics.
GRAPE improves RL policy evaluation in noisy environments.
problem Noise in real-world RL environments makes policy evaluation algorithms inefficient or prone to errors.
method GRAPE combines gap-increasing value update operators and off-policy eligibility trace.
result GRAPE is more efficient and noise-tolerant than existing methods.
FANNet analyzes noise tolerance and training bias in neural networks.
problem Low noise tolerance and input sensitivity in neural networks lead to failures on unseen inputs.
method Formal analysis using model checking under different noise ranges.
result Noise tolerance of ±11% for the trained network, sensitive input nodes identified, and biasness confirmed. Gradient codes adapt to varying straggler counts in distributed learning.
problem Mitigating slow worker nodes (stragglers) in distributed machine learning.
method Proposes a flexible gradient coding scheme that concatenates codes for different straggler tolerances, adapting to actual straggler counts.
result Significantly lower latency compared to fixed-tolerance gradient codes.
The study examines robust decision-making in volatile financial markets, finding action robustness is more impactful than uncertainty tolerance.
problem Sequential decision making in high-frequency markets under evolving uncertainty.
method Analyzes two dimensions of robustness: uncertainty tolerance and action robustness, using simulations and empirical evidence.
result Action robustness has a larger impact on profitability than uncertainty tolerance, and excessive robustness can reduce profitability in illiquid markets.
New method learns robustly with less data, bridging theory and practice.
problem Adversarial robust learning with metric perturbation.
method Tolerant adversarial PAC-learning with perturb-and-smooth approach and compression-based algorithm.
result First PAC-type guarantees for popular adversarial learning techniques.
The paper proposes a method to create robust neural networks for automated driving.
problem Creating neural networks that can accurately predict road conditions and distances.
method The method introduces a non-standard loss function with tolerance to account for label variability and allows for deviations from labels.
result The proposed method results in a neural network that can robustly predict road conditions and distances, even with small label variations.
Enhances fault tolerance in neural networks with a novel multi-criteria objective function.
problem Faults in neural networks, especially in deep learning accelerators, reduce classification accuracy.
method Modelled as two networks: Feature Extractor and Classifier. Proposed a novel multi-criteria objective function combining unsupervised and supervised training.
result The proposed approach achieves high accuracy with superior fault tolerance compared to existing regularizers.
The study formalizes temporal precision and recall for anomaly detection in sequences.
problem Insufficient understanding of precision and recall in sequential anomaly detection.
method Formalized temporal precision and recall measures, developed time-tolerant confusion matrices, and demonstrated statistical significance.
result Precision and recall may overestimate performance with temporal tolerance.
We develop and evaluate tolerance interval methods for dynamic treatment regimes (DTRs) that can provide more detailed prognostic information to patients who will follow an estimated optimal regime. Although the problem of constructing confidence intervals for DTRs has been extensively studied, prediction and tolerance…
Study on AI-driven modeling for high burnup accident-tolerant fuels in SMRs.
problem Design and optimization of high burnup accident-tolerant fuels for SMRs.
method Artificial intelligence and multi-scale modeling (neutronics, thermal hydraulics, fuel performance).
result Demonstrated the effectiveness of AI in modeling and optimizing SMR fuels.
New method reduces sample complexity for robust learning.
problem Developing simple, sample-efficient learning algorithms for robust classification.
method Tolerant empirical risk minimization (RERM) for robust learning.
result Tolerant RERM requires only O(VC(H)dlog(D/γδ)/ε^2) samples for robustness regions of diameter D.
Split conformal prediction provides finite-sample guarantees for black-box models without distributional assumptions.
problem Weak performance guarantees for modern predictive models under minimal assumptions.
method Develops finite-sample guarantees for split conformal prediction, a method that uses nested prediction sets and order statistics.
result The coverage of prediction sets based on order statistics stochastically dominates the Beta distribution.
Study efficient learning of halfspaces with constant noise tolerance.
problem Learning halfspaces in the presence of both instance and label corruption.
method Develops an algorithm to minimize reweighted hinge loss for robustness.
result Achieves constant noise tolerance for halfspace learning.
Model shows how heterogeneity in strategies and risk tolerance affects financial market stability.
problem Understanding how heterogeneity impacts financial market dynamics.
method Agent-based model incorporating heterogeneous investment strategies and risk tolerance.
result Heterogeneity in strategies and risk tolerance suppresses price fluctuations.
SignSGD improves distributed learning by tolerating faulty devices, including Byzantine adversaries.
problem Faulty devices, including Byzantine adversaries, disrupt convergence in distributed learning.
method Developed SignSGD from SGD, proving its robustness to Byzantine adversaries with upper bound convergence rate.
result SignSGD converges in the presence of Byzantine adversaries, providing a fault-tolerant solution.
ADGAN improves risk tolerance prediction by aligning cross-domain data.
problem Lack of professional knowledge and domain-specific models in risk tolerance studies.
method Asymmetric cross-Domain Generative Adversarial Network (ADGAN) for domain scale inequality.
result ADGAN better handles class imbalance and unqualified data than state-of-the-art methods.
Land use classification of low resolution spatial imagery is one of the most extensively researched fields in remote sensing. Despite significant advancements in satellite technology, high resolution imagery lacks global coverage and can be prohibitively expensive to procure for extended time periods. Accurately classi…
Study identifies key drivers and spatio-temporal trends of extreme Mediterranean wildfires.
problem Understanding and predicting the impacts of climate change on wildfire activity.
method Statistical deep-learning model combining meteorological, land cover, and orographic data.
result Vapour-pressure deficit significantly affects wildfire occurrence, while air temperature and drought affect spread.
High and volatile global food prices have led to food riots and played a critical role in triggering the Arab Spring revolutions in recent years. The severe drought in the US in the summer of 2012 led to a new increase in food prices. Through the fall, they remained at a threshold above which the riots and revolutions …
New insights into distribution testing with tolerance.
problem Tolerant distribution testing in the intermediate regime.
method Characterization of sample complexity as a function of n, ε1, and ε2. result Smooth tradeoff between sample complexity and the ratio ε1/ε22. Algorithms optimize fair portfolios for diverse risk-tolerant consumers.
problem Designing fair portfolios for consumers with varying risk tolerances.
method Two-player zero-sum game-based algorithms for optimal and near-optimal portfolio design.
result Efficient algorithms for fair portfolio design with and without group structure assumptions.
We consider distributed on-device learning with limited communication and security requirements. We propose a new robust distributed optimization algorithm with efficient communication and attack tolerance. The proposed algorithm has provable convergence and robustness under non-IID settings. Empirical results show tha…
Small stocks drive market crashes by suppressing resilience.
problem The single-security price limit exacerbates market panic during crashes.
method Simplified dynamic model on networks of investors and stocks, empirical verification.
result Unexpected linear association between price limit and critical market confidence.
The loss of a few neurons in a brain rarely results in any visible loss of function. However, the insight into what "few" means in this context is unclear. How many random neuron failures will it take to lead to a visible loss of function? In this paper, we address the fundamental question of the impact of the crash of…
Finding efficient decoders for quantum error correcting codes adapted to realistic experimental noise in fault-tolerant devices represents a significant challenge. In this paper we introduce several decoding algorithms complemented by deep neural decoders and apply them to analyze several fault-tolerant error correctio…
We analyze a nonlinear equation proposed by F. Black (1968) for the optimal portfolio function in a log-normal model. We cast it in terms of the risk tolerance function and provide, for general utility functions, existence, uniqueness and regularity results, and we also examine various monotonicity, concavity/convexity…