mAIS improves free energy evaluation efficiency.
problem Computational infeasibility of exact free energy evaluation.
method mAIS, a marginalized version of AIS.
result mAIS is more efficient under certain conditions.
EWFM trains continuous flows with only energy evaluations, improving sample quality with fewer computations.
problem Efficiently sampling from complex, high-dimensional Boltzmann distributions using only energy evaluations.
method Energy-Weighted Flow Matching (EWFM) using importance sampling and iterative/annealed training.
result Improved sample quality with up to 3 orders of magnitude fewer energy evaluations compared to existing methods.
The calculation of minimum energy paths for transitions such as atomic and/or spin re-arrangements is an important task in many contexts and can often be used to determine the mechanism and rate of transitions. An important challenge is to reduce the computational effort in such calculations, especially when ab initio …
In this article, we study the small sphere limit of the Wang-Yau quasi-local energy defined in [18,19]. Given a point p in a spacetime N, we consider a canonical family of surfaces approaching p along its future null cone and evaluate the limit of the Wang-Yau quasi-local energy. The evaluation relies on solving …
Competency questions help experts select best clustering for energy data.
problem Ad hoc and subjective selection of clustering structures by domain experts.
method Formalize expert knowledge and requirements with competency questions.
result Competency questions improve reproducibility and evaluation of clustering applications.
Minimum energy paths for transitions such as atomic and/or spin rearrangements in thermalized systems are the transition paths of largest statistical weight. Such paths are frequently calculated using the nudged elastic band method, where an initial path is iteratively shifted to the nearest minimum energy path. The co…
In [13], a new quasi-local energy is introduced for spacetimes with a non-zero cosmological constant. In this article, we study the small sphere limit of this newly defined quasi-local energy for spacetimes with a negative cosmological constant. For such spacetimes, the anti de-Sitter space is used as the reference for…
Adversarial attacks can fool ML energy theft detection models.
problem Vulnerability of ML-based energy theft detection models to adversarial attacks.
method Design of an adversarial measurement generation algorithm.
result ML models can be significantly fooled by adversarial attacks, reducing their detection accuracy.
EBM predicts protein conformations at atomic scale using crystallized data.
problem Predicting the conformation of a side chain from its context within a protein structure.
method Energy-based model trained on crystallized protein data, evaluating performance on rotamer recovery task.
result EBM achieves performance close to state-of-the-art methods, including Rosetta energy function.
New method assesses energy storage value beyond cost reduction.
problem Improving energy storage value beyond cost reduction.
method Market potential method to evaluate and compare energy storage technologies.
result High-cost hydrogen storage can be more valuable than low-cost hydrogen storage.
New foliations found for critical surfaces of Hawking energy, resolving discrepancies.
problem Finding consistent critical surfaces for the Hawking energy in non-totally geodesic spacelike hypersurfaces.
method Constructing a unique local foliation of area constrained critical surfaces of the Hawking energy in the general case of non-totally geodesic spacelike hypersurfaces.
result Discrepancy found in the small sphere limit of the Hawking energy, explained and resolved.
iEFM trains CNF models from unnormalized densities efficiently.
problem Training generators from energy functions or unnormalized densities.
method Iterated energy-based flow matching (iEFM) with simulation-free objective.
result iEFM outperforms existing methods in probabilistic modeling.
The paper proves Γ-convergence of discrete tangent-point energies to continuous energies and ropelength, with applications to biarc curves.
problem Proving convergence of discrete tangent-point energies to continuous energies and ropelength.
method Using biarc curves and interpolation, the paper proves Γ-convergence of discretized tangent-point energies to the continuous tangent-point energies and ropelength functional. result Discrete almost minimizing biarc curves converge to ropelength minimizers and minimizers of continuous tangent-point energies.
Model predicts volatility and dependencies in EUA and energy prices.
problem Analyzing uncertainty and dependencies in European carbon and energy prices.
method Probabilistic multivariate conditional time series model with VECM-Copula-GARCH structure.
result Forecasting performance evaluated in an extensive rolling-window study.
New energy measure for isolated systems in general relativity.
problem Quantifying energy in isolated systems in general relativity.
method Optimal isometric embedding and conformal Killing fields.
result Finite quasi-local energies for asymptotically flat spacetimes.
Active learning reduces SP calculations by 90%.
problem Efficiently calculating saddle points in energy functions.
method Active learning framework with GPR and GAD.
result Significant reduction in the number of expensive evaluations.
Energy savings for DNN inference on resource-constrained devices.
problem Energy efficiency in deep learning inference for constrained devices.
method Efficiently searches through equivalent DNN graphs to find the one with the least execution cost.
result Achieves 24% energy savings with minimal performance impact.
Researchers establish bounds and continuity of decomposed Möbius energies using cosine formula.
problem Estimating the bounds and continuity of decomposed Möbius energies.
method Using the cosine formula to evaluate upper and lower bounds and modulus of continuity of decomposed energies.
result Affirmative answer to the question of estimating decomposed energies using the cosine formula.
As convolutional neural networks (CNNs) enable state-of-the-art computer vision applications, their high energy consumption has emerged as a key impediment to their deployment on embedded and mobile devices. Towards efficient image classification under hardware constraints, prior work has proposed adaptive CNNs, i.e., …
Hybrid approach improves probabilistic forecasts for electricity trading.
problem Improving probabilistic forecasts for electricity trading markets.
method Combines QRA and factor-based averaging for probabilistic forecasting.
result The hybrid approach outperforms benchmarks in statistical measures and economic value.
A new method trains discrete EBMs without sampling.
problem Training EBMs on discrete spaces is hard.
method Energy Discrepancy (ED), a contrastive loss.
result ED offers theoretical guarantees for various perturbation types.
This research improves calorimeter simulations by creating a faster model.
problem Efficiently simulating detailed calorimeter data for high-energy physics.
method Developed a conditional normalizing flow model for superresolution.
result The model successfully reproduces reference distributions.
Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Support Vector Machines (SVM), etc. have become widespread and can achieve high statistical performance. However their accuracy decreases significantly in energy-constrained mobile and embedded systems space, where all computations need to be c…
Enhanced tabular benchmarks for energy-efficient neural architecture search.
problem Energy consumption in deep learning models.
method Introducing EC-NAS, an enhanced tabular benchmark with energy consumption data.
result EC-NAS reveals a balance between energy usage and accuracy in neural architecture search.
Paper proposes a risk-averse approach to energy storage price arbitrage using conformal uncertainty quantification.
problem Inherent volatility and uncertainty of real-time electricity prices create financial risks for storage arbitrage.
method Two-layer prediction model with conformal uncertainty quantification for high coverage of real-time price uncertainty.
result The framework achieves good profit margins with minimal losses, demonstrating effectiveness in real-time market.
Advances in renewable energy generation and introduction of the government targets to improve energy efficiency gave rise to a concept of a Zero Energy Building (ZEB). A ZEB is a building whose net energy usage over a year is zero, i.e., its energy use is not larger than its overall renewables generation. A collection …
Energy-based models (EBMs) are powerful probabilistic models, but suffer from intractable sampling and density evaluation due to the partition function. As a result, inference in EBMs relies on approximate sampling algorithms, leading to a mismatch between the model and inference. Motivated by this, we consider the sam…
The Hawking energy is nonnegative and rigid on area-constrained surfaces in general relativity.
problem The rigidity and positivity of the Hawking energy on specific surfaces in general relativity.
method Evaluation of the Hawking energy on area-constrained critical surfaces under the dominant energy condition.
result The Hawking energy is nonnegative and rigid on area-constrained surfaces, including charged and cosmological constant variants.
Introduces Causal Energy Minimization to understand Transformer layers.
problem Empirical parameterization of Transformer blocks remains largely unexplored.
method Causal Energy Minimization framework that recasts Transformer layers as optimization steps on conditional energy functions.
result Identifies design space for Transformer layers including weight sharing and energy-based interpretations.
In Hindsight Experience Replay (HER), a reinforcement learning agent is trained by treating whatever it has achieved as virtual goals. However, in previous work, the experience was replayed at random, without considering which episode might be the most valuable for learning. In this paper, we develop an energy-based fr…
EBM model for functional data using path measure tilting.
problem Modeling distributions of functions from irregularly sampled data.
method Spectral decomposition of an energy-based model with a Gaussian Process path measure to reweight the distribution.
result Effective approach to up-scaling functional data.
Residential homes constitute roughly one-fourth of the total energy usage worldwide. Providing appliance-level energy breakdown has been shown to induce positive behavioral changes that can reduce energy consumption by 15%. Existing approaches for energy breakdown either require hardware installation in every target ho…
This paper proposes the divergence triangle as a framework for joint training of generator model, energy-based model and inference model. The divergence triangle is a compact and symmetric (anti-symmetric) objective function that seamlessly integrates variational learning, adversarial learning, wake-sleep algorithm, an…
Paper introduces a neural framework for accurate energy forecasting.
problem Challenges of forecasting energy demand and supply due to variability of renewable sources and dynamic consumption patterns.
method Integrates Neural ODEs, graph attention, multi-resolution wavelet transformations, and adaptive learning of frequencies.
result Consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in various forecasting metrics across diverse datasets.
DeepONet learns operators for PDEs with varying parameters and initial conditions.
problem Learning operators for partial differential equations with different parameters or initial conditions.
method DeepONet uses a Branch net and Trunk net to minimize error between evaluated and expected outputs, incorporating a scalar auxiliary variable approach for energy dissipation.
result DeepONet can accurately approximate operators for PDEs with varying parameters or initial conditions.
This work is about recognizing human activities occurring in videos at distinct semantic levels, including individual actions, interactions, and group activities. The recognition is realized using a two-level hierarchy of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, forming a feed-forward deep architecture, which can be tra…
We study the limit of quasilocal energy defined in [7] and [8] for a family of spacelike 2-surfaces approaching null infinity of an asymptotically flat spacetime. It is shown that Lorentzian symmetry is recovered and an energy-momentum 4-vector is obtained. In particular, the result is consistent with the Bondi-Sachs e…
This paper monetizes customer load data to boost energy retailer profits.
problem Improving load forecasts to reduce energy imbalance costs.
method Cooperative game theory approach to quantify and distribute profits.
result Retailer gains significant profit from customer load data.
Paper benchmarks and customizes energy forecasting methods.
problem Energy forecasting challenges and differences from traditional time series.
method Collected large-scale load datasets and renewable energy datasets. Developed feature engineering and customized loss functions.
result Comprehensive evaluation of 21 forecasting methods in energy datasets.
Study of quasilocal energy in higher dimensions, focusing on small sphere limits.
problem Understanding quasilocal energy in higher dimensions and its small sphere limits.
method Generalized quasilocal energy definitions, evaluated along lightcone cuts, and compared with known energies.
result The small sphere limits of quasilocal energy in higher dimensions are not proportional to the Bel-Robinson superenergy, challenging its role as gravitational energy.
The paper introduces metrics to evaluate NILM algorithms' performance on unseen buildings.
problem Assessing NILM algorithms' performance on new, unseen buildings.
method Developed several metrics to evaluate NILM algorithms' generalization ability.
result Demonstrated the utility of the proposed metrics through two case studies.
This paper evaluates forecast quality in electricity markets beyond traditional accuracy measures.
problem Traditional accuracy measures fail to reflect the economic value of electricity price forecasts.
method Investigates four quality dimensions: accuracy, dispersion, association, and extremum identification.
result Dispersion- and association-based measures better capture forecast economic value.
BNEM improves Boltzmann sampler efficiency.
problem Generating IID samples from Boltzmann distributions efficiently.
method Bootstrapped Noised Energy Matching (NEM) combined with diffusion-based learning and bootstrapping.
result BNEM achieves state-of-the-art performance with improved robustness.
As sensor networks for health monitoring become more prevalent, so will the need to control their usage and consumption of energy. This paper presents a method which leverages the algorithm's performance and energy consumption. By utilising Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques, we provide an adaptive framework, which…
Controller seeks informative system observations to predict nonlinear dynamics.
problem Predicting nonlinear dynamics with uncertain parameters.
method Expected free energy minimization for balancing goal state and informative observations.
result Controller improves performance in uncertain parameter scenarios.
Deep learning boosts building energy load forecasting.
problem Short-term load forecasting in buildings.
method Stacked Boosters Network architecture with sparse interactions, parameter sharing, and equivariant representations.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art models in short-term load forecasting tasks.
New metrics reveal oversmoothing in GNNs more accurately than traditional methods.
problem Oversmoothing in graph neural networks reduces model performance.
method Rank-based metrics to measure oversmoothing in GNNs.
result Rank-based metrics consistently capture oversmoothing, while energy-based metrics often fail.
Bidirectional bounds stabilize training of energy-based models.
problem Training energy-based models is difficult and prone to instability.
method Propose bidirectional bounds linking to gradient penalty and Jacobi-determinant estimator.
result Significant stabilization and high-quality density estimation achieved.