A locally-built, LLM-digested index of recent arXiv papers in quant finance, geometry/topology, and statistical ML — keyword search served straight from SQLite on this machine.
New 2-spheres of revolution with simple cut locus structures.
We give polynomial-time algorithms for the exact computation of lowest-energy (ground) states, worst margin violators, log partition functions, and marginal edge probabilities in certain binary undirected graphical models. Our approach provides an interesting alternative to the well-known graph cut paradigm in that it …
Study sub-Riemannian geodesics on a Heisenberg 3D nil-manifold.
A biclustering algorithm finds dense disjoint subgraphs in weighted bipartite graphs.
A new reinforcement learning method improves Max-Cut solutions without needing training data.
The maximum a posteriori (MAP) configuration of binary variable models with submodular graph-structured energy functions can be found efficiently and exactly by graph cuts. Max-product belief propagation (MP) has been shown to be suboptimal on this class of energy functions by a canonical counterexample where MP conver…
We consider the problem of classifying data manifolds where each manifold represents invariances that are parameterized by continuous degrees of freedom. Conventional data augmentation methods rely upon sampling large numbers of training examples from these manifolds; instead, we propose an iterative algorithm called M…
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms for continuous action spaces are known to be brittle toward hyperparameters as well as \cut{being}sample inefficient. Soft Actor Critic (SAC) proposes an off-policy deep actor critic algorithm within the maximum entropy RL framework which offers greater stability and empiric…
New algorithm clusters Gaussian mixtures with unknown covariance efficiently.
Max-Cut decision tree improves classification accuracy and reduces computation time.
A RL-enhanced quantum-inspired algorithm solves combinatorial optimization problems.
When it comes to clustering nonconvex shapes, two paradigms are used to find the most suitable clustering: minimum cut and maximum density. The most popular algorithms incorporating these paradigms are Spectral Clustering and DBSCAN. Both paradigms have their pros and cons. While minimum cut clusterings are sensitive t…
Inference in general Markov random fields (MRFs) is NP-hard, though identifying the maximum a posteriori (MAP) configuration of pairwise MRFs with submodular cost functions is efficiently solvable using graph cuts. Marginal inference, however, even for this restricted class, is in #P. We prove new formulations of deriv…
Financial portfolios are often optimized for maximum profit while subject to a constraint formulated in terms of the Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR). This amounts to solving a linear problem. However, in its original formulation this linear problem has a very large number of linear constraints, too many to be enforced…
ECO-DQN uses RL to improve combinatorial optimization solutions by continuous exploration.
The Ryu-Takayanagi (RT) formula relates the entanglement entropy of a region in a holographic theory to the area of a corresponding bulk minimal surface. Using the max flow-min cut principle, a theorem from network theory, we rewrite the RT formula in a way that does not make reference to the minimal surface. Instead, …
Let φ(G) be the minimum conductance of an undirected graph G, and let 0=λ_1 <= λ_2 <=... <= λ_n <= 2 be the eigenvalues of the normalized Laplacian matrix of G. We prove that for any graph G and any k >= 2, φ(G) = O(k) λ_2 / \sqrt{λ_k}, and this performance guarantee is achieved by the spectral partitioning algorithm. …
In this paper we relate the partition function to the max-statistics of random variables. In particular, we provide a novel framework for approximating and bounding the partition function using MAP inference on randomly perturbed models. As a result, we can use efficient MAP solvers such as graph-cuts to evaluate the c…
We study the problem of partitioning a small sample of individuals from a mixture of product distributions over a Boolean cube according to their distributions. Each distribution is described by a vector of allele frequencies in . Given two distributions, we use to denote the average $\el…
Paper proposes quantum methods for optimizing machine learning functions.
Truncated Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) calculates the closest rank- approximation of a given input matrix. Selecting the appropriate rank defines a critical model order choice in most applications of SVD. To obtain a principled cut-off criterion for the spectrum, we convert the underlying optimization prob…
NeuralCut learns to select cutting planes by looking ahead, outperforming traditional methods.
Differentiable cutting-plane layers solve parametric mixed-integer linear optimization problems.
NeVI-Cut uses neural networks to efficiently propagate uncertainty without feedback.
Paper connects probability density cuts to graph theory eigenfunctions.
Study Riemannian metrics on lens spaces, find cut loci and diameters.
Study Riemannian metrics on lens spaces, find cut loci and diameters.
We consider a left invariant Riemannian metric on SO(3) with two equal eigenvalues. We find the cut locus and the equation for the cut time. We find the diameter of such metric and describe the set of all most distant points from the identity. Also we prove that the cut locus and the cut time converge to the cut locus …
Stability of cut locus under metric perturbations in compact Riemannian manifolds.
Deep Neural Networks(DNNs) require huge GPU memory when training on modern image/video databases. Unfortunately, the GPU memory is physically finite, which limits the image resolutions and batch sizes that could be used in training for better DNN performance. Unlike solutions that require physically upgrade GPUs, the G…
New equivalence relation for links using cut-diagrams.
Study shows convergence rates for Cheeger cuts on data clouds.
Unified framework for differentiable graph partitioning with probabilistic cuts.
Stochastic cutting planes improve data-driven optimization speed.
Study of Randers metrics on spheres with simple cut loci.
Quantum algorithm speeds up MIP solving by a near-quadratic factor.
We define spin-c prequantization of a symplectic manifold to be a spin-c structure and a connection which are compatible with the symplectic form. We describe the cutting of an S^1-equivariant spin-c prequantization. The cutting process involves a choice of a spin-c prequantization for the complex plane. We prove that …
A symplectic cut of a manifold M with a Hamiltonian circle action is a symplectic quotient of M x C. If M is Kaehler then, since C is Kaehler, the cut space is Kaehler as well. The symplectic structure on the cut is well understood. In this paper we describe the complex structure (and hence the metric) on the cut. We t…
Spectral clustering for directed graphs using likelihood estimation.
In this note, we study the cut locus of the free, step two Carnot groups with generators, equipped with their left-invariant Carnot-Carathéodory metric. In particular, we disprove the conjectures on the shape of the cut loci proposed in [Myasnichenko - 2002] and [Montanari, Morbidelli - 2016], by exh…
Max flow/min cut theorem extended to currents and topology.
Spectral Clustering as a relaxation of the normalized/ratio cut has become one of the standard graph-based clustering methods. Existing methods for the computation of multiple clusters, corresponding to a balanced -cut of the graph, are either based on greedy techniques or heuristics which have weak connection to th…
Spectral clustering is sensitive to how graphs are constructed from data particularly when proximal and imbalanced clusters are present. We show that Ratio-Cut (RCut) or normalized cut (NCut) objectives are not tailored to imbalanced data since they tend to emphasize cut sizes over cut values. We propose a graph partit…
This paper establishes the consistency of a family of graph-cut-based algorithms for clustering of data clouds. We consider point clouds obtained as samples of a ground-truth measure. We investigate approaches to clustering based on minimizing objective functionals defined on proximity graphs of the given sample. Our f…
New upper bound for geodesic complexity derived from cut locus decompositions.
We consider the Lie group PSL(2) (the group of orientation preserving isometries of the hyperbolic plane) and a left-invariant Riemannian metric on this group with two equal eigenvalues that correspond to space-like eigenvectors (with respect to the Killing form). For such metrics we find a parametrization of geodesics…
Laplacian of distance function shows negative infinity at cut locus points.
In this article we extend cutting and blowing up to the nonrational symplectic toric setting. This entails the possibility of cutting and blowing up for symplectic toric manifolds and orbifolds in nonrational directions.