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48 results for minimal neighborhood

The minimal number of critical points is studied for smooth functions on closed manifolds.

problem Determining the minimal number of critical points for smooth functions on closed manifolds.
method Investigates cylindrical ball neighborhoods and exotic critical points, proving the conjecture for certain types of critical points.
result The minimal number of critical points is the same for smooth functions without exotic critical points on closed manifolds of dimension at least 6.

This paper studies the structure of a specific neighborhood in minimal 2-crossing charts.

problem Understanding the structure of a minimal 2-crossing chart with specific neighborhoods.
method Analyzes the neighborhoods of ΓαΓβΓ_α\cupΓ_β and proposes a normal form for 2-crossing minimal nn-charts.
result Proposes a normal form for 2-crossing minimal nn-charts.

The study proves properties of geodesics and tubular neighborhoods on Finsler manifolds.

problem Existence and properties of geodesics and tubular neighborhoods on Finsler manifolds.
method Analytical proof of properties of geodesics and tubular neighborhoods.
result Existence of tubular neighborhoods and minimization of orthogonal geodesics.

The study proves local rigidity of minimal 2-spheres in electrovacuum spacetimes.

problem Proving local rigidity of minimal 2-spheres in electrovacuum spacetimes under certain conditions.
method Analyzing electrovacuum spacetimes and using constraints on charged Hawking mass and area minimization.
result Local rigidity of minimal 2-spheres in electrovacuum spacetimes, with isometric neighborhoods to specific spacetimes.

In this paper, we show that a complete embedded minimal surface in $\Real^3$ with finite topology and one end is conformal to a once-punctured compact Riemann surface. Moreover, using the conformality and embeddedness, we examine the Weierstrass data and conclude that every such surface has Weierstrass data asymptotic …

2008-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows TAP free energy minimization provides better posterior inference in high-dimensional linear models.

problem Deviation from true posterior mean and underestimation of posterior uncertainty in variational inference.
method Minimization of TAP free energy in a high-dimensional asymptotic framework, showing geometric and statistical properties.
result Local minimizer of TAP free energy provides consistent estimate of posterior marginals and correctly calibrated posterior inference.

WSFN overcomes saddle points for non-convex functionals in Wasserstein space.

problem Minimizing non-convex functionals over the Wasserstein space with saddle point avoidance.
method WSFN is a second-order method that preconditions the Wasserstein gradient to avoid saddle points.
result WSFN escapes saddle regions and reaches a global minimizer in polynomial time.

Minimal hypersurfaces with cylindrical tangent cones constructed and analyzed.

problem Constructing minimal hypersurfaces with specific geometric properties.
method Constructing minimal hypersurfaces with cylindrical tangent cones and proving unique continuation results.
result Existence and properties of minimal hypersurfaces with cylindrical tangent cones.

Local minimality proven for stable free-boundary minimal hypersurfaces.

problem Proving local minimality for stable free-boundary minimal hypersurfaces.
method Using relative current setting and strict stability, proving local minimality among relative cycles.
result Local minimality of stable free-boundary minimal hypersurfaces in a small tubular neighborhood.

We prove a descriptive theorem on the extrinsic geometry of an embedded minimal surface of injectivity radius zero in a homogeneously regular Riemannian three-manifold, in a certain small intrinsic neighborhood of a point of almost-minimal injectivity radius. This structure theorem includes a limit object which we call…

2015-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper Hamiltonian system of time dependent periodic Newton equations is studied. It is shown that for dimensions 33 and higher the following rigidity results holds true: If all the orbits in a neighborhood of infinity are action minimizing then the potential must be constant. This gives a generalization of the…

2015-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper characterizes neural network landscapes for gradient dominance and regularity.

problem Understanding the landscape of neural network loss functions.
method Characterization of gradient dominance and regularity conditions for neural networks.
result Explicit characterization of global minimizers and landscape properties for different neural network types.

In this paper we prove the existence of rational homology balls smoothly embedded in regular neighborhoods of certain linear chains of smooth 22-spheres by using techniques from minimal model program for 3-dimensional complex algebraic variety.

2015-08-15abs ↗pdf ↗

SAM minimizes loss sharpness, improving adversarial transferability.

problem Improving adversarial transferability of deep neural networks.
method Evaluating surrogate models trained with seven minimizers, focusing on loss sharpness and flat neighborhoods.
result SAM minimizes loss sharpness, leading to better adversarial transferability.

Given a compact closed subset MM of a line segment in R3\mathbb{R}^3, we construct a sequence of minimal surfaces ΣkΣ_k embedded in a neighborhood CC of the line segment that converge smoothly to a limit lamination of CC away from MM. Moreover, the curvature of this sequence blows up precisely on MM, and the limit…

2009-10-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Survey on minimal rational curves and their geometric structures.

problem Germ-equivalence problem of minimal rational curves on uniruled projective manifolds.
method Analysis of isotrivial families of projective varieties and G-structures.
result Natural G-structure on Zariski-open subset of uniruled projective manifolds.

Proposes NRS to find flat minima in deep neural networks.

problem Finding optimal solutions in deep neural networks with overparameterization.
method NRS leverages the concept of flat minima and uses Kullback-Leibler divergence to regularize the neighborhood region in weight space.
result NRS drives optimizers towards flat minima, improving generalization ability across various model architectures.

New proof shows how to identify DAGs with weakly increasing errors.

problem Identifying the true DAG in models with weakly increasing error variances.
method Minimum-trace DAG method and hill climbing algorithm with R2R neighborhood.
result Hill climbing algorithm without strict local optima under weakly increasing error variances.

NNK algorithm improves neighborhood and graph construction for machine learning.

problem Ad hoc selection of k and ε parameters in kNN and ε-neighborhood methods.
method NNK algorithm for better sparse signal approximation.
result NNK leads to superior performance in local neighborhood and graph-based machine learning tasks.

This research improves classification performance by learning a distance metric from balanced data.

problem Data imbalance in learning methods.
method Extracts a low-dimensional manifold, learns local neighborhood relationships, and optimizes distance metric.
result The proposed method outperforms other approaches, especially in imbalanced datasets.

Let A be a line arrangement in the complex projective plane CP2. We define and describe the inclusion map of the boundary manifold --the boundary of a close regular neighborhood of A-- in the exterior of the arrangement. We obtain two explicit descriptions of the map induced on the fundamental groups. These computation…

2013-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we prove two theorems. The first one is a structure result that describes the extrinsic geometry of an embedded surface with constant mean curvature (possibly zero) in a homogeneously regular Riemannian three-manifold, in any small neighborhood of a point of large almost-maximal curvature. We next apply t…

2014-01-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Quantized Stochastic Primal-Dual Methods for Distributed Optimization

problem Distributed optimization with stochastic gradients and finite-bit communication
method q-PDGD, a quantized stochastic primal-dual method
result Linear contraction to an explicit neighborhood under RSI, O(1/k) convergence under PL inequality