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48 results for minimisation

We study the problem of finding strain-minimising stream surfaces in a divergence-free vector field. These surfaces are generated by motions of seed curves that propagate through the field in a strain minimising manner, i.e., they move without stretching or shrinking, preserving the length of their arbitrary arc. In ge…

2014-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

New frame method simplifies solving variational problems with Euclidean symmetry.

problem Solving variational problems with Euclidean symmetry.
method Rotation Minimising frame and symbolic invariant calculus.
result Noether's conservation laws and Euler-Lagrange equations derived directly.

Loss minimisation fails to capture epistemic uncertainty in second-order predictors.

problem Capturing epistemic uncertainty in machine learning models.
method Analysis of a second-order learner approach using loss minimisation.
result Loss minimisation does not faithfully represent epistemic uncertainty in second-order predictors.

Study characterizes hulls and capacities on Riemannian manifolds, proving isoperimetric inequalities.

problem Characterizing hulls and capacities on Riemannian manifolds.
method Investigates strictly outward minimising hulls and uses p-capacities to recover their areas.
result Sharp isoperimetric inequality on complete noncompact manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature.

Proves existence and regularity of spherical minimizers for lipid membrane energy.

problem Existence and regularity of minimizers for the Canham-Helfrich energy.
method Establishes lower semicontinuity and proves existence through weak convergence of immersions.
result Proves existence and regularity of minimizers for the Canham-Helfrich energy on spheres.

Characterizes harmonic morphisms preserving minimal submanifolds and finds novel area-minimising hypercones.

problem Understanding harmonic morphisms and their relationship to minimal submanifolds.
method Characterization of harmonic morphisms as weakly horizontally conformal maps preserving minimal submanifold equations, derivation of reduction properties for other co-dimensions, application to find novel area-minimising hypercones.
result Novel family of degree 4 area-minimising hypercones in R^m, m≥32.

Proves convexity of minimizers in energy functions with convex potentials.

problem Connectedness and convexity of minimizers in energy functions involving surface tensions and convex potentials.
method Introduces a 'two-point function' to measure lack of convexity and prove negative second variation of the energy.
result Positively answers an old question of Almgren about connectedness and convexity of minimizers.

We study the Calabi functional on a ruled surface over a genus two curve. For polarisations which do not admit an extremal metric we describe the behaviour of a minimising sequence splitting the manifold into pieces. We also show that the Calabi flow starting from a metric with suitable symmetry gives such a minimising…

2007-03-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Proves strict inequality for minimizers of Willmore energy under isoperimetric constraints.

problem Minimizing the Willmore energy under isoperimetric constraints.
method Connected sum approach, building on previous work by Keller-Mondino-Rivière.
result Existence of minimizers for the isoperimetric constrained Willmore problem in every genus.

The Duffing oscillator's parameters are identified online using variational message passing.

problem Estimating parameters of a nonlinear Duffing oscillator in real-time.
method Variational message passing on a factor graph of the Duffing oscillator's generative model.
result The online inference procedure performs as well as offline methods.

The paper analyzes greedy algorithms for MMD minimization, showing their efficiency and approximation error.

problem Minimizing Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) for probability measure quantization.
method Iterative algorithms including kernel herding, greedy MMD minimization, and Sequential Bayesian Quadrature (SBQ).
result The greedy algorithms have a lower approximation error than SBQ, but are significantly faster.

Paper finds optimal shapes for minimizing average lengths of billiard trajectories in specific polygons.

problem Finding optimal shapes to minimize the average length of billiard trajectories.
method Used techniques from Teichmüller theory.
result Optimal shapes minimize average lengths of billiard trajectories in specific polygons.

A neural flow method minimizes Willmore energy for 2-surfaces in 3D space.

problem Minimizing Willmore energy for closed oriented 2-surfaces in 3D space.
method Introducing neural Willmore flow to model and minimize the Willmore energy using neural architectures.
result The neural flow reproduces expected round sphere and Clifford torus for genus 0 and 1 surfaces, respectively, and finds minimal Willmore surfaces for genus 2.

Choose two points in the tangent bundle of the Euclidean plane (x,X),(y,Y)TR2(x,X),(y,Y)\in T{ \mathbb R}^2. In this work we characterise the immersed length minimising paths with a prescribed bound on the curvature starting at xx, tangent to XX; finishing at yy, tangent to YY, in each connected component of the space of paths…

2014-03-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Study proves properties of constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in high-dimensional spaces.

problem Properties of constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in high-dimensional spaces.
method Proves properties of constant mean curvature hypersurfaces using min-max procedure and surgery.
result Every tangent cone at each isolated singularity is area-minimising.

A method improves Cryo-EM 3D map refinement by regularizing rotation estimation.

problem Noise-robustness vs. data-consistency in Cryo-EM 3D map reconstruction.
method Ellipsoidal support lifting (ESL) for regularizing and approximating the global minimizer over Riemannian manifolds.
result The induced bias due to regularizing effect of ESL estimates better rotations than global optimisation.

In this paper we formulate in general terms an approach to prove strong consistency of the Empirical Risk Minimisation inductive principle applied to the prototype or distance based clustering. This approach was motivated by the Divisive Information-Theoretic Feature Clustering model in probabilistic space with Kullbac…

2010-04-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Study minimizes crossing points of up to 12 curves on a genus 2 surface.

problem Minimizing intersection points of curves on a surface.
method Analyzes systems of up to 12 simple closed curves on a genus 2 surface to find the minimum crossing number.
result Determines the minimal crossing number of up to 12 curves on a genus 2 surface and proves the minimization systems are unique.

The study finds solutions to a curvature minimisation problem in fixed-length curves.

problem Minimizing the LL^\infty-norm of curvature among curves of fixed length.
method Characterized solutions by a system of differential equations and classified the structure of solutions.
result Characterized solutions to the LL^\infty-norm of curvature problem.

This paper introduces a new method to train normalizing flows using precision-recall divergences.

problem Training generative models with mode dropping and low-quality samples.
method Introduces PR-divergences and proposes a novel generative model to minimize precision-recall trade-offs.
result Normalizing flows can be trained to achieve specific precision-recall trade-offs using PR-divergences.

On the one hand, we prove that the Clifford torus in C2\mathbb{C}^2 is unstable for Lagrangian mean curvature flow under arbitrarily small Hamiltonian perturbations, even though it is Hamiltonian FF-stable and locally area minimising under Hamiltonian variations. On the other hand, we show that the Clifford torus is r…

2018-02-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops strategies to minimize trading costs in volatile markets.

problem Minimizing trading costs in volatile markets with uncertain asset price paths.
method Constructs dynamic, pathwise optimal trade execution strategies using random Young differential equations.
result Good trade execution strategies minimize trading costs in a pathwise sense, not just expected costs.

Study optimal consumption and investment for investors with Epstein-Zin preferences.

problem Optimal consumption and investment for investors with Epstein-Zin preferences in an incomplete market.
method Variational characterisation and direct method to prove existence of optimal policies.
result Existence and uniqueness of optimal consumption and investment policies.

Study examines insider trading in short-selling restricted markets.

problem Analyzing insider trading opportunities in short-selling prohibited markets.
method Introducing minimal supermartingale measure and analyzing its properties in relation to minimal martingale measure.
result Conditions under which both measures fail to exist, indicating insider information affecting market perception.

Smooth approximations near singularities of constant mean curvature surfaces are found.

problem Finding smooth approximations for constant mean curvature surfaces near singular points.
method Proving the existence of sequences of smooth CMC hypersurfaces converging to a given one in a ball centered at the singularity.
result Smooth approximations exist in a ball centered at the singularity of a CMC hypersurface.

The question of optimal portfolio is addressed. The conventional Markowitz portfolio optimisation is discussed and the shortcomings due to non-Gaussian security returns are outlined. A method is proposed to minimise the likelihood of extreme non-Gaussian drawdowns of the portfolio value. The theory is called Leptokurti…

2005-04-18abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper studies properties of Sliced Wasserstein energy for discrete measures.

problem Optimizing discrete probability measures using Sliced Wasserstein loss.
method Investigates the regularity and optimisation properties of the Sliced Wasserstein energy and its Monte-Carlo approximation.
result Convergence results on the critical points of Monte-Carlo approximations to the Sliced Wasserstein energy.

Denoising autoencoders (DAEs) are powerful deep learning models used for feature extraction, data generation and network pre-training. DAEs consist of an encoder and decoder which may be trained simultaneously to minimise a loss (function) between an input and the reconstruction of a corrupted version of the input. The…

2017-08-28abs ↗pdf ↗