Consider an analytic map of a neighborhood of 0 in a vector space to a Euclidean space. Suppose that this map takes all germs of lines passing through 0 to germs of circles. Such a map is called rounding. We introduce a natural equivalence relation on roundings and prove that any rounding, whose differential at 0 has r…
On-device research index
arXiv research
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.
169,051 papers · 148 categories
Trend · papers per month
48 results for “natural rounding”
Round surgery diagrams represent 3-manifolds in .
problem Representing and manipulating 3-manifolds in .
method Introducing round surgery diagrams and defining moves to establish Kirby Calculus.
result Any 3-manifold can be obtained by a round surgery on a framed link in .
We investigate the evolution of closed strictly convex hypersurfaces in , n=3, for contracting normal velocities, including powers of the mean curvature, of the norm of the second fundamental form, and of the Gauss curvature. We prove convergence to a round point for 2-pinched initial hypersurfaces. I…
One-round FL method improves robustness and reduces communication rounds.
problem Making predictions robust and reducing FL communication rounds in heterogeneous data.
method Bayesian predictive space aggregation of client posteriors in one round.
result One-round FL method outperforms other techniques on heterogeneous settings.
A new compression technique reduces communication costs in distributed deep learning.
problem Communication bottlenecks in distributed deep learning training.
method Natural Compression (NC) and Natural Dithering.
result Natural Compression increases communication savings by 3-4 times with negligible convergence speed impact.
It has been known in that round spheres are the only closed homothetic self-similar solutions to the inverse mean curvature flow and parabolic curvature flows by degree -1 homogeneous functions of principle curvatures in the Euclidean space. In this article, we prove that the round sphere is rigid in much stronger sens…
New algorithm reduces online learning regret for bounded recall games.
problem Reducing regret in online learning with limited past information.
method Constructing a stationary bounded-recall algorithm with regret.
result Any low regret bounded-recall algorithm must be aware of past losses' order.
This paper deals with eigenvalue optimization problems for a family of natural Schrödinger operators arising in some geometrical or physical contexts. These operators, whose potentials are quadratic in curvature, are considered on closed surfaces immersed in space forms and we look for geometries that maximize the eige…
Distributed algorithms for online linear regression in networked settings.
problem Online linear regression in a distributed network with various feedback types and adversary strategies.
method Simple gradient descent and averaging steps at each node, with regret bounds established.
result Regret bounds of for unbounded decision sets and for bounded decision sets.
Gradient descent with biased rounding errors converges faster under certain conditions.
problem Stagnation or negative impact of rounding errors in neural network training with low precision.
method Analysis of gradient descent with stochastic fixed-point rounding errors under the Polyak-Lojasiewicz inequality.
result Biased rounding errors can improve convergence rates, especially when the Polyak-Lojasiewicz inequality holds.
Nearly -structures are unstable under a modified -Laplacian co-flow.
problem Stability of nearly -structures under geometric flows.
method Normalized modified -Laplacian co-flow.
result Many nearly -structures are unstable, with the standard structure on the round 7-sphere being an unstable critical point.
Round spheres are uniquely characterized by half-geodesics.
problem Characterizing round spheres in Riemannian geometry.
method Establishing that Riemannian spheres with specific geodesic properties are round.
result Riemannian spheres with all geodesics closed and many half-geodesics are round.
Study shows why 6-sphere cannot be hermitian.
problem Understanding why the 6-sphere fails to be hermitian.
method Analyzes curvature and integrability interactions.
result Obstruction equation to integrability of orthogonal structures.
Contact round surgeries on help in constructing and understanding contact 3-manifolds.
problem Constructing contact 3-manifolds using Legendrian surgeries.
method Introducing contact round surgeries of indices 1 and 2, and associating them with surgery diagrams.
result Every closed connected contact 3-manifold can be obtained by a sequence of contact round surgeries on Legendrian knots in .
No complex structure exists on a round 6-sphere.
problem Existence of orthogonal complex structures on the round 6-sphere.
method Review of existing results.
result No orthogonal complex structure exists on the round 6-sphere.
In this article, we extend Huisken's theorem that convex surfaces flow to round points by mean curvature flow. We construct certain classes of mean convex and non-mean convex hypersurfaces that shrink to round points and use these constructions to create pathological examples of flows. We find a sequence of flows that …
Optimizes sample and round complexity in adaptive sampling from multiple distributions.
problem Adaptive sampling from multiple distributions with limited rounds and samples.
method Introduces OODS framework and analyzes tradeoffs between sample and round complexity.
result Achieves near-optimal sample complexity and sub-polynomial round complexity.
New findings show infinitely many knots cannot be smoothly round handle slices.
problem Understanding the smoothability of knots in 4-dimensional space.
method Analyzing the properties of knots under surgery conjectures and cobordism conjectures.
result Infinitely many knots fail to be smoothly round handle slices.
Orthogonal almost complex structures on the Riemannian products of even-dimensional round spheresmath.DG
We discuss the integrability of orthogonal almost complex structures on Riemannian products of even-dimensional round spheres and give a partial answer to the question raised by E. Calabi concerning the existence of complex structures on a product manifold of a round 2-sphere and a round 4-sphere.
This work investigates how multi-round reasoning improves LLM performance.
problem Improving problem-solving abilities in complex tasks with LLMs.
method Investigates approximation, learnability, and generalization properties of multi-round auto-regressive models.
result Transformers with finite context windows are universal approximators for Turing-computable functions and can approximate any Turing-computable sequence-to-sequence function through multi-round reasoning.
The paper develops a robust algorithm for contextual bandits with heavy-tailed rewards.
problem Contextual bandits with heavy-tailed rewards.
method Develops an algorithm based on Catoni's estimator for robust statistics, applying it to contextual bandits with general function approximation.
result Establishes regret bounds that depend on cumulative reward variance and logarithmically on the reward range and number of rounds.
A physically natural potential energy for simple closed curves in is shown to be invariant under Möbius transformations. This leads to the rapid resolution of several open problems: round circles are precisely the absolute minima for energy; there is a minimum energy threshold below which knotting cannot oc…
New method simplifies ideal curve flow with length constraint.
problem Analyzing ideal curve flow with length constraint.
method Introduced length constraint to simplify sixth order curvature flow.
result Flow exists for all time and converges to a round circle.
New findings on -solutions with round cylinder as asymptotic shrinker.
problem Characterizing -solutions with specific asymptotic behavior.
method Analysis of Ricci flow in dimensions .
result Uniformly Positive Isoperimetric Constant (PIC) for -solutions.
The key condition A3w of Ma, Trudinger and Wang for regularity of optimal transportation maps is implied by the nonnegativity of a pseudo-Riemannian curvature -- which we call cross-curvature -- induced by the transportation cost. For the Riemannian distance squared cost, it is shown that (1) cross-curvature nonnegativ…
Round balls minimize liquid drop model volumes ≤ 1.
problem Minimizing volumes in liquid drop models.
method Proved uniqueness of minimizers for small volumes.
result Round balls uniquely minimize volumes ≤ 1.
Gradient descent stagnates in low-precision, but unbiased rounding schemes improve convergence.
problem Stagnation of gradient descent in low-precision computation.
method Proposed unbiased stochastic rounding schemes that trade zero bias for larger probability of preserving small gradients.
result Unbiased rounding methods typically improve convergence rate of gradient descent for convex problems.
In this paper we study the limitations of parallelization in convex optimization. A convenient approach to study parallelization is through the prism of \emph{adaptivity} which is an information theoretic measure of the parallel runtime of an algorithm [BS18]. Informally, adaptivity is the number of sequential rounds a…
Round cylinders are rigid in Ricci shrinkers close to the standard product.
problem Proving rigidity of round cylinders in Ricci shrinkers.
method Proving isometry using pointed-Gromov-Hausdorff topology.
result Ricci shrinkers close to are isometric to .
We show that if the entropy of any closed hypersurface is close to that of a round hyper-sphere, then it is close to a round sphere in Hausdorff distance. Generalizing the result of \cite{BW1} to higher dimensions.
In this paper, we study the limiting behavior of the Brown-York mass and Hawking mass along nearly round surfaces at infinity of an asymptotically flat manifold. Nearly round surfaces can be defined in an intrinsic way. Our results show that the ADM mass of an asymptotically flat 3-manifold can be approximated by some …
Study of red blood cells using elastic surface theory.
problem Understanding the shape of red blood cells.
method Used Helfrich-Canham functional to model red blood cells as elastic surfaces.
result Cassinian ovals, except for the round sphere, do not solve the shape equation.
In this work we consider adversarial contextual bandits with risk constraints. At each round, nature prepares a context, a cost for each arm, and additionally a risk for each arm. The learner leverages the context to pull an arm and then receives the corresponding cost and risk associated with the pulled arm. In additi…
We study solutions of high codimension mean curvature flow defined for all negative times, usually referred to as ancient solutions. We show that any compact ancient solution whose second fundamental form satisfies a certain natural pinching condition must be a family of shrinking spheres. Andrews and Baker have shown …
The study characterizes round spheres in Euclidean space based on r-mean curvature conditions.
problem Characterizing round spheres in Euclidean space under specific curvature conditions.
method Characterization based on r-mean curvature conditions.
result Characterizes round spheres in Euclidean space under suitable r-mean curvature conditions.
New efficient algorithm for approximate PML distribution.
problem Computing the profile maximum likelihood (PML) distribution efficiently.
method Exploiting sparsity structure and new matrix rounding algorithm.
result First provable computationally efficient implementation of PseudoPML.
Safe algorithm for linear bandits with safety constraints, matching previous results.
problem Designing safe bandit algorithms with linear safety constraints.
method Linear Thompson Sampling with frequentist regret analysis.
result Frequentist regret of order .
Contact round surgery of contact 3-manifolds is introduced in this paper. By using this method, an alternative proof of the existence of a contact structure on any closed orientable 3-manifold is given. It is also proved that any contact structure on any closed orientable 3-manifold is constructed from the standard con…
In recent work, the notion of Double Convexity for a foliation of a conical null hypersurface was introduced to give a proof, if satisfied, of the Null Penrose Inequality. Double Convexity constrains the geometry of a Marginally Outer Trapped Surface (MOTS), called a quasi-round MOTS. In the first part of this paper, f…
Study cohomology rings of 3D manifolds with round fold maps into the plane.
problem Understanding cohomology rings of 3D manifolds with round fold maps.
method Analyzing cohomology rings of 3D manifolds admitting round fold maps into the plane.
result Explicit new study showing relation between coefficient rings and topological types of round fold maps.
Research explores real algebraic realization of round fold maps of codimension -1.
problem Real algebraic realization of round fold maps of codimension -1.
method Generalizes canonical projections of unit spheres to round fold maps and discusses their real algebraic realization.
result Developed new studies in real algebraic geometry focusing on round fold maps of codimension -1.
New compact mean convex hypersurfaces found for positive λ.
problem Finding compact embedded hypersurfaces for positive λ.
method Constructing compact mean convex hypersurfaces diffeomorphic to spheres.
result No compact convex embedded λ-hypersurfaces except a round sphere for λ > 0.
New Einstein metrics found on a 10-dimensional sphere.
problem Finding non-round Einstein metrics on spheres.
method Proving existence of three new metrics on .
result Existence of three non-round, non-isometric Einstein metrics with positive scalar curvature on .
We classify the radially symmetric connections in vector bundles over round spheres by proving that they are all parallel.
Weyl's tube formula holds for various cross-sections under symmetry conditions.
problem Can the volume of tubes around submanifolds be calculated for non-round cross-sections?
method Investigated the volume of tubes with general cross-sections D under symmetry conditions.
result The volume of tubes around submanifolds can be calculated for general cross-sections under symmetry conditions.
The round handle problemmath.GT
We present the Round Handle Problem, proposed by Freedman and Krushkal. It asks whether a collection of links, which contains the Generalised Borromean Rings, are slice in a 4-manifold R constructed from adding round handles to the four ball. A negative answer would contradict the union of the surgery conjecture and th…
We prove that the well-rounded retract of SO_n\SL_n(R) is a minimal SL_n(Z)-invariant spine.
High-frequency traders can act as either small informed traders or round-trippers, affecting price discovery and liquidity.
problem Effects of high-frequency trading on price discovery and liquidity.
method Extended Kyle's model with interactions between large informed traders and high-frequency traders.
result High-frequency traders can act as Small-IT or Round-Tripper, impacting price discovery and liquidity.