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48 results for natural settings

Consider a general machine learning setting where the output is a set of labels or sequences. This output set is unordered and its size varies with the input. Whereas multi-label classification methods seem a natural first resort, they are not readily applicable to set-valued outputs because of the growth rate of the o…

2019-03-12abs ↗pdf ↗

PixL2R maps natural language to pixel-based rewards for RL, improving sample efficiency.

problem Sparse reward settings in RL limit applicability to complex problems.
method Directly maps natural language descriptions to pixel-based rewards for guiding RL.
result Language-based rewards significantly improve sample efficiency in policy learning.

A new method uses natural gradients for efficient distribution optimization.

problem Challenges in computing natural gradients for many distributions.
method Reframe optimization as a surrogate distribution with easy natural gradient computation.
result Expands set of distributions efficiently targetable with natural gradients.

In this paper we systematically describe relations between various structure sets which arise naturally for pairs of compact topological manifolds with boundary. Our consideration is based on a deep analogy between the case of a compact manifold with boundary and the case of a closed manifold pair. This approach also g…

2009-08-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Introduces a natural parallel translation for navigation data.

problem Navigation data geometric representation and parallelism.
method Introduces a natural parallel translation using Riemannian parallelism.
result The natural parallel translation preserves the Randers norm and has a finite-dimensional holonomy group.

Study evaluates how well question-answering models generalize to new data types.

problem Generalization of question-answering models to new data types.
method Constructed new test sets from different domains and evaluated models' performance.
result Models show significant performance drops when tested on new data types.

In this paper, we extend the formal definition of topological surgery by introducing new notions in order to model natural phenomena exhibiting it. On the one hand, the common features of the presented natural processes are captured by our schematic models and, on the other hand, our new definitions provide the theoret…

2017-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider several natural sets of curves associated to a given Teichmüller disc, such as the systole set or cylinder set, and study their coarse geometry inside the curve graph. We prove that these sets are quasiconvex and agree up to uniformly bounded Hausdorff distance. Furthermore, we describe two operations on cu…

2015-10-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Study relaxes identification assumptions for natural direct effects in non-randomized settings.

problem Identifying causal direct effects under unmeasured confounding.
method Developed relaxed conditions for identifying natural direct effects in non-randomized settings.
result Identified natural direct effect under unmeasured confounding conditions.

We describe the connected components of the complement of a natural "diagonal" of real codimension 1 in a stratum of quadratic differentials on CP1. We establish a natural bijection between the set of these connected components and the set of generic configurations that appear on such "flat spheres". We also prove that…

2007-08-27abs ↗pdf ↗

The author studies regions foliated by 1D families of functions and their applications.

problem Understanding regions represented as foliated forms and natural smooth maps onto them.
method Investigates natural smooth maps respecting canonical projections and moment maps, focusing on foliated regions.
result Discusses the 1st derivative of functions and critical sets in foliated regions.

We determine the structure of the *-Lie superalgebra generated by a set of carefully chosen natural operators of an orientable WSD manifold of rank three. This Lie superalgebra is formed by global sections of a natural Lie superalgebra bundle, and turns out to be a product of $\mathbf{sl}(4,\C)$ with the full special…

2007-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

We review two strands of conceptual approaches to the formal representation of a decision maker's non-knowledge at the initial stage of a static one-person, one-shot decision problem in economic theory. One focuses on representations of non-knowledge in terms of probability measures over sets of mutually exclusive and …

2014-07-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a natural hedging framework with graphical assessment for longevity risk management.

problem Lack of a unified framework for natural hedging and graphical risk assessment.
method Structured natural hedging framework integrated with a graphical risk metric.
result Demonstrates flexibility, interpretability, and practical value for longevity risk management.

Study shows perceptual boost of visual attention varies with task difficulty and size.

problem Understanding how task-dependent the perceptual boost of visual attention is in natural settings.
method Designed and trained neural networks on various visual tasks, comparing results to baseline.
result Perceptual boost of attention is stronger with more difficult tasks and weaker with larger task sets.

We introduce the fibred toric varieties as equivariant CPr\mathbb{C}P^r bundles over lower dimensional toric varieties. An equivalent characterization is that the natural morphisms on them degenerate to bundle projections in the context of variation of toric varieties as GIT quotients. Our main observation is that these…

2010-12-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper presents a rank-1 approximation method for natural policy gradients in deep RL.

problem Computing natural gradients requires inverting the Fisher Information Matrix, which is computationally expensive.
method Develops a rank-1 approximation to the inverse Fisher Information Matrix for efficient natural policy optimization.
result The rank-1 approximation converges faster and has similar sample complexity to stochastic policy gradient methods.

Deep Sets improve reinforcement learning agent's object-centered navigation and generalization.

problem Improving reinforcement learning agents' ability to generalize to unseen objects and goals.
method Combining object-wise permutation invariant networks (Deep Sets) and gated-attention mechanisms.
result Agent demonstrates strong generalization to out-of-distribution goals in a procedurally-generated 2D world.

Paper discusses natural quasiconvexity and its relation to decomposable sums in risk measures.

problem Understanding natural quasiconvexity and its implications in risk measures.
method Relates natural quasiconvexity to decomposable sums, proposes a general treatment of convexity index, and proves equivalence for certain spaces.
result Natural quasiconvexity and convexity are equivalent for conditional risk measures on LpL^p spaces under mild conditions.

We study cubical sets without degeneracies, which we call square sets. These sets arise naturally in a number of settings and they have a beautiful intrinsic geometry; in particular a square set C has an infinite family of associated square sets J^i(C), i=1,2,..., which we call James complexes. There are mock bundle pr…

2003-01-30abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the notion of multiple gap as a finite set of ideals that cannot be separated. We study the different types of such objects that can be found in the Boolean algebra of subsets of the natural numbers modulo finite sets.

2010-01-27abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method compares image classifiers using adaptive sampling of natural images.

problem Evaluation of image classifiers on small, fixed test sets may not generalize to real-world images.
method Adaptive sampling from a large corpus of unlabeled images to maximize classifier discrepancies measured by WordNet hierarchy.
result Human labeling of model-dependent image sets reveals relative classifier performance.

Automates translating natural language to Verilog for digital design.

problem Manual translation of natural language specifications to Verilog is time-consuming and error-prone.
method Fine-tuned GPT-2 to derive Verilog from English, using a dataset of design tasks.
result GPT-2 achieved 94.8% correct translation across simple and abstract design tasks.

The paper is concerned with defining a topology on the set of ideals of codimension d of the algebra C^\infty(M,R) with M being a compact smooth manifold. Its main property is that it is compact Hausdorff and it contains as a subspace the configuration space of d distinct unordered points in M and therefore provides a …

2010-06-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Current approaches for predicting sets from feature vectors ignore the unordered nature of sets and suffer from discontinuity issues as a result. We propose a general model for predicting sets that properly respects the structure of sets and avoids this problem. With a single feature vector as input, we show that our m…

2019-06-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Many Machine Reading and Natural Language Understanding tasks require reading supporting text in order to answer questions. For example, in Question Answering, the supporting text can be newswire or Wikipedia articles; in Natural Language Inference, premises can be seen as the supporting text and hypotheses as question…

2018-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We prove some results concerning the boundary of a convex set in $\H^n$. This includes the convergence of curvature measures under Hausdorff convergence of the sets, the study of normal points, and, for convex surfaces, a generalized Gauss equation and some natural characterizations of the regular part of the Gaussian …

2017-10-05abs ↗pdf ↗