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48 results for net zero target

Optimizes gradual reduction of excess carbon emissions to net-zero.

problem Achieving net-zero carbon emissions through gradual reduction of excess emissions.
method Stochastic control approach to identify optimal emission strategy under constraints.
result Identifies the emission strategy that maximizes future profit from excess emissions.

Paper analyzes how present-bias affects carbon emissions and proposes a method to mitigate it.

problem Present-bias impacts carbon emission patterns towards a net zero target.
method Stochastic control techniques adapted from insurance risk theory.
result Higher present-bias leads to excess emissions, and carbon taxes can reduce emissions but beyond a certain point have diminishing returns.

We consider the problem of search through comparisons, where a user is presented with two candidate objects and reveals which is closer to her intended target. We study adaptive strategies for finding the target, that require knowledge of rank relationships but not actual distances between objects. We propose a new str…

2012-06-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Convolutional nets require fewer samples than fully-connected nets for image classification.

problem Understanding why convolutional nets are more sample-efficient than fully-connected nets.
method Construction of a natural distribution and target function to demonstrate a sample complexity gap.
result Convolutional nets require O(1)O(1) samples for a single target function, while fully-connected nets require Ω(d2)Ω(d^2) samples.

Advances in renewable energy generation and introduction of the government targets to improve energy efficiency gave rise to a concept of a Zero Energy Building (ZEB). A ZEB is a building whose net energy usage over a year is zero, i.e., its energy use is not larger than its overall renewables generation. A collection …

2018-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Many problems in image processing and computer vision (e.g. colorization, style transfer) can be posed as 'manipulating' an input image into a corresponding output image given a user-specified guiding signal. A holy-grail solution towards generic image manipulation should be able to efficiently alter an input image wit…

2017-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

The existence of a balanced vertex is proven for geodesic nets with three boundary vertices.

problem Existence of a balanced vertex in geodesic nets with specific boundary conditions.
method Proof of existence on a general two-dimensional Riemannian surface.
result Existence of a balanced vertex for geodesic nets with three unbalanced boundary vertices.

Study measures impact of data and neural net similarity on transferability in restaurant sales data.

problem Identify indicators for successful transferability of neural nets across different data sets.
method Empirical study on sales data from six restaurants, calculating indicators based on data and neural net similarities.
result Negative correlations between transferability and indicators, allowing better model performance and fewer transfers.

Neural networks are easier to optimise when they have many more weights than are required for modelling the mapping from inputs to outputs. This suggests a two-stage learning procedure that first learns a large net and then prunes away connections or hidden units. But standard training does not necessarily encourage ne…

2019-05-31abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper consider penalized empirical loss minimization of convex loss functions with unknown non-linear target functions. Using the elastic net penalty we establish a finite sample oracle inequality which bounds the loss of our estimator from above with high probability. If the unknown target is linear this inequali…

2013-12-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper finds how many neurons are needed to approximate histogram distributions.

problem How many neurons are needed to approximate a target probability distribution?
method Examined for uniform input distribution and histogram target distributions, using efficient neural net construction.
result Obtained a new upper bound on the number of required neurons, strictly better than previous bounds.

Paper tackles target shift in zero-shot learning using adversarial learning.

problem Target shift in zero-shot learning leads to performance degradation.
method Estimates target shift using class-attribute mapping and applies grouped adversarial learning.
result Improves zero-shot learning performance on multiple datasets.

A string-net model associates a vector space to a surface in terms of graphs decorated by objects and morphisms of a pivotal fusion category modulo local relations. String-net models are usually considered for spherical fusion categories, and in this case the vector spaces agree with the state spaces of the correspondi…

2019-07-29abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper addresses score-mismatched diffusion models and zero-shot conditional samplers.

problem Theoretical guarantees for score-mismatched diffusion models in zero-shot conditional sampling.
method Theoretical analysis of score-mismatched diffusion models and zero-shot conditional samplers.
result Theoretical performance guarantees with explicit dimensional dependencies for score-mismatched diffusion samplers.

This study shows neural nets can approximate Turing machines with meaningful statistical properties.

problem Theoretical limitations in approximating Turing machines with neural networks.
method Formal definition of statistically meaningful approximation, analysis of boolean circuits and Turing machines using neural nets.
result Transformers can statistically meaningfully approximate Turing machines with polynomial sample complexity.

In this paper we consider a version of the zero-shot learning problem where seen class source and target domain data are provided. The goal during test-time is to accurately predict the class label of an unseen target domain instance based on revealed source domain side information (\eg attributes) for unseen classes. …

2015-09-15abs ↗pdf ↗

This work extends the randomized shortest paths (RSP) model by investigating the net flow RSP and adding capacity constraints on edge flows. The standard RSP is a model of movement, or spread, through a network interpolating between a random-walk and a shortest-path behavior [30, 42, 49]. The framework assumes a unit f…

2019-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

SC-Net learns interpretable filters for inverse problems, achieving optimal convergence and super-resolution.

problem Solving ill-posed inverse problems with effective regularization and interpretability.
method SC-Net operates in the spectral domain, learning a pointwise adaptive filter function based on signal-to-noise ratio.
result SC-Net achieves optimal convergence rate and zero-shot super-resolution, matching theoretical bounds.

We propose a novel neural network embedding approach to model power transmission grids, in which high voltage lines are disconnected and reconnected with one-another from time to time, either accidentally or willfully. We call our architeture LEAP net, for Latent Encoding of Atypical Perturbation. Our method implements…

2019-08-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep model tackles zero-inflated multi-species abundance estimation.

problem Predicting species distribution across landscapes with inflated zero counts.
method Proposes a novel deep learning model combining multivariate probit and log-normal distributions.
result Model outperforms existing methods on bird and fish population datasets.

We show that training of generative adversarial network (GAN) may not have good generalization properties; e.g., training may appear successful but the trained distribution may be far from target distribution in standard metrics. However, generalization does occur for a weaker metric called neural net distance. It is a…

2017-03-02abs ↗pdf ↗

We investigate the relation between quadrics and their Christoffel duals on the one hand, and certain zero mean curvature surfaces and their Gauss maps on the other hand. To study the relation between timelike minimal surfaces and the Christoffel duals of 1-sheeted hyperboloids we introduce para-holomorphic elliptic fu…

2017-01-09abs ↗pdf ↗

The study addresses overlooked data-generating processes in time-series asset pricing.

problem The literature on time-series asset pricing overlooks the data-generating processes for factors expressed in return differences.
method The study proposes a new definition of returns and compound returns for factors, and uses OLS with net returns for single-index models.
result OLS with net returns for single-index models leads to inflated alphas, exaggerated t-values, and overestimated Sharpe ratios.

In this paper, we analyze efficacy of the fast gradient sign method (FGSM) and the Carlini-Wagner's L2 (CW-L2) attack. We prove that, within a certain regime, the untargeted FGSM can fool any convolutional neural nets (CNNs) with ReLU activation; the targeted FGSM can mislead any CNNs with ReLU activation to classify a…

2018-11-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Data-dependent hashing has recently attracted attention due to being able to support efficient retrieval and storage of high-dimensional data such as documents, images, and videos. In this paper, we propose a novel learning-based hashing method called "Supervised Discrete Hashing with Relaxation" (SDHR) based on "Super…

2019-04-07abs ↗pdf ↗