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48 results for nuclear engineering

This paper emphasizes the need for uncertainty quantification in data-driven ML models for nuclear engineering.

problem Uncertainty in ML predictions due to data noise, model architecture, and stochastic training.
method Explains and compares uncertainties in physics-based and data-driven models, and presents techniques to quantify ML prediction uncertainties.
result The importance of uncertainty quantification in ML models for nuclear engineering applications.

Paper tackles robust prediction of nuclear reactor materials under scarce data.

problem Challenges of data scarcity and uncertainty in nuclear reactor design.
method Meta-learning approach informed by uncertainty and prior knowledge.
result Achieves superior performance in rupture life prediction.

The subdifferential of convex functions of the singular spectrum of real matrices has been widely studied in matrix analysis, optimization and automatic control theory. Convex analysis and optimization over spaces of tensors is now gaining much interest due to its potential applications to signal processing, statistics…

2015-06-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks offer interpretable models for energy applications.

problem Lack of interpretability in modern machine learning methods for sensitive industries.
method Symbolic regression with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks compared to traditional feedforward neural networks.
result Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks yield perfectly interpretable models and learn real, physical relations.

Study on tensor nuclear norm's decomposability and subdifferential.

problem Understanding tensor nuclear norm in higher-order tensors.
method Showed decomposability over specific subspaces, derived subdifferential inclusions, and studied subgradients.
result Established the statistical performance of tensor robust principal component analysis.

Efficiently regularizes deep learning models using Jacobian nuclear norm.

problem Regularizing deep learning models to prevent overfitting and improve generalization.
method Proposes a denoising-style approximation to penalize the Jacobian nuclear norm without computing the Jacobian matrix.
result Demonstrates that penalizing the average squared Frobenius norm of JgJg and JhJh is equivalent to penalizing the Jacobian nuclear norm for function compositions.

Improved machine learning model performance through data augmentation, custom loss functions, and transfer learning.

problem Poor performance of a traditional engineering model due to limited training data.
method Data augmentation, custom loss functions, transfer learning.
result Improvement of at least 38% in performance across five models.

Minimizing the nuclear norm of a matrix has been shown to be very efficient in reconstructing a low-rank sampled matrix. Furthermore, minimizing the sum of nuclear norms of matricizations of a tensor has been shown to be very efficient in recovering a low-Tucker-rank sampled tensor. In this paper, we propose to recover…

2017-07-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep learning predicts nuclear equation of state from rotating core collapse GW signals.

problem Classifying the nuclear equation of state from rotating core collapse gravitational wave signals.
method Employed deep convolutional neural networks to classify visual and temporal patterns in GW signals.
result Up to 97% correct classifications of nuclear equation of state in the test set.

The chart of the nuclides is limited by particle drip lines beyond which nuclear stability to proton or neutron emission is lost. Predicting the range of particle-bound isotopes poses an appreciable challenge for nuclear theory as it involves extreme extrapolations of nuclear masses beyond the regions where experimenta…

2020-01-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep learning detects corrosion in nuclear fuel canisters.

problem Ensuring safety and integrity of used nuclear fuel dry storage canisters.
method Residual neural networks (ResNets) for real-time corrosion detection of canister images.
result Deep learning approach accurately detects corrosion and classifies canisters as corroded or intact.

We describe ways to define and calculate L1L_1-norm signal subspaces which are less sensitive to outlying data than L2L_2-calculated subspaces. We focus on the computation of the L1L_1 maximum-projection principal component of a data matrix containing N signal samples of dimension D and conclude that the general proble…

2013-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

This research assesses uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis for DTs in nuclear fuel performance.

problem Understanding the reliability and performance of advanced nuclear fuels using DTs.
method Introduces ML-based uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis methods applied to BISON fuel performance code.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of DTs in multi-criteria decision-making for nuclear fuel performance.

In this paper, we study the problem of approximately computing the product of two real matrices. In particular, we analyze a dimensionality-reduction-based approximation algorithm due to Sarlos [1], introducing the notion of nuclear rank as the ratio of the nuclear norm over the spectral norm. The presented bound has i…

2014-03-30abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we investigate panel regression models with interactive fixed effects. We propose two new estimation methods that are based on minimizing convex objective functions. The first method minimizes the sum of squared residuals with a nuclear (trace) norm regularization. The second method minimizes the nuclear …

2018-10-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Abstract: Extends Drinfeld correspondence to infinite-dimensional Lie groups.

problem Establishing Drinfeld correspondence in infinite dimensions.
method Extending Drinfeld correspondence to Poisson Lie groups and Lie bialgebras in infinite-dimensional settings.
result Extended Drinfeld correspondence to regular Lie groups modeled on nuclear Fréchet and Silva spaces.

This study provides an independent, outside-in estimate of the cost and schedule risks of nuclear waste storage projects. Based on a reference class of 216 past, comparable projects, risk of cost overrun was found to be 202% or less, with 80% certainty, i.e., 20% risk of an overrun above 202%. Based on a reference clas…

2019-01-13abs ↗pdf ↗

We implement machine learning algorithms to nuclear data. These algorithms are purely data driven and generate models that are capable to capture intricate trends. Gradient boosted trees algorithm is employed to generate a trained model from existing nuclear data, which is used for prediction for data of damping parame…

2019-07-23abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, a new definition of tensor p-shrinkage nuclear norm (p-TNN) is proposed based on tensor singular value decomposition (t-SVD). In particular, it can be proved that p-TNN is a better approximation of the tensor average rank than the tensor nuclear norm when p < 1. Therefore, by employing the p-shrinkage nu…

2019-07-09abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithms solve tensor problems with random components using SDP.

problem Exact tensor nuclear norm, decomposition, and completion for random tensors.
method Degree-4 Sum of Squares (SOS) semidefinite programs.
result Exact solutions for tensor nuclear norm, decomposition, and completion with random asymmetric components.

Paper presents a deep learning framework for faster, more accurate nuclear reactor power prediction.

problem Inaccurate and inefficient modeling of nuclear reactor transients.
method Hybrid digital twin-focused multi-stage deep learning framework using feed-forward neural networks.
result Achieved remarkable accuracy (96% classification, 2.3% MAPE) with noise-enhanced simulated data.

New method uses nuclear and ℓ1 penalties for matrix regression, improving brain disorder detection.

problem Modeling high-dimensional matrix predictors with binary responses.
method Convex optimization with ADMM for low-rank and sparse structures.
result Effective in identifying brain disorder-related connectivity patterns.

New method for factor analysis using nuclear and 0\ell_0 norms.

problem Finding a low-rank plus sparse decomposition from noisy covariance matrix.
method Formulated an optimization problem with nuclear norm, 0\ell_0 norm, and KL divergence. Used alternating minimization algorithm.
result Algorithm effectively decomposes covariance matrices in synthetic and real datasets.

Estimates reliability of nuclear fuel using advanced modeling techniques.

problem Determining the reliability of TRISO-coated particle fuel, which has small failure probabilities and expensive computational models.
method Coupled active learning, multifidelity modeling, and subset simulation.
result Multifidelity modeling strategies consistently reduce the number of high-fidelity model calls.

Numerous applications in data mining and machine learning require recovering a matrix of minimal rank. Robust principal component analysis (RPCA) is a general framework for handling this kind of problems. Nuclear norm based convex surrogate of the rank function in RPCA is widely investigated. Under certain assumptions,…

2015-11-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimization problems with rank constraints appear in many diverse fields such as control, machine learning and image analysis. Since the rank constraint is non-convex, these problems are often approximately solved via convex relaxations. Nuclear norm regularization is the prevailing convexifying technique for dealing …

2016-12-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved nuclear cross section fitting with weighted Levenberg-Marquardt method.

problem Challenging optimization in multichannel nuclear cross section data.
method Weighted Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm with Fisher Information Metric.
result More physically consistent fits for raw and smoothed datasets.

In recent years, the nuclear norm minimization (NNM) problem has been attracting much attention in computer vision and machine learning. The NNM problem is capitalized on its convexity and it can be solved efficiently. The standard nuclear norm regularizes all singular values equally, which is however not flexible enou…

2014-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Representation and classification of Electroencephalography (EEG) brain signals are critical processes for their analysis in cognitive tasks. Particularly, extraction of discriminative features from raw EEG signals, without any pre-processing, is a challenging task. Motivated by nuclear norm, we observed that there is …

2019-04-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Theoretical models of the strong nuclear interaction contain unknown coupling constants (parameters) that must be determined using a pool of calibration data. In cases where the models are complex, leading to time consuming calculations, it is particularly challenging to systematically search the corresponding paramete…

2019-02-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Exact partitioning of high-order planted models achieved through convex optimization.

problem Efficiently partitioning hypergraphs generated by high-order planted models.
method Solving a computationally efficient convex optimization problem with a tensor nuclear norm constraint.
result Exact recovery of true underlying cluster structures with high probability.

We use convex relaxation techniques to provide a sequence of solutions to the matrix completion problem. Using the nuclear norm as a regularizer, we provide simple and very efficient algorithms for minimizing the reconstruction error subject to a bound on the nuclear norm. Our algorithm iteratively replaces the missing…

2009-06-11abs ↗pdf ↗

We describe several algorithms for matrix completion and matrix approximation when only some of its entries are known. The approximation constraint can be any whose approximated solution is known for the full matrix. For low rank approximations, similar algorithms appears recently in the literature under different name…

2013-02-27abs ↗pdf ↗

We study the information content of nuclear masses from the perspective of global models of nuclear binding energies. To this end, we employ a number of statistical methods and diagnostic tools, including Bayesian calibration, Bayesian model averaging, chi-square correlation analysis, principal component analysis, and …

2020-02-11abs ↗pdf ↗