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48 results for nuclear power

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.

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.

Neural surrogates speed up 5D gyrokinetic simulations of plasma turbulence.

problem Expensive numerical simulations of plasma turbulence hinder fusion reactor design.
method Trained a hierarchical vision transformer in 5D to predict plasma quantities faster.
result Neural surrogates predict plasma quantities two orders of magnitude faster than numerical codes.

The mass, or binding energy, is the basis property of the atomic nucleus. It determines its stability, and reaction and decay rates. Quantifying the nuclear binding is important for understanding the origin of elements in the universe. The astrophysical processes responsible for the nucleosynthesis in stars often take …

2018-06-01abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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.

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.

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.

Study uses deep reinforcement learning for real-time control of nuclear microreactors, achieving similar or superior performance to traditional PID controllers.

problem Minimizing operating costs of nuclear microreactors through autonomous control, especially in load-following scenarios.
method Application of deep reinforcement learning (RL) for real-time drum control in microreactors, using point kinetics model with thermal and xenon feedback.
result Deep reinforcement learning controllers, including single- and multi-agent RL frameworks, can achieve similar or superior load-following performance to traditional PID control across various scenarios.

This work investigates implicit bias in multiclass separable data using a novel geometry-aware optimizer.

problem Understanding implicit bias in overparameterized models on multiclass separable data.
method Introduces NucGD, a geometry-aware optimizer enforcing low-rank structures through nuclear norm constraints.
result NucGD enables scalable training and characterizes the impact of stochastic optimization dynamics.

Motivated by the asset-liability management of a nuclear power plant operator, we consider the problem of finding the least expensive portfolio, which outperforms a given set of stochastic benchmarks. For a specified loss function, the expected shortfall with respect to each of the benchmarks weighted by this loss func…

2013-09-19abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

Low-rank modeling has a lot of important applications in machine learning, computer vision and social network analysis. While the matrix rank is often approximated by the convex nuclear norm, the use of nonconvex low-rank regularizers has demonstrated better recovery performance. However, the resultant optimization pro…

2015-12-03abs ↗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.

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.

Low-rank modeling has many important applications in computer vision and machine learning. While the matrix rank is often approximated by the convex nuclear norm, the use of nonconvex low-rank regularizers has demonstrated better empirical performance. However, the resulting optimization problem is much more challengin…

2017-08-01abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗