Study estimates risks of nuclear waste storage projects.
problem Cost and schedule risks in nuclear waste storage projects.
method Reference class of 216 past projects for cost risk, 200 for schedule risk.
result Cost and schedule risks are substantial for nuclear waste storage projects.
The green area of economy is the key of healthy living. It is necessary to convene economic and ecologic framework to establish a market attentive to drastic reduction of emissions damaging our climate and landscapes in rural areas, to the protection of biological diversity of the planet, to stop producing nuclear wast…
The fast demographic growth, together with the concentration of the population in cities and the increasing amount of daily waste, are factors that push to the limit the ability of waste assimilation by Nature. Therefore, we need technological means to make an optimal management of the waste collection process, which r…
New approach improves stock policies for paper companies, reducing waste and costs.
problem Improving stock policies for integrated paper companies.
method Developed a new approach to determine near-optimal stock policies.
result Reduction in total waste by 9% and logistics costs.
NukeBERT improves performance on nuclear domain Q&A with less training data.
problem Lack of annotated data for nuclear domain Q&A.
method Developed NQuAD dataset and NukeBERT model incorporating novel BERT vocabulary technique.
result NukeBERT outperformed BERT significantly on NQuAD.
Bayesian analysis predicts properties of proton-emitting nuclei beyond the proton drip line.
problem Predicting properties of unstable nuclei in the proton-rich region.
method Bayesian Gaussian processes and mass models corrected with statistical emulators.
result Quantified predictions for separation energies and probabilities of proton emission.
Quantified limits of nuclear stability beyond drip lines.
problem Predicting nuclear stability beyond known isotopes.
method Microscopic nuclear mass models, Bayesian methodology, Gaussian processes.
result Quantified predictions of one- and two-nucleon separation energies.
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 Jg and Jh is equivalent to penalizing the Jacobian nuclear norm for function compositions. Low-rank matrix recovery has found many applications in science and engineering such as machine learning, signal processing, collaborative filtering, system identification, and Euclidean embedding. But the low-rank matrix recovery problem is an NP hard problem and thus challenging. A commonly used heuristic approach is…
Machine learning predicts nuclear physics parameters with high accuracy.
problem Predicting nuclear physics parameters for superheavy elements.
method Gradient boosted trees algorithm trained on nuclear data.
result Predictions have standard deviation from 0.00035 to 0.73.
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…
LeanML reduces machine learning project waste by estimating best performance without training models.
problem Avoidable wastes in machine learning projects.
method Lean design pattern based on mutual information and performance metrics.
result Estimating best performance without training models is faster and cheaper.
A deep learning framework separates overlapping nuclei in histology images.
problem Challenges in nuclear segmentation due to overlapping nuclei.
method Proposal-free spatially-aware deep learning framework with multi-scale spatial information.
result State-of-the-art performance in nuclear segmentation on a multi-organ data set.
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.
DeepONet accelerates nuclear DT inference with high accuracy and efficiency.
problem Real-time prediction and model evaluation in nuclear systems.
method Deep Neural Operator (DeepONet) for surrogate modeling.
result DeepONet outperforms traditional ML methods in accuracy and speed.
A new tensor p-shrinkage nuclear norm improves low-rank tensor completion.
problem Estimating tensors from partial observations with low rank.
method Proposed tensor p-shrinkage nuclear norm (p-TNN) and an efficient algorithm.
result Upper bound of recovery error provided for the LRTC model.
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.
Bayesian optimization helps find best nuclear interaction parameters.
problem Finding best coupling constants in complex nuclear interaction models.
method Bayesian optimization applied to chiral effective field theory.
result Bayesian optimization performs well in low-dimensional parameter domains.
The study uses statistical methods to analyze nuclear mass models.
problem Understanding the information content of nuclear masses from models.
method Bayesian calibration, Bayesian model averaging, chi-square correlation analysis, principal component analysis.
result A dramatic parameter reduction can be achieved in both 4-parameter and 14-parameter models.
Recently theoretical guarantees have been obtained for matrix completion in the non-uniform sampling regime. In particular, if the sampling distribution aligns with the underlying matrix's leverage scores, then with high probability nuclear norm minimization will exactly recover the low rank matrix. In this article, we…
New method speeds up nuclear-norm constrained learning over multiple machines.
problem Synchronization slowdown and high communication costs in large-scale learning.
method Asynchronous Stochastic Frank-Wolfe (SFW-asyn) method.
result SFW-asyn achieves the same convergence rate as vanilla SFW but with speed-ups almost linear to the number of machines.
Efficient system classifies EEG signals for cognitive tasks using nuclear features.
problem Classification of raw EEG signals for cognitive tasks is challenging.
method Singular value decomposition for computing dominant variances of EEG signals, using them as nuclear features, and a simple classifier.
result Nuclear features from frontal brain region achieved 100% prediction accuracy.
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…
We present a conditional generative model to learn variation in cell and nuclear morphology and the location of subcellular structures from microscopy images. Our model generalizes to a wide range of subcellular localization and allows for a probabilistic interpretation of cell and nuclear morphology and structure loca…
The paper tackles inverse uncertainty quantification in neutron noise analysis.
problem Uncertainty in estimating material properties from noisy neutron correlation measurements.
method Surrogate models and inverse uncertainty quantification to account for measurement error and model bias.
result Improved prediction of neutron correlations and quantification of uncertainties.
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 …
Recovering a large matrix from limited measurements is a challenging task arising in many real applications, such as image inpainting, compressive sensing and medical imaging, and this kind of problems are mostly formulated as low-rank matrix approximation problems. Due to the rank operator being non-convex and discont…
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.
We propose the nuclear norm penalty as an alternative to the ridge penalty for regularized multinomial regression. This convex relaxation of reduced-rank multinomial regression has the advantage of leveraging underlying structure among the response categories to make better predictions. We apply our method, nuclear pen…
Deep learning model reduces food waste by stabilizing online food delivery supply chains.
problem Wastage and bullwhip effect in online food delivery services.
method Two-phase LSTM network for demand forecasting, newsvendor model for inventory management.
result Significant reduction in bullwhip effect and food waste, improved forecasting accuracy.
Characterizes dropout's regularizer in deep linear networks.
problem Understanding dropout's regularization effect in deep learning.
method Formal characterization of dropout's regularizer, showing it is composed of an ℓ2-path regularizer and the squared nuclear norm. result For large dropout rates, the global optima of the dropout objective can be characterized.
NuClick uses clicks inside nuclei to improve nuclear segmentation.
problem Lack of efficient tools for nuclear segmentation due to labor-intensive annotation.
method Convolutional neural network framework that uses single point clicks for nuclei segmentation.
result NuClick generates superior segmentation results and facilitates more annotations.
Rank minimization has attracted a lot of attention due to its robustness in data recovery. To overcome the computational difficulty, rank is often replaced with nuclear norm. For several rank minimization problems, such a replacement has been theoretically proven to be valid, i.e., the solution to nuclear norm minimiza…
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.
In this paper, we consider the Tensor Robust Principal Component Analysis (TRPCA) problem, which aims to exactly recover the low-rank and sparse components from their sum. Our model is based on the recently proposed tensor-tensor product (or t-product). Induced by the t-product, we first rigorously deduce the tensor sp…
Bayesian optimization helps learn optimal controls for nuclear fusion reactions.
problem Learning optimal controls for nuclear fusion reactions to prolong plasma stability.
method Theoretical Bayesian optimization algorithm to recommend state-action pairs.
result More efficient use of simulator for learning optimal controls.
New method for factor analysis using nuclear and ℓ0 norms.
problem Finding a low-rank plus sparse decomposition from noisy covariance matrix.
method Formulated an optimization problem with nuclear norm, ℓ0 norm, and KL divergence. Used alternating minimization algorithm. result Algorithm effectively decomposes covariance matrices in synthetic and real datasets.
Method provides bounds for sparse PCA and nuclear norm problems.
problem Semidefinite optimization problems (SDOs).
method Cutting-plane method with focus on initial outer approximation as a second-order cone approximation.
result Method provides bound gaps of 0.5-6.5% for sparse PCA problems with 1000 covariates and solves nuclear norm problems over 500x500 matrices.
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,…
Bayesian model predicts drip-line locations in heavy calcium isotopes.
problem Determining the neutron drip line in the Ca region of heavy nuclei.
method Bayesian model averaging with Gaussian-process-based extrapolations.
result Predicted posterior probabilities for drip-line locations in heavy calcium isotopes.
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 …
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.