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48 results for philosophy

Machine learning's data-centric philosophy conflicts with natural sciences' standards.

problem Conflict between machine learning's ontology and epistemology and natural sciences' practices.
method Identifying and analyzing contexts where ML can be beneficial or harmful in natural sciences.
result ML can enhance trustworthiness in causal inference but introduces biases in emulation and labeling.

Paper connects fair machine learning to political philosophy, highlighting flaws in ideal approaches.

problem Lack of natural formulation for social desiderata in machine learning.
method Proposes metrics and algorithms to satisfy subsets of fairness parities, trading off against utility.
result Misguided fair machine learning algorithms reflect broader flaws in ideal methodological approaches.

This book presents a methodology and philosophy of empirical science based on large scale lossless data compression. In this view a theory is scientific if it can be used to build a data compression program, and it is valuable if it can compress a standard benchmark database to a small size, taking into account the len…

2011-04-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a new AI design philosophy for distributed learning.

problem Designing AI systems that mimic human cognitive capabilities.
method Democratized learning (Dem-AI) with self-organized hierarchical agents.
result Self-organized learning systems can perform complex tasks more efficiently.

The holonomic approximation lemma of Eliashberg and Mishachev is a powerful tool in the philosophy of the hh-principle. By carefully keeping track of the quantitative geometry behind the holonomic approximation process, we establish several refinements of this lemma. Gromov's idea from convex integration of working on…

2016-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Formulates approach for guiding explanation types based on user specifications.

problem Creating explainable AI components from user-defined specifications.
method Develops a method for generating explanations based on user-defined specifications.
result Demonstrates feasibility of user-defined explanations for complex models like Bayesian networks and graph neural networks.

In the present work, torsion energy is defined. Its law of conservation is given. It is shown that this type of energy gives rise to a repulsive force which can be used to interpret supernovae type Ia observations, and consequently the accelerating expansion of the Universe. This interpretation is a pure geometric one …

2007-05-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Floer field theory is a construction principle for e.g. 3-manifold invariants via decomposition in a bordism category and a functor to the symplectic category, and is conjectured to have natural 4-dimensional extensions. This survey provides an introduction to the categorical language for the construction and extension…

2016-02-16abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper explores historical and philosophical aspects of angles and solid angles, inspired by Euler's work.

problem Understanding the historical context and philosophical implications of angles and solid angles.
method Historical review and analysis of mathematical and philosophical works.
result Questions raised by Euler about angles and solid angles are timeless and relevant to modern mathematics.

We say that a knot k1k_1 in the 33-sphere {\it 11-dominates} another k2k_2 if there is a proper degree 1 map E(k1)E(k2)E(k_1) \to E(k_2) between their exteriors, and write k1k2k_1 \ge k_2. When k1k2k_1 \ge k_2 but k1k2k_1 \ne k_2 we write k1>k2k_1 > k_2. One expects in the latter eventuality that k1k_1 is more {\it complicated}. In t…

2015-11-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Pylearn2 is a machine learning research library. This does not just mean that it is a collection of machine learning algorithms that share a common API; it means that it has been designed for flexibility and extensibility in order to facilitate research projects that involve new or unusual use cases. In this paper we g…

2013-08-20abs ↗pdf ↗

No free lunch theorems show all algorithms perform equally under uniform distribution.

problem Analyzing scenarios involving non-uniform distributions and comparing algorithms.
method No Free Lunch theorems applied to analyze and compare algorithms without distribution assumptions.
result Anti-cross-validation performs as well as cross-validation under non-uniform distributions.

This survey was written for the Current Developments in Mathematics conference, 2012, and is an updating of my article "The Strominger-Yau-Zaslow conjecture: From torus fibrations to degenerations," in the Seattle 2005 proceedings. We trace progress and thinking about the SYZ conjecture since its introduction in 1996. …

2012-12-18abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper aims at transferring the philosophy behind Heath-Jarrow-Morton to the modelling of call options with all strikes and maturities. Contrary to the approach by Carmona and Nadtochiy (2009) and related to the recent contribution Carmona and Nadtochiy (2012) by the same authors, the key parametrisation of our app…

2013-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithms learn in complex decision-making problems with smooth transitions.

problem Learning in complex decision-making problems with smooth transitions.
method UCB and PSRL philosophies applied to episodic Markov decision processes with kernel approximation.
result Low regret learning achieved in continuous state and action spaces.

Frolicher spaces and smooth mappings form a cartesian closed category. It was shown in our previous paper [Far East Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 35 (2009), 211-233] that its full subcategory of Weil exponentiable Frolicher spaces is cartesian closed. By emancipating microlinearity from within a well-adapted model …

2009-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper argues that the fundamental principle of contemporary financial economics is balanced reciprocity, not the principle of utility maximisation that is important in economics more generally. The argument is developed by analysing the mathematical Fundamental Theory of Asset Pricing with reference to the emergen…

2013-10-10abs ↗pdf ↗

New approach for large-scale distributed learning systems that improve generalization performance.

problem Transitioning from centralized to distributed AI systems for complex learning tasks.
method Self-organizing hierarchical structuring mechanism based on agglomerative clustering, hierarchical generalization, and personalized learning.
result Demonstrates better generalization performance compared to conventional federated learning algorithms.

The central object of synthetic differential geometry is microlinear spaces. In our previous paper [Microlinearity in Frolicher spaces -beyond the regnant philosophy of manifolds-, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 60 (2010), 15-24] we have emancipated microlinearity from within well-adapted models…

2010-02-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian framework explains diverse explanatory values.

problem Understanding and predicting human preferences for explanations.
method Developed a Bayesian account to integrate various explanatory values.
result Core values from psychology, statistics, and philosophy emerge from a common framework.

We explore a number of examples of special Lagrangian fibrations on non-compact Calabi-Yau manifolds invariant under torus actions. These include fibrations on crepant resolutions of canonical toric singularities (already found by Goldstein), proper versions of these fibrations, and fibrations on flat deformations of c…

2000-12-01abs ↗pdf ↗

The study characterizes lamination limits and homeomorphisms in 3D handlebodies.

problem Characterizing lamination limits and homeomorphisms in 3D handlebodies.
method Using Hausdorff limits and commensurability of laminations, the study characterizes lamination limits and homeomorphisms.
result A characterization of when a non-minimal lamination is a Hausdorff limit of meridians and related characterization of homeomorphisms.

Spaces over BO are equivalent to thickened manifolds.

problem Understanding embeddings of manifolds in higher dimensions.
method Formal identification of manifolds with their thickened versions, using geometric constructions.
result The infinity-category of thickened smooth manifolds is equivalent to the infinity-category of finite spaces over BO.

ATHENA builds flexible defenses against adversarial attacks.

problem Extensive research on adversarial attacks is domain-specific and cannot be easily extended.
method Designing an extensible framework based on diverse weak defenses.
result Comprehensive empirical study demonstrates the effectiveness of ATHENA.

In this work we show that the systems of balance equations (balance systems) of continuum thermodynamics occupy a natural place in the variational bicomplex formalism. We apply the vertical homotopy decomposition to get a local splitting (in a convenient domain) of a general balance system as the sum of a Lagrangian pa…

2011-01-27abs ↗pdf ↗

W\mathscr{W}-entropy and reduced volume for the Ricci flow were introduced by Perelman, which had proved their importance in the study of the Ricci flow. L. Ni studied the analogous concepts for the linear heat equation on the static manifolds, and established an equation which links the large time behavior of these t…

2012-11-27abs ↗pdf ↗