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48 results for problem transformation

This paper investigates efficient Transformers and finds they scale with problem size.

problem Finding suitable replacements for standard Transformers in large-scale tasks.
method Modeling efficient Transformers (Sparse and Linear) as Dynamic Programming problems and analyzing their reasoning capabilities.
result Efficient Transformers scale with problem size, but can be more efficient for certain DP problems.

Sparse transformer architecture improves accuracy and speed in generative modeling and inverse problems.

problem Improving accuracy and speed in generative modeling and inverse problems.
method Proposes a sparse transformer architecture using regularized Wasserstein proximal operator with L1L_1 prior.
result Sparse transformer achieves higher accuracy and faster convergence than classical methods.

Transformers improve solving mixed-integer programs, especially CLSP.

problem Solving Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem (CLSP) with mixed-integer programming.
method Employing transformer models to predict binary variables in CLSP.
result Transformer model outperforms CPLEX and LSTM in solving CLSP.

Equity-Transformer solves NP-hard min-max routing problems efficiently.

problem Min-max routing problems with multiple agents and large-scale applications.
method Sequential planning approach with Transformer and equitable workload distribution inductive biases.
result Significant runtime and cost reductions in min-max mTSP and min-max mPDP tasks.

Injectivity of geodesic ray transform on specific Finsler manifolds proven.

problem Injectivity of geodesic ray transform on spherically symmetric reversible Finsler manifolds.
method Reduction to invertibility of generalized Abel transforms using angular Fourier series and Taylor expansions of geodesics.
result Injectivity of geodesic ray transform proven on specified Finsler manifolds.

Solves problem of describing transformations for upper triangular Toeplitz operators.

problem Describing coordinate transformations preserving upper triangular Toeplitz form of operator fields.
method Implicit formulas involving matrix-valued functions for describing transformations and Nijenhuis operators.
result Formulas for coordinate transformations and Nijenhuis operators in upper triangular Toeplitz form.

CoT enhances transformer accuracy on serial tasks by enabling serial computation.

problem Improving accuracy of large language models on inherently serial problems.
method Integrating a chain of thought (CoT) into decoder-only transformers to enable serial computation.
result Constant-depth transformers with CoT can solve problems in AC^0, surpassing TC^0 without CoT.

Researchers improve transformer networks' optimization and understanding.

problem Improving the understanding and optimization of transformer networks.
method Introducing a convex alternative to the self-attention mechanism and reformulating the training problem as a convex optimization problem.
result Revealed an implicit regularization mechanism that promotes sparsity across tokens.

X-Transformer improves deep transformer performance on extreme multi-label text classification.

problem Classifying text with a large number of labels from a sparse label space.
method Fine-tuning deep transformer models for extreme multi-label text classification.
result X-Transformer achieves new state-of-the-art results on XMC benchmark datasets.

Study on determining metrics from minimal surface areas, extending earlier work.

problem Determining a Riemannian manifold with boundary from minimal surface areas.
method Linearized forward operator of minimal surface transform, double fibration transforms, Bolker condition.
result Invertibility of the minimal surface transform on analytic manifolds.

We reduce boundary determination of an unknown function and its normal derivatives from the (possibly weighted and attenuated) broken ray data to the injectivity of certain geodesic ray transforms on the boundary. For determination of the values of the function itself we obtain the usual geodesic ray transform, but for…

2013-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Transformer learns context and regularization for ICL in inverse problems.

problem Learning context and effective regularization for transformer-based in-context learning (ICL) in inverse problems.
method Introduced a linear transformer to learn inverse mapping from contextual examples to weight vectors, addressing rank-deficient problems.
result Transformer implicitly learns a prior distribution and effective regularization strategy, outperforming traditional methods.

In order to understand the linearization problem around a leaf of a singular foliation, we extend the familiar holonomy map from the case of regular foliations to the case of singular foliations. To this aim we introduce the notion of holonomy transformation. Unlike the regular case, holonomy transformations can not be…

2012-05-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Motivated by applications in computational anatomy, we consider a second-order problem in the calculus of variations on object manifolds that are acted upon by Lie groups of smooth invertible transformations. This problem leads to solution curves known as Riemannian cubics on object manifolds that are endowed with norm…

2011-12-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Study investigates ruin probability with random premiums and risky investments.

problem Ruin probability with random premiums and risky investments.
method Laplace transform applied to a model with geometric Brownian motion.
result Asymptotic behavior of ruin probability for large initial capital values.

Transformers learn chain-of-thought reasoning for longer problems, proving length generalization.

problem Challenging problems require deeper reasoning, but how do models generalize this to longer tasks?
method Theoretical analysis of transformers on synthetic state-tracking tasks, proving length generalization through attention concentration.
result Transformers can learn chain-of-thought reasoning for longer problems, proving length generalization.

Simplified Butterfly-Net2 improves CNN efficiency in solving PDEs and signal processing tasks.

problem Improving CNN efficiency in solving PDEs and signal processing tasks.
method Introducing BNet2, a simplified Butterfly-Net, and Fourier transform initialization.
result BNet2 achieves similar accuracy as CNN but with fewer parameters and improves accuracy over randomly initialized CNN.

This PhD thesis studies the broken ray transform, a generalization of the geodesic X-ray transform where geodesics are replaced with broken rays that reflect on a part of the boundary. The fundamental question is whether this transform is injective. We employ four different methods to approach this question, and each o…

2014-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Darboux Wronskian formulas allow to construct Darboux transformations, but Laplace transformations, which are Darboux transformations of order one cannot be represented this way. It has been a long standing problem on what are other exceptions. In our previous work we proved that among transformations of total order on…

2011-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Transformers predict scattering amplitudes in theoretical physics.

problem Computing exact coefficients of scattering amplitudes in N = 4 SYM theory.
method Applied Transformers to predict integer coefficients of scattering amplitudes.
result Transformers achieve high (> 98%) accuracy on predicting scattering amplitudes.

RNNs struggle with in-context retrieval, while Transformers excel.

problem In-context retrieval capability of RNNs.
method Theoretical analysis and experimental techniques (CoT, RAG, Transformer layer).
result Enhancing RNNs with techniques improves their in-context retrieval capability, closing the representation gap with Transformers.

We study several problems concerning conformal transformation on metric measure spaces, including the Sobolev space, the differential structure and the curvature-dimension condition under conformal transformations. This is the first result about preservation of lower curvature bounds under perturbation, which is new ev…

2015-11-10abs ↗pdf ↗

One of the most challenging problems in the domain of 2-D image or 3-D shape is to handle the non-rigid deformation. From the perspective of transformation groups, the conformal transformation is a key part of the diffeomorphism. According to the Liouville Theorem, an important part of the conformal transformation is t…

2018-08-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Study solves inverse problems for real principal type operators using unique data sets and ray transforms.

problem Determining coefficients in real principal type equations from boundary data.
method Unique data sets, bicharacteristic ray transforms, and propagation of singularities.
result Global uniqueness results for determining coefficients in nonlinear real principal type equations.

The paper explores the injectivity of the light ray transform on Lorentzian manifolds.

problem Injectivity of the light ray transform on functions and tensors.
method Analyzes injectivity conditions for scalar and tensor fields on stationary and static Lorentzian manifolds.
result Injectivity of the light ray transform on functions and tensors is proven under specific conditions.

Quantum hybrid vision transformers improve event classification in high energy physics.

problem Excessive computational resources for training and deploying vision transformer models.
method Constructed quantum hybrid vision transformers for high energy physics event classification.
result Quantum hybrid models achieve comparable performance to classical models with fewer parameters.

Computation of moments of transformed random variables is a problem appearing in many engineering applications. The current methods for moment transformation are mostly based on the classical quadrature rules which cannot account for the approximation errors. Our aim is to design a method for moment transformation for …

2017-01-05abs ↗pdf ↗

If GG is a finite group, is a function f:GCf:G\to\mathbb C determined by its sums over all cosets of cyclic subgroups of GG? In other words, is the Radon transform on GG injective? This inverse problem is a discrete analogue of asking whether a function on a compact Lie group is determined by its integrals over all ge…

2014-11-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Study normal operators of double fibration transforms with conjugate points.

problem Normal operators of double fibration transforms with conjugate points.
method Stable conditions on the distribution of conjugate points, splitting into elliptic and Fourier integral operators.
result Normal operator splits into an elliptic pseudodifferential operator and Fourier integral operators.