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New concept of proper-calibeating extends classic calibrated forecasts to proper scoring rules.

problem Defining and extending calibrated forecasts to proper scoring rules.
method Extending the concepts of calibrated and calibeating forecasts to proper scoring rules and proving their properties.
result Proper-calibration always implies calibration, but proper-calibeating does not necessarily imply calibeating.

Paper extends Calabi's extremal metric existence to compact Kähler manifolds.

problem Existence of Calabi's extremal metric on compact Kähler manifolds.
method Adapting recent breakthroughs on constant scalar Kähler metrics to extremal case, proving properness of modified Mabuchi energy.
result Existence of extremal metric with extremal vector VV if and only if modified Mabuchi energy is proper.

The paper explores proper actions and their relation to representation theory, with new quantitative methods.

problem Understanding proper actions and their connection to representation theory.
method Geometric criteria, sharpness measure, and dynamical volume estimates.
result New quantitative methods have established temperedness criteria for unitary representations.

We show that immersed minimal surfaces of R3\mathbb{R}^{3} with bounded curvature and proper self intersections are proper. We also show that the restriction of the immersing map to a wide component is always proper. When the immersing map is injective the whole surface is a wide component. Prior to these results it wa…

2002-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper develops proper, lower-bounded losses for weakly supervised classification.

problem Weakly supervised classification with corrupted labels.
method Representation theorem for proper losses, derived condition for lower-boundedness, generalized logit squeezing.
result Proper and lower-bounded losses for weak-label learning.

Classifies non-linear Fredholm maps linking to stable homotopy groups of spheres.

problem Classifying non-linear proper Fredholm maps between Hilbert spaces.
method Using stable homotopy groups of spheres to classify maps up to proper homotopy.
result Determines the non-trivial kernel of the map from stable homotopy groups to non-linear proper Fredholm maps.

A novel framework quantifies uncertainty using proper scores for various tasks.

problem Uncertainty quantification in machine learning for reliable applications.
method Proposes a general framework based on proper scores for epistemic, aleatoric uncertainty, and model calibration.
result Achieves state-of-the-art uncertainty estimation for large language models and generative models.

First example of open manifold with positive Ricci curvature and non-proper Busemann function.

problem Counterexample to Busemann function properness in open manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature.
method Provided an open manifold with positive Ricci curvature and non-proper Busemann function.
result First example of open manifold with positive Ricci curvature and non-proper Busemann function.

First proper learning algorithm for Gaussian halfspaces with matching sample and computational complexity.

problem Agnostically learning halfspaces under Gaussian distribution.
method First proper learning algorithm with matching sample and computational complexity.
result First proper learning algorithm for agnostically learning halfspaces under Gaussian distribution with matching sample and computational complexity.

New method constructs proper affine actions of groups in higher dimensions.

problem Finding proper affine actions of discrete groups in higher-dimensional spaces.
method Higher strip deformations and Margulis invariant for properness.
result Affine actions of convex cocompact groups and virtually free groups are constructed properly.

Estimates proper calibration errors and refinement terms in probabilistic predictions.

problem Lack of a general estimator for proper calibration errors and refinement terms with known statistical properties.
method Proposes a method for consistent, asymptotically unbiased estimation of proper calibration errors and refinement terms.
result Proves the relation between refinement and f-divergences, implying information monotonicity in neural networks.

Study proper actions of Lie groups on symmetric spaces, finding rigidity results and Hurwitz-Radon numbers.

problem Proper actions of non-compact semisimple Lie groups on pseudo-Riemannian symmetric spaces.
method Analysis of symmetric spaces and rigidity results.
result Any connected non-compact semisimple Lie group acting properly on these spaces must be globally isomorphic to Spin(n,1)Spin(n,1) up to compact factors.

Study on proper learning under relaxed worst-case robust loss for VC classes.

problem Proper adversarially robust PAC learning under relaxed worst-case robust loss.
method Introduced a family of robust loss relaxations and showed their effectiveness for proper learnability.
result VC classes are properly PAC learnable with sample complexity close to standard PAC learning setup.

First we show that a curvature-adapted proper complex equifocal submanifold is a principal orbit of a Hermann type action under certain condition. Next we show that a proper complex equifocal submanifold is curvature-adapted under certain condition.

2009-02-09abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, using the framework of equivariant differential geometry, we study proper SO(p+1)×SO(q+1)SO(p+1) \times SO(q+1)-invariant biconservative hypersurfaces into the Euclidean space Rn{\mathbb R}^n (n=p+q+2n=p+q+2) and proper SO(p+1)SO(p+1)-invariant biconservative hypersurfaces into the Euclidean space Rn{\mathbb R}^n (n=p+2n=p+2). Mo…

2013-12-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Proper proximality proved for various groups on non-positive curvature spaces.

problem Proper proximality of groups acting on non-positive curvature spaces.
method Established proper proximality for groups acting on CAT(0)\mathrm{CAT}(0) spaces and hierarchically hyperbolic groups.
result Proper proximality of many groups including mapping class groups and subgroups of curve graphs.

We study proper losses for discrete generative models without knowing the target distribution.

problem Evaluating generative models in the discrete setting without direct access to the target distribution.
method Define and construct black-box proper losses using statistical estimation theory.
result Black-box proper losses must be of polynomial form and involve more samples than the polynomial degree.

Improves model calibration for deep neural networks using proper scores.

problem Calibration errors in deep neural networks are often biased and inconsistent.
method Introduces proper calibration errors related to proper scores.
result Demonstrates the superiority of proper scores over common estimators.

In this paper, we study geometric properties of quotient spaces of proper Lie groupoids. First, we construct a natural stratification on such spaces using an extension of the slice theorem for proper Lie groupoids of Weinstein and Zung. Next, we show the existence of an appropriate metric on the groupoid which gives th…

2010-12-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Proper branched coverings are homeomorphisms on 3D balls or when branch set is empty.

problem Global injectivity of proper branched coverings on Euclidean balls.
method Analyzing the global injectivity of proper branched coverings defined on the Euclidean nn-ball.
result Proper branched coverings are homeomorphisms on 3D balls or when branch set is empty.

We first introduce an invariant index for G-equivariant elliptic differential operators on a locally compact manifold M admitting a proper cocompact action of a locally compact group G. It generalizes the Kawasaki index for orbifolds to the case of proper cocompact actions. Our invariant index is used to show that an a…

2008-06-19abs ↗pdf ↗

We establish several characterizations of Anosov representations of word hyperbolic groups into real reductive Lie groups, in terms of a Cartan projection or Lyapunov projection of the Lie group. Using a properness criterion of Benoist and Kobayashi, we derive applications to proper actions on homogeneous spaces of red…

2015-02-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper constructs Witten and elliptic genera for noncompact manifolds with proper actions.

problem Constructing genera for noncompact manifolds with proper actions.
method Using proper cocompact actions by almost connected Lie groups, the paper constructs and proves properties of Witten and elliptic genera.
result Vanishing and rigidity results generalizing known compact group actions.