Normalization methods play an important role in enhancing the performance of deep learning while their theoretical understandings have been limited. To theoretically elucidate the effectiveness of normalization, we quantify the geometry of the parameter space determined by the Fisher information matrix (FIM), which als…
Study 3D shapes in 5D space with sharp points.
problem Understanding shapes with sharp points in higher dimensions.
method Define curvature locus using fundamental forms at sharp points.
result Local second order geometrical information captured.
This work is an extension of a result given by Kuttler and Sigillito (SIAM Rev 10:368−370, 1968) on a star-shaped bounded domain in R2. Let Ω be a star-shaped bounded domain in a hypersurface of revolution, having smooth boundary. In this article, we obtain a sharp lower bound for all Steklov eigenv…
Proposes DILATE and STRIPE++ for precise time series forecasting.
problem Non-stationary signals with sudden changes.
method Incorporates shape and temporal criteria in deep learning models.
result Improves precision in deterministic and probabilistic forecasting.
Sharp reverse affine isoperimetric inequalities for asymmetric Wulff shapes and their polars are established, along with the characterization of all extremals. These new inequalities have as special cases previously obtained simplex inequalities by Ball, Barthe and Lutwak, Yang, and Zhang. In particular, they provide t…
Fine shape of local compacta represented by ordinary maps.
problem Representing fine shape of local compacta.
method Constructing a space ∣X∣ for each local compactum X such that fine shape classes correspond to homotopy classes of maps to ∣X∣. result Fine shape classes from any locally compact metrizable space Y to X bijectively correspond to homotopy classes of maps from Y to ∣X∣. Sharp upper bounds derived for capacities in hyperbolic and Euclidean spaces.
problem Finding upper limits for the capacity of compact sets in hyperbolic and Euclidean spaces.
method Inverse mean curvature flow, unit-speed normal flow, weak inverse mean curvature flow, inverse anisotropic mean curvature flow.
result Various sharp upper bounds for the p-capacity of compact sets in hyperbolic and Euclidean spaces are derived. Study on shape optimization for specific eigenvalue problems on domains.
problem Shape optimization of eigenvalue problems for fourth order Steklov.
method Asymptotic expansion and sharp upper bound derivation.
result Derivation of eigenvalue spectra and shape optimization conclusions.
Study reveals pathological eigenvalue spectra in FIM and its variants of DNNs.
problem Understanding sharp local shapes in DNN loss landscapes.
method Analysis of FIM and its variants in regression and classification DNNs.
result Pathological eigenvalue spectra appear in FIM and its variants, indicating sharp local shapes in specific directions.
Proves a Minkowski inequality for star-shaped hypersurfaces in warped cylinders.
problem Proving a Minkowski inequality for specific types of hypersurfaces.
method Using weakly mean convex and star-shaped hypersurfaces in warped cylinders, and applying the inverse mean curvature flow.
result Sharp inequality holds for outward minimizing hypersurfaces in Schwarzschild and hyperbolic spaces.
The study finds minimal hypersurfaces in wedge-shaped manifolds with boundary.
problem Finding minimal hypersurfaces in wedge-shaped manifolds with boundary.
method Developed a min-max theory for locally wedge-shaped manifolds with boundary.
result Proved existence of smooth free boundary minimal hypersurfaces in wedge-shaped manifolds.
In this paper, we use the inverse curvature flow to prove a sharp geometric inequality on star-shaped and two-convex hypersurface in hyperbolic space.
Local minimizers are convex and close to Wulff shapes.
problem Finding local minimizers in anisotropic isoperimetric problems.
method Showed local minimizers are geodesically convex and small smooth perturbations of tangent Wulff shapes.
result Local minimizers are quantitatively close to Wulff shapes.
Representing 3D shape deformations by linear models in high-dimensional space has many applications in computer vision and medical imaging, such as shape-based interpolation or segmentation. Commonly, using Principal Components Analysis a low-dimensional (affine) subspace of the high-dimensional shape space is determin…
Curvature estimate for stable free boundary minimal hypersurfaces in wedge-shaped manifolds.
problem Estimating curvature of stable free boundary minimal hypersurfaces in wedge-shaped manifolds.
method Compactness theorem and Schoen-Simon-Yau estimates.
result Curvature estimate for free boundary minimal hypersurfaces in wedge-shaped manifolds.
Sharp Veronese rigidity theorem for submanifolds of unit ball.
problem Veronese rigidity of submanifolds under harmonic structure.
method Intrinsic harmonic structure assumptions, Bochner-Gauss mechanism, shape operators.
result Sharp lower bound on maximal normal curvature for specific submanifolds.
Novel method for shape optimization of non-smooth PDEs.
problem Optimizing shapes governed by non-smooth PDEs.
method Functional variational approach and sensitivity analysis.
result Necessary conditions for locally optimal shapes.
Fine shape theory extends strong shape to noncompact metrizable spaces.
problem Computational complexity in extending strong shape to noncompact spaces.
method Introducing FDR-embeddings and mapping cylinders to extend SSDR-maps to noncompact spaces.
result Fine shape category can be represented as a left fraction localization.
Estimates true Sharpe ratio of selected assets with various methods.
problem Estimating the true Sharpe ratio of a selected asset with high in-sample ratio.
method Polyhedral lemma, James Stein shrinkage, debiasing, thresholding, empirical Bayes.
result James Stein estimator performs best across various parameter values.
Sharp stability of Alexandrov's theorem for C1 domains in the small-excess regime
problem Stability of Alexandrov's theorem for C1 domains in the small-excess regime method Combines a BV version of Fuglede's spectral-gap argument, a star-shaped rearrangement for sets of finite perimeter, quantitative estimates for the part of the boundary contained in the tentacles, and a polyhedral approximation argument for the non-graphical region result Sharp stability estimate in a genuinely non-parametric regime
Truncated SGD with heavy-tailed noise eliminates sharp local minima.
problem Avoiding sharp local minima in deep learning models.
method Truncated SGD with heavy-tailed gradient noise.
result Truncated SGD can eliminate sharp local minima entirely from its training trajectory.
PointGMM learns hGMMs from point clouds for 3D shape representation.
problem Lack of shape priors and non-local information in point cloud representations.
method Neural network that learns hierarchical Gaussian mixture models (hGMMs) for 3D shapes.
result Generative model learns meaningful latent space for interpolations and novel shape synthesis.
Study eigenvalues and shapes, proving sharp inequalities for Steklov eigenvalues.
problem Eigenvalue continuity and shape optimization for Laplace and Steklov problems.
method Variational eigenvalue analysis, Sobolev space convergence, shape optimization techniques.
result Sharp isoperimetric inequalities for Steklov eigenvalues, upper bound 8πk for k-th perimeter-normalized eigenvalue. Proves local maximizers for higher Ekeland-Hofer capacities in 4D star-shaped domains.
problem Finding local maximizers for higher Ekeland-Hofer capacities in specific domains.
method Analogous to 4D local Viterbo conjecture, proving maximizers for rational ellipsoids.
result Local maximizers of the k-th Ekeland-Hofer capacities are symplectomorphic to rational ellipsoids.
Let Ω be a star-shaped bounded domain in (Sn,ds2) with smooth boundary. In this article, we give a sharp lower bound for the first non-zero eigenvalue of the Steklov eigenvalue problem in Ω. This result is the generalization of a result given by Kuttler and Sigillito for a star-shaped bounded doma…
The paper proves a Whitehead theorem for fine shape spaces.
problem Proving a Whitehead theorem for fine shape spaces.
method Using Steenrod-Sitnikov homotopy groups and ind-groups.
result Fine shape morphisms are equivalences if they induce isomorphisms on π_i.
The paper characterizes dynamic return and star-shaped risk measures via BSDEs.
problem Characterizing dynamic return and star-shaped risk measures.
method Characterization of star-shaped functionals and BSDEs.
result Existence of convex BSDEs with non-empty set of supersolutions.
The paper establishes sharp geometric inequalities for hypersurfaces in warped product manifolds.
problem Geometric inequalities involving three distinct quantities in warped product manifolds.
method Two families of inequalities comparing three geometric quantities in space forms or warped product manifolds.
result Generalizes and extends previous results on Weinstock-type inequalities and Steklov/Wentzell eigenvalues.
The paper shows how to use fine shape to understand infinite-dimensional spaces.
problem Understanding infinite-dimensional metrizable spaces and their homology theories.
method Obtained results indicating fine shape is tractable and can be used for Polish spaces.
result Every Polish space is fine shape equivalent to the limit of an inverse sequence of simplicial maps.
Develops local curvature estimates for mean curvature flow.
problem Sharp curvature pinching estimates for mean curvature flow.
method Local version of Huisken-Stampacchia iteration.
result Local curvature estimates do not depend on noncollapsing quality.
We introduce a method called multi-scale local shape analysis, or MLSA, for extracting features that describe the local structure of points within a dataset. The method uses both geometric and topological features at multiple levels of granularity to capture diverse types of local information for subsequent machine lea…
In this paper we investigate the expected terminal utility maximization approach for a dynamic stochastic portfolio optimization problem. We solve it numerically by solving an evolutionary Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation which is transformed by means of the Riccati transformation. We examine the dependence of the resu…
Difficult image segmentation problems, for instance left atrium MRI, can be addressed by incorporating shape priors to find solutions that are consistent with known objects. Nonetheless, a single multivariate Gaussian is not an adequate model in cases with significant nonlinear shape variation or where the prior distri…
We find a new monotone increasing quantity along smooth solutions to the inverse mean curvature flow in Rn. As an application, we derive a sharp geometric inequality for mean convex, star-shaped hypersurfaces which relates the volume enclosed by a hypersurface to a weighted total mean curvature of the hypers…
The ACS criterion is verified for specific hypersurfaces in unit spheres.
problem Verifying the ACS criterion for minimal isoparametric hypersurfaces in unit spheres.
method Moment-relaxation technique and explicit extremal configurations.
result The ACS condition holds under specific conditions on principal curvatures.
A new model explains U- and Swoosh-shaped stock price recovery during the COVID-19.
problem Modeling stock price recovery during the COVID-19 with V- and L-shaped recovery.
method Introducing a sentiment variable θ to quantify investor sentiment and simulate U- and Swoosh-shaped recovery. result The model explains U- and Swoosh-shaped recovery of sectoral indices with positive sentiment.
The paper encodes local shapes of polynomial curves using permutations.
problem Measuring non-convexity of real algebraic plane curves.
method Generic projections avoiding specific tangencies.
result Local shapes of curves can be encoded in alternating permutations.
Flat minimal hypersurfaces found in wedge-shaped domains.
problem Finding minimal surfaces in wedge-shaped domains.
method Proving stability and flatness of C1,1-to-edge minimal hypersurfaces. result Stable minimal hypersurfaces are flat in wedge-shaped domains.
Quantitative metric spaces study function shapes and sphere diameters.
problem Understanding function shapes and sphere diameters in metric spaces.
method Quantitative analysis of transport-rays decompositions using localization method.
result Bounding the deficit between manifold and sphere diameters.
A new method shapes reinforcement learning environments by abstracting large state spaces.
problem Learning in large, noisy environments with sparse feedback.
method Environment shaping using state abstraction.
result Agent's policy in shaped environment preserves near-optimal behavior in original environment.
Sharp conditions found for solving heat equation on Riemannian manifolds.
problem Solving semilinear heat equation on Riemannian manifolds.
method Sharp conditions derived for local-in-time solvability.
result Sharp conditions on solvability given for complete and connected manifolds.
New curvature measures characterize non-convex Wulff shapes in normed spaces.
problem Characterizing non-convex sets with curvature measures.
method Extending curvature measures to non-convex and non-smooth sets in normed spaces.
result Finite unions of disjoint Wulff shapes are the only sets with proportional curvature measures.
A new measure k-variance captures local distributional shape.
problem Summarizing distributional shape with local information.
method Random bipartite matchings and stochastic approximation.
result Easily approximated k-variance measures capture local distributional properties. Sharp estimate for nodal domains intersecting a ball on a Riemannian manifold.
problem Local bounds for nodal domains on Riemannian manifolds.
method Combining Remez inequality for eigenfunctions and Landis growth lemma in narrow domains.
result Proved a sharp estimate of nodal domains intersecting a ball.
Sharp bounds for anisotropic p-capacity of Euclidean compact sets derived using flow methods.
problem Sharp bounds for anisotropic p-capacity of Euclidean compact sets.
method Inverse anisotropic mean curvature flow (IAMCF) and anisotropic Hawking mass.
result Upper bounds for anisotropic p-capacity derived using flow methods.
The paper classifies minimizers for a specific inequality in Euclidean balls.
problem Classifying minimizers for a specific inequality in Euclidean balls.
method Adaptation of Frank-Lieb proof for the sharp Sobolev inequality.
result Implication of a fully nonlinear sharp Sobolev trace inequality.
Improves CNN robustness by reducing texture bias.
problem CNNs' reliance on local texture over global shape.
method Inspired by human vision, InfoDrop decorrelates model output from local texture.
result Enhanced robustness across various scenarios.
The paper simplifies quickshift hyperparameter tuning for larger images.
problem Understanding and tuning hyperparameters for quickshift image segmentation.
method Theoretical analysis of a modified quickshift algorithm for homogeneous patches with i.i.d. noise.
result A heuristic to scale quickshift hyperparameters based on image size.