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The paper explores how sinks and diagonal patterns prevent attention oversmoothing.

problem Preventing attention oversmoothing in neural networks.
method Analyzing geometric conditions and conditions for dense vs. sparse attention, proving equivalence between sinks and hard attention switch, and comparing the costs of sinks vs. diagonal patterns.
result Sinks and diagonal patterns effectively prevent attention oversmoothing, and diagonal patterns provide a more flexible approach.

This work explains the structural origins of attention sinks in LLMs.

problem Initial tokens disproportionately monopolize attention scores in LLMs.
method Traced to self-attention's value aggregation process and FFN layer activations.
result Attention sinks form due to variance discrepancy and dimension disparity.

New proof of injectivity for broken non-abelian X-ray transform in Minkowski space.

problem Injectivity of broken non-abelian X-ray transform in Minkowski space.
method Stability estimate considering gauge, light-sink connections, Bayesian inversion.
result Consistent recovery of light-sink connections from noisy data.

This paper surveys various methods for dimensionality reduction and nearest neighbor search.

problem Efficiently reducing high-dimensional data to lower dimensions while preserving essential information.
method Linear and nonlinear random projections, including sparse random projections, random Fourier Features, and Random Kitchen Sinks.
result Various methods for dimensionality reduction and nearest neighbor search are explained and compared.

A new method reduces the computational cost of Sinkhorn algorithm for OT and UOT problems.

problem High computational complexity of Sinkhorn algorithm for OT and UOT problems.
method Importance sparsification method called Spar-Sink to efficiently approximate entropy-regularized OT and UOT solutions.
result The method reduces computational cost from O(n2)O(n^2) to O~(n)\widetilde{O}(n), and is consistent under mild regularity conditions.

We define a laminar branched surface to be a branched surface satisfying the following conditions: (1) Its horizontal boundary is incompressible; (2) there is no monogon; (3) there is no Reeb component; (4) there is no sink disk (after eliminating trivial bubbles in the branched surface). The first three conditions are…

2002-03-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Proves analyticity of quasinormal modes in Kerr and Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes.

problem Analyticity of quasinormal modes in extreme Kerr and Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes.
method Observation of stable radial point source/sink structure in bicharacteristic flow; recent microlocal analysis result by Galkowski and Zworski.
result Quasinormal modes are real analytic in subextremal Kerr and Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes.

This study analyzes information flow networks in Chinese stock sectors using transfer entropy.

problem Understanding information transmission and market dynamics in Chinese stock sectors.
method Daily closing price data of 28 sectors from 2000 to 2017, transfer entropy, maximum spanning arborescence (MSA).
result The composite sector is an information source, and the non-bank financial sector is an information sink.

A graph (digraph) G=(V,E)G=(V,E) with a set TVT\subseteq V of terminals is called inner Eulerian if each nonterminal node vv has even degree (resp. the numbers of edges entering and leaving vv are equal). Cherkassky and Lovász showed that the maximum number of pairwise edge-disjoint TT-paths in an inner Eulerian graph $G…

2005-10-21abs ↗pdf ↗

The Poincare-Hopf theorem tells us that given a smooth, structurally stable vector field on a surface of genus g, the number of saddles is 2-2g less than the number of sinks and sources. We generalize this result by introducing a more complex combinatorial invariant. Using this tool, we demonstrate that many such struc…

2011-08-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Despite their successes, what makes kernel methods difficult to use in many large scale problems is the fact that storing and computing the decision function is typically expensive, especially at prediction time. In this paper, we overcome this difficulty by proposing Fastfood, an approximation that accelerates such co…

2014-08-13abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper studies grid homology for spatial graphs and proves a Künneth formula for connected sums.

problem Understanding grid homology for spatial graphs with various types of edges.
method Developed grid homology for spatial graphs with cut edges and applied it to prove a Künneth formula for connected sums.
result A Künneth formula for knot Floer homology of connected sums is proven using grid homology.

Paper introduces metrics for evaluating multi-agent policies using best response dynamics.

problem Evaluation and ranking of multi-agent policies in reinforcement learning.
method Adopting strict best response dynamics (SBRD) to model selfish behaviors, proposing perturbed SBRD for dynamic and non-stationary settings.
result Proposed perturbed SBRD can observe policies with maximum metrics and differ from optimal by any given tolerance.

Irrespective of the fact that Machine learning has produced groundbreaking results, it demands an enormous amount of data in order to perform so. Even though data production has been in its all-time high, almost all the data is unlabelled, hence making them unsuitable for training the algorithms. This paper proposes a …

2019-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

A challenging problem in complex networks is the network reconstruction problem from data. This work deals with a class of networks denoted as conserved networks, in which a flow associated with every edge and the flows are conserved at all non-source and non-sink nodes. We propose a novel polynomial time algorithm to …

2019-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

We define sink marks for branched complexes and find conditions for them to determine a branched surface structure. These will be used to construct branched surfaces in knot and tangle complements. We will extend Delman's theorem and prove that a Montesinos knot KK of length at least 3 has a persistently laminar branc…

2010-08-16abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper uses topological concepts to analyze neural networks, revealing complex structure and dynamics.

problem Understanding the structure and dynamics of deep learning models.
method Topological dynamical systems, index theory, and computational homology.
result Neurons correspond to simplexes in a simplicial complex, and topological invariants can be computed.

Study compares information flow between Chinese and US stock sectors.

problem Analyzing how information flows between sectors in Chinese and US stock markets.
method Daily sector indices, transfer entropy of daily returns, comparing 2000-2017.
result Most active sectors in information exchange differ between China and US, reflecting market dynamics.

Classifies Morse flows on 3-sphere with specific saddle connections.

problem Classifying Morse-Smale flows on a 3-sphere with specific saddle connections.
method Used generalized Heegaard diagrams (Pr-diagrams) to classify flows.
result Found all possible, up to homeomorphism, ways to embed two circles in a 2-sphere with no more than 10 points of transversal intersection.

GOAT improves attention mechanisms by learning better priors.

problem Standard attention mechanisms use a naive uniform prior, limiting flexibility and generalization.
method GOAT introduces a trainable, continuous prior that replaces the uniform assumption, maintaining compatibility with optimized kernels.
result GOAT avoids representational trade-offs and learns an extrapolatable prior that combines positional flexibility with length generalization.

Economy is demanding new models, able to understand and predict the evolution of markets. To this respect, Econophysics is offering models of markets as complex systems, such as the gas-like model, able to predict money distributions observed in real economies. However, this model reveals some technical hitches to expl…

2010-08-04abs ↗pdf ↗

In this article we will show that the Macro-Economy and its growth can be modelled and explained exactly in principle by commonly known Field Theory from theoretical physics. We will show the main concepts and calculations needed and show that calculation and prediction of economic growth then gets indeed possible in D…

2014-05-16abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a novel method that makes use of deep neural networks and gradient decent to perform automated design on complex real world engineering tasks. Our approach works by training a neural network to mimic the fitness function of a design optimization task and then, using the differential nature of the neural netw…

2017-10-27abs ↗pdf ↗

This is a sequel to [arXiv:1708.09092v2]. For an oriented trivalent graph GG without source or sink embedded in S3S^3, we prove that the gl(11)\mathfrak{gl}(1| 1)-Alexander polynomial Δ(G,c)\underlineΔ(G, c) defined by Viro satisfies a series of relations, which we call MOY-type relations in [arXiv:1708.09092v2]. As a corolla…

2018-01-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on uniquely determining thermal properties from boundary temperature and heat flux measurements.

problem Determine thermal conductivity and volumetric heat capacity from boundary measurements.
method Uniqueness proof for isotropic and anisotropic media under thermal diffusivity assumption.
result Uniqueness of thermal properties in all dimensions and up to a gauge in two dimensions.

Crypto markets show negative spillovers between chains, not positive co-movements.

problem Negative spillovers in crypto asset returns across different blockchains.
method On-chain data from multiple blockchains (Ethereum, Solana, Binance, Arbitrum, Avalanche) analyzed over 2022-2025.
result Surges on one chain often coincide with declines on others, especially during attention shocks.

Kernels are powerful and versatile tools in machine learning and statistics. Although the notion of universal kernels and characteristic kernels has been studied, kernel selection still greatly influences the empirical performance. While learning the kernel in a data driven way has been investigated, in this paper we e…

2019-02-26abs ↗pdf ↗

It is common for CCTV operators to overlook inter- esting events taking place within the crowd due to large number of people in the crowded scene (i.e. marathon, rally). Thus, there is a dire need to automate the detection of salient crowd regions acquiring immediate attention for a more effective and proactive surveil…

2014-10-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Poisson learning improves graph-based semi-supervised learning at very low label rates.

problem Degeneracy of Laplacian semi-supervised learning at low label rates.
method Replaces label assignment with source and sink placement, solving Poisson equation.
result Provably more stable and informative predictions than Laplacian learning.

Bayesian learning has been recently considered as an effective means of accounting for uncertainty in trained deep network parameters. This is of crucial importance when dealing with small or sparse training datasets. On the other hand, shallow models that compute weighted sums of their inputs, after passing them throu…

2018-02-10abs ↗pdf ↗

New metrics improve scRNA-seq perturbation modeling by reducing mode collapse.

problem Outperformed by simple mean prediction in scRNA-seq perturbation modeling.
method Introduce DEG-aware metrics (WMSE, Rw2(Δ)R^{2}_{w}(Δ)) and negative/positive baselines.
result WMSE loss function reduces mode collapse and improves model performance.

This dissertation uses ILP to learn Bayesian network structures efficiently.

problem Learning the structure of Bayesian networks from data.
method Integer Linear Programming formulation with cluster constraints and cutting planes.
result The approach finds feasible solutions for Bayesian network structures efficiently.

We consider the class non-surjective irreducible endomorphisms of the free group FnF_n. We show that such an endomorphism φφ is topologically represented by a simplicial immersion f:GGf:G \rightarrow G of a marked graph GG; along the way we classify the dynamics of φ\partial φ acting on Fn\partial F_n: there are at mo…

2010-08-21abs ↗pdf ↗

A method for authorship attribution based on function word adjacency networks (WANs) is introduced. Function words are parts of speech that express grammatical relationships between other words but do not carry lexical meaning on their own. In the WANs in this paper, nodes are function words and directed edges stand in…

2014-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

The study analyzes numerical stability in large language models using mixed-precision arithmetic.

problem Numerical stability of large language models using low-precision arithmetic.
method Developed a mixed-precision analysis of transformer inference, deriving bounds for condition numbers and forward error.
result Established that numerical stability is determined by the interplay between weight magnitude and the growth of the residual stream.

Study trace systoles on surfaces, finding optimal bounds and implications.

problem Optimal systolic inequalities on hyperbolic manifolds and non-Fuchsian representations.
method Defined trace systole, used Markoff maps correspondence, computed bounds.
result Explicit optimal bounds for one-holed torus, four-holed sphere, and non-orientable surface of genus 3.

Wealth redistribution through Fokker-Planck equation controls preserves Gini coefficient.

problem Preserving Gini coefficient through proportional wealth tax.
method Formulating optimal redistribution as a control problem for Fokker-Planck equation.
result Progressive taxes redistribute within policy-relevant timescales.