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Optimization approach for efficient sampling in optical mapping for structural variant detection.

problem Efficient sampling strategy for structural variant detection using optical mapping.
method Developed an optimization approach using a hyper-geometric distribution and probabilistic concentration inequalities.
result Optimal sampling strategy requires sampling most chromosomal fragments to detect variants at high confidence with little biological material.

The paper categorizes and analyzes various event-linked perpetual futures contracts.

problem Developing a risk-design framework for complex event-linked perpetual futures.
method Formal taxonomy of seven pure-form canonical variants, organized along four design axes.
result Detailed analysis of microstructure properties and limitations of various variants.

In this contribution we present an intrinsic description of time-variant Port Hamiltonian systems as they appear in modeling and control theory. This formulation is based on the splitting of the state bundle and the use of appropriate covariant derivatives, which guarantees that the structure of the equations is invari…

2012-07-19abs ↗pdf ↗

These notes aim to shed light on the recently proposed structured projected intermediate gradient optimization technique (SPIGOT, Peng et al., 2018). SPIGOT is a variant of the straight-through estimator (Bengio et al., 2013) which bypasses gradients of the argmax function by back-propagating a surrogate "gradient." We…

2019-07-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper presents a new method to detect process differences at the trace level using mutual fingerprints.

problem Low-level granularity in process variant analysis leads to many false differences.
method Develops a mutual fingerprint technique to encode entire process traces for comparison.
result Mutual fingerprint method reveals significant differences not detected by existing techniques.

We prove a gluing formula for the families Seiberg-Witten invariants of families of 44-manifolds obtained by fibrewise connected sum. Our formula expresses the families Seiberg-Witten invariants of such a connected sum family in terms of the ordinary Seiberg-Witten invariants of one of the summands, under certain assu…

2018-12-31abs ↗pdf ↗

This study reviews decentralized prediction markets, identifying key design variants and open problems.

problem Designing and implementing decentralized prediction markets with desirable properties.
method Modular workflow comprising eight stages: infrastructure, market topic, share structure, pricing, market initialization, trading, resolution, settlement, and archiving. Analysis of design variants and trade-offs.
result Identification of open problems for researchers in the field of decentralized prediction markets.

Explains gradient descent methods and their convergence, focusing on simple analysis.

problem Understanding and analyzing gradient descent methods and their variants.
method Elementary mathematical analysis focusing on structures and assumptions of objective functions.
result Unified convergence analysis of various gradient descent methods and variants.

For a rational homology 3-sphere YY with a $\spinc$ structure $\s$, we show that simple algebraic manipulations of our construction of equivariant Seiberg-Witten Floer homology lead to a collection of variants which are topological invariants. We establish exact sequences relating them, we show that they satisfy a dua…

2002-11-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Efficiently computes tree-Wasserstein barycenter for large-scale multilevel clustering and scalable Bayes.

problem Large-scale multilevel clustering and scalable Bayes problems.
method Proposes an efficient algorithm for tree-Wasserstein barycenter and variants.
result Significantly improves efficiency in computation and memory usage for large-scale applications.

This paper reviews recent advances in Bayesian nonparametric techniques for constructing and performing inference in infinite hidden Markov models. We focus on variants of Bayesian nonparametric hidden Markov models that enhance a posteriori state-persistence in particular. This paper also introduces a new Bayesian non…

2014-06-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a neural framework to select subsets efficiently across different models.

problem Lack of generalizability in subset selection methods for unseen architectures.
method Introduces a trainable subset selection framework, SubSelNet, that uses attention-based neural gadgets and subset samplers.
result SubSelNet generalizes across architectures and outperforms existing methods.

VEGN uses graph neural networks to predict disease-causing mutations from genetic variants.

problem Identifying disease-causing mutations from millions of genetic variants.
method VEGN employs a graph neural network on a heterogeneous graph of genes and variants, learning gene-gene interactions.
result VEGN outperforms existing state-of-the-art models in variant effect prediction.

Graph classification improved using spectral features and wavelet filters.

problem Categorizing graphs based on their structure and node attributes.
method Derived spectral features from graph signal processing, designed two Gaussian process models: one simple and one sophisticated.
result Simple and sophisticated Gaussian process models yield competitive performance, including well-calibrated uncertainty estimates.

Lots of learning tasks require dealing with graph data which contains rich relation information among elements. Modeling physics systems, learning molecular fingerprints, predicting protein interface, and classifying diseases demand a model to learn from graph inputs. In other domains such as learning from non-structur…

2018-12-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has an established reputation as a useful data analysis technique in numerous applications. However, its usage in practical situations is undergoing challenges in recent years. The fundamental factor to this is the increasingly growing size of the datasets available and needed in …

2015-05-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Framework uses machine learning to distinguish major COVID-19 variants.

problem Discriminate and visualize associations between major COVID-19 variants based on genome sequences.
method Unsupervised machine learning methods, including k-mer analysis, PCA, t-SNE, UMAP, and agglomerative hierarchical clustering.
result Framework effectively distinguishes between major variants and identifies emerging variants.

Traditional Recurrent Neural Networks assume vectorized data as inputs. However many data from modern science and technology come in certain structures such as tensorial time series data. To apply the recurrent neural networks for this type of data, a vectorisation process is necessary, while such a vectorisation leads…

2017-08-01abs ↗pdf ↗

MN-PCA models structured noise in data and feature spaces.

problem Complex and structured noise in real-world data.
method Matrix normal distribution for structured noise modeling, generalized Mahalanobis distance approximation.
result MN-PCA obtains a low-rank data representation and structured noise simultaneously.

Online algorithm detects community structure in dynamic event streams.

problem Community detection in networks with temporal event streams.
method Continuous-time point process latent network models with fast online variational inference.
result Online inference achieves comparable community recovery to non-online methods but with computational gains.

Stochastic blockmodels (SBM) and their variants, e.g.e.g., mixed-membership and overlapping stochastic blockmodels, are latent variable based generative models for graphs. They have proven to be successful for various tasks, such as discovering the community structure and link prediction on graph-structured data. Recentl…

2019-05-14abs ↗pdf ↗

New method for comparing different mass measures on tree structures using entropy partial transport.

problem Comparing nonnegative measures with different masses on tree structures.
method Entropy Partial Transport (EPT) on extended trees, regularized for fast computation and negative definiteness.
result First closed-form solution for unbalanced OT on tree structures.

The paper evaluates three variants of the Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) in recurrent neural networks (RNN) by reducing parameters in the update and reset gates. We evaluate the three variant GRU models on MNIST and IMDB datasets and show that these GRU-RNN variant models perform as well as the original GRU RNN model while…

2017-01-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Fundamental group of a manifold gives a deep effect on its underlying smooth structure. In this paper we introduce a new variant of the Donaldson invariant in Yang-Mills gauge theory from twisting by the Picard group of a four manifold in the case when the fundamental group is free abelian. We then generalize it to the…

2017-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Gaussian conditional random fields (GCRF) are a well-known used structured model for continuous outputs that uses multiple unstructured predictors to form its features and at the same time exploits dependence structure among outputs, which is provided by a similarity measure. In this paper, a Gaussian conditional rando…

2019-01-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Given the widespread popularity of spectral clustering (SC) for partitioning graph data, we study a version of constrained SC in which we try to incorporate the fairness notion proposed by Chierichetti et al. (2017). According to this notion, a clustering is fair if every demographic group is approximately proportional…

2019-01-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are an effective framework for representation learning of graphs. GNNs follow a neighborhood aggregation scheme, where the representation vector of a node is computed by recursively aggregating and transforming representation vectors of its neighboring nodes. Many GNN variants have been pro…

2018-10-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Survey of Locally Linear Embedding and its variants.

problem Representing high-dimensional data in a lower-dimensional space while preserving local structure.
method Explains various LLE and variant methods, including kernel LLE, inverse LLE, feature fusion, out-of-sample embedding, incremental LLE, landmark LLE, supervised LLE, robust LLE, fusion with other methods, and weighted LLE.
result Comprehensive overview of LLE and its variants.