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48 results for temperature measurement

This paper measures temperature in agent systems using volatility.

problem How to measure temperature in agent systems.
method Examined an agent system with two decision options in a news environment, established the measurement equation, and outlined the concept of temperature measurement.
result Illustrated a strategy for influencing average opinion in competing subsystems.

Machine learning and deep learning infer surface/groundwater exchange from temperature data.

problem Inferring surface/groundwater exchange from temperature data with high temporal resolution.
method Application of machine learning and deep learning algorithms to infer surface/groundwater exchange flux from subsurface temperature observations.
result DL methods outperform ML methods in interpreting noisy temperature data, especially with a smoothing filter.

The minute fluctuations of of S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 indices display Boltzmann statistics over a wide range of positive as well as negative returns, thus allowing us to define a {\em market temperature} for either sign. With increasing time the sharp Boltzmann peak broadens into a Gaussian whose volatility σ σ measure…

2006-09-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Researchers use Gaussian Process Regression to improve accuracy of a low-cost hot-wire anemometer.

problem Improving accuracy of low-cost hot-wire anemometers in varying temperatures.
method Probabilistic calibration using Gaussian Process Regression.
result The method provides good performance in estimating actual wind speeds, including uncertainty.

TemperatureGAN generates hourly atmospheric temperature data with high fidelity.

problem Generating accurate hourly atmospheric temperature data for climate risk assessment.
method Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) conditioned on months, locations, and time periods.
result TemperatureGAN produces high-fidelity hourly atmospheric temperature data with good spatial and temporal consistency.

Understanding local currents in the North Atlantic region of the ocean is a key part of modelling heat transfer and global climate patterns. Satellites provide a surface signature of the temperature of the ocean with a high horizontal resolution while in situ autonomous probes supply high vertical resolution, but horiz…

2019-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We find necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of a locally isometric embedding of a vacuum space-time into a conformally-flat 5-space. We explicitly construct such embeddings for any spherically symmetric Lorentzian metric in 3+13+1 dimensions as a hypersurface in R4,1R^{4, 1}. For the Schwarzschild metric the…

2018-12-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Over the last 23 years, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has required over 34,000 companies to file over 165,000 annual reports. These reports, the so-called "Form 10-Ks," contain a characterization of a company's financial performance and its risks, including the regulatory environment in which a company op…

2016-12-29abs ↗pdf ↗

New method calibrates classifier probabilities with guaranteed coverage.

problem Inaccurate probability estimates by classifiers in high-risk applications.
method Adaptive temperature scaling algorithm for conformal prediction.
result Improves calibration error measures and standard metrics across various tasks.

The paper tackles sampling from Gibbs measures with constrained support, providing a sampling guarantee.

problem Sampling from Gibbs measures with constrained support, especially in the pre-asymptotic regime.
method Analyzing the spectral gap of Langevin dynamics to provide a non-asymptotic sampling guarantee.
result The low-temperature Gibbs distribution concentrates on a neighborhood of its mode in the pre-asymptotic regime.

ARX models predict thermal behavior of WBG semiconductors accurately.

problem Thermal management challenges of WBG semiconductors.
method Use of ARX parametric models based on experimental measurements.
result ARX models provide accurate temperature predictions without detailed component information.

Study on convergence of exponential probability measures with applications to maximum entropy models and SGLD.

problem Characterizing the limit of probability measures with exponential densities as temperature approaches zero.
method Quantitative bounds on Wasserstein distance using geometric measure theory tools.
result Established quantitative convergence results for norm-like potentials under invertibility conditions.

Paper develops a new method to improve model calibration under distribution shifts.

problem Challenges in uncertainty quantification with different training and test distributions.
method Develops multi-domain temperature scaling to handle distribution shifts.
result Outperforms existing methods on in-distribution and out-of-distribution test sets.

A new topology design improves zero-shot classification performance in contrastive learning.

problem Improving zero-shot classification performance in contrastive visual-textual alignment.
method Proposed an alternative topology design using multiple class tokens and an oblique manifold with negative inner product.
result Improves zero-shot classification performance by an average of 6.1%.

Study convergence of simulated annealing in continuous and discrete settings.

problem Analyzing convergence rate of simulated annealing methods.
method Apply Eyring-Kramers law to prove polynomial decay of tail probabilities.
result Explicit rate of convergence for continuous and discrete simulated annealing.

Machine learning identifies melting points in thermocouples for automatic calibration.

problem Manual calibration of thermocouples is error-prone and time-consuming.
method Machine learning approach to recognize and quantify the melting point of thermocouples.
result 100% accuracy in detecting melting points and high R2 of 0.99 for calibration drift predictions.

Method reveals dissimilarity in alloys' Curie temperatures.

problem Tackles the dissimilarity between rare-earth transition metal binary alloys.
method Ensemble learning with Kernel ridge regression.
result Reveals meaningful relations between alloys' structure and Curie temperature.

Temperature scaling improves model uncertainty but not diversity in LLMs.

problem Improving the calibration and stochasticity of probabilistic models.
method Investigates theoretical properties of temperature scaling in classification and LLMs.
result Temperature scaling increases model uncertainty but not diversity in LLMs.

Study reveals structural differences in financial networks near and far from crises using balance theory.

problem Understanding the complex behavior of stocks and their collective behavior in financial crises.
method Investigates financial networks by triplet interaction in the framework of balance theory, focusing on higher-order interactions.
result Formation of an ordered structure in crisis networks makes them resistant to disorder, with a critical temperature measuring crisis strength.

Study local sensitivity of HDD and CDD temperature derivatives prices.

problem Understanding how temperature derivatives prices change with small temperature changes.
method Analyzes sensitivity of HDD and CDD futures and options prices to temperature perturbations using a CAR process.
result Identifies the order of the CAR process and its impact on temperature derivatives prices.

We introduce a temperature into the exponential function and replace the softmax output layer of neural nets by a high temperature generalization. Similarly, the logarithm in the log loss we use for training is replaced by a low temperature logarithm. By tuning the two temperatures we create loss functions that are non…

2019-06-08abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method selects optimal temperature for Bayesian Deep Learning.

problem Finding the optimal temperature for improving predictive performance in Bayesian Deep Learning.
method Data-driven approach to estimate temperature as a model parameter.
result Our method performs comparably to grid search but at a fraction of the cost.

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.

New adaptive temperature selection improves parallel tempering efficiency.

problem Enhancing mixing in multi-modal distributions using parallel tempering.
method Adaptive temperature selection using policy gradient approach.
result Lower integrated autocorrelation times achieved compared to traditional methods.

Attention temperature improves robustness of ICL in high-dimensional settings.

problem ICL robustness failure under distribution shift in high dimensions.
method Analyzed a Transformer with approximate softmax attention, derived a closed-form error expression, and showed optimal temperature minimizes error.
result Optimal attention temperature minimizes ICL generalization error under distribution shift.

Trends in terrestrial temperature variability are perhaps more relevant for species viability than trends in mean temperature. In this paper, we develop methodology for estimating such trends using multi-resolution climate data from polar orbiting weather satellites. We derive two novel algorithms for computation that …

2018-05-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Stochastic model prices weather derivatives for Indian states, highlighting temperature volatility impacts.

problem Quantifying financial risk in Indian markets due to seasonal weather variations.
method Modified Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process with jumps for temperature dynamics, calibrated with historical data, Monte Carlo simulations for pricing.
result Volatility significantly impacts weather derivative pricing, with higher prices in colder states and lower in hotter states.

The paper analyzes extreme temperature forecasting using machine learning models.

problem Forecasting extreme temperatures in U.S. cities.
method Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average, Exponential Smoothing, Multilayer Perceptrons, Gaussian Processes.
result Multilayer Perceptrons were found to be the most effective approach for forecasting extreme temperatures.

The paper analyzes the InfoNCE loss under different temperature schedules using Langevin dynamics.

problem Understanding the dynamics of InfoNCE loss under fixed versus annealed temperature schedules.
method Modeling embedding evolution under Langevin dynamics on a compact Riemannian manifold, with theoretical guarantees for convergence.
result Slow logarithmic inverse-temperature schedules ensure convergence to globally optimal representations, while faster schedules risk suboptimal minima.

The study optimizes simulated annealing's cooling schedule for better performance.

problem Designing optimal cooling schedules for simulated annealing to improve its performance.
method Analyzed the cooling schedule's impact on simulated annealing's performance and provided sample and simulation complexity results.
result Optimal cooling schedules can be found with a small number of samples, improving the algorithm's runtime or success rate.

The Gibbs algorithm's generalization error is bounded, improving with prior volume in low temperatures.

problem Bounding the generalization error of the Gibbs algorithm in low temperature regimes.
method Analyzes the Gibbs algorithm's performance, extending known high-temperature bounds to low-temperature scenarios.
result With high probability, the generalization error decreases with the total prior volume of similar hypotheses.

Optimizes contrastive learning with individualized temperatures for better performance on imbalanced datasets.

problem The common practice of using a global temperature parameter ignores the varying semantic similarity across different anchor data.
method Proposes a new robust contrastive loss inspired by distributionally robust optimization (DRO) and an efficient stochastic algorithm for automatic temperature individualization.
result Our method automatically learns a suitable temperature for each sample, improving performance on imbalanced datasets.

New method uses RBM flows to find critical temperatures in Ising models.

problem Detecting critical temperatures in RBM flows without model topology information.
method Iterative sampling from RBM mapped on Ising model temperature space using a neural network thermometer.
result Flow of RBM trained on Ising spin configurations approaches critical temperature around kBTc/J2.269k_B T_c / J \approx 2.269.

Algorithm learns Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model parameters at low temperatures.

problem Learning parameters of random graphical models at low temperatures.
method Multiplicative-weight update algorithm for polynomial time learning.
result Algorithm learns SK model parameters at βlognβ\leq \sqrt{\log n}.

Study shows sample complexity for logistic regression with normal covariates.

problem Estimating parameters of logistic regression with normal design.
method Analyzes sample complexity in terms of dimension and inverse temperature.
result Shows two change-points in sample complexity curve based on inverse temperature.