A locally-built, LLM-digested index of recent arXiv papers in quant finance, geometry/topology, and statistical ML — keyword search served straight from SQLite on this machine.
We propose a theoretical framework for thinking about score normalization, which confirms that normalization is not needed under (admittedly fragile) ideal conditions. If, however, these conditions are not met, e.g. under data-set shift between training and runtime, our theory reveals dependencies between scores that c…
In the theory of finite order knot invariants, the universal sl2 weight system maps the chord diagrams to polynomials in a single variable with integer coefficients. In this paper, we define a family of polynomials that generalize the Kreweras triangle (known to refine the normalized median Genocchi numbers),…
This is an expanded version of the lecture notes for a minicourse that I gave at a summer school called "Advanced Course on Geometry and Dynamics of Integrable Systems" at CRM Barcelona, 9--14/September/2013. In this text we study the following aspects of integrable non-Hamiltonian systems: local and semi-local normal …
In this paper, we prove that the two well-known natural normalizations of Hamiltonian functions on the symplectic manifold (M,ω) canonically relates the action spectra of different normalized Hamiltonians on {\it arbitrary} symplectic manifolds (M,ω). The natural class of normalized Hamiltonians consists of those w…
This new research explores the effects of various training methods on a Polish to English Statistical Machine Translation system for medical texts. Various elements of the EMEA parallel text corpora from the OPUS project were used as the basis for training of phrase tables and language models and for development, tunin…
Motivated by manifold learning techniques, we give an explicit lower bound for how far a smoothly embedded compact submanifold in RN can move in a normal direction and remain an embedding. In addition, given a penalty function P:Emb(M,RN)→R on the space of embeddi…
We consider maximum solution g(t), t∈[0,+∞), to the normalized Ricci flow. Among other things, we prove that, if (M,ω) is a smooth compact symplectic 4-manifold such that b2+(M)>1 and let g(t),t∈[0,∞), be a solution to (1.3) on M whose Ricci curvature satisfies that $|\text{Ric}(g(t))|\l…
SHMM models human mobility from GPS and text data, overcoming text sparsity.
problem Modeling human mobility from semantic trace data, especially addressing text sparsity.
method SHMM is a multi-modal spherical hidden Markov model that jointly models location, time, and text embeddings on a unit sphere using vMF distribution.
result SHMM outperforms state-of-the-art models in next location prediction and has lower training cost.
We let φ be an ageometric fully irreducible outer automorphism so that its Handel-Mosher axis bundle consists of a single unique axis. We show that the centralizer Cen(⟨φ⟩) of the cyclic subgroup generated by φ equals the stabilizer Stab(Λφ+) of the attracting lamina…
The standard state-of-the-art backend for text-independent speaker recognizers that use i-vectors or x-vectors, is Gaussian PLDA (G-PLDA), assisted by a Gaussianization step involving length normalization. G-PLDA can be trained with both generative or discriminative methods. It has long been known that heavy-tailed PLD…
Let (M,g) be a n−dimensional compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. We consider the Yamabe type problem \begin{equation} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -Δ_{g}u+au=0 & \text{ on }M \\ \partial_νu+\frac{n-2}{2}bu= u^{{n\over n-2}\pm\varepsilon} & \text{ on }\partial M \end{array}\right. \end{equation} where $a\in C^1(…
We propose a family of near-metrics based on local graph diffusion to capture similarity for a wide class of data sets. These quasi-metametrics, as their names suggest, dispense with one or two standard axioms of metric spaces, specifically distinguishability and symmetry, so that similarity between data points of arbi…
There has been renewed interest in S3-bundles over S4 since K. Grove and W. Ziller constructed metrics on nonnegative curvature on the total spaces of these bundles. In this paper we write down necessary and sufficient conditions for a CW complex to be homotopy equivalent to such a bundle. We al…
We point out important problems with the common practice of using the best single model performance for comparing deep learning architectures, and we propose a method that corrects these flaws. Each time a model is trained, one gets a different result due to random factors in the training process, which include random …