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48 results for universal building blocks

We provide an equivariant description/classification of all complete (compact or not) non-negatively curved manifolds M together with a co-compact action by a reflection group W, and moreover, classify such W. In particular, we show that the building blocks consist of the classical constant curvature models and general…

2014-03-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Pyro is a probabilistic programming language built on Python as a platform for developing advanced probabilistic models in AI research. To scale to large datasets and high-dimensional models, Pyro uses stochastic variational inference algorithms and probability distributions built on top of PyTorch, a modern GPU-accele…

2018-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Residual networks with block width max(d_x, d_y) approximate all functions.

problem Achieving universal approximation with residual networks.
method Established bounds on block width for different activation functions.
result Minimum block width for universal approximation is max(d_x, d_y) with inner width 1.

In this paper we show how to realize all knot (and link) types as C^{2} smooth curves of constant curvature. Our proof is constructive: we build the knots with copies of a fixed finite number of "building blocks" that are particular segments of helices and circles. We use these building blocks to construct all closed b…

2004-03-04abs ↗pdf ↗

New formula calculates loss from arbitrage in blockchain liquidity pools.

problem Calculating loss from arbitrage in Automated Market Makers (AMMs) under varying block times.
method Derived a closed-form approximation for expected loss using random walk theory.
result The formula approximates the loss from arbitrage with high accuracy and shows that constant block intervals minimize this loss.

This paper provides a topological method to construct all simply-connected, spin, smooth 66-manifolds with torsion-free homology using simply-connected, smooth 44-manifolds as building blocks. We explicitly determine the invariants that classify these 66-manifolds from the intersection form and specific homology cla…

2013-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

SiBBlInGS discovers interpretable building blocks across states in multi-way data.

problem Identifying interpretable units (Building Blocks) in multi-state, multi-way data.
method Graph-based dictionary learning approach for sparse BBs and temporal traces.
result Captures per-trial variability and state-specific vs. state-invariant components.

A geometric structure (FAP-structure), having both absolute parallelism and Finsler properties, is constructed. The building blocks of this structures are assumed to be functions of position and direction. A non-linear connection emerges naturally and is defined in terms of the building blocks of the structure. Two lin…

2008-01-07abs ↗pdf ↗

A central problem in analyzing networks is partitioning them into modules or communities. One of the best tools for this is the stochastic block model, which clusters vertices into blocks with statistically homogeneous pattern of links. Despite its flexibility and popularity, there has been a lack of principled statist…

2016-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

In a previous work arXiv:0903.4512, we have built an homotopical Turaev-Viro invariant and an HQFT from the universal graduation of a spherical category. In the present paper, we show that every graduation (G,p)(G,p) of a spherical category $\C$ defines an homotopical Turaev-Viro invariant $HTV_{\C}^{(G,p)}$ and an HQFT $…

2009-08-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Innovation is to organizations what evolution is to organisms: it is how organisations adapt to changes in the environment and improve. Governments, institutions and firms that innovate are more likely to prosper and stand the test of time; those that fail to do so fall behind their competitors and succumb to market an…

2016-07-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Mesoscopic pattern extraction (MPE) is the problem of finding a partition of the nodes of a complex network that maximizes some objective function. Many well-known network inference problems fall in this category, including, for instance, community detection, core-periphery identification, and imperfect graph coloring.…

2018-06-11abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce a method to construct G2G_2-instantons over compact G2G_2-manifolds arising as the twisted connected sum of a matching pair of building blocks [Kov03,KL11,CHNP12]. Our construction is based on gluing G2G_2-instantons obtained from holomorphic bundles over the building blocks via the first named author's wo…

2013-10-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Researchers develop methods to construct Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian knots.

problem Understanding the relationship between Legendrian knots through Lagrangian cobordisms.
method Combinatorial and geometric methods, including Heegaard Floer Homology and contact surgery.
result Construction of nondecomposable Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian knots.

Normalising flows (NFS) map two density functions via a differentiable bijection whose Jacobian determinant can be computed efficiently. Recently, as an alternative to hand-crafted bijections, Huang et al. (2018) proposed neural autoregressive flow (NAF) which is a universal approximator for density functions. Their fl…

2019-04-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Effective implementations of sampling-based probabilistic inference often require manually constructed, model-specific proposals. Inspired by recent progresses in meta-learning for training learning agents that can generalize to unseen environments, we propose a meta-learning approach to building effective and generali…

2017-08-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified framework for accelerating DNNs on resource-limited platforms.

problem Accelerating DNN execution on resource-limited platforms.
method Block-based pruning framework with reweighted regularization.
result First universal framework for both CNNs and RNNs with real-time acceleration and no accuracy compromise.

Monotonic neural networks have recently been proposed as a way to define invertible transformations. These transformations can be combined into powerful autoregressive flows that have been shown to be universal approximators of continuous probability distributions. Architectures that ensure monotonicity typically enfor…

2019-08-14abs ↗pdf ↗

We describe rules for building 2d theories labeled by 4-manifolds. Using the proposed dictionary between building blocks of 4-manifolds and 2d N=(0,2) theories, we obtain a number of results, which include new 3d N=2 theories T[M_3] associated with rational homology spheres and new results for Vafa-Witten partition fun…

2013-06-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We study compact Riemannian manifolds for which the light between any pair of points is blocked by finitely many point shades. Compact flat Riemannian manifolds are known to have this finite blocking property. We conjecture that amongst compact Riemannian manifolds this finite blocking property characterizes the flat m…

2006-07-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph learning categorizes DeFi services into similar functionalities.

problem Identifying similar financial services in decentralized finance protocols.
method Graph representation learning (GRL) to categorize smart contract blocks into clusters.
result Purity of clustering reaches .888 in the best-case scenario.

Graph attention is not always beneficial; conditions for perfect node classification are identified.

problem Understanding when graph attention mechanisms improve node classification performance.
method Theoretical analysis using Contextual Stochastic Block Models (CSBMs).
result Graph attention mechanisms are more effective when structure noise exceeds feature noise, and simpler graph convolution operations are better when feature noise predominates.

We outline what we believe are the prerequisites and building-blocks for successfully devising trading models and other financial applications based on a complex systems perspective.

2014-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

IC-Network improves CNNs by integrating elastic collision units.

problem Designing more effective basic units in neural networks.
method Developed IC layer and IC block units combining the IC structure with convolution operations.
result Significant performance improvements in existing CNNs, reducing top-1 error from 22.85% to 21.49% on imagenet.

Building on the universal covering group of the general linear group, we introduce the composite spinor bundle whose subbundles are Lorentz spin structures associated with different gravitational fields. General covariant transformations of this composite spinor bundle are canonically defined.

1997-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Due to the success of residual networks (resnets) and related architectures, shortcut connections have quickly become standard tools for building convolutional neural networks. The explanations in the literature for the apparent effectiveness of shortcuts are varied and often contradictory. We hypothesize that shortcut…

2018-06-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on inflection points of plane curve shadows with fixed embedded shapes.

problem Minimum number of inflection points in plane curves with fixed embedded shadows.
method Finite coorientation problem on building polygons, dynamic programming, universal lower bound, tree-necklace shadows.
result Exact formula for minimum number of normalized inflections for tree-like shadows.

Study shows visual feedback and monetary incentives reduce plugload energy consumption in commercial buildings.

problem Mitigating energy consumption in commercial buildings through occupant plugload control.
method Field experiments with visual feedback and monetary incentives in government and university buildings.
result Mean energy reduction of ~9.52% in office environments and ~21.61% in university environments with visual feedback.

Big data sets must be carefully partitioned into statistically similar data subsets that can be used as representative samples for big data analysis tasks. In this paper, we propose the random sample partition (RSP) data model to represent a big data set as a set of non-overlapping data subsets, called RSP data blocks,…

2017-12-12abs ↗pdf ↗