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When calculating properties of periodic systems at the thermodynamic limit (TDL), the dominant source of finite size error (FSE) arises from the long-range Coulomb interaction, and can manifest as a slowly converging quadrature error when…

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The popularity of deep learning methods in the time series domain boosts interest in interpretability studies, including counterfactual (CF) methods. CF methods identify minimal changes in instances to alter the model predictions. Despite…

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Coreset selection seeks to choose a subset of crucial training samples for efficient learning. It has gained traction in deep learning, particularly with the surge in training dataset sizes. Sample selection hinges on two main aspects: a…

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Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) methods make use of comparisons between simulated and observed summary statistics to overcome the problem of computationally intractable likelihood functions. As the practical implementation of ABC…

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Conformal prediction is a framework for providing prediction intervals with distribution-free validity, guaranteeing predictive coverage for data drawn from any distribution. Its two main variants are full conformal prediction and split…

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In this paper, we propose new learning algorithms for approximating high-dimensional functions using tree tensor networks in a least-squares setting. Given a dimension tree or architecture of the tensor network, we provide an algorithm that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Cécile Haberstich , Anthony Nouy , Guillaume Perrin

Typical software has a huge input space. The number of inputs may be astronomical or even infinite. Thus, the task of validating that the software is correct seems hopeless. To deal with this difficult task, Combinatorial Test Design (CTD)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Eitan Farchi , Debbie Furman

The Theory of Functional Connections (TFC) is a general methodology for functional interpolation that can embed a set of user-specified linear constraints. The functionals derived from this method, called \emph{constrained expressions},…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Hunter Johnston

The method of fundamental solutions (MFS) is a numerical method for solving boundary value problems involving linear partial differential equations. It is well known that it can be very effective assuming regularity of the domain and…

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This paper introduces a new functional expansion framework that extends classical ideas beyond the Taylor series. Unlike traditional Taylor expansions based on local polynomial approximations, the proposed approach arises from exact…

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Density-corrected density functional theory (DC-DFT) is enjoying substantial success in improving semilocal DFT calculations in a wide variety of chemical problems. This paper provides the formal theoretical framework and assumptions for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Stefan Vuckovic , Suhwan Song , John Kozlowski , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

This paper presents a versatile technique for the purpose of feature selection and extraction - Class Dependent Features (CDFs). We use CDFs to improve the accuracy of classification and at the same time control computational expense by…

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We present a new regression model for the determination of parton distribution functions (PDF) using techniques inspired from deep learning projects. In the context of the NNPDF methodology, we implement a new efficient computing framework…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Stefano Carrazza , Juan Cruz-Martinez

Learning the minimum/maximum mean among a finite set of distributions is a fundamental sub-task in planning, game tree search and reinforcement learning. We formalize this learning task as the problem of sequentially testing how the minimum…

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Roughly speaking, functional analysis is the study of vector spaces of arbitrary dimension over the field of real or complex numbers, and the continuous linear mappings between such spaces. Naturally, the notion of continuity requires a…

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Continual test-time adaptation aims to continuously adapt a pre-trained model to a stream of target domain data without accessing source data. Without access to source domain data, the model focuses solely on the feature characteristics of…

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Derivative-free optimization (DFO) consists in finding the best value of an objective function without relying on derivatives. To tackle such problems, one may build approximate derivatives, using for instance finite-difference estimates.…

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Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) has been a popular representation method for pattern classification problem. It tries to decompose a nonnegative matrix of data samples as the product of a nonnegative basic matrix and a nonnegative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-06 Jim Jing-Yan Wang

The method of closure testing for analysing the effectiveness of a PDF fitting procedure is discussed. In order to pass a closure test, a fitting methodology must be able to reproduce a known generating function in a fit to an ideal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-09 Nathan P. Hartland , Christopher S. Deans

We study when low coordinate degree functions (LCDF) -- linear combinations of functions depending on small subsets of entries of a vector -- can hypothesis test between high-dimensional probability measures. These functions are a…

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