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The visual world is vast and varied, but its variations divide into structured and unstructured factors. We compose free-form filters and structured Gaussian filters, optimized end-to-end, to factorize deep representations and learn both…
Neuromorphic computing leveraging spiking neural network has emerged as a promising solution to tackle the security and reliability challenges with the conventional cyber-physical infrastructure of microgrids. Its event-driven paradigm…
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Structured Cartesian grids are a fundamental component in numerical simulations. Although these grids facilitate straightforward discretization schemes, their na\"{i}ve use in sparse domains leads to excessive memory overhead and…
While there has been a surge of recent interest in learning differential equation models from time series, methods in this area typically cannot cope with highly noisy data. We break this problem into two parts: (i) approximating the…