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The development of Information and Communication Technologies suggests some spectacular changes in the methods used for teaching scientific subjects. Nowadays, the development of software and hardware makes it possible to simulate processes…

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We develop a new method to construct the virtual fundamental classes for quasi-smooth derived schemes using the perverse sheaves of vanishing cycles on their $-1$-shifted contangent spaces. It is based on the author's previous work that can…

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This tutorial intends to introduce readers with a background in AI to quantum machine learning (QML) -- a rapidly evolving field that seeks to leverage the power of quantum computers to reshape the landscape of machine learning. For…

This short note contains some definitions and formulas about the power of an observable in statistically separating different classes of events.

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-05-15 Giovanni Punzi

This tutorial gives a quick introduction to Variational Bayes (VB), also called Variational Inference or Variational Approximation, from a practical point of view. The paper covers a range of commonly used VB methods and an attempt is made…

Computation · Statistics 2021-03-03 Minh-Ngoc Tran , Trong-Nghia Nguyen , Viet-Hung Dao

We study k-positive maps on operators. Proofs are given to different positivity criteria. Special attention is on positive maps arising in the study of quantum information science. Results of other researchers are extended and improved. New…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-14 Jinchuan Hou , Chi-Kwong Li , Yiu-Tung Poon , Xiaofei Qi , Nung-Sing Sze

In a typical online learning scenario, a learner is required to process a large data stream using a small memory buffer. Such a requirement is usually in conflict with a learner's primary pursuit of prediction accuracy. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Thomas P. Minka , Rongjing Xiang , Yuan , Qi

In these informal lecture notes we outline different approaches used in doing calculations involving the Dirac equation in curved spacetime. We have tried to clarify the subject by carefully pointing out the various conventions used and by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-26 Peter Collas , David Klein

Transfer learning is an emerging and popular paradigm for utilizing existing knowledge from previous learning tasks to improve the performance of new ones. Despite its numerous empirical successes, theoretical analysis for transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Haoyang Cao , Haotian Gu , Xin Guo , Mathieu Rosenbaum

In the effort to develop useful quantum computers simulating quantum machines with conventional computing resources is a key capability. Such simulations will always face limits preventing the emulation of quantum computers of substantial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-20 Xiaosi Xu , Simon Benjamin , Jinzhao Sun , Xiao Yuan , Pan Zhang

At the frontier of most areas in science, computer simulations play a central role. The traditional division of natural science into experimental and theoretical investigations is now completely outdated. Instead, theory, simulation, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Piet Hut

An expository hitchhikers guide to some theorems in mathematics.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-02-07 Oliver Knill

The call for using real data in the classroom has long meant using datasets which are culled, cleaned, and wrangled prior to any student working with the observations. However, an important part of teaching statistics should include…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2018-01-08 Johanna Hardin

We study properties of relative modular categories and derive sufficient conditions for their existence. In particular, we derive sufficient conditions for relative pre-modular categories to be non-degenerate and relative modular, and for…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Nathan Geer , Bertrand Patureau-Mirand , Matthew Rupert

An alternative organization for Differential and Integral Calculus, based on an extension of real numbers that include infinitesimal and infinite quantities, is presented. Only Elementary Set Theory is used, without reference to methods or…

funct-an · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Sergio Ferreira Cortizo

Objectives: This paper presents an up-to-date overview of research performed in the Virtual Reality (VR) environment ranging from definitions, its presence in the various fields, and existing market players and their projects in the VR…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Ayush Sharma , Piyush Bajpai , Sukhdev Singh , Kiran Khatter

The modeling theory of instruction is widely applied and highly successful in high-school instruction, and seldom in university physics. One reason is lack of familiarity with models in the physics classroom. Ongoing curriculum development…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric Brewe

The purpose of this note is to give an accessible proof of Moliens Theorem in Invariant Theory, in the language of today's Linear Algebra and Group Theory, in order to prevent this beautiful theorem from being forgotten.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Holger Schellwat

In this paper, we make an important step towards the black-box machine teaching by considering the cross-space machine teaching, where the teacher and the learner use different feature representations and the teacher can not fully observe…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-07 Weiyang Liu , Bo Dai , Xingguo Li , Zhen Liu , James M. Rehg , Le Song

In this paper, our aim is to discuss the outcome of a ten-year experimental workshop activity carried out by the Center `matematita' (http://www.matematita.it/) with classes of pre-university students of any age. We analyse the potential…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2012-11-12 Maria Dedò , Simonetta Di Sieno