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This work focuses on reducing neural network size, which is a major driver of neural network execution time, power consumption, bandwidth, and memory footprint. A key challenge is to reduce size in a manner that can be exploited readily for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Szabolcs Cséfalvay , James Imber

Network systems consist of subsystems and their interconnections, and provide a powerful framework for analysis, modeling and control of complex systems. However, subsystems may have high-dimensional dynamics, and the amount and nature of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Xiaodong Cheng , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen

We introduce a weak asymptotic version of nonlinear contraction, termed \emph{asymptotic pointwise contraction}. For a mapping on a metric space, this notion requires the existence of a sequence of functions that dominate the distances…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Jie Shi

The growing complexity of dynamical systems and advances in data collection necessitates robust data-driven control strategies without explicit system identification and robust synthesis. Data-driven stability has been explored in linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Andreas Oliveira , Jian Zheng , Mario Sznaier

Many complex networks depend upon biological entities for their preservation. Such entities, from human cognition to evolution, must first encode and then replicate those networks under marked resource constraints. Networks that survive are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-03-02 Christopher W. Lynn , Danielle S. Bassett

We propose a general framework for neural network compression that is motivated by the Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle. For that we first derive an expression for the entropy of a neural network, which measures its complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Simon Wiedemann , Arturo Marban , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

We consider random networks whose dynamics is described by a rate equation, with transition rates $w_{nm}$ that form a symmetric matrix. The long time evolution of the system is characterized by a diffusion coefficient $D$. In one dimension…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-12-04 Yaron de Leeuw , Doron Cohen

We report a scattering matrix theory for dynamic and nonlinear transport in coherent mesoscopic conductors. In general this theory allows predictions of low frequency linear dynamic conductance, as well as weakly nonlinear DC conductance.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Zhong-shui Ma , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

A rigidity theory is developed for frameworks in a metric space with two types of distance constraints. Mixed sparsity graph characterisations are obtained for the infinitesimal and continuous rigidity of completely regular bar-joint…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-26 Anthony Nixon , Stephen Power

We use a minimal model for a dense suspension undergoing thickening and thinning to investigate microstructural changes in 2d simulations. Our simulations show that in steady flow the contact network contains distinct building blocks which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-15 William C. J. Buchholtz , Daniel L. Blair , Jeffrey S. Urbach , H. A. Vinutha , Emanuela Del Gado

It is often said that measuring a system's position must disturb the complementary property, momentum, by some minimum amount due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Using a "weak-measurement", this disturbance can be reduced. One…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 G. S. Thekkadath , F. Hufnagel , J. S. Lundeen

Lower semi-continuity (\texttt{LSC}) is a critical assumption in many foundational optimisation theory results; however, in many cases, \texttt{LSC} is stronger than necessary. This has led to the introduction of numerous weaker continuity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Jacob Westerhout , Xin Guo , Hien Duy Nguyen

We propose a distributionally robust principal agent formulation, which generalizes some common variants of worst-case and Bayesian principal agent problems. We construct a theoretical framework to certify whether any surjective contract…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-01-17 Peter Zhang

We have generalized the scattering-matrix theory of multiple Andreev reflections in mesoscopic Josephson junctions to the multi-mode case, and applied it to short superconductor/normal metal/superconductor junctions with diffusive electron…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-02-03 Athanassios Bardas , Dmitri V. Averin

We consider a damped linear hyperbolic system modelling the propagation of pressure waves in a network of pipes. Well-posedness is established via semi-group theory and the existence of a unique steady state is proven in the absence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-11 Herbert Egger , Thomas Kugler

Robust and distributionally robust optimization are modeling paradigms for decision-making under uncertainty where the uncertain parameters are only known to reside in an uncertainty set or are governed by any probability distribution from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Jianzhe Zhen , Daniel Kuhn , Wolfram Wiesemann

A weak-strong uniqueness result is proved for measure-valued solutions to the system of conservation laws arising in elastodynamics. The main novelty brought forward by the present work is that the underlying stored-energy function of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Konstantinos Koumatos , Stefano Spirito

Considering diffusion in the presence of asymmetric disorder, an exact relationship between the strength of weak disorder and the electric resistance of the corresponding resistor network is revealed, which is valid in arbitrary networks.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-04 Róbert Juhász

Overparameterized models have proven to be powerful tools for solving various machine learning tasks. However, overparameterization often leads to a substantial increase in computational and memory costs, which in turn requires extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Soo Min Kwon , Zekai Zhang , Dogyoon Song , Laura Balzano , Qing Qu

We give a combinatorial characterization of generic frameworks that are minimally rigid under the additional constraint of maintaining symmetry with respect to a finite order rotation or a reflection. To establish these results we develop a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Justin Malestein , Louis Theran