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Geosteering workflows are increasingly based on the quantification of subsurface uncertainties during real-time operations. As a consequence operational decision making is becoming both better informed and more complex. This paper presents…
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Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms ubiquitously employ complex deterministic transformations to generate proposal points that are then filtered by the Metropolis-Hastings-Green (MHG) test. However, the condition of the target…
Scale has been a major driving force in improving machine learning performance, and understanding scaling laws is essential for strategic planning for a sustainable model quality performance growth, long-term resource planning and…
Machine learning methods are powerful in distinguishing different phases of matter in an automated way and provide a new perspective on the study of physical phenomena. We train a Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) on data constructed with…
The integration of renewables into electrical grids calls for optimization-based control schemes requiring reliable grid models. Classically, parameter estimation and optimization-based control is often decoupled, which leads to high system…
Channel routing is important in flood forecasting and watershed modeling. The general constant-parameter Muskingum-Cunge (CPMC) method is second-order accurate and easy to implement. With specific discretizations such that the temporal and…
Planning in environments with moving obstacles remains a significant challenge in robotics. While many works focus on navigation and path planning in obstacle-dense spaces, traversing such congested regions is often avoidable by selecting…
We introduce the Knob-Meter-Rule (KMR) framework, a unified formalism for representing and reasoning about model efficiency techniques in deep learning. By abstracting diverse methods, including pruning, quantization, knowledge…
We extend our previous symmetrized path-integral molecular dynamics approach to calculate tunneling splittings of molecules in rotationally excited states. In this new formalism, the system is rigorously projected onto selected rotational…
Risk-sensitive planning aims to identify policies maximizing some tail-focused metrics in Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). Such an optimization task can be very costly for the most widely used and interpretable metrics such as threshold…
This study introduces a novel approach to walk-forward optimization by parameterizing the lengths of training and testing windows. We demonstrate that the performance of a trading strategy using the Exponential Moving Average (EMA)…
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An active defense against an incoming missile requires information of it, including a guidance law parameter and a first-order lateral time constant. To this end, assuming that a missile with a proportional navigation (PN) guidance law…