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We present a recurrent model for semantic instance segmentation that sequentially generates binary masks and their associated class probabilities for every object in an image. Our proposed system is trainable end-to-end from an input image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Amaia Salvador , Miriam Bellver , Victor Campos , Manel Baradad , Ferran Marques , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Numerous congruences for partitions with designated summands have been proven since first being introduced and studied by Andrews, Lewis, and Lovejoy. This paper explicitly characterizes the number of partitions with designated summands…

Let $s$ denote West's stack-sorting map. A permutation is called $t-\textit{sorted}$ if it is of the form $s^t(\mu)$ for some permutation $\mu$. We prove that the maximum number of descents that a $t$-sorted permutation of length $n$ can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Colin Defant

Motivated by real-world machine learning applications, we consider a statistical classification task in a sequential setting where test samples arrive sequentially. In addition, the generating distributions are unknown and only a set of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-11 Mahdi Haghifam , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Ashish Khisti

The sequence $A067549$ of The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences is defined as $(a_k)_{k \geq 1}$ with $a_k$ being the determinant of the $k \times k$ matrix whose diagonal contains the first $k$ prime numbers and all other elements…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Florian Pausinger

We describe a seriation algorithm for ranking a set of items given pairwise comparisons between these items. Intuitively, the algorithm assigns similar rankings to items that compare similarly with all others. It does so by constructing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Fajwel Fogel , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Milan Vojnovic

A permutation $\pi$ contains a pattern $\sigma$ if and only if there is a subsequence in $\pi$ with its letters are in the same relative order as those in $\sigma$. Partially ordered patterns (POPs) provide a convenient way to denote…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Kai Ting Keshia Yap , David Wehlau , Imed Zaguia

This is the first in a series of papers math.AG/0503029, math.AG/0410267, math.AG/0410268 on "configurations" in an abelian category A. Given a finite partially ordered set (I,<), an (I,<)-configuration (\sigma,\iota,\pi) is a finite…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dominic Joyce

Dependent pattern matching is a key feature in dependently typed programming. However, there is a theory-practice disconnect: while many proof assistants implement pattern matching as primitive, theoretical presentations give semantics to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Joseph Eremondi , Ohad Kammar

A preferential arrangement of a finite set is an ordered partition. Associated with each such ordered partition is a chain of subsets or blocks endowed with a linear order. The chain may be split into sections by the introduction of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-07 S. Nkonkobe , V. Murali

In the 60's, Knuth introduced stack-sorting and serial compositions of stacks. In particular, one significant question arise out of the work of Knuth: how to decide efficiently if a given permutation is sortable with 2 stacks in series?…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-03-20 Adeline Pierrot , Dominique Rossin

Sonar systems are frequently used to classify objects at a distance by using the structure of the echoes of acoustic waves as a proxy for the object's shape and composition. Traditional synthetic aperture processing is highly effective in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Michael Robinson

We consider a state-dependent, time-dependent, discrete random walks $X_t^{\{a_n\}}$ defined on natural numbers $\mathbb{N}$ (bent to a "stair" in $\mathbb{N}^2$) where the random walk depends on input of a positive deterministic sequence…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Yufan Li , Jeffery Rosenthal

This paper is motivated from a fundamental curiosity on what defines a category of object shapes. For example, we may have the common knowledge that a plane has wings, and a chair has legs. Given the large shape variations among different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Chaozheng Wu , Lin Sun , Xun Xu , Kui Jia

Sorting, a classical combinatorial process, forms the bedrock of numerous algorithms with varied applications. A related problem involves efficiently finding the corresponding ranks of all the elements - catering to rank queries, data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Sourav Dutta

In this paper we consider the enumeration of ordered set partitions avoiding a permutation pattern of length 2 or 3. We provide an exact enumeration for avoiding the permutation 12. We also give exact enumeration for ordered partitions with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-26 Anant Godbole , Adam Goyt , Jennifer Herdan , Lara Pudwell

In 1956, 48 years after Hausdorff provided a comprehensive account on ordered sets and defined the notion of a scattered order, Erd\H{o}s and Rado founded the partition calculus in a seminal paper. The present paper gives an account of…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Chris Lambie-Hanson , Thilo Weinert

We provide full certifications of two versions of merge sort of arrays in the verification-aware programming language Dafny. We start by considering schemas for applying the divide-and-conquer or partition method of solution to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Juan Pablo Carbonell , José E. Solsona , Nora Szasz , Álvaro Tasistro

We determine the maximal number of steps required to sort $n$ labeled points on a circle by adjacent swaps. Lower bounds for sorting by all swaps, not necessarily adjacent, are given as well.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Ron M. Adin , Noga Alon , Yuval Roichman

We develop a combinatorial and order-theoretic framework for shuffles, understood as ordered concatenations of indexed families of sequences that induce total orders on the natural numbers. Motivated by the classical \v{S}arkovski\u{i}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-03 João Dias , Bruno Dinis , Carlos Correia Ramos