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Many settings in machine learning require the selection of a rotation representation. However, choosing a suitable representation from the many available options is challenging. This paper acts as a survey and guide through rotation…

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A symmetric function of $N$ variables can be given in terms of symmetric polynomials of these variables. We determine those symmetric polynomials in which the dual differential operators take the neatest form when expressed in terms of our…

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We study the space of functions computed by random-layered machines, including deep neural networks and Boolean circuits. Investigating the distribution of Boolean functions computed on the recurrent and layer-dependent architectures, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Alexander Mozeika , Bo Li , David Saad

Boolean neural networks offer hardware-efficient alternatives to real-valued models. While quantization is common, purely Boolean training remains underexplored. We present a practical method for purely Boolean backpropagation for networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Simon Golbert

Recognizing symmetries in data allows for significant boosts in neural network training. In many cases, however, the underlying symmetry is present only in an idealized dataset, and is broken in the training data, due to effects such as…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-13 Edmund Witkowski , Daniel Whiteson

Here we revisit the quantum algorithms for obtaining Forrelation [Aaronson et al, 2015] values to evaluate some of the well-known cryptographically significant spectra of Boolean functions, namely the Walsh spectrum, the cross-correlation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Suman Dutta , Subhamoy Maitra , Chandra Sekhar Mukherjee

Bayesian methods are developed for the multivariate nonparametric regression problem where the domain is taken to be a compact Riemannian manifold. In terms of the latter, the underlying geometry of the manifold induces certain symmetries…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Jean-François Angers , Peter T. Kim

Suppose that a target function is monotonic, namely, weakly increasing, and an original estimate of the target function is available, which is not weakly increasing. Many common estimation methods used in statistics produce such estimates.…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-11-23 Victor Chernozhukov , Ivan Fernandez-Val , Alfred Galichon

Boolean functions have important applications in cryptography and coding theory. Two famous classes of binary codes derived from Boolean functions are the Reed-Muller codes and Kerdock codes. In the past two decades, a lot of progress on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Cunsheng Ding

Meta reinforcement learning (RL) attempts to discover new RL algorithms automatically from environment interaction. In so-called black-box approaches, the policy and the learning algorithm are jointly represented by a single neural network.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Louis Kirsch , Sebastian Flennerhag , Hado van Hasselt , Abram Friesen , Junhyuk Oh , Yutian Chen

Hamilton's equations of motion form a fundamental framework in various branches of physics, including astronomy, quantum mechanics, particle physics, and climate science. Classical numerical solvers are typically employed to compute the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Priscilla Canizares , Davide Murari , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Ferdia Sherry , Zakhar Shumaylov

The research area of real-time heuristics search has produced quite many algorithms. In the landscape of real-time heuristics search research, it is not rare to find that an algorithm X that appears to perform better than algorithm Y on a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Md Solimul Chowdhury , Victor Silva

Agnostic learning of Boolean halfspaces is a fundamental problem in computational learning theory, but it is known to be computationally hard even for weak learning. Recent work [CKKMK24] proposed smoothed analysis as a way to bypass such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yiwen Kou , Raghu Meka

The study of non-linearity (linearity) of Boolean function was initiated by Rothaus in 1976. The classical non-linearity of a Boolean function is the minimum Hamming distance of its truth table to that of affine functions. In this note we…

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Challenging research in various fields has driven a wide range of methodological advances in variable selection for regression models with high-dimensional predictors. In comparison, selection of nonlinear functions in models with additive…

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The ability to compose learned skills to solve new tasks is an important property of lifelong-learning agents. In this work, we formalise the logical composition of tasks as a Boolean algebra. This allows us to formulate new tasks in terms…

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Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are population-based metaheuristics, originally inspired by aspects of natural evolution. Modern varieties incorporate a broad mixture of search mechanisms, and tend to blend inspiration from nature with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-29 David W. Corne , Michael A. Lones

Valuations, as additive functionals, allow various applications in Stochastic Geometry, yielding mean value formulas for specific random closed sets and processes of convex or polyconvex particles. In particular, valuations are especially…

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In this paper, several new classes of Boolean functions with few Walsh transform values, including bent, semi-bent and five-valued functions, are obtained by adding the product of two or three linear functions to some known bent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Guangkui Xu , Xiwang Cao , Shanding Xu

In this paper we extend some previous results on weak pseudo-bosons and on their related bi-coherent states. The role of {\em compatible} functions is discussed in details, and some examples are considered. The pseudo-bosonic ladder…

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