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Superdiffusion is an anomalous transport behavior. Recently, a new mechanism, termed the ``nodal mechanism," has been proposed to induce superdiffusion in quantum models. However, existing realizations of the nodal mechanism have so far…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Shaofeng Huang , Yu-Peng Wang , Jie Ren , Chen Fang

Encouraged by the study of extremal limits for sums of the form $$\lim_{N\to\infty}\frac{1 }{N}\sum_{n=1}^N c(x_n,y_n)$$ with uniformly distributed sequences $\{x_n\},\,\{y_n\}$ the following extremal problem is of interest…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Maria Rita Iacò , Stefan Thonhauser , Robert F. Tichy

We briefly discuss several algebraic tools that are used to describe the quantum symmetries of Boundary Conformal Field Theories on a torus. The starting point is a fusion category, together with an action on another category described by a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert Coquereaux , Gil Schieber

Optimal transportation distances are valuable for comparing and analyzing probability distributions, but larger-scale computational techniques for the theoretically favorable quadratic case are limited to smooth domains or regularized…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Justin Solomon , Raif Rustamov , Leonidas Guibas , Adrian Butscher

We present a novel neural-networks-based algorithm to compute optimal transport maps and plans for strong and weak transport costs. To justify the usage of neural networks, we prove that they are universal approximators of transport plans…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Alexander Korotin , Daniil Selikhanovych , Evgeny Burnaev

The wave-like nature of electrons leads to the existence of upper bounds on the thermoelectric response of nanostructured devices [R. S. Whitney, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 130601 (2014); Phys. Rev. B 91, 115425 (2015)]. This fundamental result,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Alessandro Cresti , Giuseppe Grosso , Guido Menichetti , Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini

This research addresses a new tool for data analysis known as Topological Data Analysis TDA It underlies an area of Mathematics known as Combinatorial Algebra or more recently Algebraic Topology which through making strong use of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Daniel Trejo Medina , Karla Sarai Jimenez

The published literature on topology optimization has exploded over the last two decades to include methods that use shape and topological derivatives or evolutionary algorithms formulated on various geometric representations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 MohammadMahdi Behzadi , Horea T. Ilies

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a novel, and relatively new approach to analysing high-dimensional data sets. It does this by focussing on global properties like the shape and connectivity of the data giving it a significant advantage…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-26 Jeff Murugan , Duncan Robertson

Motivated by the computational difficulties incurred by popular deep learning algorithms for the generative modeling of temporal densities, we propose a cheap alternative which requires minimal hyperparameter tuning and scales favorably to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-13 Jonah Botvinick-Greenhouse , Yunan Yang , Romit Maulik

Despite the success of fine-tuning pretrained language encoders like BERT for downstream natural language understanding (NLU) tasks, it is still poorly understood how neural networks change after fine-tuning. In this work, we use centered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jason Phang , Haokun Liu , Samuel R. Bowman

We propose a novel method that tackles the problem of unsupervised domain adaptation for semantic segmentation by maximizing the cosine similarity between the source and the target domain at the feature level. A segmentation network mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Inseop Chung , Daesik Kim , Nojun Kwak

Point cloud video understanding is critical for robotics as it accurately encodes motion and scene interaction. We recognize that 4D datasets are far scarcer than 3D ones, which hampers the scalability of self-supervised 4D models. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yiding Sun , Jihua Zhu , Haozhe Cheng , Chaoyi Lu , Zhichuan Yang , Lin Chen , Yaonan Wang

Quantized transport is a prominent feature in topological physics, with canonical examples being the quantum Hall effect and adiabatic Thouless pump, which are based on the Chern number, a topological invariant of 2D systems. Going beyond…

Various methods in statistical learning build on kernels considered in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. In applications, the kernel is often selected based on characteristics of the problem and the data. This kernel is then employed to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Paul Dommel , Alois Pichler

We study an optimization problem related to the approximation of given data by a linear combination of transformed modes. In the simplest case, the optimization problem reduces to a minimization problem well-studied in the context of proper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Felix Black , Philipp Schulze , Benjamin Unger

We leverage powerful mathematical tools stemming from optimal transport theory and transform them into an efficient algorithm to reconstruct the fluctuations of the primordial density field, built on solving the Monge-Amp\`ere-Kantorovich…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Bruno Lévy , Roya Mohayaee , Sebastian von Hausegger

Starting from a general $N$-band Hamiltonian with weak spatial and temporal variations, we derive a low energy effective theory for transport within one or several overlapping bands. To this end, we use the Wigner representation that allows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 Christian Wickles , Wolfgang Belzig

To remedy the drawbacks of full-mass or fixed-mass constraints in classical optimal transport, we propose adaptive optimal transport which is distinctive from the classical optimal transport in its ability of adaptive-mass preserving. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Pei Yang , Qi Tan , Guihua Wen

Understanding how the brain represents and processes information is crucial for advancing neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Representational similarity analysis (RSA) has been instrumental in characterizing neural representations,…

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