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Finite-size scaling is a key tool in statistical physics, used to infer critical behavior in finite systems. Here we use the analogous concept of finite-time scaling to describe the bifurcation diagram at finite times in discrete dynamical…

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As an increasing amount of image and video content will be analyzed by machines, there is demand for a new codec paradigm that is capable of compressing visual input primarily for the purpose of computer vision inference, while secondarily…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Ezgi Ozyilkan , Mateen Ulhaq , Hyomin Choi , Fabien Racape

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) highlight a strong connection between intelligence and compression. Learned image compression, a fundamental task in modern data compression, has made significant progress in recent years.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Yuqi Li , Haotian Zhang , Li Li , Dong Liu , Feng Wu

The QCD phase diagram at finite temperature and density is a topic of considerable interest. Although much progress has been made in recent years, some open questions remain. Even at zero density, the order of the transition for two light…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Bertram Klein , Jens Braun

We analyze about two hundred naturally occurring networks with distinct dynamical origins to formally test whether the commonly assumed hypothesis of an underlying scale-free structure is generally viable. This has recently been questioned…

The application of an external field often renders empirical criteria for identifying liquid-gas phase transitions ambiguous. Here, we demonstrate that the finite-size scaling of the density profile provides a definitive criterion to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-28 Chong Zha , Yanshuang Chen , Cheng-Ran Du , Peng Tan , Yuliang Jin

Contrastive loss is a powerful approach for representation learning, where larger batch sizes enhance performance by providing more negative samples to better distinguish between similar and dissimilar data. However, scaling batch sizes is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Zesen Cheng , Hang Zhang , Kehan Li , Sicong Leng , Zhiqiang Hu , Fei Wu , Deli Zhao , Xin Li , Lidong Bing

To understand the finite-size-scaling properties of phases transitions in classical and quantum models in the presence of quenched disorder, it has proven to be fruitful to introduce the notion of a finite-size-pseudo-critical point in each…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-01-03 Cecile Monthus

Approximation and learning of classifiers of large data sets by neural networks in terms of high-dimensional geometry and statistical learning theory are investigated. The influence of the VC dimension of sets of input-output functions of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Vera Kurkova , Marcello Sanguineti

We present the first analytic study of finite-size effects on critical diffusion above and below T_c of three-dimensional Ising-like systems whose order parameter is coupled to a conserved density. We also calculate the finite-size…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Wolfgang Koch , Volker Dohm

DNA storage technology offers new possibilities for addressing massive data storage due to its high storage density, long-term preservation, low maintenance cost, and compact size. To improve the reliability of stored information, base…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Bowen Liu , Jiankun Li

Deciding the amount of neurons during the design of a deep neural network to maximize performance is not intuitive. In this work, we attempt to search for the neuron (filter) configuration of a fixed network architecture that maximizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Eugene Lee , Chen-Yi Lee

In recent years, storing large volumes of data on distributed devices has become commonplace. Applications involving sensors, for example, capture data in different modalities including image, video, audio, GPS and others. Novel algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Haimonti Dutta , Nitin Nataraj , Saurabh Amarnath Mahindre

We consider small factor analysis models with one or two factors. Fixing the number of factors, we prove a finiteness result about the covariance matrix parameter space when the size of the covariance matrix increases. According to this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-08-13 Mathias Drton , Han Xiao

Modern large language models (LLMs) excel at tasks that require storing and retrieving knowledge, such as factual recall and question answering. Transformers are central to this capability because they can encode information during training…

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Clustering is a widely used technique with a long and rich history in a variety of areas. However, most existing algorithms do not scale well to large datasets, or are missing theoretical guarantees of convergence. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-16 Yijia Zhou , Kyle A. Gallivan , Adrian Barbu

We propose an end-to-end learned image compression codec wherein the analysis transform is jointly trained with an object classification task. This study affirms that the compressed latent representation can predict human perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Chen-Hsiu Huang , Ja-Ling Wu

Fine-tuning large pre-trained models is a common practice in machine learning applications, yet its mathematical analysis remains largely unexplored. In this paper, we study fine-tuning through the lens of memorization capacity. Our new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Jy-yong Sohn , Dohyun Kwon , Seoyeon An , Kangwook Lee

Determining how the brain stores information is one of the most pressing problems in neuroscience. In many instances, the collection of stimuli for a given neuron can be modeled by a convex set in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Combinatorial objects known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-29 R. Amzi Jeffs , Mohamed Omar , Natchanon Suaysom , Aleina Wachtel , Nora Youngs

This chapter describes the progress made during the past three decades in the finite size scaling analysis of the critical phenomena of the Anderson transition. The scaling theory of localisation and the Anderson model of localisation are…

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