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In this paper, we explore an approach to auxiliary task discovery in reinforcement learning based on ideas from representation learning. Auxiliary tasks tend to improve data efficiency by forcing the agent to learn auxiliary prediction and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Banafsheh Rafiee , Sina Ghiassian , Jun Jin , Richard Sutton , Jun Luo , Adam White

We have considered a stationary outflowing envelope from the star accelerated by the radiative force in arbitrary optical depth case. Introduced approximations provide satisfactory description of the behavior of the matter flux with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , A. V. Dorodnitsyn

The purpose of this research was to compare the robustness and performance of a local and global optimization algorithm when given the task of fitting the parameters of a common non-linear dose-response model utilized in the field of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Mark Connor , Michael O'Neill

We propose a new approximation-technique to deal with the exact macroscopic integro-differential evolution equations of statistical systems which self-consistently accounts for dissipative effects. Concentrating on one and two point…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Herbert Nachbagauer

An algorithm for numerically computing the exponential of a matrix is presented. We have derived a polynomial expansion of $e^x$ by computing it as an initial value problem using a symbolic programming language. This algorithm is shown to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Daniel Gebremedhin , Charles Weatherford

This paper introduces a new derivative parsing algorithm for recognition of parsing expression grammars. Derivative parsing is shown to have a polynomial worst-case time bound, an improvement on the exponential bound of the recursive…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Aaron Moss

In the present paper we use the expansion formula of the polylogarithm function to construct approximations of the Caputo derivative which are related to the midpoint approximation of the integral in the definition of the Caputo derivative.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Yuri Dimitrov , Venelin Todorov , Radan Miryanov

Time evolution of number of species (genera, families, and others), population of them, and size distribution of present ones and life times are studied in terms of a new model, where population of each genetic taxon increases by a (random)…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Caglar Tuncay

An unsteady problem is considered for a space-fractional equation in a bounded domain. A first-order evolutionary equation involves a fractional power of an elliptic operator of second order. Finite element approximation in space is…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Petr N. Vabishchevich

In probability theory, how to approximate the solution of a stochastic differential equation is an important topic. In Watanabe's classical textbook, by an approximation of the Wiener process, solutions of approximated equations converge to…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Xi Lin

We introduce a novel mesh-free and direct method for computing the shape derivative in PDE-constrained shape optimization problems. Our approach is based on a probabilistic representation of the shape derivative and is applicable for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Luka Schlegel , Volker Schulz , Frank T. Seifried , Maximilian Würschmidt

We consider a class of abstract second order evolution equations with a restoring force that is strictly superlinear at infinity with respect to the position, and a dissipation mechanism that is strictly superlinear at infinity with respect…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-03 Marina Ghisi , Massimo Gobbino , Alain Haraux

We outline a general method of obtaining exact solutions of Schroedinger equations with a position dependent effective mass. Exact solutions of several potentials including shape invariant potentials have also been obtained.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Roy , P. Roy

Starting from the model of continuous time random walk, we focus our interest on random walks in which the probability distributions of the waiting times and jumps have fat tails characterized by power laws with exponent between 0 and 1 for…

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A method is described for the development of the one-loop effective action expansion as an asymptotic series in inverse powers of the fermion mass. The method is based on the Schwinger-DeWitt proper-time technique, which allows for loop…

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Population games model the evolution of strategic interactions among a large number of uniform agents. Due to the agents' uniformity and quantity, their aggregate strategic choices can be approximated by the solutions of a class of ordinary…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Semih Kara , Nuno C. Martins

We investigate some regularity properties of a class of doubly nonlinear anisotropic evolution equations whose model case is \begin{align*} \partial_t \big(|u|^{\alpha -1}u \big) - \sum^N_{i=1} \partial_i \big( |\partial_i u|^{p_i - 2}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Simone Ciani , Vincenzo Vespri , Matias Vestberg

This short survey article stems from recent progress on critical cases of stochastic evolution equations in variational formulation with additive, multiplicative or gradient noises. Typical examples appear as the limit cases of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Ioana Ciotir , Dan Goreac , Jonas M. Tölle

Recently, it has been proven that evolutionary algorithms produce good results for a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems. Some of the considered problems are tackled by evolutionary algorithms that use a representation which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Benjamin Doerr , Anton Eremeev , Frank Neumann , Madeleine Theile , Christian Thyssen

This paper introduces an adaptive time splitting technique for the solution of stiff evolutionary PDEs that guarantees an effective error control of the simulation, independent of the fastest physical time scale for highly unsteady…

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