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Vehicle Re-identification is attracting more and more attention in recent years. One of the most challenging problems is to learn an efficient representation for a vehicle from its multi-viewpoint images. Existing methods tend to derive…

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This short note presents some variant schemes of boundary variation diminishing (BVD) algorithm in one dimension with the results of numerical tests for linear advection equation to facilitate practical use. In spite of being presented in…

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A variational method is used to derive a self-consistent macro-particle model for relativistic electromagnetic kinetic plasma simulations. Extending earlier work [E. G. Evstatiev and B. A. Shadwick, J. Comput. Phys., vol. 245, pp. 376-398,…

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Bound-state-like wave functions are used to determine the scattering matrix corresponding to low energy $N-d$ and $p-^3$He collisions. To this end, the coupled channel form of the integral relations derived from the Kohn variational…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Kievsky , M. Viviani , L. E. Marcucci

Dynamic treatment regimes (DTRs) consist of a sequence of decision rules, one per stage of intervention, that finds effective treatments for individual patients according to patient information history. DTRs can be estimated from models…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-07 Zeyu Bian , Erica EM Moodie , Susan M Shortreed , Sahir Bhatnagar

Efficient and high-fidelity prior sampling and inversion for complex geological media is still a largely unsolved challenge. Here, we use a deep neural network of the variational autoencoder type to construct a parametric low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-26 Eric Laloy , Romain Hérault , John Lee , Diederik Jacques , Niklas Linde

We present a comprehensive analysis of four-body scattering in one-dimensional (1D) quantum systems using the adiabatic hyperspherical representation (AHR). Focusing on dimer-dimer collisions between two species of fermions interacting via…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-03 Jia Wang , Hui Hu , Xia-Ji Liu

Representation learning and exploration are among the key challenges for any deep reinforcement learning agent. In this work, we provide a singular value decomposition based method that can be used to obtain representations that preserve…

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Many real-world sequential decision making problems are partially observable by nature, and the environment model is typically unknown. Consequently, there is great need for reinforcement learning methods that can tackle such problems given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Maximilian Igl , Luisa Zintgraf , Tuan Anh Le , Frank Wood , Shimon Whiteson

Conventional direction of arrival (DOA) estimation algorithms suffer from performance degradation due to antenna pattern distortion and substantial computational complexity in real-time execution. The support vector regression (SVR)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Md Imrul Hasan , Mohammad Saquib

A new approach to multi-dimensional quantum scattering by the infinite order discrete variable representation is presented. Determining the expansion coefficients of the wave function at the asymptotic regions by the solution of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nark Nyul Choi , Min-Ho Lee , Sung Ho Suck Salk

We construct several variational integrators--integrators based on a discrete variational principle--for systems with Lagrangians of the form L = L_A + epsilon L_B, with epsilon << 1, where L_A describes an integrable system. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-25 Will M. Farr

Invertible image representation methods (transforms) are routinely employed as low-level image processing operations based on which feature extraction and recognition algorithms are developed. Most transforms in current use (e.g. Fourier,…

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Latent variable models represent a useful tool for the analysis of complex data when the constructs of interest are not observable. A problem related to these models is that the integrals involved in the likelihood function cannot be solved…

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Numerical methods that preserve geometric invariants of the system, such as energy, momentum or the symplectic form, are called geometric integrators. Variational integrators are an important class of geometric integrators. The general idea…

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Dynamic discrete choice models are widely employed to answer substantive and policy questions in settings where individuals' current choices have future implications. However, estimation of these models is often computationally intensive…

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Decision diagrams (DDs) have emerged as an efficient tool for simulating quantum circuits due to their capacity to exploit data redundancies in quantum states and quantum operations, enabling the efficient computation of probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Vladimir Vargas-Calderón , Santiago Acevedo-Mancera , Herbert Vinck-Posada

We introduce a variational scheme inspired by classical shadow tomography to compute ground state correlations of quantum spin Hamiltonians. Shadow tomography allows for efficient reconstruction of expectation values of arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Pierre-Gabriel Rozon , Kartiek Agarwal

We deliver a novel approach towards the variational description of Lagrangian mechanical systems subject to fractional damping by establishing a restricted Hamilton's principle. Fractional damping is a particular instance of non-local (in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Fernando Jiménez , Sina Ober-Blöbaum

In this article we describe applications of Discrete Differential Forms in computational GR. In particular we consider the initial value problem in vacuum space-times that are spherically symmetric. The motivation to investigate this method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-23 Ronny Richter , Jörg Frauendiener , Marlene Vogel