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Support Vector Machines in Analysis of Top Quark Production
Multivariate data analysis techniques have the potential to improve physics
analyses in many ways. The common classification problem of signal/background
discrimination is one example. The Support Vector Machine learning algorithm is
a relatively new way to solve pattern recognition problems and has several
advantages over methods such as neural networks. The SVM approach is described
and compared to a conventional analysis for the case of identifying top quark
signal events in the dilepton decay channel amidst a large number of background
events.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures, to be published in the proceedings of the
"Advanced Statistical Techniques in Particle Physics" conference in Durham,
UK (March, 2002
Equivalence problem for the orthogonal webs on the sphere
We solve the equivalence problem for the orthogonally separable webs on the
three-sphere under the action of the isometry group. This continues a classical
project initiated by Olevsky in which he solved the corresponding canonical
forms problem. The solution to the equivalence problem together with the
results by Olevsky forms a complete solution to the problem of orthogonal
separation of variables to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation defined on the
three-sphere via orthogonal separation of variables. It is based on invariant
properties of the characteristic Killing two-tensors in addition to properties
of the corresponding algebraic curvature tensor and the associated Ricci
tensor. The result is illustrated by a non-trivial application to a natural
Hamiltonian defined on the three-sphere.Comment: 32 page
Fast Conical Hull Algorithms for Near-separable Non-negative Matrix Factorization
The separability assumption (Donoho & Stodden, 2003; Arora et al., 2012)
turns non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) into a tractable problem.
Recently, a new class of provably-correct NMF algorithms have emerged under
this assumption. In this paper, we reformulate the separable NMF problem as
that of finding the extreme rays of the conical hull of a finite set of
vectors. From this geometric perspective, we derive new separable NMF
algorithms that are highly scalable and empirically noise robust, and have
several other favorable properties in relation to existing methods. A parallel
implementation of our algorithm demonstrates high scalability on shared- and
distributed-memory machines.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figure
Analysis of a Custom Support Vector Machine for Photometric Redshift Estimation and the Inclusion of Galaxy Shape Information
Aims: We present a custom support vector machine classification package for
photometric redshift estimation, including comparisons with other methods. We
also explore the efficacy of including galaxy shape information in redshift
estimation. Support vector machines, a type of machine learning, utilize
optimization theory and supervised learning algorithms to construct predictive
models based on the information content of data in a way that can treat
different input features symmetrically.
Methods: The custom support vector machine package we have developed is
designated SPIDERz and made available to the community. As test data for
evaluating performance and comparison with other methods, we apply SPIDERz to
four distinct data sets: 1) the publicly available portion of the PHAT-1
catalog based on the GOODS-N field with spectroscopic redshifts in the range , 2) 14365 galaxies from the COSMOS bright survey with photometric band
magnitudes, morphology, and spectroscopic redshifts inside , 3) 3048
galaxies from the overlap of COSMOS photometry and morphology with 3D-HST
spectroscopy extending to , and 4) 2612 galaxies with five-band
photometric magnitudes and morphology from the All-wavelength Extended Groth
Strip International Survey and .
Results: We find that SPIDER-z achieves results competitive with other
empirical packages on the PHAT-1 data, and performs quite well in estimating
redshifts with the COSMOS and AEGIS data, including in the cases of a large
redshift range (). We also determine from analyses with both the
COSMOS and AEGIS data that the inclusion of morphological information does not
have a statistically significant benefit for photometric redshift estimation
with the techniques employed here.Comment: Submitted to A&A, 11 pages, 10 figures, 1 table, updated to version
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Stringy Black Holes and the Geometry of Entanglement
Recently striking multiple relations have been found between pure state 2 and
3-qubit entanglement and extremal black holes in string theory. Here we add
further mathematical similarities which can be both useful in string and
quantum information theory. In particular we show that finding the frozen
values of the moduli in the calculation of the macroscopic entropy in the STU
model, is related to finding the canonical form for a pure three-qubit
entangled state defined by the dyonic charges. In this picture the
extremization of the BPS mass with respect to moduli is connected to the
problem of finding the optimal local distillation protocol of a GHZ state from
an arbitrary pure three-qubit state. These results and a geometric
classification of STU black holes BPS and non-BPS can be described in the
elegant language of twistors. Finally an interesting connection between the
black hole entropy and the average real entanglement of formation is
established.Comment: 34 pages, 6 figure
Support Vector Machine classification of strong gravitational lenses
The imminent advent of very large-scale optical sky surveys, such as Euclid
and LSST, makes it important to find efficient ways of discovering rare objects
such as strong gravitational lens systems, where a background object is
multiply gravitationally imaged by a foreground mass. As well as finding the
lens systems, it is important to reject false positives due to intrinsic
structure in galaxies, and much work is in progress with machine learning
algorithms such as neural networks in order to achieve both these aims. We
present and discuss a Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm which makes use of
a Gabor filterbank in order to provide learning criteria for separation of
lenses and non-lenses, and demonstrate using blind challenges that under
certain circumstances it is a particularly efficient algorithm for rejecting
false positives. We compare the SVM engine with a large-scale human examination
of 100000 simulated lenses in a challenge dataset, and also apply the SVM
method to survey images from the Kilo-Degree Survey.Comment: Accepted by MNRA
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