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    New evidence on cyclical and structural sources of unemployment

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    We provide cross-country evidence on the relative importance of cyclical and structural factors in explaining unemployment, including the sharp rise in U.S. long-term unemployment during the Great Recession of 2007-09. About 75% of the forecast error variance of unemployment is accounted for by cyclical factors—real GDP changes (“Okun’s Law”), monetary and fiscal policies, and the uncertainty effects emphasized by Bloom (2009). Structural factors, which we measure using the dispersion of industry-level stock returns, account for the remaining 25 percent. For U.S. long-term unemployment the split between cyclical and structural factors is closer to 60-40, including during the Great Recession.Unemployment

    ReProHRL: Towards Multi-Goal Navigation in the Real World using Hierarchical Agents

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    Robots have been successfully used to perform tasks with high precision. In real-world environments with sparse rewards and multiple goals, learning is still a major challenge and Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms fail to learn good policies. Training in simulation environments and then fine-tuning in the real world is a common approach. However, adapting to the real-world setting is a challenge. In this paper, we present a method named Ready for Production Hierarchical RL (ReProHRL) that divides tasks with hierarchical multi-goal navigation guided by reinforcement learning. We also use object detectors as a pre-processing step to learn multi-goal navigation and transfer it to the real world. Empirical results show that the proposed ReProHRL method outperforms the state-of-the-art baseline in simulation and real-world environments in terms of both training time and performance. Although both methods achieve a 100% success rate in a simple environment for single goal-based navigation, in a more complex environment and multi-goal setting, the proposed method outperforms the baseline by 18% and 5%, respectively. For the real-world implementation and proof of concept demonstration, we deploy the proposed method on a nano-drone named Crazyflie with a front camera to perform multi-goal navigation experiments.Comment: AAAI 2023 RL Ready for Production Worksho

    Impact of the equation of state on ff- and pp- mode oscillations of neutron stars

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    We investigate the impact of the neutron-star matter equation of state on the ff- and p1p_1-mode oscillations of neutron stars obtained within the Cowling approximation and linearized general relativity. The ff- and p1p_1-mode oscillation frequencies, and their damping times are calculated using representative sets of Skyrme Hartree-Fock and relativistic mean-field models, all of which reproduce nuclear systematics and support 2M2M_\odot neutron stars. Our study shows strong correlations between the frequencies of ff- and p1p_1-modes and their damping times with the pressure of β\beta-equilibrated matter at densities equal to or slightly higher than the nuclear saturation density ρ0\rho_0. Such correlations are found to be almost independent of the composition of the stars. The frequency of the p1p_1-mode of 1.4M1.4M_\odot star is strongly correlated with the slope of the symmetry energy L0L_0 and β\beta-equilibrated pressure at density ρ0\rho_0. Compared to GR calculations, the error in the Cowling approximation for the ff-mode is about 30\% for neutron stars of low mass, whereas it decreases with increasing mass. The accuracy of the p1p_1-mode is better than 15\% for neutron stars of maximum mass, and improves for lower masses and higher number of radial nodes.Comment: Comments are welcom
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