203 research outputs found
Geometric variational problems of statistical mechanics and of combinatorics
We present the geometric solutions of the various extremal problems of
statistical mechanics and combinatorics. Together with the Wulff construction,
which predicts the shape of the crystals, we discuss the construction which
exhibits the shape of a typical Young diagram and of a typical skyscraper.Comment: 10 page
Deep Convolutional Ranking for Multilabel Image Annotation
Multilabel image annotation is one of the most important challenges in
computer vision with many real-world applications. While existing work usually
use conventional visual features for multilabel annotation, features based on
Deep Neural Networks have shown potential to significantly boost performance.
In this work, we propose to leverage the advantage of such features and analyze
key components that lead to better performances. Specifically, we show that a
significant performance gain could be obtained by combining convolutional
architectures with approximate top- ranking objectives, as thye naturally
fit the multilabel tagging problem. Our experiments on the NUS-WIDE dataset
outperforms the conventional visual features by about 10%, obtaining the best
reported performance in the literature
Subdifferentials of Performance Functions and Calculus of Coderivatives of Set-Valued Mappings
The paper contains calculus rules for coderivatives of compositions,
sums and intersections of set-valued mappings. The types of coderivatives considered
correspond to Dini-Hadamard and limiting Dini-Hadamard subdifferentials
in Gˆateaux differentiable spaces, Fréchet and limiting Fréchet subdifferentials in
Asplund spaces and approximate subdifferentials in arbitrary Banach spaces. The
key element of the unified approach to obtaining various calculus rules for various
types of derivatives presented in the paper are simple formulas for subdifferentials
of marginal, or performance functions
Critical region for droplet formation in the two-dimensional Ising model
We study the formation/dissolution of equilibrium droplets in finite systems
at parameters corresponding to phase coexistence. Specifically, we consider the
2D Ising model in volumes of size , inverse temperature \beta>\betac and
overall magnetization conditioned to take the value \mstar L^2-2\mstar v_L,
where \betac^{-1} is the critical temperature, \mstar=\mstar(\beta) is the
spontaneous magnetization and is a sequence of positive numbers. We find
that the critical scaling for droplet formation/dissolution is when tends to a definite limit. Specifically, we identify a dimensionless
parameter , proportional to this limit, a non-trivial critical value
\Deltac and a function such that the following holds: For
\Delta<\Deltac, there are no droplets beyond scale, while for
\Delta>\Deltac, there is a single, Wulff-shaped droplet containing a fraction
\lambda_\Delta\ge\lamc=2/3 of the magnetization deficit and there are no
other droplets beyond the scale of . Moreover, and
are related via a universal equation that apparently is independent of
the details of the system.Comment: 48 pages, 2 figures, version to appear in Commun. Math. Phy
Pion form factor in QCD sum rules, local duality approach, and O(A_2) fractional analytic perturbation theory
Using the results on the electromagnetic pion Form Factor (FF) obtained in
the QCD sum rules with non-local condensates \cite{BPS09} we
determine the effective continuum threshold for the local duality approach.
Then we apply it to construct the estimation of the pion FF in
the framework of the fractional analytic perturbation theory.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, invited talk at the 3rd Joint International
Hadron Structure'09 Conference, Tatranska Strba (Slovak Republic), Aug.
30--Sept. 3, 200
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