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Franck-Condon Factors as Spectral Probes of Polaron Structure
We apply the Merrifield variational method to the Holstein molecular crystal
model in D dimensions to compute non-adiabatic polaron band energies and
Franck-Condon factors at general crystal momenta. We analyze these observable
properties to extract characteristic features related to polaron self-trapping
and potential experimental signatures. These results are combined with others
obtained by the Global-Local variational method in 1D to construct a polaron
phase diagram encompassing all degrees of adiabaticity and all electron-phonon
coupling strengths. The polaron phase diagram so constructed includes disjoint
regimes occupied by "small" polarons, "large" polarons, and a newly-defined
class of "compact" polarons, all mutually separated by an intermediate regime
occupied by transitional structures
DNArch: Learning Convolutional Neural Architectures by Backpropagation
We present Differentiable Neural Architectures (DNArch), a method that
jointly learns the weights and the architecture of Convolutional Neural
Networks (CNNs) by backpropagation. In particular, DNArch allows learning (i)
the size of convolutional kernels at each layer, (ii) the number of channels at
each layer, (iii) the position and values of downsampling layers, and (iv) the
depth of the network. To this end, DNArch views neural architectures as
continuous multidimensional entities, and uses learnable differentiable masks
along each dimension to control their size. Unlike existing methods, DNArch is
not limited to a predefined set of possible neural components, but instead it
is able to discover entire CNN architectures across all feasible combinations
of kernel sizes, widths, depths and downsampling. Empirically, DNArch finds
performant CNN architectures for several classification and dense prediction
tasks on sequential and image data. When combined with a loss term that
controls the network complexity, DNArch constrains its search to architectures
that respect a predefined computational budget during training
Are All Successful Communities Alike? Characterizing and Predicting the Success of Online Communities
The proliferation of online communities has created exciting opportunities to
study the mechanisms that explain group success. While a growing body of
research investigates community success through a single measure -- typically,
the number of members -- we argue that there are multiple ways of measuring
success. Here, we present a systematic study to understand the relations
between these success definitions and test how well they can be predicted based
on community properties and behaviors from the earliest period of a community's
lifetime. We identify four success measures that are desirable for most
communities: (i) growth in the number of members; (ii) retention of members;
(iii) long term survival of the community; and (iv) volume of activities within
the community. Surprisingly, we find that our measures do not exhibit very high
correlations, suggesting that they capture different types of success.
Additionally, we find that different success measures are predicted by
different attributes of online communities, suggesting that success can be
achieved through different behaviors. Our work sheds light on the basic
understanding of what success represents in online communities and what
predicts it. Our results suggest that success is multi-faceted and cannot be
measured nor predicted by a single measurement. This insight has practical
implications for the creation of new online communities and the design of
platforms that facilitate such communities.Comment: To appear at The Web Conference 201
Finding large stable matchings
When ties and incomplete preference lists are permitted in the stable marriage and hospitals/residents problems, stable matchings can have different sizes. The problem of finding a maximum cardinality stable matching in this context is known to be NP-hard, even under very severe restrictions on the number, size, and position of ties. In this article, we present two new heuristics for finding large stable matchings in variants of these problems in which ties are on one side only. We describe an empirical study involving these heuristics and the best existing approximation algorithm for this problem. Our results indicate that all three of these algorithms perform significantly better than naive tie-breaking algorithms when applied to real-world and randomly-generated data sets and that one of the new heuristics fares slightly better than the other algorithms, in most cases. This study, and these particular problem variants, are motivated by important applications in large-scale centralized matching schemes
On the spin modulated circular polarization from the intermediate polars NY Lup and IGRJ1509-6649
We report on high time resolution, high signal/noise, photo-polarimetry of
the intermediate polars NY Lup and IGRJ1509-6649. Our observations confirm the
detection and colour dependence of circular polarization from NY Lup and
additionally show a clear white dwarf, spin modulated signal. From our new high
signal/noise photometry we have unambiguously detected wavelength dependent
spin and beat periods and harmonics thereof. IGRJ1509-6649 is discovered to
also have a particularly strong spin modulated circularly polarized signal. It
appears double peaked through the I filter and single peaked through the B
filter, consistent with cyclotron emission from a white dwarf with a relatively
strong magnetic field.
We discuss the implied accretion geometries in these two systems and any
bearing this may have on the possible relationship with the connection between
polars and soft X-ray-emitting IPs. The relatively strong magnetic fields is
also suggestive of them being polar progenitors.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures and 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRA
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