306 research outputs found
Functional Multi-Layer Perceptron: a Nonlinear Tool for Functional Data Analysis
In this paper, we study a natural extension of Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP)
to functional inputs. We show that fundamental results for classical MLP can be
extended to functional MLP. We obtain universal approximation results that show
the expressive power of functional MLP is comparable to that of numerical MLP.
We obtain consistency results which imply that the estimation of optimal
parameters for functional MLP is statistically well defined. We finally show on
simulated and real world data that the proposed model performs in a very
satisfactory way.Comment: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0893608
Interpretable and Steerable Sequence Learning via Prototypes
One of the major challenges in machine learning nowadays is to provide
predictions with not only high accuracy but also user-friendly explanations.
Although in recent years we have witnessed increasingly popular use of deep
neural networks for sequence modeling, it is still challenging to explain the
rationales behind the model outputs, which is essential for building trust and
supporting the domain experts to validate, critique and refine the model. We
propose ProSeNet, an interpretable and steerable deep sequence model with
natural explanations derived from case-based reasoning. The prediction is
obtained by comparing the inputs to a few prototypes, which are exemplar cases
in the problem domain. For better interpretability, we define several criteria
for constructing the prototypes, including simplicity, diversity, and sparsity
and propose the learning objective and the optimization procedure. ProSeNet
also provides a user-friendly approach to model steering: domain experts
without any knowledge on the underlying model or parameters can easily
incorporate their intuition and experience by manually refining the prototypes.
We conduct experiments on a wide range of real-world applications, including
predictive diagnostics for automobiles, ECG, and protein sequence
classification and sentiment analysis on texts. The result shows that ProSeNet
can achieve accuracy on par with state-of-the-art deep learning models. We also
evaluate the interpretability of the results with concrete case studies.
Finally, through user study on Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), we demonstrate
that the model selects high-quality prototypes which align well with human
knowledge and can be interactively refined for better interpretability without
loss of performance.Comment: Accepted as a full paper at KDD 2019 on May 8, 201
Anomalous Thermostat and Intraband Discrete Breathers
We investigate the dynamics of a macroscopic system which consists of an
anharmonic subsystem embedded in an arbitrary harmonic lattice, including
quenched disorder. Elimination of the harmonic degrees of freedom leads to a
nonlinear Langevin equation for the anharmonic coordinates. For zero
temperature, we prove that the support of the Fourier transform of the memory
kernel and of the time averaged velocity-velocity correlations functions of the
anharmonic system can not overlap. As a consequence, the asymptotic solutions
can be constant, periodic,quasiperiodic or almost periodic, and possibly weakly
chaotic. For a sinusoidal trajectory with frequency we find that the
energy transferred to the harmonic system up to time is proportional
to . If equals one of the phonon frequencies ,
it is . We prove that there is a full measure set such that for
in this set it is , i.e. there is no energy dissipation.
Under certain conditions there exists a zero measure set such that for (0 \leq
\alpha < 1)(1 <\alpha \leq 2)\Omega\Omega\mathcal{C}(k)\Omega\in\mathcal{C}(k)t$.Comment: Physica D in prin
Quadratic Volume Preserving Maps
We study quadratic, volume preserving diffeomorphisms whose inverse is also
quadratic. Such maps generalize the Henon area preserving map and the family of
symplectic quadratic maps studied by Moser. In particular, we investigate a
family of quadratic volume preserving maps in three space for which we find a
normal form and study invariant sets. We also give an alternative proof of a
theorem by Moser classifying quadratic symplectic maps.Comment: Ams LaTeX file with 4 figures (figure 2 is gif, the others are ps
On the flow map for 2D Euler equations with unbounded vorticity
In Part I, we construct a class of examples of initial velocities for which
the unique solution to the Euler equations in the plane has an associated flow
map that lies in no Holder space of positive exponent for any positive time. In
Part II, we explore inverse problems that arise in attempting to construct an
example of an initial velocity producing an arbitrarily poor modulus of
continuity of the flow map.Comment: http://iopscience.iop.org/0951-7715/24/9/013/ for published versio
A Bishop-Phelps-Bollobas Type Theorem for uniform algegras
This paper is devoted to showing that Asplund operators with range in a uniform Banach algebra have
the Bishop¿Phelps¿Bollobas property, i.e., they are approximated by norm attaining Asplund operators
at the same time that a point where the approximated operator almost attains its norm is approximated
by a point at which the approximating operator attains it. To prove this result we use the weak*-to-norm
fragmentability of weak*-compact subsets of the dual of Asplund spaces and we need to observe a Urysohn type result producing peak complex-valued functions in uniform algebras that are small outside a given open set and whose image is inside a Stolz region.This research was partially supported by MEC and FEDER projects MTM2008-05396 and MTM2011-25377. The research of the second author was also partially supported by Generalitat Valenciana (GV/2010/036), and by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (project PAID-06-09-2829).Cascales, B.; Guirao Sánchez, AJ.; Kadets, V. (2013). A Bishop-Phelps-Bollobas Type Theorem for uniform algegras. Advances in Mathematics. 240:370-382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2013.03.005S37038224
Templates for Convex Cone Problems with Applications to Sparse Signal Recovery
This paper develops a general framework for solving a variety of convex cone
problems that frequently arise in signal processing, machine learning,
statistics, and other fields. The approach works as follows: first, determine a
conic formulation of the problem; second, determine its dual; third, apply
smoothing; and fourth, solve using an optimal first-order method. A merit of
this approach is its flexibility: for example, all compressed sensing problems
can be solved via this approach. These include models with objective
functionals such as the total-variation norm, ||Wx||_1 where W is arbitrary, or
a combination thereof. In addition, the paper also introduces a number of
technical contributions such as a novel continuation scheme, a novel approach
for controlling the step size, and some new results showing that the smooth and
unsmoothed problems are sometimes formally equivalent. Combined with our
framework, these lead to novel, stable and computationally efficient
algorithms. For instance, our general implementation is competitive with
state-of-the-art methods for solving intensively studied problems such as the
LASSO. Further, numerical experiments show that one can solve the Dantzig
selector problem, for which no efficient large-scale solvers exist, in a few
hundred iterations. Finally, the paper is accompanied with a software release.
This software is not a single, monolithic solver; rather, it is a suite of
programs and routines designed to serve as building blocks for constructing
complete algorithms.Comment: The TFOCS software is available at http://tfocs.stanford.edu This
version has updated reference
A forgotten figure in Siouan and Caddoan linguistics: Samuel Stehman Haldeman.
The Siouan family comprises some twenty languages, historically spoken across a broad swath of the central North American plains and woodlands, as well as in parts of the southeastern United States. In spite of its geographical extent and diversity, and the size and importance of several Siouan-speaking tribes, this family has received relatively little attention in the linguistic literature and many of the individual Siouan languages are severely understudied. This volume aims to make work on Siouan languages more broadly available and to encourage deeper investigation of the myriad typological, theoretical, descriptive, and pedagogical issues they raise.
The 17 chapters in this volume present a broad range of current Siouan research, focusing on various Siouan languages, from a variety of linguistic perspectives: historical-genetic, philological, applied, descriptive, formal/generative, and comparative/typological. The editors' preface summarizes characteristic features of the Siouan family, including head-final and "verb-centered" syntax, a complex system of verbal affixes including applicatives and subject-possessives, head-internal relative clauses, gendered speech markers, stop-systems including ejectives, and a preference for certain prosodic and phonotactic patterns.
The volume is dedicated to the memory of Professor Robert L. Rankin, a towering figure in Siouan linguistics throughout his long career, who passed away in February of 2014
Advances in the study of Siouan languages and linguistics
The Siouan family comprises some twenty languages, historically spoken across a broad swath of the central North American plains and woodlands, as well as in parts of the southeastern United States. In spite of its geographical extent and diversity, and the size and importance of several Siouan-speaking tribes, this family has received relatively little attention in the linguistic literature and many of the individual Siouan languages are severely understudied. This volume aims to make work on Siouan languages more broadly available and to encourage deeper investigation of the myriad typological, theoretical, descriptive, and pedagogical issues they raise.
The 17 chapters in this volume present a broad range of current Siouan research, focusing on various Siouan languages, from a variety of linguistic perspectives: historical-genetic, philological, applied, descriptive, formal/generative, and comparative/typological. The editors' preface summarizes characteristic features of the Siouan family, including head-final and "verb-centered" syntax, a complex system of verbal affixes including applicatives and subject-possessives, head-internal relative clauses, gendered speech markers, stop-systems including ejectives, and a preference for certain prosodic and phonotactic patterns.
The volume is dedicated to the memory of Professor Robert L. Rankin, a towering figure in Siouan linguistics throughout his long career, who passed away in February of 2014
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