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An improved kernel for the cycle contraction problem
The problem of modifying a given graph to satisfy certain properties has been
one of the central topics in parameterized tractability study. In this paper,
we study the cycle contraction problem, which makes a graph into a cycle by
edge contractions. The problem has been studied {by Belmonte et al. [IPEC
2013]} who obtained a linear kernel with at most vertices. We provide an
improved kernel with at most vertices for it in this paper.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figure
AUC-maximized Deep Convolutional Neural Fields for Sequence Labeling
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) has shown excellent performance in
a variety of machine learning tasks. This manuscript presents Deep
Convolutional Neural Fields (DeepCNF), a combination of DCNN with Conditional
Random Field (CRF), for sequence labeling with highly imbalanced label
distribution. The widely-used training methods, such as maximum-likelihood and
maximum labelwise accuracy, do not work well on highly imbalanced data. To
handle this, we present a new training algorithm called maximum-AUC for
DeepCNF. That is, we train DeepCNF by directly maximizing the empirical Area
Under the ROC Curve (AUC), which is an unbiased measurement for imbalanced
data. To fulfill this, we formulate AUC in a pairwise ranking framework,
approximate it by a polynomial function and then apply a gradient-based
procedure to optimize it. We then test our AUC-maximized DeepCNF on three very
different protein sequence labeling tasks: solvent accessibility prediction,
8-state secondary structure prediction, and disorder prediction. Our
experimental results confirm that maximum-AUC greatly outperforms the other two
training methods on 8-state secondary structure prediction and disorder
prediction since their label distributions are highly imbalanced and also have
similar performance as the other two training methods on the solvent
accessibility prediction problem which has three equally-distributed labels.
Furthermore, our experimental results also show that our AUC-trained DeepCNF
models greatly outperform existing popular predictors of these three tasks.Comment: Under review as a conference paper at ICLR 201
EMM: Energy-Aware Mobility Management for Mobile Edge Computing in Ultra Dense Networks
Merging mobile edge computing (MEC) functionality with the dense deployment
of base stations (BSs) provides enormous benefits such as a real proximity, low
latency access to computing resources. However, the envisioned integration
creates many new challenges, among which mobility management (MM) is a critical
one. Simply applying existing radio access oriented MM schemes leads to poor
performance mainly due to the co-provisioning of radio access and computing
services of the MEC-enabled BSs. In this paper, we develop a novel user-centric
energy-aware mobility management (EMM) scheme, in order to optimize the delay
due to both radio access and computation, under the long-term energy
consumption constraint of the user. Based on Lyapunov optimization and
multi-armed bandit theories, EMM works in an online fashion without future
system state information, and effectively handles the imperfect system state
information. Theoretical analysis explicitly takes radio handover and
computation migration cost into consideration and proves a bounded deviation on
both the delay performance and energy consumption compared to the oracle
solution with exact and complete future system information. The proposed
algorithm also effectively handles the scenario in which candidate BSs randomly
switch on/off during the offloading process of a task. Simulations show that
the proposed algorithms can achieve close-to-optimal delay performance while
satisfying the user energy consumption constraint.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures, an extended version of the paper submitted to
IEEE JSA
Hyperspectral Unmixing with Endmember Variability using Semi-supervised Partial Membership Latent Dirichlet Allocation
A semi-supervised Partial Membership Latent Dirichlet Allocation approach is
developed for hyperspectral unmixing and endmember estimation while accounting
for spectral variability and spatial information. Partial Membership Latent
Dirichlet Allocation is an effective approach for spectral unmixing while
representing spectral variability and leveraging spatial information. In this
work, we extend Partial Membership Latent Dirichlet Allocation to incorporate
any available (imprecise) label information to help guide unmixing.
Experimental results on two hyperspectral datasets show that the proposed
semi-supervised PM-LDA can yield improved hyperspectral unmixing and endmember
estimation results
The LFV decays of Z boson in Minimal R-symmetric Supersymmetric Standard Model
A future -factory will offer the possibility to study rare decays
, as those leading to Lepton Flavor Violation final
states. In this work, by taking account of the constraints from radiative two
body decays , we investigate the Lepton Flavor
Violation decays in the framework of Minimal R-symmetric
Supersymmetric Standard Model with two benchmark points from already existing
literatures. The flavor violating off-diagonal entries ,
and are constrained by the current experimental
bounds of . Considering recent experimental
constraints, we also investigate Br() as a function of
. The numerical results show that the theoretical prediction of
Br() in MRSSM are several orders of magnitude below the
current experimental bounds. The Lepton Flavor Violation decays and may be promising to be observed in future
experiment.Comment: 17pages,8 figures,8 tables,to be published in Chinese Physics
Families of K3 surfaces over curves satisfying the equality of Arakelov-Yau's type and modularity
Let be a family of semistable K3 surfaces with non-empty set
of singular fibres having infinite local monodromy. Then, when the so called
Arakelov-Yau inequality reaches equality, we prove that is a
modular curve and the family comes essentially from a family of elliptic curves
through a so called Nikulin-Kummer construction. In particular, when C=\BBb
P^1, the family of elliptic curves must be one of Beauville's 6 examples where
Arakelov inequality reaches equality.Comment: 18 pages, Late
Spin-Orientation Dependent Topological States in Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnetic NiTlS Monolayers
The topological states of matters arising from the nontrivial magnetic
configuration provide a better understanding of physical properties and
functionalities of solid materials. Such studies benefit from the active
control of spin orientation in any solid, which is yet known to rarely take
place in the two-dimensional (2D) limit. Here we demonstrate by the
first-principles calculations that spin-orientation dependent topological
states can appear in the geometrically frustrated monolayer antiferromagnet.
Different topological states including quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect and
time-reversal-symmetry (TRS) broken quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect can be
obtained by changing spin orientation in the NiTl2S4 monolayer. Remarkably, the
dilated nc-AFM NiTl2S4 monolayer gives birth to the QAH effect with hitherto
reported largest number of quantized conducting channels (Chern number C = -4)
in 2D materials. Interestingly, under tunable chemical potential, the nc-AFM
NiTl2S4 monolayer hosts a novel state supporting the coexistence of QAH and TRS
broken QSH effects with a Chern number C = 3 and spin Chern number C_s = 1.
This work manifests a promising concept and material realization toward
topological spintronics in 2D antiferromagnets by manipulating its spin degree
of freedom
Computations of superstring amplitudes in pure spinor formalism via Cadabra
The discovery of pure spinor formalism makes the computation of superstring
scattering amplitudes possible. In this paper, we will illustrate how computer
algebra system Cadabra is used in computing the supersymmetric amplitude in
pure spinor formalism and provide the source code that computes the tree-level
massless 5-gluon amplitude.Comment: 23 pages,3 figure.v1-v5:comments are added, several mistakes are
corrected, some references are adde
Predicting diverse M-best protein contact maps
Protein contacts contain important information for protein structure and
functional study, but contact prediction from sequence information remains very
challenging. Recently evolutionary coupling (EC) analysis, which predicts
contacts by detecting co-evolved residues (or columns) in a multiple sequence
alignment (MSA), has made good progress due to better statistical assessment
techniques and high-throughput sequencing. Existing EC analysis methods predict
only a single contact map for a given protein, which may have low accuracy
especially when the protein under prediction does not have a large number of
sequence homologs. Analogous to ab initio folding that usually predicts a few
possible 3D models for a given protein sequence, this paper presents a novel
structure learning method that can predict a set of diverse contact maps for a
given protein sequence, in which the best solution usually has much better
accuracy than the first one. Our experimental tests show that for many test
proteins, the best out of 5 solutions generated by our method has accuracy at
least 0.1 better than the first one when the top L/5 or L/10 (L is the sequence
length) predicted long-range contacts are evaluated, especially for protein
families with a small number of sequence homologs. Our best solutions also have
better quality than those generated by the two popular EC methods Evfold and
PSICOV.Comment: Accepted as oral presentation at Computational Structural
Bioinformatics Workshop (In Conjunction With IEEE BIBM 2015
Non-Abelian Self-Dual String Solutions
We consider the equations of motion of the non-abelian 5-branes theory
recently constructed in http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1203.4224 and find exact
string solutions both for uncompactified and compactified spacetime. Although
one does not have the full supersymmetric construction of the non-abelian (2,0)
theory, by combining knowledge of conformal symmetry and R-symmetry one can
argue for the form of the 1/2 BPS equations in the case when only one scalar
field is turned on. We solve this system and show that our string solutions
could be lifted to become solutions of the non-abelian (2,0) theory with
self-dual electric and magnetic charges, with the scalar field describing a
M2-brane spike emerging out of the multiple M5-branes worldvolume.Comment: 22 pages. LaTeX. 2 figure
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