887 research outputs found
Cooperative Transmission for a Vector Gaussian Parallel Relay Network
In this paper, we consider a parallel relay network where two relays
cooperatively help a source transmit to a destination. We assume the source and
the destination nodes are equipped with multiple antennas. Three basic schemes
and their achievable rates are studied: Decode-and-Forward (DF),
Amplify-and-Forward (AF), and Compress-and-Forward (CF). For the DF scheme, the
source transmits two private signals, one for each relay, where dirty paper
coding (DPC) is used between the two private streams, and a common signal for
both relays. The relays make efficient use of the common information to
introduce a proper amount of correlation in the transmission to the
destination. We show that the DF scheme achieves the capacity under certain
conditions. We also show that the CF scheme is asymptotically optimal in the
high relay power limit, regardless of channel ranks. It turns out that the AF
scheme also achieves the asymptotic optimality but only when the
relays-to-destination channel is full rank. The relative advantages of the
three schemes are discussed with numerical results.Comment: 35 pages, 10 figures, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information
Theor
Deterministic Relay Networks with State Information
Motivated by fading channels and erasure channels, the problem of reliable
communication over deterministic relay networks is studied, in which relay
nodes receive a function of the incoming signals and a random network state. An
achievable rate is characterized for the case in which destination nodes have
full knowledge of the state information. If the relay nodes receive a linear
function of the incoming signals and the state in a finite field, then the
achievable rate is shown to be optimal, meeting the cut-set upper bound on the
capacity. This result generalizes on a unified framework the work of
Avestimehr, Diggavi, and Tse on the deterministic networks with state
dependency, the work of Dana, Gowaikar, Palanki, Hassibi, and Effros on linear
erasure networks with interference, and the work of Smith and Vishwanath on
linear erasure networks with broadcast.Comment: 5 pages, to appear in proc. IEEE ISIT, June 200
Transnational Marriages in the Steel Industry: Experience and Lessons for Global Business
Drawing upon case studies of firms in the steel industry, the authors show that companies competing internationally can pool their strengths to offset their individual weaknesses, enabling them to build economically successful entities more easily than if each company tried to go it alone in competition with rivals. In doing so they show how the world steel industry emerged into a group of international joint ventures and how in each of these transnational marriages the whole became greater than the sum of its parts. Among the authors\u27 main points are: cultural conflicts are minimized by economic success but magnified by failure; expertise and commitment can overcome national differences, and even failing international joint ventures can be rehabilitated. Important reading for professionals in all areas of international business and for their colleagues in the academic community.
Included in each case study is a history of the firms and the emerging joint venture. Authors described the condition of facilities, the rehabilitation and construction of new facilities, the financial relationships between firms and the sources of funding, and their corporate structures. Cultural differences between firms and their impact on the success of the relationship are examined closely, with particular emphasis on personnel selection, training supervision, labor relations, retention and promotion policies and policies on tenure and layoff. Authors look at labor productivity and the use of participative management and other team approaches, relating them to such measurable variables as product quality, corporate profitability, and indeed the ultimate survival of each newly created firm. From there the authors show how the experiences of the steel industry and the lessons learned from its transnational alliances can be applied to other industries and to their own joint ventures.https://scholarship.richmond.edu/bookshelf/1046/thumbnail.jp
Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning via Mutual Information Regularized Assignment
This paper proposes Mutual Information Regularized Assignment (MIRA), a
pseudo-labeling algorithm for unsupervised representation learning inspired by
information maximization. We formulate online pseudo-labeling as an
optimization problem to find pseudo-labels that maximize the mutual information
between the label and data while being close to a given model probability. We
derive a fixed-point iteration method and prove its convergence to the optimal
solution. In contrast to baselines, MIRA combined with pseudo-label prediction
enables a simple yet effective clustering-based representation learning without
incorporating extra training techniques or artificial constraints such as
sampling strategy, equipartition constraints, etc. With relatively small
training epochs, representation learned by MIRA achieves state-of-the-art
performance on various downstream tasks, including the linear/k-NN evaluation
and transfer learning. Especially, with only 400 epochs, our method applied to
ImageNet dataset with ResNet-50 architecture achieves 75.6% linear evaluation
accuracy.Comment: NeurIPS 202
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