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On the inference about the spectra of high-dimensional covariance matrix based on noisy observations-with applications to integrated covolatility matrix inference in the presence of microstructure noise
In practice, observations are often contaminated by noise, making the
resulting sample covariance matrix to be an information-plus-noise-type
covariance matrix. Aiming to make inferences about the spectra of the
underlying true covariance matrix under such a situation, we establish an
asymptotic relationship that describes how the limiting spectral distribution
of (true) sample covariance matrices depends on that of
information-plus-noise-type sample covariance matrices. As an application, we
consider the inference about the spectra of integrated covolatility (ICV)
matrices of high-dimensional diffusion processes based on high-frequency data
with microstructure noise. The (slightly modified) pre-averaging estimator is
an information-plus-noise-type covariance matrix, and the aforementioned
result, together with a (generalized) connection between the spectral
distribution of true sample covariance matrices and that of the population
covariance matrix, enables us to propose a two-step procedure to estimate the
spectral distribution of ICV for a class of diffusion processes. An alternative
estimator is further proposed, which possesses two desirable properties: it
eliminates the impact of microstructure noise, and its limiting spectral
distribution depends only on that of the ICV through the standard
Mar\v{c}enko-Pastur equation. Numerical studies demonstrate that our proposed
methods can be used to estimate the spectra of the underlying covariance matrix
based on noisy observations
Exploring Mixed Integer Programming Reformulations for Virtual Machine Placement with Disk Anti-Colocation Constraints
One of the important problems for datacenter resource management is to place
virtual machines (VMs) to physical machines (PMs) such that certain cost,
profit or performance objective is optimized, subject to various constraints.
In this paper, we consider an interesting and difficult VM placement problem
with disk anti-colocation constraints: a VM's virtual disks should be spread
out across the physical disks of its assigned PM. For solutions, we use the
mixed integer programming (MIP) formulations and algorithms. However, a
challenge is the potentially long computation time of the MIP algorithms. In
this paper, we explore how reformulation of the problem can help to reduce the
computation time. We develop two reformulations, by redefining the variables,
for our VM placement problem and evaluate the computation time of all three
formulations. We show that they have vastly different computation time. All
three formulations can be useful, but for different problem instances. They all
should be kept in the toolbox for tackling the problem. Out of the three,
formulation COMB is especially flexible and versatile, and it can solve large
problem instances
Left-Center-Right Separated Neural Network for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis with Rotatory Attention
Deep learning techniques have achieved success in aspect-based sentiment
analysis in recent years. However, there are two important issues that still
remain to be further studied, i.e., 1) how to efficiently represent the target
especially when the target contains multiple words; 2) how to utilize the
interaction between target and left/right contexts to capture the most
important words in them. In this paper, we propose an approach, called
left-center-right separated neural network with rotatory attention (LCR-Rot),
to better address the two problems. Our approach has two characteristics: 1) it
has three separated LSTMs, i.e., left, center and right LSTMs, corresponding to
three parts of a review (left context, target phrase and right context); 2) it
has a rotatory attention mechanism which models the relation between target and
left/right contexts. The target2context attention is used to capture the most
indicative sentiment words in left/right contexts. Subsequently, the
context2target attention is used to capture the most important word in the
target. This leads to a two-side representation of the target: left-aware
target and right-aware target. We compare our approach on three benchmark
datasets with ten related methods proposed recently. The results show that our
approach significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art techniques
Partial linearization for nonautonomous differential equations
In this paper, we prove the partial linearization for n-dimensional
nonautonomous differential equations. The conditions are formulated in terms of
the dichotomy spectrum
On the inference about the spectral distribution of high-dimensional covariance matrix based on high-frequency noisy observations
In practice, observations are often contaminated by noise, making the
resulting sample covariance matrix a signal-plus-noise sample covariance
matrix. Aiming to make inferences about the spectral distribution of the
population covariance matrix under such a situation, we establish an asymptotic
relationship that describes how the limiting spectral distribution of (signal)
sample covariance matrices depends on that of signal-plus-noise-type sample
covariance matrices. As an application, we consider inferences about the
spectral distribution of integrated covolatility (ICV) matrices of
high-dimensional diffusion processes based on high-frequency data with
microstructure noise. The (slightly modified) pre-averaging estimator is a
signal-plus-noise sample covariance matrix, and the aforementioned result,
together with a (generalized) connection between the spectral distribution of
signal sample covariance matrices and that of the population covariance matrix,
enables us to propose a two-step procedure to consistently estimate the
spectral distribution of ICV for a class of diffusion processes. An alternative
approach is further proposed, which possesses several desirable properties: it
is more robust, it eliminates the effects of microstructure noise, and the
asymptotic relationship that enables consistent estimation of the spectral
distribution of ICV is the standard Marcenko-Pastur equation. The performance
of the two approaches is examined via simulation studies under both synchronous
and asynchronous observation settings.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1409.212
The Deconfinement Phase Transition in the Interior of Neutron Stars
The deconfinement phase transition which happens in the interior of neutron
stars are investigated. Coupled with the spin evolution of the stars, the
effect of entropy production and deconfinement heat generation during the
deconfinement phase transition in the mixed phase of the neutron stars are
discussed. The entropy production of deconfinement phase transition can be act
as a signature of phase transition, but less important and does not
significantly change the thermal evolution of neutron stars. The deconfinement
heat can change the thermal evolution of neutron star distinctly.Comment: 5 pages. To appear in Proceedings for "Compact stars in the QCD phase
diagram II (CSQCD II), May 20-24, 2009, KIAA at Peking University, Beijing -
P. R. China [http://vega.bac.pku.edu.cn/rxxu/csqcd.htm
A simple regression equivalence of Pillai's trace statistic
Derived here is a single regression coefficient equivalent to Pillai's trace
statistic in multivariate analysis of variance.Comment: 3 page
Non-leptonic Weak Interaction in Magnetized Quark matter
We investigated the non-leptonic weak interaction in magnetic field.
We discussed an improvement of previous method to analytical work out the
rate for weak field case.Our result easily goes over to field-free limit.Then
we calculated the reaction rate in strong magnetic field where the charged
particles are confined to the lowest Landau level. A strong magnetic field
strongly suppressed the rate,which will be foreseen to affect viscous dynamics
in SQM .We also derived a few approximation formulae under given conditions
that can be conveniently applied.Comment: 14pages, 5figure
Constructing Riemann-Hilbert problem and multi-soliton solutions for the N-coupled Hirota equations in an optical fiber
This paper focuses on investigation of the N-coupled Hirota equations arising
in an optical fiber. Starting from analyzing the spectral problem, a kind of
matrix Riemann-Hilbert problem is formulated strictly on the real axis. Then
based on the resulting matrix Riemann-Hilbert problem under the constraint of
no reflection, multi-soliton solutions to the N-coupled Hirota equations are
presented explicitly.Comment: 9 page
On the convergence of the time average for skew-product structure and multiple ergodic system
In this paper, for a discontinuous skew-product transformation with the
integrable observation function, we obtain uniform ergodic theorem and
semi-uniform ergodic theorem. The main assumptions are that discontinuity sets
of transformation and observation function are neglected in some
measure-theoretical sense. The theorems extend the classical results which have
been established for continuous dynamical systems or continuous observation
functions. Meanwhile, on the torus with special rotation, we
prove the pointwise convergence of multiple ergodic average \disp \f 1 N
\sum_{n=0}^{N-1} f_{1}(R_{\alpha}^{n}x)f_{2}(R_{\alpha}^{2n}x) in
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