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An incremental approach to MSE-based feature selection
Feature selection plays an important role in classification systems. Using classifier error rate as the evaluation function, feature selection is integrated with incremental training. A neural network classifier is implemented with an incremental training approach to detect and discard irrelevant features. By learning attributes one after another, our classifier can find directly the attributes that make no contribution to classification. These attributes are marked and considered for removal. Incorporated with a Minimum Squared Error (MSE) based feature ranking scheme, four batch removal methods based on classifier error rate have been developed to discard irrelevant features. These feature selection methods reduce the computational complexity involved in searching among a large number of possible solutions significantly. Experimental results show that our feature selection methods work well on several benchmark problems compared with other feature selection methods. The selected subsets are further validated by a Constructive Backpropagation (CBP) classifier, which confirms increased classification accuracy and reduced training cost
Critical behaviours of contact near phase transitions
A central quantity of importance for ultracold atoms is contact, which
measures two-body correlations at short distances in dilute systems. It appears
in universal relations among thermodynamic quantities, such as large momentum
tails, energy, and dynamic structure factors, through the renowned Tan
relations. However, a conceptual question remains open as to whether or not
contact can signify phase transitions that are insensitive to short-range
physics. Here we show that, near a continuous classical or quantum phase
transition, contact exhibits a variety of critical behaviors, including scaling
laws and critical exponents that are uniquely determined by the universality
class of the phase transition and a constant contact per particle. We also use
a prototypical exactly solvable model to demonstrate these critical behaviors
in one-dimensional strongly interacting fermions. Our work establishes an
intrinsic connection between the universality of dilute many-body systems and
universal critical phenomena near a phase transition.Comment: Final version published in Nat. Commun. 5:5140 doi:
10.1038/ncomms6140 (2014
Existence and non-existence of area-minimizing hypersurfaces in manifolds of non-negative Ricci curvature
We study minimal hypersurfaces in manifolds of non-negative Ricci curvature,
Euclidean volume growth and quadratic curvature decay at infinity. By
comparison with capped spherical cones, we identify a precise borderline for
the Ricci curvature decay. Above this value, no complete area-minimizing
hypersurfaces exist. Below this value, in contrast, we construct examples.Comment: 31 pages. Comments are welcome
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