Unknown I.I.D. Prophets: Better Bounds, Streaming Algorithms, and a New Impossibility

Kavli Affiliate: Felix Fischer | First 5 Authors: José Correa, Paul Dütting, Felix Fischer, Kevin Schewior, Bruno Ziliotto | Summary: A prophet inequality states, for some $alphain[0,1]$, that the expected value achievable by a gambler who sequentially observes random variables $X_1,dots,X_n$ and selects one of them is at least an $alpha$ fraction of the maximum […]


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Physics Successfully Implements Lagrange Multiplier Optimization

Kavli Affiliate: Eli Yablonovitch | First 5 Authors: Sri Krishna Vadlamani, Tianyao Patrick Xiao, Eli Yablonovitch, , | Summary: Optimization is a major part of human effort. While being mathematical, optimization is also built into physics. For example, physics has the principle of Least Action, the principle of Minimum Entropy Generation, and the Variational Principle. […]


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Physics Successfully Implements Lagrange Multiplier Optimization

Kavli Affiliate: Eli Yablonovitch | First 5 Authors: Sri Krishna Vadlamani, Tianyao Patrick Xiao, Eli Yablonovitch, , | Summary: Optimization is a major part of human effort. While being mathematical, optimization is also built into physics. For example, physics has the principle of Least Action, the principle of Minimum Entropy Generation, and the Variational Principle. […]


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Dual supermassive black holes at close separation revealed by the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program

Kavli Affiliate: Naoki Yasuda | First 5 Authors: John D. Silverman, Shenli Tang, Khee-Gan Lee, Tilman Hartwig, Andy Goulding | Summary: The unique combination of superb spatial resolution, wide-area coverage, and deep depth of the optical imaging from the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Subaru Strategic Program is utilized to search for dual quasar candidates. Using an […]


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Inferring the properties of a population of compact binaries in presence of selection effects

Kavli Affiliate: Salvatore Vitale | First 5 Authors: Salvatore Vitale, Davide Gerosa, Will M. Farr, Stephen R. Taylor, | Summary: Shortly after a new class of objects is discovered, the attention shifts from the properties of the individual sources to the question of their origin: do all sources come from the same underlying population, or […]


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Scientific Discovery by Generating Counterfactuals using Image Translation

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Brenner | First 5 Authors: Arunachalam Narayanaswamy, Subhashini Venugopalan, Dale R. Webster, Lily Peng, Greg Corrado | Summary: Model explanation techniques play a critical role in understanding the source of a model’s performance and making its decisions transparent. Here we investigate if explanation techniques can also be used as a mechanism for […]


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Scientific Discovery by Generating Counterfactuals using Image Translation

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Brenner | First 5 Authors: Arunachalam Narayanaswamy, Subhashini Venugopalan, Dale R. Webster, Lily Peng, Greg Corrado | Summary: Model explanation techniques play a critical role in understanding the source of a model’s performance and making its decisions transparent. Here we investigate if explanation techniques can also be used as a mechanism for […]


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ALMA Observations of Young Eruptive Stars: continuum disk sizes and molecular outflows

Kavli Affiliate: David A. Principe | First 5 Authors: Antonio S. Hales, Sebastián Pérez, Camilo Gonzalez-Ruilova, Lucas A. Cieza, Jonathan P. Williams | Summary: We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) 1.3 mm observations of four young, eruptive star-disk systems at 0.4" resolution: two FUors (V582 Aur and V900 Mon), one EXor (UZ Tau E) […]


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