Video Pose Distillation for Few-Shot, Fine-Grained Sports Action Recognition

Kavli Affiliate: Matthew Fisher | First 5 Authors: James Hong, Matthew Fisher, MichaĆ«l Gharbi, Kayvon Fatahalian, | Summary: Human pose is a useful feature for fine-grained sports action understanding. However, pose estimators are often unreliable when run on sports video due to domain shift and factors such as motion blur and occlusions. This leads to […]


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Robust decoding in monitored dynamics of open quantum systems with Z_2 symmetry

Kavli Affiliate: Matthew P. A. Fisher | First 5 Authors: Yaodong Li, Matthew P. A. Fisher, , , | Summary: We explore a class of "open" quantum circuit models with local decoherence ("noise") and local projective measurements, each respecting a global Z_2 symmetry. The model supports a spin glass phase where the Z_2 symmetry is […]


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Decodable hybrid dynamics of open quantum systems with Z_2 symmetry

Kavli Affiliate: Matthew P. A. Fisher | First 5 Authors: Yaodong Li, Matthew P. A. Fisher, , , | Summary: We explore a class of "open" quantum circuit models with local decoherence ("noise") and local projective measurements, each respecting a global Z_2 symmetry. The model supports a spin glass phase where the Z_2 symmetry is […]


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GLASS: Geometric Latent Augmentation for Shape Spaces

Kavli Affiliate: Matthew Fisher | First 5 Authors: Sanjeev Muralikrishnan, Siddhartha Chaudhuri, Noam Aigerman, Vladimir Kim, Matthew Fisher | Summary: We investigate the problem of training generative models on a very sparse collection of 3D models. We use geometrically motivated energies to augment and thus boost a sparse collection of example (training) models. We analyze […]


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Entanglement phase transitions in random stabilizer tensor networks

Kavli Affiliate: Matthew P. A. Fisher | First 5 Authors: Zhi-Cheng Yang, Yaodong Li, Matthew P. A. Fisher, Xiao Chen, | Summary: We explore a class of random tensor network models with “stabilizer” local tensors which we name Random Stabilizer Tensor Networks (RSTNs). For RSTNs defined on a two-dimensional square lattice, we perform extensive numerical […]


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Symmetry, Thermodynamics and Topology in Active Matter

Kavli Affiliate: Mark J. Bowick | First 5 Authors: Mark J. Bowick, Nikta Fakhri, M. Cristina Marchetti, Sriram Ramaswamy, | Summary: This article summarizes some of the open questions in the field of active matter that have emerged during Active20, a nine-week program held at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) in Spring 2020. […]


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A Multi-Implicit Neural Representation for Fonts

Kavli Affiliate: Matthew Fisher | First 5 Authors: Pradyumna Reddy, Zhifei Zhang, Matthew Fisher, Hailin Jin, Zhaowen Wang | Summary: Fonts are ubiquitous across documents and come in a variety of styles. They are either represented in a native vector format or rasterized to produce fixed resolution images. In the first case, the non-standard representation […]


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Still Brighter than Pre-Explosion, SN 2012Z Did Not Disappear: Comparing Hubble Space Telescope Observations a Decade Apart

Kavli Affiliate: Lars Bildsten | First 5 Authors: Curtis McCully, Saurabh W. Jha, Richard A. Scalzo, D. Andrew Howell, Ryan J. Foley | Summary: Type Iax supernovae represent the largest class of peculiar white-dwarf supernovae. The type Iax SN~2012Z in NGC 1309 is the only white dwarf supernova with a detected progenitor system in pre-explosion […]


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Proof methods for robust low-rank matrix recovery

Kavli Affiliate: David Gross | First 5 Authors: Tim Fuchs, David Gross, Peter Jung, Felix Krahmer, Richard Kueng | Summary: Low-rank matrix recovery problems arise naturally as mathematical formulations of various inverse problems, such as matrix completion, blind deconvolution, and phase retrieval. Over the last two decades, a number of works have rigorously analyzed the […]


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Entanglement Domain Walls in Monitored Quantum Circuits and the Directed Polymer in a Random Environment

Kavli Affiliate: Matthew P. A. Fisher | First 5 Authors: Yaodong Li, Sagar Vijay, Matthew P. A. Fisher, , | Summary: Monitored quantum dynamics reveal quantum state trajectories which exhibit a rich phenomenology of entanglement structures, including a transition from a weakly-monitored volume law entangled phase to a strongly-monitored area law phase. For one-dimensional hybrid […]


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