An open-locating-dominating set of a graph models a detection system for a facility with a possible "intruder" or a multiprocessor network with a possible malfunctioning processor. A "sensor" or "detector" is assumed to be installed at a subset of vertices where it can detect an intruder or a malfunctioning processor in their neighborhood, but not at itself. We consider a fault-tolerant variant of an open-locating-dominating set called an error-correcting open-locating-dominating set, which can correct a false-positive or a false-negative signal from a detector. In particular, we prove the problem of finding a minimum error-correcting open-locating-dominating set in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete. Additionally, we characterize the existence criteria for an error-correcting open-locating-dominating sets for an arbitrary graph. We also consider extremal graphs that require every vertex to be a detector and minimum error-correcting open-locating-dominating sets in infinite grids.
A rigidity circuit (in 2D) is a minimal dependent set in the rigidity matroid, i.e. a minimal graph supporting a non-trivial stress in any generic placement of its vertices in $\mathbb R^2$. Any rigidity circuit on $n\geq 5$ vertices can be obtained from rigidity circuits on a fewer number of vertices by applying the combinatorial resultant (CR) operation. The inverse operation is called a combinatorial resultant decomposition (CR-decomp). Any rigidity circuit on $n\geq 5$ vertices can be successively decomposed into smaller circuits, until the complete graphs $K_4$ are reached. This sequence of CR-decomps has the structure of a rooted binary tree called the combinatorial resultant tree (CR-tree). A CR-tree encodes an elimination strategy for computing circuit polynomials via Sylvester resultants. Different CR-trees lead to elimination strategies that can vary greatly in time and memory consumption. It is an open problem to establish criteria for optimal CR-trees, or at least to characterize those CR-trees that lead to good elimination strategies. In [12] we presented an algorithm for enumerating CR-trees where we give the algorithms for decomposing 3-connected rigidity circuits in polynomial time. In this paper we focus on those circuits that are not 3-connected, which we simply call 2-connected. In order to enumerate CR-decomps of 2-connected circuits $G$, a brute force exp-time search has to be performed among the subgraphs induced by the subsets of $V(G)$. This exp-time bottleneck is not present in the 3-connected case. In this paper we will argue that we do not have to account for all possible CR-decomps of 2-connected rigidity circuits to find a good elimination strategy; we only have to account for those CR-decomps that are a 2-split, all of which can be enumerated in polynomial time. We present algorithms and computational evidence in support of this heuristic.
We present a novel stabilized isogeometric formulation for the Stokes problem, where the geometry of interest is obtained via overlapping NURBS (non-uniform rational B-spline) patches, i.e., one patch on top of another in an arbitrary but predefined hierarchical order. All the visible regions constitute the computational domain, whereas independent patches are coupled through visible interfaces using Nitsche's formulation. Such a geometric representation inevitably involves trimming, which may yield trimmed elements of extremely small measures (referred to as bad elements) and thus lead to the instability issue. Motivated by the minimal stabilization method that rigorously guarantees stability for trimmed geometries [1], in this work we generalize it to the Stokes problem on overlapping patches. Central to our method is the distinct treatments for the pressure and velocity spaces: Stabilization for velocity is carried out for the flux terms on interfaces, whereas pressure is stabilized in all the bad elements. We provide a priori error estimates with a comprehensive theoretical study. Through a suite of numerical tests, we first show that optimal convergence rates are achieved, which consistently agrees with our theoretical findings. Second, we show that the accuracy of pressure is significantly improved by several orders using the proposed stabilization method, compared to the results without stabilization. Finally, we also demonstrate the flexibility and efficiency of the proposed method in capturing local features in the solution field.
Information inequalities appear in many database applications such as query output size bounds, query containment, and implication between data dependencies. Recently Khamis et al. proposed to study the algorithmic aspects of information inequalities, including the information inequality problem: decide whether a linear inequality over entropies of random variables is valid. While the decidability of this problem is a major open question, applications often involve only inequalities that adhere to specific syntactic forms linked to useful semantic invariance properties. This paper studies the information inequality problem in different syntactic and semantic scenarios that arise from database applications. Focusing on the boundary between tractability and intractability, we show that the information inequality problem is coNP-complete if restricted to normal polymatroids, and in polynomial time if relaxed to monotone functions. We also examine syntactic restrictions related to query output size bounds, and provide an alternative proof, through monotone functions, for the polynomial-time computability of the entropic bound over simple sets of degree constraints.
We give a short survey of recent results on sparse-grid linear algorithms of approximate recovery and integration of functions possessing a unweighted or weighted Sobolev mixed smoothness based on their sampled values at a certain finite set. Some of them are extended to more general cases.
Point source localisation is generally modelled as a Lasso-type problem on measures. However, optimisation methods in non-Hilbert spaces, such as the space of Radon measures, are much less developed than in Hilbert spaces. Most numerical algorithms for point source localisation are based on the Frank-Wolfe conditional gradient method, for which ad hoc convergence theory is developed. We develop extensions of proximal-type methods to spaces of measures. This includes forward-backward splitting, its inertial version, and primal-dual proximal splitting. Their convergence proofs follow standard patterns. We demonstrate their numerical efficacy.
Ordinary state-based peridynamic (OSB-PD) models have an unparalleled capability to simulate crack propagation phenomena in solids with arbitrary Poisson's ratio. However, their non-locality also leads to prohibitively high computational cost. In this paper, a fast solution scheme for OSB-PD models based on matrix operation is introduced, with which, the graphics processing units (GPUs) are used to accelerate the computation. For the purpose of comparison and verification, a commonly used solution scheme based on loop operation is also presented. An in-house software is developed in MATLAB. Firstly, the vibration of a cantilever beam is solved for validating the loop- and matrix-based schemes by comparing the numerical solutions to those produced by a FEM software. Subsequently, two typical dynamic crack propagation problems are simulated to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed schemes in solving dynamic fracture problems. Finally, the simulation of the Brokenshire torsion experiment is carried out by using the matrix-based scheme, and the similarity in the shapes of the experimental and numerical broken specimens further demonstrates the ability of the proposed approach to deal with 3D non-planar fracture problems. In addition, the speed-up of the matrix-based scheme with respect to the loop-based scheme and the performance of the GPU acceleration are investigated. The results emphasize the high computational efficiency of the matrix-based implementation scheme.
Prompts are crucial to large language models as they provide context information such as topic or logical relationships. Inspired by this, we propose PromptASR, a framework that integrates prompts in end-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E ASR) systems to achieve contextualized ASR with controllable style of transcriptions. Specifically, a dedicated text encoder encodes the text prompts and the encodings are injected into the speech encoder by cross-attending the features from two modalities. When using the ground truth text from preceding utterances as content prompt, the proposed system achieves 21.9% and 6.8% relative word error rate reductions on a book reading dataset and an in-house dataset compared to a baseline ASR system. The system can also take word-level biasing lists as prompt to improve recognition accuracy on rare words. An additional style prompt can be given to the text encoder and guide the ASR system to output different styles of transcriptions. The code is available at icefall.
We examine a stochastic formulation for data-driven optimization wherein the decision-maker is not privy to the true distribution, but has knowledge that it lies in some hypothesis set and possesses a historical data set, from which information about it can be gleaned. We define a prescriptive solution as a decision rule mapping such a data set to decisions. As there does not exist prescriptive solutions that are generalizable over the entire hypothesis set, we define out-of-sample optimality as a local average over a neighbourhood of hypotheses, and averaged over the sampling distribution. We prove sufficient conditions for local out-of-sample optimality, which reduces to functions of the sufficient statistic of the hypothesis family. We present an optimization problem that would solve for such an out-of-sample optimal solution, and does so efficiently by a combination of sampling and bisection search algorithms. Finally, we illustrate our model on the newsvendor model, and find strong performance when compared against alternatives in the literature. There are potential implications of our research on end-to-end learning and Bayesian optimization.
Parametric mathematical models such as parameterizations of partial differential equations with random coefficients have received a lot of attention within the field of uncertainty quantification. The model uncertainties are often represented via a series expansion in terms of the parametric variables. In practice, this series expansion needs to be truncated to a finite number of terms, introducing a dimension truncation error to the numerical simulation of a parametric mathematical model. There have been several studies of the dimension truncation error corresponding to different models of the input random field in recent years, but many of these analyses have been carried out within the context of numerical integration. In this paper, we study the $L^2$ dimension truncation error of the parametric model problem. Estimates of this kind arise in the assessment of the dimension truncation error for function approximation in high dimensions. In addition, we show that the dimension truncation error rate is invariant with respect to certain transformations of the parametric variables. Numerical results are presented which showcase the sharpness of the theoretical results.
We propose an approach to compute inner and outer-approximations of the sets of values satisfying constraints expressed as arbitrarily quantified formulas. Such formulas arise for instance when specifying important problems in control such as robustness, motion planning or controllers comparison. We propose an interval-based method which allows for tractable but tight approximations. We demonstrate its applicability through a series of examples and benchmarks using a prototype implementation.