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cond-mat.soft2020★ 1 cited

Dynamical Entanglement and Cooperative Dynamics in Entangled Solutions of Ring and Linear Polymers

Davide Michieletto, Takahiro Sakaue

Understanding how entanglements affect the behaviour of polymeric complex fluids is an open challenge in many fields. To elucidate the nature and consequence of entanglements in de…

cs.CV2020★ 1 cited

COIN: Contrastive Identifier Network for Breast Mass Diagnosis in Mammography

Heyi Li, Dongdong Chen, William H. Nailon +2

Computer-aided breast cancer diagnosis in mammography is a challenging problem, stemming from mammographical data scarcity and data entanglement. In particular, data scarcity is at…

math.OC2020★ 21 cited

Computing Optimal (R, s, S) Policy Parameters by a Hybrid of Branch-and-Bound and Stochastic Dynamic Programming

Andrea Visentin, Steven Prestwich, Roberto Rossi +1

A well-know control policy in stochastic inventory control is the (R, s, S) policy, in which inventory is raised to an order-up-to-level S at a review instant R whenever it falls b…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 18 cited

Extremely energetic supernova explosions embedded in a massive circumstellar medium: the case of SN 2016aps

Akihiro Suzuki, Matt Nicholl, Takashi J. Moriya +1

We perform one-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of energetic supernova ejecta colliding with a massive circumstellar medium (CSM) aiming at explaining SN 2016aps, lik…

cs.DL2020

Nine Best Practices for Research Software Registries and Repositories: A Concise Guide

Task Force on Best Practices for Software Registries, :, Alain Monteil +30

Scientific software registries and repositories serve various roles in their respective disciplines. These resources improve software discoverability and research transparency, pro…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 26 cited

SN 2017gci: a nearby Type I Superluminous Supernova with a bumpy tail

Achille Fiore, Ting-Wan Chen, Anders Jerkstrand +26

We present and discuss the optical spectro-photometric observations of the nearby (z=0.087) Type I superluminous supernova (SLSN I) SN 2017gci, whose peak K-corrected absolute magn…

econ.GN2020

How many people are infected? A case study on SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in Austria

Gabriel Ziegler

Using recent data from voluntary mass testing, I provide credible bounds on prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 for Austrian counties in early December 2020. When estimating prevalence, a nat…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 22 cited

Evidence for chromium hydride in the atmosphere of Hot Jupiter WASP-31b

Marrick Braam, Floris F. S. van der Tak, Katy L. Chubb +1

Context. The characterisation of exoplanet atmospheres has shown a wide diversity in compositions. Hot Jupiters have the appropriate temperatures to host metallic compounds, which…

hep-lat2020★ 21 cited

Variations on the Maiani-Testa approach and the inverse problem

Mattia Bruno, Maxwell T. Hansen

We discuss a method to construct hadronic scattering and decay amplitudes from Euclidean correlators, by combining the approach of a regulated inverse Laplace transform with the wo…

quant-ph2020★ 15 cited

Variational Quantum Cloning: Improving Practicality for Quantum Cryptanalysis

Brian Coyle, Mina Doosti, Elham Kashefi +1

Cryptanalysis on standard quantum cryptographic systems generally involves finding optimal adversarial attack strategies on the underlying protocols. The core principle of modellin…

hep-th2020★ 76 cited

Classical Solutions and their Double Copy in Split Signature

Ricardo Monteiro, Donal O'Connell, David Peinador Veiga +1

The three-point amplitude is the key building block in the on-shell approach to scattering amplitudes. We show that the classical objects computed by massive three-point amplitudes…

cs.DC2020★ 55 cited

RC-chain: Reputation-based Crowdsourcing Blockchain for Vehicular Networks

L. J. Sun, Q. Yang, X. Chen +1

As the commercial use of 5G technologies has grown more prevalent, smart vehicles have become an efficient platform for delivering a wide array of services directly to customers. T…

physics.ins-det2020★ 33 cited

Imaging neutron capture cross sections: i-TED proof-of-concept and future prospects based on Machine-Learning techniques

V. Babiano-Suárez, J. Lerendegui-Marco, J. Balibrea-Correa +132

i-TED is an innovative detection system which exploits Compton imaging techniques to achieve a superior signal-to-background ratio in () cross-section measurements using time-…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 48 cited

Accretion disc cooling and narrow absorption lines in the tidal disruption event AT 2019dsg

G. Cannizzaro, T. Wevers, P. G. Jonker +23

We present the results of a large multi-wavelength follow-up campaign of the Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) \dsg, focusing on low to high resolution optical spectroscopy, X-ray, and…

cs.FL2020

On probabilistic stable event structures

Nargess Ghahremani, Julian Bradfield

Concurrency and probability are both much studied extensions of sequential computation. Within concurrency theory, there is a broad divide between interleaving models and logics, w…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 21 cited

Creation/destruction of ultra-wide binaries in tidal streams

Jorge Peñarrubia

This paper uses statistical and -body methods to explore a new mechanism to form binary stars with extremely large separations (), whose origin is poorly unders…

cs.DC2020★ 3 cited

Usage Scenarios for Byte-Addressable Persistent Memory inHigh-Performance and Data Intensive Computing

Michele Weiland, Bernhard Homoelle

Byte-addressable persistent memory (B-APM) presents a new opportunity to bridge the performance gap between main memory and storage. In this paper, we present the usage scenarios f…

cs.RO2020★ 198 cited

Multi-expert learning of adaptive legged locomotion

Chuanyu Yang, Kai Yuan, Qiuguo Zhu +2

Achieving versatile robot locomotion requires motor skills which can adapt to previously unseen situations. We propose a Multi-Expert Learning Architecture (MELA) that learns to ge…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 9 cited

Investigating three Sirius-like systems with SPHERE

R. Gratton, V. D'Orazi, T. A. Pacheco +61

Sirius-like systems are wide binaries composed of a white dwarf (WD) and a companion of a spectral type earlier than M0. The WD progenitor evolves in isolation, but its wind during…

cs.LG2020★ 5 cited

Robust Domain Randomised Reinforcement Learning through Peer-to-Peer Distillation

Chenyang Zhao, Timothy Hospedales

In reinforcement learning, domain randomisation is an increasingly popular technique for learning more general policies that are robust to domain-shifts at deployment. However, nai…

cs.CV2020★ 8 cited

NightVision: Generating Nighttime Satellite Imagery from Infra-Red Observations

Paula Harder, William Jones, Redouane Lguensat +8

The recent explosion in applications of machine learning to satellite imagery often rely on visible images and therefore suffer from a lack of data during the night. The gap can be…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 1.2k cited

Gaia Early Data Release 3: The astrometric solution

L. Lindegren, S. A. Klioner, J. Hernández +94

Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) contains results for 1.812 billion sources in the magnitude range G = 3 to 21 based on observations collected by the European Space Agency Gai…

cs.CL2020★ 4 cited

Inductive Bias and Language Expressivity in Emergent Communication

Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Agnieszka Słowik +1

Referential games and reconstruction games are the most common game types for studying emergent languages. We investigate how the type of the language game affects the emergent lan…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 62 cited

The ThreeHundred: the structure and properties of cosmic filaments in the outskirts of galaxy clusters

Agustín Rost, Ulrike Kuchner, Charlotte Welker +8

Galaxy cluster outskirts are described by complex velocity fields induced by diffuse material collapsing towards filaments, gas and galaxies falling into clusters, and gas shock pr…