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most citedObservation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

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math.AG2015★ 2 cited

Acyclic complexes and 1-affineness

Dennis Gaitsgory, Sam Raskin

This short note is an erratum to arXiv:1306.4304, correcting the proof of one of its main results. It includes some counterexamples regarding infinite-dimensional unipotent groups…

math.AG2015★ 8 cited

Integral models of Shimura varieties with parahoric level structure

M. Kisin, G. Pappas

For an odd prime p, we construct integral models over p for Shimura varieties with parahoric level structure, attached to Shimura data (G,X) of abelian type, such that G splits ove…

quant-ph2015★ 2 cited

Quantum Algorithms and Circuits for Scientific Computing

Mihir K. Bhaskar, Stuart Hadfield, Anargyros Papageorgiou +1

Quantum algorithms for scientific computing require modules implementing fundamental functions, such as the square root, the logarithm, and others. We require algorithms that have…

cs.LG2015★ 13 cited

Multimodal sparse representation learning and applications

Miriam Cha, Youngjune Gwon, H. T. Kung

Unsupervised methods have proven effective for discriminative tasks in a single-modality scenario. In this paper, we present a multimodal framework for learning sparse representati…

stat.ML2015★ 143 cited

Predictive Entropy Search for Multi-objective Bayesian Optimization

Daniel Hernández-Lobato, José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, Amar Shah +1

We present PESMO, a Bayesian method for identifying the Pareto set of multi-objective optimization problems, when the functions are expensive to evaluate. The central idea of PESMO…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

Distinct Reconstruction Patterns and Spin-Resolved Electronic States along the Zigzag Edges of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Ping Cui, Jin-Ho Choi, Wei Chen +5

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides represent an emerging class of materials exhibiting various intriguing properties, and integration of such materials for potential…

hep-th2015★ 16 cited

Elliptic Virasoro Conformal Blocks

Amer Iqbal, Can Kozcaz, Shing-Tung Yau

We study certain six dimensional theories arising on brane webs living on . These brane webs are dual to toric elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefo…

astro-ph.CO2015

Deriving Photometric Redshifts using Fuzzy Archetypes and Self-Organizing Maps. II. Comparing Sampling Techniques Using Mock Data

Joshua S. Speagle, Daniel J. Eisenstein

In a companion paper, we proposed combining large numbers of "fuzzy archetypes" with Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) to derive photometric redshifts in a data-driven way. In this paper…

cs.DS2015★ 13 cited

An Improved Randomized Data Structure for Dynamic Graph Connectivity

Zhengyu Wang

We present a randomized algorithm for dynamic graph connectivity. With failure probability less than (for any constant we choose), our solution has worst case running t…

astro-ph.GA2015

C III] Emission in Star-Forming Galaxies Near and Far

Jane R. Rigby, Matthew B. Bayliss, Michael D. Gladders +5

We measure C III] 1907,1909 A emission lines in eleven gravitationally--lensed star-forming galaxies at z~1.6--3, finding much lower equivalent widths than previously reported for…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015

Orientationally Misaligned Zipping of Lateral Graphene and Boron Nitride Nanoribbons with Minimized Strain Energy and Enhanced Half-Metallicity

Jiang Zeng, Wei Chen, Ping Cui +2

Lateral heterostructures of two-dimensional materials may exhibit various intriguing emergent properties. Yet when specified to the orientationally aligned heterojunctions of zigza…

physics.optics2015★ 1 cited

Ultra-compact In-Line Scattering Polarimetry

J. P. Balthasar Müller, Kristjan Leosson, Federico Capasso

In-line polarimeters perform non-destructive polarization measurements of optical signals, and play a critical role in monitoring and controlling the polarization environment in fo…

quant-ph2015★ 1 cited

Quantum Control of Many-body Localized States

Soonwon Choi, Norman Y. Yao, Sarang Gopalakrishnan +1

We propose and analyze a new approach to the coherent control and manipulation of quantum degrees of freedom in disordered, interacting systems in the many-body localized phase. Ou…

physics.flu-dyn2015★ 1 cited

Elastohydrodynamics of contact in adherent sheets

Andreas Carlson, Shreyas Mandre, L. Mahadevan

Adhesive contact between a thin elastic sheet and a substrate in a liquid environment arises in a range of biological, physical and technological applications. By considering the d…

q-fin.CP2015★ 11 cited

Dynamic Mode Decomposition for Financial Trading Strategies

Jordan Mann, J. Nathan Kutz

We demonstrate the application of an algorithmic trading strategy based upon the recently developed dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) on portfolios of financial data. The method is…

quant-ph2015

Unpredictability and the transmission of numbers

John M. Myers, F. Hadi Madjid

Curiously overlooked in physics is its dependence on the transmission of numbers. For example the transmission of numerical clock readings is implicit in the concept of a coordinat…

math.ST2015★ 1 cited

Principal causal effect identification and surrogate endpoint evaluation by multiple trials

Zhichao Jiang, Peng Ding, Zhi Geng

Principal stratification is a causal framework to analyze randomized experiments with a post-treatment variable between the treatment and endpoint variables. Because the principal…

cs.CV2015★ 18 cited

Face Alignment Assisted by Head Pose Estimation

Heng Yang, Wenxuan Mou, Yichi Zhang +3

In this paper we propose a supervised initialization scheme for cascaded face alignment based on explicit head pose estimation. We first investigate the failure cases of most state…

stat.ML2015★ 7 cited

Scalable Gaussian Process Classification via Expectation Propagation

Daniel Hernández-Lobato, José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Variational methods have been recently considered for scaling the training process of Gaussian process classifiers to large datasets. As an alternative, we describe here how to tra…

math.ST2015★ 16 cited

On consistency and sparsity for sliced inverse regression in high dimensions

Qian Lin, Zhigen Zhao, Jun S. Liu

We provide here a framework to analyze the phase transition phenomenon of slice inverse regression (SIR), a supervised dimension reduction technique introduced by \cite{Li:1991}. U…

hep-ex2015★ 7 cited

Measurement of the production and differential cross sections of bosons in association with jets in collisions at TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +400

We present a measurement of the -boson-pair production cross section in collisions at 1.96 TeV center-of-mass energy and the first measurement of the differential cro…

astro-ph.HE2015

Lord of the Rings: A Kinematic Distance to Circinus X-1 from a Giant X-Ray Light Echo

Sebastian Heinz, Michael G. Burton, Catherine Braiding +6

Circinus X-1 exhibited a bright X-ray flare in late 2013. Follow-up observations with Chandra and XMM-Newton from 40 to 80 days after the flare reveal a bright X-ray light echo in…

cs.CY2015

An Open Science Platform for the Next Generation of Data

Latanya Sweeney, Merce Crosas

Imagine an online work environment where researchers have direct and immediate access to myriad data sources and tools and data management resources, useful throughout the research…

cs.GT2015★ 2 cited

Computational Extensive-Form Games

Joseph Y. Halpern, Rafael Pass, Lior Seeman

We define solution concepts appropriate for computationally bounded players playing a fixed finite game. To do so, we need to define what it means for a \emph{computational game},…