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cs.CL2020★ 9 cited

I like fish, especially dolphins: Addressing Contradictions in Dialogue Modeling

Yixin Nie, Mary Williamson, Mohit Bansal +2

To quantify how well natural language understanding models can capture consistency in a general conversation, we introduce the DialoguE COntradiction DEtection task (DECODE) and a…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 39 cited

Lithium pollution of a white dwarf records the accretion of an extrasolar planetesimal

Benjamin C. Kaiser, J. Christopher Clemens, Simon Blouin +4

Tidal disruption and subsequent accretion of planetesimals by white dwarfs can reveal the elemental abundances of rocky bodies in exoplanetary systems. Those abundances provide inf…

cs.CV2020★ 105 cited

Direct Estimation of Spinal Cobb Angles by Structured Multi-Output Regression

Haoliang Sun, Xiantong Zhen, Chris Bailey +3

The Cobb angle that quantitatively evaluates the spinal curvature plays an important role in the scoliosis diagnosis and treatment. Conventional measurement of these angles suffers…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 19 cited

Search for Low-energy Electron Antineutrinos in KamLAND Associated with Gravitational Wave Events

S. Abe, S. Asami, A. Gando +65

We present the results of a search for MeV-scale electron antineutrino events in KamLAND in coincident with the 60 gravitational wave events/candidates reported by the LIGO/Virgo c…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 37 cited

Searches after Gravitational Waves Using ARizona Observatories (SAGUARO): Observations and Analysis from Advanced LIGO/Virgo's Third Observing Run

K. Paterson, M. J. Lundquist, J. C. Rastinejad +34

With the conclusion of the third observing run for Advanced LIGO/Virgo (O3), we present a detailed analysis of both triggered and serendipitous observations of 17 gravitational wav…

math.OC2020

Optimizing Demand-Responsive Paratransit Operations: A Mixed Integer Programming Approach

Xiaojian Zhang, Yu Yang, Abigail L. Cochran +2

The traditional demand-responsive paratransit system plays an important role in connecting people to health care, particularly those who are carless, low-income, senior, underinsur…

stat.ME2020★ 1 cited

High-Dimensional Spatial Quantile Function-on-Scalar Regression

Zhengwu Zhang, Xiao Wang, Linglong Kong +1

This paper develops a novel spatial quantile function-on-scalar regression model, which studies the conditional spatial distribution of a high-dimensional functional response given…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 20 cited

Exploring the Dust Content of Galactic Halos with Herschel III. NGC 891

J. H. Yoon, Crystal L. Martin, S. Veilleux +6

We present deep far-infrared observations of the nearby edge-on galaxy NGC 891 obtained with the Herschel Space Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The maps confirm the de…

math.AG2020★ 11 cited

The -Selberg integral of type

Richard Rimanyi, Alexander Varchenko

We prove an -Selberg integral formula of type , in which the -Selberg integral is an element of the finite field with odd prime number…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 10 cited

Revisiting the HD 21749 Planetary System with Stellar Activity Modeling

Tianjun Gan, Sharon Xuesong Wang, Johanna K. Teske +26

HD 21749 is a bright ( mag) K dwarf at 16 pc known to host an inner terrestrial planet HD 21749c as well as an outer sub-Neptune HD 21749b, both delivered by TESS. Follow-up…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 2 cited

Reduced Order Models for the Quasi-Geostrophic Equations: A Brief Survey

Changhong Mou, Zhu Wang, David R. Wells +2

Reduced order models (ROMs) are computational models whose dimension is significantly lower than those obtained through classical numerical discretizations (e.g., finite element, f…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 112 cited

I Spy Transits and Pulsations: Empirical Variability in White Dwarfs Using Gaia and the Zwicky Transient Facility

Joseph A. Guidry, Zachary P. Vanderbosch, J. J. Hermes +13

We present a novel method to detect variable astrophysical objects and transient phenomena using anomalous excess scatter in repeated measurements from public catalogs of Gaia DR2…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 60 cited

Two young planetary systems around field stars with ages between 20-320 Myr from TESS

George Zhou, Samuel N. Quinn, Jonathan Irwin +46

Planets around young stars trace the early evolution of planetary systems. We report the discovery and validation of two planetary systems with ages Myr from observa…

stat.ME2020★ 38 cited

Sensitivity analyses for effect modifiers not observed in the target population when generalizing treatment effects from a randomized controlled trial: Assumptions, models, effect scales, data scenarios, and implementation details

Trang Quynh Nguyen, Benjamin Ackerman, Ian Schmid +2

Background: Randomized controlled trials are often used to inform policy and practice for broad populations. The average treatment effect (ATE) for a target population, however, ma…

stat.ME2020★ 1 cited

On variance of the treatment effect in the treated using inverse probability weighting

Sarah A. Reifeis, Michael G. Hudgens

In the analysis of observational studies, inverse probability weighting (IPW) is commonly used to consistently estimate the average treatment effect (ATE) or the average treatment…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 6 cited

Die Hard Holographic Phenomenology of Cuprates

D. V. Khveshchenko

This note discusses the attempts of fitting a number of the approximate power-law dependencies observed in the cuprates into one consistent holographic or holographically inspired…

cs.LG2020

Convergence Analysis of Homotopy-SGD for non-convex optimization

Matilde Gargiani, Andrea Zanelli, Quoc Tran-Dinh +2

First-order stochastic methods for solving large-scale non-convex optimization problems are widely used in many big-data applications, e.g. training deep neural networks as well as…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 33 cited

Void Galaxies Follow a Distinct Evolutionary Path in the Environmental COntext Catalog

Jonathan Florez, Andreas A. Berlind, Sheila J. Kannappan +6

We measure the environmental dependence, where environment is defined by the distance to the third nearest neighbor, of multiple galaxy properties inside the Environmental COntext…

cs.CL2020★ 3 cited

ArraMon: A Joint Navigation-Assembly Instruction Interpretation Task in Dynamic Environments

Hyounghun Kim, Abhay Zala, Graham Burri +2

For embodied agents, navigation is an important ability but not an isolated goal. Agents are also expected to perform specific tasks after reaching the target location, such as pic…

cs.CL2020

DORB: Dynamically Optimizing Multiple Rewards with Bandits

Ramakanth Pasunuru, Han Guo, Mohit Bansal

Policy gradients-based reinforcement learning has proven to be a promising approach for directly optimizing non-differentiable evaluation metrics for language generation tasks. How…

stat.ME2020

Semiparametric inference for the scale-mixture of normal partial linear regression model with censored data

Mehrdad Naderi, Elham Mirfarah, Matthew Bernhardt +1

In the framework of censored data modeling, the classical linear regression model that assumes normally distributed random errors has received increasing attention in recent years,…

cs.RO2020★ 113 cited

Spoken Language Interaction with Robots: Research Issues and Recommendations, Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop

Matthew Marge, Carol Espy-Wilson, Nigel Ward

With robotics rapidly advancing, more effective human-robot interaction is increasingly needed to realize the full potential of robots for society. While spoken language must be pa…

hep-ex2020★ 42 cited

Bound on 3+1 active-sterile neutrino mixing from the first four-week science run of KATRIN

M. Aker, K. Altenmueller, A. Beglarian +126

We report on the light sterile neutrino search from the first four-week science run of the KATRIN experiment in~2019. Beta-decay electrons from a high-purity gaseous molecular trit…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 35 cited

Orbital Foregrounds for Ultra-Short Duration Transients

Hank Corbett, Nicholas M. Law, Alan Vasquez Soto +7

Reflections from objects in Earth orbit can produce sub-second, star-like optical flashes similar to astrophysical transients. Reflections have historically caused false alarms for…