In this paper, a new adjustment to the damping parameter of the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm is proposed to save training time and to reduce error oscillations. The damping parameter of the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm switches between a gradient descent method and the Gauss-Newton method. It also affects training speed and induces error oscillations when a decay rate is fixed. Therefore, our damping strategy decreases the damping parameter with the inner product between weight vectors to make the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm behave more like the Gauss-Newton method, and it increases the damping parameter with a diagonally dominant matrix to make the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm act like a gradient descent method. We tested two simple classifications and a handwritten digit recognition for this work. Simulations showed that our method improved training speed and error oscillations were fewer than those of other algorithms.
For an improved neuro-spike representation of auditory signals within cochlea models, a new digital ARMA-type low-pass filter structure is proposed. It is compared to more conventional AR-type counterpart on a classification of biosonar echoes, in which echoes from various tree species insonified with a bat-like chirp call are converted to biologically plausible feature vectors. Next, parametric and non-parametric models of the class-conditional densities are built from the echo feature vectors. The models are deployed in single-shot and sequential-decision classification algorithms. The results indicate that the proposed ARMA filter structure offers an improved single-echo classification performance, which leads to faster sequential-decision making than its AR-type counterpart.
$G(3,m,n)$ is the group presented by $\langle a,b\mid a^5=(ab)^2=b^{m+3}a^{-n}b^ma^{-n}=1\rangle $. In this paper, we study the structure of $G(3,m,n)$. We also give a new efficient presentation for the Projective Special Linear group $PSL(2,5)$ and in particular we prove that $PSL(2,5)$ is isomorphic to $G(3,m,n)$ under certain conditions.
Finite element methods with piecewise polynomial spaces in space for solving the nonstationary heat equation, as a model for parabolic equations are considered. The discretization in time is performed using the Crank-Nicolson method. A new a priori estimate is proved. Thanks to this new a priori estimate, a new error estimate in the discrete norm of W1,∞(L 2 ) is proved. An L∞(H1 )-error estimate is also shown. These error estimates are useful since they allow us to get second order time accurate approximations for not only the exact solution of the heat equation but also for its first derivatives (both spatial and temporal). Even the proof presented in this note is in some sense standard but the stated W1,∞(L 2 )- error estimate seems not to be present in the existing literature of the Crank-Nicolson finite element schemes for parabolic equations.
In this paper, we introduce a general family of continuous lifetime distributions by compounding any continuous distribution and the Poisson-Lindley distribution. It is more flexible than several recently introduced lifetime distributions. The failure rate functions of our family can be increasing, decreasing, bathtub shaped and unimodal shaped. Several properties of this family are investigated including shape characteristics of the probability density, moments, order statistics, (reversed) residual lifetime moments, conditional moments and Rényi entropy. The parameters are estimated by the maximum likelihood method and the Fisher's information matrix is determined. Several special cases of this family are studied in some detail. An application to a real data set illustrates the performance of the family of distributions.
An n × n ray pattern A is called a spectrally arbitrary ray pattern if the complex matrices in Q(A) give rise to all possible complex polynomials of degree n. In a paper of Mei, Gao, Shao, and Wang (2014) was proved that the minimum number of nonzeros in an n×n irreducible spectrally arbitrary ray pattern is 3n-1. In this paper, we introduce a new family of spectrally arbitrary ray patterns of order n with exactly 3n - 1 nonzeros., Yinzhen Mei, Yubin Gao, Yanling Shao, Peng Wang., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
In this paper, we provide a new family of trivariate proper quasi-copulas. As an application, we show that W3 - the best-possible lower bound for the set of trivariate quasi-copulas (and copulas) - is the limit member of this family, showing how the mass of W3 is distributed on the plane x+y+z=2 of [0,1]3 in an easy manner, and providing the generalization of this result to n dimensions.
A new feather mite species, Dolichodectes hispanicus sp. n. (Astigmata: Proctophyllodidae), is described from the Melodious Warbler Hippolais polyglotta (Vieillot) (Passeriformes: Acrocephalidae) in Spain. The new species is closest to the type species of the genus, D. edwardsi (Trouessart, 1885) from the Grear Reed-Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus (Linnaeus) (Acrocephalidae). Adults of D. hispanicus differ from those of D. edwardsi by dimensional characteristics, in particular, by having shorter aedeagus that does not extend to the anal suckers in males and shorter hysteronotal shield in females. Tritonymphs of D. hispanicus are much more distinctive and differ from those of D. edwardsi by having the prodorsal shield covering all the prodorsum, the hysteronotal shield occupying about three quarters of the hysterosoma, and idiosomal setae h3 being filiform. The morphological description of the new species is augmented by sequence data from the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene fragment (COI)., Sergey V. Mironov, Jorge Doña, Roger Jovani., and Obsahuje bibliografii
Twenty two percent (22/98) of intertidal fishes of 10 species captured in South Africa at Koppie Alleen, De Hoop Nature Reserve (south coast) and Mouille Point, Cape Town (west coast), harboured single or combined infections of haemogregarines, trypanosomes and an intraerythrocytic parasite resembling a Haemohormidium sp. The haemogregarines included the known species Haemogregarina (sensu lato) bigemina (Laveran et Mesnil, 1901) Siddall, 1995 and Haemogregarina (sensu lato) koppiensis Smit et Davies, 2001, while Haemogregarina (sensu lato) curvata sp. n. was observed in Clinus cottoides Valenciennes and Parablennius cornutus (L.) at Koppie Alleen. This last haemogregarine is characterised particularly by its distinctly curved gamonts. Also at Koppie Alleen, squash and histological preparations of 9/10 leeches, Zeylanicobdella arugamensis De Silva, 1963, taken from infected C. cottoides and P. cornutus contained developmental stages of H. curvata and/or trypanosomes, but these were absent from haematophagous gnathiid isopods (Gnathia africana Barnard, 1914) taken from infected fishes. It is suspected that Z. arugamensis transmits the haemogregarine and trypanosomes simultaneously between fishes, a double event unreported previously from the marine environment.
A new form of α-compactness is introduced in L-topological spaces by α-open L-sets and their inequality where L is a complete de Morgan algebra. It doesn’t rely on the structure of the basis lattice L. It can also be characterized by means of α-closed L-sets and their inequality. When L is a completely distributive de Morgan algebra, its many characterizations are presented and the relations between it and the other types of compactness are discussed. Countable α-compactness and the α-Lindelöf property are also researched.