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The Structure of Free Polyphony

Christoph Finkensiep

The human ability to perceive and understand music is remarkable. From an unstructured stream of acoustic input it creates a wide range of experiences, from psycho-acoustic effects to emotional and aesthetic responses. One such set of phenomena is the expe ...

EPFL2023

Hierarchical tensile structures with ultralow mechanical dissipation

Tobias Kippenberg, Nils Johan Engelsen, Sergey Fedorov, Alberto Beccari, Amirali Arabmoheghi

Structural hierarchy is found in myriad biological systems and has improved man-made structures ranging from the Eiffel tower to optical cavities. In mechanical resonators whose rigidity is provided by static tension, structural hierarchy can reduce the di ...

Nature Portfolio2022

RG-Flow: a hierarchical and explainable flow model based on renormalization group and sparse prior

Dian Wu

Flow-based generative models have become an important class of unsupervised learning approaches. In this work, we incorporate the key ideas of renormalization group (RG) and sparse prior distribution to design a hierarchical flow-based generative model, RG ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

The micro-world of cographs

Dominique de Werra

Cographs constitute a small point in the atlas of graph classes. However, by zooming in on this point, we discover a complex world, where many parameters jump from finiteness to infinity. In the present paper, we identify several milestones in the world of ...

ELSEVIER2022

An a posteriori error estimator for isogeometric analysis on trimmed geometries

Annalisa Buffa, Rafael Vazquez Hernandez, Ondine Gabrielle Chanon

Trimming consists of cutting away parts of a geometric domain, without reconstructing a global parametrization (meshing). It is a widely used operation in computer-aided design, which generates meshes that are unfitted with the described physical object. T ...

2022

Western listeners detect boundary hierarchy in Indian music: a segmentation study

Martin Alois Rohrmeier

How are listeners able to follow and enjoy complex pieces of music? Several theoretical frameworks suggest links between the process of listening and the formal structure of music, involving a division of the musical surface into structural units at multip ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Global and high-level effects in crowding cannot be predicted by either high-dimensional pooling or target cueing

Michael Herzog, Adrien Christophe Doerig, Mauro Manassi, Alban Bornet, Oh-Hyeon Choung

In visual crowding, the perception of a target deteriorates in the presence of nearby flankers. Traditionally, target-flanker interactions have been considered as local, mostly deleterious, low-level, and feature specific, occurring when information is poo ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)2021

Multiscale Representation Learning of Graph Data With Node Affinity

Pascal Frossard

Graph neural networks have emerged as a popular and powerful tool for learning hierarchical representation of graph data. In complement to graph convolution operators, graph pooling is crucial for extracting hierarchical representation of data in graph neu ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Rebooting Virtual Memory with Midgard

Babak Falsafi, Mathias Josef Payer, Siddharth Gupta, Atri Bhattacharyya, Yunho Oh, Abhishek Bhattacharjee

Computer systems designers are building cache hierarchies with higher capacity to capture the ever-increasing working sets of modern workloads. Cache hierarchies with higher capacity improve system performance but shift the performance bottleneck to addres ...

2021

From vesicles to materials: bioinspired strategies for fabricating hierarchically structured soft matter

Esther Amstad

Certain organisms including species of mollusks, polychaetes, onychophorans and arthropods produce exceptional polymeric materials outside their bodies under ambient conditions using concentrated fluid protein precursors. While much is understood about the ...

ROYAL SOC2021

Designing Horizontality

Paola Viganò, Tommaso Pietropolli

This paper is divided into three parts. The first introduces a trilogy of concepts and figures of the discourse. The concept of isotropy, as opposed to hierarchy, evokes the same conditions in all directions. The concept of porosity tackles the fluidity an ...

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2021

Identifying the origin of local flexibility in a carbohydrate polymer

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Sabine Abb

Correlating the structures and properties of a polymer to its monomer sequence is key to understanding how its higher hierarchy structures are formed and how its macroscopic material properties emerge. Carbohydrate polymers, such as cellulose and chitin, a ...

National Academy of Sciences2021

The Jazz Harmony Treebank

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Daniel Harasim, Christoph Finkensiep, Petter Harald Ericson

Grammatical models which represent the hierarchical structure of chord sequences have proven very useful in recent analyses of Jazz harmony. A critical resource for building and evaluating such models is a ground-truth database of syntax trees that encode ...

ISMIR2020

Exploration Methodology for BTI-Induced Failures on RRAM-Based Edge AI Systems

David Atienza Alonso, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Miguel Peon Quiros, Marco Antonio Rios

Resistive switching memory technologies (RRAM) are seen by most of the scientific community as an enabler for Edge-level applications such as embedded deep Learning, AI or signal processing of audio and video signals. However, going beyond a "simple'' repl ...

IEEE2020

The Learnability of the Grammar of Jazz: Bayesian Inference of Hierarchical Structures in Harmony

Daniel Harasim

Musical grammar describes a set of principles that are used to understand and interpret the structure of a piece according to a musical style. The main topic of this study is grammar induction for harmony --- the process of learning structural principles f ...

EPFL2020

The glucocorticoid receptor in the nucleus accumbens plays a crucial role in social rank attainment in rodents

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Olivia Zanoletti, Fiona Hollis, Jocelin Grosse, Ioannis Zalachoras, Meltem Weger, Aurélie Lattion, Thomas Didier Larrieu, Alexandre Claude Gustave Bacq

Social hierarchy in social species is usually established through competitive encounters with conspecifics. It determines the access to limited resources and, thus, leads to reduced fights among individuals within a group. Despite the known importance of s ...

2020

Hierarchical Control in Islanded DC Microgrids With Flexible Structures

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Pulkit Nahata

Hierarchical architectures stacking primary, secondary, and tertiary layers are widely employed for the operation and control of islanded dc microgrids (dcmGs) composed of distribution generation units (DGUs), loads, and power lines. However, a comprehensi ...

2020

The NEBULA RPC-Optimized Architecture

Babak Falsafi, Alexandros Daglis, Siddharth Gupta, Mark Johnathon Sutherland

Large-scale online services are commonly structured as a network of software tiers, which communicate over the datacenter network using RPCs. Ongoing trends towards software decomposition have led to the prevalence of tiers receiving and generating RPCs wi ...

2020

Modelling the Syntax of North Indian Melodies with a Generalized Graph Grammar

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Christoph Finkensiep

Hierarchical models of music allow explanation of highly complex musical structure based on the general principle of recursive elaboration and a small set of orthogonal operations. Recent approaches to melodic elaboration have converged to a representation ...

ISMIR2019

Distributed Logless Atomic Durability with Persistent Memory

Babak Falsafi, Alexandros Daglis, Siddharth Gupta

Datacenter operators have started deploying Persistent Memory (PM), leveraging its combination of fast access and persistence for significant performance gains. A key challenge for PM-aware software is to maintain high performance while achieving atomic du ...

2019