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Papers by Sisto Baldo

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2019

The Adaptive Nearest Neighbor (ANN) rule and the Hypersphere Classifier (HC) are two very simple ... more The Adaptive Nearest Neighbor (ANN) rule and the Hypersphere Classifier (HC) are two very simple and relatively new variants of the classical nearest neighbor (1NN) rule. Even if they share a similar formulation—they correct the query-to-prototype distance by taking into account the distance of the prototype to the nearest one from other classes—their relation has never been investigated. The main goal of this paper is studying this relation and providing an exhaustive performance comparison of both methods, highlighting occasions when their performances differ as well as identifying cases in which their application is advisable or leads to poorer results. Moreover, we propose a smooth transition between the two classifiers by studying the use of several convex combinations of their penalized distances. Experiments show that a combination is particularly helpful when both ANN and HC are worse than 1NN.

We investigate the relation between energy minimizing maps valued into spheres having topological... more We investigate the relation between energy minimizing maps valued into spheres having topological singularities at given points and optimal networks connecting them (e.g. Steiner trees, Gilbert-Steiner irrigation networks). We show the equivalence of the corresponding variational problems, interpreting in particular the branched optimal transport problem as a homological Plateau problem for rectifiable currents with values in a suitable normed group. This generalizes the pioneering work by Brezis, Coron and Lieb [13].

Ricerche Di Matematica, 1991

Communications in Applied and Industrial Mathematics, Mar 31, 2011

This paper is a rather informal survey on some recent results, presented at SIMAI 2010, on the as... more This paper is a rather informal survey on some recent results, presented at SIMAI 2010, on the asymptotic behavior of Ginzburg-Landau energies describing 3-D superconductivity and Bose-Einstein condensation in critical regimes where vortex nucleation occurs. As an application we rigorously derive an asymptotic expression for the relevant thresholds (respectively, the first critical magnetic field for type II superconductivity and the critical angular velocity for rotating Bose-Einstein condensates) and the curvature equation for vortices. The analysis rely on Gamma-convergence techniques. A complete description of the theory sketched here, together with the proofs, is given in the papers [BJOS1], [BJOS2].

2009 IEEE 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCV Workshops, 2009

Generative embeddings use generative probabilistic models to project objects into a vectorial spa... more Generative embeddings use generative probabilistic models to project objects into a vectorial space of reduced dimensionality-where the so-called generative kernels can be defined. Some of these approaches employ generative models on latent variables to project objects into a feature space where the dimensions are related to the latent variables. Here, we propose to enhance the discriminative power of such spaces by performing a non-linear mapping of space dimensions leading to the formulation of novel generative kernels. In this paper, we investigate one possible non-linear mapping, based on a powering operation, able to equilibrate the contributions of each latent variable of the model, thus augmenting the entropy of the latent variables vectors. The validity of the idea has been shown in the case of two generative kernels, which have been evaluated with tests on shape recognition and gesture classification, with really satisfying results that outperform state-of-theart methods.

2010 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2010

Generative kernels have emerged in the last years as an effective method for mixing discriminativ... more Generative kernels have emerged in the last years as an effective method for mixing discriminative and generative approaches. In particular, in this paper, we focus on kernels defined on generative models with latent variables (e.g. the states in a Hidden Markov Model). The basic idea underlying these kernels is to compare objects, via a inner product, in a feature space where the dimensions are related to the latent variables of the model. Here we propose to enhance these kernels via a nonlinear normalization of the space, namely a nonlinear mapping of space dimensions able to exploit their discriminative characteristics. In this paper we investigate three possible nonlinear mappings, for two HMMbased generative kernels, testing them in different sequence classification problems, with really promising results.

Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2012

We study some functionals that describe the density of vortex lines in superconductors subject to... more We study some functionals that describe the density of vortex lines in superconductors subject to an applied magnetic field, and in Bose-Einstein condensates subject to rotational forcing, in quite general domains in 3 dimensions. These functionals are derived from more basic models via Gamma-convergence, here and in the companion paper [4]. In our main results, we use these functionals to obtain descriptions of the critical applied magnetic field (for superconductors) and forcing (for Bose-Einstein), above which ground states exhibit nontrivial vorticity, as well as a characterization of the vortex density in terms of a non local vector-valued generalization of the classical obstacle problem.

Asymptotic Analysis

... Auteur(s) / Author(s). ANZELLOTTI G. (1) ; BALDO S. (1) ; PERCIVALE D. ; Affiliation(s) du ou... more ... Auteur(s) / Author(s). ANZELLOTTI G. (1) ; BALDO S. (1) ; PERCIVALE D. ; Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s). (1) Univ. ... Placa elástica. ; Localisation / Location. INIST-CNRS,Cote INIST : 21721, 35400004718426.0050. Nº notice refdoc (ud4) : 4179945. ...

Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (C) Non Linear Analysis

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Applied Mathematics Optimization, 1991

... of K are intended in the sense of distributions in R 3. It is well known that the convolution... more ... of K are intended in the sense of distributions in R 3. It is well known that the convolutions in (4.3i) and (4.3ii) above are Calderon-Zygmund operators ... Let ue Hl&#x27;2(fl, RN) be such that u(x)EM for almost any x ~ ~, and consider the function w(x) = O(u(x)). Then we have W H1&#x27;2(~), ...

In this paper we consider the asymptotic behavior of the Ginzburg-Landau model for superconductiv... more In this paper we consider the asymptotic behavior of the Ginzburg-Landau model for superconductivity in 3-d, in various energy regimes. We rigorously derive, through an analysis via Γ-convergence, a reduced model for the vortex density, and deduce a curvature equation for the vortex lines. In the companion paper [2] we describe further applications to superconductivity and superfluidity, such as general expressions for the first critical magnetic field Hc 1 , and the critical angular velocity of rotating Bose-Einstein condensates.

Indiana University Mathematics Journal, 2009

... Auteur(s) / Author(s). BALDO S. (1) ; ORLANDI G. (2) ; WEITKAMP S. (1) ; Affiliation(s) du ou... more ... Auteur(s) / Author(s). BALDO S. (1) ; ORLANDI G. (2) ; WEITKAMP S. (1) ; Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s). ... Comportamiento asintótico. ; Localisation / Location. INIST-CNRS,Cote INIST : 7619, 35400017155343.0150. Nº notice refdoc (ud4) : 22236273. ...