Discrete DC programming with convex extensible functions is studied. A natural approach for this problem is a continuous relaxation that extends the problem to a continuous domain and applies the algorithm in continuous DC programming. By employing a special form of continuous relaxation, which is named “lin-vex extension,” the optimal solution of the continuous relaxation coincides with the or...

The Baire category theorem implies that the family, F,of dense sets G6 in a fixed metric space, X , is a candidate for generic sets since it is closed under countable intersections; and if X is perfect (has no isolated point), then A E F has uncountable intersections with any open ball in X. There is a long tradition of soft arguments to prove that certain surprising sets are generic. For examp...

In a variety of contexts, we prove that singular continuous spectrum is generic in the sense that for certain natural complete metric spaces of operators, those with singular spectrum are a dense Gδ . In the spectral analysis of various operators of mathematical physics, a key step, often the hardest, is to prove that the operator has no continuous singular spectrum, that is, that the spectral ...

Due to its storage and retrieval efficiency, cross-modal hashing (CMH) has been widely used for cross-modal similarity search in multimedia applications. According to the training strategy, existing CMH methods can be mainly divided into two categories: relaxation-based continuous methods and discrete methods. In general, the training of relaxation-based continuous methods is faster than discre...

The absolutely continuous spectrum of an ergodic family of onedimensional Schrödinger operators is completely determined by the Lyapunov exponent as shown by Ishii, Kotani and Pastur. Moreover, the part of the theory developed by Kotani gives powerful tools for proving the absence of absolutely continuous spectrum, the presence of absolutely continuous spectrum, and even the presence of purely ...