This paper describes factor analyzed voice models for realizing various voice characteristics in the HMM-based speech synthesis. The eigenvoice method can synthesize speech with arbitrary voice characteristics by inte...
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This paper describes factor analyzed voice models for realizing various voice characteristics in the HMM-based speech synthesis. The eigenvoice method can synthesize speech with arbitrary voice characteristics by interpolating representative HMM sets. However, the objective of PCA is to accurately reconstruct each speaker-dependent HMM set, and this is not equivalent to estimating models which represent training data accurately. To overcome this problem, we propose a general speech model which generates speech utterances with various voice characteristics directly. In the proposed method, the HMM states, factors representing voice characteristics and contextual decision trees are simultaneously optimized within a unified framework.
The identification of AutoRegressive eXogenous(ARX) model by outliers is addressed in this paper. Shifted(noncentralized) asymmetric Laplace(SAL) distribution and expectationmaximization(EM) algorithm are employed to...
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The identification of AutoRegressive eXogenous(ARX) model by outliers is addressed in this paper. Shifted(noncentralized) asymmetric Laplace(SAL) distribution and expectationmaximization(EM) algorithm are employed to estimate the unknown model parameters. Outliers are common in the signal acquisition process and have a serious impact on data-driven modeling method. In this paper, the probability method is used to solve the problem of outliers. When the noise parameter is regarded as a prior exponential distribution, the model output obeys the SAL distribution which is robust to outliers. The known statistical properties of SAL distribution are applied to calculate the M-step in the EM algorithm and get the iterative parametric formula. The accuracy of the proposed algorithm is verified by a numerical simulation example.
We consider the identification of non-causal systems with arbitrary switching modes (NCS-ASM), a class of models essential for describing typical power load management and department store inventory dynamics. The simu...
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The I.I.D. Prophet Inequality is a fundamental problem in optimal stopping theory where, given n independent random variables X1, . . ., Xn drawn from a known distribution D, one has to decide at every step i whether ...
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The I.I.D. Prophet Inequality is a fundamental problem in optimal stopping theory where, given n independent random variables X1, . . ., Xn drawn from a known distribution D, one has to decide at every step i whether to stop and accept Xi or discard it forever and continue. The goal is to maximize (or minimize) the selected value and compete against the all-knowing prophet. For the maximization setting, a tight constant-competitive guarantee of ≈ 0.745 is well-known (Correa, Foncea, Hoeksma, Oosterwijk, Vredeveld, 2019), whereas the minimization setting is qualitatively different: the optimal constant is distribution-dependent and can be arbitrarily large (Livanos and Mehta, 2024). In this paper, we provide a novel framework via the lens of Extreme Value Theory to analyze optimal threshold algorithms. We show that the competitive ratio for the minimization setting has a closed form described by a function Λ, which depends only on the extreme value index γ;in particular, it corresponds to Λ(γ) for γ ≤ 0. Despite the contrast of the optimal guarantees for maximization and minimization, our framework turns out to be universal and is able to recover the results of (Kennedy and Kertz, 1991) for the maximization case as well. Surprisingly, the optimal competitive ratio for the maximization setting is given by the same function Λ(γ), but for γ ≥ 0. Along the way, we obtain several results on the algorithm and the prophet’s objectives from the perspective of extreme value theory, which might be of independent interest. We next study single-threshold algorithms for the minimization setting. Again, using the extreme value theory, we generalize the results of (Livanos and Mehta, 2024) which hold only for special classes of distributions, and obtain poly-logarithmic in n guarantees on the competitive ratio. Finally, we consider the k-multi-unit prophet inequality in the minimization setting and show that there exist constant-competitive single-threshold algorithms when k ≥ log
To solve the problem of target detection in heavy sea clutter,we make simulation study on a subspace-based clutter suppression method to improve signal to clutter ratio in the predicted target location,and thus to imp...
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To solve the problem of target detection in heavy sea clutter,we make simulation study on a subspace-based clutter suppression method to improve signal to clutter ratio in the predicted target location,and thus to improve the detection *** the compound Gaussian model of the sea clutter,we first estimate the statistics of sea clutter by expectation-maximization(EM) algorithm,then exploit a subspace-based approach to further mitigate sea *** the algorithm,the computational complexity is effectively *** the algorithm exhibits good performance of clutter *** results show that the algorithm is effective in sea clutter suppression.
In this paper, given a user’s query set and budget, we aim to use the limited budget to help users assemble a set of datasets that can enrich a base dataset by introducing the maximum number of distinct tuples (i.e.,...
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We study a sequential profit-maximization problem, optimizing for both price and ancillary variables like marketing expenditures. Specifically, we aim to maximize profit over an arbitrary sequence of multiple demand c...
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We present a multidimensional data analysis framework for the analysis of ordinal response variables. Underlying the ordinal variables, we assume a continuous latent variable, leading to cumulative logit models. The f...
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Accurate detection of the QRS complex, a crucial reference for heartbeat localization in electrocardiogram (ECG) signals, remains inadequate in wearable ECG devices due to complex noise interference. In this study, we...
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We consider the portfolio optimisation problem where the terminal function is an S-shaped utility applied at the difference between the wealth and a random benchmark process. We develop several numerical methods for s...
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