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A graph is intrinsically projectively linked (IPL) if its every embedding in projective space contains a nonsplit link. Some minor-minimal IPL graphs have been found previously. We determine that no minor-minimal IPL graphs on 16 edges exists and identify new minor-minimal IPL graphs by applying $\Delta-Y$ exchanges to $K_{7}-2e$. We prove that for a nonouter-projective-planar graph $G$, $G+\bar{K}_{2}$ is IPL and describe the necessary and sufficient conditions on a projective planar graph $G$ such that $G+\bar{K}_{2}$ is IPL. Lastly, we deduce conditions for $f(G + \bar{K_{2}})$ to have no nonsplit link, where $G$ is projective planar, $\bar{K_{2}} = \{w_{0},w_{1}\}$, and $f(G + \bar{K_{2}})$ is the embedding onto $\mathbb{R}P^{3}$ with $f(G)$ in $z=0$, $w_{0}$ above $z=0$, and $w_{1}$ below $z=0$ such that every edge connecting ${w_{0},w_{1}}$ to $G$ avoids the boundary of the 3-ball, whose antipodal points are identified to obtain projective space.

A graph $G$ is nonseparating projective planar if $G$ has a projective planar embedding without a nonsplit link. Nonseparating projective planar graphs are closed under taking minors and are a superclass of projective outerplanar graphs. We partially characterize the minor-minimal separating projective planar graphs by proving that given a minor-minimal nonouter-projective-planar graph $G$, either $G$ is minor-minimal separating projective planar or $G \dot\cup K_{1}$ is minor-minimal weakly separating projective planar, a necessary condition for $G$ to be separating projective planar. One way to generalize separating projective planar graphs is to consider type I 3-links consisting of two cycles and a pair of vertices. A graph is intrinsically projective planar type I 3-linked (IPPI3L) if its every projective planar embedding contains a nonsplit type I 3-link. We partially characterize minor-minimal IPPI3L graphs by classifying all minor-minimal IPPI3L graphs with three or more components, and finding many others with fewer components.

Recently, intense efforts have been devoted to realizing classical analogues of various topological phases of matter. In this Letter, we explore the intriguing Weyl physics by a simple one-dimensional sonic crystal, in which two extra structural parameters are combined to construct a synthetic three-dimensional space. Based on our underwater ultrasonic experiments, we have not only observed the synthetic Weyl points directly, but also probed the novel reflection phase singularity that connects inherently with the topological robustness of Weyl points. As a smoking gun evidence of the topological states of matter, the presence of nontrivial interface modes has been demonstrated further. All experimental data agree well with our full-wave simulations. As the first realization of topological acoustics in synthetic space, our study exhibits great potential of probing high-dimensional topological phenomena by such easily-fabricated and -detected low-dimension acoustic systems., Comment: Accepted by PRL

In this paper, we provide a theoretical understanding of word embedding and its dimensionality. Motivated by the unitary-invariance of word embedding, we propose the Pairwise Inner Product (PIP) loss, a novel metric on the dissimilarity between word embeddings. Using techniques from matrix perturbation theory, we reveal a fundamental bias-variance trade-off in dimensionality selection for word embeddings. This bias-variance trade-off sheds light on many empirical observations which were previously unexplained, for example the existence of an optimal dimensionality. Moreover, new insights and discoveries, like when and how word embeddings are robust to over-fitting, are revealed. By optimizing over the bias-variance trade-off of the PIP loss, we can explicitly answer the open question of dimensionality selection for word embedding., Comment: 18 pages, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NeurIPS 2018, Oral Presentation)

Recently, the topological physics in acoustics has been attracting much attention. However, all the studies are aimed to elastic or airborne sound systems. Realizing topological insulators for underwater sound is of great importance, since water is another crucial sound medium in addition to solid and air. Here we report an experimental study on the valley-projected edge states for underwater sound. The edge states are directly observed in our ultrasound scanning experiments, together with a solid evidence for the valley-selective excitation. The experimental data agree well with our numerical results. Prospective applications can be anticipated, such as for underwater sound signal processing and ocean noise control., Comment: 5 figures

Kiva is an online non-profit crowdsouring microfinance platform that raises funds for the poor in the third world. The borrowers on Kiva are small business owners and individuals in urgent need of money. To raise funds as fast as possible, they have the option to form groups and post loan requests in the name of their groups. While it is generally believed that group loans pose less risk for investors than individual loans do, we study whether this is the case in a philanthropic online marketplace. In particular, we measure the effect of group loans on funding time while controlling for the loan sizes and other factors. Because loan descriptions (in the form of texts) play an important role in lenders' decision process on Kiva, we make use of this information through deep learning in natural language processing. In this aspect, this is the first paper that uses one of the most advanced deep learning techniques to deal with unstructured data in a way that can take advantage of its superior prediction power to answer causal questions. We find that on average, forming group loans speeds up the funding time by about 3.3 days.

The Letter reports an experimental observation of the classical version of valley polarized states in a two-dimensional hexagonal sonic crystal, where the inversion-symmetry breaking of scatterers induces an omnidirectional frequency gap. The acoustic valley states, which carry specific linear momenta and orbital angular momenta, were selectively excited by external Gaussian beams and conveniently confirmed by the pressure distribution outside the crystal, according to the criterion of momentum conservation. The vortex nature of such intriguing crystal states was directly characterized by scanning the phase profile inside the crystal. In addition, we observed a peculiar beam splitting phenomenon, in which the separated beams are constructed by different valleys and locked to the opposite vortex chirality. The exceptional sound transport, encoded with valley-chirality locked information, may serve as the basis of designing conceptually novel acoustic devices with unconventional functions., Comment: 12 pages and 4 figures, experimental study