Chapter 1160 Optimization algorithms are also pure mathematics!

Although Chang Haonan did not give further explanation, Ding Zhongli, who has always advocated confronting the West on climate issues and is experienced in struggle, immediately understood what the former meant.

The so-called giving up on self-proving does not mean that you will not explain the rumors at all and focus on throwing dirty water on each other.

That will only bring you down to the same level as your opponent, and then allow them to defeat you with their rich experience.

It's a state of mind.

A mentality of jumping out of the logical trap and not playing by others' rules.

When an American accuses you of destroying the environment, he doesn't really care whether you are environmentally friendly.

I want you to die.

Therefore, you must demonstrate the ability and determination to say, "No matter what you are going to do, I will take equal action."

The only problem is time.

Ding Zhongli frowned and thought for a while:

"The other side's offensive is still focused on the public opinion level, so we are not particularly anxious to respond... But there are less than three months left before the launch of the fourth round of IPCC assessments. If we delay until then, I am afraid we will be somewhat passive."

"Three months..."

Chang Haonan estimated the timetable in his mind, and then his tone became firm:

"Three months is enough!"

In the other party's slightly shocked eyes, he further explained:

"I have contacted Professor Abela Lisser of the Lagrange Center for Mathematics and Computation, a scholar with considerable authority in the field of multi-objective optimization and neural networks. We should be able to publish a paper we have jointly completed soon..."

"When the time comes, we just need to follow the steps we set before to invert the infrared satellite spectrum of North America, and a lot of the truth will be revealed..."

Ding Zhongli was actually not too worried about the inversion process itself that Chang Haonan emphasized.

It is almost certain that there is something wrong with the Americans' emissions data.

The only problem is that I can't find direct evidence.

He was more concerned about the first half of the sentence.

"Such a short time... is it really enough to be published?"

There was some worry in Ding Zhongli's tone.

Although the popularity of online submissions has effectively shortened the paper review cycle, for the same reason, the number of manuscripts received by almost every editorial department has increased exponentially.

This has resulted in increasingly outrageous waiting times for publishing papers.

Even if the original bimonthly or quarterly publication is changed to monthly publication, it can only slightly alleviate the situation of too many people and too little resources.

Some popular journals may even require you to wait half a year before confirming the acceptance.

However, Chang Haonan looked quite relaxed:

“Normally, it’s not enough.”

He answered very candidly:

"But for the two of us... we should be able to let the editor cut in line, so it shouldn't be a problem."

"..."

Ding Zhongli, who had been fighting internal and external enemies for more than ten years without any breakthrough, suddenly felt a little uneasy.

"I just asked that question redundantly..."

……

Chang Haonan’s confidence is not without reason.

Professor Lissel's research results have greatly expanded the richness of the content of his paper.

As an expert in the field of neural networks, he successfully applied the improved Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm to non-convex problems.

Although subject to the limitations of the iterative method, its accuracy performance is not particularly ideal.

But considering that neural networks are just getting started and are still in a promising state in the future, any breakthrough may be a milestone.

The only problem was that since this was the first collaboration between Chang Haonan and Liesel, and time was very tight, the structure of the paper was not carefully considered...

Therefore, when the editorial office of "Advances in Mathematics" far away in Germany received the manuscript, they almost thought that some reckless person had filled in the wrong email link before sending it.

“This paper is like a first draft written by a graduate student… It is a combination of two barely related studies…”

Marcel Schmidt was holding a cup of freshly brewed coffee, and with his other hand he was dragging the mouse to quickly scroll down the pages, while complaining to his colleagues:

"If my supervisor at the University of Munich saw a paper in this format, he would definitely ask him to submit it to the magazine Current Affairs..."

The editor sitting opposite him was a Spanish man, and he obviously didn't fully understand what the other person had just said:

"current events?"

After thinking for a while, I still couldn't find any mathematical journal with the same or similar name from my memory.

This is a very unusual situation for an editor of a mathematics journal.

However, just as he was feeling ashamed of his own professionalism, he heard Schmidt explain:

"It's a tabloid here. It usually publishes celebrity gossip and stuff like that. It has pretty good sales..."

Apparently, as a German, the latter has a sense of humor far beyond the reach of most of his compatriots.

"puff--"

Colleagues at several nearby workstations laughed out loud.

"Maybe it's just like what you said, a graduate student accidentally sent the thesis that was supposed to be sent to the supervisor to us..."

My Spanish colleague shrugged his shoulders, and his tense expression relaxed.

Schmidt had already finished his coffee and was ready to send a standard rejection email as usual, and then start the next stage of work:

"The content doesn't quite meet the requirements of our journal. About half of the article is about artificial neural networks..."

As one of the "four great journals" in the field of mathematics, Advances in Mathematics has always been famous for its focus on pure mathematics.

Although this principle has been relaxed as the boundaries between theory and application have become increasingly blurred in recent years, something like a symbolic neural network will never be able to pass the editing stage.

As Schmidt thought about this, he habitually scrolled down the editing page to the bottom.

Then he saw the signatures of two paper authors.

For a moment, Schmidt wished he could travel back two minutes with his workbox and sew up his big mouth.

First author, Chang Haonan, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Co-first author, Lagrange Center for Mathematics and Computation, Abella Lisser…

"hiss--"

The joke he was about to say suddenly stopped, and he sat up straight.

Then, press Ctrl+home on the keyboard at the speed of light.

Return to the top of the page!

Others just thought that he had finished his coffee and started the next stage of work, and did not pay too much attention to it.

Until the Spanish colleague walked around behind Schmidt and took a look during a break.

"Why are you still reading that article?"

A moment of embarrassment flashed across the face of the latter who was exposed.

However, submissions from such bigwigs are usually distributed directly to the editor-in-chief.

Now, perhaps because Professor Chang had too few recorded papers in the past, it happened to fall into the hands of an ordinary editor like him.

It's absolutely an amazing performance.

embarrassment?

Embarrassment is nothing!

"Cough-cough-"

Schmidt cleared his throat and said with a very serious expression:

"I think that the optimization algorithm for nonlinear functions should also be considered pure mathematics..."

This landslide-like speech immediately threw the other party off balance:

"What about...neural networks?"

Schmidt's face flushed, veins popped out on his forehead, and he argued:

“How can the application of pure mathematics not be pure mathematics?”

"..."

Looking at the tense expressions of his colleagues around him, he knew that what he said was a bit far-fetched.

So he simply stopped talking and quickly clicked submit on the webpage, then picked up a freshly printed paper manuscript and rushed out of the office...

In any case, the article was sent to the editor-in-chief of the journal, Jean Bostad-Beno.

When Professor Beno saw the title of the paper, a hint of doubt flashed in his eyes when he looked at Schmidt.

But the editor-in-chief is a seasoned man after all, and he was not as anxious to make a fuss as the latter.

Instead, I flipped to the end and took a look at the author's detailed information.

Then, he couldn't help but take a deep breath.

"you are right."

He turned around and sat back in front of the computer, opening the editor-in-chief's backend page:

“Although our journal mainly accepts submissions in the field of pure mathematics, the times are changing, and the industry’s definition of pure mathematics is also changing…”

Otherwise, how can you say he is a leader?

The level of language art is much more elegant than Schmidt's blunt excuse just now.

"Then the review of this paper, please take a look..."

The reason why Schmidt came to the editor-in-chief was mainly because the reviewers he was familiar with were indeed not qualified to evaluate such a paper.

However, if we follow the normal editorial review process, it may waste a lot of time.

"Don't worry, I will contact Professor Geoffrey Hinton and Professor Stephen Boyd... One of them is the founder of modern neural networks, and the other is the most authoritative expert in the field of convex optimization..."

Beno naturally knew what the other party was worried about:

"I'll add your name too..."

Schmidt's face immediately lit up with joy.

For an editor, being able to handle a high-impact article from a big shot is definitely an important highlight in one’s career.

However, before he could express his gratitude, Beno continued:

"Also, check the number of manuscripts received in the last two issues of our journal. If it's not too many, put this article in the queue and publish it as soon as possible after it passes review..."