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  1. Boyuan Zheng, Patrick Xia, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Benjamin Van Durme

    Existing multiparty dialogue datasets for entity coreference resolution are nascent, and many challenges are still unaddressed. We create a large-scale dataset, Multilingual Multiparty Coref (MMC), for this task based on TV transcripts. Due to the availability of gold-quality subtitles in multiple languages, we propose reusing the annotations to create silve

  2. Tatsu-Hiko Miura

    We consider the Neumann type problem of the heat equation in a moving thin domain around a given closed moving hypersurface. The main result of this paper is an error estimate in the sup-norm for classical solutions to the thin domain problem and a limit equation on the moving hypersurface which appears in the thin-film limit of the heat equation. To prove t

  3. Bran Knowles, Jason D'Cruz, John T. Richards, Kush R. Varshney

    It is curious that AI increasingly outperforms human decision makers, yet much of the public distrusts AI to make decisions affecting their lives. In this paper we explore a novel theory that may explain one reason for this. We propose that public distrust of AI is a moral consequence of designing systems that prioritize reduction of costs of false positives

  4. Daniel Lenz, Timo Spindeler, Nicolae Strungaru

    We present a unified theory for the almost periodicity of functions with values in an arbitrary Banach space, measures and distributions via almost periodic elements for the action of a locally compact abelian group on a uniform topological space. We discuss the relation between Bohr and Bochner type almost periodicity, and similar conditions, and how the eq

  5. Xiaoning Sun, Qiongjie Cui, Huaijiang Sun, Bin Li

    Previous works on human motion prediction follow the pattern of building a mapping relation between the sequence observed and the one to be predicted. However, due to the inherent complexity of multivariate time series data, it still remains a challenge to find the extrapolation relation between motion sequences. In this paper, we present a new prediction pa

  6. Ming-Yang Zhuang, Luis C. Ho

    We investigate the star-forming main sequence of the host galaxies of a large, well-defined sample of 453 redshift $\sim$0.3 quasars with previously available star formation rates by deriving stellar masses from modeling their broad-band ($grizy$) spectral energy distribution. We perform two-dimensional, simultaneous, multi-filter decomposition of Pan-STARRS

  7. Tymon Słoczyński, S. Derya Uysal, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

    We revisit the problem of estimating the local average treatment effect (LATE) and the local average treatment effect on the treated (LATT) when control variables are available, either to render the instrumental variable (IV) suitably exogenous or to improve precision. Unlike previous approaches, our doubly robust (DR) estimation procedures use quasi-likelih

  8. Yunjie Ji, Liangyu Chen, Chenxiao Dou, Baochang Ma

    Machine Reading Comprehension with Unanswerable Questions is a difficult NLP task, challenged by the questions which can not be answered from passages. It is observed that subtle literal changes often make an answerable question unanswerable, however, most MRC models fail to recognize such changes. To address this problem, in this paper, we propose a span-ba

  9. Sam M. Thompson

    This thesis offers two logic-based approaches to conjunctive queries in the context of information extraction. The first and main approach is the introduction of conjunctive query fragments of the logics FC and FC[REG], denoted as FC-CQ and FC[REG]-CQ respectively. FC is a first-order logic based on word equations, where the semantics are defined by limiting

  10. Yasushi Nara, Asanosuke Jinno, Koichi Murase, Akira Ohnishi

    We investigate the sensitivity of the $\Lambda$ directed flow to the $\Lambda$ potential in mid-central Au + Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}\approx3.0$--$30$ GeV. The $\Lambda$ potential obtained from the chiral effective field theory ($\chi$EFT) is used in a microscopic transport model, a vector version of relativistic quantum molecular dynamics (RQMDv). We

  11. Shantipriya Parida, Subhadarshi Panda, Stig-Arne Grönroos, Mark Granroth-Wilding

    This paper provides the system description of "Silo NLP's" submission to the Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2022). We have participated in the Indic Multimodal tasks (English->Hindi, English->Malayalam, and English->Bengali Multimodal Translation). For text-only translation, we trained Transformers from scratch and fine-tuned mBART-50 models. For multimod

  12. V. Blomer, S. H. Man

    This paper establishes power-saving bounds for Kloosterman sums associated with the long Weyl element for GL(n), as well as for another type of Weyl element of order 2. These bounds are obtained by establishing an explicit representation as exponential sums. As an application we go beyond Sarnak's density conjecture for the principal congruence subgroup of p

  13. Suchismita Das, Nikhil R. Pal

    Recently, several studies have claimed that using class-specific feature subsets provides certain advantages over using a single feature subset for representing the data for a classification problem. Unlike traditional feature selection methods, the class-specific feature selection methods select an optimal feature subset for each class. Typically class-spec

  14. Matthias Weißwange, Dumitru M. Ghilencea, Dominik Stöckinger

    We discuss quantum scale invariance in (scale invariant) gauge theories with both ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR) divergences. Firstly, their BRST invariance is checked in two apparently unrelated approaches using a scale invariant regularisation (SIR). These approaches are then shown to be equivalent. Secondly, for the Abelian case we discuss both UV and

  15. Jordi Ventura Siches, Olga Movilla Miangolarra, Amirhossein Taghvaei, Yongxin Chen

    A typical model for a gyrating engine consists of an inertial wheel powered by an energy source that generates an angle-dependent torque. Examples of such engines include a pendulum with an externally applied torque, Stirling engines, and the Brownian gyrating engine. Variations in the torque are averaged out by the inertia of the system to produce limit cyc

  16. Peter Elbau, Leonidas Mindrinos, Leopold Veselka

    We review mathematical models describing how Optical Coherence Tomography works. Hereby, we focus on models based on Maxwell's equations and their simplifications. We highlight especially the effects of different modeling assumptions for the incident illumination, the medium, the light propagation, and the measurement setup and illustrate the qualitatively d

  17. Linlin Li, Steven X. Ding, Ketian Liang, Zhiwen Chen

    This paper is dedicated to control theoretically explainable application of autoencoders to optimal fault detection in nonlinear dynamic systems. Autoencoder-based learning is a standard machine learning method and widely applied for fault (anomaly) detection and classification. In the context of representation learning, the so-called latent (hidden) variabl

  18. Sara Dal Cengio, Vivien Lecomte, Matteo Polettini

    The modern thermodynamics of discrete systems is based on graph theory, which provides both algebraic methods to define observables and a geometric intuition of their meaning and role. However, because chemical reactions are usually many-to-many, chemical networks are rather described by hypergraphs, which lack a systematized algebraic treatment and a clear

  19. Alberto Manzano, Emanuele Nastasi, Andrea Pallavicini, Carlos Vázquez

    We present a stochastic local volatility model for derivative contracts on commodity futures. The aim of the model is to be able to recover the prices of derivative claims both on futures contracts and on indices on futures strategies. Numerical examples for calibration and pricing are provided for the S&P GSCI Crude Oil excess-return index.

  20. Sol Lee, Yangjin Lee, Li Ping Ding, Kihyun Lee

    Two-dimensional (2D) crystals' edge structures not only influence their overall properties but also dictate their formation due to edge-mediated synthesis and etching processes. Edges must be carefully examined because they often display complex, unexpected features at the atomic scale, such as reconstruction, functionalization, and uncontrolled contaminatio

  21. Chih-Jung Tsai, Cheng Sun, Hwann-Tzong Chen

    This paper aims to address a new task of image morphing under a multiview setting, which takes two sets of multiview images as the input and generates intermediate renderings that not only exhibit smooth transitions between the two input sets but also ensure visual consistency across different views at any transition state. To achieve this goal, we propose a

  22. Mo-Han Zhang, Ya-Ning Ren, Qi Zheng, Xiao-Feng Zhou

    Kekul\'e phases are Peierls-like lattice distortions in graphene that are predicted to host novel electronic states beyond graphene (1-8). Although the Kekul\'e phases are realized in graphene through introducing electron-electron interactions at high magnetic fields (9-11) or adatom superlattices (12-15), it is still an extremely challenge to obtain large-a

  23. Xavier Marjou, Tangui Le Gléau, Vincent Messié, Benoit Radier

    Reducing energy consumption is crucial to reduce the human debt's with regard to our planet. Therefore most companies try to reduce their energetic consumption while taking care to preserve the service delivered to their customers. To do so, a service provider (SP) typically downscale or shutdown part of its infrastructure in periods of low-activity where on

  24. Frederik Hagelskjaer, Dirk Kraft

    The insertion of through-hole components is a difficult task. As the tolerances of the holes are very small, minor errors in the insertion will result in failures. These failures can damage components and will require manual intervention for recovery. Errors can occur both from imprecise object grasps and bent pins. Therefore, it is important that a system c

  25. Qiong Wu, Shuai Shi, Ziyang Wan, Qiang Fan

    Vehicles on the road exchange data with base station (BS) frequently through vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) communications to ensure the normal use of vehicular applications, where the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF) is employed to allocate a minimum contention window (MCW) for channel access. Each vehicle may change its MCW to achieve m

  26. Gurpreet Kaur, K. Mukherjee

    Non magnetic insulators/semiconductors with induced magnetism introduced via transition metal substitution are one of the promising materials in the field of spintronic, magnetoelectronics and magneto optical devices. In this context, here, we focus on magnetism induced in a non magnetic insulator CaHfO3, by the substitution of 4d element Ru, at Hf site. Str

  27. Wan Gu Ji, Soonho Shon, Song Hyun Seo, Beomsu Kim

    This paper presents a snow accretion test conducted in a climate wind tunnel to investigate the icing process on a model train. The model used within this experiment was the cleaned-up and 2/3-scaled version of EMU-320, which is a high-speed train in Korea. The model was designed without an electronic power source or heat source so that the wheels did not ro

  28. Joonho Lee, Hung Q. Pham, David R. Reichman

    In this work, we present an overview of the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (ph- AFQMC) approach from a computational quantum chemistry perspective, and present a numerical assessment of its performance on main group chemistry and bond-breaking problems with a total of 1004 relative energies. While our benchmark study is somewhat limited, we ma

  29. Karan Singh, Dheeraj Ranaut, G. Sharma, K. Mukherjee

    Pyrochlores offer an ideal playground to investigate the magnetic ground state of frustrated magnetic systems. In this class of materials, competition between various magnetic interactions remains frustrated and prevents an ordered magnetic state at low temperatures. Tb2Sn2O7 has recently attracted significant attention due to its ordered spin-ice state. Add

  30. Robin Merkle, Andrea Barth

    We consider Gaussian subordinated L\'evy fields (GSLFs) that arise by subordinating L\'evy processes with positive transformations of Gaussian random fields on some spatial domain $\mathcal{D}\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq 1$. The resulting random fields are distributionally flexible and have in general discontinuous sample paths. Theoretical investigations o

  31. Sanil S. Gandhi, Arvind W. Kiwelekar, Laxman D. Netak, Hansraj S. Wankhede

    In democratic countries such as India, voting is a fundamental right given to citizens of their countries. Citizens need to physically present and cast their vote in ballot-paper-based voting systems. Most of the citizens fail to fulfill this constraint and have stayed away from their fundamental duty. Electronic-voting systems are often considered one effic

  32. Dheeraj Ranaut, K. Mukherjee

    The realization of an effective spin (Jeff) 1/2 state at low temperatures offers a platform to study the enthralling physics behind the disordered states in certain systems. Here, we report the signatures of magnetic ground state associated with Jeff = 1/2 in CeVO4. Our studies confirm the absence of any ordering or freezing down to 1.8 K. In the low tempera

  33. Zhengliang Wang, Gelin Wang

    It is found that if the inert conductor P has a larger electron work function $\phi$ and surface state function G than the inert conductor N, the inert conductor P and the inert conductor N are isolated by a separator and then immersed in the solution S (abbreviation: inert conductorP$\mid$solutionS$\mid$inert conductorN, or as P$\mid$S$\mid$N). Excluding th

  34. Fanqi Meng, Xuesong Wang, Jingdong Wang, Peifang Wang

    With the rapid growth of software scale and complexity, a large number of bug reports are submitted to the bug tracking system. In order to speed up defect repair, these reports need to be accurately classified so that they can be sent to the appropriate developers. However, the existing classification methods only use the text information of the bug report,

  35. Vineet Nagrath, Timo Blender, Nayabrasul Shaik, Christian Schlegel

    This paper describes our use of Industry 4.0 Asset Administration Shells (AASs) in the context of service robots. We use AASs with software components of service robots and with complete service robot systems. The AAS for a software component serves as a standardized digital data sheet. It helps sysem builders at design time in finding and selecting software

  36. A. Gama Goicochea, Z. Nussinov

    A system with equal number of positive and negative charges confined in a box with a small but finite thickness is modeled as a function of temperature using mesoscale numerical simulations, for various values of the charges. The Coulomb interaction is used in its three-dimensional form, U(r) ~ 1/r. A topological phase transition is found in this quasi 2d sy

  37. Haechan Jo, Sanghun Park, Daegun You, Sooran Kim

    One of the challenges in fusion reactors is the discovery of plasma facing materials capable of withstanding extreme conditions, such as radiation damage and high heat flux. Development of fusion materials can be a daunting task since vast combinations of microstructures and compositions need to be explored, each of which requires trial-and-error based irrad

  38. Koichiro Moriya, Akihiko Noda

    This paper investigates the time-varying structure of Fama and French's (1993; 2015) multi-factor models using Fama and MacBeth's (1973) two-step estimation based on the rolling window method. In particular, we employ the generalized GRS statistics proposed by Kamstra and Shi (2024) to examine whether the validity of the risk factors (or factor redundancy) i

  39. Mathis Fricke, Tomislav Marić, Aleksandar Vučković, Ilia Roisman

    It is well-known that the standard level set advection equation does not preserve the signed distance property, which is a desirable property for the level set function representing a moving interface. Therefore, reinitialization or redistancing methods are frequently applied to restore the signed distance property while keeping the zero-contour fixed. As an

  40. Taiyang Xu, Engui Fan

    We investigate the large-time asymptotics of solution for the Cauchy problem of the nonlocal focusing modified Kortweg-de Vries (MKdV) equation with step-like initial data, i.e., $u_0(x)\rightarrow 0$ as $x\rightarrow-\infty$, $u_0(x)\rightarrow A$ as $x\rightarrow+\infty$,where $A$ is an arbitrary positive real number. We firstly develop the direct scatteri

  41. Jindong Wang, Shuonan Wu

    We devise and analyze a class of the primal discontinuous Galerkin methods for the magnetic advection-diffusion problems based on the weighted-residual approach. In addition to the upwind stabilization, we find a new mechanism under the vector case that provides more flexibility in constructing the schemes. For the more general Friedrichs system, we show the

  42. Alireza Masoumi, Mohammad Ravandi, Manouchehr Salehi

    This study proposes a novel Modified Bond-Based PeriDynamic (MBB-PD) model based on the bonds' classification. This classification of bonds is performed on the basis of the equivalent hypothetical local strains and falls into three categories of horizontal normal, vertical normal, and shear bonds. While the classical Bond-Based PD (BB-PD) considers only the

  43. Soroush Sheikh Gargar

    Generative Adversarial Networks have got the researchers' attention due to their state-of-the-art performance in generating new images with only a dataset of the target distribution. It has been shown that there is a dissimilarity between the spectrum of authentic images and fake ones. Since the Fourier transform is a bijective mapping, saying that the model

  44. M. Deka, G. Tomar, V. Kumaran

    Modal instabilities in a flow through a channel at high Reynolds and Mach numbers are studied for three-dimensional perturbations. In addition to the Tollmien-Schlichting modes, there exist higher modes in a channel flow that do not have a counterpart in the incompressible limit. The stability characteristics of these higher modes, obtained through numerical

  45. B Swaroopa Reddy

    This paper proposes a protocol for Proof of Assets of a bitcoin exchange using the Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge (ZK-SNARK) without revealing either the bitcoin addresses of the exchange or balances associated with those addresses. The proof of assets is a mechanism to prove the total value of bitcoins the exchange has authori

  46. Girish Aradhye, Deepesh Bhati, George Tzougas

    Composite probability models have shown very promising results for modeling claim severity data comprised of small, moderate, and large losses. In this paper, we introduce three classes of parametric composite regression models with a varying threshold. We consider the Lognormal distribution for the head and the Burr, the Stoppa and the generalized log-Moyal

  47. Marek Gagolewski, Maciej Bartoszuk, Anna Cena

    Internal cluster validity measures (such as the Calinski-Harabasz, Dunn, or Davies-Bouldin indices) are frequently used for selecting the appropriate number of partitions a dataset should be split into. In this paper we consider what happens if we treat such indices as objective functions in unsupervised learning activities. Is the optimal grouping with rega

  48. Chaojie Mo, Xin Bian

    By imitating biological microswimmers, microrobots can be designed to accomplish targeted delivery of cargos and biomedical manipulations at microscale. However, it is still a great challenge to enable microrobots to maneuver in a complex environment. Machine learning algorithms offer a tool to boost mobility and flexibility of a synthetic microswimmer, henc

  49. Sergei Sitnik, Elina Shishkina, Lidiya Kovaleva, Olga Chernova

    This preprint is a text for students and teachers on inequalities. Some standard topics are covered on application of calculus to inequality proving. Many examples are considered, stated, solved or partially solved. Some problems are standard, but some are rare, new and original. The next topics are considered with many examples: monotonicity of functions, L

  50. Zhuang Zhao, Min Zhang

    In this paper, we propose a well-balanced fifth-order finite difference Hermite WENO (HWENO) scheme for the shallow water equations with non-flat bottom topography in pre-balanced form. For achieving the well-balance property, we adopt the similar idea of WENO-XS scheme [Xing and Shu, J. Comput. Phys., 208 (2005), 206-227.] to balance the flux gradients and

  51. Fei Li, Zhi-Yu Zhang, Junzhi Wang, Feng Gao

    Dense gas is important for galaxy evolution and star formation. Optically-thin dense-gas tracers, such as isotopologues of HCN, HCO+, etc., are very helpful to diagnose excitation conditions of dense molecular gas. However, previous studies of optically-thin dense-gas tracers were mostly focusing on average properties of galaxies as a whole, due to limited s

  52. Shejeelammal J., Aruna Goswami

    Elemental abundances of extrinsic carbon stars provide insight into the poorly understood origin and evolution of elements in the early Galaxy. In this work, we present the results of a detailed spectroscopic analysis of four potential carbon star candidates from the Hamburg/ESO Survey (HES) HE~0457$-$1805, HE~0920$-$0506, HE~1241$-$0337, and HE~1327$-$2116.

  53. Jaehyeok Jin, Kenneth S. Schweizer, Gregory A. Voth

    The first paper of this series [J. Chem. Phys. 158, 034103 (2023)] demonstrated that excess entropy scaling holds for both fine-grained and corresponding coarse-grained (CG) systems. Despite its universality, a more exact determination of the scaling relationship was not possible due to the semi-empirical nature. In this second paper, an analytical excess en

  54. Jihn E. Kim

    I review the dark energy solutions by a very light pseudoscalar called "quintessential axion". For the explicit breaking terms, we consider both the global anomaly U(1)$_{\rm global}\times$SU(2)$_W^2$ and the potential $\Delta V$. At the field theory level, we will present a strategy for picking up one such pseudoscalar among plenty of pseudoscalars. At stri

  55. Masaki Kashiwara, Myungho Kim, Se-jin Oh, Euiyong Park

    We prove that the localization of the monoidal category $\mathcal{C}_w$ is rigid, and the category $\mathcal{C}_{w,v}$ admits a localization via a real commuting family of central objects. Note that the localization of $\mathcal{C}_{w,v}$ categorifies the open Richardson variety.

  56. Siddharth Saravanan, Aditya Challa, Sravan Danda

    State-of-the-art methods for semantic segmentation of images involve computationally intensive neural network architectures. Most of these methods are not adaptable to high-resolution image segmentation due to memory and other computational issues. Typical approaches in literature involve design of neural network architectures that can fuse global informatio

  57. Jiangdan Li, Christopher A. Onken, Christian Wolf, Péter Németh

    Binaries consisting of a hot subdwarf star and an accreting white dwarf (WD) are sources of gravitational wave radiation at low frequencies and possible progenitors of type Ia supernovae if the WD mass is large enough. Here, we report the discovery of the third binary known of this kind: it consists of a hot subdwarf O (sdO) star and a WD with an orbital per

  58. Alabi Bojesomo, Hasan Al Marzouqi, Panos Liatsis

    Earth Observatory is a growing research area that can capitalize on the powers of AI for short time forecasting, a Now-casting scenario. In this work, we tackle the challenge of weather forecasting using a video transformer network. Vision transformer architectures have been explored in various applications, with major constraints being the computational com

  59. Hiroki Nishizawa

    We investigate the excitation spectrum and momentum distribution of the ionic Bose-Hubbard model by the standard basis operator method. We derive Green's functions in the random phase approximation in Mott insulator, superfluid, charge density wave, and supersolid phases. The excitation spectrum has gapped modes and gapless Goldstone modes in the superfluid

  60. Yiding Zhang, Chaozhuo Li, Senzhang Wang, Jianxun Lian

    Graph-based collaborative filtering is capable of capturing the essential and abundant collaborative signals from the high-order interactions, and thus received increasingly research interests. Conventionally, the embeddings of users and items are defined in the Euclidean spaces, along with the propagation on the interaction graphs. Meanwhile, recent works p

  61. Primitivo B. Acosta-Humánez, Orieta Liriano, Francis Mora-Ferreras

    In this paper we survey a new criteria for solvability of finite groups in terms of number of supersolvable (also known as polycyclic) and non-supersolvable subgroups. In particular, we present original examples of supersolvable groups such as non-abelian groups with two cyclic generators. Additionally, we present some examples and applications in GAP system

  62. Mariko Kato, Hideyuki Saio, Izumi Hachisu

    An X-ray flash, expected in a very early phase of a nova outburst, was at last detected with the {\it SRG}/eROSITA in the classical nova YZ Reticuli 2020. The observed flash timescale, luminosity, and blackbody temperature substantially constrain the nova model. We present light curve models of the X-ray flash for various white dwarf (WD) masses and mass acc

  63. Vijay Rajanna, Tracy Hammond

    Gaze input has been a promising substitute for mouse input for point and select interactions. Individuals with severe motor and speech disabilities primarily rely on gaze input for communication. Gaze input also serves as a hands-free input modality in the scenarios of situationally-induced impairments and disabilities (SIIDs). Hence, the performance of gaze

  64. S. Herrmann, P. Orel, T. Chattopadhyay, R. G. Morris

    Current, state-of-the-art CCDs are close to being able to deliver all key performance figures for future strategic X-ray missions except for the required frame rates. Our Stanford group is seeking to close this technology gap through a multi-pronged approach of microelectronics, signal processing and novel detector devices, developed in collaboration with th

  65. Shu-Yen Pan

    The theory of almost characters which is closely related to character sheaves is proposed by Lusztig to study the representation theory of finite reductive groups. In this article we show that the decomposition of the Weil character for finite reductive dual pairs $(\Sp_{2n},\rmO^\pm_{2n'})$ or $(\Sp_{2n},\SO_{2n'+1})$ with respect to the almost characters i

  66. S. Sivaprasad Kumar, Pooja Yadav

    In this paper, we introduce a family of analytic functions given by $$\psi_{A,B}(z):= \dfrac{1}{A-B}\log{\dfrac{1+Az}{1+Bz}},$$ which maps univalently the unit disk onto either elliptical or strip domains, where either $A=-B=\alpha$ or $A=\alpha e^{i\gamma}$ and $B=\alpha e^{-i\gamma}$ ($\alpha\in(0,1]$ and $\gamma\in(0,\pi/2]$). We study a class of non-univ

  67. Alberto Del Pia, Jeff Linderoth, Haoran Zhu

    We study relaxations for linear programs with complementarity constraints, especially instances whose complementary pairs of variables are not independent. Our formulation is based on identifying vertex covers of the conflict graph of the instance and generalizes the extended reformulation-linearization technique of Nguyen, Richard, and Tawarmalani to instan

  68. Safaa Diab, Amir Nassereldine, Mohammed Alser, Juan Gómez-Luna

    Sequence alignment is a memory bound computation whose performance in modern systems is limited by the memory bandwidth bottleneck. Processing-in-memory architectures alleviate this bottleneck by providing the memory with computing competencies. We propose Alignment-in-Memory (AIM), a framework for high-throughput sequence alignment using processing-in-memor

  69. Akond Rahman, Chris Parnin

    Despite being beneficial for managing computing infrastructure automatically, Puppet manifests are susceptible to security weaknesses, e.g., hard-coded secrets and use of weak cryptography algorithms. Adequate mitigation of security weaknesses in Puppet manifests is thus necessary to secure computing infrastructure that are managed with Puppet manifests. A c

  70. Priyanka Goel, S. Sivaprasad Kumar

    In the present investigation, we study the class of Sigmoid starlike functions, given by $\mathcal{S}^*_{SG}=\{f\in\mathcal{A}: {zf'(z)}/{f(z)}\prec 2/(1+e^{-z})\}$ in context of estimating the sharp radius constants associated with several known subclasses of starlike functions. Further, graphical validation for the sharpness of results is also provided.

  71. June-Young Kim, Bao-Dong Sun, Dongyan Fu, Hyun-Chul Kim

    We investigate the mechanical structure of a spin-1 particle. Introducing three different frameworks, i.e., the three-dimensional (3D) Breit frame, the two-dimensional (2D) Breit frame, and the 2D infinite momentum frame (equivalently the two-dimensional Drell-Yan frame), we scrutinize the 2D and 3D energy-momentum tensor (EMT) distributions in these frames.

  72. Zhen Dai, Lek-Heng Lim, Ke Ye

    We study the inversion analog of the well-known Gauss algorithm for multiplying complex matrices. A simple version is $(A + iB)^{-1} = (A + BA^{-1}B)^{-1} - i A^{-1}B(A+BA^{-1} B)^{-1}$ when $A$ is invertible, which may be traced back to Frobenius but has received scant attention. We prove that it is optimal, requiring fewest matrix multiplications and inver

  73. Weicheng Huang, Peifei Xu, Zhaowei Liu

    Mechanical interactions between rigid rings and flexible cables find broad application in both daily life (hanging clothes) and engineering systems (closing a tether-net). A reduced-order method for the dynamic analysis of sliding rings on a deformable one-dimensional (1D) rod-like object is proposed. In contrast to the conventional approach of discretizing

  74. Kendrick Qijun Li, Xu Shi, Wang Miao, Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen

    Unmeasured confounding and selection bias are often of concern in observational studies and may invalidate a causal analysis if not appropriately accounted for. Under outcome-dependent sampling, a latent factor that has causal effects on the treatment, outcome, and sample selection process may cause both unmeasured confounding and selection bias, rendering s

  75. Wenhua Wang, Yu Zhao, Qiong Wu, Qiang Fan

    Vehicular edge computing (VEC) is a promising technology to support real-time applications through caching the contents in the roadside units (RSUs), thus vehicles can fetch the contents requested by vehicular users (VUs) from the RSU within short time. The capacity of the RSU is limited and the contents requested by VUs change frequently due to the high-mob

  76. Ahmet M. Elbir, Kumar Vijay Mishra, Symeon Chatzinotas, Mehdi Bennis

    The sixth generation (6G) wireless networks aim to achieve ultra-high data transmission rates, very low latency and enhanced energy-efficiency. To this end, terahertz (THz) band is one of the key enablers of 6G to meet such requirements. The THz-band systems are also quickly emerging as high-resolution sensing devices because of their ultra-wide bandwidth an

  77. Miah Mohammad Asif Syeed, Maisha Farzana, Ishadie Namir, Ipshita Ishrar

    Floods are one of nature's most catastrophic calamities which cause irreversible and immense damage to human life, agriculture, infrastructure and socio-economic system. Several studies on flood catastrophe management and flood forecasting systems have been conducted. The accurate prediction of the onset and progression of floods in real time is challenging.

  78. Sara Tahery, Xurong Chen, Zi-qiang Zhang

    For a moving heavy quark antiquark ($Q\bar{Q}$) in a quark gluon plasma (QGP), we use gauge/gravity duality to study both real and imaginary parts of the potential (Re$V_{Q\bar{Q}}$ and Im$V_{Q\bar{Q}}$ respectively) in a gluon condensate (GC) theory. The complex potential is derived from the Wilson loop by considering the thermal fluctuations of the worldsh

  79. Dazhen Deng, Aoyu Wu, Huamin Qu, Yingcai Wu

    Analytical dashboards are popular in business intelligence to facilitate insight discovery with multiple charts. However, creating an effective dashboard is highly demanding, which requires users to have adequate data analysis background and be familiar with professional tools, such as Power BI. To create a dashboard, users have to configure charts by select

  80. Claus P. Nowak, Markus Pauly, Edgar Brunner

    While there appears to be a general consensus in the literature on the definition of the estimand and estimator associated with the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test, it seems somewhat less clear as to how best to estimate the variance. In addition to the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test, we review different proposals of variance estimators consistent under both the null

  81. Chao Yan, Yao Yan, Zhiyu Wan, Ziqi Zhang

    Synthetic health data have the potential to mitigate privacy concerns when sharing data to support biomedical research and the development of innovative healthcare applications. Modern approaches for data generation based on machine learning, generative adversarial networks (GAN) methods in particular, continue to evolve and demonstrate remarkable potential.

  82. Daniel R. Johnston, Valeriia V. Starichkova

    Inspired by a classical result of R\'enyi, we prove that every even integer $N\geq 4$ can be written as the sum of a prime and a number with at most 395 prime factors. We also show, under assumption of the generalised Riemann hypothesis, that this result can be improved to 31 prime factors.

  83. Qin Li, Xiao Huang, Pan Yan, Guozhuo Tan

    Although there are many improvements to WENO3-Z that target the achievement of optimal order in the occurrence of the first-order critical point (CP1), they mainly address resolution performance, while the robustness of schemes is of less concern and lacks understanding accordingly. In light of our analysis considering the occurrence of critical points withi

  84. Dan Long, Xuan Mao, Guo-Qing Qin, Hao Zhang

    Dynamical encircling exceptional point(EP) shows a number of intriguing physical phenomena and its potential applications. To enrich the manipulations of optical systems in experiment, here, we study the dynamical encircling EP, i.e. state transfer process, in largely detuned multimode optomechanical system. The process of state transfer has been investigate

  85. Tianlu Yuan

    Instrumenting a gigaton of ice at the geographic South Pole, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has been at the forefront of groundbreaking scientific discoveries over the past decade. These include the observation of a flux of TeV-PeV astrophysical neutrinos, detection of the first astrophysical neutrino on the Glashow resonance and evidence of the blazar TXS

  86. Zi Qin Liew, Hongyang Du, Wei Yang Bryan Lim, Zehui Xiong

    Semantic communication technologies enable wireless edge devices to communicate effectively by transmitting semantic meaning of data. Edge components, such as vehicles in next-generation intelligent transport systems, use well-trained semantic models to encode and decode semantic information extracted from raw and sensor data. However, the limitation in comp

  87. Jesse Fulton, Run Yan Teh, M. D. Reid

    The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox gives an argument for the incompleteness of quantum mechanics based on the premises of local realism. A general view is that the argument is compromised, because EPR's premises are falsified by Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) and Bell experiments. In this paper, we present an EPR argument based on premises not fals

  88. I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone, A. S. Barabash, C. J. Barton

    P-type point contact (PPC) high-purity germanium detectors are an important technology in astroparticle and nuclear physics due to their superb energy resolution, low noise, and pulse shape discrimination capabilities. Analysis of data from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, a neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment deploying PPC detectors enriched in $^{76}$Ge, h

  89. Qinghong Xu, Jiaoyang Li, Sven Koenig, Hang Ma

    In this work, we consider the Multi-Agent Pickup-and-Delivery (MAPD) problem, where agents constantly engage with new tasks and need to plan collision-free paths to execute them. To execute a task, an agent needs to visit a pair of goal locations, consisting of a pickup location and a delivery location. We propose two variants of an algorithm that assigns a

  90. Xinyi Zhong, Jiaoyang Li, Sven Koenig, Hang Ma

    We formalize and study the multi-goal task assignment and path finding (MG-TAPF) problem from theoretical and algorithmic perspectives. The MG-TAPF problem is to compute an assignment of tasks to agents, where each task consists of a sequence of goal locations, and collision-free paths for the agents that visit all goal locations of their assigned tasks in s

  91. Liu Yang, Yun Li, Simon X. Yang, Yinzhi Lu

    Emerging six generation (6G) is the integration of heterogeneous wireless networks, which can seamlessly support anywhere and anytime networking. But high Quality-of-Trust should be offered by 6G to meet mobile user expectations. Artificial intelligence (AI) is considered as one of the most important components in 6G. Then AI-based trust management is a prom

  92. Fangzheng Lin, Heming Sun, Jiro Katto

    Learned image compression allows achieving state-of-the-art accuracy and compression ratios, but their relatively slow runtime performance limits their usage. While previous attempts on optimizing learned image codecs focused more on the neural model and entropy coding, we present an alternative method to improving the runtime performance of various learned

  93. Jiacheng Zhu, Jielin Qiu, Zhuolin Yang, Douglas Weber

    There has been an increased interest in applying deep neural networks to automatically interpret and analyze the 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG). The current paradigms with machine learning methods are often limited by the amount of labeled data. This phenomenon is particularly problematic for clinically-relevant data, where labeling at scale can be time-con

  94. Qiong Wu, Yu Zhao, Qiang Fan, Pingyi Fan

    The vehicular edge computing (VEC) can cache contents in different RSUs at the network edge to support the real-time vehicular applications. In VEC, owing to the high-mobility characteristics of vehicles, it is necessary to cache the user data in advance and learn the most popular and interesting contents for vehicular users. Since user data usually contains

  95. Yogesh Sharma, Deval Bhamare, Nishanth Sastry, Bahman Javadi

    Traditionally, network and system administrators are responsible for designing, configuring, and resolving the Internet service requests. Human-driven system configuration and management are proving unsatisfactory due to the recent interest in time-sensitive applications with stringent quality of service (QoS). Aiming to transition from the traditional human

  96. Johan F. Triana, Felipe Herrera

    Modeling the non-equilibrium dissipative dynamics of strongly interacting quantized degrees of freedom is a fundamental problem in several branches of physics and chemistry. We implement a quantum state trajectory scheme for solving Lindblad quantum master equations that describe coherent and dissipative processes for a set of strongly-coupled quantized osci

  97. Shingo Hirano, Masahiro N. Machida

    One critical remaining issue to unclear the initial mass function of the first (Population III) stars is the final fate of secondary protostars formed in the accretion disk, specifically whether they merge or survive. We focus on the magnetic effects on the first star formation under the cosmological magnetic field. We perform a suite of ideal magnetohydrody

  98. Zhiding Liang, Jinglei Cheng, Hang Ren, Hanrui Wang

    Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) have demonstrated great potentials in the Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. In the workflow of VQA, the parameters of ansatz are iteratively updated to approximate the desired quantum states. We have seen various efforts to draft better ansatz with less gates. Some works consider the physical meaning of the un

  99. Jun Xue, Cunhang Fan, Zhao Lv, Jianhua Tao

    Recently, pioneer research works have proposed a large number of acoustic features (log power spectrogram, linear frequency cepstral coefficients, constant Q cepstral coefficients, etc.) for audio deepfake detection, obtaining good performance, and showing that different subbands have different contributions to audio deepfake detection. However, this lacks a

  100. Qiong Wu, Yu Zhao, Qiang Fan

    With the development of internet of vehicles, platooning strategy has been widely studied as the potential approach to ensure the safety of autonomous driving. Vehicles in the form of platoon adopt 802.11p to exchange messages through vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communications. When multiple platoons arrive at an intersection, the leader vehicle of each platoon