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Feng Hu

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arXiv2020

Mining Personalized Climate Preferences for Assistant Driving

Both assistant driving and self-driving have attracted a great amount of attention in the last few years. However, the majority of research efforts focus on safe driving; few research has been conducted on in-vehicle climate control, or assistant driving based on travellers' personal habits or preferences. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for climate control, driver behavior recognition and driving recommendation for better fitting drivers' preferences in their daily driving. The algorithm consists three components: (1) A in-vehicle sensing and context feature enriching compnent with a Internet of Things (IoT) platform for collecting related environment, vehicle-running, and traffic parameters that affect drivers' behaviors. (2) A non-intrusive intelligent driver behaviour and vehicle status detection component, which can automatically label vehicle's status (open windows, turn on air condition, etc.), based on results of applying further feature extraction and machine learning algorithms. (3) A personalized driver habits learning and preference recommendation component for more healthy and comfortable experiences. A prototype using a client-server architecture with an iOS app and an air-quality monitoring sensor has been developed for collecting heterogeneous data and testing our algorithms. Real-world experiments on driving data of 11,370 km (320 hours) by different drivers in multiple cities worldwide have been conducted, which demonstrate the effective and accuracy of our approach.

cs.LG↗

arXiv2020

GPU-accelerated Hierarchical Panoramic Image Feature Retrieval for Indoor Localization

Indoor localization has many applications, such as commercial Location Based Services (LBS), robotic navigation, and assistive navigation for the blind. This paper formulates the indoor localization problem into a multimedia retrieving problem by modeling visual landmarks with a panoramic image feature, and calculating a user's location via GPU- accelerated parallel retrieving algorithm. To solve the scene similarity problem, we apply a multi-images based retrieval strategy and a 2D aggregation method to estimate the final retrieval location. Experiments on a campus building real data demonstrate real-time responses (14fps) and robust localization.

cs.CV↗

arXiv2020

Quantum computing cryptography: Finding cryptographic Boolean functions with quantum annealing by a 2000 qubit D-wave quantum computer

As the building block in symmetric cryptography, designing Boolean functions satisfying multiple properties is an important problem in sequence ciphers, block ciphers, and hash functions. However, the search of $n$-variable Boolean functions fulfilling global cryptographic constraints is computationally hard due to the super-exponential size $\mathcal{O}(2^{2^n})$ of the space. Here, we introduce a codification of the cryptographically relevant constraints in the ground state of an Ising Hamiltonian, allowing us to naturally encode it in a quantum annealer, which seems to provide a quantum speedup. Additionally, we benchmark small $n$ cases in a D-Wave machine, showing its capacity of devising bent functions, the most relevant set of cryptographic Boolean functions. We have complemented it with local search and chain repair to improve the D-Wave quantum annealer performance related to the low connectivity. This work shows how to codify super-exponential cryptographic problems into quantum annealers and paves the way for reaching quantum supremacy with an adequately designed chip.

quant-ph↗

arXiv2018

Individuals' Mobility May Promote Criticality in Animal Collective Decision-making

It is highly believed that the individuals' mobility plays an important role in phase transition in animal collective motion. Here, we propose a model to study the effects of individuals' mobility in a distributed animal collective decision-making process, during which each individual faces two options with equal quality. We implement the quorum response rule, a type of social interaction rule which is taxonomically recognized in animal collective decision-making, as the sole interaction rule. After the introduction of individuals' mobility, we find that the group can reach a consensus decision at one of the options at some critical points even the interaction is local. This result is an obvious contrast to the stationary individuals, the population of which is always equally distributed between the two options with fluctuations. In order to explore the information dynamics, we introduce an important information-theoretic measure, mutual information, to study the critical behaviors. Furthermore, we study the case when individuals interact globally, and also find some qualitative similar critical behaviors.

physics.soc-ph↗

arXiv2017

An advanced three-axis elliptical hohlraum for indirectly driven inertial confinement fusion

The radiation symmetry and laser-plasma instabilities (LPIs) inside the conventional cylindrical hohlraum configuration are the two daunting challenges on the approach to ignition in indirectly driven inertial confinement fusion. Recently, near-vacuum cylindrical hohlraum (NVCH), octahedral spherical hohlraum (SH) and novel three-axis cylindrical hohlraum (TACH) were proposed to mitigate these issues. While the coupling efficiency might still be a critical risk. In this paper, an advanced three-axis elliptical hohlraum (TAEH) is proposed to make a compromise among these hohlraum performance. Preliminary simulations indicate that the TAEH (with a case-to-capsule ratio, CCR=2.8) could provide excellent radiation symmetry during the thorough laser pulse of the high-foot drive, comparable to the ones inside the SH (CCR=5.1) and TACH (CCR=2.2). The filling time of plasma affecting the LPIs is between those of SH and TACH, and about 1.5 times of that in the ignition hohlraum Rev5-CH of NIC and close to the one inside the NVCH (CCR=3.4). In particular, the coupling efficiency is about 22%, 29% and 17% higher than the one inside the NVCH, SH and TACH, respectively. It would be envisioned that the proposed hohlraum configuration merits consideration as an alternative route to indirect-drive ignition, complementary to the traditional cylindrical hohlraum and the proposed recently novel hohlraums.

physics.plasm-ph↗

arXiv2016

Energies and E1, M2 transition rates for Mo XXX

Based on relativistic wavefunctions from multiconfigurational Dirac-Hartree-Fock (MCDHF) and configuration interaction calculations, energy levels, radiative rates, and wavelengths are evaluated for all levels of 3s$^2$3p, 3s3p$^2$, 3s$^2$3d, 3p$^3$, 3s3p3d, 3p$^2$3d and 3s3d$^2$ configurations of Al-like Molybdenum ion (Mo XXX). Transition probabilities are reported for E1 and M2 transitions from the ground level. The valence-valence and core-valence correlation effects are accounted for in a systematic way. Breit interactions and quantum electrodynamics effects are estimated in subsequent relativistic configuration interaction calculations. Comparisons are made with the available data in the literature and good agreement has been found which confirms the reliability of our results.

physics.atom-ph↗

arXiv2015

Initiation and spread of escape waves within animal groups

The exceptional reactivity of animal collectives to predatory attacks is thought to be due to rapid, but local, transfer of information between group members. These groups turn together in unison and produce escape waves. However, it is not clear how escape waves are created from local interactions, nor is it understood how these patterns are shaped by natural selection. By startling schools of fish with a simulated attack in an experimental arena, we demonstrate that changes in the direction and speed by a small percentage of individuals that detect the danger initiate an escape wave. This escape wave consists of a densely packed band of individuals that causes other school members to change direction. In the majority of cases this wave passes through the entire group. We use a simulation model to demonstrate that this mechanism can, through local interactions alone, produce arbitrarily large escape waves. In the model, when we set the group density to that seen in real fish schools, we find that the risk to the members at the edge of the group is roughly equal to the risk of those within the group. Our experiments and modelling results provide a plausible explanation for how escape waves propagate in Nature without centralised control.

q-bio.PE↗

arXiv2014

Continuous dependence property of BSDE with constraints

In this paper, we study continuous properties of adapted solutions for backward stochastic differential equations with constraints (CBSDEs in short). Comparing with many existing literatures about this topic, our case is very general in the sense that constraints are formulated by general non-negative real functions. In general case, we proved a continuous property from below and a lower semi-continuous property of the minimal super-solution of CBSDE in its effective domain. Furthermore, in the special convex case, we obtained a continuous property with the help of convex analysis.

math.PR↗

arXiv2014

Evolution of citation networks with the hypergraph formalism

In this paper, we proposed an evolving model via the hypergraph to illustrate the evolution of the citation network. In the evolving model, we consider the mechanism combined with preferential attachment and the aging influence. Simulation results show that the proposed model can characterize the citation distribution of the real system very well. In addition, we give the analytical result of the citation distribution using the master equation. Detailed analysis showed that the time decay factor should be the origin of the same citation distribution between the proposed model and the empirical result. The proposed model might shed some lights in understanding the underlying laws governing the structure of real citation networks.

physics.soc-ph↗

arXiv2013

A law of the iterated logarithm sublinear expectations

In this paper, motivated by the notion of independent identically distributed (IID) random variables under sub-linear expectations initiated by Peng, we investigate a law of the iterated logarithm for capacities. It turns out that our theorem is a natural extension of the Kolmogorov and the Hartman-Wintner laws of the iterated logarithm.

math.PR↗

arXiv2012

General laws of large numbers under sublinear expectations

In this paper, under some weaker conditions, we give three laws of large numbers under sublinear expectations (capacities), which extend Peng's law of large numbers under sublinear expectations in [8] and Chen's strong law of large numbers for capacities in [1]. It turns out that these theorems are natural extensions of the classical strong (weak) laws of large numbers to the case where probability measures are no longer additive.

math.PR↗

arXiv2011

Moment bounds for IID sequences under sublinear expectations

In this paper, with the notion of independent identically distributed (IID) random variables under sublinear expectations introduced by Peng [7-9], we investigate moment bounds for IID sequences under sublinear expectations. We can obtain a moment inequality for a sequence of IID random variables under sublinear expectations. As an application of this inequality, we get the following result: For any continuous function $ϕ$ satisfying the growth condition $|ϕ(x)|\leq C(1+|x|^p)$ for some $C>0$, $p\geq1$ depending on $ϕ$, central limit theorem under sublinear expectations obtained by Peng [8] still holds.

math.PR↗