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Hongyu Liu

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Pattern formations of coupled PDEs with transparent boundary conditions in product-type ends and applications

This paper studies pattern formations in coupled elliptic PDE systems governed by transparent boundary conditions. Such systems unify diverse areas, including inverse boundary problems (via a single passive/active boundary measurement), spectral geometry of transmission eigenfunctions, and geometric characterization of invisibility phenomena and inverse shape problems in wave scattering. We uncover and rigorously characterize a novel local pattern formation, establishing a sharp quantitative relationship between the difference in the PDEs' lower-order terms and the geometric/regularity parameters within a generic domain's product-type ends-structures characterized by high extrinsic curvature. This foundational result yields new findings with novel physical insights and practical implications across these fields.

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Dislocations with corners in an elastic body with applications to fault detection

This paper focuses on an elastic dislocation problem that is motivated by applications in the geophysical and seismological communities. In our model, the displacement satisfies the Lamé system in a bounded domain with a mixed homogeneous boundary condition. We also allow the occurrence of discontinuities in both the displacement and traction fields on the fault curve/surface. By the variational approach, we first prove the well-posedness of the direct dislocation problem in a rather general setting with the Lamé parameters being real-valued $L^\infty$ functions and satisfy the strong convexity condition. Next, by considering that the Lamé parameters are constant and the fault curve/surface possesses certain corner singularities, we establish a local characterization of the jump vectors at the corner points over the dislocation curve/surface. In our study, the dislocation is geometrically rather general and may be open or closed. We establish the unique results for the inverse problem of determining the dislocation curve/surface and the jump vectors for both cases.

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Calligrapher: Freestyle Text Image Customization

We introduce Calligrapher, a novel diffusion-based framework that innovatively integrates advanced text customization with artistic typography for digital calligraphy and design applications. Addressing the challenges of precise style control and data dependency in typographic customization, our framework incorporates three key technical contributions. First, we develop a self-distillation mechanism that leverages the pre-trained text-to-image generative model itself alongside the large language model to automatically construct a style-centric typography benchmark. Second, we introduce a localized style injection framework via a trainable style encoder, which comprises both Qformer and linear layers, to extract robust style features from reference images. An in-context generation mechanism is also employed to directly embed reference images into the denoising process, further enhancing the refined alignment of target styles. Extensive quantitative and qualitative evaluations across diverse fonts and design contexts confirm Calligrapher's accurate reproduction of intricate stylistic details and precise glyph positioning. By automating high-quality, visually consistent typography, Calligrapher surpasses traditional models, empowering creative practitioners in digital art, branding, and contextual typographic design.

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Microscale Hydrodynamic Cloaking via Geometry Design in a Depth-Varying Hele-Shaw Cell

We theoretically and numerically demonstrate that hydrodynamic cloaking can be achieved by simply adjusting the geometric depth of a region surrounding an object in microscale flow, rendering the external flow field undisturbed. Using the depth-averaged model, we develop a theoretical framework based on analytical solutions for circular and confocal elliptical cloaks. For cloaks of arbitrary shape, we employ an optimization method to determine the optimal depth profile within the cloaking region. Furthermore, we propose a multi-object hydrodynamic cloak design incorporating neutral inclusion theory. All findings are validated numerically. The presented cloaks feature simpler structures than their metamaterial-based counterparts and offer straightforward fabrication, thus holding significant potential for microfluidic applications.

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UGKWP and IUGKP methods for Multi-Scale Phonon Transport with Dispersion and Polarization

This paper presents two novel methods for solving multi-scale phonon transport problems with dispersion and polarization effects: the unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method and the implicit unified gas-kinetic particle (IUGKP) method. Both approaches are based on solving multiple groups of BGK equations at discrete frequency points. The UGKWP method constructs multiscale macroscopic fluxes at cell interfaces through the integral solution of the unsteady BGK equation and efficiently captures non-equilibrium transport using statistical particles. Its wave-particle adaptive framework ensures computational efficiency across different regimes: in the diffusive limit, it matches the cost of explicit diffusion equation solutions, while in the ballistic limit, it performs comparably to pure particle methods. The IUGKP method, specifically designed for steady-state problems, determines the particle evolution scale based on the physical mean free path. This approach enables rapid convergence at both large and small Knudsen numbers, with the latter facilitated by a newly constructed macroscopic prediction equation. Both methods incorporate an adaptive frequency-space sampling technique that maintains particle counts per cell comparable to single-frequency methods, significantly improving computational efficiency and memory usage. The accuracy and efficiency of both methods are validated through various numerical tests, including large-scale three-dimensional conduction heat transfer simulations. Results demonstrate their effectiveness in handling complex phonon transport phenomena across multiple scales.

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Implicit unified gas kinetic particle method for steady-state solution of multiscale phonon transport

This paper presents a highly efficient implicit unified gas-kinetic particle (IUGKP) method for obtaining steady-state solutions of multi-scale phonon transport. The method adapts and reinterprets the integral solution of the BGK equation for time-independent solutions. The distribution function at a given point is determined solely by the surrounding equilibrium states, where the corresponding macroscopic quantities are computed through a weighted sum of equilibrium distribution functions from neighboring spatial positions. From a particle perspective, changes in macroscopic quantities within a cell result from particle transport across cell interfaces. These particles are sampled according to the equilibrium state of their original cells, accounting for their mean free path as the traveling distance. The IUGKP method evolves the solution according to the physical relaxation time scale, achieving high efficiency in large Knudsen number regimes. To accelerate convergence for small Knudsen numbers, an inexact Newton iteration method is implemented, incorporating macroscopic equations for convergence acceleration in the near-diffusive limit. The method also addresses spatial-temporal inconsistency caused by relaxation time variations in physical space through the null-collision concept. Numerical tests demonstrate the method's excellent performance in accelerating multi-scale phonon transport solutions, achieving speedups of one to two orders of magnitude. The IUGKP method proves to be an efficient and accurate computational tool for simulating multiscale non-equilibrium heat transfer, offering significant advantages over traditional methods in both numerical performance and physical applicability.

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Follow-Your-Creation: Empowering 4D Creation through Video Inpainting

We introduce Follow-Your-Creation, a novel 4D video creation framework capable of both generating and editing 4D content from a single monocular video input. By leveraging a powerful video inpainting foundation model as a generative prior, we reformulate 4D video creation as a video inpainting task, enabling the model to fill in missing content caused by camera trajectory changes or user edits. To facilitate this, we generate composite masked inpainting video data to effectively fine-tune the model for 4D video generation. Given an input video and its associated camera trajectory, we first perform depth-based point cloud rendering to obtain invisibility masks that indicate the regions that should be completed. Simultaneously, editing masks are introduced to specify user-defined modifications, and these are combined with the invisibility masks to create a composite masks dataset. During training, we randomly sample different types of masks to construct diverse and challenging inpainting scenarios, enhancing the model's generalization and robustness in various 4D editing and generation tasks. To handle temporal consistency under large camera motion, we design a self-iterative tuning strategy that gradually increases the viewing angles during training, where the model is used to generate the next-stage training data after each fine-tuning iteration. Moreover, we introduce a temporal packaging module during inference to enhance generation quality. Our method effectively leverages the prior knowledge of the base model without degrading its original performance, enabling the generation of 4D videos with consistent multi-view coherence. In addition, our approach supports prompt-based content editing, demonstrating strong flexibility and significantly outperforming state-of-the-art methods in both quality and versatility.

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Dislocations in a multi-layered elastic solid with applications to fault and interface identifications

This paper investigates an elastic dislocation problem within a bounded and multi-layered solid governed by the Lamé system. We address the simultaneous reconstruction of the faults, the jumps in displacement and traction fields across the faults, and the interfaces of layers using a single passive boundary measurement. This inverse problem is particularly challenging due to the discontinuities in both the displacement and traction fields across the faults and the inherent difficulty of establishing uniqueness results with limited measurement data. Under the assumptions that the Lamé parameters are piecewise constants within each layer, satisfying strong convexity conditions, and that the faults exhibit corner singularities, we establish local uniqueness identifiability results for both the interfaces and the faults, as well as the jumps across the faults. Furthermore, we derive global uniqueness results for reconstructing the interfaces, the faults, and the corresponding displacement and traction jumps in generic scenarios under a priori geometric information, where the faults are geometrically general and may be either open or closed.

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Hybridization theory for plasmon resonance in metallic nanostructures

In this paper, we investigate the hybridization theory of plasmon resonance in metallic nanostructures, which has been validated by the authors in [31] through a series of experiments. In an electrostatic field, we establish a mathematical framework for the Neumann-Poincaré(NP) type operators for metallic nanoparticles with general geometries related to core and shell scales. We calculate the plasmon resonance frequency of concentric disk metal nanoshells with normal perturbations at the interfaces by the asymptotic analysis and perturbation theory to reveal the intrinsic hybridization between solid and cavity plasmon modes. The theoretical finding are convincingly supported by extensive numerical experiments. Our theory corroborates and strengthens that by properly enriching the materials structures as well as the underlying geometries, one can induce much richer plasmon resonance phenomena of practical significance.

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Ambient-pressure superconductivity onset at 10 K and robust Tc under high pressure in TiNbTaN3 medium-entropy nitride

Superconductivity has been one of the focal points in medium and high-entropy alloys (MEAs-HEAs) since the first discovery of the HEA superconductor in 2014. Until now, most HEAs' superconducting transition temperature (Tc) has not exceeded 10 K. Here we report the first observation of superconductivity in a bulk medium-entropy nitride (MEN), TiNbTaN3, which shows a Tc of 10 K at ambient pressure. Notably, the electronic specific heat coefficient γ(H) exhibits nonlinear H-dependence behavior, which is similar to other well-studied multigap superconductors. Furthermore, TiNbTaN3 exhibits extraordinary pressure resilience, maintaining robust superconductivity under high-pressure conditions. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations indicate that pressure exerts a negligible impact on the electronic structures of TiNbTaN3, thereby corroborating the experimental observations. These findings not only advance our understanding of emergent phenomena in entropy-stabilized nitrides but also establish a new material platform for finding more high-Tc superconductors with combinations of 4d/5d transition metal elements and light elements, motivating further investigations into high-entropy functional ceramics for extreme environment applications.

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Unified gas-kinetic wave-particle method for multi-scale phonon transport

Over the past 7 decades, the classical Monte Carlo method has played a huge role in the fields of rarefied gas flow and micro/nano scale heat transfer, but it also has shortcomings: the time step and cell size are limited by the relaxation time and mean free path, making it difficult to efficiently simulate multi-scale heat and mass transfer problems from the ballistic to diffusion limit. To overcome this drawback, a unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method is developed for solving the phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) in all regimes covering both ballistic and diffusive limits. This method is built upon the space-time coupled evolution model of the phonon BTE, which provides the framework for constructing a multi-scale flux at the cell interfaces. At the same time, in order to capture non-equilibrium transport efficiently, the multi-scale flux comprises two distinct components: a deterministic part for capturing the near-equilibrium or diffusive transport and a statistical particle part for recovering non-equilibrium or ballistic transport phenomena. The UGKWP method exhibits remarkable multi-scale adaptability and versatility, seamlessly bridging the gap between the diffusive and ballistic transport phenomena. In the diffusive limit, the present method naturally converges to the Fourier's law, with the diminishing particle contribution, whereas in the ballistic limit, the non-equilibrium flux is fully described by the free-streaming particles. This inherent adaptability not only allows for precise capturing of both equilibrium and non-equilibrium heat transfer processes but also guarantees that the model adheres strictly to the underlying physical laws in each phonon transport regime.

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On quasi-Minnaert resonances in elasticity and their applications to stress concentrations

This paper unveils and investigates a novel quasi-Minnaert resonance for an elastic hard inclusion embedded in a soft homogeneous medium in the sub-wavelength regime. The quasi-Minnaert resonance consists of boundary localization and surface resonance for the generated internal total and external scattered wave fields associated with the hard inclusion. It possesses similar quantitative behaviours as those for the classical Minnaert resonance due to high-contrast material structures, but occurs for a continuous spectrum of frequencies instead of certain discrete Minnaert resonant frequencies. We present a comprehensive analysis to uncover the physical origin and the mechanism of this new physical phenomenon. It is shown that the delicate high-contrast material structures and the properly tailored incident waves which are coupled together in a subtle manner play a crucial role in ensuring such phenomena. The stress concentration phenomena in both the internal total field and the scattered field components are also rigorously established. The analysis in this paper is deeply rooted in layer potential theory and intricate asymptotic analysis. We believe that our findings can have a significant impact on the theory of composite materials and metamaterials.

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On a novel UCP result and its application to inverse conductive scattering

In this paper, we derive a novel Unique Continuation Principle (UCP) for a system of second-order elliptic PDEs system and apply it to investigate inverse problems in conductive scattering. The UCP relaxes the typical assumptions imposed on the domain or boundary with certain interior transmission conditions. This is motivated by the study of the associated inverse scattering problem and enables us to establish several novel unique identifiability results for the determination of generalized conductive scatterers using a single far-field pattern, significantly extending the results in [15,23]. A key technical advancement in our work is the combination of Complex Geometric Optics (CGO) techniques from [15,23] with the Fourier expansion method to microlocally analyze corner singularities and their implications for inverse problems. We believe that the methods developed can have broader applications in other contexts.

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AvatarArtist: Open-Domain 4D Avatarization

This work focuses on open-domain 4D avatarization, with the purpose of creating a 4D avatar from a portrait image in an arbitrary style. We select parametric triplanes as the intermediate 4D representation and propose a practical training paradigm that takes advantage of both generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion models. Our design stems from the observation that 4D GANs excel at bridging images and triplanes without supervision yet usually face challenges in handling diverse data distributions. A robust 2D diffusion prior emerges as the solution, assisting the GAN in transferring its expertise across various domains. The synergy between these experts permits the construction of a multi-domain image-triplane dataset, which drives the development of a general 4D avatar creator. Extensive experiments suggest that our model, AvatarArtist, is capable of producing high-quality 4D avatars with strong robustness to various source image domains. The code, the data, and the models will be made publicly available to facilitate future studies.

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Inverse Problems for Mean Field Games

In this book, we present a curated collection of existing results on inverse problems for Mean Field Games (MFGs), a cutting-edge and rapidly evolving field of research. Our aim is to provide fresh insights, novel perspectives, and a comprehensive foundation for future investigations into this fascinating area. MFGs, a class of differential games involving a continuum of non-atomic players, offer a powerful framework for analyzing the collective behavior of large populations of symmetric agents as the number of agents approaches infinity. This framework has proven to be an invaluable tool for quantitatively modeling the macroscopic dynamics of agents striving to minimize specific costs in complex systems, such as crowd dynamics, financial markets, traffic flows, and social networks. The study of MFGs has traditionally focused on forward problems, where the goal is to determine the equilibrium behavior of agents given a set of model parameters, such as cost functions, interaction mechanisms, and initial conditions. However, the inverse problems for MFGs -- which seek to infer these underlying parameters from observed data -- have received comparatively less attention in the literature. This book seeks to address this gap by delving into the fundamental aspects of MFG inverse problems, with a particular emphasis on issues of unique identifiability, stability, and reconstruction of unknown parameters. These problems are not only mathematically challenging but also of immense practical significance, as they enable the calibration and validation of MFG models using real-world data. This book is intended to serve as a valuable resource for researchers interested in the theory and applications of MFGs, particularly in inverse problems. Through this book, we hope to inspire further exploration and innovation in this dynamic and interdisciplinary area of study.

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An Appearance Defect Detection Method for Cigarettes Based on C-CenterNet

Due to the poor adaptability of traditional methods in the cigarette detection task on the automatic cigarette production line, it is difficult to accurately identify whether a cigarette has defects and the types of defects; thus, a cigarette appearance defect detection method based on C-CenterNet is proposed. This detector uses keypoint estimation to locate center points and regresses all other defect properties. Firstly, Resnet50 is used as the backbone feature extraction network, and the convolutional block attention mechanism (CBAM) is introduced to enhance the network's ability to extract effective features and reduce the interference of non-target information. At the same time, the feature pyramid network is used to enhance the feature extraction of each layer. Then, deformable convolution is used to replace part of the common convolution to enhance the learning ability of different shape defects. Finally, the activation function ACON (ActivateOrNot) is used instead of the ReLU activation function, and the activation operation of some neurons is adaptively selected to improve the detection accuracy of the network. The experimental results are mainly acquired via the mean Average Precision (mAP). The experimental results show that the mAP of the C-CenterNet model applied in the cigarette appearance defect detection task is 95.01%. Compared with the original CenterNet model, the model's success rate is increased by 6.14%, so it can meet the requirements of precision and adaptability in cigarette detection tasks on the automatic cigarette production line.

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Multiscale style transfer based on a Laplacian pyramid for traditional Chinese painting

Style transfer is adopted to synthesize appealing stylized images that preserve the structure of a content image but carry the pattern of a style image. Many recently proposed style transfer methods use only western oil paintings as style images to achieve image stylization. As a result, unnatural messy artistic effects are produced in stylized images when using these methods to directly transfer the patterns of traditional Chinese paintings, which are composed of plain colors and abstract objects. Moreover, most of them work only at the original image scale and thus ignore multiscale image information during training. In this paper, we present a novel effective multiscale style transfer method based on Laplacian pyramid decomposition and reconstruction, which can transfer unique patterns of Chinese paintings by learning different image features at different scales. In the first stage, the holistic patterns are transferred at low resolution by adopting a Style Transfer Base Network. Then, the details of the content and style are gradually enhanced at higher resolutions by a Detail Enhancement Network with an edge information selection (EIS) module in the second stage. The effectiveness of our method is demonstrated through the generation of appealing high-quality stylization results and a comparison with some state-of-the-art style transfer methods. Datasets and codes are available at https://github.com/toby-katakuri/LP_StyleTransferNet.

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RS-YOLOX: A High Precision Detector for Object Detection in Satellite Remote Sensing Images

Automatic object detection by satellite remote sensing images is of great significance for resource exploration and natural disaster assessment. To solve existing problems in remote sensing image detection, this article proposes an improved YOLOX model for satellite remote sensing image automatic detection. This model is named RS-YOLOX. To strengthen the feature learning ability of the network, we used Efficient Channel Attention (ECA) in the backbone network of YOLOX and combined the Adaptively Spatial Feature Fusion (ASFF) with the neck network of YOLOX. To balance the numbers of positive and negative samples in training, we used the Varifocal Loss function. Finally, to obtain a high-performance remote sensing object detector, we combined the trained model with an open-source framework called Slicing Aided Hyper Inference (SAHI). This work evaluated models on three aerial remote sensing datasets (DOTA-v1.5, TGRS-HRRSD, and RSOD). Our comparative experiments demonstrate that our model has the highest accuracy in detecting objects in remote sensing image datasets.

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