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Sanjay Kumar

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Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Systematic Review and Applications

In recent years, the study of artificial intelligence (AI) has undergone a paradigm shift. This has been propelled by the groundbreaking capabilities of generative models both in supervised and unsupervised learning scenarios. Generative AI has shown state-of-the-art performance in solving perplexing real-world conundrums in fields such as image translation, medical diagnostics, textual imagery fusion, natural language processing, and beyond. This paper documents the systematic review and analysis of recent advancements and techniques in Generative AI with a detailed discussion of their applications including application-specific models. Indeed, the major impact that generative AI has made to date, has been in language generation with the development of large language models, in the field of image translation and several other interdisciplinary applications of generative AI. Moreover, the primary contribution of this paper lies in its coherent synthesis of the latest advancements in these areas, seamlessly weaving together contemporary breakthroughs in the field. Particularly, how it shares an exploration of the future trajectory for generative AI. In conclusion, the paper ends with a discussion of Responsible AI principles, and the necessary ethical considerations for the sustainability and growth of these generative models.

cs.LG

Polymer translocation: Effects of confinement

We investigate the influence of varying confinement on the dynamics of polymer translocation through a cone shaped channel. For this, a linear polymer chain is modeled by a self voiding walks (SAWs) on a square lattice. The cis-side of a cone-shaped channel has a finite volume, whereas the trans-side has a semi-infinite space. The confining environment is varied either by changing the position of the back wall while keeping the apex angle fixed or altering the apex angle while keeping the position of the back wall fixed. In both cases, the effective space ϕ, which represents the number of monomers in a chain relative to the total number of accessible sites within the cone, is reduced due to the imposed confinement. Consequently, the translocation dynamics are affected. We analyze the entropy of the confined system as a function ϕ, which exhibits non-monotonic behaviour. We also calculate the free energy associated with the confinement as a function of a virtual coordinate for different positions of the back wall (base of the cone) along the conical axis for various apex angles.Employing the Fokker-Planck equation, we calculate the translocation time as a function of ϕ for different solvent conditions across the pore. Our findings indicate that the translocation time decreases as ϕ increases, but it eventually reaches a saturation point at a certain value of ϕ. Moreover, we highlight the possibility to control the translocation dynamics by manipulating the solvent quality across the pore. Furthermore, our investigation delves into the intricacies of polymer translocation through a cone-shaped channel, considering both repulsive and neutral interactions with the pore wall. This exploration unveils nuanced dynamics and sheds light on the factors that significantly impact translocation within confined channels.

cond-mat.soft

Organic Electronics in Biosensing: A Promising Frontier for Medical and Environmental Applications

The promising field of organic electronics has ushered in a new era of biosensing technology, offering a promising frontier for applications in both medical diagnostics and environmental monitoring. This review paper provides a comprehensive overview of the remarkable progress and potential of organic electronics in biosensing applications. It explores the multifaceted aspects of organic materials and devices, highlighting their unique advantages, such as flexibility, biocompatibility, and low-cost fabrication. The paper delves into the diverse range of biosensors enabled by organic electronics, including electrochemical, optical, piezoelectric, and thermo sensors, showcasing their versatility in detecting biomolecules, pathogens, and environmental pollutants. Furthermore, integrating organic biosensors into wearable devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem is discussed, offering real-time, remote, and personalized monitoring solutions. The review also addresses the current challenges and prospects of organic biosensing, emphasizing the potential for breakthroughs in personalized medicine, environmental sustainability, and the advancement of human health and well-being.

physics.app-ph

Minimal surfaces over harmonic shears

Harmonic mappings have long intrigued researchers due to their intrinsic connection with minimal surfaces. In this paper, we investigate shearing of two distinct classes of univalent conformal mappings which are convex in horizontal direction with appropriate dilatations. Subsequently, we present a family of minimal surfaces constructed by lifting the harmonic mappings obtained through shear construction method given by Clunie-Sheil. Furthermore, we contribute to addressing an open problem partially, proposed by Boyd and Dorff, by identifying the resulting minimal surfaces for certain values of the parameters in one of the classes of mappings. Notably, this family of minimal surfaces transforms from the well-established Enneper's surface to a Helicoid.

math.CV

Classification of White Blood Cells Using Machine and Deep Learning Models: A Systematic Review

Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models have been employed to significantly improve analyses of medical imagery, with these approaches used to enhance the accuracy of prediction and classification. Model predictions and classifications assist diagnoses of various cancers and tumors. This review presents an in-depth analysis of modern techniques applied within the domain of medical image analysis for white blood cell classification. The methodologies that use blood smear images, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-rays, and similar medical imaging domains are identified and discussed, with a detailed analysis of ML/DL techniques applied to the classification of white blood cells (WBCs) representing the primary focus of the review. The data utilized in this research has been extracted from a collection of 136 primary papers that were published between the years 2006 and 2023. The most widely used techniques and best-performing white blood cell classification methods are identified. While the use of ML and DL for white blood cell classification has concurrently increased and improved in recent year, significant challenges remain - 1) Availability of appropriate datasets remain the primary challenge, and may be resolved using data augmentation techniques. 2) Medical training of researchers is recommended to improve current understanding of white blood cell structure and subsequent selection of appropriate classification models. 3) Advanced DL networks including Generative Adversarial Networks, R-CNN, Fast R-CNN, and faster R-CNN will likely be increasingly employed to supplement or replace current techniques.

eess.IV

Formation of an observed eruptive flux rope above the torus instability threshold through tether-cutting magnetic reconnection

Erupting magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) play a crucial role in producing solar flares. However, the formation of erupting MFRs in complex coronal magnetic configurations and their subsequent evolution in the flaring events are not fully understood. We performed an MHD simulation of active region NOAA 12241 to understand the formation of a rising MFR during the onset of an M6.9 flare on 2014 December 18, around 21:41 UT. The MHD simulation was initialised with an extrapolated non-force-free magnetic field generated from the photospheric vector magnetogram of the active region taken a few minutes before the flare. The initial magnetic field topology displays a pre-existing sheared arcade enveloping the polarity inversion line. The simulated dynamics exhibit the movement of the oppositely directed legs of the sheared arcade field lines towards each other due to the converging Lorentz force, resulting in the onset of tether-cutting magnetic reconnection that produces an underlying flare arcade and flare ribbons. Concurrently, an MFR above the flare arcade develops inside the sheared arcade and shows a rising motion. The MFR is found to be formed in a torus-unstable region, thereby explaining its eruptive nature. Interestingly, the location and rise of the rope are in good agreement with the corresponding observations seen in EUV channels. Furthermore, the foot points of the simulation's flare arcade match well with the location of the observed parallel ribbons of the flare. The presented simulation supports the development of the MFR by the tether-cutting magnetic reconnection inside the sheared coronal arcade during flare onset. The MFR is then found to extend along the polarity inversion line (PIL) through slip-running reconnection. The MFR's eruptive nature is ascribed both to its formation in the torus-unstable region and also to the runaway tether-cutting reconnection.

astro-ph.SR

Magnetohydrodynamics simulation of magnetic flux rope formation in a quadrupolar magnetic field configuration

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) play an important role in high-energetic events like solar flares and coronal mass ejections in the solar atmosphere. Importantly, solar observations suggest an association of some flaring events with quadrupolar magnetic configurations. However, the formation and subsequent evolution of MFRs in such magnetic configurations still need to be fully understood. In this paper, we present idealized magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations of MFR formation in a quadrupolar magnetic configuration. A suitable initial magnetic field having a quadrupolar configuration is constructed by modifying a three-dimensional (3D) linear force-free magnetic field. The initial magnetic field contains neutral lines, which consist of X-type null points. The simulated dynamics initially demonstrate the oppositely directed magnetic field lines located across the polarity inversion lines (PILs) moving towards each other, resulting in magnetic reconnections. Due to these reconnections, four highly twisted MFRs form over the PILs. With time, the foot points of the MFRs move towards the X-type neutral lines and reconnect, generating complex magnetic structures around the neutral lines, thus making the MFR topology more complex in the quadrupolar configuration than those formed in bipolar loop systems. Further evolution reveals the non-uniform rise of the MFRs. Importantly, the simulations indicate that the pre-existing X-type null points in magnetic configurations can be crucial to the evolution of the MFRs and may lead to the observed brightenings during the onset of some flaring events in the quadrupolar configurations.

astro-ph.SR

Turaev-Viro invariants and cabling operations

In this paper, we study the variation of the Turaev--Viro invariants for $3$-manifolds with toroidal boundary under the operation of attaching a $(p,q)$-cable space. We apply our results to a conjecture of Chen and Yang which relates the asymptotics of the Turaev--Viro invariants to the simplicial volume of a compact oriented $3$-manifold. For $p$ and $q$ coprime, we show that the Chen--Yang volume conjecture is stable under $\left(p,q\right)$-cabling. We achieve our results by studying the linear operator $RT_r$ associated to the torus knot cable spaces by the Reshetikhin--Turaev $SO_3$-Topological Quantum Field Theory (TQFT), where the TQFT is well-known to be closely related to the desired Turaev--Viro invariants. In particular, our utilized method relies on the invertibility of the linear operator for which we provide necessary and sufficient conditions.

math.GT

Hall effect on the magnetic reconnections during the evolution of a three-dimensional magnetic flux rope

We present a novel Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD) numerical simulation of a three-dimensional (3D) magnetic flux rope (MFR) -- generated by magnetic reconnections from an initial 3D bipolar sheared field. Magnetic reconnections during the HMHD evolution are compared with the MHD. In both simulations, the MFRs generate as a consequence of the magnetic reconnection at null points which has not been realized in contemporary simulations. Interestingly, the evolution is faster and more intricate in the HMHD simulation. Repetitive development of the twisted magnetic field lines (MFL) in the vicinity of 3D nulls (reconnection site) is unique to the HMHD evolution of the MFR. The dynamical evolution of magnetic field lines around the reconnection site being affected by the Hall forcing, correspondingly affects the large-scale structures.

astro-ph.SR

Bicomplex Paley Weiner Theorem

In this paper, we study the bicomplex version of the Paley-Weiner theorem and the Cauchy integral formula in the upper half-plane.

math.FA

MCD: A Modified Community Diversity Approach for Detecting Influential Nodes in Social Networks

Over the last couple of decades, Social Networks have connected people on the web from across the globe and have become a crucial part of our daily life. These networks have also rapidly grown as platforms for propagating products, ideas, and opinions to target a wider audience. This calls for the need to find influential nodes in a network for a variety of reasons, including the curb of misinformation being spread across the networks, advertising products efficiently, finding prominent protein structures in biological networks, etc. In this paper, we propose Modified Community Diversity (MCD), a novel method for finding influential nodes in a network by exploiting community detection and a modified community diversity approach. We extend the concept of community diversity to a two-hop scenario. This helps us evaluate a node's possible influence over a network more accurately and also avoids the selection of seed nodes with an overlapping scope of influence. Experimental results verify that MCD outperforms various other state-of-the-art approaches on eight datasets cumulatively across three performance metrics.

cs.SI

Magnetohydrodynamics evolution of three-dimensional magnetic null in NOAA active region 11515 initiated using non-force-free field extrapolation

Magnetohydrodynamics simulation of active region NOAA 11515 is performed to examine the initiation of the M5.6 flaring event that starts around 10:43 UT on 2012 July 2. The simulation is conducted using an extrapolated non-force-free magnetic field generated from the photospheric vector magnetogram of the active region as the initial magnetic field. The magnetic field shows the presence of a three-dimensional (3D) magnetic null with the corresponding dome overlying a filament and a low-lying magnetic flux rope, observed in 304~Å~ and 131~Å~ respectively. The simulated dynamics, triggered by the initial Lorentz force, lead to the bifurcations of the flux rope, which is similar to the observed bifurcation in the 131 Å~ brightenings. Additionally, the rope exhibits a rise and reconnects at the 3D null. These reconnections convert field lines of the rope into the anchored outer spine of the 3D null -- explaining the occurrence of a nearby confined C-class flare. Further, the results show that the field lines of the flux rope reach the vicinity of the filament and become non-parallel to the field lines of the filament. This initiates the reconnections between the rope and the field lines of the filament -- activating the filament for the eruption. This interesting interaction of the flux rope and filament seems to contribute to the onset of the M-class flare.

astro-ph.SR

Asymptotic additivity of the Turaev-Viro invariants for a family of $3$-manifolds

In this paper, we show that the Turaev-Viro invariant volume conjecture posed by Chen and Yang is preserved under gluings of toroidal boundary components for a family of $3$-manifolds. In particular, we show that the asymptotics of the Turaev-Viro invariants are additive under certain gluings of elementary pieces arising from a construction of hyperbolic cusped $3$-manifolds due to Agol. The gluings of the elementary pieces are known to be additive with respect to the simplicial volume. This allows us to construct families of manifolds with an arbitrary number of hyperbolic pieces such that the resultant manifolds satisfy an extended version of the Turaev-Viro invariant volume conjecture.

math.GT

Design and Evaluation of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in Real-World Environment

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have promising coverage and data rate gains for wireless communication systems in 5G and beyond. Prior work has mainly focused on analyzing the performance of these surfaces using computer simulations or lab-level prototypes. To draw accurate insights about the actual performance of these systems, this paper develops an RIS proof-of-concept prototype and extensively evaluates its potential gains in the field and under realistic wireless communication settings. In particular, a 160-element reconfigurable surface, operating at a 5.8GHz band, is first designed, fabricated, and accurately measured in the anechoic chamber. This surface is then integrated into a wireless communication system and the beamforming gains, path-loss, and coverage improvements are evaluated in realistic outdoor communication scenarios. When both the transmitter and receiver employ directional antennas and with 5m and 10m distances between the transmitter-RIS and RIS-receiver, the developed RIS achieves $15$-$20$dB gain in the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in a range of $\pm60^\circ$ beamforming angles. In terms of coverage, and considering a far-field experiment with a blockage between a base station and a grid of mobile users and with an average distance of $35m$ between base station (BS) and the user (through the RIS), the RIS provides an average SNR improvement of $6$dB (max $8$dB) within an area $> 75$m$^2$. Thanks to the scalable RIS design, these SNR gains can be directly increased with larger RIS areas. For example, a 1,600-element RIS with the same design is expected to provide around $26$dB SNR gain for a similar deployment. These results, among others, draw useful insights into the design and performance of RIS systems and provide an important proof for their potential gains in real-world far-field wireless communication environments.

eess.SP

Investigation of lightweight acoustic curtains for mid-to-high frequency noise insulations

The continuous surge of environmental noise levels has become a vital challenge for humanity. Earlier studies have reported that prolonged exposure to loud noise may cause auditory and non-auditory disorders. Therefore, there is a growing demand for suitable noise barriers. Herein, we have investigated several commercially available curtain fabrics' acoustic performance, potentially used for sound insulation purposes. Thorough experimental investigations have been performed on PVC coated polyester fabrics' acoustical performances and 100 % pure PVC sheets. The PVC-coated polyester fabric exhibited better sound insulation properties, particularly in the mid-to-high frequency range (600-1600 Hz) with a transmission loss of about 11 to 22 dB, while insertion loss of > 10 dB has been achieved. Also, the acoustic performance of multi-layer curtains has been investigated. These multi-layer curtains have shown superior acoustic properties to that of single-layer acoustic curtains.

eess.AS

Self Training with Ensemble of Teacher Models

In order to train robust deep learning models, large amounts of labelled data is required. However, in the absence of such large repositories of labelled data, unlabeled data can be exploited for the same. Semi-Supervised learning aims to utilize such unlabeled data for training classification models. Recent progress of self-training based approaches have shown promise in this area, which leads to this study where we utilize an ensemble approach for the same. A by-product of any semi-supervised approach may be loss of calibration of the trained model especially in scenarios where unlabeled data may contain out-of-distribution samples, which leads to this investigation on how to adapt to such effects. Our proposed algorithm carefully avoids common pitfalls in utilizing unlabeled data and leads to a more accurate and calibrated supervised model compared to vanilla self-training based student-teacher algorithms. We perform several experiments on the popular STL-10 database followed by an extensive analysis of our approach and study its effects on model accuracy and calibration.

cs.LG