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Stability and regularization for ill-posed Cauchy problem of a stochastic parabolic differential equation

In this paper, we investigate an ill-posed Cauchy problem involving a stochastic parabolic equation. We first establish a Carleman estimate for this equation. Leveraging this estimate, we derive the conditional stability and convergence rate of the Tikhonov regularization method for the aforementioned ill-posed Cauchy problem. To complement our theoretical analysis, we employ kernel-based learning theory to implement the completed Tikhonov regularization method for several numerical examples.

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SubGDiff: A Subgraph Diffusion Model to Improve Molecular Representation Learning

Molecular representation learning has shown great success in advancing AI-based drug discovery. The core of many recent works is based on the fact that the 3D geometric structure of molecules provides essential information about their physical and chemical characteristics. Recently, denoising diffusion probabilistic models have achieved impressive performance in 3D molecular representation learning. However, most existing molecular diffusion models treat each atom as an independent entity, overlooking the dependency among atoms within the molecular substructures. This paper introduces a novel approach that enhances molecular representation learning by incorporating substructural information within the diffusion process. We propose a novel diffusion model termed SubGDiff for involving the molecular subgraph information in diffusion. Specifically, SubGDiff adopts three vital techniques: i) subgraph prediction, ii) expectation state, and iii) k-step same subgraph diffusion, to enhance the perception of molecular substructure in the denoising network. Experimentally, extensive downstream tasks demonstrate the superior performance of our approach. The code is available at https://github.com/youjibiying/SubGDiff.

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Coexisting Néel and charge density wave orders in attractive three-color fermions

In optical lattices attractive ultracold fermions with three hyperfine-spin components (colors) can form three fermionic configurations depending on interactions: unbound fermion, on-site trion and off-site trion, leading to the coexistence of multiple Fermi species in the ordered phase, which manifests that the attractive three-color fermions are unique from other correlated fermion systems and may host intriguing phases and phase transitions. At temperature below the superexchange energy scale, we employ the determinant quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method to investigate the phases and phase transitions in the half-filled attractive three-color Hubbard model on a honeycomb lattice where Hubbard interactions are color-dependent (anisotropic interactions) and the coupling between color 3 and colors (1, 2) serves as a control parameter. In the coupling regime where on-site and off-site trions coexist, our QMC simulations demonstrate coexisting Néel and charge density wave orders which are common in condensed matter but rare in ultracold atoms. At weak coupling where the color superfluid (CSF) order is scattered by color-3 fermions, we find that very small coupling of color 3 with colors (1, 2) can destroy the CSF order and the vanishing of the CSF order is not immediately accompanied by the emergence of the on-site trionic phase, which strikingly disagrees with the prevalent results of dynamical mean-field theory. The underlying mechanisms of the coexisting charge/spin orders and the CSF order breaking are also presented based on intuitive physical pictures.

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Null controllability for stochastic fourth order semi-discrete parabolic equations

This paper is devoted to studying null controllability for a class of stochastic fourth order semi-discrete parabolic equations, where the spatial variable is discretized with finite difference scheme and the time is kept as a continuous variable. For this purpose, we establish a new global Carleman estimate for a backward stochastic fourth order semi-discrete parabolic operators, in which the large parameter is connected to the mesh size. A relaxed observability estimate is established for backward stochastic fourth order semi-discrete parabolic equations by this new Carleman estimate, with an explicit observability constant that depends on the discretization parameter and coefficients of lower order terms. Then, the $ϕ$-null controllability of the stochastic fourth order semi-discrete parabolic equations is proved using the standard duality technique.

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A Dual Curriculum Learning Framework for Multi-UAV Pursuit-Evasion in Diverse Environments

This paper addresses multi-UAV pursuit-evasion, where a group of drones cooperates to capture a fast evader in a confined environment with obstacles. Existing heuristic algorithms, which simplify the pursuit-evasion problem, often lack expressive coordination strategies and struggle to capture the evader in extreme scenarios, such as when the evader moves at high speeds. In contrast, reinforcement learning (RL) has been applied to this problem and has the potential to obtain highly cooperative capture strategies. However, RL-based methods face challenges in training for complex 3-dimensional scenarios with diverse task settings due to the vast exploration space. The dynamics constraints of drones further restrict the ability of reinforcement learning to acquire high-performance capture strategies. In this work, we introduce a dual curriculum learning framework, named DualCL, which addresses multi-UAV pursuit-evasion in diverse environments and demonstrates zero-shot transfer ability to unseen scenarios. DualCL comprises two main components: the Intrinsic Parameter Curriculum Proposer, which progressively suggests intrinsic parameters from easy to hard to improve the capture capability of drones, and the External Environment Generator, tasked with exploring unresolved scenarios and generating appropriate training distributions of external environment parameters. The simulation experimental results show that DualCL significantly outperforms baseline methods, achieving over 90% capture rate and reducing the capture timestep by at least 27.5% in the training scenarios. Additionally, it exhibits the best zero-shot generalization ability in unseen environments. Moreover, we demonstrate the transferability of our pursuit strategy from simulation to real-world environments. Further details can be found on the project website at https://sites.google.com/view/dualcl.

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Learning Discriminative Spatio-temporal Representations for Semi-supervised Action Recognition

Semi-supervised action recognition aims to improve spatio-temporal reasoning ability with a few labeled data in conjunction with a large amount of unlabeled data. Albeit recent advancements, existing powerful methods are still prone to making ambiguous predictions under scarce labeled data, embodied as the limitation of distinguishing different actions with similar spatio-temporal information. In this paper, we approach this problem by empowering the model two aspects of capability, namely discriminative spatial modeling and temporal structure modeling for learning discriminative spatio-temporal representations. Specifically, we propose an Adaptive Contrastive Learning~(ACL) strategy. It assesses the confidence of all unlabeled samples by the class prototypes of the labeled data, and adaptively selects positive-negative samples from a pseudo-labeled sample bank to construct contrastive learning. Additionally, we introduce a Multi-scale Temporal Learning~(MTL) strategy. It could highlight informative semantics from long-term clips and integrate them into the short-term clip while suppressing noisy information. Afterwards, both of these two new techniques are integrated in a unified framework to encourage the model to make accurate predictions. Extensive experiments on UCF101, HMDB51 and Kinetics400 show the superiority of our method over prior state-of-the-art approaches.

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Floquet Nonadiabatic Mixed Quantum-Classical Dynamics in Laser-Dressed Solid Systems

In this paper, we introduce the Floquet Ehrenfest and Floquet surface hopping approaches to study the nonadiabatic dynamics in the laser-dressed solid systems. We demonstrate that these two approaches can be formulated in both real and reciprocal spaces. Using these approaches, we are able to simulate the interaction between electronic carriers and phonons under periodic drivings, such as strong light-matter interactions. Employing the Holstein and Peierls models, we show that the strong light-matter interactions can effectively modulate the dynamics of electronic population and mobility. Notably, our study demonstrates the feasibility and effectiveness of modeling low-momentum carriers' interactions with phonons using a truncated reciprocal-space basis, an approach impractical in real-space frameworks. Moreover, we reveal that even with significant truncation, carrier populations derived from surface hopping maintain greater accuracy compared to those obtained via meanfield dynamics. These results underscore the potential of our proposed methods in advancing the understanding of carrier-phonon interactions in various laser-dressed materials.

physics.chem-ph↗

LibriSQA: A Novel Dataset and Framework for Spoken Question Answering with Large Language Models

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated commendable performance across a myriad of domains and tasks, existing LLMs still exhibit a palpable deficit in handling multimodal functionalities, especially for the Spoken Question Answering (SQA) task which necessitates precise alignment and deep interaction between speech and text features. To address the SQA challenge on LLMs, we initially curated the free-form and open-ended LibriSQA dataset from Librispeech, comprising Part I with natural conversational formats and Part II encompassing multiple-choice questions followed by answers and analytical segments. Both parts collectively include 107k SQA pairs that cover various topics. Given the evident paucity of existing speech-text LLMs, we propose a lightweight, end-to-end framework to execute the SQA task on the LibriSQA, witnessing significant results. By reforming ASR into the SQA format, we further substantiate our framework's capability in handling ASR tasks. Our empirical findings bolster the LLMs' aptitude for aligning and comprehending multimodal information, paving the way for the development of universal multimodal LLMs. The dataset and demo can be found at https://github.com/ZihanZhaoSJTU/LibriSQA.

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EPIM: Efficient Processing-In-Memory Accelerators based on Epitome

The utilization of large-scale neural networks on Processing-In-Memory (PIM) accelerators encounters challenges due to constrained on-chip memory capacity. To tackle this issue, current works explore model compression algorithms to reduce the size of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Most of these algorithms either aim to represent neural operators with reduced-size parameters (e.g., quantization) or search for the best combinations of neural operators (e.g., neural architecture search). Designing neural operators to align with PIM accelerators' specifications is an area that warrants further study. In this paper, we introduce the Epitome, a lightweight neural operator offering convolution-like functionality, to craft memory-efficient CNN operators for PIM accelerators (EPIM). On the software side, we evaluate epitomes' latency and energy on PIM accelerators and introduce a PIM-aware layer-wise design method to enhance their hardware efficiency. We apply epitome-aware quantization to further reduce the size of epitomes. On the hardware side, we modify the datapath of current PIM accelerators to accommodate epitomes and implement a feature map reuse technique to reduce computation cost. Experimental results reveal that our 3-bit quantized EPIM-ResNet50 attains 71.59% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet, reducing crossbar areas by 30.65 times. EPIM surpasses the state-of-the-art pruning methods on PIM.

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Two system transformation data-driven algorithms for linear quadratic mean-field games

This paper studies a class of continuous-time linear quadratic (LQ) mean-field game problems. We develop two system transformation data-driven algorithms to approximate the decentralized strategies of the LQ mean-field games. The main feature of the obtained data-driven algorithms is that they eliminate the requirement on all system matrices. First, we transform the original stochastic system into an ordinary differential equation (ODE). Subsequently, we construct some Kronecker product-based matrices by the input/state data of the ODE. By virtue of these matrices, we implement a model-based policy iteration (PI) algorithm and a model-based value iteration (VI) algorithm in a data-driven fashion. In addition, we also demonstrate the convergence of these two data-driven algorithms under some mild conditions. Finally, we illustrate the practicality of our algorithms via two numerical examples.

math.OC↗

A competitive game optimization algorithm for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle path planning

To solve the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) path planning problem, a meta-heuristic optimization algorithm called competitive game optimizer (CGO) is proposed. In the CGO model, three phases of exploration and exploitation, and candidate replacement, are established, corresponding to the player's search for supplies and combat, and the movement toward a safe zone. In the algorithm exploration phase, Levy flight is introduced to improve the global convergence of the algorithm. The encounter probability which adaptively changes with the number of iterations is also introduced in the CGO. The balance between exploration and exploitation of solution space of optimization problem is realized, and each step is described and modeled mathematically. The performance of the CGO was evaluated on a set of 41 test functions taken from CEC2017 and CEC2022. It was then compared with eight widely recognized meta-heuristic optimization algorithms. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm successfully achieves a balanced trade-off between exploration and exploitation, showcasing remarkable advantages when compared to seven classical algorithms. In addition, in order to further verify the effectiveness of the CGO, the CGO is applied to 8 practical engineering design problems and UAV path planning, and the results show that the CGO has strong performance in dealing with these practical optimization problems, and has a good application prospect.

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Can AI Understand Our Universe? Test of Fine-Tuning GPT by Astrophysical Data

ChatGPT has been the most talked-about concept in recent months, captivating both professionals and the general public alike, and has sparked discussions about the changes that artificial intelligence (AI) will bring to the world. As physicists and astrophysicists, we are curious about if scientific data can be correctly analyzed by large language models (LLMs) and yield accurate physics. In this article, we fine-tune the generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) model by the astronomical data from the observations of galaxies, quasars, stars, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), and the simulations of black holes (BHs), the fine-tuned model demonstrates its capability to classify astrophysical phenomena, distinguish between two types of GRBs, deduce the redshift of quasars, and estimate BH parameters. We regard this as a successful test, marking the LLM's proven efficacy in scientific research. With the ever-growing volume of multidisciplinary data and the advancement of AI technology, we look forward to the emergence of a more fundamental and comprehensive understanding of our universe. This article also shares some interesting thoughts on data collection and AI design. Using the approach of understanding the universe - looking outward at data and inward for fundamental building blocks - as a guideline, we propose a method of series expansion for AI, suggesting ways to train and control AI that is smarter than humans.

astro-ph.IM↗

MING-MOE: Enhancing Medical Multi-Task Learning in Large Language Models with Sparse Mixture of Low-Rank Adapter Experts

Large language models like ChatGPT have shown substantial progress in natural language understanding and generation, proving valuable across various disciplines, including the medical field. Despite advancements, challenges persist due to the complexity and diversity inherent in medical tasks which often require multi-task learning capabilities. Previous approaches, although beneficial, fall short in real-world applications because they necessitate task-specific annotations at inference time, limiting broader generalization. This paper introduces MING-MOE, a novel Mixture-of-Expert~(MOE)-based medical large language model designed to manage diverse and complex medical tasks without requiring task-specific annotations, thus enhancing its usability across extensive datasets. MING-MOE employs a Mixture of Low-Rank Adaptation (MoLoRA) technique, allowing for efficient parameter usage by maintaining base model parameters static while adapting through a minimal set of trainable parameters. We demonstrate that MING-MOE achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on over 20 medical tasks, illustrating a significant improvement over existing models. This approach not only extends the capabilities of medical language models but also improves inference efficiency.

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Null controllability for stochastic coupled systems of fourth order parabolic equations

This paper aims to establish null controllability for systems coupled by two backward fourth order stochastic parabolic equations. The main goal is to control both equations with only one control act on the drift term. To achieve this, we develop a new global Carleman estimate for fourth order stochastic parabolic equations, which allows us to deduce a suitable observability inequality for the adjoint systems.

math.OC↗

Floquet non-equilibrium Green's function and Floquet quantum master equation for electronic transport: The role of electron-electron interactions and spin current with circular light

Non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) and quantum master equation (QME) are two main classes of approaches for electronic transport. We discuss various Floquet variances of these formalisms for transport properties of a quantum dot driven via interaction with an external periodic field. We first derived two versions of the Floquet NEGF. We also explore an ansatz of the Floquet NEGF formalism for the interacting systems. In addition, we derived two versions of Floquet QME in the weak interaction regime. With each method, we elaborate on the evaluation of the expectation values of the number and current operators. We examined these methods for transport through a two-level system that is subject to periodic driving. The numerical results of all four methods show good agreement for non-interacting systems in the weak regime. Furthermore, we have observed that circular light can introduce spin current. We expect these Floquet quantum transport methods to be useful in studying molecular junctions exposed to light.

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On the Uniqueness of Solution for the Bellman Equation of LTL Objectives

Surrogate rewards for linear temporal logic (LTL) objectives are commonly utilized in planning problems for LTL objectives. In a widely-adopted surrogate reward approach, two discount factors are used to ensure that the expected return approximates the satisfaction probability of the LTL objective. The expected return then can be estimated by methods using the Bellman updates such as reinforcement learning. However, the uniqueness of the solution to the Bellman equation with two discount factors has not been explicitly discussed. We demonstrate with an example that when one of the discount factors is set to one, as allowed in many previous works, the Bellman equation may have multiple solutions, leading to inaccurate evaluation of the expected return. We then propose a condition for the Bellman equation to have the expected return as the unique solution, requiring the solutions for states inside a rejecting bottom strongly connected component (BSCC) to be 0. We prove this condition is sufficient by showing that the solutions for the states with discounting can be separated from those for the states without discounting under this condition

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Understanding Energy Level Structure Using Quantum Rubik's Cube

This study combines the quantum Rubik's Cube matrix with the Benalcazar Bernevig Hughes model, defines a matrix algorithm based on the reverse process of convolution, and constructs an expression for the quantum Rubik's Cube matrix and Hamiltonian. Furthermore, in order to make the operation of the quantum Rubik's Cube matrix clearer, we use a Josephus ring to draw a topological graph of the Rubik's Cube expansion. This article uses a quantum Rubik's Cube to calculate energy level transitions of electrons, and shows that its operation corresponds to path integration. The band dispersion is obtained. This work provides new ideas and methods for calculating Hamiltonians and studying energy level structure.

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LLMs in Political Science: Heralding a New Era of Visual Analysis

Interest is increasing among political scientists in leveraging the extensive information available in images. However, the challenge of interpreting these images lies in the need for specialized knowledge in computer vision and access to specialized hardware. As a result, image analysis has been limited to a relatively small group within the political science community. This landscape could potentially change thanks to the rise of large language models (LLMs). This paper aims to raise awareness of the feasibility of using Gemini for image content analysis. A retrospective analysis was conducted on a corpus of 688 images. Content reports were elicited from Gemini for each image and then manually evaluated by the authors. We find that Gemini is highly accurate in performing object detection, which is arguably the most common and fundamental task in image analysis for political scientists. Equally important, we show that it is easy to implement as the entire command consists of a single prompt in natural language; it is fast to run and should meet the time budget of most researchers; and it is free to use and does not require any specialized hardware. In addition, we illustrate how political scientists can leverage Gemini for other image understanding tasks, including face identification, sentiment analysis, and caption generation. Our findings suggest that Gemini and other similar LLMs have the potential to drastically stimulate and accelerate image research in political science and social sciences more broadly.

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