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Publications (144)

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016

Inference of hidden structures in complex physical systems by multi-scale clustering

Z. Nussinov, P. Ronhovde, Dandan Hu +5

We survey the application of a relatively new branch of statistical physics--"community detection"-- to data mining. In particular, we focus on the diagnosis of materials and autom…

cs.DS2025

Knowing When to Stop Matters: A Unified Algorithm for Online Conversion under Horizon Uncertainty

Yanzhao Wang, Hasti Nourmohammadi Sigaroudi, Bo Sun +2

This paper investigates the online conversion problem, which involves sequentially trading a divisible resource (e.g., energy) under dynamically changing prices to maximize profit.…

cs.DS2021

Online Network Utility Maximization: Algorithm, Competitive Analysis, and Applications

Ying Cao, Bo Sun, Danny H. K. Tsang

We consider an online version of the well-studied network utility maximization problem, where users arrive one by one and an operator makes irrevocable decisions for each user with…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Anomalously Strong Size Effect on Thermal Conductivity of Diamond Microparticles

Yufeng Wang, Bo Sun

Diamond has the known highest thermal conductivity of around \SI{2000}{\watt\per\meter\per\kelvin} and is therefore widely used for heat dissipation. In practical applications, syn…

cs.CV2025

Glissando-Net: Deep sinGLe vIew category level poSe eStimation ANd 3D recOnstruction

Bo Sun, Hao Kang, Li Guan +3

We present a deep learning model, dubbed Glissando-Net, to simultaneously estimate the pose and reconstruct the 3D shape of objects at the category level from a single RGB image. P…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012

The environmental dependence of redox energetics of PuO2 and α-Pu2O3: A quantitative solution from DFT+U calculations

Bo Sun, Haifeng Liu, Haifeng Song +4

We report a comprehensive density functional theory (DFT) + study of the energetics of charged and neutral oxygen defects in both PuO and -PuO, and presen…

cond-mat.mes-hall2008

A Single Charged Quantum Dot in a Strong Optical Field: Absorption, Gain, and the AC Stark Effect

Xiaodong Xu, Bo Sun, Erik D. Kim +6

We investigate a singly-charged quantum dot under a strong optical driving field by probing the system with a weak optical field. When the driving field is detuned from the trion t…

cs.IT2011

QoS Provisioning for Multimedia Transmission in Cognitive Radio Networks

F. Richard Yu, Bo Sun, Vikram Krishnamurthy +1

In cognitive radio (CR) networks, the perceived reduction of application layer quality of service (QoS), such as multimedia distortion, by secondary users may impede the success of…

cs.DS2025

Learning-Augmented Competitive Algorithms for Spatiotemporal Online Allocation with Deadline Constraints

Adam Lechowicz, Nicolas Christianson, Bo Sun +4

We introduce and study spatiotemporal online allocation with deadline constraints (), a new online problem motivated by emerging challenges in sustainability and ene…

cs.GT2024

Static Pricing for Online Selection Problem and its Variants

Bo Sun, Hossein Nekouyan Jazi, Xiaoqi Tan +1

This paper studies an online selection problem, where a seller seeks to sequentially sell multiple copies of an item to arriving buyers. We consider an adversarial setting, making…

cs.CV2024

TutteNet: Injective 3D Deformations by Composition of 2D Mesh Deformations

Bo Sun, Thibault Groueix, Chen Song +2

This work proposes a novel representation of injective deformations of 3D space, which overcomes existing limitations of injective methods: inaccuracy, lack of robustness, and inco…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019

Stochastic Replica Voting Machine Prediction of Stable Cubic and Double Perovskite Materials and Binary Alloys

T. Mazaheri, Bo Sun, J. Scher-Zagier +6

A machine learning approach that we term the `Stochastic Replica Voting Machine' (SRVM) algorithm is presented and applied to a binary and a 3-class classification problems in mate…

cs.GT2023

Near-optimal Online Algorithms for Joint Pricing and Scheduling in EV Charging Networks

Roozbeh Bostandoost, Bo Sun, Carlee Joe-Wong +1

With the rapid acceleration of transportation electrification, public charging stations are becoming vital infrastructure in a smart sustainable city to provide on-demand electric…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Detuning Axis Pulsed Spectroscopy of Valley-Orbital States in Si/SiGe Quantum Dots

Edward H. Chen, Kate Raach, Andrew Pan +16

Silicon quantum dot qubits must contend with low-lying valley excited states which are sensitive functions of the quantum well heterostructure and disorder; quantifying and maximiz…

cs.DS2023

The Online Knapsack Problem with Departures

Bo Sun, Lin Yang, Mohammad Hajiesmaili +4

The online knapsack problem is a classic online resource allocation problem in networking and operations research. Its basic version studies how to pack online arriving items of di…

physics.bio-ph2019

Collective ECM remodeling organizes 3D collective cancer invasion

Jihan Kim, Yu Zheng, Amani A. Alobaidi +4

Tumor metastasis, traditionally considered as random spreading of individual cancer cells, has been shown to also involve coordinated collective invasion in the tissue space. Here…

cond-mat.soft2008

Influence of non-conservative optical forces on the dynamics of optically trapped colloidal spheres: The fountain of probability

Yohai Roichman, Bo Sun, Allan Stolarski +1

We demonstrate both experimentally and theoretically that a colloidal sphere trapped in a static optical tweezer does not come to equilibrium, but rather reaches a steady state in…

cs.LG2026

Make It Long, Keep It Fast: End-to-End 10K Long User Behavior Sequence Modeling for Billion-Scale Douyin Recommendation

Lin Guan, Jia-Qi Yang, Zhishan Zhao +12

Short-video recommenders such as Douyin must exploit extremely long user behavior histories without breaking latency or cost budgets. We present an end-to-end industrial recommende…

cs.CV2018

MVPNet: Multi-View Point Regression Networks for 3D Object Reconstruction from A Single Image

Jinglu Wang, Bo Sun, Yan Lu

In this paper, we address the problem of reconstructing an object's surface from a single image using generative networks. First, we represent a 3D surface with an aggregation of d…

eess.SP2022

IRS Assisted NOMA Aided Mobile Edge Computing with Queue Stability: Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Jiadong Yu, Yang Li, Xiaolan Liu +3

By employing powerful edge servers for data processing, mobile edge computing (MEC) has been recognized as a promising technology to support emerging computation-intensive applicat…

cs.CV2023

LiDAR-Based 3D Object Detection via Hybrid 2D Semantic Scene Generation

Haitao Yang, Zaiwei Zhang, Xiangru Huang +5

Bird's-Eye View (BEV) features are popular intermediate scene representations shared by the 3D backbone and the detector head in LiDAR-based object detectors. However, little resea…

cs.CL2025

Unifying Inference-Time Planning Language Generation

Prabhu Prakash Kagitha, Bo Sun, Ishan Desai +5

A line of work in planning uses LLM not to generate a plan, but to generate a formal representation in some planning language, which can be input into a symbolic solver to determin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2007

First-principles LDA+U and GGA+U study of plutonium oxides

Bo Sun, Ping Zhang, Xian-Geng Zhao

The electronic structure and properties of PuO and PuO have been studied from first principles by the all-electron projector-augmented-wave (PAW) method. The loca…

hep-th2005

Note on DBI dynamics of Dbrane Near NS5-branes

Bin Chen, Bo Sun

In this note, we investigate the homogeneous radial dynamics of (Dp, NS5)-systems without and with one compactified transverse direction, in the framework of DBI effective action.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

A multiphase-field model for simulating the hydrogen-induced multi-spot corrosion on the surface of polycrystalline metals: Application to uranium metal

Jie Sheng, Yu Liu, Xiao-Ming Shi +8

Hydrogen-induced multi-spot corrosion on the surface of polycrystalline rare metals is a complex process, which involves the interactions between phases (metal, hydride and oxide),…

cs.CL2023

CSED: A Chinese Semantic Error Diagnosis Corpus

Bo Sun, Baoxin Wang, Yixuan Wang +4

Recently, much Chinese text error correction work has focused on Chinese Spelling Check (CSC) and Chinese Grammatical Error Diagnosis (CGED). In contrast, little attention has been…

cs.CV2026

Sensor2Sensor: Cross-Embodiment Sensor Conversion for Autonomous Driving

Jiahao Wang, Bo Sun, Yijing Bai +12

Robust training and validation of Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) require massive, diverse datasets. Proprietary data collected by Autonomous Vehicle (AV) fleets, while high-fidel…

quant-ph2026

A digitally controlled silicon quantum processing unit

Members of the HRL Quantum Team, Collaborators, : +256

Commercially-relevant quantum computers will require large numbers of high-performing qubits that can be manufactured, integrated, and controlled at scale. Silicon exchange-only (E…

q-bio.CB2021

Extracellular Matrix regulates the morphodynamics of 3D migrating cancer cells

Christopher Z. Eddy, Helena Raposo, Ryan Wong +1

Cell shape is linked to cell function. The significance of cell morphodynamics, namely the temporal fluctuation of cell shape, is much less understood. Here we study the morphodyna…

stat.ML2018

The Stochastic Replica Approach to Machine Learning: Stability and Parameter Optimization

Patrick Chao, Tahereh Mazaheri, Bo Sun +2

We introduce a statistical physics inspired supervised machine learning algorithm for classification and regression problems. The method is based on the invariances or stability of…

cs.DS2020

Data-driven Competitive Algorithms for Online Knapsack and Set Cover

Ali Zeynali, Bo Sun, Mohammad Hajiesmaili +1

The design of online algorithms has tended to focus on algorithms with worst-case guarantees, e.g., bounds on the competitive ratio. However, it is well-known that such algorithms…

cond-mat.supr-con2022

Phase diagram of superconducting vortex ratchet motion in a superlattice with noncentrosymmetry

Shengyao Li, Lijuan Zhang, Ke Huang +8

Ratchet motion of superconducting vortices, which is a directional flow of vortices in superconductors, is highly useful for exploring quantum phenomena and developing superconduct…

cs.GT2026

Risk-Sensitive Online Selection with Bounded Adaptivity

Hossein Nekouyan, Bo Sun, Raouf Boutaba +1

Designing randomized online algorithms that perform reliably not only in expectation but also under unfavorable realizations of randomness is a fundamental challenge in online deci…

cs.NI2026

HyRA: A Hybrid Resource Allocation Framework for RAN Slicing

Mohammad Zangooei, Bo Sun, Noura Limam +1

The advent of 5G and the emergence of 6G networks demand unprecedented flexibility and efficiency in Radio Access Network (RAN) resource management to satisfy diverse service-level…

cs.DS2024

Chasing Convex Functions with Long-term Constraints

Adam Lechowicz, Nicolas Christianson, Bo Sun +4

We introduce and study a family of online metric problems with long-term constraints. In these problems, an online player makes decisions in a metric space t…

physics.bio-ph2022

Temporal signals drive the emergence of multicellular information networks

Guanyu Li, Ryan LeFebre, Alia Starman +3

Coordinated responses to environmental stimuli are critical for multicellular organisms. To overcome the obstacles of cell-to-cell heterogeneity and noisy signaling dynamics within…

cs.HC2014

Flight trajectory recreation and playback system of aerial mission based on ossimplanet

Wu Wu, Jiulin Hu, Xiaofang Huang +2

Recreation of flight trajectory is important among research areas. The design of a flight trajectory recreation and playback system is presented in this paper. Rather than transfer…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Giant third-order nonlinear Hall effect in misfit layer compound (SnS)(NbS)

Shengyao Li, Xueyan Wang, Zherui Yang +11

Nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE) holds immense significance in recognizing the band geometry and its potential applications in current rectification. Recent discoveries have expanded t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Incoherent phonon transport dominates heat conduction across van der Waals superlattices

Lu Zhao, Lijuan Zhang, Houfu Song +5

Heat conduction mechanisms in superlattices could be different across different types of interfaces. Van der Waals superlattices are structures physically assembled through weak va…

cond-mat.soft2020

Modeling Multi-Cellular Dynamics Regulated by ECM-Mediated Mechanical Communication via Active Particles with Polarized Effective Attraction

Yu Zheng, Qihui Fan, Christopher Eddy +4

Collective cell migration is crucial to many physiological and pathological processes. Recent experimental studies have indicated that the active traction forces generated by migra…

hep-ph2009

Left-right asymmetry for pion and kaon production in the semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering process

Bo Sun, Jun She, Bing Zhang +2

We analyze the left-right asymmetry in the semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) process without introducing any weighting functions. With the current theoretical unders…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011

Dissociation of hydrogen molecules on the clean and hydrogen-preadsorbed Be(0001) surface

Yanfang Li, Yu Yang, Bo Sun +2

Using first-principles calculations, we systematically study the potential energy surfaces and dissociation processes for hydrogen molecules on the clean and hydrogen-preadsorbed B…

cs.NI2026

Data-Driven Online Slice Admission Control and Resource Allocation in NextG Mobile Networks

Muhammad Sulaiman, Bo Sun, Mohammad Ali Salahuddin +2

Virtualization in 5G and beyond networks enables the creation of virtual networks (i.e., network slices) tailored to the needs of different applications. To maximize revenue under…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Electron Tunneling Enhances Thermal Conductance through Metal-Insulator-Semiconductor Junctions

Yizhe Liu, Bo Sun

The presence of interfaces in semiconductor devices substantially hinders thermal transport, contributing disproportionately to the overall thermal resistance. However, approaches…

cs.LG2024

Online Algorithms with Uncertainty-Quantified Predictions

Bo Sun, Jerry Huang, Nicolas Christianson +3

The burgeoning field of algorithms with predictions studies the problem of using possibly imperfect machine learning predictions to improve online algorithm performance. While near…

cs.CV2019

Adversarial Defense by Stratified Convolutional Sparse Coding

Bo Sun, Nian-hsuan Tsai, Fangchen Liu +2

We propose an adversarial defense method that achieves state-of-the-art performance among attack-agnostic adversarial defense methods while also maintaining robustness to input res…

cs.CV2025

MoCha: Towards Movie-Grade Talking Character Synthesis

Cong Wei, Bo Sun, Haoyu Ma +10

Recent advancements in video generation have achieved impressive motion realism, yet they often overlook character-driven storytelling, a crucial task for automated film, animation…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Effective reduction in thermal conductivity by high-density dislocations in SrTiO3

Jinxue Ding, Jiawen Zhang, Jinfeng Dong +5

Decreasing thermal conductivity is important for designing efficient thermoelectric devices. Traditional engineering strategies have focused on point defects and interface design.…

eess.SY2024

Chance-Constrained Economic Dispatch with Flexible Loads and RES

Tian Liu, Bo Sun, Danny H. K. Tsang

With the increasing penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources (RESs), it becomes increasingly challenging to maintain the supply-demand balance of power systems by solel…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

A Phase-field model for simulating hydrogen-induced pitting corrosion with solid-solid phase transformation in the metal

Jie Sheng, Yue-Chao Wang, Yu Liu +6

Hydrogen-induced pitting corrosion of metallic is a common phenomenon that damages the integrity and durability of the materials. Its numerical simulation is still a challenge due…

cs.CV2025

SceneCrafter: Controllable Multi-View Driving Scene Editing

Zehao Zhu, Yuliang Zou, Chiyu Max Jiang +9

Simulation is crucial for developing and evaluating autonomous vehicle (AV) systems. Recent literature builds on a new generation of generative models to synthesize highly realisti…

cs.GT2025

Online Allocation with Multi-Class Arrivals: Group Fairness vs Individual Welfare

Faraz Zargari, Hossein Nekouyan Jazi, Bo Sun +1

We introduce and study a multi-class online resource allocation problem with group fairness guarantees. The problem involves allocating a fixed amount of resources to a sequence of…

cs.DS2025

Online Rounding Schemes for -Rental Problems

Hossein Nekouyan, Bo Sun, Raouf Boutaba +1

We study two online resource allocation problems with reusability in an adversarial setting, namely kRental-Fixed and kRental-Variable. In both problems, a decision-maker manages $…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Boundary conditions dictate frequency dependence of thermal conductivity in silicon

Yizhe Liu, Qinshu Li, Fang Liu +2

Non-Fourier thermal transports have drawn significant attention for decades. Among them, the frequency dependent thermal conductivity has been extensively explored by pump-probe te…

cs.CV2024

PPLNs: Parametric Piecewise Linear Networks for Event-Based Temporal Modeling and Beyond

Chen Song, Zhenxiao Liang, Bo Sun +1

We present Parametric Piecewise Linear Networks (PPLNs) for temporal vision inference. Motivated by the neuromorphic principles that regulate biological neural behaviors, PPLNs are…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

Dislocation-induced thermal transport anisotropy in single-crystal group-III nitride films

Bo Sun, Georg Haunschild, Carlos Polanco +4

Dislocations, one-dimensional lattice imperfections, are common to technologically important materials such as III-V semiconductors, and adversely affect heat dissipation in e.g.,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Thermal Conductivity of BAs under Pressure

Songrui Hou, Bo Sun, Fei Tian +7

The thermal conductivity of boron arsenide (BAs) is believed to be influenced by phonon scattering selection rules due to its special phonon dispersion. Compression of BAs leads to…

cs.DS2025

Green Bin Packing

Jackson Bibbens, Cooper Sigrist, Bo Sun +2

The online bin packing problem and its variants are regularly used to model server allocation problems. Modern concerns surrounding sustainability and overcommitment in cloud compu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010

Quantum size effect on the dissociation of O2 molecules on ultrathin Pb(111) films

Ziyu Hu, Yu Yang, Bo Sun +5

Using first-principles calculations, we systematically study the dissociation of O molecules on different ultrathin Pb(111) films. Based on our previous work revealing the mole…

cs.CV2021

FSCE: Few-Shot Object Detection via Contrastive Proposal Encoding

Bo Sun, Banghuai Li, Shengcai Cai +2

Emerging interests have been brought to recognize previously unseen objects given very few training examples, known as few-shot object detection (FSOD). Recent researches demonstra…

cs.CV2019

Oriented Point Sampling for Plane Detection in Unorganized Point Clouds

Bo Sun, Philippos Mordohai

Plane detection in 3D point clouds is a crucial pre-processing step for applications such as point cloud segmentation, semantic mapping and SLAM. In contrast to many recent plane d…

quant-ph2022

Full-permutation dynamical decoupling in triple-quantum-dot spin qubits

Bo Sun, Teresa Brecht, Bryan Fong +20

Dynamical decoupling of spin qubits in silicon can enhance fidelity and be used to extract the frequency spectra of noise processes. We demonstrate a full-permutation dynamical dec…

cs.CV2022

PatchRD: Detail-Preserving Shape Completion by Learning Patch Retrieval and Deformation

Bo Sun, Vladimir G. Kim, Noam Aigerman +2

This paper introduces a data-driven shape completion approach that focuses on completing geometric details of missing regions of 3D shapes. We observe that existing generative meth…

cs.DS2024

Online Conversion with Switching Costs: Robust and Learning-Augmented Algorithms

Adam Lechowicz, Nicolas Christianson, Bo Sun +4

We introduce and study online conversion with switching costs, a family of online problems that capture emerging problems at the intersection of energy and sustainability. In this…

eess.SP2022

Improved Sensing and Positioning via 5G and mmWave radar for Airport Surveillance

Bo Tan, Elena Simona Lohan, Bo Sun +8

This paper explores an integrated approach for improved sensing and positioning with applications in air traffic management (ATM) and in the Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and…

cs.LG2025

Near-Optimal Consistency-Robustness Trade-Offs for Learning-Augmented Online Knapsack Problems

Mohammadreza Daneshvaramoli, Helia Karisani, Adam Lechowicz +3

This paper introduces a family of learning-augmented algorithms for online knapsack problems that achieve near Pareto-optimal consistency-robustness trade-offs through a simple com…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016

Temperature dependence of anisotropic thermal conductivity tensor of bulk black phosphorus

Bo Sun, Xiaokun Gu, Qingsheng Zeng +5

To date, the intrinsic thermal conductivity tensor of bulk black phosphorus (BP), an important 2D material, is still unknown, since recent studies focus on BP flakes not on bulk BP…

cs.PF2017

Asymptotic Performance Evaluation of Battery Swapping and Charging Station for Electric Vehicles

Xiaoqi Tan, Bo Sun, Yuan Wu +1

A battery swapping and charging station (BSCS) is an energy refueling station, where i) electric vehicles (EVs) with depleted batteries (DBs) can swap their DBs for fully-charged o…

cond-mat.stat-mech2016

An interacting replica approach applied to the traveling salesman problem

Bo Sun, Blake Leonard, Peter Ronhovde +1

We present a physics inspired heuristic method for solving combinatorial optimization problems. Our approach is specifically motivated by the desire to avoid trapping in metastable…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012

First-principles study of surface properties of PuO2: Effects of thickness and O-vacancy on surface stability and chemical activity

Bo Sun, Haifeng Liu, Haifeng Song +4

The (111), (110), and (001) surfaces properties of PuO2 are studied by using density-functional theory+U method. The total-energy static calculations determine the relative order o…

cs.CL2026

OPeRA: A Dataset of Observation, Persona, Rationale, and Action for Evaluating LLMs on Human Online Shopping Behavior Simulation

Ziyi Wang, Yuxuan Lu, Wenbo Li +13

Can large language models (LLMs) accurately simulate the next web action of a specific user? While LLMs have shown promising capabilities in generating ``believable'' human behavio…

cs.LG2024

Time Fairness in Online Knapsack Problems

Adam Lechowicz, Rik Sengupta, Bo Sun +2

The online knapsack problem is a classic problem in the field of online algorithms. Its canonical version asks how to pack items of different values and weights arriving online int…

eess.SP2022

Emotion Recognition using Machine Learning and ECG signals

Bo Sun, Zihuai Lin

Various emotions can produce variations in electrocardiograph (ECG) signals, distinct emotions can be distinguished by different changes in ECG signals. This study is about emotion…

astro-ph.IM2011

The sky brightness and transparency in i-band at Dome A, Antarctica

Hu Zou, Xu Zhou, Zhaoji Jiang +30

The i-band observing conditions at Dome A on the Antarctic plateau have been investigated using data acquired during 2008 with the Chinese Small Telescope ARray. The sky brightness…

cs.CV2024

Imagine yourself: Tuning-Free Personalized Image Generation

Zecheng He, Bo Sun, Felix Juefei-Xu +14

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable efficacy across various image-to-image tasks. In this research, we introduce Imagine yourself, a state-of-the-art model designed for p…

cs.GT2025

Posted Price Mechanisms for Online Allocation with Diseconomies of Scale

Hossein Nekouyan Jazi, Bo Sun, Raouf Boutaba +1

This paper addresses the online -selection problem with diseconomies of scale (OSDoS), where a seller seeks to maximize social welfare by optimally pricing items for sequentiall…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014

The different roles of Pu-oxide overlayers in the hydrogenation of Pu-metal: An ab initio molecular dynamics study based on vdW-DFT+U

Bo Sun, Haifeng Liu, Haifeng Song +4

Based on the van der Waals density functional theory (vdW-DFT)+U scheme, we carry out the ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) study of the interaction dynamics for H impingem…

cs.CV2024

Text-to-Sticker: Style Tailoring Latent Diffusion Models for Human Expression

Animesh Sinha, Bo Sun, Anmol Kalia +14

We introduce Style Tailoring, a recipe to finetune Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) in a distinct domain with high visual quality, prompt alignment and scene diversity. We choose sti…

cs.CV2024

GenCorres: Consistent Shape Matching via Coupled Implicit-Explicit Shape Generative Models

Haitao Yang, Xiangru Huang, Bo Sun +2

This paper introduces GenCorres, a novel unsupervised joint shape matching (JSM) approach. Our key idea is to learn a mesh generator to fit an unorganized deformable shape collecti…

q-bio.CB2019

The morphodynamics of 3D migrating cancer cells

Christopher Z. Eddy, Xinyao Wang, Fuxin Li +1

Cell shape is an important biomarker that is directly linked to cell function. However, cell morphodynamics, namely the temporal fluctuation of cell shape is much less understood.…

astro-ph.GA2010

The First Release of the CSTAR Point Source Catalog from Dome A, Antarctica

Xu Zhou, Zhou Fan, Zhaoji Jiang +29

In 2008 January the 24th Chinese expedition team successfully deployed the Chinese Small Telescope ARray (CSTAR) to DomeA, the highest point on the Antarctic plateau. CSTAR consist…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012

Persistent narrowing of nuclear-spin fluctuations in InAs quantum dots using laser excitation

Bo Sun, Colin Ming Earn Chow, Duncan G. Steel +3

We demonstrate the suppression of nuclear spin fluctuations in an InAs quantum dot and measure the timescales of the spin narrowing effect. By initializing for tens of milliseconds…

cs.CV2021

ARAPReg: An As-Rigid-As Possible Regularization Loss for Learning Deformable Shape Generators

Qixing Huang, Xiangru Huang, Bo Sun +3

This paper introduces an unsupervised loss for training parametric deformation shape generators. The key idea is to enforce the preservation of local rigidity among the generated s…

cs.DS2020

Optimal Online Algorithms for One-Way Trading and Online Knapsack Problems: A Unified Competitive Analysis

Ying Cao, Bo Sun, Danny H. K. Tsang

We study two canonical online optimization problems under capacity/budget constraints: the fractional one-way trading problem (OTP) and the integral online knapsack problem (OKP) u…

cs.NI2024

MicroOpt: Model-driven Slice Resource Optimization in 5G and Beyond Networks

Muhammad Sulaiman, Mahdieh Ahmadi, Bo Sun +4

A pivotal attribute of 5G networks is their capability to cater to diverse application requirements. This is achieved by creating logically isolated virtual networks, or slices, wi…

cs.CV2025

Drive&Gen: Co-Evaluating End-to-End Driving and Video Generation Models

Jiahao Wang, Zhenpei Yang, Yijing Bai +11

Recent advances in generative models have sparked exciting new possibilities in the field of autonomous vehicles. Specifically, video generation models are now being explored as co…

cs.CL2025

DPRF: A Generalizable Dynamic Persona Refinement Framework for Optimizing Behavior Alignment Between Personalized LLM Role-Playing Agents and Humans

Bingsheng Yao, Bo Sun, Yuanzhe Dong +2

The emerging large language model role-playing agents (LLM RPAs) aim to simulate individual human behaviors, but the persona fidelity is often undermined by manually-created profil…

cs.CV2023

Weakly Supervised Point Clouds Transformer for 3D Object Detection

Zuojin Tang, Bo Sun, Tongwei Ma +2

The annotation of 3D datasets is required for semantic-segmentation and object detection in scene understanding. In this paper we present a framework for the weakly supervision of…

cs.LG2025

Consistent Estimation of Numerical Distributions under Local Differential Privacy by Wavelet Expansion

Puning Zhao, Zhikun Zhang, Bo Sun +4

Distribution estimation under local differential privacy (LDP) is a fundamental and challenging task. Significant progresses have been made on categorical data. However, due to dif…

cond-mat.soft2015

Heterogeneous Force Chains in Cellularized Biopolymer Network

Long Liang, Christopher Jones, Bo Sun +1

Biopolymer Networks play an important role in coordinating and regulating collective cellular dynamics via a number of signaling pathways. Here, we investigate the mechanical respo…

cs.CL2022

Improving Pre-trained Language Models with Syntactic Dependency Prediction Task for Chinese Semantic Error Recognition

Bo Sun, Baoxin Wang, Wanxiang Che +3

Existing Chinese text error detection mainly focuses on spelling and simple grammatical errors. These errors have been studied extensively and are relatively simple for humans. On…

cond-mat.mes-hall2009

Quantum blockade and loop current induced by a single lattice defect in graphene nanoribbons

Jie-Yun Yan, Ping Zhang, Bo Sun +4

We investigate theoretically the electronic transport properties in narrow graphene ribbons with an adatom-induced defect. It is found that the lowest conductance step of a metalli…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Phase-field simulations of the effect of temperature and interface for zirconium $δ\mbox{-}$hydrides

Zi-Hang Chen, Jie Sheng, Yu Liu +8

Hydride precipitation in zirconium cladding materials can damage their integrity and durability.Service temperature and material defects have a significant effect on the dynamic gr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

First-Principles Study of Hydrogen Behaviors in -PuO

Le Zhang, Bo Sun, Qili Zhang +3

The in-depth understanding of hydrogen permeation through plutonium-oxide overlayers is the prerequisite to evaluate the complex hydriding induction period of Pu. In this work, the…

cs.HC2026

Fatigue-Related Reaction Time Forecasting via EEG Functional Connectivity in Sustained Attention Task

Bo Sun, Liang Ma

Mental fatigue related behavioral performance decline precipitates catastrophic accidents in sustained attention tasks. While existing neurophysiological systems effectively detect…

eess.SP2022

Using Wi-Fi Signal as Sensing Medium: Passive Radar, Channel State Information and Followups

Bo Tan, Bo Sun

The idea of exploiting the Wi-Fi bursts as the medium for sensing purposes, particularly for the human targets in the indoor environment, was cultivated in both radar and computer…

eess.IV2021

Tuning IR-cut Filter for Illumination-aware Spectral Reconstruction from RGB

Bo Sun, Junchi Yan, Xiao Zhou +1

To reconstruct spectral signals from multi-channel observations, in particular trichromatic RGBs, has recently emerged as a promising alternative to traditional scanning-based spec…

cond-mat.mes-hall2008

Coherent Population Trapping of an Electron Spin in a Single Negatively Charged Quantum Dot

Xiaodong Xu, Bo Sun, Paul R. Berman +4

Coherent population trapping (CPT) refers to the steady-state trapping of population in a coherent superposition of two ground states which are coupled by coherent optical fields t…

math.OC2022

Learning-Based Predictive Control via Real-Time Aggregate Flexibility

Tongxin Li, Bo Sun, Yue Chen +3

Aggregators have emerged as crucial tools for the coordination of distributed, controllable loads. To be used effectively, an aggregator must be able to communicate the available f…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011

Rotation of hydrogen molecules during the dissociative adsorption on the Mg(0001) surface: A first-principles study

Yanfang Li, Yu Yang, Bo Sun +3

Using first-principles calculations, we systematically study the potential energy surfaces and dissociation processes of the hydrogen molecule on the Mg(0001) surface. It is found…