Publications (38)
Candidate Gaugings of Categorical Continuous Symmetry
Qiang Jia, Cheng Ma, Jiahua Tian
Different gaugings of the global symmetry of a quantum field theory are closely related to its various phases. In this work, we study candidate gaugeable symmetries by analyzing ca…
Transfer Learning in General Lensless Imaging through Scattering Media
Yukuan Yang, Lei Deng, Peng Jiao +4
Recently deep neural networks (DNNs) have been successfully introduced to the field of lensless imaging through scattering media. By solving an inverse problem in computational ima…
Deep Face Super-Resolution with Iterative Collaboration between Attentive Recovery and Landmark Estimation
Cheng Ma, Zhenyu Jiang, Yongming Rao +2
Recent works based on deep learning and facial priors have succeeded in super-resolving severely degraded facial images. However, the prior knowledge is not fully exploited in exis…
Coordinate-based Speed of Sound Recovery for Aberration-Corrected Photoacoustic Computed Tomography
Tianao Li, Manxiu Cui, Cheng Ma +1
Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) is a non-invasive imaging modality, similar to ultrasound, with wide-ranging medical applications. Conventional PACT images are degraded by…
End-to-End Hardware Modeling and Sensitivity Optimization of Photoacoustic Signal Readout Chains
Weiran Yang, Yiqi Cai, Handi Deng +1
The sensitivity of the acoustic detection subsystem in photoacoustic imaging (PAI) critically affects image quality. However, previous studies often focused only on front-end acous…
Learning Series-Parallel Lookup Tables for Efficient Image Super-Resolution
Cheng Ma, Jingyi Zhang, Jie Zhou +1
Lookup table (LUT) has shown its efficacy in low-level vision tasks due to the valuable characteristics of low computational cost and hardware independence. However, recent attempt…
The MiniMax-M2 Series: Mini Activations Unleashing Max Real-World Intelligence
MiniMax, :, Aili Chen +219
We introduce the MiniMax-M2 series, a family of Mixture-of-Experts language models built around the principle that mini activations can unleash maximum real-world intelligence. The…
Tunable electronic structure and magnetic anisotropy in bilayer ferromagnetic semiconductor Cr2Ge2Te6
Wen-ning Ren, Kui-juan Jin, Jie-su Wang +5
The emergence of ferromagnetism in two-dimensional van der Waals materials has aroused broad interest. However, the ferromagnetic instability has been a problem remained. In this w…
Streamlined Photoacoustic Image Processing with Foundation Models: A Training-Free Solution
Handi Deng, Yucheng Zhou, Jiaxuan Xiang +5
Foundation models have rapidly evolved and have achieved significant accomplishments in computer vision tasks. Specifically, the prompt mechanism conveniently allows users to integ…
Structure-Preserving Super Resolution with Gradient Guidance
Cheng Ma, Yongming Rao, Yean Cheng +3
Structures matter in single image super resolution (SISR). Recent studies benefiting from generative adversarial network (GAN) have promoted the development of SISR by recovering p…
Sub-Nyquist sampling boosts targeted light transport through opaque scattering media
Yuecheng Shen, Yan Liu, Cheng Ma +1
Optical time-reversal techniques are being actively developed to focus light through or inside opaque scattering media. When applied to biological tissue, these techniques promise…
Structure-Preserving Image Super-Resolution
Cheng Ma, Yongming Rao, Jiwen Lu +1
Structures matter in single image super-resolution (SISR). Benefiting from generative adversarial networks (GANs), recent studies have promoted the development of SISR by recoverin…
Generalized density functional theory framework for the non-linear density response of quantum many-body systems
Zhandos A. Moldabekov, Cheng Ma, Xuecheng Shao +5
A density functional theory (DFT) framework is presented that links functional derivatives of free-energy functionals to non-linear static density response functions in quantum man…
Unlocking the Power of Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory to Explore the Electronic Structure Under Extreme Conditions
Cheng Ma, Qiang Xu, Zhenhao Zhang +8
Recent advances in X-ray free-electron laser diagnostics have enabled direct probing of the electronic structure under extreme pressures and temperatures, such as those encountered…
GaussianPile: A Unified Sparse Gaussian Splatting Framework for Slice-based Volumetric Reconstruction
Di Kong, Yikai Wang, Wenjie Guo +8
Slice-based volumetric imaging is widely applied and it demands representations that compress aggressively while preserving internal structure for analysis. We introduce GaussianPi…
Room-temperature magnetoelectric coupling in strontium titanate
Zhen Yang, Cheng Ma, Mengqin Wang +12
Magnetoelectric (ME) multiferroics enable efficient interconversion of electrical and magnetic signals, offering pathways toward substantial reduction of power consumption in next-…
Divide-and-rule policy in the Naming Game
Cheng Ma, Brendan Cross, Gyorgy Korniss +1
The Naming Game is a classic model for studying the emergence and evolution of language within a population. In this paper, we extend the traditional Naming Game model to encompass…
Fluctuations and Persistence in Quantum Diffusion on Regular Lattices
Cheng Ma, Omar Malik, G. Korniss
We investigate quantum persistence by analyzing amplitude and phase fluctuations of the wave function governed by the time-dependent free-particle Schrödinger equation. The quantu…
When Does Legacy Data Start to Help? Emergent Transfer in Cross-Configuration Robot Learning
Tao Wang, Hudson Hou, Yingdong Hu +7
The paper investigates when demonstration data collected on an older robot configuration becomes useful for training a newer robot, revealing a three‑phase pattern where legacy dat…
Generalized dimension reduction approach for heterogeneous networked systems with time-delay
Cheng Ma, Gyorgy Korniss, Boleslaw K. Szymanski +1
Networks of interconnected agents are essential to study complex networked systems' state evolution, stability, resilience, and control. Nevertheless, the high dimensionality and n…
Nonlocal free-energy density functional for warm dense matter
Cheng Ma, Min Chen, Yu Xie +4
Finite-temperature orbital-free density functional theory (FT-OFDFT) holds significant promise for simulating warm dense matter due to its favorable scaling with both system size a…
On-Demand Storage and Retrieval of Microwave Photons Using a Superconducting Multiresonator Quantum Memory
Zenghui Bao, Zhiling Wang, Yukai Wu +5
A quantum memory that can store quantum states faithfully and retrieve them on demand has wide applications in quantum information science. An efficient quantum memory in the micro…
Improved superconducting qubit state readout by path interference
Zhiling Wang, Zenghui Bao, Yukai Wu +6
High fidelity single shot qubit state readout is essential for many quantum information processing protocols. In superconducting quantum circuit, the qubit state is usually determi…
Ab initio density functional theory approach to warm dense hydrogen: from density response to electronic correlations
Zhandos A. Moldabekov, Xuecheng Shao, Hannah M. Bellenbaum +5
Understanding the properties of warm dense hydrogen is of key importance for the modeling of compact astrophysical objects and to understand and further optimize inertial confineme…
Dynamic Vulnerability in Oscillatory Networks and Power Grids
Xiaozhu Zhang, Cheng Ma, Marc Timme
Recent work found distributed resonances in driven oscillator networks and AC power grids. The emerging dynamic resonance patterns are highly heterogeneous and nontrivial, dependin…
Tracking and imaging of dynamic objects in scattering media by time-reversed adapted-perturbation (TRAP) optical focusing
Cheng Ma, Xiao Xu, Yan Liu +1
The ability to steer light propagation inside scattering media has long been sought-after due to its potential widespread applications. To form optical foci inside scattering media…
Universality of noise-induced resilience restoration in spatially-extended ecological systems
Cheng Ma, Gyorgy Korniss, Boleslaw K. Szymanski +1
Many systems may switch to an undesired state due to internal failures or external perturbations, of which critical transitions toward degraded ecosystem states are a prominent exa…
Nonlocal Pseudopotential Energy Density Functional for Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory
Qiang Xu, Cheng Ma, Wenhui Mi +2
Orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) runs at low computational cost that scales linearly with the number of simulated atoms, making it suitable for large-scale material…
Systematic study of one-point kinetic energy density functionals for atomic nuclei
Tian Shuai Shang, Jian Li, Haozhao Liang +5
To explore the applicability of orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) in nuclear physics, we perform a systematic benchmark of 36 one-point kinetic energy density functio…
Weakly Supervised High-Fidelity Clothing Model Generation
Ruili Feng, Cheng Ma, Chengji Shen +5
The development of online economics arouses the demand of generating images of models on product clothes, to display new clothes and promote sales. However, the expensive proprieta…
Boron-assisted synthesis of compositionally complex amorphous oxides via short-range-order-constrained generative design
Honglin Li, Chuhao Liu, Yongfeng Guo +19
Engineering short-range atomic order in amorphous materials offers a promising yet still underexplored route to high-performance solids. Here, we establish a boron-assisted amorphi…
Fast binarized time-reversed adapted-perturbation (b-TRAP) optical focusing inside scattering media
Cheng Ma, Fengbo Zhou, Yan Liu +1
Light scattering inhibits high-resolution optical imaging, manipulation and therapy deep inside biological tissue by preventing focusing. To form deep foci, wavefront-shaping and t…
Rank-Consistency Deep Hashing for Scalable Multi-Label Image Search
Cheng Ma, Jiwen Lu, Jie Zhou
As hashing becomes an increasingly appealing technique for large-scale image retrieval, multi-label hashing is also attracting more attention for the ability to exploit multi-level…
Multi-Context Attention for Human Pose Estimation
Xiao Chu, Wei Yang, Wanli Ouyang +3
In this paper, we propose to incorporate convolutional neural networks with a multi-context attention mechanism into an end-to-end framework for human pose estimation. We adopt sta…
Fast and stable tight-binding framework for nonlocal kinetic energy density functional reconstruction in orbital-free density functional calculations
Yongshuo Chen, Cheng Ma, Boning Cui +5
Nonlocal kinetic energy density functionals (KEDFs) with density-dependent kernels are currently the most accurate functionals available for orbital-free density functional theory…
Point What You Mean: Visually Grounded Instruction Policy
Hang Yu, Juntu Zhao, Yufeng Liu +9
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models align vision and language with embodied control, but their object referring ability remains limited when relying solely on text prompt, especial…
RF heating-enhanced photoacoustic tomography
Skyler P. Selvin, XuanHao Wang, Handi Deng +2
Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) and thermoacoustic tomography (TAT) both leverage acoustic signals generated by electromagnetic absorption to noninvasively image deep tissues. PAT o…
Novel solid-state glycine-nitrate combustion for controllable synthesis of hierarchically porous Ni monolith
Qin Guo, Ying Zhao, Jiatu Liu +4
We demonstrate a novel solid-state glycine-nitrate route for not only the scalable combustion synthesis of hierarchically porous Ni monolith, but also control over impurities, micr…