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astro-ph.CO2023

Cosmic void exclusion models and their impact on the distance scale measurements from large scale structure

Andrei Variu, Cheng Zhao, Daniel Forero-Sánchez +5

Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) studies based on the clustering of voids and matter tracers provide important constraints on cosmological parameters related to the expansion…

astro-ph.CO2025

Measuring the Mean Free Path of HI Ionizing Photons at with DESI Y1 Quasars

Anning Gao, Jason X. Prochaska, Zheng Cai +31

The mean free path of ionizing photons () in the intergalactic medium (IGM) is a crucial quantity in modelling the ionization state of IGM and the extragalac…

eess.SY2026

Necessary and Sufficient PID Gain Regions for Global Stabilization of Uncertain Second-Order MIMO Nonlinear Systems

Tianyou Xiang, Cheng Zhao

As is well known, classical PID control is ubiquitous in industrial processes, yet a rigorous and explicit design theory for nonlinear uncertain MIMO second-order systems remains u…

astro-ph.CO2024

Cosmological Fisher forecasts for next-generation spectroscopic surveys

William d'Assignies D., Cheng Zhao, Jiaxi Yu +1

Next-generation spectroscopic surveys such as the MegaMapper, MUltiplexed Survey Telescope (MUST), MaunaKea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE), and Wide Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) are…

cs.CV2025

Scenes as Tokens: Multi-Scale Normal Distributions Transform Tokenizer for General 3D Vision-Language Understanding

Yutao Tang, Cheng Zhao, Gaurav Mittal +4

Recent advances in 3D vision-language models (VLMs) highlight a strong potential for 3D scene understanding and reasoning. However, effectively tokenizing 3D scenes into holistic s…

astro-ph.CO2022

The Completed SDSS-IV Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Growth rate of structure measurement from cosmic voids

Marie Aubert, Marie-Claude Cousinou, Stéphanie Escoffier +19

We present a void clustering analysis in configuration-space using the completed Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) DR16…

cs.CV2022

EventPoint: Self-Supervised Interest Point Detection and Description for Event-based Camera

Ze Huang, Li Sun, Cheng Zhao +2

This paper proposes a self-supervised learned local detector and descriptor, called EventPoint, for event stream/camera tracking and registration. Event-based cameras have grown in…

cs.RO2022

3D ToF LiDAR in Mobile Robotics: A Review

Tao Yang, You Li, Cheng Zhao +5

In the past ten years, the use of 3D Time-of-Flight (ToF) LiDARs in mobile robotics has grown rapidly. Based on our accumulation of relevant research, this article systematically r…

astro-ph.GA2022

The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar and APOGEE-2 Data

Abdurro'uf, Katherine Accetta, Conny Aerts +337

This paper documents the seventeenth data release (DR17) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fifth and final release from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). DR17 contains the complete…

astro-ph.CO2023

Void Lensing in Cubic Galileon Gravity

Chen Su, Huanyuan Shan, Jiajun Zhang +6

Weak lensing studies via cosmic voids are a promising probe of Modified Gravity (MG). Excess surface mass density (ESD) is widely used as a lensing statistic in weak lensing resear…

math.CO2014

On the largest graph-Lagrangians of hypergraphs

Qingsong Tang, Yuejian Peng, Xiangde Zhang +1

Frankl and Füredi (1989) conjectured that the -graph with edges formed by taking the first sets in the colex ordering of has the largest graph-Lagra…

astro-ph.CO2026

MUltiplexed Survey Telescope (MUST) Science White Paper I: Overview of Large-Scale Structure Cosmology in the Era of Stage-V Spectroscopic Surveys

Cheng Zhao, Song Huang, Mengfan He +41

The MUltiplexed Survey Telescope (MUST) is a 6.5-meter telescope under development. Dedicated to highly-multiplexed, wide-field spectroscopic surveys, MUST observes over 20,000 tar…

eess.SY2022

Understanding the Capability of PD Control for Uncertain Stochastic Systems

Cheng Zhao, Yanbin Zhang

In this article, we focus on the global stabilizability problem for a class of second order uncertain stochastic control systems, where both the drift term and the diffusion term a…

cs.CV2026

Measuring and Improving Complex-Atomic Answer Consistency in Endoscopic VQA

Yuhao Liu, Cheng Zhao, Guanghui Yue

Endoscopic visual question answering (VQA) increasingly asks complex questions that combine several endoscopic answer components rather than isolated factual queries. Such complex…

astro-ph.CO2023

First Detection of the BAO Signal from Early DESI Data

Jeongin Moon, David Valcin, Michael Rashkovetskyi +65

We present the first detection of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) signal obtained using unblinded data collected during the initial two months of operations of the Stage-IV…

eess.SY2026

Towards Guaranteed Optimal PID Tuning for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems

Jingru Zhu, Cheng Zhao, Lei Guo

Despite the widespread use of PID controllers in engineering practice, designing optimal PID parameters has long been regarded as a challenging problem in both theory and practice,…

astro-ph.CO2022

The completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological implications from multi-tracer BAO analysis with galaxies and voids

Cheng Zhao, Andrei Variu, Mengfan He +15

We construct cosmic void catalogues with the DIVE void finder upon SDSS BOSS DR12 and eBOSS DR16 galaxy samples with BAO reconstruction applied, and perform a joint BAO analysis us…

cond-mat.quant-gas2009

Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov Theory of Dipolar Fermi Gases

Cheng Zhao, Lei Jiang, Xunxu Liu +3

We construct a fully self-consistent Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory that describes a spinless Fermi gas with long-range interaction. We apply this theory to a system of uniform dip…

astro-ph.CO2022

Model BOSS & eBOSS Luminous Red Galaxies at 0.2 < z < 1.0 using SubHalo Abundance Matching with 3 parameters

Jiaxi Yu, Cheng Zhao, Chia-Hsun Chuang +9

SubHalo Abundance Matching (SHAM) is an empirical method for constructing galaxy catalogues based on high-resolution -body simulations. We apply SHAM on the UNIT simulation to s…

astro-ph.CO2019

The bias of dark matter tracers: assessing the accuracy of mapping techniques

M. Pellejero-Ibañez, A. Balaguera-Antolínez, Francisco-Shu Kitaura +7

We present a comparison between approximated methods for the construction of mock catalogs based on the halo-bias mapping technique. To this end, we use as reference a high resolut…

astro-ph.CO2024

ELG Spectroscopic Systematics Analysis of the DESI Data Release 1

Jiaxi Yu, Ashley J. Ross, Antoine Rocher +58

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) uses more than 2.4 million Emission Line Galaxies (ELGs) for 3D large-scale structure (LSS) analyses in its Data Release 1 (DR1). Such l…

astro-ph.CO2017

Effect of Massive Neutrinos on the Position of Cold Dark Matter Halo: Revealed via Delaunay Triangulation Void

Jian Qin, Yu Liang, Cheng Zhao +3

Using cosmological -body simulation which coevolves cold dark matter (CDM) and neutrino particles, we discover the local effect of massive neutrinos on the spatial distribution…

astro-ph.CO2022

BOSS Correlation Function Analysis from the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure

Pierre Zhang, Guido D'Amico, Leonardo Senatore +2

After calibrating the predictions of the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure against several sets of simulations, as well as implementing a new method to assert the sca…

cs.DC2019

Kaleido: An Efficient Out-of-core Graph Mining System on A Single Machine

Cheng Zhao, Zhibin Zhang, Peng Xu +2

Graph mining is one of the most important categories of graph algorithms. However, exploring the subgraphs of an input graph produces a huge amount of intermediate data. The 'think…

cs.RO2018

Learning monocular visual odometry with dense 3D mapping from dense 3D flow

Cheng Zhao, Li Sun, Pulak Purkait +2

This paper introduces a fully deep learning approach to monocular SLAM, which can perform simultaneous localization using a neural network for learning visual odometry (L-VO) and d…

math.CO2012

Some Results on Lagrangians of Hypergraphs

Qingsong Tang, Yuejian Peng, Xiangde Zhang +1

In 1965, Motzkin and Straus [5] provided a new proof of Turan's theorem based on a continuous characterization of the clique number of a graph using the Lagrangian of a graph. This…

math.OC2016

On the Capability of PID Control for Nonlinear Uncertain Systems

Cheng Zhao, Lei Guo

It is well-known that the classical PID controller is by far the most widely used ones in industrial processes, despite of the remarkable progresses of the modern control theory ov…

astro-ph.CO2022

Beyond CDM constraints from the full shape clustering measurements from BOSS and eBOSS

Agne Semenaite, Ariel G. Sánchez, Andrea Pezzotta +7

We analyse the full shape of anisotropic clustering measurements from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic survey (eBOSS) quasar sample together with the combined galaxy s…

astro-ph.CO2020

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: BAO and RSD measurements from anisotropic clustering analysis of the Quasar Sample in configuration space between redshift 0.8 and 2.2

Jiamin Hou, Ariel G. Sánchez, Ashley J. Ross +27

We measure the anisotropic clustering of the quasar sample from Data Release 16 (DR16) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS).…

math.OC2019

Extended PID Control of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems

Cheng Zhao, Lei Guo

Since the classical proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller is the most widely and successfully used ones in industrial processes, it is of vital importance to investigat…

astro-ph.CO2015

nIFTy Cosmology: Galaxy/halo mock catalogue comparison project on clustering statistics

Chia-Hsun Chuang, Cheng Zhao, Francisco Prada +21

We present a comparison of major methodologies of fast generating mock halo or galaxy catalogues. The comparison is done for two-point and the three-point clustering statistics. Th…

astro-ph.CO2024

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological Implications from two Decades of Spectroscopic Surveys at the Apache Point observatory

eBOSS Collaboration, Shadab Alam, Marie Aubert +97

We present the cosmological implications from final measurements of clustering using galaxies, quasars, and Ly forests from the completed Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) lineag…

math.CO2014

On hypergraph Lagrangians

Qingsong Tang, Xiaojun Lu, Xiangde Zhang +1

It is conjectured by Frankl and Füredi that the -uniform hypergraph with edges formed by taking the first sets in the colex ordering of has the larg…

math.OC2024

Optimal Adaptive Control of Linear Stochastic Systems with Quadratic Cost Function

Nian Liu, Cheng Zhao, Shaolin Tan +1

In this paper, we consider the adaptive linear quadratic Gaussian control problem, where both the linear transformation matrix of the state and the control gain matrix are…

cs.CL2024

Understanding Literary Texts by LLMs: A Case Study of Ancient Chinese Poetry

Cheng Zhao, Bin Wang, Zhen Wang

The birth and rapid development of large language models (LLMs) have caused quite a stir in the field of literature. Once considered unattainable, AI's role in literary creation is…

astro-ph.CO2020

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measurement of the BAO and growth rate of structure of the luminous red galaxy sample from the anisotropic correlation function between redshifts 0.6 and 1

Julian E. Bautista, Romain Paviot, Mariana Vargas Magaña +30

We present the cosmological analysis of the configuration-space anisotropic clustering in the completed Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) extended Baryon Oscillation Spectrosco…

astro-ph.CO2017

Linear redshift space distortions for cosmic voids based on galaxies in redshift space

Chia-Hsun Chuang, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Yu Liang +4

Cosmic voids found in galaxy surveys are defined based on the galaxy distribution in redshift space. We show that the large scale distribution of voids in redshift space traces the…

cs.IR2020

CATN: Cross-Domain Recommendation for Cold-Start Users via Aspect Transfer Network

Cheng Zhao, Chenliang Li, Rong Xiao +2

In a large recommender system, the products (or items) could be in many different categories or domains. Given two relevant domains (e.g., Book and Movie), users may have interacti…

cs.LG2019

Recurrent Kalman Networks: Factorized Inference in High-Dimensional Deep Feature Spaces

Philipp Becker, Harit Pandya, Gregor Gebhardt +3

In order to integrate uncertainty estimates into deep time-series modelling, Kalman Filters (KFs) (Kalman et al., 1960) have been integrated with deep learning models, however, suc…

math.CO2013

Connection between the clique number and the Lagrangian of -uniform hypergraphs

Qingsong Tang, Yuejian Peng, Xiangde Zhang +1

There is a remarkable connection between the clique number and the Lagrangian of a 2-graph proved by Motzkin and Straus in 1965. It is useful in practice if similar results hold fo…

astro-ph.CO2017

EZmocks: extending the Zel'dovich approximation to generate mock galaxy catalogues with accurate clustering statistics

Chia-Hsun Chuang, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Francisco Prada +2

We present a new methodology to generate mock halo or galaxy catalogues, which have accurate clustering properties, nearly indistinguishable from full -body solutions, in terms…

astro-ph.CO2020

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: exploring the Halo Occupation Distribution model for Emission Line Galaxies

Santiago Avila, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez, Faizan G. Mohammad +25

We study the modelling of the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) for the eBOSS DR16 Emission Line Galaxies (ELGs). Motivated by previous theoretical and observational studies, we c…

astro-ph.CO2017

Accurate halo-galaxy mocks from automatic bias estimation and particle mesh gravity solvers

Mohammadjavad Vakili, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Yu Feng +4

Reliable extraction of cosmological information from clustering measurements of galaxy surveys requires estimation of the error covariance matrices of observables. The accuracy of…

quant-ph2008

Influence of configuration and acoustic phonons on three-qubit controlled-phase gate

Song Yang, Ming Gong, Xubo Zou +3

We discuss the configuration and acoustic phonon effect on the conditional phase gate using self assembled quantum dots. As an example, we discuss the simplest three dots condition…

astro-ph.CO2020

Removing Imaging Systematics from Galaxy Clustering Measurements with Obiwan : Application to the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Emission Line Galaxy Sample

Hui Kong, Kaylan J. Burleigh, Ashley Ross +10

This work presents the application of a new tool, Obiwan , which uses image simulations to determine the selection function of a galaxy redshift survey and calculate 3-dimensional…

astro-ph.CO2020

Reducing the Variance of Redshift Space Distortion Measurements from Mock Galaxy Catalogues with Different Lines of Sight

Alex Smith, Arnaud de Mattia, Etienne Burtin +2

Accurate mock catalogues are essential for assessing systematics in the cosmological analysis of large galaxy surveys. Anisotropic two-point clustering measurements from the same s…

astro-ph.CO2019

The Impact of the Fiducial Cosmology Assumption on BAO Cosmological Parameter Inference

Paul Carter, Florian Beutler, Will J. Percival +3

Standard analysis pipelines for measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in galaxy surveys make use of a fiducial cosmological model to guide the data compression require…

astro-ph.CO2020

Testing General Relativity on cosmological scales at redshift z ~ 1.5 with quasar and CMB lensing

Yucheng Zhang, Anthony R. Pullen, Shadab Alam +10

We test general relativity (GR) at the effective redshift by estimating the statistic , a probe of gravity, on cosmological scales $19 - 190\,h^{-1}{\rm Mpc…

cs.CV2024

TCLC-GS: Tightly Coupled LiDAR-Camera Gaussian Splatting for Autonomous Driving

Cheng Zhao, Su Sun, Ruoyu Wang +6

Most 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) based methods for urban scenes initialize 3D Gaussians directly with 3D LiDAR points, which not only underutilizes LiDAR data capabilities but al…

astro-ph.CO2026

Constraining Neutrino Mass with the Void Weak Lensing Effect

Wenshuo Xu, Cheng Zhao, Chen Su +2

Cosmic voids, the underdense regions of the Large Scale Structure (LSS), provide cosmological information highly complementary to that obtained from overdense regions. In this work…

astro-ph.CO2021

The completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: 1000 multi-tracer mock catalogues with redshift evolution and systematics for galaxies and quasars of the final data release

Cheng Zhao, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Julian Bautista +18

We produce 1000 realizations of synthetic clustering catalogues for each type of the tracers used for the baryon acoustic oscillation and redshift space distortion analysis of the…

astro-ph.CO2017

Baryon Acoustic Oscillation detections from the clustering of massive halos and different density region tracers in TianNu simulation

Yu Liu, Yu Liang, Hao-Ran Yu +3

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) refer to the ripples of material density in the Universe. As the most direct density tracers in the universe, galaxies have been commonly use…

math.CO2014

On Cliques and Lagrangians of 3-uniform Hypergraphs

Yuejian Peng, Hegui Zhu, Yanling Zheng +1

There is a remarkable connection between the maximum clique number and the Lagrangian of a graph given by T. S. Motzkin and E.G. Straus in 1965. This connection and its extensions…

astro-ph.CO2022

The DESI -body Simulation Project -- II. Suppressing sample variance with fast simulations

Zhejie Ding, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Yu Yu +19

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will construct a large and precise three-dimensional map of our Universe. The survey effective volume reaches $\sim20\Gpchcube$. It is a…

astro-ph.CO2026

Counting voids and filaments: Betti Curves as a Powerful Probe for Cosmology

Jiayi Li, Cheng Zhao

Topological analysis of galaxy distributions has gathered increasing attention in cosmology, as they are able to capture non-Gaussian features of large-scale structures (LSS) that…

astro-ph.GA2017

The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

SDSS Collaboration, Franco D. Albareti, Carlos Allende Prieto +335

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) began observations in July 2014. It pursues three core programs: APOGEE-2, MaNGA, and eBOSS. In addition, eBOSS cont…

astro-ph.CO2017

The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: First measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations between redshift 0.8 and 2.2

Metin Ata, Falk Baumgarten, Julian Bautista +60

We present measurements of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale in redshift-space using the clustering of quasars. We consider a sample of 147,000 quasars from the extended…

astro-ph.CO2016

The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and Early Data

Kyle S. Dawson, Jean-Paul Kneib, Will J. Percival +143

The Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) will conduct novel cosmological observations using the BOSS spectrograph at Apache Point Observatory. Observations will…

astro-ph.CO2019

UNIT project: Universe -body simulations for the Investigation of Theoretical models from galaxy surveys

Chia-Hsun Chuang, Gustavo Yepes, Francisco-Shu Kitaura +13

We present the UNIT -body cosmological simulations project, designed to provide precise predictions for nonlinear statistics of the galaxy distribution. We focus on characterizi…

cs.RO2018

Recurrent-OctoMap: Learning State-based Map Refinement for Long-Term Semantic Mapping with 3D-Lidar Data

Li Sun, Zhi Yan, Anestis Zaganidis +2

This paper presents a novel semantic mapping approach, Recurrent-OctoMap, learned from long-term 3D Lidar data. Most existing semantic mapping approaches focus on improving semanti…

math.OC2022

Towards a Theoretical Foundation of PID Control for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems

Cheng Zhao, Lei Guo

As is well-known, the classical PID control plays a dominating role in various control loops of industrial processes. However, a theory that can explain the rationale why the linea…

astro-ph.IM2014

Problems with twilight/supersky flat-field for wide-field robotic telescopes and the solution

Peng Wei, Zhaohui Shang, Bin Ma +3

Twilight/night sky images are often used for flat-fielding CCD images, but the brightness gradient in twilight/night sky causes problems of accurate flat-field correction in astron…

astro-ph.CO2021

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: a multi-tracer analysis in Fourier space for measuring the cosmic structure growth and expansion rate

Gong-Bo Zhao, Yuting Wang, Atsushi Taruya +23

We perform a joint BAO and RSD analysis using the eBOSS DR16 LRG and ELG samples in the redshift range of , and detect a RSD signal from the cross power spectrum at…

math.CO2013

On hypergraph cliques and polynomial programming

Qingsong Tang, Yuejian Peng, Xiangde Zhang +1

Motzkin and Straus established a close connection between the maximum clique problem and a solution (namely graph-Lagrangians) to the maximum value of a class of homogeneous quadra…

astro-ph.CO2021

Angular systematics-free cosmological analysis of galaxy clustering in configuration space

Romain Paviot, Sylvain de la Torre, Arnaud de Mattia +9

Galaxy redshift surveys are subject to incompleteness and inhomogeneous sampling due to the various constraints inherent to spectroscopic observations. This can introduce systemati…

astro-ph.CO2020

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Pairwise-Inverse-Probability and Angular Correction for Fibre Collisions in Clustering Measurements

Faizan G. Mohammad, Will J. Percival, Hee-Jong Seo +28

The completed eBOSS catalogues contain redshifts of 344080 QSOs over 0.8<z<2.2 covering 4808 deg, 174816 LRGs over 0.6<z<1.0 covering 4242 deg and 173736 ELGs over 0.6<z<1.…

astro-ph.CO2018

The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: Anisotropic Baryon Acoustic Oscillations measurements in Fourier-space with optimal redshift weights

Dandan Wang, Gong-Bo Zhao, Yuting Wang +19

We present a measurement of the anisotropic and isotropic Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 14 quasar sample…

astro-ph.CO2026

Optimization of Tessellation-based Statistics: Void Statistics

Yu Liu, Cheng Zhao, Yu Yu +2

Tessellation methods are extensively employed in the analyses of cosmic large-scale structure (LSS). However, these techniques are highly sensitive to perturbations in both densiti…

astro-ph.CO2020

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measurement of the BAO and growth rate of structure of the luminous red galaxy sample from the anisotropic power spectrum between redshifts 0.6 and 1.0

Héctor Gil-Marín, Julián E. Bautista, Romain Paviot +37

We analyse the clustering of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 16 luminous red galaxy sample (DR16 eBOSS LRG) in combina…

astro-ph.CO2019

Improving baryon acoustic oscillation measurement with the combination of cosmic voids and galaxies

Cheng Zhao, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Francisco-Shu Kitaura +6

We develop a methodology to optimise the measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) from a given galaxy sample. In our previous work, we demonstrated that one can measure BAO…

cs.CV2024

Behind the Veil: Enhanced Indoor 3D Scene Reconstruction with Occluded Surfaces Completion

Su Sun, Cheng Zhao, Yuliang Guo +4

In this paper, we present a novel indoor 3D reconstruction method with occluded surface completion, given a sequence of depth readings. Prior state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods only f…

astro-ph.CO2022

Cosmic Void Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Measurement: Evaluation of Sensitivity to Selection Effects

Daniel Forero-Sánchez, Cheng Zhao, Charling Tao +5

Cosmic voids defined as a subset of Delaunay Triangulation (DT) circumspheres have been used to measure the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) scale; providing tighter constraints…

physics.optics2022

Third-order nonlinear femtosecond optical gating through highly scattering media

Bocoum Maïmouna, Cheng Zhao, Kaur Jaismeen +1

Discriminating between ballistic and diffuse components of light propagating through highly scattering media is not only important for imaging purposes but also for investigating t…

astro-ph2008

Astrodynamical Space Test of Relativity using Optical Devices I (ASTROD I) - A class-M fundamental physics mission proposal for Cosmic Vision 2015-2025

Thierry Appourchaux, Raymond Burston, Yanbei Chen +33

ASTROD I is a planned interplanetary space mission with multiple goals. The primary aims are: to test General Relativity with an improvement in sensitivity of over 3 orders of magn…

astro-ph.IM2026

From Large Telescopes to the MUltiplexed Survey Telescope (MUST)

Zheng Cai, Song Huang, Yu Liu +2

Recent advances in astronomical observations have ushered in an era of remarkable discoveries. We now probe the Universe through multi-messenger signals, image the sky with unprece…

astro-ph.CO2020

The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 LRG sample: structure growth rate measurement from the anisotropic LRG correlation function in the redshift range 0.6 < z < 1.0

M. Icaza-Lizaola, M. Vargas-Magaña, S. Fromenteau +14

We analyze the anisotropic clustering of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-IV Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Luminous Red Galaxy Data Release 14 (DR14) sample…

astro-ph.GA2020

The Sixteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

Romina Ahumada, Carlos Allende Prieto, Andres Almeida +310

This paper documents the sixteenth data release (DR16) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fourth and penultimate from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). This is the first release of…

astro-ph.CO2018

The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: measuring the evolution of the growth rate using redshift space distortions between redshift 0.8 and 2.2

Rossana Ruggeri, Will J. Percival, Hector Gil Marin +16

We measure the growth rate and its evolution using the anisotropic clustering of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Data Release 14 (DR14) quasar sample,…

astro-ph.CO2023

Covariance matrices for variance-suppressed simulations

Tony Zhang, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Risa H. Wechsler +9

Cosmological -body simulations provide numerical predictions of the structure of the Universe against which to compare data from ongoing and future surveys, but the growing volu…

cs.CV2025

DeCafNet: Delegate and Conquer for Efficient Temporal Grounding in Long Videos

Zijia Lu, A S M Iftekhar, Gaurav Mittal +6

Long Video Temporal Grounding (LVTG) aims at identifying specific moments within lengthy videos based on user-provided text queries for effective content retrieval. The approach ta…

astro-ph.CO2020

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Large-scale Structure Catalogs for Cosmological Analysis

Ashley J. Ross, Julian Bautista, Rita Tojeiro +53

We present large-scale structure catalogs from the completed extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). Derived from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) -IV Data Release…

math.CO2013

An extension of Motzkin-Straus Theorem to non-uniform hypergraphs and its applications

Yuejian Peng, Hao Peng, Qingsong Tang +1

In 1965, Motzkin and Straus established a remarkable connection between the order of a maximum clique and the Lagrangian of a graph and provided a new proof of Turán's theorem usi…

math.OC2025

Theory and Design of Extended PID Control for Stochastic Systems with Structural Uncertainties

Baoyou Qu, Cheng Zhao

Since the classical proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller has continued to be the most widely used feedback methods in engineering systems by far, it is crucial to inve…

astro-ph.CO2025

Dynamical Dark Energy in light of the DESI DR2 Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations Measurements

Gan Gu, Xiaoma Wang, Yuting Wang +57

Understanding whether cosmic acceleration arises from a cosmological constant or a dynamical component is a central goal of cosmology, and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument…

astro-ph.CO2022

A Machine Learning Approach to Correct for Mass Resolution Effects in Simulated Halo Clustering Statistics

Daniel Forero-Sánchez, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Sergio Rodríguez-Torres +3

The increase in the observed volume in cosmological surveys imposes various challenges on simulation preparations. Firstly, the volume of the simulations required increases proport…

astro-ph.CO2025

Cosmological Constraints with Void Lensing I: the Simulation-Based Inference Framework

Chen Su, Huanyuan Shan, Cheng Zhao +2

We present a Simulation-Based Inference (SBI) framework for cosmological parameter estimation via void lensing analysis. Despite the absence of an analytical model of void lensing,…

astro-ph.CO2023

Validation of semi-analytical, semi-empirical covariance matrices for two-point correlation function for Early DESI data

Michael Rashkovetskyi, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +34

We present an extended validation of semi-analytical, semi-empirical covariance matrices for the two-point correlation function (2PCF) on simulated catalogs representative of Lumin…

astro-ph.CO2018

The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: structure growth rate measurement from the anisotropic quasar power spectrum in the redshift range

Héctor Gil-Marín, Julien Guy, Pauline Zarrouk +24

We analyse the clustering of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 14 quasar sample (DR14Q). We measure the redshift space d…

cs.CV2024

SUP-NeRF: A Streamlined Unification of Pose Estimation and NeRF for Monocular 3D Object Reconstruction

Yuliang Guo, Abhinav Kumar, Cheng Zhao +3

Monocular 3D reconstruction for categorical objects heavily relies on accurately perceiving each object's pose. While gradient-based optimization in a NeRF framework updates the in…

cs.CV2017

A fully end-to-end deep learning approach for real-time simultaneous 3D reconstruction and material recognition

Cheng Zhao, Li Sun, Rustam Stolkin

This paper addresses the problem of simultaneous 3D reconstruction and material recognition and segmentation. Enabling robots to recognise different materials (concrete, metal etc.…

cs.CV2026

PISCES: Annotation-free Text-to-Video Post-Training via Optimal Transport-Aligned Rewards

Minh-Quan Le, Gaurav Mittal, Cheng Zhao +3

Text-to-video (T2V) generation aims to synthesize videos with high visual quality and temporal consistency that are semantically aligned with input text. Reward-based post-training…

astro-ph.CO2018

The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: a tomographic measurement of cosmic structure growth and expansion rate based on optimal redshift weights

Gong-Bo Zhao, Yuting Wang, Shun Saito +28

We develop a new method, which is based on the optimal redshift weighting scheme, to extract the maximal tomographic information of baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) and redshif…

cs.CV2023

3D Copy-Paste: Physically Plausible Object Insertion for Monocular 3D Detection

Yunhao Ge, Hong-Xing Yu, Cheng Zhao +5

A major challenge in monocular 3D object detection is the limited diversity and quantity of objects in real datasets. While augmenting real scenes with virtual objects holds promis…

cs.CV2025

SplatFlow: Self-Supervised Dynamic Gaussian Splatting in Neural Motion Flow Field for Autonomous Driving

Su Sun, Cheng Zhao, Zhuoyang Sun +2

Most existing Dynamic Gaussian Splatting methods for complex dynamic urban scenarios rely on accurate object-level supervision from expensive manual labeling, limiting their scalab…

astro-ph.CO2021

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measurement of the BAO and growth rate of structure of the emission line galaxy sample from the anisotropic power spectrum between redshift 0.6 and 1.1

Arnaud de Mattia, Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider, Anand Raichoor +33

We analyse the large-scale clustering in Fourier space of emission line galaxies (ELG) from the Data Release 16 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spect…

astro-ph.CO2018

BAM: Bias Assignment Method to generate mock catalogs

A. Balaguera-Antolínez, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Marcos Pellerejo-Ibañez +2

We present BAM: a novel Bias Assignment Method envisaged to generate mock catalogs. Combining the statistics of dark matter tracers from a high resolution cosmological -body sim…

astro-ph.CO2018

On the EFT of Large Scale Structures in Redshift Space

Matthew Lewandowski, Leonardo Senatore, Francisco Prada +2

We further develop the description of redshift space distortions within the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures. First, we generalize the counterterms to include the e…

eess.SY2023

Tracking performance of PID for nonlinear stochastic systems

Cheng Zhao, Shuo Yuan

In this paper, we will consider a class of continuous-time stochastic control systems with both unknown nonlinear structure and unknown disturbances, and investigate the capability…

astro-ph.CO2021

The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey quasar sample: Testing observational systematics on the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation measurement

Grant Merz, Mehdi Rezaie, Hee-Jong Seo +15

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations are considered to be a very robust standard ruler against various systematics. This premise has been tested against observational systematics, but not…

cs.CV2017

SPP-Net: Deep Absolute Pose Regression with Synthetic Views

Pulak Purkait, Cheng Zhao, Christopher Zach

Image based localization is one of the important problems in computer vision due to its wide applicability in robotics, augmented reality, and autonomous systems. There is a rich s…