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Publications (9)

q-bio.PE2021

Monitoring urban ecosystem service value using dynamic multi-level grids

Zhenfeng Shao, Yong Li, Xiao Huang +4

Ecosystem services are the direct and indirect contributions of an ecosystem to human well-being and survival. Ecosystem valuation is a method of assigning a monetary value to an e…

gr-qc2026

Accelerating Black Hole Image Generation via Latent Space Diffusion Models

Ao Liu, Xudong Zhang, Lin Ding +3

Interpreting horizon-scale black hole images currently relies on computationally intensive General Relativistic Ray Tracing (GRRT) simulations, which pose a significant bottleneck…

cs.AI2025

On Path to Multimodal Historical Reasoning: HistBench and HistAgent

Jiahao Qiu, Fulian Xiao, Yimin Wang +96

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to remarkable progress across domains, yet their capabilities in the humanities, particularly history, remain underexplored…

cs.LG2022

Gradient-Based Meta-Learning Using Uncertainty to Weigh Loss for Few-Shot Learning

Lin Ding, Peng Liu, Wenfeng Shen +2

Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) is one of the most successful meta-learning techniques for few-shot learning. It uses gradient descent to learn commonalities between various ta…

physics.ed-ph2009

A Tale of Two Curricula: The performance of two thousand students in introductory electromagnetism

Matthew A. Kohlmyer, Marcos D. Caballero, Richard Catrambone +6

The performance of over 2000 students in introductory calculus-based electromagnetism (E&M) courses at four large research universities was measured using the Brief Electricity and…

physics.ed-ph2018

A two-phase study examining perspectives and use of quantitative methods in PER

Alexis V. Knaub, John M. Aiken, Lin Ding

While other fields such as statistics and education have examined various issues with quantitative work, few studies in physics education research (PER) have done so. We conducted…