Publications (138)
Transfer Learning for Retinal Vascular Disease Detection: A Pilot Study with Diabetic Retinopathy and Retinopathy of Prematurity
Guan Wang, Yusuke Kikuchi, Jinglin Yi +3
Retinal vascular diseases affect the well-being of human body and sometimes provide vital signs of otherwise undetected bodily damage. Recently, deep learning techniques have been…
The Fermi surface of RuO2 measured by quantum oscillations
Zheyu Wu, Mengmeng Long, Hanyi Chen +12
The metallic oxide RuO has emerged as a promising altermagnet candidate, owing to reports of this material hosting antiferromagnetic ordering accompanied by a spin-split electr…
Online Learning Based Mobile Robot Controller Adaptation for Slip Reduction
Huidong Gao, Rui Zhou, Masayoshi Tomizuka +1
Slip is a very common phenomena present in wheeled mobile robotic systems. It has undesirable consequences such as wasting energy and impeding system stability. To tackle the chall…
Low-frequency fiber-optic vibration sensing with a Floquet-engineered optical lattice clock
Mojuan Yin, Ruohui Wang, Rui Zhou +2
We propose a Floquet-engineered optical lattice clock based demodulation scheme to enhance the low-frequency performance of wound fiber-optic vibration sensors. Vibration-induced p…
Dynamic Mortality Forecasting via Mixed-Frequency State-Space Models
Runze Li, Rui Zhou, David Pitt
High-frequency death counts are now widely available and contain timely information about intra-year mortality dynamics, but most stochastic mortality models are still estimated on…
Internal Cross-layer Gradients for Extending Homogeneity to Heterogeneity in Federated Learning
Yun-Hin Chan, Rui Zhou, Running Zhao +2
Federated learning (FL) inevitably confronts the challenge of system heterogeneity in practical scenarios. To enhance the capabilities of most model-homogeneous FL methods in handl…
Efficient and Scalable Parametric High-Order Portfolios Design via the Skew-t Distribution
Xiwen Wang, Rui Zhou, Jiaxi Ying +1
Since Markowitz's mean-variance framework, optimizing a portfolio that maximizes the profit and minimizes the risk has been ubiquitous in the financial industry. Initially, profit…
Spin-supersolidity induced quantum criticality and magnetocaloric effect in the triangular-lattice antiferromagnet RbCo(SeO)
Yi Cui, Zhanlong Wu, Zhongcen Sun +12
We performed high-field magnetization, magnetocaloric effect (MCE), and NMR measurements on the Ising triangular-lattice antiferromagnet RbCo(SeO). The observations of…
Index-based Solutions for Efficient Density Peak Clustering
Zafaryab Rasool, Rui Zhou, Lu Chen +2
Density Peak Clustering (DPC), a popular density-based clustering approach, has received considerable attention from the research community primarily due to its simplicity and fewe…
Spin-density-wave transition in monolayer-trilayer La3Ni2O7 single crystals
Mingxin Zhang, Jie Dou, Di Peng +17
The recent discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in pressurized Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates stimulated intense research into their correlated electron physics. Establish…
Flashlights: An Off-Caustic Lensed Star at Redshift = 1.26 in Abell 370
Ashish Kumar Meena, Wenlei Chen, Adi Zitrin +10
We report the discovery of a transient seen in a strongly lensed arc at redshift in \emph{Hubble Space Telescope} imaging of the Abell 370 galaxy cluster. The tr…
CAB: Empathetic Dialogue Generation with Cognition, Affection and Behavior
Pan Gao, Donghong Han, Rui Zhou +2
Empathy is an important characteristic to be considered when building a more intelligent and humanized dialogue agent. However, existing methods did not fully comprehend empathy as…
OoDIS: Anomaly Instance Segmentation and Detection Benchmark
Alexey Nekrasov, Rui Zhou, Miriam Ackermann +3
Safe navigation of self-driving cars and robots requires a precise understanding of their environment. Training data for perception systems cannot cover the wide variety of objects…
ESPO: Early-Stopping Proximal Policy Optimization
Zihang Li, Rui Zhou, Yingcheng Shi +8
When a large language model under reinforcement learning commits a wrong reasoning step early in a trajectory, standard algorithms force it to keep generating until the maximum hor…
Finding Effective Geo-Social Group for Impromptu Activity with Multiple Demands
Lu Chen, Chengfei Liu, Rui Zhou +2
Geo-social group search aims to find a group of people proximate to a location while socially related. One of the driven applications for geo-social group search is organizing an i…
Multi-Task Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Skill Graphs
Guobin Zhu, Rui Zhou, Wenkang Ji +3
Multi-task multi-agent reinforcement learning (MT-MARL) has recently gained attention for its potential to enhance MARL's adaptability across multiple tasks. However, it is challen…
Efficient Deep Representation Learning by Adaptive Latent Space Sampling
Yuanhan Mo, Shuo Wang, Chengliang Dai +4
Supervised deep learning requires a large amount of training samples with annotations (e.g. label class for classification task, pixel- or voxel-wised label map for segmentation ta…
The coupling effect between the environment and strategies drives the emergence of group cooperation
Changyan Di, Qingguo Zhou, Jun Shen +3
Introducing environmental feedback into evolutionary game theory has led to the development of eco-evolutionary games, which have gained popularity due to their ability to capture…
SITA: Semantic Interest Tokens for Target-Aware Compression in Long-Sequence Recommendation
Rui Zhou, Bo Chen, Qinglin Jia +5
As user behavior histories continue to grow on modern Internet platforms, effectively modeling long behavior sequences has become crucial for predicting user interests in candidate…
Field-induced phase transitions and quantum criticality in a honeycomb antiferromagnet Na3Co2SbO6
Ze Hu, Yue Chen, Yi Cui +10
We performed 23Na NMR measurements on a single-domain crystal of the Kitaev material Na3Co2SbO6, with magnetic field applied along the crystalline a axis. A positive Curie-Weiss co…
Protected Transverse Electric Waves in Topological Dielectric Waveguides
Rui Zhou, Minglin L. N. Chen, Xingtong Shi +5
Waveguides are fundamental components in communication systems. However, they suffer from reflection and scattering losses at sharp routes or defects. The breakthrough in developin…
Efficient Truss Maintenance in Evolving Networks
Rui Zhou, Chengfei Liu, Jeffrey Xu Yu +2
Truss was proposed to study social network data represented by graphs. A k-truss of a graph is a cohesive subgraph, in which each edge is contained in at least k-2 triangles within…
Bulk high-temperature superconductivity in the high-pressure tetragonal phase of bilayer La2PrNi2O7
Ningning Wang, Gang Wang, Xiaoling Shen +26
The Ruddlesden-Popper (R-P) bilayer nickelate, La3Ni2O7, was recently found to show signatures of high-temperature superconductivity (HTSC) at pressures above 14 GPa. Subsequent in…
Pure Vision Language Action (VLA) Models: A Comprehensive Survey
Dapeng Zhang, Jing Sun, Chenghui Hu +5
The emergence of Vision Language Action (VLA) models marks a paradigm shift from traditional policy-based control to generalized robotics, reframing Vision Language Models (VLMs) f…
Demeter: A Parametric Model of Crop Plant Morphology from the Real World
Tianhang Cheng, Albert J. Zhai, Evan Z. Chen +13
Learning 3D parametric shape models of objects has gained popularity in vision and graphics and has showed broad utility in 3D reconstruction, generation, understanding, and simula…
MotionTrans: Human VR Data Enable Motion-Level Learning for Robotic Manipulation Policies
Chengbo Yuan, Rui Zhou, Mengzhen Liu +6
Scaling real robot data is a key bottleneck in imitation learning, leading to the use of auxiliary data for policy training. While other aspects of robotic manipulation such as ima…
Fine-Grained Emotion Classification of Chinese Microblogs Based on Graph Convolution Networks
Yuni Lai, Linfeng Zhang, Donghong Han +2
Microblogs are widely used to express people's opinions and feelings in daily life. Sentiment analysis (SA) can timely detect personal sentiment polarities through analyzing text.…
Memory Over Maps: 3D Object Localization Without Reconstruction
Rui Zhou, Xander Yap, Jianwen Cao +3
Target localization is a prerequisite for embodied tasks such as navigation and manipulation. Conventional approaches rely on constructing explicit 3D scene representations to enab…
Safety-Critical Human-Machine Shared Driving for Vehicle Collision Avoidance based on Hamilton-Jacobi reachability
Shiyue Zhao, Junzhi Zhang, Rui Zhou +4
Road safety continues to be a pressing global issue, with vehicle collisions imposing significant human, societal, and economic burdens. Human-machine shared collision avoidance in…
MATRIX: Multi-Agent Trajectory Generation with Diverse Contexts
Zhuo Xu, Rui Zhou, Yida Yin +3
Data-driven methods have great advantages in modeling complicated human behavioral dynamics and dealing with many human-robot interaction applications. However, collecting massive…
DIET: Learning to Distill Dataset Continually for Recommender Systems
Jiaqing Zhang, Hao Wang, Mingjia Yin +6
Modern deep recommender models are trained under a continual learning paradigm, relying on massive and continuously growing streaming behavioral logs. In large-scale platforms, ret…
A Novel Field-Free SOT Magnetic Tunnel Junction With Local VCMA-Induced Switching
Rui Zhou, Haiyang Zhang, Hao Wang +3
By integrating the local voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) effect, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) effect, and spin-orbit torque (SOT) effect, we propose a nove…
Photoelectron Transportation Dynamics in GaAs Photocathodes
Rui Zhou, Hemang Jani, Yijun Zhang +2
We report here a general theory describing photoelectron transportation dynamics in GaAs semiconductor photocathodes. Gradient doping is incorporated in the model through the inclu…
Haldane phase, field-induced magnetic ordering and Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid behavior in a spin-one chain compound NiCO2NH
Shuo Li, Zhanlong Wu, Yanhong Wang +12
We performed single-crystal magnetic susceptibility and H NMR measurements on a quasi-1D, spin-1 antiferromagnet NiCO2NH, with temperature down to 100 mK and…
Observation of Kondo hybridization wave in UTe2
Xin Yu, Shuikang Yu, Zheyu Wu +9
Condensed matter systems with strong electronic correlations often manifest a variety of intertwined ordered phases of charge, spin, orbital and other degrees of freedom. As a prot…
Preserving Speaker Information in Direct Speech-to-Speech Translation with Non-Autoregressive Generation and Pretraining
Rui Zhou, Akinori Ito, Takashi Nose
Speech-to-Speech Translation (S2ST) refers to the conversion of speech in one language into semantically equivalent speech in another language, facilitating communication between s…
Early Detection of Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) in Retinal Fundus Images Via Convolutional Neural Networks
Xin Guo, Yusuke Kikuchi, Guan Wang +3
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is an abnormal blood vessel development in the retina of a prematurely-born infant or an infant with low birth weight. ROP is one of the leading ca…
Optimal Portfolio Design for Statistical Arbitrage in Finance
Ziping Zhao, Rui Zhou, Zhongju Wang +1
In this paper, the optimal mean-reverting portfolio (MRP) design problem is considered, which plays an important role for the statistical arbitrage (a.k.a. pairs trading) strategy…
LAMARL: LLM-Aided Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Policy Generation
Guobin Zhu, Rui Zhou, Wenkang Ji +1
Although Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is effective for complex multi-robot tasks, it suffers from low sample efficiency and requires iterative manual reward tuning. La…
CleanMel: Mel-Spectrogram Enhancement for Improving Both Speech Quality and ASR
Nian Shao, Rui Zhou, Pengyu Wang +4
In this work, we propose CleanMel, a single-channel Mel-spectrogram denoising and dereverberation network for improving both speech quality and automatic speech recognition (ASR) p…
A topological gap waveguide based on unidirectional locking of pseudo-spins
Yan Ren, Hai Lin, Rui Zhou +3
Photonic topological insulators (PTIs) have been widely studied due to the robustness of energy transport via supported edge modes immune to structural disorder. In this work, a to…
EasySteer: A Unified Framework for High-Performance and Extensible LLM Steering
Haolei Xu, Xinyu Mei, Yuchen Yan +5
Large language model (LLM) steering has emerged as a promising paradigm for controlling model behavior at inference time through targeted manipulation of hidden states, offering a…
Super-robust telecommunications enabled by topological half-supermodes
Rui Zhou, Xintong Shi, Hai Lin +6
Topological photonics offers transformative potential for robust integrated waveguide devices due to their backscattering-immune properties. However, their integration faces two fu…
Driving risk emerges from the required two-dimensional joint evasive acceleration
Hao Cheng, Yanbo Jiang, Wenhao Yu +9
Most autonomous driving safety benchmarks use time-to-collision (TTC) to assess risk and guide safe behaviour. However, TTC-based methods treat risk as a one-dimensional closing pr…
Polarization-shape alignment of IllustrisTNG star-forming galaxies
Rui Zhou, Liang Dai, Junwu Huang +2
In star-forming disk galaxies, the radio continuum emission (-GHz) powered by star formation has an integrated polarization direction imperfectly aligned with the apparent…
Machine Learning with Multitype Protected Attributes: Intersectional Fairness through Regularisation
Ho Ming Lee, Katrien Antonio, Benjamin Avanzi +2
Ensuring equitable treatment (fairness) across protected attributes (such as gender or ethnicity) is a critical issue in machine learning. Most existing literature focuses on binar…
Efficient Size Constraint Community Search over Heterogeneous Information Networks
Xinjian Zhang, Lu Chen, Chengfei Liu +2
The goal of community search in heterogeneous information networks (HINs) is to identify a set of closely related target nodes that includes a query target node. In practice, a siz…
Dynamic optimal reinsurance and dividend-payout in finite time horizon
Chonghu Guan, Zuo Quan Xu, Rui Zhou
This paper studies a dynamic optimal reinsurance and dividend-payout problem for an insurance company in a finite time horizon. The goal of the company is to maximize the expected…
200mm Optical synthetic aperture imaging over 120 meters distance via Macroscopic Fourier ptychography
Qi Zhang, Yuran Lu, Yinghui Guo +8
Fourier ptychography (FP) imaging, drawing on the idea of synthetic aperture, has been demonstrated as a potential approach for remote sub-diffraction-limited imaging. Nevertheless…
Heavy quarkonium spectral function in the spinning black hole background
Zhou-Run Zhu, Manman Sun, Rui Zhou +2
In this paper, we study the dissociation of heavy quarkonium in the spinning black hole background. Specifically, we analyze the spectral function of charmonium and bottomonium in…
LiteChain: A Lightweight Blockchain for Verifiable and Scalable Federated Learning in Massive Edge Networks
Handi Chen, Rui Zhou, Yun-Hin Chan +3
Leveraging blockchain in Federated Learning (FL) emerges as a new paradigm for secure collaborative learning on Massive Edge Networks (MENs). As the scale of MENs increases, it bec…
Large Model Empowered Embodied AI: A Survey on Decision-Making and Embodied Learning
Wenlong Liang, Rui Zhou, Yang Ma +4
Embodied AI aims to develop intelligent systems with physical forms capable of perceiving, decision-making, acting, and learning in real-world environments, providing a promising w…
Bridging Design Gaps: A Parametric Data Completion Approach With Graph Guided Diffusion Models
Rui Zhou, Chenyang Yuan, Frank Permenter +4
This study introduces a generative imputation model leveraging graph attention networks and tabular diffusion models for completing missing parametric data in engineering designs.…
Coexistence and manipulation of multiple singularities in a reconfigurable non-Hermitian metasurface
Xintong Shi, Yanjie Wu, Rui Zhou +6
Non-Hermitian frameworks extend conventional Hermitian physics, offering a powerful paradigm for describing open systems. Central to this field are various singularities within the…
Transaction Fee Estimation in the Bitcoin System
Limeng Zhang, Rui Zhou, Qing Liu +2
In the Bitcoin system, transaction fees serve as an incentive for blockchain confirmations. In general, a transaction with a higher fee is likely to be included in the next block m…
Gate-Based and Annealing-Based Quantum Algorithms for the Maximum K-Plex Problem
Xiaofan Li, Gao Cong, Rui Zhou
The -plex model, which allows each vertex to miss connections with up to neighbors, serves as a relaxation of the clique. Its adaptability makes it more suitable for ana…
Bridging User Dynamics: Transforming Sequential Recommendations with Schrödinger Bridge and Diffusion Models
Wenjia Xie, Rui Zhou, Hao Wang +2
Sequential recommendation has attracted increasing attention due to its ability to accurately capture the dynamic changes in user interests. We have noticed that generative models,…
NMR and NQR studies on transition-metal arsenide superconductors LaRu2As2, KCa2Fe4As4F2, and A2Cr3As3
Jun Luo, Chunguang Wang, Zhicheng Wang +8
We report 75As-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) measurements on transition-metal arsenides LaRu2As2, KCa2Fe4As4F2, and A2Cr3As3. In the super…
Phase transitions associated with magnetic-field induced topological orbital momenta in a non-collinear antiferromagnet
Sihao Deng, Olena Gomonay, Jie Chen +12
Resistivity measurements are widely exploited to uncover electronic excitations and phase transitions in metallic solids. While single crystals are preferably studied to explore cr…
Parametric-ControlNet: Multimodal Control in Foundation Models for Precise Engineering Design Synthesis
Rui Zhou, Yanxia Zhang, Chenyang Yuan +4
This paper introduces a generative model designed for multimodal control over text-to-image foundation generative AI models such as Stable Diffusion, specifically tailored for engi…
Grouptron: Dynamic Multi-Scale Graph Convolutional Networks for Group-Aware Dense Crowd Trajectory Forecasting
Rui Zhou, Hongyu Zhou, Huidong Gao +3
Accurate, long-term forecasting of pedestrian trajectories in highly dynamic and interactive scenes is a long-standing challenge. Recent advances in using data-driven approaches ha…
CoC-VLA: Delving into Adversarial Domain Transfer for Explainable Autonomous Driving via Chain-of-Causality Visual-Language-Action Model
Dapeng Zhang, Fei Shen, Rui Zhao +5
Autonomous driving represents a prominent application of artificial intelligence. Recent approaches have shifted from focusing solely on common scenarios to addressing complex, lon…
Multi-Exposure HDR Composition by Gated Swin Transformer
Rui Zhou, Yan Niu
Fusing a sequence of perfectly aligned images captured at various exposures, has shown great potential to approach High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging by sensors with limited dynamic…
An Efficient and Globally Optimal Algorithm for Nonconvex QCQP with One Equality Constraint
Licheng Zhao, Rui Zhou, Wenqiang Pu
In this paper, we concentrate on a particular category of quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP): nonconvex QCQP with one equality constraint. This type of QCQP pro…
DGSense: A Domain Generalization Framework for Wireless Sensing
Rui Zhou, Yu Cheng, Songlin Li +2
Wireless sensing is of great benefits to our daily lives. However, wireless signals are sensitive to the surroundings. Various factors, e.g. environments, locations, and individual…
Leveraging LLM Agents for Automated Optimization Modeling for SASP Problems: A Graph-RAG based Approach
Tianpeng Pan, Wenqiang Pu, Licheng Zhao +1
Automated optimization modeling (AOM) has evoked considerable interest with the rapid evolution of large language models (LLMs). Existing approaches predominantly rely on prompt en…
Seeing but Not Thinking: Routing Distraction in Multimodal Mixture-of-Experts
Haolei Xu, Haiwen Hong, Hongxing Li +7
Multimodal Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models have achieved remarkable performance on vision-language tasks. However, we identify a puzzling phenomenon termed Seeing but Not Thinking:…
TwinRL: Digital Twin-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Robotic Manipulation
Qinwen Xu, Jiaming Liu, Rui Zhou +11
Despite strong generalization capabilities, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models remain constrained by the high cost of expert demonstrations and limited real-world interaction. Whi…
Bulk superconductivity up to 96 K in pressurized nickelate single crystals
Feiyu Li, Zhenfang Xing, Di Peng +24
Recently, the Ruddlesden-Popper bilayer nickelate has emerged as a superconductor with a transition temperature () of approximately 80 K above 14 GPa (Refs. 1-3)…
DriveCode: Domain Specific Numerical Encoding for LLM-Based Autonomous Driving
Zhiye Wang, Yanbo Jiang, Rui Zhou +5
Large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise for autonomous driving. However, discretizing numbers into tokens limits precise numerical reasoning, fails to reflect the pos…
Electrically-controllable superconducting memory effect in UTe2
Zheyu Wu, Hanyi Chen, Mengmeng Long +13
If a computer could be assembled from superconducting components, the energy efficiency would far surpass that of conventional electronics. Historic research efforts towards this g…
Mel-FullSubNet: Mel-Spectrogram Enhancement for Improving Both Speech Quality and ASR
Rui Zhou, Xian Li, Ying Fang +1
In this work, we propose Mel-FullSubNet, a single-channel Mel-spectrogram denoising and dereverberation network for improving both speech quality and automatic speech recognition (…
A General Framework for Revealing Human Mind with auto-encoding GANs
Pan Wang, Rui Zhou, Shuo Wang +6
Addressing the question of visualising human mind could help us to find regions that are associated with observed cognition and responsible for expressing the elusive mental image,…
Quantum Algorithm for Maximum Biclique Problem
Xiaofan Li, Prasenjit Mitra, Rui Zhou +1
Identifying a biclique with the maximum number of edges bears considerable implications for numerous fields of application, such as detecting anomalies in E-commerce transactions,…
Observation of Emergent Superconductivity in the Quantum Spin Hall Insulator Ta2Pd3Te5 via Pressure Manipulation
Hui Yu, Dayu Yan, Zhaopeng Guo +13
Quantum Spin Hall (QSH) insulators possess distinct helical in-gap states, enabling their edge states to act as one-dimensional conducting channels when backscattering is prohibite…
Hidden magnetism at the pseudogap critical point of a high temperature superconductor
Mehdi Frachet, Igor Vinograd, Rui Zhou +17
The mysterious pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors ends at a critical hole doping level p* but the nature of the ground state below p* is still debated. Here, we show that t…
Efficient Exact Algorithms for Maximum Balanced Biclique Search in Bipartite Graphs
Lu Chen, Chengfei Liu, Rui Zhou +2
Given a bipartite graph, the maximum balanced biclique (\textsf{MBB}) problem, discovering a mutually connected while equal-sized disjoint sets with the maximum cardinality, plays…
WavefrontDiffusion: Dynamic Decoding Schedule for Improved Reasoning
Haojin Yang, Rui Hu, Zequn Sun +3
Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have shown strong potential for text generation and are becoming a competitive alternative to autoregressive models. The denoising strategy plays a…
Numerical investigation into the injection-locking phenomena of gain switched lasers for optical frequency comb generation
Sean P. O Duill, Prince M. Anandarajah, Rui Zhou +1
We present detailed numerical simulations of the laser dynamics that describe optical frequency comb formation by injection-locking a gain-switched laser. The typical rate equation…
Query-driven Frequent Co-occurring Term Extraction over Relational Data using MapReduce
Jianxin Li, Chengfei Liu, Liang Yao +2
In this paper we study how to efficiently compute \textit{frequent co-occurring terms} (FCT) in the results of a keyword query in parallel using the popular MapReduce framework. Ta…
Supernova Siblings and Spectroscopic Host-Galaxy Properties
Laura Salo, Rui Zhou, Samuel Johnson +2
Over the past century, supernova (SN) searches have detected multiple supernovae (SNe) in hundreds of individual galaxies. So-called SN siblings discovered in the same galaxy prese…
Mitigation of relative intensity noise of Quantum Dash mode-locked lasers for PAM4 based optical interconnects using encoding techniques
Vidak Vujicic, Aravind P. Anthur, Arsalan Saljoghei +7
Quantum Dash (Q-Dash) Passively Mode-Locked Lasers (PMLLs) exhibit significant low frequency Relative Intensity Noise (RIN), due to the high Mode Partition Noise (MPN), which preve…
decays and the NLO contributions in the pQCD Approach
Jing Liu, Rui Zhou, Zhen-Jun Xiao
By employing the perturbative QCD(pQCD) factorization approach, we calculated the partial next-to-leading order (NLO) contributions to decays ($P= Ï, K, \etap $), co…
Metamagnetism in UTe2: the roles of itinerancy and localization
Theodore I. Weinberger, Daniel Shaffer, Zheyu Wu +12
The metamagnetic transition in UTe plays a key role in stabilizing two enigmatic field-induced superconducting phases. One of these phases (SC2) is truncated by the transition,…
Fora: From Weight-Space to Function-Space Protection in Capability-Preserving Fine-Tuning
Rui Zhou, Tianci Xie
Full fine-tuning adapts large language models to new tasks but can erode capabilities they already possess. Existing remedies protect through proxies such as parameter distances, i…
Coherent perfect absorber and laser induced by directional emissions in the non-Hermitian photonic crystals
Zhifeng Li, Hai Lin, Rongxin Tang +5
In this study, we propose the application of non-Hermitian photonic crystals (PCs) with anisotropic emissions. Unlike a ring of exceptional points (EPs) in isotropic non-Hermitian…
Robust Factor Analysis Parameter Estimation
Rui Zhou, Junyan Liu, Sandeep Kumar +1
This paper considers the problem of robustly estimating the parameters of a heavy-tailed multivariate distribution when the covariance matrix is known to have the structure of a lo…
ADUGS-VINS: Generalized Visual-Inertial Odometry for Robust Navigation in Highly Dynamic and Complex Environments
Rui Zhou, Jingbin Liu, Junbin Xie +3
Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is widely used in various fields, such as robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles. However, real-world scenes often feature dynamic objects, compromi…
Universal Magnetocaloric Effect near Quantum Critical Point of Magnon Bose-Einstein Condensation
Junsen Xiang, Enze Lv, Qinxin Shen +19
Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), a macroscopic quantum phenomenon arising from phase coherence and bosonic statistics, has been realized in quantum magnets. Here, we report the ob…
corrections to holographic heavy meson dissociation
Zhou-Run Zhu, Manman Sun, Rui Zhou +1
In this paper, we investigate the corrections to the dissociation of heavy quarkonium in the Gauss-Bonnet gravitational background. We analyze the impact of Gauss-Bonnet para…
MapExpert: Online HD Map Construction with Simple and Efficient Sparse Map Element Expert
Dapeng Zhang, Dayu Chen, Peng Zhi +6
Constructing online High-Definition (HD) maps is crucial for the static environment perception of autonomous driving systems (ADS). Existing solutions typically attempt to detect v…
Multi-Robot Pursuit in Parameterized Formation via Imitation Learning
Jinyong Chen, Rui Zhou, Zhaozong Wang +2
This paper studies the problem of multi-robot pursuit of how to coordinate a group of defending robots to capture a faster attacker before it enters a protected area. Such operatio…
A Data Quality Assessment Framework for AI-enabled Wireless Communication
Hanning Tang, Liusha Yang, Rui Zhou +5
Using artificial intelligent (AI) to re-design and enhance the current wireless communication system is a promising pathway for the future sixth-generation (6G) wireless network. T…
Effects of Axion Interactions on Quark Stars in 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity
Rui Zhou, Ming-zheng-xuan Wu, Xin-ran Yang +5
We explore the properties of quark stars by combining the microscopic axion-extended Polyakov--Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model with the macroscopic framework of four-dimensional Einstein…
How to augment cosmic shear measurements with radio polarimetry of galaxies?
Liang Dai, Junwu Huang, Weichen Winston Yin +2
The integral polarization of spiral galaxies in the radio band has been proposed as a new tracer of the intrinsic galaxy shape that augments lensing shear measurements. We revisit…
Speech Dereverberation with A Reverberation Time Shortening Target
Rui Zhou, Wenye Zhu, Xiaofei Li
This work proposes a new learning target based on reverberation time shortening (RTS) for speech dereverberation. The learning target for dereverberation is usually set as the dire…
Robust Charge-Density Wave Correlations in Optimally-Doped YBa2Cu3Oy
Rui Zhou, Igor Vinograd, Hadrien Mayffre +7
Charge-density wave (CDW) order is a key property of high-Tc cuprates, but its boundaries in the phase diagram and potential connections to other phases remain controversial. We re…
GOMA: Geometrically Optimal Mapping via Analytical Modeling for Spatial Accelerators
Wulve Yang, Hailong Zou, Rui Zhou +5
General matrix multiplication (GEMM) on spatial accelerators is highly sensitive to mapping choices in both execution efficiency and energy consumption. However, the mapping space…
Efficient Safety Testing of Autonomous Vehicles via Adaptive Search over Crash-Derived Scenarios
Rui Zhou
Ensuring the safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is paramount in their development and deployment. Safety-critical scenarios pose more severe challenges, necessitating efficient te…
Sequential Recommendation with Causal Behavior Discovery
Zhenlei Wang, Xu Chen, Rui Zhou +3
The key of sequential recommendation lies in the accurate item correlation modeling. Previous models infer such information based on item co-occurrences, which may fail to capture…