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Publications (31)

math.NT2024

Ellipsephic harmonic series revisited

Jean-Paul Allouche, Yining Hu, Claude Morin

Ellipsephic or Kempner-like harmonic series are series of inverses of integers whose expansion in base , for some , contains no occurrence of some fixed digit or some…

math.CO2016

Subword Complexity and (non)-automaticity of certain completely multiplicative functions

Yining Hu

In this article, we prove that for a completely multiplicative function from to a field such that the set $$\{p \;|\; f(p)\neq 1_K \;\mbox{and }p \mbox{ is p…

math.NT2022

Period-doubling Continued Fractions are Algebraic in Characteristic

Yining Hu, Alain Lasjaunias

Considering an arbitrary pair of distinct and non constant polynomials, and in , we build a continued fraction in whose partial quoti…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Real-space Observation of Incommensurate Spin Density Wave and Coexisting Charge Density Wave on Cr(001) surface

Yining Hu, Tianzhen Zhang, Dongming Zhao +8

In itinerant magnetic systems, a spin density wave (SDW) state can be induced by Fermi surface nesting and electron-electron interaction. It may intertwine with other orders such a…

cs.SI2019

Characterizing and Detecting Money Laundering Activities on the Bitcoin Network

Yining Hu, Suranga Seneviratne, Kanchana Thilakarathna +2

Bitcoin is by far the most popular crypto-currency solution enabling peer-to-peer payments. Despite some studies highlighting the network does not provide full anonymity, it is sti…

cs.DC2019

Enabling Enterprise Blockchain Interoperability with Trusted Data Transfer (industry track)

Ermyas Abebe, Dushyant Behl, Chander Govindarajan +6

The adoption of permissioned blockchain networks in enterprise settings has seen an increase in growth over the past few years. While encouraging, this is leading to the emergence…

cs.CR2016

Are wearable devices ready for HTTPS? Measuring the cost of secure communication protocols on wearable devices

Harini Kolamunna, Jagmohan Chauhan, Yining Hu +4

The majority of available wearable devices require communication with Internet servers for data analysis and storage, and rely on a paired smartphone to enable secure communication…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Direct observation of interfacial exchange coupling in a magnetic tunnel junction through spin-polarized quasiparticle interference

Xu Wang, Chenxi Wang, Ying Yang +5

Interfacial exchange coupling plays a critical role in enabling novel phenomena in magnetic heterostructures, such as spin triplet superconductivity, quantum anomalous Hall effect…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Tunable decoupling of coexisting magnetic orders in CoTaS

Yining Hu, Zili Feng, Takashi Kurumaji +3

In multiferroics, new physical responses and functionalities emerge when symmetry-distinct order parameters couple. This conventionally occurs when lattice and magnetic degrees of…

cs.CY2019

Blockchain-based Smart Contracts - Applications and Challenges

Yining Hu, Madhusanka Liyanage, Ahsan Mansoor +3

A blockchain-based smart contract or a "smart contract" for short, is a computer program intended to digitally facilitate the negotiation or contractual terms directly between user…

cond-mat.supr-con2022

Observation of robust zero-energy state and enhanced superconducting gap in a tri-layer heterostructure of MnTe/Bi2Te3/Fe(Te, Se)

Shuyue Ding, Chen Chen, Zhipeng Cao +11

The interface between magnetic material and superconductors has long been predicted to host unconventional superconductivity, such as spin-triplet pairing and topological nontrivia…

cs.LG2019

Few-Shot Abstract Visual Reasoning With Spectral Features

Tanner Bohn, Yining Hu, Charles X. Ling

We present an image preprocessing technique capable of improving the performance of few-shot classifiers on abstract visual reasoning tasks. Many visual reasoning tasks with abstra…

math.NT2020

On the algebraicity of Thue-Morse and period-doubling continued fractions

Yining Hu, Guoniu Wei-Han

We put forward several general conjectures concerning the algebraicity or transcendence of continued fractions and Stieltjes continued fractions defined by the Thue-Morse and perio…

cs.CY2018

A Delay-Tolerant Payment Scheme Based on the Ethereum Blockchain

Yining Hu, Ahsan Manzoor, Parinya Ekparinya +5

Banking as an essential service can be hard to access in remote, rural regions where the network connectivity is intermittent. Although micro-banking has been made possible by SMS…

math.NT2023

On a family of 2-automatic sequences generating algebraic continued fractions in characteristic 2

Yining Hu

We present family of automatic sequences that define algebraic continued fractions in characteristic 2. This family is constructed from ultimately period words and contains the per…

cs.CR2017

BreathRNNet: Breathing Based Authentication on Resource-Constrained IoT Devices using RNNs

Jagmohan Chauhan, Suranga Seneviratne, Yining Hu +3

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have shown promising results in audio and speech processing applications due to their strong capabilities in modelling sequential data. In many app…

cs.CL2019

Learning Sentence Embeddings for Coherence Modelling and Beyond

Tanner Bohn, Yining Hu, Jinhang Zhang +1

We present a novel and effective technique for performing text coherence tasks while facilitating deeper insights into the data. Despite obtaining ever-increasing task performance,…

math.OC2024

Optimizing Traffic Signal Control for Continuous-Flow Intersections: Benchmarking against a State-of-Practice Model

Yining Hu, David Rey, Reza Mohajerpoor +1

Continuous-Flow Intersections (CFI), also known as Displaced Left-Turn (DLT) intersections, aim to improve the efficiency and safety of traffic junctions. A CFI introduces addition…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Discovery of Itinerant Magnetic Domain Wall and Quasiparticle Boundary State in Spin-Density-Waves

Yining Hu, Xu Wang, Chen Chen +7

Conventional magnetic domain walls are characterized by reorientation of local spins. However, what occurs at the boundary of itinerant magnets is largely unknown. Here using spin-…

cs.CR2026

A Cybersecurity MLPS Large Language Model with Multi-Path Retrieval Fusion

Qian Li, Zhenyan Qi, Liang Shen +4

The Multi-Level Protection Scheme (MLPS) is a foundational system in China's cybersecurity governance framework. Therefore, accurate analysis and understanding of MLPS requirements…

math.CO2016

Combinatorial proof of the transcendence of

Yining Hu

We give a combinatorial proof of the transcendence of , where (resp. ) is the analogue in characteristic of the function of Dirichlet (resp. $…

math.NT2023

Algebraic automatic continued fractions in characteristic II

Yining Hu

We present two families of automatic sequences that define algebraic continued fractions in characteristic . The period-doubling sequence belongs to the first first family $\mat…

math.CO2017

On the Union-Closed Sets Conjecture

Yining Hu

Several results about the union-closed sets conjecture are presented.

cs.CR2021

Verifiable Observation of Permissioned Ledgers

Ermyas Abebe, Yining Hu, Allison Irvin +4

Permissioned ledger technologies have gained significant traction over the last few years. For practical reasons, their applications have focused on transforming narrowly scoped us…

math.CO2019

On the automaticity of sequences defined by continued fractions

Guoniu Han, Yining Hu

Continued fraction expansions and Hankel determinants of automatic sequences are extensively studied during the last two decades. These studies found applications in number theory…

math.AC2016

Explicit Implicit Function Theorem for All Fields

Yining Hu

We give an explicit implicit function theorem for formal power series that is valid for all fields, which implies in particular Lagrange inversion formula and and Flajolet-Soria co…

math.CO2023

Block-counting sequences are not purely morphic

Antoine Abram, Yining Hu, Shuo Li

Let be a positive integer larger than , let be a finite word over and let be the number of occurrences of the word in the $…

math.CO2015

Coefficient Extraction Formula and Furstenberg's Theorems

Yining Hu

In this article, using a Proposition of Furstenberg, we give a coefficient extraction formula for algebraic series that is valid for all fields, of which the Flajolet-Soria coeffic…

cond-mat.supr-con2023

Phase shift and magnetic anisotropy induced field splitting of impurity states in (Li1-xFex)OHFeSe superconductor

Tianzhen Zhang, Yining Hu, Wei Su +11

Revealing the energy and spatial characteristics of impurity induced states in superconductors is essential for understanding their mechanism and fabricating new quantum state by m…

math.NT2015

Patterns in numbers and infinite sums and products

Yining Hu

In this article we propose a general method of obtaining infinite sums of products with functions that count patterns in numbers.

math.CO2018

On the automaticity of the Hankel determinants of a family of automatic sequences

Yining Hu, Guoniu Wei-Han

Hankel determinants and automatic sequences are two classical subjects widely studied in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. However, these two topics were considered tot…