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quant-ph2020★ 29 cited

Random-Receiver Quantum Communication

Some Sankar Bhattacharya, Ananda G. Maity, Tamal Guha +2

We introduce the task of random-receiver quantum communication, in which a sender transmits a quantum message to a receiver chosen from a list of n spatially separated parties. The…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 27 cited

Timing of Eight Binary Millisecond Pulsars Found with Arecibo in Fermi-LAT Unidentified Sources

J. S. Deneva, P. S. Ray, F. Camilo +7

We present timing solutions for eight binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered by searching unidentified Fermi-LAT source positions with the 327 MHz receiver of the Arecibo 305…

math.NA2020★ 1 cited

Low Rank Pure Quaternion Approximation for Pure Quaternion Matrices

Guangjing Song, Weiyang Ding, Michael K. Ng

Quaternion matrices are employed successfully in many color image processing applications. In particular, a pure quaternion matrix can be used to represent red, green and blue chan…

cs.NI2020★ 1 cited

Online Distributed Job Dispatching with Outdated and Partially-Observable Information

Yuncong Hong, Bojie Lv, Rui Wang +4

In this paper, we investigate online distributed job dispatching in an edge computing system residing in a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN). Specifically, job dispatchers are implem…

cs.IT2020★ 4 cited

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Mobile Edge Computing with Heterogeneous Learning Tasks

Shanfeng Huang, Shuai Wang, Rui Wang +2

The ever-growing popularity and rapid improving of artificial intelligence (AI) have raised rethinking on the evolution of wireless networks. Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides a…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 3 cited

Electron quasi-itinerancy intertwined with quantum order by disorder in pyrochlore iridate magnetism

Gang Chen, Xiaoqun Wang

We point out the emergence of magnetism from the interplay of electron quasi-itinerancy and quantum order by disorder in pyrochlore iridates. Like other Mott insulating iridates, t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 23 cited

Layer pseudospin dynamics and genuine non-Abelian Berry phase in inhomogeneously strained moiré pattern

Dawei Zhai, Wang Yao

Periodicity of long wavelength moiré patterns is very often destroyed by the inhomogeneous strain introduced in fabrications of van der Waals layered structures. We present a frame…

cs.CV2020★ 69 cited

GeoNet++: Iterative Geometric Neural Network with Edge-Aware Refinement for Joint Depth and Surface Normal Estimation

Xiaojuan Qi, Zhengzhe Liu, Renjie Liao +3

In this paper, we propose a geometric neural network with edge-aware refinement (GeoNet++) to jointly predict both depth and surface normal maps from a single image. Building on to…

cs.CL2020★ 1 cited

Syntactic representation learning for neural network based TTS with syntactic parse tree traversal

Changhe Song, Jingbei Li, Yixuan Zhou +2

Syntactic structure of a sentence text is correlated with the prosodic structure of the speech that is crucial for improving the prosody and naturalness of a text-to-speech (TTS) s…

cs.LG2020★ 7 cited

Mix and Match: A Novel FPGA-Centric Deep Neural Network Quantization Framework

Sung-En Chang, Yanyu Li, Mengshu Sun +5

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved extraordinary performance in various application domains. To support diverse DNN models, efficient implementations of DNN inference on edg…

cs.LG2020★ 12 cited

Hard-ODT: Hardware-Friendly Online Decision Tree Learning Algorithm and System

Zhe Lin, Sharad Sinha, Wei Zhang

Decision trees are machine learning models commonly used in various application scenarios. In the era of big data, traditional decision tree induction algorithms are not suitable f…

cs.CV2020★ 216 cited

Rigid and Articulated Point Registration with Expectation Conditional Maximization

Radu Horaud, Florence Forbes, Manuel Yguel +2

This paper addresses the issue of matching rigid and articulated shapes through probabilistic point registration. The problem is recast into a missing data framework where unknown…

math.CA2020

Integrability of diagonalizable matrices and a dual Schoenberg type inequality

S. V. Danielyan, A. E. Guterman, T. W. Ng

The concepts of differentiation and integration for matrices were introduced for studying zeros and critical points of complex polynomials. Any matrix is differentiable, however no…

cs.RO2020★ 1 cited

Design of an Optoelectronically Innervated Gripper for Rigid-Soft Interactive Grasping

Linhan Yang, Xudong Han, Weijie Guo +4

Over the past few decades, efforts have been made towards robust robotic grasping, and therefore dexterous manipulation. The soft gripper has shown their potential in robust graspi…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 8 cited

H fluxes and extinction distances for planetary nebulae in the IPHAS survey of the Northern Galactic Plane

Thavisha E. Dharmawardena, M. J. Barlow, J. E. Drew +7

We report H filter photometry for 197 northern hemisphere planetary nebulae (PNe) obtained using imaging data from the IPHAS survey. H+[N II] fluxes were measured for 46 conf…

cs.CV2020★ 219 cited

Learning Spatial Attention for Face Super-Resolution

Chaofeng Chen, Dihong Gong, Hao Wang +2

General image super-resolution techniques have difficulties in recovering detailed face structures when applying to low resolution face images. Recent deep learning based methods t…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 11 cited

PSR J1709-4429's Proper Motion and its Relationship to SNR G343.1-2.3

Martijn de Vries, Roger W. Romani, Oleg Kargaltsev +6

We have obtained a deep 670 ks CXO ACIS image of the remarkable pulsar wind nebula (PWN) of PSR J1709-4429, in 4 epochs during 2018-2019. Comparison with an archival 2004 data set…

math.AG2020★ 2 cited

Splitting submanifolds in rational homogeneous spaces of Picard number one

Cong Ding

Let be a complex manifold. We prove that a compact submanifold with splitting tangent sequence (called a splitting submanifold) is rational homogeneous when is…

quant-ph2020★ 5 cited

Robustness of Higher Dimensional Nonlocality against dual noise and sequential measurements

Saptarshi Roy, Asmita Kumari, Shiladitya Mal +1

Robustness in the violation of Collins-Linden-Gisin-Masser-Popescu (CGLMP) inequality is investigated from the dual perspective of noise in measurements as well as in states. To qu…

cs.LG2020★ 3 cited

Leveraging Meta-path Contexts for Classification in Heterogeneous Information Networks

Xiang Li, Danhao Ding, Ben Kao +2

A heterogeneous information network (HIN) has as vertices objects of different types and as edges the relations between objects, which are also of various types. We study the probl…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 53 cited

Writing and deleting skyrmions with electric fields in a multiferroic heterostructure

Chao-Kai Li, Xu-Ping Yao, Gang Chen

Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures that can be used as information carriers for the next-generation information storage and processing. The electric-field controlling…

cs.CV2020★ 78 cited

Event-based Motion Segmentation with Spatio-Temporal Graph Cuts

Yi Zhou, Guillermo Gallego, Xiuyuan Lu +2

Identifying independently moving objects is an essential task for dynamic scene understanding. However, traditional cameras used in dynamic scenes may suffer from motion blur or ex…

cs.CV2020★ 1 cited

What Makes for End-to-End Object Detection?

Peize Sun, Yi Jiang, Enze Xie +4

Object detection has recently achieved a breakthrough for removing the last one non-differentiable component in the pipeline, Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS), and building up an end-…

quant-ph2020★ 41 cited

Quantum operations with indefinite time direction

Giulio Chiribella, Zixuan Liu

The fundamental dynamics of quantum particles is neutral with respect to the arrow of time. And yet, our experiments are not: we observe quantum systems evolving from the past to t…