Quantum computing has the potential to solve complex problems that are inefficiently handled by classical computation.However,the high sensitivity of qubits to environmental interference and the high error rates in cu...Quantum computing has the potential to solve complex problems that are inefficiently handled by classical computation.However,the high sensitivity of qubits to environmental interference and the high error rates in current quantum devices exceed the error correction thresholds required for effective algorithm execution.Therefore,quantum error correction technology is crucial to achieving reliable quantum computing.In this work,we study a topological surface code with a two-dimensional lattice structure that protects quantum information by introducing redundancy across multiple qubits and using syndrome qubits to detect and correct errors.However,errors can occur not only in data qubits but also in syndrome qubits,and different types of errors may generate the same syndromes,complicating the decoding task and creating a need for more efficient decoding methods.To address this challenge,we used a transformer decoder based on an attention mechanism.By mapping the surface code lattice,the decoder performs a self-attention process on all input syndromes,thereby obtaining a global receptive field.The performance of the decoder was evaluated under a phenomenological error model.Numerical results demonstrate that the decoder achieved a decoding accuracy of 93.8%.Additionally,we obtained decoding thresholds of 5%and 6.05%at maximum code distances of 7 and 9,respectively.These results indicate that the decoder used demonstrates a certain capability in correcting noise errors in surface codes.展开更多
At present,convolutional neural networks(CNNs)and transformers surpass humans in many situations(such as face recognition and object classification),but do not work well in identifying fibers in textile surface images...At present,convolutional neural networks(CNNs)and transformers surpass humans in many situations(such as face recognition and object classification),but do not work well in identifying fibers in textile surface images.Hence,this paper proposes an architecture named FiberCT which takes advantages of the feature extraction capability of CNNs and the long-range modeling capability of transformer decoders to adaptively extract multiple types of fiber features.Firstly,the convolution module extracts fiber features from the input textile surface images.Secondly,these features are sent into the transformer decoder module where label embeddings are compared with the features of each type of fibers through multi-head cross-attention and the desired features are pooled adaptively.Finally,an asymmetric loss further purifies the extracted fiber representations.Experiments show that FiberCT can more effectively extract the representations of various types of fibers and improve fiber identification accuracy than state-of-the-art multi-label classification approaches.展开更多
The achievement in optical/digital color photography based on white-light information processing including the color-encoding camera, the color image decoder, the integral window Fourier algorithm of the Fourier trans...The achievement in optical/digital color photography based on white-light information processing including the color-encoding camera, the color image decoder, the integral window Fourier algorithm of the Fourier transform in digital decoding, the color correction of the retrieval color image and the fusion of zero order diffraction is reported. This technique has found its important applications in the fields of aerial reconnaissance photography and far-distance ground photography due to its features of large information capacity, convenience in archival storage, the capability of color enhancement, particularly easy transportation by Internet.展开更多
基金Project supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province,China(Grant No.ZR2021MF049)Joint Fund of Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(Grant Nos.ZR2022LLZ012 and ZR2021LLZ001)the Key R&D Program of Shandong Province,China(Grant No.2023CXGC010901)。
文摘Quantum computing has the potential to solve complex problems that are inefficiently handled by classical computation.However,the high sensitivity of qubits to environmental interference and the high error rates in current quantum devices exceed the error correction thresholds required for effective algorithm execution.Therefore,quantum error correction technology is crucial to achieving reliable quantum computing.In this work,we study a topological surface code with a two-dimensional lattice structure that protects quantum information by introducing redundancy across multiple qubits and using syndrome qubits to detect and correct errors.However,errors can occur not only in data qubits but also in syndrome qubits,and different types of errors may generate the same syndromes,complicating the decoding task and creating a need for more efficient decoding methods.To address this challenge,we used a transformer decoder based on an attention mechanism.By mapping the surface code lattice,the decoder performs a self-attention process on all input syndromes,thereby obtaining a global receptive field.The performance of the decoder was evaluated under a phenomenological error model.Numerical results demonstrate that the decoder achieved a decoding accuracy of 93.8%.Additionally,we obtained decoding thresholds of 5%and 6.05%at maximum code distances of 7 and 9,respectively.These results indicate that the decoder used demonstrates a certain capability in correcting noise errors in surface codes.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61972081)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China(No.2232023Y-01)Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai,China(No.22ZR1400200)。
文摘At present,convolutional neural networks(CNNs)and transformers surpass humans in many situations(such as face recognition and object classification),but do not work well in identifying fibers in textile surface images.Hence,this paper proposes an architecture named FiberCT which takes advantages of the feature extraction capability of CNNs and the long-range modeling capability of transformer decoders to adaptively extract multiple types of fiber features.Firstly,the convolution module extracts fiber features from the input textile surface images.Secondly,these features are sent into the transformer decoder module where label embeddings are compared with the features of each type of fibers through multi-head cross-attention and the desired features are pooled adaptively.Finally,an asymmetric loss further purifies the extracted fiber representations.Experiments show that FiberCT can more effectively extract the representations of various types of fibers and improve fiber identification accuracy than state-of-the-art multi-label classification approaches.
文摘The achievement in optical/digital color photography based on white-light information processing including the color-encoding camera, the color image decoder, the integral window Fourier algorithm of the Fourier transform in digital decoding, the color correction of the retrieval color image and the fusion of zero order diffraction is reported. This technique has found its important applications in the fields of aerial reconnaissance photography and far-distance ground photography due to its features of large information capacity, convenience in archival storage, the capability of color enhancement, particularly easy transportation by Internet.
