Single nucletide polymorphism(SNP)is an important factor for the study of genetic variation in human families and animal and plant strains.Therefore,it is widely used in the study of population genetics and disease re...Single nucletide polymorphism(SNP)is an important factor for the study of genetic variation in human families and animal and plant strains.Therefore,it is widely used in the study of population genetics and disease related gene.In pharmacogenomics research,identifying the association between SNP site and drug is the key to clinical precision medication,therefore,a predictive model of SNP site and drug association based on denoising variational auto-encoder(DVAE-SVM)is proposed.Firstly,k-mer algorithm is used to construct the initial SNP site feature vector,meanwhile,MACCS molecular fingerprint is introduced to generate the feature vector of the drug module.Then,we use the DVAE to extract the effective features of the initial feature vector of the SNP site.Finally,the effective feature vector of the SNP site and the feature vector of the drug module are fused input to the support vector machines(SVM)to predict the relationship of SNP site and drug module.The results of five-fold cross-validation experiments indicate that the proposed algorithm performs better than random forest(RF)and logistic regression(LR)classification.Further experiments show that compared with the feature extraction algorithms of principal component analysis(PCA),denoising auto-encoder(DAE)and variational auto-encode(VAE),the proposed algorithm has better prediction results.展开更多
Real-time 6 Degree-of-Freedom(DoF)pose estimation is of paramount importance for various on-orbit tasks.Benefiting from the development of deep learning,Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs)in feature extraction has yie...Real-time 6 Degree-of-Freedom(DoF)pose estimation is of paramount importance for various on-orbit tasks.Benefiting from the development of deep learning,Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs)in feature extraction has yielded impressive achievements for spacecraft pose estimation.To improve the robustness and interpretability of CNNs,this paper proposes a Pose Estimation approach based on Variational Auto-Encoder structure(PE-VAE)and a Feature-Aided pose estimation approach based on Variational Auto-Encoder structure(FA-VAE),which aim to accurately estimate the 6 DoF pose of a target spacecraft.Both methods treat the pose vector as latent variables,employing an encoder-decoder network with a Variational Auto-Encoder(VAE)structure.To enhance the precision of pose estimation,PE-VAE uses the VAE structure to introduce reconstruction mechanism with the whole image.Furthermore,FA-VAE enforces feature shape constraints by exclusively reconstructing the segment of the target spacecraft with the desired shape.Comparative evaluation against leading methods on public datasets reveals similar accuracy with a threefold improvement in processing speed,showcasing the significant contribution of VAE structures to accuracy enhancement,and the additional benefit of incorporating global shape prior features.展开更多
Non-intrusive load monitoring(NILM)can infer load profiles for each individual appliance from aggregated power consumption signals without installing extra sub-meters.However,performance of traditional energy disaggre...Non-intrusive load monitoring(NILM)can infer load profiles for each individual appliance from aggregated power consumption signals without installing extra sub-meters.However,performance of traditional energy disaggregation methods deteriorates in complex environments,especially susceptible to the presence of other high power consumption appliances.Practicalities are also limited by diversity of household load patterns and measurement errors.In order to address these problems,a hybrid deep learning model consisting of two steps is proposed in this paper.First,an improved variational autoencoder(VAE)structure is introduced for preliminary energy disaggregation,where the encoder and decoder layers are long short-term networks(LSTM)to extract temporal characteristics of active power signals.Afterward,a post-processing method based on Siamese one-dimensional convolutional neural network(S-1D-CNN)is adopted to remove incorrectly predicted activation segments of target appliances.Experiments are conducted on two public datasets,and results show remarkable improvements on prediction accuracy over other deep learning methods.Both transferability and stability of the proposed model are verified under different working conditions.展开更多
Plant breeding stands as a cornerstone for agricultural productivity and the safeguarding of food security.The advent of Genomic Selection heralds a new epoch in breeding,characterized by its capacity to harness whole...Plant breeding stands as a cornerstone for agricultural productivity and the safeguarding of food security.The advent of Genomic Selection heralds a new epoch in breeding,characterized by its capacity to harness whole-genome variation for genomic prediction.This approach transcends the need for prior knowledge of genes associated with specific traits.Nonetheless,the vast dimensionality of genomic data juxtaposed with the relatively limited number of phenotypic samples often leads to the“curse of dimensionality”,where traditional statistical,machine learning,and deep learning methods are prone to overfitting and suboptimal predictive performance.To surmount this challenge,we introduce a unified Variational auto-encoder based Multi-task Genomic Prediction model(VMGP)that integrates self-supervised genomic compression and reconstruction with multiple prediction tasks.This approach provides a robust solution,offering a formidable predictive framework that has been rigorously validated across public datasets for wheat,rice,and maize.Our model demonstrates exceptional capabilities in multi-phenotype and multi-environment genomic prediction,successfully navigating the complexities of cross-population genomic selection and underscoring its unique strengths and utility.Furthermore,by integrating VMGP with model interpretability,we can effectively triage relevant single nucleotide polymorphisms,thereby enhancing prediction performance and proposing potential cost-effective genotyping solutions.The VMGP framework,with its simplicity,stable predictive prowess,and open-source code,is exceptionally well-suited for broad dissemination within plant breeding programs.It is particularly advantageous for breeders who prioritize phenotype prediction yet may not possess extensive knowledge in deep learning or proficiency in parameter tuning.展开更多
The Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell(PEMFC)converts the chemical energy of hydrogen fuel directly into electrical energy with broad application prospects.Understanding how current density is distributed in the PEMFC...The Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell(PEMFC)converts the chemical energy of hydrogen fuel directly into electrical energy with broad application prospects.Understanding how current density is distributed in the PEMFC systems is crucial as it is a key factor influencing system performance.However,direct modeling for current distribution may encounter the challenge of dimensional catastrophe owing to the high dimensionality of the data.This paper uses a high-resolution segmented measurement device with 396 points to conduct experimental tests on the current distribution of a PEMFC with reactive area of 406 cm^(2) during a stepwise increase in load current.The current distribution is modeled based on the test results to learn the mapping relationship between the experimental parameters and the current distribution.The proposed model utilizes a Conditional Variational Auto-Encoder(CVAE)to generate current distributions.The MSE(Mean-Square Error)of the trained CVAE model reaches 9.2×10^(-5),and the comparison results show that the 222.9A current distribution error has the largest MSE of 6.36×10^(-4) and a KL Divergence(Kullback-Leibler Divergence)of 9.55×10^(-4),both of which are at a low level.This model enables the direct determination of the current distribution based on the experimental parameters,thereby establishing a technical foundation for investigating the impact of experimental conditions on fuel cells.This model is also of great significance for research on fuel cell system control strategies and fault diagnosis.展开更多
Generative AI models for music and the arts in general are increasingly complex and hard to understand.The field of ex-plainable AI(XAI)seeks to make complex and opaque AI models such as neural networks more understan...Generative AI models for music and the arts in general are increasingly complex and hard to understand.The field of ex-plainable AI(XAI)seeks to make complex and opaque AI models such as neural networks more understandable to people.One ap-proach to making generative AI models more understandable is to impose a small number of semantically meaningful attributes on gen-erative AI models.This paper contributes a systematic examination of the impact that different combinations of variational auto-en-coder models(measureVAE and adversarialVAE),configurations of latent space in the AI model(from 4 to 256 latent dimensions),and training datasets(Irish folk,Turkish folk,classical,and pop)have on music generation performance when 2 or 4 meaningful musical at-tributes are imposed on the generative model.To date,there have been no systematic comparisons of such models at this level of com-binatorial detail.Our findings show that measureVAE has better reconstruction performance than adversarialVAE which has better musical attribute independence.Results demonstrate that measureVAE was able to generate music across music genres with inter-pretable musical dimensions of control,and performs best with low complexity music such as pop and rock.We recommend that a 32 or 64 latent dimensional space is optimal for 4 regularised dimensions when using measureVAE to generate music across genres.Our res-ults are the first detailed comparisons of configurations of state-of-the-art generative AI models for music and can be used to help select and configure AI models,musical features,and datasets for more understandable generation of music.展开更多
Exposure to poor indoor air conditions poses significant risks to human health, increasing morbidity and mortality rates. Soft measurement modeling is suitable for stable and accurate monitoring of air pollutants and ...Exposure to poor indoor air conditions poses significant risks to human health, increasing morbidity and mortality rates. Soft measurement modeling is suitable for stable and accurate monitoring of air pollutants and improving air quality. Based on partial least squares (PLS), we propose an indoor air quality prediction model that utilizes variational auto-encoder regression (VAER) algorithm. To reduce the negative effects of noise, latent variables in the original data are extracted by PLS in the first step. Then, the extracted variables are used as inputs to VAER, which improve the accuracy and robustness of the model. Through comparative analysis with traditional methods, we demonstrate the superior performance of our PLS-VAER model, which exhibits improved prediction performance and stability. The root mean square error (RMSE) of PLS-VAER is reduced by 14.71%, 26.47%, and 12.50% compared to single VAER, PLS-SVR, and PLS-ANN, respectively. Additionally, the coefficient of determination (R2) of PLS-VAER improves by 13.70%, 30.09%, and 11.25% compared to single VAER, PLS-SVR, and PLS-ANN, respectively. This research offers an innovative and environmentally-friendly approach to monitor and improve indoor air quality.展开更多
In this paper,an advanced satellite navigation filter design,referred to as the Variational Bayesian Maximum Correntropy Extended Kalman Filter(VBMCEKF),is introduced to enhance robustness and adaptability in scenario...In this paper,an advanced satellite navigation filter design,referred to as the Variational Bayesian Maximum Correntropy Extended Kalman Filter(VBMCEKF),is introduced to enhance robustness and adaptability in scenarios with non-Gaussian noise and heavy-tailed outliers.The proposed design modifies the extended Kalman filter(EKF)for the global navigation satellite system(GNSS),integrating the maximum correntropy criterion(MCC)and the variational Bayesian(VB)method.This adaptive algorithm effectively reduces non-line-of-sight(NLOS)reception contamination and improves estimation accuracy,particularly in time-varying GNSS measurements.Experimental results show that the proposed method significantly outperforms conventional approaches in estimation accuracy under heavy-tailed outliers and non-Gaussian noise.By combining MCC with VB approximation for real-time noise covariance estimation using fixed-point iteration,the VBMCEKF achieves superior filtering performance in challenging GNSS conditions.The method’s adaptability and precision make it ideal for improving satellite navigation performance in stochastic environments.展开更多
The purpose of this article is to introduce a new method with a self-adaptive stepsize for approximating a common solution of monotone inclusion problems and variational inequality problems in reflexive Banach spaces....The purpose of this article is to introduce a new method with a self-adaptive stepsize for approximating a common solution of monotone inclusion problems and variational inequality problems in reflexive Banach spaces.The strong convergence result for our method is established under some standard assumptions without any requirement of the knowledge of the Lipschitz constant of the mapping.Several numerical experiments are provided to verify the advantages and efficiency of proposed algorithms.展开更多
Big data has ushered in an era of unprecedented access to vast amounts of new,unstructured data,particularly in the realm of sensitive information.It presents unique opportunities for enhancing risk alerting systems,b...Big data has ushered in an era of unprecedented access to vast amounts of new,unstructured data,particularly in the realm of sensitive information.It presents unique opportunities for enhancing risk alerting systems,but also poses challenges in terms of extraction and analysis due to its diverse file formats.This paper proposes the utilization of a DAE-based(Deep Auto-encoders)model for projecting risk associated with financial data.The research delves into the development of an indicator assessing the degree to which organizations successfully avoid displaying bias in handling financial information.Simulation results demonstrate the superior performance of the DAE algorithm,showcasing fewer false positives,improved overall detection rates,and a noteworthy 9%reduction in failure jitter.The optimized DAE algorithm achieves an accuracy of 99%,surpassing existing methods,thereby presenting a robust solution for sensitive data risk projection.展开更多
Satellite altimetry missions at high latitude have opened new avenues for understanding the changes occurring over the ice-covered region.By incorporating Arctic satellite remote sensing data-including sea surface tem...Satellite altimetry missions at high latitude have opened new avenues for understanding the changes occurring over the ice-covered region.By incorporating Arctic satellite remote sensing data-including sea surface temperature(SST),sea surface height anomaly(SSHA),and sea surface salinity(SSS).This study employs a variational method to reconstruct the three-dimensional thermohaline structure of the Arctic Ocean.Compared to the Regional Arctic Reanalysis(RARE),the reconstruction well captures both the horizontal and vertical temperature and salinity structures in the Arctic.It demonstrates superior skill over RARE,when compared with Argo profiles and Ice-Tethered Profiler(ITP)observations.The reconstruction is particularly effective in ice-covered regions,where it more accurately captures the transition from Pacific water to Atlantic water compared to RARE.These findings underscore the potential of applying Arctic satellite data to reconstruct vertical thermohaline structures in the Arctic,particularly in areas due to lack of the subsurface observation reanalysis data exhibit significant biases.As Arctic satellite observations continue to advance,the applications of this method are becoming increasingly promising,which is useful for monitoring the ice-covered region environment and can be applied to oceanographic research.展开更多
Sciences and Technologies Team(ESTE),Abstract We consider nonlinear parabolic problems in a variational framework.The leading part is a monotone operator whose growth is controlled by time-and space-dependent Musielak...Sciences and Technologies Team(ESTE),Abstract We consider nonlinear parabolic problems in a variational framework.The leading part is a monotone operator whose growth is controlled by time-and space-dependent Musielak functions.On Musielak's controlling functions we impose regularity conditions which make it possible to extend certain classical results such as the density of smooth functions,a Poincar′e-type inequality,an integration-by-parts formula and a trace result.Bringing together these results,we adapt the classical theory of monotone operators and prove the well-posedness of the variational problem.展开更多
To solve the Poisson equation it is usually possible to discretize it into solving the corresponding linear system Ax=b.Variational quantum algorithms(VQAs)for the discretized Poisson equation have been studied before...To solve the Poisson equation it is usually possible to discretize it into solving the corresponding linear system Ax=b.Variational quantum algorithms(VQAs)for the discretized Poisson equation have been studied before.We present a VQA based on the banded Toeplitz systems for solving the Poisson equation with respect to the structural features of matrix A.In detail,we decompose the matrices A and A^(2)into a linear combination of the corresponding banded Toeplitz matrix and sparse matrices with only a few non-zero elements.For the one-dimensional Poisson equation with different boundary conditions and the d-dimensional Poisson equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions,the number of decomposition terms is less than that reported in[Phys.Rev.A 2023108,032418].Based on the decomposition of the matrix,we design quantum circuits that efficiently evaluate the cost function.Additionally,numerical simulation verifies the feasibility of the proposed algorithm.Finally,the VQAs for linear systems of equations and matrix-vector multiplications with the K-banded Toeplitz matrix T_(n)^(K)are given,where T_(n)^(K)∈R^(n×n)and K∈O(ploylogn).展开更多
Accurate medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in improving the precision of computer-aided diagnosis.However,complex boundary shapes,low contrast and blurred anatomical structures make fine-grained segmenta...Accurate medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in improving the precision of computer-aided diagnosis.However,complex boundary shapes,low contrast and blurred anatomical structures make fine-grained segmentation a challenging task.Variational Bayesian inference quantifies uncertainty through probability distributions and can construct robust probabilistic models for the boundaries of ambiguous organs and tissues.In this paper,we apply variational Bayesian inference to medical image segmentation and propose variational attention to model the uncertainty of low-contrast and blurry tissue and organ boundaries.This enhances the model's ability to perceive segmentation boundaries,improving robustness and segmentation accuracy.Variational attention first estimates the parameters of the probability distribution of latent representations based on input features.Then,it samples latent representations from the learnt distribution to generate attention weights that optimise the interaction between global features and ambiguous boundaries.We integrate variational attention into the U-Net model by replacing its skip connections,constructing a multi-scale variational attention segmentation model(V-UNet).Experiments on the ISBI 2012 and MoNuSeg 2018 datasets show that our method achieves Dice scores of 95.89%and 82.18%,respectively.Moreover,we integrate V-UNet into the Mask R-CNN framework by replacing the FPN feature extraction head and propose a two-stage segmentation method.Compared to the original Mask R-CNN,our method improves the Dice score by 0.81%,mAP by 8.06%and F1 score by 0.51%.展开更多
Since the concept of quantum information masking was proposed by Modi et al(2018 Phys.Rev.Lett.120,230501),many interesting and significant results have been reported,both theoretically and experimentally.However,desi...Since the concept of quantum information masking was proposed by Modi et al(2018 Phys.Rev.Lett.120,230501),many interesting and significant results have been reported,both theoretically and experimentally.However,designing a quantum information masker is not an easy task,especially for larger systems.In this paper,we propose a variational quantum algorithm to resolve this problem.Specifically,our algorithm is a hybrid quantum-classical model,where the quantum device with adjustable parameters tries to mask quantum information and the classical device evaluates the performance of the quantum device and optimizes its parameters.After optimization,the quantum device behaves as an optimal masker.The loss value during optimization can be used to characterize the performance of the masker.In particular,if the loss value converges to zero,we obtain a perfect masker that completely masks the quantum information generated by the quantum information source,otherwise,the perfect masker does not exist and the subsystems always contain the original information.Nevertheless,these resulting maskers are still optimal.Quantum parallelism is utilized to reduce quantum state preparations and measurements.Our study paves the way for wide application of quantum information masking,and some of the techniques used in this study may have potential applications in quantum information processing.展开更多
The aerial deployment method enables Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)to be directly positioned at the required altitude for their mission.This method typically employs folding technology to improve loading efficiency,wi...The aerial deployment method enables Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)to be directly positioned at the required altitude for their mission.This method typically employs folding technology to improve loading efficiency,with applications such as the gravity-only aerial deployment of high-aspect-ratio solar-powered UAVs,and aerial takeoff of fixed-wing drones in Mars research.However,the significant morphological changes during deployment are accompanied by strong nonlinear dynamic aerodynamic forces,which result in multiple degrees of freedom and an unstable character.This hinders the description and analysis of unknown dynamic behaviors,further leading to difficulties in the design of deployment strategies and flight control.To address this issue,this paper proposes an analysis method for dynamic behaviors during aerial deployment based on the Variational Autoencoder(VAE).Focusing on the gravity-only deployment problem of highaspect-ratio foldable-wing UAVs,the method encodes the multi-degree-of-freedom unstable motion signals into a low-dimensional feature space through a data-driven approach.By clustering in the feature space,this paper identifies and studies several dynamic behaviors during aerial deployment.The research presented in this paper offers a new method and perspective for feature extraction and analysis of complex and difficult-to-describe extreme flight dynamics,guiding the research on aerial deployment drones design and control strategies.展开更多
Engineering tests can yield inaccurate data due to instrument errors,human factors,and environmental interference,introducing uncertainty in numerical model updating.This study employs the probability-box(p-box)method...Engineering tests can yield inaccurate data due to instrument errors,human factors,and environmental interference,introducing uncertainty in numerical model updating.This study employs the probability-box(p-box)method for representing observational uncertainty and develops a two-step approximate Bayesian computation(ABC)framework using time-series data.Within the ABC framework,Euclidean and Bhattacharyya distances are employed as uncertainty quantification metrics to delineate approximate likelihood functions in the initial and subsequent steps,respectively.A novel variational Bayesian Monte Carlo method is introduced to efficiently apply the ABC framework amidst observational uncertainty,resulting in rapid convergence and accurate parameter estimation with minimal iterations.The efficacy of the proposed updating strategy is validated by its application to a shear frame model excited by seismic wave and an aviation pump force sensor for thermal output analysis.The results affirm the efficiency,robustness,and practical applicability of the proposed method.展开更多
Geochemical survey data are essential across Earth Science disciplines but are often affected by noise,which can obscure important geological signals and compromise subsequent prediction and interpretation.Quantifying...Geochemical survey data are essential across Earth Science disciplines but are often affected by noise,which can obscure important geological signals and compromise subsequent prediction and interpretation.Quantifying prediction uncertainty is hence crucial for robust geoscientific decision-making.This study proposes a novel deep learning framework,the Spatially Constrained Variational Autoencoder(SC-VAE),for denoising geochemical survey data with integrated uncertainty quantification.The SC-VAE incorporates spatial regularization,which enforces spatial coherence by modeling inter-sample relationships directly within the latent space.The performance of the SC-VAE was systematically evaluated against a standard Variational Autoencoder(VAE)using geochemical data from the gold polymetallic district in the northwestern part of Sichuan Province,China.Both models were optimized using Bayesian optimization,with objective functions specifically designed to maintain essential geostatistical characteristics.Evaluation metrics include variogram analysis,quantitative measures of spatial interpolation accuracy,visual assessment of denoised maps,and statistical analysis of data distributions,as well as decomposition of uncertainties.Results show that the SC-VAE achieves superior noise suppression and better preservation of spatial structure compared to the standard VAE,as demonstrated by a significant reduction in the variogram nugget effect and an increased partial sill.The SC-VAE produces denoised maps with clearer anomaly delineation and more regularized data distributions,effectively mitigating outliers and reducing kurtosis.Additionally,it delivers improved interpolation accuracy and spatially explicit uncertainty estimates,facilitating more reliable and interpretable assessments of prediction confidence.The SC-VAE framework thus provides a robust,geostatistically informed solution for enhancing the quality and interpretability of geochemical data,with broad applicability in mineral exploration,environmental geochemistry,and other Earth Science domains.展开更多
In the realm of video understanding,the demand for accurate and contextually rich video captioning has surged with the increasing volume and complexity of multimedia content.This research introduces an innovative solu...In the realm of video understanding,the demand for accurate and contextually rich video captioning has surged with the increasing volume and complexity of multimedia content.This research introduces an innovative solution for video captioning by integrating a Convolutional BiLSTM Convolutional Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory(BiLSTM)constructed Variational Sequence-to-Sequence(CBVSS)approach.The proposed framework is adept at capturing intricate temporal dependencies within video sequences,enabling a more nuanced and contextually relevant description of dynamic scenes.However,optimizing its parameters for improved performance remains a crucial challenge.In response,in this research Golden Eagle Optimization(GEO)a metaheuristic optimization technique is used to fine-tune the Convolutional BiLSTM variational sequence-to-sequence model parameters.The application of GEO aims to enhancing the CBVSS ability to produce more exact and contextually rich video captions.The proposed attains an overall higher Recall of 59.75%and Precision of 63.78%for both datasets.Additionally,the proposed CBVSS method demonstrated superior performance across both datasets,achieving the highest METEOR(25.67)and CIDER(39.87)scores on the ActivityNet dataset,and further outperforming all compared models on the YouCook2 dataset with METEOR(28.67)and CIDER(43.02),highlighting its effectiveness in generating semantically rich and contextually accurate video captions.展开更多
We investigate dynamical quantum phase transitions(DQPTs)in Marko-vian open quantum systems using a variational quantum simulation(VQS)algorithm based on quantum state diffusion(QSD).This approach reformulates the Lin...We investigate dynamical quantum phase transitions(DQPTs)in Marko-vian open quantum systems using a variational quantum simulation(VQS)algorithm based on quantum state diffusion(QSD).This approach reformulates the Lindblad master equation as an ensemble of pure-state trajectories,enabling efficient simula-tion of dissipative quantum dynam-ics with effectively reduced quantum resources.Focusing on the one-di-mensional transverse-field Ising mod-el(TFIM),we simulate quench dynamics under both local and global Lindblad dissipation.The QSD-VQS algorithm accurately captures the nonanalytic cusps in the Loschmidt rate function,and reveals their modulation by dissipation strength and system size.Notably,DQPTs are gradually suppressed under strong local dissipation,while they persist under strong global dissipation due to collective environmental effects.Benchmarking against exact Lindblad solutions confirms the high accuracy and scalability of our method.展开更多
基金Lanzhou Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project(No.2020-RC-14)。
文摘Single nucletide polymorphism(SNP)is an important factor for the study of genetic variation in human families and animal and plant strains.Therefore,it is widely used in the study of population genetics and disease related gene.In pharmacogenomics research,identifying the association between SNP site and drug is the key to clinical precision medication,therefore,a predictive model of SNP site and drug association based on denoising variational auto-encoder(DVAE-SVM)is proposed.Firstly,k-mer algorithm is used to construct the initial SNP site feature vector,meanwhile,MACCS molecular fingerprint is introduced to generate the feature vector of the drug module.Then,we use the DVAE to extract the effective features of the initial feature vector of the SNP site.Finally,the effective feature vector of the SNP site and the feature vector of the drug module are fused input to the support vector machines(SVM)to predict the relationship of SNP site and drug module.The results of five-fold cross-validation experiments indicate that the proposed algorithm performs better than random forest(RF)and logistic regression(LR)classification.Further experiments show that compared with the feature extraction algorithms of principal component analysis(PCA),denoising auto-encoder(DAE)and variational auto-encode(VAE),the proposed algorithm has better prediction results.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.52272390)the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province of China(No.YQ2022A009)the Shanghai Sailing Program,China(No.20YF1417300).
文摘Real-time 6 Degree-of-Freedom(DoF)pose estimation is of paramount importance for various on-orbit tasks.Benefiting from the development of deep learning,Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs)in feature extraction has yielded impressive achievements for spacecraft pose estimation.To improve the robustness and interpretability of CNNs,this paper proposes a Pose Estimation approach based on Variational Auto-Encoder structure(PE-VAE)and a Feature-Aided pose estimation approach based on Variational Auto-Encoder structure(FA-VAE),which aim to accurately estimate the 6 DoF pose of a target spacecraft.Both methods treat the pose vector as latent variables,employing an encoder-decoder network with a Variational Auto-Encoder(VAE)structure.To enhance the precision of pose estimation,PE-VAE uses the VAE structure to introduce reconstruction mechanism with the whole image.Furthermore,FA-VAE enforces feature shape constraints by exclusively reconstructing the segment of the target spacecraft with the desired shape.Comparative evaluation against leading methods on public datasets reveals similar accuracy with a threefold improvement in processing speed,showcasing the significant contribution of VAE structures to accuracy enhancement,and the additional benefit of incorporating global shape prior features.
文摘Non-intrusive load monitoring(NILM)can infer load profiles for each individual appliance from aggregated power consumption signals without installing extra sub-meters.However,performance of traditional energy disaggregation methods deteriorates in complex environments,especially susceptible to the presence of other high power consumption appliances.Practicalities are also limited by diversity of household load patterns and measurement errors.In order to address these problems,a hybrid deep learning model consisting of two steps is proposed in this paper.First,an improved variational autoencoder(VAE)structure is introduced for preliminary energy disaggregation,where the encoder and decoder layers are long short-term networks(LSTM)to extract temporal characteristics of active power signals.Afterward,a post-processing method based on Siamese one-dimensional convolutional neural network(S-1D-CNN)is adopted to remove incorrectly predicted activation segments of target appliances.Experiments are conducted on two public datasets,and results show remarkable improvements on prediction accuracy over other deep learning methods.Both transferability and stability of the proposed model are verified under different working conditions.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2024YFD1201500)the Key Research and Development Program of Jiangsu Province,China(No.BE2022337,BE2023302,and BE2023315)the National Innovation Center for Digital Seed Industry,Beijing,China,100097.
文摘Plant breeding stands as a cornerstone for agricultural productivity and the safeguarding of food security.The advent of Genomic Selection heralds a new epoch in breeding,characterized by its capacity to harness whole-genome variation for genomic prediction.This approach transcends the need for prior knowledge of genes associated with specific traits.Nonetheless,the vast dimensionality of genomic data juxtaposed with the relatively limited number of phenotypic samples often leads to the“curse of dimensionality”,where traditional statistical,machine learning,and deep learning methods are prone to overfitting and suboptimal predictive performance.To surmount this challenge,we introduce a unified Variational auto-encoder based Multi-task Genomic Prediction model(VMGP)that integrates self-supervised genomic compression and reconstruction with multiple prediction tasks.This approach provides a robust solution,offering a formidable predictive framework that has been rigorously validated across public datasets for wheat,rice,and maize.Our model demonstrates exceptional capabilities in multi-phenotype and multi-environment genomic prediction,successfully navigating the complexities of cross-population genomic selection and underscoring its unique strengths and utility.Furthermore,by integrating VMGP with model interpretability,we can effectively triage relevant single nucleotide polymorphisms,thereby enhancing prediction performance and proposing potential cost-effective genotyping solutions.The VMGP framework,with its simplicity,stable predictive prowess,and open-source code,is exceptionally well-suited for broad dissemination within plant breeding programs.It is particularly advantageous for breeders who prioritize phenotype prediction yet may not possess extensive knowledge in deep learning or proficiency in parameter tuning.
基金sponsored by Science and Technology Program of Sichuan Province(2024ZDZX0035 and 2024ZHCG0072)。
文摘The Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell(PEMFC)converts the chemical energy of hydrogen fuel directly into electrical energy with broad application prospects.Understanding how current density is distributed in the PEMFC systems is crucial as it is a key factor influencing system performance.However,direct modeling for current distribution may encounter the challenge of dimensional catastrophe owing to the high dimensionality of the data.This paper uses a high-resolution segmented measurement device with 396 points to conduct experimental tests on the current distribution of a PEMFC with reactive area of 406 cm^(2) during a stepwise increase in load current.The current distribution is modeled based on the test results to learn the mapping relationship between the experimental parameters and the current distribution.The proposed model utilizes a Conditional Variational Auto-Encoder(CVAE)to generate current distributions.The MSE(Mean-Square Error)of the trained CVAE model reaches 9.2×10^(-5),and the comparison results show that the 222.9A current distribution error has the largest MSE of 6.36×10^(-4) and a KL Divergence(Kullback-Leibler Divergence)of 9.55×10^(-4),both of which are at a low level.This model enables the direct determination of the current distribution based on the experimental parameters,thereby establishing a technical foundation for investigating the impact of experimental conditions on fuel cells.This model is also of great significance for research on fuel cell system control strategies and fault diagnosis.
文摘Generative AI models for music and the arts in general are increasingly complex and hard to understand.The field of ex-plainable AI(XAI)seeks to make complex and opaque AI models such as neural networks more understandable to people.One ap-proach to making generative AI models more understandable is to impose a small number of semantically meaningful attributes on gen-erative AI models.This paper contributes a systematic examination of the impact that different combinations of variational auto-en-coder models(measureVAE and adversarialVAE),configurations of latent space in the AI model(from 4 to 256 latent dimensions),and training datasets(Irish folk,Turkish folk,classical,and pop)have on music generation performance when 2 or 4 meaningful musical at-tributes are imposed on the generative model.To date,there have been no systematic comparisons of such models at this level of com-binatorial detail.Our findings show that measureVAE has better reconstruction performance than adversarialVAE which has better musical attribute independence.Results demonstrate that measureVAE was able to generate music across music genres with inter-pretable musical dimensions of control,and performs best with low complexity music such as pop and rock.We recommend that a 32 or 64 latent dimensional space is optimal for 4 regularised dimensions when using measureVAE to generate music across genres.Our res-ults are the first detailed comparisons of configurations of state-of-the-art generative AI models for music and can be used to help select and configure AI models,musical features,and datasets for more understandable generation of music.
基金supported by the Opening Project of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Clean Pulp&Papermaking and Pollution Control,China(No.2021KF11)the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation,China(No.ZR2021MF135)+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.52170001)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Provincial Universities,China(No.22KJA530003).
文摘Exposure to poor indoor air conditions poses significant risks to human health, increasing morbidity and mortality rates. Soft measurement modeling is suitable for stable and accurate monitoring of air pollutants and improving air quality. Based on partial least squares (PLS), we propose an indoor air quality prediction model that utilizes variational auto-encoder regression (VAER) algorithm. To reduce the negative effects of noise, latent variables in the original data are extracted by PLS in the first step. Then, the extracted variables are used as inputs to VAER, which improve the accuracy and robustness of the model. Through comparative analysis with traditional methods, we demonstrate the superior performance of our PLS-VAER model, which exhibits improved prediction performance and stability. The root mean square error (RMSE) of PLS-VAER is reduced by 14.71%, 26.47%, and 12.50% compared to single VAER, PLS-SVR, and PLS-ANN, respectively. Additionally, the coefficient of determination (R2) of PLS-VAER improves by 13.70%, 30.09%, and 11.25% compared to single VAER, PLS-SVR, and PLS-ANN, respectively. This research offers an innovative and environmentally-friendly approach to monitor and improve indoor air quality.
基金supported by the National Science and Technology Council,Taiwan under grants NSTC 111-2221-E-019-047 and NSTC 112-2221-E-019-030.
文摘In this paper,an advanced satellite navigation filter design,referred to as the Variational Bayesian Maximum Correntropy Extended Kalman Filter(VBMCEKF),is introduced to enhance robustness and adaptability in scenarios with non-Gaussian noise and heavy-tailed outliers.The proposed design modifies the extended Kalman filter(EKF)for the global navigation satellite system(GNSS),integrating the maximum correntropy criterion(MCC)and the variational Bayesian(VB)method.This adaptive algorithm effectively reduces non-line-of-sight(NLOS)reception contamination and improves estimation accuracy,particularly in time-varying GNSS measurements.Experimental results show that the proposed method significantly outperforms conventional approaches in estimation accuracy under heavy-tailed outliers and non-Gaussian noise.By combining MCC with VB approximation for real-time noise covariance estimation using fixed-point iteration,the VBMCEKF achieves superior filtering performance in challenging GNSS conditions.The method’s adaptability and precision make it ideal for improving satellite navigation performance in stochastic environments.
基金Supported by NSFC(No.12171062)the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing(No.CSTB2022NSCQ-JQX0004)+1 种基金the Chongqing Talent Support Program(No.cstc2024ycjh-bgzxm0121)Science and Technology Project of Chongqing Education Committee(No.KJZD-M202300503)。
文摘The purpose of this article is to introduce a new method with a self-adaptive stepsize for approximating a common solution of monotone inclusion problems and variational inequality problems in reflexive Banach spaces.The strong convergence result for our method is established under some standard assumptions without any requirement of the knowledge of the Lipschitz constant of the mapping.Several numerical experiments are provided to verify the advantages and efficiency of proposed algorithms.
文摘Big data has ushered in an era of unprecedented access to vast amounts of new,unstructured data,particularly in the realm of sensitive information.It presents unique opportunities for enhancing risk alerting systems,but also poses challenges in terms of extraction and analysis due to its diverse file formats.This paper proposes the utilization of a DAE-based(Deep Auto-encoders)model for projecting risk associated with financial data.The research delves into the development of an indicator assessing the degree to which organizations successfully avoid displaying bias in handling financial information.Simulation results demonstrate the superior performance of the DAE algorithm,showcasing fewer false positives,improved overall detection rates,and a noteworthy 9%reduction in failure jitter.The optimized DAE algorithm achieves an accuracy of 99%,surpassing existing methods,thereby presenting a robust solution for sensitive data risk projection.
基金The National Key R&D Program of China under contract No.2022YFE0106400the China Scholarship Council under contract No.202206710071+2 种基金the Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province under contract No.KYCX23_0657the Special Founds for Creative Research under contract No.2022C61540the Opening Project of the Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Information Technology under contract No.521037412.
文摘Satellite altimetry missions at high latitude have opened new avenues for understanding the changes occurring over the ice-covered region.By incorporating Arctic satellite remote sensing data-including sea surface temperature(SST),sea surface height anomaly(SSHA),and sea surface salinity(SSS).This study employs a variational method to reconstruct the three-dimensional thermohaline structure of the Arctic Ocean.Compared to the Regional Arctic Reanalysis(RARE),the reconstruction well captures both the horizontal and vertical temperature and salinity structures in the Arctic.It demonstrates superior skill over RARE,when compared with Argo profiles and Ice-Tethered Profiler(ITP)observations.The reconstruction is particularly effective in ice-covered regions,where it more accurately captures the transition from Pacific water to Atlantic water compared to RARE.These findings underscore the potential of applying Arctic satellite data to reconstruct vertical thermohaline structures in the Arctic,particularly in areas due to lack of the subsurface observation reanalysis data exhibit significant biases.As Arctic satellite observations continue to advance,the applications of this method are becoming increasingly promising,which is useful for monitoring the ice-covered region environment and can be applied to oceanographic research.
文摘Sciences and Technologies Team(ESTE),Abstract We consider nonlinear parabolic problems in a variational framework.The leading part is a monotone operator whose growth is controlled by time-and space-dependent Musielak functions.On Musielak's controlling functions we impose regularity conditions which make it possible to extend certain classical results such as the density of smooth functions,a Poincar′e-type inequality,an integration-by-parts formula and a trace result.Bringing together these results,we adapt the classical theory of monotone operators and prove the well-posedness of the variational problem.
基金supported by the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation for Quantum Science under Grant No.ZR2021LLZ002the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No.22CX03005A。
文摘To solve the Poisson equation it is usually possible to discretize it into solving the corresponding linear system Ax=b.Variational quantum algorithms(VQAs)for the discretized Poisson equation have been studied before.We present a VQA based on the banded Toeplitz systems for solving the Poisson equation with respect to the structural features of matrix A.In detail,we decompose the matrices A and A^(2)into a linear combination of the corresponding banded Toeplitz matrix and sparse matrices with only a few non-zero elements.For the one-dimensional Poisson equation with different boundary conditions and the d-dimensional Poisson equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions,the number of decomposition terms is less than that reported in[Phys.Rev.A 2023108,032418].Based on the decomposition of the matrix,we design quantum circuits that efficiently evaluate the cost function.Additionally,numerical simulation verifies the feasibility of the proposed algorithm.Finally,the VQAs for linear systems of equations and matrix-vector multiplications with the K-banded Toeplitz matrix T_(n)^(K)are given,where T_(n)^(K)∈R^(n×n)and K∈O(ploylogn).
基金supported by the China Chongqing Municipal Education Commission(Grant KJZDM202500505)China Chongqing Municipal Science and Technology Bureau(Grants CSTB2024TIADCYKJCXX0009,CSTB2024NSCQ-LZX0043)+1 种基金Chongqing University of Technology graduate education high-quality development project(Grants gzlsz202304,gzlkc202401,gzltd202502)Chongqing University of Technology-Chongqing LINGLUE Technology Co.Ltd.Electronic Information(artificial intelligence)graduate joint training base.
文摘Accurate medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in improving the precision of computer-aided diagnosis.However,complex boundary shapes,low contrast and blurred anatomical structures make fine-grained segmentation a challenging task.Variational Bayesian inference quantifies uncertainty through probability distributions and can construct robust probabilistic models for the boundaries of ambiguous organs and tissues.In this paper,we apply variational Bayesian inference to medical image segmentation and propose variational attention to model the uncertainty of low-contrast and blurry tissue and organ boundaries.This enhances the model's ability to perceive segmentation boundaries,improving robustness and segmentation accuracy.Variational attention first estimates the parameters of the probability distribution of latent representations based on input features.Then,it samples latent representations from the learnt distribution to generate attention weights that optimise the interaction between global features and ambiguous boundaries.We integrate variational attention into the U-Net model by replacing its skip connections,constructing a multi-scale variational attention segmentation model(V-UNet).Experiments on the ISBI 2012 and MoNuSeg 2018 datasets show that our method achieves Dice scores of 95.89%and 82.18%,respectively.Moreover,we integrate V-UNet into the Mask R-CNN framework by replacing the FPN feature extraction head and propose a two-stage segmentation method.Compared to the original Mask R-CNN,our method improves the Dice score by 0.81%,mAP by 8.06%and F1 score by 0.51%.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(under Grant Nos.12105090 and 12074107)the Program of Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Scientific and Technological Innovation Team of Colleges and Universities in Hubei Province of China(under Grant No.T2020001)the Innovation Group Project of the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province of China(under Grant No.2022CFA012)。
文摘Since the concept of quantum information masking was proposed by Modi et al(2018 Phys.Rev.Lett.120,230501),many interesting and significant results have been reported,both theoretically and experimentally.However,designing a quantum information masker is not an easy task,especially for larger systems.In this paper,we propose a variational quantum algorithm to resolve this problem.Specifically,our algorithm is a hybrid quantum-classical model,where the quantum device with adjustable parameters tries to mask quantum information and the classical device evaluates the performance of the quantum device and optimizes its parameters.After optimization,the quantum device behaves as an optimal masker.The loss value during optimization can be used to characterize the performance of the masker.In particular,if the loss value converges to zero,we obtain a perfect masker that completely masks the quantum information generated by the quantum information source,otherwise,the perfect masker does not exist and the subsystems always contain the original information.Nevertheless,these resulting maskers are still optimal.Quantum parallelism is utilized to reduce quantum state preparations and measurements.Our study paves the way for wide application of quantum information masking,and some of the techniques used in this study may have potential applications in quantum information processing.
基金co-supported by the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi,China(No.2023-JC-QN-0043)the ND Basic Research Funds,China(No.G2022WD).
文摘The aerial deployment method enables Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)to be directly positioned at the required altitude for their mission.This method typically employs folding technology to improve loading efficiency,with applications such as the gravity-only aerial deployment of high-aspect-ratio solar-powered UAVs,and aerial takeoff of fixed-wing drones in Mars research.However,the significant morphological changes during deployment are accompanied by strong nonlinear dynamic aerodynamic forces,which result in multiple degrees of freedom and an unstable character.This hinders the description and analysis of unknown dynamic behaviors,further leading to difficulties in the design of deployment strategies and flight control.To address this issue,this paper proposes an analysis method for dynamic behaviors during aerial deployment based on the Variational Autoencoder(VAE).Focusing on the gravity-only deployment problem of highaspect-ratio foldable-wing UAVs,the method encodes the multi-degree-of-freedom unstable motion signals into a low-dimensional feature space through a data-driven approach.By clustering in the feature space,this paper identifies and studies several dynamic behaviors during aerial deployment.The research presented in this paper offers a new method and perspective for feature extraction and analysis of complex and difficult-to-describe extreme flight dynamics,guiding the research on aerial deployment drones design and control strategies.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.U23B20105).
文摘Engineering tests can yield inaccurate data due to instrument errors,human factors,and environmental interference,introducing uncertainty in numerical model updating.This study employs the probability-box(p-box)method for representing observational uncertainty and develops a two-step approximate Bayesian computation(ABC)framework using time-series data.Within the ABC framework,Euclidean and Bhattacharyya distances are employed as uncertainty quantification metrics to delineate approximate likelihood functions in the initial and subsequent steps,respectively.A novel variational Bayesian Monte Carlo method is introduced to efficiently apply the ABC framework amidst observational uncertainty,resulting in rapid convergence and accurate parameter estimation with minimal iterations.The efficacy of the proposed updating strategy is validated by its application to a shear frame model excited by seismic wave and an aviation pump force sensor for thermal output analysis.The results affirm the efficiency,robustness,and practical applicability of the proposed method.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.42530801,42425208)the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province(China)(No.2023AFA001)+1 种基金the MOST Special Fund from State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources,China University of Geosciences(No.MSFGPMR2025-401)the China Scholarship Council(No.202306410181)。
文摘Geochemical survey data are essential across Earth Science disciplines but are often affected by noise,which can obscure important geological signals and compromise subsequent prediction and interpretation.Quantifying prediction uncertainty is hence crucial for robust geoscientific decision-making.This study proposes a novel deep learning framework,the Spatially Constrained Variational Autoencoder(SC-VAE),for denoising geochemical survey data with integrated uncertainty quantification.The SC-VAE incorporates spatial regularization,which enforces spatial coherence by modeling inter-sample relationships directly within the latent space.The performance of the SC-VAE was systematically evaluated against a standard Variational Autoencoder(VAE)using geochemical data from the gold polymetallic district in the northwestern part of Sichuan Province,China.Both models were optimized using Bayesian optimization,with objective functions specifically designed to maintain essential geostatistical characteristics.Evaluation metrics include variogram analysis,quantitative measures of spatial interpolation accuracy,visual assessment of denoised maps,and statistical analysis of data distributions,as well as decomposition of uncertainties.Results show that the SC-VAE achieves superior noise suppression and better preservation of spatial structure compared to the standard VAE,as demonstrated by a significant reduction in the variogram nugget effect and an increased partial sill.The SC-VAE produces denoised maps with clearer anomaly delineation and more regularized data distributions,effectively mitigating outliers and reducing kurtosis.Additionally,it delivers improved interpolation accuracy and spatially explicit uncertainty estimates,facilitating more reliable and interpretable assessments of prediction confidence.The SC-VAE framework thus provides a robust,geostatistically informed solution for enhancing the quality and interpretability of geochemical data,with broad applicability in mineral exploration,environmental geochemistry,and other Earth Science domains.
文摘In the realm of video understanding,the demand for accurate and contextually rich video captioning has surged with the increasing volume and complexity of multimedia content.This research introduces an innovative solution for video captioning by integrating a Convolutional BiLSTM Convolutional Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory(BiLSTM)constructed Variational Sequence-to-Sequence(CBVSS)approach.The proposed framework is adept at capturing intricate temporal dependencies within video sequences,enabling a more nuanced and contextually relevant description of dynamic scenes.However,optimizing its parameters for improved performance remains a crucial challenge.In response,in this research Golden Eagle Optimization(GEO)a metaheuristic optimization technique is used to fine-tune the Convolutional BiLSTM variational sequence-to-sequence model parameters.The application of GEO aims to enhancing the CBVSS ability to produce more exact and contextually rich video captions.The proposed attains an overall higher Recall of 59.75%and Precision of 63.78%for both datasets.Additionally,the proposed CBVSS method demonstrated superior performance across both datasets,achieving the highest METEOR(25.67)and CIDER(39.87)scores on the ActivityNet dataset,and further outperforming all compared models on the YouCook2 dataset with METEOR(28.67)and CIDER(43.02),highlighting its effectiveness in generating semantically rich and contextually accurate video captions.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.22273122,T2350009)the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation(No.2024A1515011504)computational resources and services provided by the national supercomputer center in Guangzhou.
文摘We investigate dynamical quantum phase transitions(DQPTs)in Marko-vian open quantum systems using a variational quantum simulation(VQS)algorithm based on quantum state diffusion(QSD).This approach reformulates the Lindblad master equation as an ensemble of pure-state trajectories,enabling efficient simula-tion of dissipative quantum dynam-ics with effectively reduced quantum resources.Focusing on the one-di-mensional transverse-field Ising mod-el(TFIM),we simulate quench dynamics under both local and global Lindblad dissipation.The QSD-VQS algorithm accurately captures the nonanalytic cusps in the Loschmidt rate function,and reveals their modulation by dissipation strength and system size.Notably,DQPTs are gradually suppressed under strong local dissipation,while they persist under strong global dissipation due to collective environmental effects.Benchmarking against exact Lindblad solutions confirms the high accuracy and scalability of our method.
