For a practical quantum key distribution (QKD) system, parameter optimization, the choice of intensities and the probabilities of sending them, is a crucial step in gaining optimal performance, especially when one rea...
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For a practical quantum key distribution (QKD) system, parameter optimization, the choice of intensities and the probabilities of sending them, is a crucial step in gaining optimal performance, especially when one realistically considers a finite communication time. With the increasing interest in the field to implement QKD over free space on moving platforms, such as drones, handheld systems, and even satellites, one needs to perform parameter optimization with low latency and with very limited computing power. Moreover, with the advent of the internet of things, a highly attractive direction of QKD could be a quantum network with multiple devices and numerous connections, which provides a huge computational challenge for the controller that optimizes parameters for a large-scale network. Traditionally, such an optimization relies on brute-force search or local search algorithms, which are computationally intensive, and will be slow on low-power platforms (which increases latency in the system) or infeasible for even moderately large networks. In this work we present a method that uses a neural network to directly predict the optimal parameters for QKD systems. We test our machine learning algorithm on hardware devices including a Raspberry Pi 3 single-board computer (similar devices are commonly used on drones) and a mobile phone, both of which have a power consumption of less than 5 W, and we find a speedup of up to two to four orders of magnitude when compared to standard local search algorithms. The predicted parameters are highly accurate and can preserve, e.g., over 95%–99% of the optimal secure key rate for a given protocol. Moreover, our approach is highly general and can be applied effectively to various kinds of common QKD protocols.
Pathological myopia (PM) is the leading ocular disease for impaired vision worldwide. Clinically, the characteristic of pathology distribution in PM is global-local on the fundus image, which plays a significant role ...
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A main focus of machine learning research has been improving the generalization accuracy and efficiency of prediction ***,what emerges as missing in many applications is actionability,i.e.,the ability to turn predicti...
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A main focus of machine learning research has been improving the generalization accuracy and efficiency of prediction ***,what emerges as missing in many applications is actionability,i.e.,the ability to turn prediction results into *** effort in deriving such actionable knowledge is few and limited to simple action models while in many real applications those models are often more complex and harder to extract an optimal *** this paper,we propose a novel approach that achieves actionability by combining learning with planning,two core areas of *** particular,we propose a framework to extract actionable knowledge from random forest,one of the most widely used and best off-the-shelf *** formulate the actionability problem to a sub-optimal action planning (SOAP) problem,which is to find a plan to alter certain features of a given input so that the random forest would yield a desirable output,while minimizing the total costs of ***,the SOAP problem is formulated in the SAS+ planning formalism,and solved using a Max-SAT based *** experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approach on a personal credit dataset and other *** work represents a new application of automated planning on an emerging and challenging machine learning paradigm.
In order to realize the vision of Semantic Web, which is a Web of things instead of Web of documents, there is a need to convert existing Web of documents into Semantic content that could be processed by machines. Sem...
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In order to realize the vision of Semantic Web, which is a Web of things instead of Web of documents, there is a need to convert existing Web of documents into Semantic content that could be processed by machines. Semantic annotation tool could be used to perform this task through using common and public ontologies. Due to exponential growth and the huge size of Web sources, there is a need to have a fast and automatic Semantic annotation of Web documents. The aim of this paper is to investigate the use of word embeddings from deep learning algorithms to semantically annotate the Arabic Web documents. To enhance the performance of the Semantic annotation, we utilized the complex morphological structure of Arabic words. Moreover, evaluating the performance of the proposed framework requires selecting a set of domain ontologies with relevant and annotated related documents. The proposed framework produces Semantic annotations for these documents by using different standard output formats. The initial results show a promising performance that will support the research in the Semantic Web with respect to Arabic language.
learner’s cognitive and metacognitive are key personal profile for individualized teaching. To evaluate learner’s comprehensive characteristics, existing learner model were reviewed. Two challenges of constructing a...
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learner’s cognitive and metacognitive are key personal profile for individualized teaching. To evaluate learner’s comprehensive characteristics, existing learner model were reviewed. Two challenges of constructing an accurate and comprehensive learner model integrating cognitive and metacognitive were summarized. A plan of constructing a comprehensive learner model was made based on analysis of existing massive online learning environment, sensor information technology and educational data-mining. As a case study, a method of how to map learning data onto learners’ cognitive and metacognitive was proposed based on an analysis of a number of pupils’ Scratch projects. Three mapping table were established. Pupil’s cognitive skill could be evaluated from technology shown from Scratch project, namely, data structure, algorithm, computational practices and overall evaluation. Content shown from Scratch project were used to infer pupil’s cognitive style. Meta-cognitive ability can be measured from computational practices and behavior in programming process.
Salient region of an image is usually detected by using contrast and boundary priors. Along with those cues the use of seam importance map has shown promising output previously. In this study, better result is found b...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781728130606
ISBN:
(纸本)9781728130613
Salient region of an image is usually detected by using contrast and boundary priors. Along with those cues the use of seam importance map has shown promising output previously. In this study, better result is found by further exploiting the seam-map using spatial distance and color information in combination with boundary prior. Color and seam maps are also down-weighted using average spatial distance to other regions. Moreover, passing the superpixelized version of the input image into seam and color map generation procedure has improved the output. Experimental results based on MSRA 1k dataset are presented with ten state of the art methods. F-beta measures are presented along with precision recall curves to better understand the outcome. The performance comparison with compared researches proofs superiority of the proposed method.
Tablet manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industry involves batch fluidized bed drying for particle moisture removal. This paper introduces five approaches for moisture content monitoring, relying either on a complex...
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Tablet manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industry involves batch fluidized bed drying for particle moisture removal. This paper introduces five approaches for moisture content monitoring, relying either on a complex phenomenological model or its simplified version. The first two soft sensors consist of open-loop estimators, i.e. they simply simulate the models fed by the manipulated variables. Three closed-loop moving horizon estimators based on the simplified model are also proposed for improved robustness. In the first one, the measurements of the inlet gas and particle temperatures feed back the soft sensor. The last two closed-loop observers additionally can take into account infrequent delayed moisture content measurements, such as at-line loss on drying analysis. A validation of the soft sensors is performed with experimental data collected on a pilot scale fluidized bed dryer. Results show that the closed-loop observer with the delayed moisture content measurements still has an accuracy that is equivalent (and sometimes better) than the complex phenomenological model.
Quantum dots dye-sensitized solar cells (QDSSC) has emerged as a highly promising photovoltaic technology for next-generation solar cells due to the distinct optoelectronics features of quantum dots (QDs) light-harves...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781728159683
ISBN:
(纸本)9781728159690
Quantum dots dye-sensitized solar cells (QDSSC) has emerged as a highly promising photovoltaic technology for next-generation solar cells due to the distinct optoelectronics features of quantum dots (QDs) light-harvesting materials such as high absorption coefficient, multiple exciton generation possibility and easily tunable absorption range that can deliver both low production costs. TiO 2 is currently the conventional electron transport material (ETM) used in dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC) but incur high cost and high-temperature processing. Zinc oxide (ZnO) is identified as a low-cost material with higher electron mobility than TiO2 for efficient electron extraction. Furthermore, solution-process able ZnO quantum dots (QDs) allow manipulation of quantum confinement, light scattering and energy band alignment to improve charge extraction. ZnO QDs were synthesised using a self-assembly method of zinc acetate dihydrate solution with potassium hydroxide (KOH) solution and deposited on the Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) glass substrate by using spin coater (200-1500 rpm) for 20 seconds. Afterward, annealed for 5 hours in the furnace at temperatures of 450 ° C. In the characterization the solar cell used X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), UV-Visible spectroscopy, and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM).
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