Tin-vacancy centres in diamond are spin-photon interfaces with intrinsic environmental noise insensitivity. We reveal their high optical coherence in a nanostructured environment and generate single photons with a 99....
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Grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex create remarkable periodic maps of explored space during navigation. Recent studies show that they form similar maps of abstract cognitive spaces. Examples of such abstract e...
Grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex create remarkable periodic maps of explored space during navigation. Recent studies show that they form similar maps of abstract cognitive spaces. Examples of such abstract environments include auditory tone sequences in which the pitch is continuously varied or images in which abstract features are continuously deformed (e.g., a cartoon bird whose legs stretch and shrink). Here, we hypothesize that the brain generalizes how it maps spatial domains to mapping abstract spaces. To sidestep the computational cost of learning representations for each high-dimensional sensory input, the brain extracts self-consistent, low-dimensional descriptions of displacements across abstract spaces, leveraging the spatial velocity integration of grid cells to efficiently build maps of different domains. Our neural network model for abstract velocity extraction factorizes the content of these abstract domains from displacements within the domains to generate content-independent and self-consistent, low-dimensional velocity estimates. Crucially, it uses a self-supervised geometric consistency constraint that requires displacements along closed loop trajectories to sum to zero, an integration that is itself performed by the downstream grid cell circuit over learning. This process results in high fidelity estimates of velocities and allowed transitions in abstract domains, a crucial prerequisite for efficient map generation in these high-dimensional environments. We also show how our method outperforms traditional dimensionality reduction and deep-learning based motion extraction networks on the same set of tasks. This is the first neural network model to explain how grid cells can flexibly represent different abstract spaces and makes the novel prediction that they should do so while maintaining their population correlation and manifold structure across domains. Fundamentally, our model sheds light on the mechanistic origins of cognitive flexib
In this article, we consider the problem of developing a computational model for emulating an RF channel. The motivation for this is that an accurate and scalable emulator has the potential to minimize the need for fi...
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Recent years have witnessed a paradigm shift in deep learning from task-centric model design to task-agnostic representation learning and task-specific fine-tuning. Pretrained model representations are commonly evalua...
Recent years have witnessed a paradigm shift in deep learning from task-centric model design to task-agnostic representation learning and task-specific fine-tuning. Pretrained model representations are commonly evaluated extensively across various real-world tasks and used as a foundation for different downstream tasks. This paper proposes a solution for assessing the quality of representations in a task-agnostic way. To circumvent the need for real-world data in evaluation, we explore the use of synthetic binary classification tasks with Gaussian mixtures to probe pretrained models and compare the robustness-accuracy performance on pretrained representations with an idealized reference. Our approach offers a holistic evaluation, revealing intrinsic model capabilities and reducing the dependency on real-life data for model evaluation. Evaluated with various pretrained image models, the experimental results confirm that our task-agnostic evaluation correlates with actual linear probing performance on downstream tasks and can also guide parameter choice in robust linear probing to achieve a better robustness-accuracy trade-off.
Silicon field emitter arrays (FEAs) -based cold cathodes have shown promise in many applications under harsh environments such as x-ray sources and high-power microwave devices due to the temperature independence of t...
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(纸本)9798350373745
Silicon field emitter arrays (FEAs) -based cold cathodes have shown promise in many applications under harsh environments such as x-ray sources and high-power microwave devices due to the temperature independence of tunneling current and the property of ballistic transport [ 1 – 3 ] . We report an unexpected, yet reproducible Negative Differential Resistance (NDR) region within the device output characteristics of gated FEAs. These results were obtained by utilizing an on-chip flat silicon anode with etched stand-offs to define the anode-to-emitter distances of <100μm. Our analysis using calculations and simulation reveal that the parallel-plate configuration introduces a deceleration of electrons in the channel between the anode and gate when the anode voltage, V AE , is lower than the gate voltage, V GE .
In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems, achieving extended flight autonomy remains a significant challenge, even in hybrid systems utilizing both fuel and battery as energy sources. To extend the flight time, our pa...
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(数字)9798350373974
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(纸本)9798350373981
In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems, achieving extended flight autonomy remains a significant challenge, even in hybrid systems utilizing both fuel and battery as energy sources. To extend the flight time, our paper introduces a novel application of online composite control that achieves fuel savings through disturbance awareness. Our contributions include the derivation of a nonlinear model of the energy-conversion dynamics and its connection with lateral dynamics. We discuss how these nonlinearities are linearized through timescale separation based on the operational rates of drone energy sources. The effectiveness of our composite control method is validated through real-world drone flight data. Numerical results show a reduction in fuel usage of approximately 4.5% through a disturbance-aware policy. This paper not only advances the fundamental understanding of composite control for bilinear time-scale separated systems but also opens new directions for research in trajectory optimization for hybrid powertrain systems.
We present Aptly, an extension of the mit App Inventor platform enabling mobile app development via natural language powered by code-generating large language models (LLMs). Aptly complements App Inventor’s block lan...
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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) rely on graph convolutions to exploit meaningful patterns in networked data. Based on matrix multiplications, convolutions incur in high computational costs leading to scalability limitati...
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The increasing integration of variable renewable energy sources such as wind and solar will require new methods of managing generation uncertainty. Existing practices of uncertainty management for these resources larg...
The increasing integration of variable renewable energy sources such as wind and solar will require new methods of managing generation uncertainty. Existing practices of uncertainty management for these resources largely focuses around modifying the energy offers of such resources in the quantity domain and from a centralized system operator consideration of these uncertainties. This paper proposes an approach to instead consider these uncertainties in the price domain, where more uncertain power is offered at a higher price instead of restricting the quantity offered. We demonstrate system-level impacts on a modified version of the RTS-GMLC system where wind generators create market offers valuing their uncertainties over scenario set of day-ahead production forecasts. The results are compared with a dispatch method in which wind energy is offered at zero marginal price and restricted based on the forecast percentile.
One powerful paradigm in visual navigation is to predict actions from observations directly. Training such an end-to-end system allows representations useful for downstream tasks to emerge automatically. However, the ...
One powerful paradigm in visual navigation is to predict actions from observations directly. Training such an end-to-end system allows representations useful for downstream tasks to emerge automatically. However, the lack of inductive bias makes this system data inefficient. We hypothesize a sufficient representation of the current view and the goal view for a navigation policy can be learned by predicting the location and size of a crop of the current view that corresponds to the goal. We further show that training such random crop prediction in a self-supervised fashion purely on synthetic noise images transfers well to natural home images. The learned representation can then be bootstrapped to learn a navigation policy efficiently with little interaction data. The code is available at https://***/noise2ptz/
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