B-mode ultrasound tongue imaging is a non-invasive and real-time method for visualizing vocal tract deformation. However, accurately extracting the tongue’s surface contour remains a significant challenge due to the ...
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B-mode ultrasound tongue imaging is a non-invasive and real-time method for visualizing vocal tract deformation. However, accurately extracting the tongue’s surface contour remains a significant challenge due to the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and prevalent speckle noise in ultrasound images. Traditional supervised learning models often require large labeled datasets, which are labor-intensive to produce and susceptible to noise interference. To address these limitations, we present a novel Counterfactual Ultrasound Anti-Interference Self-Supervised Network (CUAI-SSN), which integrates self-supervised learning (SSL) with counterfactual data augmentation, progressively disentangles confounding factors, ensuring that the model generalizes well across varied ultrasound conditions. Our approach leverages causal reasoning to decouple noise from relevant features, enabling the model to learn robust representations that focus on essential tongue structures. By generating counterfactual image-label pairs, our method introduces alternative, noise-independent scenarios that enhance model training. Furthermore, we introduce attention mechanisms to enhance the network’s ability to capture fine-grained details even in noisy conditions. Extensive experiments on real ultrasound tongue images demonstrate that CUAI-SSN outperforms existing methods, setting a new benchmark for automated contour extraction in ultrasound tongue imaging. Our code is publicly available at https://***/inexhaustible419/CounterfactualultrasoundAI.
Next-Token Prediction (NTP) is a de facto approach for autoregressive (AR) video generation, but it suffers from suboptimal unidirectional dependencies and slow inference speed. In this work, we propose a semi-autoreg...
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To reduce the access latencies of end hosts,latency-sensitive applications need to choose suitably close service machines to answer the access requests from end *** K nearest neighbor search locates K service machines...
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To reduce the access latencies of end hosts,latency-sensitive applications need to choose suitably close service machines to answer the access requests from end *** K nearest neighbor search locates K service machines closest to end hosts,which can efficiently optimize the access latencies for end *** work has weakness in terms of the accuracy and *** to the scalable and accurate K nearest neighbor search problem,we propose a distributed K nearest neighbor search method called DKNNS in this *** machines are organized into a locality-aware multilevel *** first locates a service machine that starts the search process based on a farthest neighbor search scheme,then discovers K nearest service machines based on a backtracking approach within the proximity region containing the target in the latency *** analysis,simulation results and deployment experiments on the PlanetLab show that,DKNNS can determine K approximately optimal service machines,with modest completion time and query ***,DKNNS is also quite stable that can be used for reducing frequent searches by caching found nearest neighbors.
Internet-based virtual computing environment (iVCE) has been proposed to combine data centers and other kinds of computing resources on the Internet to provide efficient and economical services. Virtual machines (...
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Internet-based virtual computing environment (iVCE) has been proposed to combine data centers and other kinds of computing resources on the Internet to provide efficient and economical services. Virtual machines (VMs) have been widely used in iVCE to isolate different users/jobs and ensure trustworthiness, but traditionally VMs require a long period of time for booting, which cannot meet the requirement of iVCE's large-scale and highly dynamic applications. To address this problem, in this paper we design and implement VirtMan, a fast booting system for a large number of virtual machines in iVCE. VirtMan uses the Linux Small computer System Interface (SCSI) target to remotely mount to the source image in a scalable hierarchy, and leverages the homogeneity of a set of VMs to transfer only necessary image data at runtime. We have implemented VirtMan both as a standalone system and for OpenStack. In our 100-server testbed, VirtMan boots up 1000 VMs (with a 15 CB image of Windows Server 2008) on 100 physical servers in less than 120 s, which is three orders of magnitude lower than current public clouds.
The widening gap between processor and memory speeds makes cache an important issue in the computer system design. Compared with work set of programs, cache resource is often rare. Therefore, it is very important for ...
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The widening gap between processor and memory speeds makes cache an important issue in the computer system design. Compared with work set of programs, cache resource is often rare. Therefore, it is very important for a computer system to use cache efficiently. Toward a dynamically reconfigurable cache proposed recently, DOOC (Data- Object Oriented Cache), this paper proposes a quantitative framework for analyzing the cache requirement of data-objects, which includes cache capacity, block size, associativity and coherence protocol. And a kind of graph coloring algorithm dealing with the competition between data-objects in the DOOC is proposed as well. Finally, we apply our approaches to the compiler management of DOOC. We test our approaches on both a single-core platform and a four-core platform. Compared with the traditional caches, the DOOC in both platforms achieves an average reduction of 44.98% and 49.69% in miss rate respectively. And its performance is very close to the ideal optimal cache.
In data center networks, resource allocation based on workload is an effective way to allocate the infrastructure resources to diverse cloud applications and satisfy the quality of service for the users, which refers ...
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In data center networks, resource allocation based on workload is an effective way to allocate the infrastructure resources to diverse cloud applications and satisfy the quality of service for the users, which refers to mapping a large number of workloads provided by cloud users/tenants to substrate network provided by cloud providers. Although the existing heuristic approaches are able to find a feasible solution, the quality of the solution is not guaranteed. Concerning this issue, based on the minimum mapping cost, this paper solves the resource allocation problem by modeling it as a distributed constraint optimization problem. Then an efficient approach is proposed to solve the resource allocation problem, aiming to find a feasible solution and ensuring the optimality of the solution. Finally, theoretical analysis and extensive experiments have demonstrated the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed approach.
The publish/subscribe(pub/sub)paradigm is a popular communication model for data dissemination in large-scale distributed ***,scalability comes with a contradiction between the delivery latency and the memory *** one ...
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The publish/subscribe(pub/sub)paradigm is a popular communication model for data dissemination in large-scale distributed ***,scalability comes with a contradiction between the delivery latency and the memory *** one hand,constructing a separate overly per topic guarantees real-time dissemination,while the number of node degrees rapidly increases with the number of *** the other hand,maintaining a bounded number of connections per node guarantees small memory cost,while each message has to traverse a large number of uninterested nodes before reaching the *** this paper,we propose Feverfew,a coverage-based hybrid overlay that disseminates messages to all subscribers without uninterested nodes involved in,and increases the average number of node connections slowly with an increase in the number of subscribers and *** major novelty of Feverfew lies in its heuristic coverage mechanism implemented by combining a gossip-based sampling protocol with a probabilistic searching *** on the practical workload,our experimental results show that Feverfew significantly outperforms existing coverage-based overlay and DHT-based overlay in various dynamic network environments.
distributed software systems are becoming more and more complex *** is easy to find a huge amount of computing nodes in a nationwide or global information *** example,We Chat(Wei Xin),a well-known mobile application i...
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distributed software systems are becoming more and more complex *** is easy to find a huge amount of computing nodes in a nationwide or global information *** example,We Chat(Wei Xin),a well-known mobile application in China,has reached a record of 650 million monthly active users in the third quarter of *** the same time,researchers are starting to talk about software systems which have billions of lines of codes[1]or can last one hundred years.
Virtual Machine(VM) allocation for multiple tenants is an important and challenging problem to provide efficient infrastructure services in cloud data centers. Tenants run applications on their allocated VMs, and th...
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Virtual Machine(VM) allocation for multiple tenants is an important and challenging problem to provide efficient infrastructure services in cloud data centers. Tenants run applications on their allocated VMs, and the network distance between a tenant's VMs may considerably impact the tenant's Quality of Service(Qo S). In this study, we define and formulate the multi-tenant VM allocation problem in cloud data centers, considering the VM requirements of different tenants, and introducing the allocation goal of minimizing the sum of the VMs' network diameters of all tenants. Then, we propose a Layered Progressive resource allocation algorithm for multi-tenant cloud data centers based on the Multiple Knapsack Problem(LP-MKP). The LP-MKP algorithm uses a multi-stage layered progressive method for multi-tenant VM allocation and efficiently handles unprocessed tenants at each stage. This reduces resource fragmentation in cloud data centers, decreases the differences in the Qo S among tenants, and improves tenants' overall Qo S in cloud data centers. We perform experiments to evaluate the LP-MKP algorithm and demonstrate that it can provide significant gains over other allocation algorithms.
The availability of computers and communication networks allows us to gather and analyse data on a far larger scale than previously. At present, it is believed that statistics is a suitable method to analyse networks ...
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The availability of computers and communication networks allows us to gather and analyse data on a far larger scale than previously. At present, it is believed that statistics is a suitable method to analyse networks with millions, or more, of vertices. The MATLAB language, with its mass of statistical functions, is a good choice to rapidly realize an algorithm prototype of complex networks. The performance of the MATLAB codes can be further improved by using graphic processor units (GPU). This paper presents the strategies and performance of the GPU implementation of a complex networks package, and the Jacket toolbox of MATLAB is used. Compared with some commercially available CPU implementations, GPU can achieve a speedup of, on average, 11.3x. The experimental result proves that the GPU platform combined with the MATLAB language is a good combination for complex network research.
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