330 research outputs found
Agricultural producer support estimates for developing countries: Measurement issues and evidence from India, Indonesia, China, and Vietnam
"This study analyzes the evolution of agricultural policies from 1985 to 2002 in India, Indonesia, China, and Vietnam and provides empirical estimates of the degree of protection or disprotection to agriculture in these four countries, both by key commodities and in aggregate... Taken together the reported measures of support and disprotection of specific crops and agriculture in total provide a reasonable basis for assessing the stance of agricultural policies of India, Indonesia, China, and Vietnam. Attention to measurement issues provides a sensitivity analysis. The results reported are indicative of the range of outcomes likely to be found more broadly among developing countries. From regimes of heavy intervention in agricultural markets, each of the four countries in the study has undergone a substantial reform process." from textAgricultural support, Agricultural policies, Reform, Pro-poor policies,
Infrared Divergence and Twist-3 Distribution Amplitudes in QCD Factorization For
Since b quark mass is not asymptotically large, chirally enhanced corrections
which arise from twist-3 wave functions may be important in B decays. We thus
evaluate the hadronic matrix elements with the final light pseudoscalar mesons
described by leading twist and twist-3 distribution amplitudes. We find that
chirally enhanced corrections can be included consistently in the framework of
QCD factorization only if the twist-3 distribution amplitudes are symmetric. We
then give explicit expressions of for at the
next-to-leading order of including chirally enhanced corrections. We
also briefly discuss the divergence appeared in the hard spectator
contributions.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, A revised version to appear in Phys. Lett.
DyExplainer: Explainable Dynamic Graph Neural Networks
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) resurge as a trending research subject owing to
their impressive ability to capture representations from graph-structured data.
However, the black-box nature of GNNs presents a significant challenge in terms
of comprehending and trusting these models, thereby limiting their practical
applications in mission-critical scenarios. Although there has been substantial
progress in the field of explaining GNNs in recent years, the majority of these
studies are centered on static graphs, leaving the explanation of dynamic GNNs
largely unexplored. Dynamic GNNs, with their ever-evolving graph structures,
pose a unique challenge and require additional efforts to effectively capture
temporal dependencies and structural relationships. To address this challenge,
we present DyExplainer, a novel approach to explaining dynamic GNNs on the fly.
DyExplainer trains a dynamic GNN backbone to extract representations of the
graph at each snapshot, while simultaneously exploring structural relationships
and temporal dependencies through a sparse attention technique. To preserve the
desired properties of the explanation, such as structural consistency and
temporal continuity, we augment our approach with contrastive learning
techniques to provide priori-guided regularization. To model longer-term
temporal dependencies, we develop a buffer-based live-updating scheme for
training. The results of our extensive experiments on various datasets
demonstrate the superiority of DyExplainer, not only providing faithful
explainability of the model predictions but also significantly improving the
model prediction accuracy, as evidenced in the link prediction task.Comment: 9 page
Label Propagation for Graph Label Noise
Label noise is a common challenge in large datasets, as it can significantly
degrade the generalization ability of deep neural networks. Most existing
studies focus on noisy labels in computer vision; however, graph models
encompass both node features and graph topology as input, and become more
susceptible to label noise through message-passing mechanisms. Recently, only a
few works have been proposed to tackle the label noise on graphs. One major
limitation is that they assume the graph is homophilous and the labels are
smoothly distributed. Nevertheless, real-world graphs may contain varying
degrees of heterophily or even be heterophily-dominated, leading to the
inadequacy of current methods. In this paper, we study graph label noise in the
context of arbitrary heterophily, with the aim of rectifying noisy labels and
assigning labels to previously unlabeled nodes. We begin by conducting two
empirical analyses to explore the impact of graph homophily on graph label
noise. Following observations, we propose a simple yet efficient algorithm,
denoted as LP4GLN. Specifically, LP4GLN is an iterative algorithm with three
steps: (1) reconstruct the graph to recover the homophily property, (2) utilize
label propagation to rectify the noisy labels, (3) select high-confidence
labels to retain for the next iteration. By iterating these steps, we obtain a
set of correct labels, ultimately achieving high accuracy in the node
classification task. The theoretical analysis is also provided to demonstrate
its remarkable denoising "effect". Finally, we conduct experiments on 10
benchmark datasets under varying graph heterophily levels and noise types,
comparing the performance of LP4GLN with 7 typical baselines. Our results
illustrate the superior performance of the proposed LP4GLN
W-exchange and W-annihilation processes of B mesons
Using the PQCD method we calculate the W-exchange and the W-annihilation
processes of B mesons, which in general involve a charm quark or anti-quark in
the final state. The nonvanishing amplitudes of these processes are found to be
suppressed by a factor of compared to the tree or the time-like
penguin processes, but some of them are within the reach of observation at the
future B-factories, and whose branching ratio is
found to be can be found even before the B-factory era.
Comparisons with the results based on the BSW model are also given.Comment: 11 Pages including figures, accepted in Phys. Lett.
Invisible Backdoor Attack with Dynamic Triggers against Person Re-identification
In recent years, person Re-identification (ReID) has rapidly progressed with
wide real-world applications, but also poses significant risks of adversarial
attacks. In this paper, we focus on the backdoor attack on deep ReID models.
Existing backdoor attack methods follow an all-to-one/all attack scenario,
where all the target classes in the test set have already been seen in the
training set. However, ReID is a much more complex fine-grained open-set
recognition problem, where the identities in the test set are not contained in
the training set. Thus, previous backdoor attack methods for classification are
not applicable for ReID. To ameliorate this issue, we propose a novel backdoor
attack on deep ReID under a new all-to-unknown scenario, called Dynamic
Triggers Invisible Backdoor Attack (DT-IBA). Instead of learning fixed triggers
for the target classes from the training set, DT-IBA can dynamically generate
new triggers for any unknown identities. Specifically, an identity hashing
network is proposed to first extract target identity information from a
reference image, which is then injected into the benign images by image
steganography. We extensively validate the effectiveness and stealthiness of
the proposed attack on benchmark datasets, and evaluate the effectiveness of
several defense methods against our attack
Learning from Easy to Complex: Adaptive Multi-curricula Learning for Neural Dialogue Generation
Current state-of-the-art neural dialogue systems are mainly data-driven and
are trained on human-generated responses. However, due to the subjectivity and
open-ended nature of human conversations, the complexity of training dialogues
varies greatly. The noise and uneven complexity of query-response pairs impede
the learning efficiency and effects of the neural dialogue generation models.
What is more, so far, there are no unified dialogue complexity measurements,
and the dialogue complexity embodies multiple aspects of
attributes---specificity, repetitiveness, relevance, etc. Inspired by human
behaviors of learning to converse, where children learn from easy dialogues to
complex ones and dynamically adjust their learning progress, in this paper, we
first analyze five dialogue attributes to measure the dialogue complexity in
multiple perspectives on three publicly available corpora. Then, we propose an
adaptive multi-curricula learning framework to schedule a committee of the
organized curricula. The framework is established upon the reinforcement
learning paradigm, which automatically chooses different curricula at the
evolving learning process according to the learning status of the neural
dialogue generation model. Extensive experiments conducted on five
state-of-the-art models demonstrate its learning efficiency and effectiveness
with respect to 13 automatic evaluation metrics and human judgments.Comment: Accepted to AAAI 202
A Novel Equivalent Continuous Metering Control With a Uniform Switching Strategy for Digital Valve System
Pulse number modulation (PNM) combined with pulse width modulation (PWM) control is an effective solution to improve the resolution of digital valve systems. However, the numerous discrete variables that use parallel on / off valves cause difficult control coordination and uneven switching. To address this issue, this article defines the equivalent spool displacement of the digital flow control unit by the number of PNM-controlled valves and the duty cycle of PWM-controlled valves to replace multiple discrete variables and develops the equivalent continuous metering control method. Furthermore, a uniform switching control strategy is proposed for the PWM-controlled valve using a uniformly distributed permutation for each on / off valve. The proposed control methods are verified by simulation on the built mathematical model of the equal-coded digital valve system. Experimental results for the displacement control of a hydraulic cylinder at 1Â rad/s show that the average error of the equivalent continuous metering control is about 0.236Â mm and the dispersion index reaches 20%, while the uniform switching control strategy achieves 80% with an average error of 0.215Â mm. Simulated and experimental results demonstrate that the equivalent continuous metering control with a uniform switching strategy can almost evenly distribute switching numbers without compromising the accuracy of the displacement control.Peer reviewe
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