179 research outputs found
Stock market prediction using weighted inter-transaction class association rule mining and evolutionary algorithm
Evolutionary computation and data mining are two fascinating
fields that have attracted many researchers. This paper proposes
a new rule mining method, named genetic network programming
(GNP), to solve the prediction problem using the evolutionary
algorithm. Compared with the conventional association rule methods
that do not consider the weight factor, the proposed algorithm
provides many advantages in financial prediction, since it
can discover relationships among the attributes of different transactions.
Experimental results on data from the New York
Exchange Market show that the new method outperforms other
conventional models in terms of both accuracy and profitability,
and the proposed method can establish more important and
accurate rules than the conventional methods. The results confirmed
the effectiveness of the proposed data mining method in
financial prediction
Emergent charge density wave featuring quasi-one-dimensional chains in Ta-intercalated bilayer 2-TaS with coexisting superconductivity
Recently, intercalation emerges as an effective way to manipulate
ground-state properties and enrich quantum phase diagrams of layered transition
metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). In this work, we focus on fully Ta-intercalated
bilayer 2-TaS with a stoichiometry of TaS, which has
recently been experimentally synthesized. Based on first-principles
calculations, we computationally show the suppression of an intrinsic
charge-density wave (CDW) in the TaS layer, and the emergence
of a CDW in intercalated Ta layer. The formation of the CDW in
TaS is triggered by strong electron-phonon coupling (EPC) between
the -like orbitals of intercalated Ta atoms via the imaginary phonon modes
at M point. A 21 CDW structure is identified, featuring
quasi-one-dimensional Ta chains, attributable to the competition between the
CDW displacements associated with potential CDW vectors
(s). Superconductivity is found to coexist with
the 21 CDW in TaS, with an estimated superconducting
transition temperature () of 3.0 K, slightly higher than that
of bilayer TaS. The TaS structures of non-CDW, 21
CDW, and 2 CDW can be switched by strain. Our work enriches the phase
diagram of TaS, offers a candidate material for studying the interplay
between CDW and superconductivity, and highlights intercalation as an effective
way to tune the physical properties of layered materials.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures. Published as a Letter in PR
Text-Only Image Captioning with Multi-Context Data Generation
Text-only Image Captioning (TIC) is an approach that aims to construct a
model solely based on text that can accurately describe images. Recently,
diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating
high-quality images that are semantically coherent with given texts. This
presents an opportunity to generate synthetic training images for TIC. However,
we have identified a challenge that the images generated from simple
descriptions typically exhibit a single perspective with one or limited
contexts, which is not aligned with the complexity of real-world scenes in the
image domain. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that addresses this
issue by introducing multi-context data generation. Starting with an initial
text corpus, our framework employs a large language model to select multiple
sentences that describe the same scene from various perspectives. These
sentences are then summarized into a single sentence with multiple contexts. We
generate simple images using the straightforward sentences and complex images
using the summarized sentences through diffusion models. Finally, we train the
model exclusively using the synthetic image-text pairs obtained from this
process. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed framework
effectively tackles the central challenge we have identified, achieving the
state-of-the-art performance on popular datasets such as MSCOCO, Flickr30k, and
SS1M
H2RBox-v2: Boosting HBox-supervised Oriented Object Detection via Symmetric Learning
With the increasing demand for oriented object detection e.g. in autonomous
driving and remote sensing, the oriented annotation has become a
labor-intensive work. To make full use of existing horizontally annotated
datasets and reduce the annotation cost, a weakly-supervised detector H2RBox
for learning the rotated box (RBox) from the horizontal box (HBox) has been
proposed and received great attention. This paper presents a new version,
H2RBox-v2, to further bridge the gap between HBox-supervised and
RBox-supervised oriented object detection. While exploiting axisymmetry via
flipping and rotating consistencies is available through our theoretical
analysis, H2RBox-v2, using a weakly-supervised branch similar to H2RBox, is
embedded with a novel self-supervised branch that learns orientations from the
symmetry inherent in the image of objects. Complemented by modules to cope with
peripheral issues, e.g. angular periodicity, a stable and effective solution is
achieved. To our knowledge, H2RBox-v2 is the first symmetry-supervised paradigm
for oriented object detection. Compared to H2RBox, our method is less
susceptible to low annotation quality and insufficient training data, which in
such cases is expected to give a competitive performance much closer to
fully-supervised oriented object detectors. Specifically, the performance
comparison between H2RBox-v2 and Rotated FCOS on DOTA-v1.0/1.5/2.0 is
72.31%/64.76%/50.33% vs. 72.44%/64.53%/51.77%, 89.66% vs. 88.99% on HRSC, and
42.27% vs. 41.25% on FAIR1M.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, 7 tables, the source code is available at
https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmrotat
The fast light of CsI(Na) crystals
The responds of different common alkali halide crystals to alpha-rays and
gamma-rays are tested in our research. It is found that only CsI(Na) crystals
have significantly different waveforms between alpha and gamma scintillations,
while others have not this phenomena. It is suggested that the fast light of
CsI(Na) crystals arises from the recombination of free electrons with
self-trapped holes of the host crystal CsI. Self-absorption limits the emission
of fast light of CsI(Tl) and NaI(Tl) crystals.Comment: 5 pages, 11 figures Submit to Chinese Physics
Ising Superconductivity and Quantum Phase Transition in Macro-Size Monolayer NbSe2
Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have a range of
unique physics properties and could be used in the development of electronics,
photonics, spintronics and quantum computing devices. The mechanical
exfoliation technique of micro-size TMD flakes has attracted particular
interest due to its simplicity and cost effectiveness. However, for most
applications, large area and high quality films are preferred. Furthermore,
when the thickness of crystalline films is down to the 2D limit (monolayer),
exotic properties can be expected due to the quantum confinement and symmetry
breaking. In this paper, we have successfully prepared macro-size atomically
flat monolayer NbSe2 films on bilayer graphene terminated surface of
6H-SiC(0001) substrates by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) method. The films
exhibit an onset superconducting critical transition temperature above 6 K, 2
times higher than that of mechanical exfoliated NbSe2 flakes. Simultaneously,
the transport measurements at high magnetic fields reveal that the parallel
characteristic field Bc// is at least 4.5 times higher than the paramagnetic
limiting field, consistent with Zeeman-protected Ising superconductivity
mechanism. Besides, by ultralow temperature electrical transport measurements,
the monolayer NbSe2 film shows the signature of quantum Griffiths singularity
when approaching the zero-temperature quantum critical point
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