238 research outputs found
Experimental investigation on permeability and mechanical deformation of coal containing gas under load
Coalbed effective permeability is widely used as a primary index to evaluate gas-drainage effect in CBM exploitation field. However, it seems to be difficult to obtain by the reason of dynamic change in close relationship with crustal stress, methane pressure, porosity, and adsorption. Due to their dissimilar adsorption properties and tectonic deformation degrees, different types of coal containing gas have various stress-strain and gas seepage curves. The paper presents the experimental investigations of the dynamic relationship between coal permeability and deformation under load. In this work, stress-strain and permeability investigations were performed using anthracite lump with a vitrinite reflectance of about 3.24% at various pressures and temperatures. The permeability (including the initial, minimum, and maximum) decreased with increasing temperature. At a constant confining pressure, the strains in different directions almost all increased with increasing axial stress and decreased with increasing pore methane pressure during the prefracture stage. At a constant pore pressure, the compression strength of the coal specimens increased approximately linearly during the prefracture stage and sharply decreased during the postfracture stage, while the permeability decreased rapidly and then increased slowly during the prefracture and remained stable during the postfracture stage. The permeability of the coal specimens mainly depended on the inner fissures. The permeability was greater during the postfracture than that during the prefracture stage. At the same temperature, the gas seepage curve of each coal specimen could be divided into three sections: decreasing, increasing, and constant sections. The necessary time for the permeability to reach a steady state increased as the confining and pore pressures increased. At high confining pressures (i.e., 6 MPa and 8 MPa), no significant differences between the methane seepage velocities of the specimens were evident, and their seepage curves were similar to prefracture. However, clear differences were observable at the postfracture stage. The seepage abilities of the coal specimens were more sensitive to stress than temperature in the same condition
Model-Agnostic Multi-Agent Perception Framework
Existing multi-agent perception systems assume that every agent utilizes the
same model with identical parameters and architecture. The performance can be
degraded with different perception models due to the mismatch in their
confidence scores. In this work, we propose a model-agnostic multi-agent
perception framework to reduce the negative effect caused by the model
discrepancies without sharing the model information. Specifically, we propose a
confidence calibrator that can eliminate the prediction confidence score bias.
Each agent performs such calibration independently on a standard public
database to protect intellectual property. We also propose a corresponding
bounding box aggregation algorithm that considers the confidence scores and the
spatial agreement of neighboring boxes. Our experiments shed light on the
necessity of model calibration across different agents, and the results show
that the proposed framework improves the baseline 3D object detection
performance of heterogeneous agents
Collective flow and the fluid behavior in p/d/He+Au collisions at GeV
By varying the intrinsic initial geometry, the p/d/He+Au collisions at
the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) provide a unique opportunity to
understand the collective behavior in the small systems. In this paper, we
employ the hybrid model iEBE-VISHNU with TRENTO initial conditions to study the
collective flow and the fluid behavior in p/d/He+Au collisions. With
fine-tuned parameters, iEBE-VISHNU can describe the and
data from the PHENIX and STAR collaborations. However, for these parameter sets
tuned to fit the STAR data, the hydrodynamic simulations have already beyond
their limits with the average Knudsen number obviously
larger than one. Our calculations demonstrate that, for a meaningful evaluation
of the fluid behavior in the small systems, model simulations should also pay
attention to the validity range of hydrodynamics
Image-Adaptive YOLO for Object Detection in Adverse Weather Conditions
Though deep learning-based object detection methods have achieved promising
results on the conventional datasets, it is still challenging to locate objects
from the low-quality images captured in adverse weather conditions. The
existing methods either have difficulties in balancing the tasks of image
enhancement and object detection, or often ignore the latent information
beneficial for detection. To alleviate this problem, we propose a novel
Image-Adaptive YOLO (IA-YOLO) framework, where each image can be adaptively
enhanced for better detection performance. Specifically, a differentiable image
processing (DIP) module is presented to take into account the adverse weather
conditions for YOLO detector, whose parameters are predicted by a small
convolutional neural net-work (CNN-PP). We learn CNN-PP and YOLOv3 jointly in
an end-to-end fashion, which ensures that CNN-PP can learn an appropriate DIP
to enhance the image for detection in a weakly supervised manner. Our proposed
IA-YOLO approach can adaptively process images in both normal and adverse
weather conditions. The experimental results are very encouraging,
demonstrating the effectiveness of our proposed IA-YOLO method in both foggy
and low-light scenarios.Comment: AAAI 2022, Preprint version with Appendi
Personalized Adaptive Meta Learning for Cold-start User Preference Prediction
A common challenge in personalized user preference prediction is the
cold-start problem. Due to the lack of user-item interactions, directly
learning from the new users' log data causes serious over-fitting problem.
Recently, many existing studies regard the cold-start personalized preference
prediction as a few-shot learning problem, where each user is the task and
recommended items are the classes, and the gradient-based meta learning method
(MAML) is leveraged to address this challenge. However, in real-world
application, the users are not uniformly distributed (i.e., different users may
have different browsing history, recommended items, and user profiles. We
define the major users as the users in the groups with large numbers of users
sharing similar user information, and other users are the minor users),
existing MAML approaches tend to fit the major users and ignore the minor
users. To address this cold-start task-overfitting problem, we propose a novel
personalized adaptive meta learning approach to consider both the major and the
minor users with three key contributions: 1) We are the first to present a
personalized adaptive learning rate meta-learning approach to improve the
performance of MAML by focusing on both the major and minor users. 2) To
provide better personalized learning rates for each user, we introduce a
similarity-based method to find similar users as a reference and a tree-based
method to store users' features for fast search. 3) To reduce the memory usage,
we design a memory agnostic regularizer to further reduce the space complexity
to constant while maintain the performance. Experiments on MovieLens,
BookCrossing, and real-world production datasets reveal that our method
outperforms the state-of-the-art methods dramatically for both the minor and
major users.Comment: Preprint Versio
Analyzing Infrastructure LiDAR Placement with Realistic LiDAR Simulation Library
Recently, Vehicle-to-Everything(V2X) cooperative perception has attracted
increasing attention. Infrastructure sensors play a critical role in this
research field; however, how to find the optimal placement of infrastructure
sensors is rarely studied. In this paper, we investigate the problem of
infrastructure sensor placement and propose a pipeline that can efficiently and
effectively find optimal installation positions for infrastructure sensors in a
realistic simulated environment. To better simulate and evaluate LiDAR
placement, we establish a Realistic LiDAR Simulation library that can simulate
the unique characteristics of different popular LiDARs and produce
high-fidelity LiDAR point clouds in the CARLA simulator. Through simulating
point cloud data in different LiDAR placements, we can evaluate the perception
accuracy of these placements using multiple detection models. Then, we analyze
the correlation between the point cloud distribution and perception accuracy by
calculating the density and uniformity of regions of interest. Experiments show
that when using the same number and type of LiDAR, the placement scheme
optimized by our proposed method improves the average precision by 15%,
compared with the conventional placement scheme in the standard lane scene. We
also analyze the correlation between perception performance in the region of
interest and LiDAR point cloud distribution and validate that density and
uniformity can be indicators of performance. Both the RLS Library and related
code will be released at
https://github.com/PJLab-ADG/LiDARSimLib-and-Placement-Evaluation.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted to the IEEE International Conference on
Robotics and Automation (ICRA'23
A novel scoring schema for peptide identification by searching protein sequence databases using tandem mass spectrometry data
BACKGROUND: Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is a powerful tool for protein identification. Although great efforts have been made in scoring the correlation between tandem mass spectra and an amino acid sequence database, improvements could be made in three aspects, including characterization ofpeaks in spectra, adoption of effective scoring functions and access to thereliability of matching between peptides and spectra. RESULTS: A novel scoring function is presented, along with criteria to estimate the performance confidence of the function. Through learning the typesof product ions and the probability of generating them, a hypothetic spectrum was generated for each candidate peptide. Then relative entropy was introduced to measure the similarity between the hypothetic and the observed spectra. Based on the extreme value distribution (EVD) theory, a threshold was chosen to distinguish a true peptide assignment from a random one. Tests on a public MS/MS dataset demonstrated that this method performs better than the well-known SEQUEST. CONCLUSION: A reliable identification of proteins from the spectra promises a more efficient application of tandem mass spectrometry to proteomes with high complexity
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