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Scalar sextet in the 331 model with right-handed neutrinos
A Higgs sextet is introduced in order to generate Dirac and Majorana neutrino
masses in the 331 model with right-handed neutrinos. As will be seen, the
present sextet introduction leads to a rich neutrino mass structure. The
smallness of neutrino masses can be achieved via, for example, a seesaw limit.
The fact that the masses of the charged leptons are not effected by their new
Yukawa couplings to the sextet is convenient for generating small neutrino
masses.Comment: RevTeX4, 5 pages, no figure. To appear in Phys. Rev. D. Misprints
removed (v.2
TUNet: A Block-online Bandwidth Extension Model based on Transformers and Self-supervised Pretraining
We introduce a block-online variant of the temporal feature-wise linear
modulation (TFiLM) model to achieve bandwidth extension. The proposed
architecture simplifies the UNet backbone of the TFiLM to reduce inference time
and employs an efficient transformer at the bottleneck to alleviate performance
degradation. We also utilize self-supervised pretraining and data augmentation
to enhance the quality of bandwidth extended signals and reduce the sensitivity
with respect to downsampling methods. Experiment results on the VCTK dataset
show that the proposed method outperforms several recent baselines in both
intrusive and non-intrusive metrics. Pretraining and filter augmentation also
help stabilize and enhance the overall performance.Comment: Published as a conference paper at ICASSP 2022, 5 pages, 4 figures, 3
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Spatial Analysis of Students Residing in Metro Hartford in HPS-run Magnet Schools, 2011-12 and 2012-13
New immigrants face many cultural, economic, and language barriers upon arriving in the United States. Due to these barriers, they rely heavily on the services provided to them by governmental agencies and community based organizations. However, many of these services are not advertised to the immigrant population and are difficult to navigate. Further, for undocumented immigrants, many essen.al services are simply not available for them. This research project will develop a comprehensive list of services available to immigrants in Connecticut, with a focus on services for undocumented immigrants, based off of the most common questions that immigrants have asked at The American Place at the Hartford Public Library. This form will be produced through research and conversations with service providers in Connecticut, the public school system, and branches of local government. While researching services at several government agencies and other service providers, it has become clear that some officials and administrators are unaware of the protocols and services for the undocumented population. However, the services available, especially involving public schools and community based organizations, have been identified and recorded and will serve to help Hartford’s immigrant population. The production of this Frequently Asked Questions sheet will serve as a lesson for the public as it will make visible the lack of resources for the undocumented immigrant community and show the need for comprehensive immigration reform in order for all people to receive basic human services
Finite-Dimensional Representations of the Quantum Superalgebra U[gl(2/2)]: II. Nontypical representations at generic
The construction approach proposed in the previous paper Ref. 1 allows us
there and in the present paper to construct at generic deformation parameter
all finite--dimensional representations of the quantum Lie superalgebra
. The finite--dimensional -modules
constructed in Ref. 1 are either irreducible or indecomposible. If a module
is indecomposible, i.e. when the condition (4.41) in Ref. 1 does not
hold, there exists an invariant maximal submodule of , to say
, such that the factor-representation in the factor-module
is irreducible and called nontypical. Here, in this paper,
indecomposible representations and nontypical finite--dimensional
representations of the quantum Lie superalgebra are considered
and classified as their module structures are analized and the matrix elements
of all nontypical representations are written down explicitly.Comment: Latex file, 49 page
Conditional Support Alignment for Domain Adaptation with Label Shift
Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) refers to a domain adaptation framework
in which a learning model is trained based on the labeled samples on the source
domain and unlabelled ones in the target domain. The dominant existing methods
in the field that rely on the classical covariate shift assumption to learn
domain-invariant feature representation have yielded suboptimal performance
under the label distribution shift between source and target domains. In this
paper, we propose a novel conditional adversarial support alignment (CASA)
whose aim is to minimize the conditional symmetric support divergence between
the source's and target domain's feature representation distributions, aiming
at a more helpful representation for the classification task. We also introduce
a novel theoretical target risk bound, which justifies the merits of aligning
the supports of conditional feature distributions compared to the existing
marginal support alignment approach in the UDA settings. We then provide a
complete training process for learning in which the objective optimization
functions are precisely based on the proposed target risk bound. Our empirical
results demonstrate that CASA outperforms other state-of-the-art methods on
different UDA benchmark tasks under label shift conditions
Irreducible representations of Upq[gl(2/2)]
The two-parametric quantum superalgebra and its
representations are considered. All finite-dimensional irreducible
representations of this quantum superalgebra can be constructed and classified
into typical and nontypical ones according to a proposition proved in the
present paper. This proposition is a nontrivial deformation from the one for
the classical superalgebra gl(2/2), unlike the case of one-parametric
deformations.Comment: Latex, 8 pages. A reference added in v.
Does hotter temperature increase poverty and inequality? Global evidence from subnational data analysis
Despite a vast literature documenting the harmful effects of climate change on various socioeconomic outcomes, little evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty and inequality. Analysis of a new global panel dataset of subnational poverty in 134 countries finds that a one-degree Celsius increase in temperature leads to a 9.1 percent increase in poverty, using the US$1.90 daily poverty threshold. A similar increase in temperature causes a 1.4 percent increase in the Gini inequality index. The paper also finds negative effects of colder temperature on poverty and inequality. Yet, while poorer countries—particularly those in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa—are more affected by climate change, household adaptation could have mitigated some adverse effects in the long run. The findings provide relevant and timely inputs for the global fight against climate change as well as the current policy debate on the responsibilities of richer countries versus poorer countries
Channel and spatial attention mechanism for fashion image captioning
Image captioning aims to automatically generate one or more description sentences for a given input image. Most of the existing captioning methods use encoder-decoder model which mainly focus on recognizing and capturing the relationship between objects appearing in the input image. However, when generating captions for fashion images, it is important to not only describe the items and their relationships, but also mention attribute features of clothes (shape, texture, style, fabric, and more). In this study, one novel model is proposed for fashion image captioning task which can capture not only the items and their relationship, but also their attribute features. Two different attention mechanisms (spatial-attention and channel-wise attention) is incorporated to the traditional encoder-decoder model, which dynamically interprets the caption sentence in multi-layer feature map in addition to the depth dimension of the feature map. We evaluate our proposed architecture on Fashion-Gen using three different metrics (CIDEr, ROUGE-L, and BLEU-1), and achieve the scores of 89.7, 50.6 and 45.6, respectively. Based on experiments, our proposed method shows significant performance improvement for the task of fashion-image captioning, and outperforms other state-of-the-art image captioning methods
A DECOMPOSITION-BASED HEURISTIC ALGORITHM FOR PARALLEL BATCH PROCESSING PROBLEM WITH TIME WINDOW CONSTRAINT
This study considers a parallel batch processing problem to minimize the makespan under constraints of arbitrary lot sizes, start time window and incompatible families. We first formulate the problem with a mixed-integer programming model. Due to the NP-hardness of the problem, we develop a decomposition-based heuristic to obtain a near-optimal solution for large-scale problems when computational time is a concern. A two-dimensional saving function is introduced to quantify the value of time and capacity space wasted. Computational experiments show that the proposed heuristic performs well and can deal with large-scale problems efficiently within a reasonable computational time. For the small-size problems, the percentage of achieving optimal solutions by the DH is 94.17%, which indicates that the proposed heuristic is very good in solving small-size problems. For large-scale problems, our proposed heuristic outperforms an existing heuristic from the literature in terms of solution quality
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