A method of storing vector data in compressed form using clustering

The development of the machine learning algorithms for information search in recent years made it possible to represent text and multimodal documents in the form of vectors. These vector representations (embeddings) preserve the semantic content of documents and allow the search to be performed as the calculation of distance between vectors. Compressing embeddings can reduce the amount of memory they occupy and improve computational efficiency. The article discusses existing methods for compressing vector representations without loss of accuracy and with loss of accuracy. A method is proposed to reduce error by clustering vector representations using lossy compression. The essence of the method is in performing the preliminary clustering of vector representations, saving the centers of each cluster, and saving the coordinate value of each vector representation relative to the center of its cluster. Then, the centers of each cluster are compressed without loss of accuracy, and the resulting shifted vector representations are compressed with loss of accuracy. To restore the original vector representations, the coordinates of the center of the corresponding cluster are added to the coordinates of the displaced representation. The proposed method was tested on the fashion-mnist-784- euclidean and NYT-256-angular datasets. A comparison has been made of compressed vector representations with loss of accuracy by reducing the bit depth with vector representations compressed using the proposed method. With a slight (around 10 %) increase in the size of the compressed data, the absolute value of the error from loss of accuracy decreased by four and two times, respectively, for the tested sets. The developed method can be applied in tasks where it is necessary to store and process vector representations of multimodal documents, for example, in the development of search engines

Исследование физических явлений в барботажной зоне плавильного агрегата «Победа» методом холодного моделирования Сообщение 3. Гидрогазодинамика комбинированной продувки жидкости газом с помощью донной и боковой фурм

Hydro-gas regularities of liquid combined blowing by gas were studied using cold modeling method at Archimedes criterion for lateral Arl = 12÷120 and bottom blowing Arb = 5÷60 simulating Pobeda bubbling unit. The blowing was performed simultaneously by bottom lance vertically fixed in centre of reactor and by the lateral lance which was attached at an angle 5° to the horizontal axis. The quantitative estimation of instantaneous and average circulation velocities (Vav) of liquid flow elements in different bath areas, depending on the location of blowing zone and Archimedes criterion, was performed. The liquid motion trajectory was determined. A vortex zone was revealed near the liquid surface and the reactor shell, where instantaneous velocity of the liquid flow elements changes from 69.9 to 181.1 mm/s and Vav = 123.8 mm/s. The circulation flows fade in the bulk of liquid and Vav decreases from 123.8 to 47.0 and 54.1 mm/s. It was shown that, in general, circulation velocity depends on the blowing intensity and appears to be higher for the zone of overlapping of lateral and bottom streams. The dynamic blowing conditions, which ensure the direct contact of lateral and bottom jets leading to their interflow and increased spatter formation, were identified. The characteristics of 3 types of surface oscillations for interface phases “pure liquid- gas-liquid layer”, as well as the estimation of the lateral and bottom blowing impact on the type of oscillation were provided. It has been noted that the introduction of the bottom blowing (Arb = 5) causes the wave-like motion of liquid (the 2nd type) along with the transverse oscillations of the 1st type, and at higher values of Arb = 25 the angular oscillations of the 3rd type develop. It has been shown that the presence of a lateral jet at the combined blowing decreases angles of bath swinging to 8–12° to horizontal axis. For the estimation of oscillation intensity, Δhl = (hl )max – (hl )min value, which means the difference between maximum (hl )max and minimum (hl )min height of liquid for the full-wave oscillations (τ), was introduced. The height of liquid (hl ) was plotted as a function of τ, Arl , Arb, Δhl was determined on the basis of obtained graph values, which varied upon modeling over the range of 7.7–69.5 mm. The relation between the liquid circulation velocity and the oscillation value (Δhl ) was established for different bath zones and dynamic conditions of the blowing. The impact of all oscillations types on potential erosive lining wear of Pobeda bubbling unit and the completeness of adoption of charging material nearby the bath surface was investigated.Методом холодного моделирования в интервалах величин критерия Архимеда для бокового (Arб = 12÷120) и донного (Arд = 5÷60) дутья применительно к условиям работы барботажного плавильного агрегата «Победа» (ПАП) исследованы гидрогазодинамические закономерности комбинированной продувки жидкости газом. Продувку осуществляли одновременно донной фурмой, установленной вертикально по центру реактора, и боковой, расположенной под углом 5° к горизонтальной оси. Проведена количественная оценка мгновенной и средней (Vср) скоростей циркуляции элементов потока жидкости на разных участках ванны в зависимости от местонахождения зоны продувки и критериев Архимеда. Определена траектория движения жидкости. Вблизи поверхности жидкости и корпуса реактора обнаружена вихревая зона, где мгновенная скорость движения элемента потока жидкости изменяется от 69,9 до 183,1 мм/с и Vср = 123,8 мм/с. В объеме жидкости циркуляционные потоки затухают, и Vср уменьшается от 123,8 до 47,0 и 54,1 мм/с. Показано, что в общем случае скорость циркуляции зависит от интенсивности продувки на фурмах и становится выше для области наложения боковой и донной струй. Определены динамические условия продувки, обеспечивающие непосредственный контакт бокового и донного факелов, приводящий к слиянию потоков и повышенному брызгообразованию. Приведена характеристика 3 видов колебаний поверхности раздела фаз «чистая жидкость – газожидкостный слой» и дана оценка влияния бокового и донного дутья на разновидность возникающих колебаний. Отмечено, что ввод донного дутья (Arд = 5) приводит, наряду с поперечными колебаниями 1-го типа, к появлению волнообразного движения жидкости (2-й тип), а при более высоких значениях Arд = 25 – к угловым колебаниям (3-й тип). Показано, что при комбинированной продувке наличие бокового факела уменьшает углы раскачивания ванны к горизонту до 8–12°. Для оценки интенсивности колебаний введена величина Δhж = (hж)max – (hж)min, т.е. разность между максимальной (hж)max и минимальной (hж)min высотой жидкости за полный цикл колебаний (τ). Построены зависимости высоты жидкости (hж) от τ, Arб и Arд, на основании которых определены величины Δhж, варьируемые при моделировании в интервале 7,7–69,5 мм. Для различных областей ванны и динамических условий продувки установлена взаимосвязь между скоростью циркуляции жидкости и величиной колебаний (Δhж). Рассмотрено влияние всех видов колебаний на возможный эрозивный износ футеровки ПАП и полноту усвоения шихтовых материалов вблизи поверхности ванны

Cigarette Smoke Affects Keratinocytes SRB1 Expression and Localization via H2O2 Production and HNE Protein Adducts Formation

Scavenger Receptor B1 (SR-B1), also known as HDL receptor, is involved in cellular cholesterol uptake. Stratum corneum (SC), the outermost layer of the skin, is composed of more than 25% cholesterol. Several reports support the view that alteration of SC lipid composition may be the cause of impaired barrier function which gives rise to several skin diseases. For this reason the regulation of the genes involved in cholesterol uptake is of extreme significance for skin health. Being the first shield against external insults, the skin is exposed to several noxious substances and among these is cigarette smoke (CS), which has been recently associated with various skin pathologies. In this study we first have shown the presence of SR-B1 in murine and human skin tissue and then by using immunoblotting, immunoprecipitation, RT-PCR, and confocal microscopy we have demonstrated the translocation and the subsequent lost of SR-B1 in human keratinocytes (cell culture model) after CS exposure is driven by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) that derives not only from the CS gas phase but mainly from the activation of cellular NADPH oxidase (NOX). This effect was reversed when the cells were pretreated with NOX inhibitors or catalase. Furthermore, CS caused the formation of SR-B1-aldheydes adducts (acrolein and 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal) and the increase of its ubiquitination, which could be one of the causes of SR-B1 loss. In conclusion, exposure to CS, through the production of H2O2, induced post-translational modifications of SR-B1 with the consequence lost of the receptor and this may contribute to the skin physiology alteration as a consequence of the variation of cholesterol uptake

AI is a viable alternative to high throughput screening: a 318-target study

: High throughput screening (HTS) is routinely used to identify bioactive small molecules. This requires physical compounds, which limits coverage of accessible chemical space. Computational approaches combined with vast on-demand chemical libraries can access far greater chemical space, provided that the predictive accuracy is sufficient to identify useful molecules. Through the largest and most diverse virtual HTS campaign reported to date, comprising 318 individual projects, we demonstrate that our AtomNet® convolutional neural network successfully finds novel hits across every major therapeutic area and protein class. We address historical limitations of computational screening by demonstrating success for target proteins without known binders, high-quality X-ray crystal structures, or manual cherry-picking of compounds. We show that the molecules selected by the AtomNet® model are novel drug-like scaffolds rather than minor modifications to known bioactive compounds. Our empirical results suggest that computational methods can substantially replace HTS as the first step of small-molecule drug discovery

Stereoselective Double Lewis Acid/Organo-Catalyzed Dimerization of Donor–Acceptor Cyclopropanes into Substituted 2-Oxabicyclo[3.3.0]octanes

A new approach for the dimerization of donor–acceptor cyclopropanes (2-arylcyclopropane-1,1-dicarboxylates) under double-catalysis conditions by treatment with 20 mol % of GaCl₃ and dimethyl 3,5-dimethyl-1-pyrazoline-3,5-dicarboxylate as a specific organocatalyst has been found. Under these conditions, the starting compounds are regio- and stereospecifically converted into polysubstituted 2-oxabicyclo[3.3.0]­octanes. Two new rings, one C–O bond, and two C–C bonds are formed in this process, and four stereocenters are thus created. The reaction mechanism was thoroughly studied by NMR spectroscopy, and a number of intermediates were detected