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Improved Noisy Student Training for Automatic Speech Recognition
Recently, a semi-supervised learning method known as "noisy student training"
has been shown to improve image classification performance of deep networks
significantly. Noisy student training is an iterative self-training method that
leverages augmentation to improve network performance. In this work, we adapt
and improve noisy student training for automatic speech recognition, employing
(adaptive) SpecAugment as the augmentation method. We find effective methods to
filter, balance and augment the data generated in between self-training
iterations. By doing so, we are able to obtain word error rates (WERs)
4.2%/8.6% on the clean/noisy LibriSpeech test sets by only using the clean 100h
subset of LibriSpeech as the supervised set and the rest (860h) as the
unlabeled set. Furthermore, we are able to achieve WERs 1.7%/3.4% on the
clean/noisy LibriSpeech test sets by using the unlab-60k subset of LibriLight
as the unlabeled set for LibriSpeech 960h. We are thus able to improve upon the
previous state-of-the-art clean/noisy test WERs achieved on LibriSpeech 100h
(4.74%/12.20%) and LibriSpeech (1.9%/4.1%).Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables; v2: minor revisions, reference adde
and
Recently Babar Collaboration reported a new state
and Belle Collaboration observed . We investigate the strong
decays of the excited states using the model. After
comparing the theoretical decay widths and decay patterns with the available
experimental data, we tend to conclude: (1) is probably the
state although the
assignment is not completely excluded; (2) seems unlikely to be
the and candidate; (3)
as either a or state is
consistent with the experimental data; (4) experimental search of
in the channels , , and
will be crucial to distinguish the above two possibilities.Comment: 18 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. Some discussions added. The final
version to appear at EPJ
Perspective of monochromatic gamma-ray line detection with the High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) facility onboard China's Space Station
HERD is the High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection instrument proposed to
operate onboard China's space station in the 2020s. It is designed to detect
energetic cosmic ray nuclei, leptons and photons with a high energy resolution
( for electrons and photons and for nuclei) and a large
geometry factor ( for electrons and diffuse photons and for nuclei). In this work we discuss the capability of HERD to detect
monochromatic -ray lines, based on simulations of the detector
performance. It is shown that HERD will be one of the most sensitive
instruments for monochromatic -ray searches at energies between
to a few hundred GeV. Above hundreds of GeV, Cherenkov telescopes will
be more sensitive due to their large effective area. As a specific example, we
show that a good portion of the parameter space of a supersymmetric dark matter
model can be probed with HERD.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, matches version published in Astropart.Phy
Holographic Storage of Biphoton Entanglement
Coherent and reversible storage of multi-photon entanglement with a multimode
quantum memory is essential for scalable all-optical quantum information
processing. Although single photon has been successfully stored in different
quantum systems, storage of multi-photon entanglement remains challenging
because of the critical requirement for coherent control of photonic
entanglement source, multimode quantum memory, and quantum interface between
them. Here we demonstrate a coherent and reversible storage of biphoton
Bell-type entanglement with a holographic multimode atomic-ensemble-based
quantum memory. The retrieved biphoton entanglement violates Bell's inequality
for 1 microsecond storage time and a memory-process fidelity of 98% is
demonstrated by quantum state tomography.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted by Phys. Rev. Let
Peripheral pulmonary nodules: Relationship between multi-slice spiral CT perfusion imaging and tumor angiogenesis and VEGF expression
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between16-slice spiral CT perfusion imaging and tumor angiogenesis and VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) expression in patients with benign and malignant pulmonary nodules, and differential diagnosis between benign and malignant pulmonary nodules.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Sixty-four patients with benign and malignant pulmonary nodules underwent 16-slice spiral CT perfusion imaging. The CT perfusion imaging was analyzed for TDC (time density curve), perfusion parametric maps, and the respective perfusion parameters. Immunohistochemical findings of MVD (microvessel density) measurement and VEGF expression was evaluated.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The shape of the TDC of peripheral lung cancer was similar to those of inflammatory nodule. PH (peak height), PHpm/PHa (peak height ratio of pulmonary nodule to aorta), BF (blood flow), BV (blood volume) value of peripheral lung cancer and inflammatory nodule were not statistically significant (all P > 0.05). Both showed significantly higher PH, PHpm/PHa, BF, BV value than those of benign nodule (all P < 0.05). Peripheral lung cancer showed significantly higher PS (permeability surface) value than that of inflammatory nodule and benign nodule (all P < 0.05). BV, BF, PS, MTT, PH, PHpm/PHa, and MVD among three groups of peripheral lung cancers were not significantly (all P > 0.05). In the case of adenocarcinoma, BV, BF, PS, PHpm/PHa, and MVD between poorly and well differentiation and between poorly and moderately differentiation were statistically significant (all P < 0.05). The peripheral lung cancers with VEGF positive expression showed significantly higher PH, PHpm/PHa, BF, BV, PS, and MVD value than those of the peripheral lung cancer with VEGF negative expression, and than those of benign nodule with VEGF positive expression (all P < 0.05). When investigating VEGF negative expression, it is found that PH, PHpm/PHa, and MVD of inflammatory nodule were significantly higher than those of peripheral lung cancer, PS of inflammatory nodule were significantly lower than that of peripheral lung cancer (all P < 0.05). PH, PHpm/PHa, BF, and BV of benign nodule were significantly lower than those of inflammatory nodule (all P < 0.05), rather than PS and MTT (mean transit time) (all P > 0.05). PH, PHpm/PHa, BV, and PS of benign nodule were significantly lower than those of peripheral lung cancer (all P < 0.05). In the case of VEGF positive expression, MVD was positively correlated with PH, PHpm/PHa, BF, BV, and PS of peripheral lung cancer and PS of benign nodule (all P < 0.05).</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Multi-slice spiral CT perfusion imaging closely correlated with tumor angiogenesis and reflected MVD measurement and VEGF expression. It provided not only a non-invasive method of quantitative assessment for blood flow patterns of peripheral pulmonary nodules but also an applicable diagnostic method for peripheral pulmonary nodules.</p
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