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Lattice QCD calculation of scattering length
We study s-wave pion-pion () scattering length in lattice QCD for
pion masses ranging from 330 MeV to 466 MeV. In the "Asqtad" improved staggered
fermion formulation, we calculate the four-point functions for isospin
I=0 and 2 channels, and use chiral perturbation theory at next-to-leading order
to extrapolate our simulation results. Extrapolating to the physical pion mass
gives the scattering lengths as and for isospin I=2 and 0 channels, respectively. Our lattice
simulation for scattering length in the I=0 channel is an exploratory
study, where we include the disconnected contribution, and our preliminary
result is near to its experimental value. These simulations are performed with
MILC 2+1 flavor gauge configurations at lattice spacing fm.Comment: Remove some typo
Read, Watch, and Move: Reinforcement Learning for Temporally Grounding Natural Language Descriptions in Videos
The task of video grounding, which temporally localizes a natural language
description in a video, plays an important role in understanding videos.
Existing studies have adopted strategies of sliding window over the entire
video or exhaustively ranking all possible clip-sentence pairs in a
pre-segmented video, which inevitably suffer from exhaustively enumerated
candidates. To alleviate this problem, we formulate this task as a problem of
sequential decision making by learning an agent which regulates the temporal
grounding boundaries progressively based on its policy. Specifically, we
propose a reinforcement learning based framework improved by multi-task
learning and it shows steady performance gains by considering additional
supervised boundary information during training. Our proposed framework
achieves state-of-the-art performance on ActivityNet'18 DenseCaption dataset
and Charades-STA dataset while observing only 10 or less clips per video.Comment: AAAI 201
Geometric curvatures of plane symmetry black hole
In this paper, we study the properties and thermodynamic stability of the
plane symmetry black hole from the viewpoint of geometry. Weinhold metric and
Ruppeiner metric are obtained, respectively. The Weinhold curvature gives phase
transition points, which correspond to the first-order phase transition only at
N=1, where is a parameter in the plane symmetry black hole. While the
Ruppeiner one shows first-order phase transition points for arbitrary . Both of which give no any information about the second-order phase
transition. Considering the Legendre invariant proposed by Quevedo et. al., we
obtain a unified geometry metric, which gives a correctly the behavior of the
thermodynamic interactions and phase transitions. The geometry is also found to
be curved and the scalar curvature goes to negative infinity at the Davies'
phase transition points when the logarithmic correction is included.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figure
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