Answering Layer 3 queries with DiscoSCMs

In the realm of causal inference, the primary frameworks are the Potential Outcome (PO) and the Structural Causal Model (SCM), both predicated on the consistency rule. However, when facing Layer 3 valuations, i.e., counterfactual queries that inherently belong to individual-level semantics, they both seem inadequate due to the issue of degeneration caused by the consistency rule. For instance, in personalized incentive scenarios within the internet industry, the probability of one particular user being a complier, denoted as $P(y_x, y'_{x'})$, degenerates to a parameter that can only take values of 0 or 1. This paper leverages the DiscoSCM framework to theoretically tackle the aforementioned counterfactual degeneration problem, which is a novel framework for causal modeling that combines the strengths of both PO and SCM, and could be seen as an extension of them. The paper starts with a brief introduction to the background of causal modeling frameworks. It then illustrates, through an example, the difficulty in recovering counterfactual parameters from data without imposing strong assumptions. Following this, we propose the DiscoSCM with independent potential noise framework to address this problem. Subsequently, the superior performance of the DiscoSCM framework in answering counterfactual questions is demonstrated by several key results in the topic of unit select problems. We then elucidate that this superiority stems from the philosophy of individual causality. In conclusion, we suggest that DiscoSCM may serve as a significant milestone in the causal modeling field for addressing counterfactual queries

VISinger 2: High-Fidelity End-to-End Singing Voice Synthesis Enhanced by Digital Signal Processing Synthesizer

End-to-end singing voice synthesis (SVS) model VISinger can achieve better performance than the typical two-stage model with fewer parameters. However, VISinger has several problems: text-to-phase problem, the end-to-end model learns the meaningless mapping of text-to-phase; glitches problem, the harmonic components corresponding to the periodic signal of the voiced segment occurs a sudden change with audible artefacts; low sampling rate, the sampling rate of 24KHz does not meet the application needs of high-fidelity generation with the full-band rate (44.1KHz or higher). In this paper, we propose VISinger 2 to address these issues by integrating the digital signal processing (DSP) methods with VISinger. Specifically, inspired by recent advances in differentiable digital signal processing (DDSP), we incorporate a DSP synthesizer into the decoder to solve the above issues. The DSP synthesizer consists of a harmonic synthesizer and a noise synthesizer to generate periodic and aperiodic signals, respectively, from the latent representation z in VISinger. It supervises the posterior encoder to extract the latent representation without phase information and avoid the prior encoder modelling text-to-phase mapping. To avoid glitch artefacts, the HiFi-GAN is modified to accept the waveforms generated by the DSP synthesizer as a condition to produce the singing voice. Moreover, with the improved waveform decoder, VISinger 2 manages to generate 44.1kHz singing audio with richer expression and better quality. Experiments on OpenCpop corpus show that VISinger 2 outperforms VISinger, CpopSing and RefineSinger in both subjective and objective metrics.Comment: Submitted to ICASSP 202

Coupled Model and Node Importance Evaluation of Electric Power Cyber-Physical Systems Considering Carbon Power Flow

To improve the distributed carbon emission optimization control capability of the smart distribution network system, thereby reducing the carbon emissions in the distribution process, it is a very important issue to comprehensively analyze the importance of the node carbon emission flow of the smart distribution network. This paper transforms the power grid into a carbon emission flow network through power flow calculations: Based on the complex network theory, it determines the coupling scale of the two networks by means of the correlation coefficient method and the correlation matrix method, and establishes a coupling network model based on the carbon emission flow network; Combining the different business characteristics of carbon emission flow and information flow, an evaluation index system considering the dual-network coupling scale is established, and a multi-indicator comprehensive evaluation method that combines the Topsis and grey relational analysis method, that can objectively evaluate indicators that contain subjective components was proposed; The obtained node importance values can be used to determine the relative key line, greater sum node importance values represent a greater carbon emission impact of the line, providing a sequential basis for the carbon reduction and restructuring of the distribution network; Taking the 3-machine 9-node system as an example, the carbon flow distribution in the corresponding network is calculated, and the comprehensive importance value of the coupling node is calculated to analyze the rationality of this method