93 research outputs found
Dynamic analysis of the longitudinal vibration on bottom drilling tools
With extreme complexity, the drilling process is a dynamic process which is severely influenced by longitudinal vibration. Longitudinal vibration, as one of the most important reason, is directly generated by the fatigue failure of the bottom hole assembly. In this paper, the natural frequencies of longitudinal vibration along the drillstring are analyzed by the finite element method. The deformed plot, stress nephogram, and displacement contour map under 1 to 4 ordered the natural frequency of the longitudinal vibration are obtained. The analysis results show that the maximum deformation always appears in the central part of the string so that some technological process on these positions is required to reduce the collision between the string and wellbore wall. Additionally, a time series of longitudinal vibration of a bottom rotating drillstring is extracted from real-time field data, which is measured while drilling near the drill bit. Then the time-frequency and energy spectrum analysis of the longitudinal vibration is carried out. The results of the statistical analysis show that, when the drillstring uniformly rotates, the longitudinal vibration can be considered as a kind of random vibration. However, if the stick-slip phenomenon occurs during the drilling process, the energy concentration will appear in the time series spectrum of the longitudinal vibration, by which means the vibration could be regarded as random no longer
Trajectory Data Collection with Local Differential Privacy
Trajectory data collection is a common task with many applications in our
daily lives. Analyzing trajectory data enables service providers to enhance
their services, which ultimately benefits users. However, directly collecting
trajectory data may give rise to privacy-related issues that cannot be ignored.
Local differential privacy (LDP), as the de facto privacy protection standard
in a decentralized setting, enables users to perturb their trajectories locally
and provides a provable privacy guarantee. Existing approaches to private
trajectory data collection in a local setting typically use relaxed versions of
LDP, which cannot provide a strict privacy guarantee, or require some external
knowledge that is impractical to obtain and update in a timely manner. To
tackle these problems, we propose a novel trajectory perturbation mechanism
that relies solely on an underlying location set and satisfies pure
-LDP to provide a stringent privacy guarantee. In the proposed
mechanism, each point's adjacent direction information in the trajectory is
used in its perturbation process. Such information serves as an effective clue
to connect neighboring points and can be used to restrict the possible region
of a perturbed point in order to enhance utility. To the best of our knowledge,
our study is the first to use direction information for trajectory perturbation
under LDP. Furthermore, based on this mechanism, we present an anchor-based
method that adaptively restricts the region of each perturbed trajectory,
thereby significantly boosting performance without violating the privacy
constraint. Extensive experiments on both real-world and synthetic datasets
demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed mechanisms.Comment: Accepted by VLDB 202
Revisiting Scalarization in Multi-Task Learning: A Theoretical Perspective
Linear scalarization, i.e., combining all loss functions by a weighted sum,
has been the default choice in the literature of multi-task learning (MTL)
since its inception. In recent years, there is a surge of interest in
developing Specialized Multi-Task Optimizers (SMTOs) that treat MTL as a
multi-objective optimization problem. However, it remains open whether there is
a fundamental advantage of SMTOs over scalarization. In fact, heated debates
exist in the community comparing these two types of algorithms, mostly from an
empirical perspective. To approach the above question, in this paper, we
revisit scalarization from a theoretical perspective. We focus on linear MTL
models and study whether scalarization is capable of fully exploring the Pareto
front. Our findings reveal that, in contrast to recent works that claimed
empirical advantages of scalarization, scalarization is inherently incapable of
full exploration, especially for those Pareto optimal solutions that strike the
balanced trade-offs between multiple tasks. More concretely, when the model is
under-parametrized, we reveal a multi-surface structure of the feasible region
and identify necessary and sufficient conditions for full exploration. This
leads to the conclusion that scalarization is in general incapable of tracing
out the Pareto front. Our theoretical results partially answer the open
questions in Xin et al. (2021), and provide a more intuitive explanation on why
scalarization fails beyond non-convexity. We additionally perform experiments
on a real-world dataset using both scalarization and state-of-the-art SMTOs.
The experimental results not only corroborate our theoretical findings, but
also unveil the potential of SMTOs in finding balanced solutions, which cannot
be achieved by scalarization.Comment: Accepted at NeurIPS 202
HTP: Exploiting Holistic Temporal Patterns for Sequential Recommendation
Sequential recommender systems have demonstrated a huge success for next-item
recommendation by explicitly exploiting the temporal order of users' historical
interactions. In practice, user interactions contain more useful temporal
information beyond order, as shown by some pioneering studies. In this paper,
we systematically investigate various temporal information for sequential
recommendation and identify three types of advantageous temporal patterns
beyond order, including absolute time information, relative item time intervals
and relative recommendation time intervals. We are the first to explore
item-oriented absolute time patterns. While existing models consider only one
or two of these three patterns, we propose a novel holistic temporal pattern
based neural network, named HTP, to fully leverage all these three patterns. In
particular, we introduce novel components to address the subtle correlations
between relative item time intervals and relative recommendation time
intervals, which render a major technical challenge. Extensive experiments on
three real-world benchmark datasets show that our HTP model consistently and
substantially outperforms many state-of-the-art models. Our code is publically
available at https://github.com/623851394/HTP/tree/main/HTP-mai
Effect of annulus drilling fluid on lateral vibration of drillstring
Annular drilling fluid between the drillstring and borehole wall has a great influence on lateral vibration of drillstring and the influence involves the added mass. Assuming the drilling fluid is incompressible, we derive the added mass coefficient that annular drilling fluid influences on lateral vibration of drillstring in the case of axial flow of drilling fluid. When the axial flow of drilling fluid is considered, the added mass coefficient is difficult to solve. We apply CFD method and dynamic mesh technique to establish the calculation model for the flow in the annulus caused by the vibration of drillstring in the annulus. The pressure distribution and velocity distribution of annular drilling fluid are obtained. The added mass force of the drilling fluid acting on the drillstring along the direction of the drillstring is obtained from the pressure distribution, and the added mass coefficient of the lateral vibration of the drillstring is obtained. This paper provides the basis to solve the added mass coefficient of the lateral vibration of drillstring considering axial flow of drilling fluid
Region Proposal Rectification Towards Robust Instance Segmentation of Biological Images
Top-down instance segmentation framework has shown its superiority in object
detection compared to the bottom-up framework. While it is efficient in
addressing over-segmentation, top-down instance segmentation suffers from
over-crop problem. However, a complete segmentation mask is crucial for
biological image analysis as it delivers important morphological properties
such as shapes and volumes. In this paper, we propose a region proposal
rectification (RPR) module to address this challenging incomplete segmentation
problem. In particular, we offer a progressive ROIAlign module to introduce
neighbor information into a series of ROIs gradually. The ROI features are fed
into an attentive feed-forward network (FFN) for proposal box regression. With
additional neighbor information, the proposed RPR module shows significant
improvement in correction of region proposal locations and thereby exhibits
favorable instance segmentation performances on three biological image datasets
compared to state-of-the-art baseline methods. Experimental results demonstrate
that the proposed RPR module is effective in both anchor-based and anchor-free
top-down instance segmentation approaches, suggesting the proposed method can
be applied to general top-down instance segmentation of biological images. Code
is available
Improving Negative-Prompt Inversion via Proximal Guidance
DDIM inversion has revealed the remarkable potential of real image editing
within diffusion-based methods. However, the accuracy of DDIM reconstruction
degrades as larger classifier-free guidance (CFG) scales being used for
enhanced editing. Null-text inversion (NTI) optimizes null embeddings to align
the reconstruction and inversion trajectories with larger CFG scales, enabling
real image editing with cross-attention control. Negative-prompt inversion
(NPI) further offers a training-free closed-form solution of NTI. However, it
may introduce artifacts and is still constrained by DDIM reconstruction
quality. To overcome these limitations, we propose Proximal Negative-Prompt
Inversion (ProxNPI), extending the concepts of NTI and NPI. We enhance NPI with
a regularization term and reconstruction guidance, which reduces artifacts
while capitalizing on its training-free nature. Our method provides an
efficient and straightforward approach, effectively addressing real image
editing tasks with minimal computational overhead.Comment: Code at https://github.com/phymhan/prompt-to-promp
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