62 research outputs found
Generation of stable and breathing flat-top solitons via Raman assisted four wave mixing in microresonators
Flat-top-soliton (or platicon) dynamics in coherently pumped normal dispersion microresonators is important for both fundamental nonlinear physics and microcomb generation in the visible band. Here we numerically investigate the platicon generation that is initiated via Raman assisted four wave mixing instead of mode interaction. To show the possibility of generating coherent combs in the visible band, we design an aluminum nitride (AlN) microresonator with normal dispersion and investigate the comb generation dynamics in simulations. Stable platicon Kerr combs can be generated in this AlN microresonator using a 780-nm pump. Moreover, we also observe a breather platicon dynamics induced by the narrow Raman gain spectrum of crystalline AlN, which shows distinct dynamics from the dark soliton breathers reported in previous work that are dominated by Kerr effect. A phase diagram bearing the influence of the pump detuning and pump power on the breathing dynamics of the breather platicon is also computed. Furthermore, a transition to chaotic breathing is numerically observed
Understanding and Optimizing Serverless Workloads in CXL-Enabled Tiered Memory
Recent Serverless workloads tend to be largescaled/CPU-memory intensive, such
as DL, graph applications, that require dynamic memory-to-compute resources
provisioning.
Meanwhile, recent solutions seek to design page management strategies for
multi-tiered memory systems, to efficiently run heavy workloads. Compute
Express Link (CXL) is an ideal platform for serverless workloads runtime that
offers a holistic memory namespace thanks to its cache coherent feature and
large memory capacity. However, naively offloading Serverless applications to
CXL brings substantial latencies.
In this work, we first quantify CXL impacts on various Serverless
applications. Second, we argue the opportunity of provisioning DRAM and CXL in
a fine-grained, application-specific manner to Serverless workloads, by
creating a shim layer to identify, and naively place hot regions to DRAM, while
leaving cold/warm regions to CXL. Based on the observation, we finally propose
the prototype of Porter, a middleware in-between modern Serverless architecture
and CXL-enabled tiered memory system, to efficiently utilize memory resources,
while saving costs
An integrable road to a perturbative plateau
As has been known since the 90s, there is an integrable structure underlying
two-dimensional gravity theories. Recently, two-dimensional gravity theories
have regained an enormous amount of attention, but now in relation with quantum
chaos - superficially nothing like integrability. In this paper, we return to
the roots and exploit the integrable structure underlying dilaton gravity
theories to study a late time, large double scaled limit of
the spectral form factor. In this limit, a novel cancellation due to the
integrable structure ensures that at each genus the spectral form factor
grows like , and that the sum over genera converges, realising a
perturbative approach to the late-time plateau. Along the way, we clarify
various aspects of this integrable structure. In particular, we explain the
central role played by ribbon graphs, we discuss intersection theory, and we
explain what the relations with dilaton gravity and matrix models are from a
more modern holographic perspective.Comment: 44 pages + appendice
EC^2: Emergent Communication for Embodied Control
Embodied control requires agents to leverage multi-modal pre-training to
quickly learn how to act in new environments, where video demonstrations
contain visual and motion details needed for low-level perception and control,
and language instructions support generalization with abstract, symbolic
structures. While recent approaches apply contrastive learning to force
alignment between the two modalities, we hypothesize better modeling their
complementary differences can lead to more holistic representations for
downstream adaption. To this end, we propose Emergent Communication for
Embodied Control (EC^2), a novel scheme to pre-train video-language
representations for few-shot embodied control. The key idea is to learn an
unsupervised "language" of videos via emergent communication, which bridges the
semantics of video details and structures of natural language. We learn
embodied representations of video trajectories, emergent language, and natural
language using a language model, which is then used to finetune a lightweight
policy network for downstream control. Through extensive experiments in
Metaworld and Franka Kitchen embodied benchmarks, EC^2 is shown to consistently
outperform previous contrastive learning methods for both videos and texts as
task inputs. Further ablations confirm the importance of the emergent language,
which is beneficial for both video and language learning, and significantly
superior to using pre-trained video captions. We also present a quantitative
and qualitative analysis of the emergent language and discuss future directions
toward better understanding and leveraging emergent communication in embodied
tasks.Comment: Published in CVPR202
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