477 research outputs found
A Degeneracy Framework for Scalable Graph Autoencoders
In this paper, we present a general framework to scale graph autoencoders
(AE) and graph variational autoencoders (VAE). This framework leverages graph
degeneracy concepts to train models only from a dense subset of nodes instead
of using the entire graph. Together with a simple yet effective propagation
mechanism, our approach significantly improves scalability and training speed
while preserving performance. We evaluate and discuss our method on several
variants of existing graph AE and VAE, providing the first application of these
models to large graphs with up to millions of nodes and edges. We achieve
empirically competitive results w.r.t. several popular scalable node embedding
methods, which emphasizes the relevance of pursuing further research towards
more scalable graph AE and VAE.Comment: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI
2019
WATER ENVIRONMENT AND WATER POLLUTION CONTROL IN VIETNAM : OVERVIEW OF STATUS AND MEASURES FOR FUTURE
Joint Research on Environmental Science and Technology for the Eart
ON SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT MODEL USED IN URBAN RESIDENTIAL AND TOURISM AREAS
Joint Research on Environmental Science and Technology for the Eart
Enhancements to the damage locating vector method for structural health monitoring
Ph.DDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPH
Le progiciel PoweR : un outil de recherche reproductible pour faciliter les calculs de puissance de certains tests d'hypothèses au moyen de simulations de Monte Carlo
Notre progiciel PoweR vise à faciliter l'obtention ou la vérification des études empiriques de puissance pour les tests d'ajustement. En tant que tel, il peut être considéré comme un outil de calcul de recherche reproductible, car il devient très facile à reproduire (ou détecter les erreurs) des résultats de simulation déjà publiés dans la littérature. En utilisant notre progiciel, il devient facile de concevoir de nouvelles études de simulation. Les valeurs critiques et puissances de nombreuses statistiques de tests sous une grande variété de distributions alternatives sont obtenues très rapidement et avec précision en utilisant un C/C++ et R environnement. On peut même compter sur le progiciel snow de R pour le calcul parallèle, en utilisant un processeur multicœur. Les résultats peuvent être affichés en utilisant des tables latex ou des graphiques spécialisés, qui peuvent être incorporés directement dans vos publications. Ce document donne un aperçu des principaux objectifs et les principes de conception ainsi que les stratégies d'adaptation et d'extension.Package PoweR aims at facilitating the obtainment or verification of empirical power studies for goodness-of-fit tests. As such, it can be seen as a reproducible research computational tool because it becomes very easy to reproduce (or detect errors in) simulation results already published in the literature. Using our package, it becomes easy to design new simulation studies. The empirical levels and powers for many statistical test statistics under a wide variety of alternative distributions are obtained fastly and accurately using a C/C++ and R environment. One can even rely on package snow to parallelize their computations, using a multicore processor. The results can be displayed using LaTeX tables or specialized graphs, which can be directly incorporated into your publications. This paper gives an overview of the main design aims and principles as well as strategies for adaptation and extension. Hand-on illustrations are presented to get new users started easily
Klein tunneling degradation and enhanced Fabry-P\'erot interference in graphene/h-BN moir\'e-superlattice devices
Hexagonal boron-nitride (h-BN) provides an ideal substrate for supporting
graphene devices to achieve fascinating transport properties, such as Klein
tunneling, electron optics and other novel quantum transport phenomena.
However, depositing graphene on h-BN creates moir\'e superlattices, whose
electronic properties can be significantly manipulated by controlling the
lattice alignment between layers. In this work, the effects of these moir\'e
structures on the transport properties of graphene are investigated using
atomistic simulations. At large misalignment angles (leading to small moir\'e
cells), the transport properties (most remarkably, Klein tunneling) of pristine
graphene devices are conserved. On the other hand, in the nearly aligned cases,
the moir\'e interaction induces stronger effects, significantly affecting
electron transport in graphene. In particular, Klein tunneling is significantly
degraded. In contrast, strong Fabry-P\'erot interference (accordingly, strong
quantum confinement) effects and non-linear I-V characteristics are observed.
P-N interface smoothness engineering is also considered, suggesting as a
potential way to improve these transport features in graphene/h-BN devices.Comment: 21 pages, 8 figures, Supplementary material
Experimental Analysis on the Ultrasound-based Mixing Technique Applied to Ultra-low Sulphur Diesel and Bio-oils
Pollution in the maritime field is considered as such a serious problem that scientists, policymakers, and managers are always urged with a desire to find solutions and strategies one way or another to minimize its negative impacts on the environment and the life. Among the effective solutions, the use of fuels with limited-sulfur content or bio-based fuels has been paid much attention to due to their advantages in the use of marine diesel engines. In the current study, a type of fossil diesel fuel with ultra-low sulfur content (ULSD) was mixed with coconut oil (CO) through the ultrasonic treatment under the changes in volume fraction of as-used fuels, the correlation on viscosity selected the rate mixing between ULSD and coconut oil. After 12 minutes of ultrasound treatment, the highest stability of the ULSD-CO emulsion was achieved correspondingly to 97.8% for a mixing rate of 76%(ULSD):24%(CO) along with the distance of 85mm from the containing-vessel bottom to the ultrasound horn tip. Moreover, the spray characteristics including penetration length and a cone angle of ULSD, CO, and ULSD-CO emulsion were also examined and compared to diesel fuel. The similarity of spray characteristics to diesel fuel, containing ultra-low sulfur content and oxygen content, renewability are considered as some advantages of ULSD-CO emulsion as used for diesel engines aiming to meet the stricter requirements of IMO regulations about the strategies of environmental protection.
Gravity-Inspired Graph Autoencoders for Directed Link Prediction
Graph autoencoders (AE) and variational autoencoders (VAE) recently emerged
as powerful node embedding methods. In particular, graph AE and VAE were
successfully leveraged to tackle the challenging link prediction problem,
aiming at figuring out whether some pairs of nodes from a graph are connected
by unobserved edges. However, these models focus on undirected graphs and
therefore ignore the potential direction of the link, which is limiting for
numerous real-life applications. In this paper, we extend the graph AE and VAE
frameworks to address link prediction in directed graphs. We present a new
gravity-inspired decoder scheme that can effectively reconstruct directed
graphs from a node embedding. We empirically evaluate our method on three
different directed link prediction tasks, for which standard graph AE and VAE
perform poorly. We achieve competitive results on three real-world graphs,
outperforming several popular baselines.Comment: ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM 2019
Ex2Vec: Characterizing Users and Items from the Mere Exposure Effect
The traditional recommendation framework seeks to connect user and content,
by finding the best match possible based on users past interaction. However, a
good content recommendation is not necessarily similar to what the user has
chosen in the past. As humans, users naturally evolve, learn, forget, get
bored, they change their perspective of the world and in consequence, of the
recommendable content. One well known mechanism that affects user interest is
the Mere Exposure Effect: when repeatedly exposed to stimuli, users' interest
tends to rise with the initial exposures, reaching a peak, and gradually
decreasing thereafter, resulting in an inverted-U shape. Since previous
research has shown that the magnitude of the effect depends on a number of
interesting factors such as stimulus complexity and familiarity, leveraging
this effect is a way to not only improve repeated recommendation but to gain a
more in-depth understanding of both users and stimuli. In this work we present
(Mere) Exposure2Vec (Ex2Vec) our model that leverages the Mere Exposure Effect
in repeat consumption to derive user and item characterization and track user
interest evolution. We validate our model through predicting future music
consumption based on repetition and discuss its implications for recommendation
scenarios where repetition is common
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