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Modelling high-dimensional volatilities is a challenging topic, especially for high-dimensional discrete-valued time series data. This paper proposes a threshold spatial GARCH-type model for high-dimensional count data with network structure. The proposed model can simplify the parameterization by taking use of the network structure in data, and can capture the asymmetry in dynamics of volatilities by adopting a threshold structure. Our model is called Poisson Threshold Network GARCH model, because the conditional distributions are assumed to be Poisson distribution. Asymptotic theory of our maximum-likelihood-estimator (MLE) for the proposed spatial model is derived when both sample size and network dimension go to infinity. We get asymptotic statistical inferences via investigating the week dependence among components of the model and using limit theorems for weekly dependent random fields. Simulations are conducted to test the theoretical results, and the model is fitted to real count data as illustration of the proposed methodology.

As Moore's Law gains diminish, software performance and efficiency become increasingly vital. Optimizing code efficiency is challenging, even for professional programmers. However, related research remains relatively scarce, and rigorously assessing models' abilities to optimize code efficiency is fraught with difficulties. In response to this challenge, we first conduct an in-depth analysis of "code patterns" in the model training dataset, meticulously exploring human-written code. Secondly, we define a task for optimizing code efficiency and introduce the Automatic Code Efficiency Optimization Benchmark (ACEOB), which consists of 95,359 pairs of efficient-inefficient code aimed at assessing code efficiency optimization capabilities. To our knowledge, ACEOB is the first dataset specifically targeting Python code efficiency optimization. To evaluate models' ability in optimizing code efficiency, we propose two new metrics: the Isomorphic Optimal Comparison CodeBLEU (IOCCB) metric and the Normalized Performance Index (NPI) metric, to assess the efficiency of model-generated code. We also evaluate several advanced code models, such as PolyCoder and CodeT5, after fine-tuning them on ACEOB and demonstrate that the efficiency of each model improves after introducing the NPI filter. However, it was observed that even ChatGPT does not perform optimally in code efficiency optimization tasks.

Context: With the waning of Moore's Law, the software industry is placing increasing importance on finding alternative solutions for continuous performance enhancement. The significance and research results of software performance optimization have been on the rise in recent years, especially with the advancement propelled by Large Language Models(LLMs). However, traditional strategies for rectifying performance flaws have shown significant limitations at the competitive code efficiency optimization level, and research on this topic is surprisingly scarce. Objective: This study aims to address the research gap in this domain, offering practical solutions to the various challenges encountered. Specifically, we have overcome the constraints of traditional performance error rectification strategies and developed a Language Model (LM) tailored for the competitive code efficiency optimization realm. Method: We introduced E-code, an advanced program synthesis LM. Inspired by the recent success of expert LMs, we designed an innovative structure called the Expert Encoder Group. This structure employs multiple expert encoders to extract features tailored for different input types. We assessed the performance of E-code against other leading models on a competitive dataset and conducted in-depth ablation experiments. Results: Upon systematic evaluation, E-code achieved a 54.98% improvement in code efficiency, significantly outperforming other advanced models. In the ablation experiments, we further validated the significance of the expert encoder group and other components within E-code. Conclusion: The research findings indicate that the expert encoder group can effectively handle various inputs in efficiency optimization tasks, significantly enhancing the model's performance.

In this work, we investigate the hidden charm decays properties of $Y(4626)$, where $Y(4626)$ is assigned as a $S-$wave $D_{s}^{*+}D_{s1}(2536)^{-}$ molecular state with $J^{PC}=1^{--}$. The partial widths of the processes $Y(4626)\to J/\psi\eta$, $J/\psi\eta^{\prime}$, $\eta_{c}\phi$, and $ \chi_{cJ}\phi,\ (J=\{0,1,2\})$ are estimated by employing the effective Lagrangian approach. The present estimations indicate that the partial widths of the $J/\psi\eta$ and $J/\psi \eta^\prime$ channels are of the order of 1 MeV, while the one of $\chi_{c1}\phi$ is of the order of 0.1 MeV. Thus, we propose to further examine the molecular interpretation of $Y(4626)$ by searching it in the cross sections for the $e^{+}e^{-}\to J/\psi\eta^{(\prime)}$ processes, which should be accessible by the BES III and Belle II., Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures

We obtain the law of large numbers (LLN) and the central limit theorem (CLT) for weakly dependent non-stationary arrays of random fields with asymptotically unbounded moments. The weak dependence condition for arrays of random fields is proved to be inherited through transformation and infinite shift. This paves a way to prove the consistency and asymptotic normality of maximum likelihood estimation for dynamic spatio-temporal models (i.e. so-called ultra high-dimensional time series models) when the sample size and/or dimension go to infinity. Especially the asymptotic properties of estimation for network autoregression are obtained under reasonable regularity conditions.

P-wave superconductors hold immense promise for both fundamental physics and practical applications due to their unusual pairing symmetry and potential topological superconductivity. However, the exploration of the p-wave superconductors has proved to be a complex endeavor. Not only are they rare in nature but also the identification of p-wave superconductors has been an arduous task in history. For example, phase-sensitive measurement, an experimental technique which can provide conclusive evidence for unconventional pairing, has not been implemented successfully to identify p-wave superconductors. Here, we study a recently discovered family of superconductors, A2Cr3As3 (A = K, Rb, Cs), which were proposed theoretically to be a candidate of p-wave superconductors. We fabricate superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) on exfoliated K2Cr3As3, and perform the phase-sensitive measurement. We observe that such SQUIDs exhibit a pronounced second-order harmonic component sin(2{\phi}) in the current-phase relation, suggesting the admixture of 0- and {\pi}-phase. By carefully examining the magnetic field dependence of the oscillation patterns of critical current and Shapiro steps under microwave irradiation, we reveal a crossover from 0- to {\pi}-dominating phase state and conclude that the existence of the {\pi}-phase is in favor of the p-wave pairing symmetry in K2Cr3As3.

Wide-separation lensed quasars (WSLQs) are a rare class of strongly lensed quasars, magnified by foreground massive galaxy clusters, with typically large magnifications of the multiple quasar images. They are a relatively unexplored opportunity for detailed study of quasar host galaxies. The current small sample of known WSLQs has a median redshift of $z\approx 2.1$, larger than most other samples of quasar host galaxies studied to date. Here, we derive precise constraints on the properties of six WSLQs and their host galaxies, using parametric surface brightness fitting, measurements of quasar emission lines, and stellar population synthesis of host galaxies in six WSLQ systems. Our results, with significant uncertainty, indicate that these six hosts are a mixture of star-forming and quiescent galaxies. To probe for co-evolution between AGNs and host galaxies, we model the offset from the `local' ($z=0$) $M_{\rm{BH}}\unicode{x2013}M_\star$ relation as a simple power-law in redshift. Accounting for selection effects, a WSLQ-based model for evolution in the $M_{\rm{BH}}\unicode{x2013}M_\star$ relation has a power-law index of $\gamma_M=-0.42\pm0.31$, consistent with no evolution. Compared to several literature samples, which mostly probe unlensed quasars at $z<2$, the WSLQ sample shows less evolution from the local relation, at $\sim 4\sigma$. We find that selection affects and choices of $M_{\rm{BH}}$ calibration are the most important systematics in these comparisons. Given that we resolve host galaxy flux confidently even from the ground in some instances, our work demonstrates that WSLQs and highly magnified AGNs are exceptional systems for future AGN$\unicode{x2013}$host co-evolution studies., Comment: Submitted to ApJ. 25 pages + 7-page appendix, 12+4 figures. Key results are shown starting with Figure 6. Comments welcome

Affective brain-computer interfaces (aBCIs) are increasingly recognized for their potential in monitoring and interpreting emotional states through electroencephalography (EEG) signals. Current EEG-based emotion recognition methods perform well with short segments of EEG data. However, these methods encounter significant challenges in real-life scenarios where emotional states evolve over extended periods. To address this issue, we propose a Dual Attentive (DuA) transformer framework for long-term continuous EEG emotion analysis. Unlike segment-based approaches, the DuA transformer processes an entire EEG trial as a whole, identifying emotions at the trial level, referred to as trial-based emotion analysis. This framework is designed to adapt to varying signal lengths, providing a substantial advantage over traditional methods. The DuA transformer incorporates three key modules: the spatial-spectral network module, the temporal network module, and the transfer learning module. The spatial-spectral network module simultaneously captures spatial and spectral information from EEG signals, while the temporal network module detects temporal dependencies within long-term EEG data. The transfer learning module enhances the model's adaptability across different subjects and conditions. We extensively evaluate the DuA transformer using a self-constructed long-term EEG emotion database, along with two benchmark EEG emotion databases. On the basis of the trial-based leave-one-subject-out cross-subject cross-validation protocol, our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed DuA transformer significantly outperforms existing methods in long-term continuous EEG emotion analysis, with an average enhancement of 5.28%., Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures

As the population is expected to reach 10 billion by 2050, our agricultural production system needs to double its productivity despite a decline of human workforce in the agricultural sector. Autonomous robotic systems are one promising pathway to increase productivity by taking over labor-intensive manual tasks like fruit picking. To be effective, such systems need to monitor and interact with plants and fruits precisely, which is challenging due to the cluttered nature of agricultural environments causing, for example, strong occlusions. Thus, being able to estimate the complete 3D shapes of objects in presence of occlusions is crucial for automating operations such as fruit harvesting. In this paper, we propose the first publicly available 3D shape completion dataset for agricultural vision systems. We provide an RGB-D dataset for estimating the 3D shape of fruits. Specifically, our dataset contains RGB-D frames of single sweet peppers in lab conditions but also in a commercial greenhouse. For each fruit, we additionally collected high-precision point clouds that we use as ground truth. For acquiring the ground truth shape, we developed a measuring process that allows us to record data of real sweet pepper plants, both in the lab and in the greenhouse with high precision, and determine the shape of the sensed fruits. We release our dataset, consisting of almost 7000 RGB-D frames belonging to more than 100 different fruits. We provide segmented RGB-D frames, with camera instrinsics to easily obtain colored point clouds, together with the corresponding high-precision, occlusion-free point clouds obtained with a high-precision laser scanner. We additionally enable evaluation ofshape completion approaches on a hidden test set through a public challenge on a benchmark server.

Building accurate maps is a key building block to enable reliable localization, planning, and navigation of autonomous vehicles. We propose a novel approach for building accurate maps of dynamic environments utilizing a sequence of LiDAR scans. To this end, we propose encoding the 4D scene into a novel spatio-temporal implicit neural map representation by fitting a time-dependent truncated signed distance function to each point. Using our representation, we extract the static map by filtering the dynamic parts. Our neural representation is based on sparse feature grids, a globally shared decoder, and time-dependent basis functions, which we jointly optimize in an unsupervised fashion. To learn this representation from a sequence of LiDAR scans, we design a simple yet efficient loss function to supervise the map optimization in a piecewise way. We evaluate our approach on various scenes containing moving objects in terms of the reconstruction quality of static maps and the segmentation of dynamic point clouds. The experimental results demonstrate that our method is capable of removing the dynamic part of the input point clouds while reconstructing accurate and complete 3D maps, outperforming several state-of-the-art methods. Codes are available at: https://github.com/PRBonn/4dNDF, Comment: 10 pages, CVPR 2024

We conducted an in-depth analysis of candidate member stars located in the peripheries of three ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxy satellites of the Milky Way: Bo\"otes I (Boo1), Bo\"otes II (Boo2), and Segue I (Seg1). Studying these peripheral stars has previously been difficult due to contamination from the Milky Way foreground. We used $u$-band photometry from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) to derive metallicities to efficiently select UFD candidate member stars. This approach was validated on Boo1, where we identified both previously known and new candidate member stars beyond five half-light radii. We then applied a similar procedure to Boo2 and Seg1. Our findings hinted at evidence for tidal features in Boo1 and Seg1, with Boo1 having an elongation consistent with its proper motion and Seg1 showing some distant candidate stars, a few of which are along its elongation and proper motion. We find two Boo2 stars at large distances consistent with being candidate member stars. Using a foreground contamination rate derived from the \emph{Besan\c{c}on} Galaxy model, we ascribed purity estimates to each candidate member star. We recommend further spectroscopic studies on the newly identified high-purity members. Our technique offers promise for future endeavors to detect candidate member stars at large radii in other systems, leveraging metallicity-sensitive filters with the Legacy Survey of Space and Time and the new, narrow-band Ca HK filter on DECam., Comment: 25 pages, 13 figures, machine-readable Tables 3, 4, 5 in source. Submitted to ApJ. Comments welcome!

Many autonomous robotic applications require object-level understanding when deployed. Actively reconstructing objects of interest, i.e. objects with specific semantic meanings, is therefore relevant for a robot to perform downstream tasks in an initially unknown environment. In this work, we propose a novel framework for semantic-targeted active reconstruction using posed RGB-D measurements and 2D semantic labels as input. The key components of our framework are a semantic implicit neural representation and a compatible planning utility function based on semantic rendering and uncertainty estimation, enabling adaptive view planning to target objects of interest. Our planning approach achieves better reconstruction performance in terms of mesh and novel view rendering quality compared to implicit reconstruction baselines that do not consider semantics for view planning. Our framework further outperforms a state-of-the-art semantic-targeted active reconstruction pipeline based on explicit maps, justifying our choice of utilising implicit neural representations to tackle semantic-targeted active reconstruction problems.

Accurate and robust localization and mapping are essential components for most autonomous robots. In this paper, we propose a SLAM system for building globally consistent maps, called PIN-SLAM, that is based on an elastic and compact point-based implicit neural map representation. Taking range measurements as input, our approach alternates between incremental learning of the local implicit signed distance field and the pose estimation given the current local map using a correspondence-free, point-to-implicit model registration. Our implicit map is based on sparse optimizable neural points, which are inherently elastic and deformable with the global pose adjustment when closing a loop. Loops are also detected using the neural point features. Extensive experiments validate that PIN-SLAM is robust to various environments and versatile to different range sensors such as LiDAR and RGB-D cameras. PIN-SLAM achieves pose estimation accuracy better or on par with the state-of-the-art LiDAR odometry or SLAM systems and outperforms the recent neural implicit SLAM approaches while maintaining a more consistent, and highly compact implicit map that can be reconstructed as accurate and complete meshes. Finally, thanks to the voxel hashing for efficient neural points indexing and the fast implicit map-based registration without closest point association, PIN-SLAM can run at the sensor frame rate on a moderate GPU. Codes will be available at: https://github.com/PRBonn/PIN_SLAM., Comment: 20 pages

We compute parametric measurements of the Einstein-radius-enclosed total mass for 177 cluster-scale strong gravitational lenses identified by the ChicagO Optically-selected Lenses Located At the Margins of Public Surveys (COOL-LAMPS) collaboration with lens redshifts ranging from $0.2 \lessapprox z \lessapprox 1.0$ using only two measured parameters in each lensing system: the Einstein radius, and the brightest-cluster-galaxy (BCG) redshift. We then constrain the Einstein-radius-enclosed luminosity and stellar mass by fitting parametric spectral energy distributions (SEDs) with aperture photometry from the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS) in the $g$, $r$, and $z$-band Dark Energy Camera (DECam) filters. We find that the BCG redshift, enclosed total mass, and enclosed luminosity are strongly correlated and well described by a planar relationship in 3D space. We also find that the enclosed total mass and stellar mass are correlated with a logarithmic slope of $0.443\pm0.035$, and the enclosed total mass and stellar-to-total mass fraction are correlated with a logarithmic slope of $-0.563\pm0.035$. The correlations described here can be used to validate strong lensing candidates in upcoming imaging surveys -- such as Rubin/Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) -- in which an algorithmic treatment of lensing systems will be needed due to the sheer volume of data these surveys will produce., Comment: 17 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal. v3: updated authors, formatting, grammar, and references

We investigate the impact of bursty star formation on several galaxy scaling relations of dwarf galaxies using the $\texttt{GRUMPY}$ galaxy formation model. While this model reproduces the star formation rate (SFR)-stellar mass, stellar mass-gas mass, and stellar mass-metallicity relations, the scatter of these relations in the original model is smaller than observed. We explore the effects of additional stochasticity of SFR on the scaling relations using a model that reproduces the level of SFR burstiness in high-resolution zoom-in simulations. The additional SFR stochasticity increases the scatter in the SFR-stellar mass relation to a level similar to that exhibited by most nearby dwarf galaxies. The most extreme observed starbursting dwarfs, however, require higher levels of SFR stochasticity. We find that bursty star formation increases the scatter in the colour-magnitude distribution (CMD) for brighter dwarf galaxies $(M_V < -12)$ to the observed level, but not for fainter ones for which scatter remains significantly smaller than observed. This is due to the predominant old stellar populations in these faint model galaxies and their generally declining SFR over the past 10 Gyrs, rather than quenching caused by reionization. We examine the possibility that the colour scatter is due to scatter in metallicity, but show that the level of scatter required leads to an overestimation of scatter in the metallicity-mass relation. This illustrates that the scatter of observed scaling relations in the dwarf galaxy regime represents a powerful constraint on the properties of their star formation., Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Liveness Detection (LivDet) is an international competition series open to academia and industry with the objec-tive to assess and report state-of-the-art in Presentation Attack Detection (PAD). LivDet-2023 Noncontact Fingerprint is the first edition of the noncontact fingerprint-based PAD competition for algorithms and systems. The competition serves as an important benchmark in noncontact-based fingerprint PAD, offering (a) independent assessment of the state-of-the-art in noncontact-based fingerprint PAD for algorithms and systems, and (b) common evaluation protocol, which includes finger photos of a variety of Presentation Attack Instruments (PAIs) and live fingers to the biometric research community (c) provides standard algorithm and system evaluation protocols, along with the comparative analysis of state-of-the-art algorithms from academia and industry with both old and new android smartphones. The winning algorithm achieved an APCER of 11.35% averaged overall PAIs and a BPCER of 0.62%. The winning system achieved an APCER of 13.0.4%, averaged over all PAIs tested over all the smartphones, and a BPCER of 1.68% over all smartphones tested. Four-finger systems that make individual finger-based PAD decisions were also tested. The dataset used for competition will be available 1 to all researchers as per data share protocol

Observations of high-redshift galaxies with unprecedented detail have now been rendered possible with JWST. However, accurately quantifying their morphology remains uncertain due to potential biases and uncertainties. To address this issue, we used a sample of 1816 nearby DESI galaxies, with a mass range of $10^{9.75-11.25}M_{\odot}$, to compute artificial images of galaxies of the same mass located at $0.75\leq z\leq 3$ and observed at rest-frame optical wavelength in CEERS. We analyzed the effects of cosmological redshift on the measurements of Petrosian radius ($R_p$), half-light radius ($R_{50}$), asymmetry ($A$), concentration ($C$), axis ratio ($q$), and S\'ersic index ($n$). Our results show that $R_p$ and $R_{50}$, calculated using non-parametric methods, are slightly overestimated due to PSF smoothing, while $R_{50}$, $q$, and $n$ obtained through model fitting does not exhibit significant biases. We improve the computation of $A$ by incorporating a more accurate noise effect removal procedure. Due to PSF asymmetry, there is a minor overestimation of $A$ for intrinsically symmetric galaxies. However, for intrinsically asymmetric galaxies, PSF smoothing dominates and results in an underestimation of $A$, an effect that becomes more significant with higher intrinsic $A$ or at lower resolutions. Moreover, PSF smoothing also leads to an underestimation of $C$, which is notably more pronounced in galaxies with higher intrinsic $C$ or at lower resolutions. We developed functions based on resolution level, defined as $R_p/$FWHM, for correcting these biases and the associated statistical uncertainties. Applying these corrections, we measured the bias-corrected morphology for the simulated CEERS images and we find that the derived quantities are in good agreement with their intrinsic values -- except for $A$, which is robust only for angularly large galaxies where $R_p/{\rm FWHM}\geq 5$., Comment: 21 pages, 17 figures; A&A in press

A growing number of applications depend on Machine Learning (ML) functionality and benefits from both higher quality ML predictions and better timeliness (latency) at the same time. A growing body of research in computer architecture, ML, and systems software literature focuses on reaching better latency-accuracy tradeoffs for ML models. Efforts include compression, quantization, pruning, early-exit models, mixed DNN precision, as well as ML inference accelerator designs that minimize latency and energy, while preserving delivered accuracy. All of them, however, yield improvements for a single static point in the latency-accuracy tradeoff space. We make a case for applications that operate in dynamically changing deployment scenarios, where no single static point is optimal. We draw on a recently proposed weight-shared SuperNet mechanism to enable serving a stream of queries that uses (activates) different SubNets within this weight-shared construct. This creates an opportunity to exploit the inherent temporal locality with our proposed SubGraph Stationary (SGS) optimization. We take a hardware-software co-design approach with a real implementation of SGS in SushiAccel and the implementation of a software scheduler SushiSched controlling which SubNets to serve and what to cache in real-time. Combined, they are vertically integrated into SUSHI-an inference serving stack. For the stream of queries, SUSHI yields up to 25% improvement in latency, 0.98% increase in served accuracy. SUSHI can achieve up to 78.7% off-chip energy savings., Comment: 16 pages; MLSYS 2023

Using the determinant quantum Monte Carlo method, we study the magnetic susceptibility in the parameter space of the on-site interaction $U$, temperature $T$, electron filling $\avg{n}$, and the frustration control parameter $t^{\prime}$ within the Hubbard model on a two-dimensional checkerboard lattice. It is shown that the system exhibits stable and strong ferromagnetic fluctuations about the electron filling $\avg{n}\ge1.2$ for different $t^{\prime}$, and the ferromagnetic susceptibility is strongly enhanced by the increasing interaction and decreasing tempeture. We also discuss the sign problem to clarify which parameter region is accessible and reliable. Our findings not only demonstrate important implications for modulating magnetism in the checkerboard lattice, but will also provide a theoretical platform for a flat-band model that demonstrates a variety of physical properties., Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures

Here, the magnetic susceptibility of a triangular-graphene-quantum-dot-like system was examined by using the determinant quantum Monte Carlo method. We focused on three zigzag edge quantum dots or rings, namely, the triangular graphene quantum ring, bilayer triangular graphene quantum dot, and bilayer triangular graphene quantum ring. The triangular-graphene-quantum-dot-like system exhibited robust edge ferromagnetic behavior, which was independent of size, monolayer or bilayer, or dot or ring shape, according to the numerical results. At half filling, the edge magnetic susceptibility is increased by on-site interactions, especially in the low-temperature region. Spintronics systems may benefit from use of this system due to its robust edge ferromagnetic behavior., Comment: 9 pages, 12 figures, to be published in Physical Review B