LLM-PCGC: Large Language Model-based Point Cloud Geometry Compression

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Yuqi Ye, Wei Gao, , , | Summary: The key to effective point cloud compression is to obtain a robust context model consistent with complex 3D data structures. Recently, the advancement of large language models (LLMs) has highlighted their capabilities not only as powerful generators for in-context […]


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Valleytronics and negative differential resistance in cubic boron nitride: a first-principles study

Kavli Affiliate: Austin J. Minnich | First 5 Authors: Benjamin Hatanpää, Austin J. Minnich, , , | Summary: Cubic boron nitride (c-BN) is an ultrawide-bandgap semiconductor of significant interest for high-frequency and high-power electronics applications owing to its high saturation drift velocity and high electric breakdown field. Beyond transistors, devices exploiting the valley degree of […]


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Phononic materials with effectively scale-separated hierarchical features using interpretable machine learning

Kavli Affiliate: Chiara Daraio | First 5 Authors: Mary V. Bastawrous, Zhi Chen, Alexander C. Ogren, Chiara Daraio, Cynthia Rudin | Summary: Manipulating the dispersive characteristics of vibrational waves is beneficial for many applications, e.g., high-precision instruments. architected hierarchical phononic materials have sparked promise tunability of elastodynamic waves and vibrations over multiple frequency ranges. In […]


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Quantum thermalization and Floquet engineering in a spin ensemble with a clock transition

Kavli Affiliate: Andrei Faraon | First 5 Authors: Mi Lei, Rikuto Fukumori, Chun-Ju Wu, Edwin Barnes, Sophia Economou | Summary: Studying and controlling quantum many-body interactions is fundamentally important for quantum science and related emerging technologies. Optically addressable solid-state spins offer a promising platform for exploring various quantum many-body phenomena due to their scalability to […]


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A Local Modal Outer-Product-Gradient Estimator for Dimension Reduction

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Zheng Li, Chong Ding, Wei Gao, , | Summary: Sufficient dimension reduction (SDR) is a valuable approach for handling high-dimensional data. Outer Product Gradient (OPG) is an popular approach. However, because of focusing the mean regression function, OPG may ignore some directions of central subspace (CS) when […]


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Efficient, gigapixel-scale, aberration-free whole slide scanner using angular ptychographic imaging with closed-form solution

Kavli Affiliate: Changhuei Yang | First 5 Authors: Shi Zhao, Haowen Zhou, Siyu Lin, Ruizhi Cao, Changhuei Yang | Summary: Whole slide imaging provides a wide field-of-view (FOV) across cross-sections of biopsy or surgery samples, significantly facilitating pathological analysis and clinical diagnosis. Such high-quality images that enable detailed visualization of cellular and tissue structures are […]


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Planar structured materials with extreme elastic anisotropy

Kavli Affiliate: Chiara Daraio | First 5 Authors: Jagannadh Boddapati, Chiara Daraio, , , | Summary: Designing anisotropic structured materials by reducing symmetry results in unique behaviors, such as shearing under uniaxial compression or tension. This direction-dependent coupled mechanical phenomenon is crucial for applications such as energy redirection. While rank-deficient materials such as hierarchical laminates […]


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Planar structured materials with extreme elastic anisotropy

Kavli Affiliate: Chiara Daraio | First 5 Authors: Jagannadh Boddapati, Chiara Daraio, , , | Summary: Designing anisotropic structured materials by reducing symmetry results in unique behaviors, such as shearing under uniaxial compression or tension. This direction-dependent coupled mechanical phenomenon is crucial for applications such as energy redirection. While rank-deficient materials such as hierarchical laminates […]


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Microwave-Optical Entanglement from Pulse-pumped Electro-optomechanics

Kavli Affiliate: Oskar Painter | First 5 Authors: Changchun Zhong, Fangxin Li, Srujan Meesala, Steven Wood, David Lake | Summary: Entangling microwave and optical photons is one of the promising ways to realize quantum transduction through quantum teleportation. This paper investigates the entanglement of microwave-optical photon pairs generated from an electro-optomechanical system driven by a […]


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Active Loop Closure for OSM-guided Robotic Mapping in Large-Scale Urban Environments

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Wei Gao, Zezhou Sun, Mingle Zhao, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Hui Kong | Summary: The autonomous mapping of large-scale urban scenes presents significant challenges for autonomous robots. To mitigate the challenges, global planning, such as utilizing prior GPS trajectories from OpenStreetMap (OSM), is often used to guide the autonomous […]


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