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One of the most exciting advancements in AI over the last decade is the wide adoption of ANNs, such as DNN and CNN, in many real-world applications. However, the underlying massive amounts of computation and storage requirement greatly…

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In this paper we introduce a new Python package, the Pulsar Signal Simulator, or PsrSigSim, which is designed to simulate a pulsar signal from emission at the pulsar, through the interstellar medium, to observation by a radio telescope, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Brent J. Shapiro-Albert , Jeffrey S. Hazboun , Maura A. McLaughlin , Michael T. Lam

Recent advances in time-series forecasting increasingly rely on pre-trained foundation-style models. While these models often claim broad generalization, existing evaluation protocols provide limited evidence. Indeed, most current…

In this paper, a Packet-Coupled Oscillators (PkCOs) synchronisation protocol is proposed for time-sensitive Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) based on Pulse-Coupled Oscillators (PCO) in mathematical biology. The effects of delays on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-21 Yan Zong , Xuewu Dai , Pep Canyelles-Pericas , Krishna Busawon , Richard Binns , Zhiwei Gao

This study addresses the task of performing robust and reliable time-delay estimation in signals in noisy and reverberating environments. In contrast to the popular signal processing based methods, this paper proposes to transform the input…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Akshay Raina , Vipul Arora

With steadily increasing parallelism for high-performance architectures, simulations requiring a good strong scalability are prone to be limited in scalability with standard spatial-decomposition strategies at a certain amount of parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Martin Schreiber , Adam Peddle , Terry Haut , Beth Wingate

Although contrastive and other representation-learning methods have long been explored in vision and NLP, their adoption in modern time series forecasters remains limited. We believe they hold strong promise for this domain. To unlock this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yifan Hu , Jie Yang , Tian Zhou , Peiyuan Liu , Yujin Tang , Rong Jin , Liang Sun

Time domain science forms an increasing fraction of astronomical programs at many facilities. Synoptic and targeted observing modes of transient, varying, and moving sources rely on precise clocks to provide the underlying time tags. Often…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-05 Robert L. Seaman , Alex R. Gibbs

This paper examines synchronization of computer clocks connected via a data network and proposes a skewless algorithm to synchronize them. Unlike existing solutions, which either estimate and compensate the frequency difference (skew) among…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-29 Enrique Mallada , Xiaoqiao Meng , Michel Hack , Li Zhang , Ao Tang

A precise fiber-based time and frequency dissemination scheme for multiple users with a tree-like branching topology is proposed. Through this scheme, ultra-stable signals can be easily accessed online anywhere along the fiber without…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-23 Wei Chen , Qin Liu , Nan Cheng , Dan Xu , Fei Yang , Youzhen Gui , Haiwen Cai

We introduce a graph-theoretic approach to synchronizing clocks in an {\em ad hoc} network of $N$~timepieces. Clocks naturally drift away from being synchronized because of many physical factors. The manual way of clock synchronization…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-29 Jaderick P. Pabico

Over the past few decades, the measurement precision of some pulsar-timing experiments has advanced from ~10 us to ~10 ns, revealing many subtle phenomena. Such high precision demands both careful data handling and sophisticated timing…

Achieving consistent time across devices in distributed systems often involves exchanging timestamped messages over a network. Precise time synchronization is crucial for applications such as cellular networks, industrial automation, and…

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Timeseries partitioning is an essential step in most machine-learning driven, sensor-based IoT applications. This paper introduces a sample-efficient, robust, time-series segmentation model and algorithm. We show that by learning a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Tahiya Chowdhury , Murtadha Aldeer , Shantanu Laghate , Jorge Ortiz

Recent years have witnessed the surge of asynchronous parallel (async-parallel) iterative algorithms due to problems involving very large-scale data and a large number of decision variables. Because of asynchrony, the iterates are computed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Zhimin Peng , Yangyang Xu , Ming Yan , Wotao Yin

The problem of minimizing a sum of local convex objective functions over a networked system captures many important applications and has received much attention in the distributed optimization field. Most of existing work focuses on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-09 Fatemeh Mansoori , Ermin Wei

In earlier papers we showed unpredictability beyond quantum uncertainty in atomic clocks, ensuing from a proven gap between given evidence and explanations of that evidence. Here we reconceive a clock, not as an isolated entity, but as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-17 F. Hadi Madjid , John M. Myers

In the last years there has been a considerable increase in the availability of continuous sensor measurements in a wide range of application domains, such as Location-Based Services (LBS), medical monitoring systems, manufacturing plants…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Michele Dallachiesa , Besmira Nushi , Katsiaryna Mirylenka , Themis Palpanas

Temporal link prediction, aiming at predicting future interactions among entities based on historical interactions, is crucial for a series of real-world applications. Although previous methods have demonstrated the importance of relative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Xiaodong Lu , Leilei Sun , Tongyu Zhu , Weifeng Lv

In distributed systems with processes that do not share a global clock, \emph{partial synchrony} is achieved by clock synchronization that guarantees bounded clock skew among all applications. Existing solutions for distributed runtime…

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