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QC Lab is an open-source Python package for QC dynamics simulations aimed to promote the development of QC algorithms, and their application to a wide variety of relevant model problems. It follows a modular design that facilitates…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Alex Krotz , Ethan Byrd , Ken Miyazaki , Roel Tempelaar

Running complex sets of machine learning experiments is challenging and time-consuming due to the lack of a unified framework. This leaves researchers forced to spend time implementing necessary features such as parallelization, caching,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Zac Pullar-Strecker , Xinglong Chang , Liam Brydon , Ioannis Ziogas , Katharina Dost , Jörg Wicker

Python is a popular programming language known for its flexibility, usability, readability, and focus on developer productivity. The quantum software community has adopted Python on a number of large-scale efforts due to these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Thien Nguyen , Alexander J. McCaskey

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) achieve self-supervised learning of image representations by randomly removing a portion of visual tokens and reconstructing the original image as a pretext task, thereby significantly enhancing pretraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiaxuan Li , Qing Xu , Xiangjian He , Ziyu Liu , Chang Xing , Zhen Chen , Daokun Zhang , Rong Qu , Chang Wen Chen

Masked image modeling has been demonstrated as a powerful pretext task for generating robust representations that can be effectively generalized across multiple downstream tasks. Typically, this approach involves randomly masking patches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Neelu Madan , Nicolae-Catalin Ristea , Kamal Nasrollahi , Thomas B. Moeslund , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Traditional machine learning systems are typically designed for static data distributions, which suffer from catastrophic forgetting when learning from evolving data streams. Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) addresses this challenge by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hao Sun , Da-Wei Zhou

The Core Imaging Library (CIL) is an open-source versatile Python framework for solving inverse problems with special emphasis on imaging applications such as computed tomography (CT), using a plug-in architecture for data and operators,…

In this work, we propose a new variant of natural evolution strategies (NES) for high-dimensional black-box optimization problems. The proposed method, CR-FM-NES, extends a recently proposed state-of-the-art NES, Fast Moving Natural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Masahiro Nomura , Isao Ono

This paper introduces the batch-parallel Compressed Packed Memory Array (CPMA), a compressed, dynamic, ordered set data structure based on the Packed Memory Array (PMA). Traditionally, batch-parallel sets are built on pointer-based data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Brian Wheatman , Randal Burns , Aydın Buluç , Helen Xu

Kernel methods have proven to be powerful techniques for pattern analysis and machine learning (ML) in a variety of domains. However, many of their original or advanced implementations remain in Matlab. With the incredible rise and adoption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Pradeep Reddy Raamana

To facilitate the research on large language models (LLMs), this paper presents a comprehensive and unified library, LLMBox, to ease the development, use, and evaluation of LLMs. This library is featured with three main merits: (1) a…

The limited memory BFGS method (L-BFGS) of Liu and Nocedal (1989) is often considered to be the method of choice for continuous optimization when first- and/or second- order information is available. However, the use of L-BFGS can be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Ilya Loshchilov

As a promising step, the performance of data analysis and feature learning are able to be improved if certain pattern matching mechanism is available. One of the feasible solutions can refer to the importance estimation of instances, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Miao Cheng , Xinge You

Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit performance disparities across languages, with naive multilingual fine-tuning frequently degrading performance due to negative cross-lingual interference. To address this, we introduce COMPASS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Noah Flynn

QwaveMPS is an open-source Python library for simulating one-dimensional quantum many-body waveguide systems using matrix product states (MPS). It provides a user-friendly interface for constructing, evolving, and analyzing quantum states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Sofia Arranz Regidor , Matthew Kozma , Stephen Hughes

Construct, Merge, Solve and Adapt (CMSA) is a general hybrid metaheuristic for solving combinatorial optimization problems. At each iteration, CMSA (1) constructs feasible solutions to the tackled problem instance in a probabilistic way and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Christian Blum , Haroldo Gambini Santos

Balancing sensitivity to new tasks and stability for retaining past knowledge is crucial in continual learning (CL). Recently, sharpness-aware minimization has proven effective in transfer learning and has also been adopted in continual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Wei Li , Hangjie Yuan , Zixiang Zhao , Yifan Zhu , Aojun Lu , Tao Feng , Yanan Sun

The Cloud-Edge continuum enhances application performance by bringing computation closer to data sources. However, it presents considerable challenges in managing resources and determining service placement, as these tasks require…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jacopo Massa , Valerio De Caro , Stefano Forti , Patrizio Dazzi , Davide Bacciu , Antonio Brogi

Despite the importance of sparse matrices in numerous fields of science, software implementations remain difficult to use for non-expert users, generally requiring the understanding of underlying details of the chosen sparse matrix storage…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Conrad Sanderson , Ryan Curtin

Local governments, as part of 'smart city' initiatives and to promote interoperability, are increasingly incorporating open-source software into their data management, analysis, and visualisation workflows. Python, with its concise and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Gregor Herda , Robert McNabb