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Magnet errors in storage rings significantly degrade beam performance, impacting the brightness and stability of the light source. Therefore, beam-based correction is crucial for the safe operation of machines and the stability of radiated…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Jianhao Xu

Efficient spatiotemporal control of optical beams is of paramount importance in diverse technological domains. Conventional systems focusing on quasi-static beam control demand precise phase or wavelength tuning for steering. This work…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-10 Suparna Seshadri , Jie Wang , Andrew M. Weiner

Beam diagnostics and instrumentation are an essential part of any kind of accelerator. There is a large variety of parameters to be measured for observation of particle beams with the precision required to tune, operate, and improve the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Gero Kube

Understanding how large audio models represent music, and using that understanding to steer generation, is both challenging and underexplored. Inspired by mechanistic interpretability in language models, where direction vectors in…

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly serve as automated evaluators, yet they suffer from "self-preference bias": a tendency to favor their own outputs over those of other models. This bias undermines fairness and reliability in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Dani Roytburg , Matthew Bozoukov , Matthew Nguyen , Jou Barzdukas , Simon Fu , Narmeen Oozeer

While open sourced Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have proliferated, selecting the optimal pretrained model for a specific downstream task remains challenging. Exhaustive evaluation is often infeasible due to computational constraints and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Wei Yang , Hong Xie , Tao Tan , Xin Li , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

The robust adaptive beamforming design problem based on estimation of the signal of interest steering vector is considered in the paper. In this case, the optimal beamformer is obtained by computing the sample matrix inverse and an optimal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Yongwei Huang , Mingkang Zhou , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

The best beam steering directions are estimated through beam training, which is one of the most important and challenging tasks in millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz communications. Novel array architectures and signal processing techniques…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Veljko Boljanovic , Han Yan , Chung-Ching Lin , Soumen Mohapatra , Deukhyoun Heo , Subhanshu Gupta , Danijela Cabric

Optical phased arrays are of strong interest for beam steering in telecom and LIDAR applications. A phased array ideally requires that the field produced by each element in the array (a pixel) is fully controllable in phase and amplitude…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Antonio Cala' Lesina , Dominic Goodwill , Eric Bernier , Lora Ramunno , Pierre Berini

In millimeter wave cellular communication, fast and reliable beam alignment via beam training is crucial to harvest sufficient beamforming gain for the subsequent data transmission. In this paper, we establish fundamental limits in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Chunshan Liu , Min Li , Stephen V. Hanly , Iain B. Collings , Philip Whiting

The Fermilab Linac is a roughly 145 meter linear accelerator that accelerates H- beam from 750 keV to 400 MeV and provides beam for the Booster and the rest of the accelerator chain. The first section of the Linac is a Drift-Tube Linac…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-05-25 J. Stanton , R. Sharankova , K. Seiya , M. Wesley

Large language models have transformed AI, yet reliably controlling their outputs remains a challenge. This paper explores activation engineering, where outputs of pre-trained LLMs are controlled by manipulating their activations at…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Joris Postmus , Steven Abreu

The training of many existing end-to-end steering angle prediction models heavily relies on steering angles as the supervisory signal. Without learning from much richer contexts, these methods are susceptible to the presence of sharp road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Yuenan Hou , Zheng Ma , Chunxiao Liu , Chen Change Loy

A common approach to reduce the linewidth of a laser is an increase of its resonator length. In large gas lasers, however, the frequency spacing between longitudinal modes of the resonator easily becomes significantly smaller than the…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-22 Jannik Zenner , Karl Ulrich Schreiber , Simon Stellmer

Meeting the high data rate demands of modern applications necessitates the utilization of high-frequency spectrum bands, including millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz bands. However, these frequencies require precise alignment of narrow…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Sachira Karunasena , Erfan Khordad , Thomas Drummond , Rajitha Senanayake

The paper proposes a method of finding the beam loss locations in a linac. If the beam is scraped at an aperture limitation, moving its centroid with two dipole correctors located upstream and oscillating in sync produces a line at the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-05-02 Alexander Shemyakin

High-dimensional nonlinear systems pose considerable challenges for modeling and control across many domains, from fluid mechanics to advanced robotics. Such systems are typically approximated with reduced-order models, which often rely on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Hugo Buurmeijer , Luis A. Pabon , John Irvin Alora , Roshan S. Kaundinya , George Haller , Marco Pavone

Accurate beam alignment is essential for beam-based millimeter wave communications. Conventional beam sweeping solutions often have large overhead, which is unacceptable for mobile applications like vehicle-to-everything. Learning-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Vutha Va , Takayuki Shimizu , Gaurav Bansal , Robert W. Heath

Deep neural networks have consistently shown great performance in several real-world use cases like autonomous vehicles, satellite imaging, etc., effectively leveraging large corpora of labeled training data. However, learning unbiased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Nathan Beck , Suraj Kothawade , Pradeep Shenoy , Rishabh Iyer

We introduce a new method for robust beamforming, where the goal is to estimate a signal from array samples when there is uncertainty in the angle of arrival. Our method offers state-of-the-art performance on narrowband signals and is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Nakul Singh , Coleman DeLude , Mark A. Davenport , Justin Romberg