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While critical for alignment, Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) incurs the risk of catastrophic forgetting, yet the layer-wise emergence of instruction-following capabilities remains elusive. We investigate this mechanism via a comprehensive…
Existing fine-tuning methods either tune all parameters of the pre-trained model (full fine-tuning), which is not efficient, or only tune the last linear layer (linear probing), which suffers a significant accuracy drop compared to the full…
We suggest a program to establish theoretical performance limits of srf cavities using modern theories of nonequilibrium superconductivity under a strong electromagnetic field. These theories will be used to calculate the main parameter of…
A space-filling curve (SFC) maps points in a multi-dimensional space to one-dimensional points by discretizing the multi-dimensional space into cells and imposing a linear order on the cells. This way, an SFC enables the indexing of…
As mechanical devices in the nano/micro length scale are increasingly employed, it is crucial to understand nanoscale friction and wear especially at technically relevant sliding velocities. Accordingly, a novel technique has been developed…
Due to their nature, using shear thickening fluids (STFs) in engineering applications has sparked an interest in developing energy-dissipating systems, such as damping devices or shock absorbers. The Rheinforce technology allows the design…
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Stacking Fault Energy (SFE) is an intrinsic alloy property that governs much of the plastic deformation mechanisms observed in fcc alloys. While SFE has been recognized for many years as a key intrinsic mechanical property, its inference…
In the present work we show that the correct determination of surface morphology using Scanning Force Microscopy (SFM) imaging and Power Spectral Density (PSD) analysis of the surface roughness is an extremely demanding task that is easily…
We describe a version of an algorithm for evolving self-gravitating collections of particles that should be nearly ideal for parallel architectures. Our method is derived from the ``self-consistent field'' (SCF) approach suggested…
A localized measurement of the RF critical field on superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavity materials is a key step to identify specific defects that produce quenches of SRF cavities. Two new measurements are performed to demonstrate…
We present a comprehensive convergence analysis for Self-Consistent Field (SCF) iteration to solve a class of nonlinear eigenvalue problems with eigenvector-dependency (NEPv). Using a tangent-angle matrix as an intermediate measure for…
Space-filling curves (SFCs) are used in high performance computing to distribute a computational domain or its mesh, respectively, amongst different compute units, i.e.~cores or nodes or accelerators. The part of the domain allocated to…
In recent years a local probabilistic model for low cycle fatigue (LCF) based on the statistical size effect has been developed and applied on engineering components. Here, the notch support extension based on the stress gradient effect is…
In many field electron emission experiments on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), the SWCNT stands on one of two well-separated parallel plane plates, with a macroscopic field FM applied between them. For any given location "L" on the…
Bulk niobium has long been the material of choice for superconducting radio-frequency applications. An alternative approach is the superconductor-insulator-superconductor multilayer structure, which enables the use of brittle high-$T_c$…