The assembly of a protein complex is very important for its biological function,which can be investigated by determining the order of assembly/disassembly of its protein subunits.Although static structures of many pro...The assembly of a protein complex is very important for its biological function,which can be investigated by determining the order of assembly/disassembly of its protein subunits.Although static structures of many protein com-plexes are available in the protein data bank,their assembly/disassembly orders of subunits are largely unknown.In addition to experimental techniques for studying subcomplexes in the assembly/disassembly of a protein complex,computational methods can be used to predict the assembly/disassembly order.Since sampling is a nontrivial issue in simulating the assembly/disassembly process,coarse-grained simulations are more efficient than atomic simulations are.In this work,we developed computational protocols for predicting the assembly/disassembly orders of protein complexes via coarse-grained simulations.The protocols were illustrated via two protein complexes,and the predicted assembly/disassembly orders were consistent with the available experimental data.展开更多
In recent years,the concept of digital human has attracted widespread attention from all walks of life,and the modelling of high-fidelity human bodies,heads,and hands has been intensively studied.This paper focuses on...In recent years,the concept of digital human has attracted widespread attention from all walks of life,and the modelling of high-fidelity human bodies,heads,and hands has been intensively studied.This paper focuses on head modelling and proposes a generic head parametric model based on neural radiance fields.Specifically,we first use face recognition networks and 3D facial expression database FaceWarehouse to parameterize identity and expression semantics,respectively,and use both as conditional inputs to build a neural radiance field for the human head,thereby improving the head model’s representation ability while ensuring editing capabilities for the identity and expression of the rendered results;then,through a combination of volume rendering and neural rendering,the 3D representation of the head is rapidly rendered into the 2D plane,producing a high-fidelity image of the human head.Thanks to the well-designed loss functions and good implicit representation of the neural radiance field,our model can not only edit the identity and expression independently,but also freely modify the virtual camera position of the rendering results.It has excellent multi-view consistency,and has many applications in novel view synthesis,pose driving and more.展开更多
The Stackelberg prediction game(SPG)is a bilevel optimization frame-work for modeling strategic interactions between a learner and a follower.Existing meth-ods for solving this problem with general loss functions are ...The Stackelberg prediction game(SPG)is a bilevel optimization frame-work for modeling strategic interactions between a learner and a follower.Existing meth-ods for solving this problem with general loss functions are computationally expensive and scarce.We propose a novel hyper-gradient type method with a warm-start strategy to address this challenge.Particularly,we first use a Taylor expansion-based approach to obtain a good initial point.Then we apply a hyper-gradient descent method with an ex-plicit approximate hyper-gradient.We establish the convergence results of our algorithm theoretically.Furthermore,when the follower employs the least squares loss function,our method is shown to reach an e-stationary point by solving quadratic subproblems.Numerical experiments show our algorithms are empirically orders of magnitude faster than the state-of-the-art.展开更多
Network autoregression and factor model are effective methods for modeling network time series data.In this study,we propose a network autoregression model with a factor structure that incorporates a latent group stru...Network autoregression and factor model are effective methods for modeling network time series data.In this study,we propose a network autoregression model with a factor structure that incorporates a latent group structure to address nodal heterogeneity within the network.An iterative algorithm is employed to minimize a least-squares objective function,allowing for simultaneous estimation of both the parameters and the group structure.To determine the unknown number of groups and factors,a PIC criterion is introduced.Additionally,statistical inference of the estimated parameters is presented.To assess the validity of the proposed estimation and inference procedures,we conduct extensive numerical studies.We also demonstrate the utility of our model using a stock dataset obtained from the Chinese A-Share stock market.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFA1301504)the Chinese Academy of Sciences Strategic Priority Research Program(XDB37040202)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91953101).
文摘The assembly of a protein complex is very important for its biological function,which can be investigated by determining the order of assembly/disassembly of its protein subunits.Although static structures of many protein com-plexes are available in the protein data bank,their assembly/disassembly orders of subunits are largely unknown.In addition to experimental techniques for studying subcomplexes in the assembly/disassembly of a protein complex,computational methods can be used to predict the assembly/disassembly order.Since sampling is a nontrivial issue in simulating the assembly/disassembly process,coarse-grained simulations are more efficient than atomic simulations are.In this work,we developed computational protocols for predicting the assembly/disassembly orders of protein complexes via coarse-grained simulations.The protocols were illustrated via two protein complexes,and the predicted assembly/disassembly orders were consistent with the available experimental data.
文摘In recent years,the concept of digital human has attracted widespread attention from all walks of life,and the modelling of high-fidelity human bodies,heads,and hands has been intensively studied.This paper focuses on head modelling and proposes a generic head parametric model based on neural radiance fields.Specifically,we first use face recognition networks and 3D facial expression database FaceWarehouse to parameterize identity and expression semantics,respectively,and use both as conditional inputs to build a neural radiance field for the human head,thereby improving the head model’s representation ability while ensuring editing capabilities for the identity and expression of the rendered results;then,through a combination of volume rendering and neural rendering,the 3D representation of the head is rapidly rendered into the 2D plane,producing a high-fidelity image of the human head.Thanks to the well-designed loss functions and good implicit representation of the neural radiance field,our model can not only edit the identity and expression independently,but also freely modify the virtual camera position of the rendering results.It has excellent multi-view consistency,and has many applications in novel view synthesis,pose driving and more.
文摘The Stackelberg prediction game(SPG)is a bilevel optimization frame-work for modeling strategic interactions between a learner and a follower.Existing meth-ods for solving this problem with general loss functions are computationally expensive and scarce.We propose a novel hyper-gradient type method with a warm-start strategy to address this challenge.Particularly,we first use a Taylor expansion-based approach to obtain a good initial point.Then we apply a hyper-gradient descent method with an ex-plicit approximate hyper-gradient.We establish the convergence results of our algorithm theoretically.Furthermore,when the follower employs the least squares loss function,our method is shown to reach an e-stationary point by solving quadratic subproblems.Numerical experiments show our algorithms are empirically orders of magnitude faster than the state-of-the-art.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(72222009,71991472)。
文摘Network autoregression and factor model are effective methods for modeling network time series data.In this study,we propose a network autoregression model with a factor structure that incorporates a latent group structure to address nodal heterogeneity within the network.An iterative algorithm is employed to minimize a least-squares objective function,allowing for simultaneous estimation of both the parameters and the group structure.To determine the unknown number of groups and factors,a PIC criterion is introduced.Additionally,statistical inference of the estimated parameters is presented.To assess the validity of the proposed estimation and inference procedures,we conduct extensive numerical studies.We also demonstrate the utility of our model using a stock dataset obtained from the Chinese A-Share stock market.
