Abstract: An information processing apparatus calculates a plurality of first molecular energies corresponding to a plurality of first interatomic distances by using a first algorithm that iteratively updates a solution until a convergence condition is satisfied. The information processing apparatus specifies, based on a slope of a line segment indicating a relationship between the plurality of first interatomic distances and iteration counts, a plurality of second interatomic distances for which molecular energy is to be calculated by using a second algorithm. The information processing apparatus calculates second molecular energies corresponding to the specified plurality of second interatomic distances by using the second algorithm.

Abstract: A computing device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to stride width based on request addresses of respective two memory access instructions that are presented by a given program counter and detect occurrence of a stride access based on request addresses of a plurality of memory access instructions that are presented by the given program counter and the calculated a stride width, and issue a prefetch request based on the stride width When the stride access is detected.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an information management program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes referring to a management storage device that stores correspondence information that associates each post with a storage device that stores information related to each post and specifying a specific storage device that corresponds to a specific post from among a plurality of storage devices, in a case of receiving a browse request of specific property information that indicates certainty of the specific post uploaded over the Internet; referring to the specific storage device and determining whether the specific property information exists; and transmitting the specific property information to a transmission source of the browse request in a case of determining that the specific property information exists.

Abstract: A wavelength conversion device includes an optical medium that converts a first wavelength-multiplexed light including a plurality of first wavelengths belonging to a first wavelength band to a second wavelength-multiplexed light including a plurality of second wavelengths belonging to a second wavelength band, a first monitor configured to monitor power of the plurality of second wavelengths belonging to the second wavelength band, a storage unit that holds control information for adjusting a conversion characteristic of the optical medium, and a control unit configured to perform control of adjusting the conversion characteristic of the optical medium based on the control information acquired from the storage unit according to a first monitoring result by the first monitor.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process includes identifying, among pieces of feature information of a plurality of pieces of time-series data, a plurality of pieces of feature information similar to feature information of processing target time-series data, obtaining a predicted value distribution of the processing target time-series data based on each of the plurality of pieces of feature information, obtaining a combined distribution from the predicted value distribution, and determining a range of predicted value for the processing target time-series data based on the combined distribution.

Abstract: An information display apparatus including: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to perform processing including: analyzing transmission information to extract first analysis information with respect to the transmission information; acquiring, from among a plurality of pieces of second analysis information, second analysis information similar to the first analysis information, the plurality of pieces of second analysis information being obtained by analyzing a plurality of pieces of reliable information; comparing the first analysis information with the acquired second analysis information similar to the first analysis information; and displaying a result of the comparison and the transmission information.

Abstract: A method may include obtaining variables that represent characteristics related to an optimization problem and weights that correspond to the variables. The variables may be divided into groups that each include a sub-set of the variables. The method may include obtaining a group local field matrix for each group of variables. Each local field matrix may include local field values that indicate interactions between a respective variable and the other variables as influenced by their respective weights. The method may include performing a semi-sequential trial process, which may be a stochastic process that includes performing trials with respect to the variables in which each trial determines whether to change a state of a variable. The semi-sequential trial process may include updating all of the group local field matrices based on the stochastic process results, and a solution to the optimization problem may be determined based on the results.

Abstract: A determination method includes acquiring a plurality of images which are captured at different times by a camera; and determining, when each of the plurality of images includes a first image region of a face of a person and a second image region which is located outside the first image region and has a shape which satisfies a predetermined condition, whether the face of the person is a display object based on a state of change in a positional relationship between the first image region and the second image region between the plurality of images.

Abstract: A wavelength converter includes: a first multiplexer that combines input signal light with wavelength-conversion excitation light; a second multiplexer that combines the signal light with Raman excitation light; a first nonlinear optical medium that generates wavelength-converted light of the signal light, based on a nonlinear optical effect; and a second nonlinear optical medium that amplifies wavelength-converted light of the signal light output from the first nonlinear optical medium. A wavelength of the Raman excitation light being a wavelength within an amplification band that allows Raman amplification of wavelength-converted light.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an information management program for causing a computer to execute processing including: receiving distribution information obtained by attaching, to distribution content to be distributed by a user, attribute information on the user that includes signature information that is signed by an issuing authority that issues information regarding an attribute of the user and that proves that the issuing authority has issued the attribute information; verifying whether the attribute information on the user included in the distribution information is the attribute information issued by the issuing authority, by using the signature information; and outputting the distribution content, based on a verification result.

Abstract: An optical transmission device configured to: receive an input of signal interruption information from a second optical transmission device that detects a signal interruption of signal light on a transmission path, and to receive an input of ASE light after the signal interruption, has a wavelength selective switch configured to drop and/or add signal light; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: switch, based on the input of the signal interruption information from the second optical transmission device, control of output of the wavelength selective switch from a constant level control of the output, to a constant level control of attenuation for holding an amount of the attenuation of the signal light constant; and return the constant level control of the attenuation to the constant level control of the output, after the input of the ASE light.

Abstract: An information processing method implemented by a computer includes: executing a generation processing that includes generating a first mini-batch by performing data extension processing on learning data and processing to generate a second mini-batch without performing the data extension processing on the learning data; and executing a learning processing by using a neural network, the learning processing being configured to perform first learning by using the first mini-batch, and then perform second learning by using the second mini-batch.

Abstract: An image processing method executed by a computer, the method includes detecting a plurality of feature points of a face from an input image, referring to importance information that indicates an importance of a region within an image in a process of detecting a predetermined facial motion from the image, selecting, from the plurality of feature points detected by the detecting, one or more points that correspond to an image region including an importance indicated by the importance information equal to or smaller than a first threshold value, correcting the input image by using the one or more points selected by the selecting, to generate a corrected image; and determining whether or not the predetermined facial motion is occurring in the input image, based on an output obtained by inputting the corrected image to a recognition model.

Abstract: A processor receives a search query for graph data representing a graph including nodes and edges, the search query specifying a search criterion. The processor determines whether a value of a first property associated with a first node matches the search criterion. The processor predicts whether a value of a second property associated with a second node matches the search criterion, in accordance with a result of the determining and a constraint rule between the first node and the second node. The processor generates a search result for the search query in accordance with the result of the determining and a result of the predicting.

Abstract: An optical waveguide includes a diamond layer including a first surface, a second surface and a diamond layer including a complex defect; a first clad layer in contact with the first surface; a second clad layer in contact with the second surface and including a polarity; and a metal layer in Schottky contact with the second clad layer.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a machine learning program causing a computer to execute a process including: calculating an average of latent variables by inputting input data to an encoder; sampling a noise, based on a probability distribution of the noise, in which a probability is decreased as the probability approaches to a center of the probability distribution from a predetermined position in the probability distribution; calculating the latent variable by adding the noise to the average; calculating output data by inputting the calculated latent variable to a decoder; and training the encoder and the decoder in accordance with a loss function, the loss function including encoding information and an error between the input data and the output data, the encoding information being information of a probability distribution of the calculated latent variable and a prior distribution of the latent variable.

Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium storing a specifying program for causing a computer to perform processing including: obtaining first information indicating an order of processing a plurality of objects; obtaining second information indicating a type being processable by each work device; obtaining a result of a simulation regarding processing of the work devices; counting a number N1 of objects having moved to another work device although processing is capable of being executed on an object to be distributed next, and counting a number N2 of objects being caused to wait since processing is executed on another object although processing is capable of being executed on the object to be distributed next, under conditions such that each object waits when the work device executes processing on another object; and specifying a work device to be increased or decreased, according to any of the number N1 or the number N2.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing therein an information management program for causing a computer to execute a process comprises: receiving property information indicating a reliability of a post uploaded on the Internet and a digital signature generated from the property information; and storing the property information, to which identification information of the post and the digital signature are added, in a storage.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process includes obtaining a third matrix by changing at least one of a position of a target object already installed or a scale of the target object in a two-dimensional second matrix, obtaining three-dimensional second data by superimposing a two-dimensional first matrix and the third matrix, the first matrix being provided for each facility already installed and indicating a position and a scale thereof, and predicting a degree of influence of the target object by inputting the second data, a type of day of week, and time to a machine learning model trained with three-dimensional first data, a type of day of week, and time as input, and with a degree of influence of the target object as output, the first data being obtained by superimposing the first matrix and the second matrix.

Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium stores a matrix operation program for a computer. In a matrix operation in which an arithmetic circuit executes processing that combines at least two columns included in a matrix, obtains a product of each of rows of the combined columns, and calculates a sum of the product of each of the rows for all combinations of columns in the matrix, the program causes the computer to divide the matrix into blocks of a column group based on a data size of the column and storage capacity of a second storage to be accessed by the arithmetic circuit prior to accessing a first storage that stores information related to the matrix such that the column group to be combined is contained in the second storage, and to execute the calculation processing for each block of the divided column group.