Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure are a method and system for producing hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene. It includes: under the action of a catalyst, chlorotrifluoroethylene reacting with hydrogen gas in a first reactor to obtain a mixture, the mixture entering a rectification apparatus, trifluoroethylene obtained by rectification entering a second reactor and reacting with bromine under light to obtain 1,2-dibromo-trifluoroethane; in a third reactor pre-loaded with the 1,2-dibromo-trifluoroethane, adding the 1,2-dibromo-trifluoroethane and solid alkali, and performing reaction to obtain bromotrifluoroethylene; and adding the bromotrifluoroethylene to a fourth reactor holding with zinc powder, an initiator and an organic solvent for reaction, so as to obtain a trifluoroethenyl zinc bromide solution, performing filtration, and then adding a coupling agent for a coupling reaction, so as to obtain hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is disclosed herein. The semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide substrate, trench structures, mesa structures, a first oxide layer, a conductive layer, a second oxide layer, a dielectric layer, and an insulation layer. The trench structures are formed on a surface of the silicon carbide substrate. Each trench structure has sidewalls and a bottom, and each respective mesa structure is formed between the respective adjacent trench structures. The first oxide layer is formed on the sidewalls of the trench structures. The conductive layer is formed on the bottom of the trench structures and on a top surface of each mesa structure. The second oxide layer is formed on the first oxide layer and the conductive layer. The dielectric layer is formed on the second oxide layer. The insulation layer is formed on the dielectric layer.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for identifying root cause failure and fault events is provided. The method includes detecting a trigger point, converting, via an encoder, previous system state data, new batch data in a next system state, and a causal graph to system state-invariant embeddings and system state-dependent embeddings, generating a learned causal graph, via a graph generation layer, by integrating state-invariant and state-dependent information, and predicting, by a prediction layer, future time-series data on the learned causal graph.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for employing a graph-based adaptive domain generation framework is provided. The method includes, in a training phase, performing domain prototypical network training on source domains, constructing an autoencoding domain relation graph by applying a graph autoencoder to produce domain node embeddings, and performing, via a domain-adaptive classifier, domain-adaptive classifier training to make an informed decision. The method further includes, in a testing phase, given testing samples from a new source domain, computing a prototype by using a pretrained domain prototypical network, inferring node embedding, and making a prediction by the domain-adaptive classifier based on the domain node embeddings.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for employing a graph-based log anomaly detection framework to detect relational anomalies in system logs is provided. The method includes collecting log events from systems or applications or sensors or instruments, constructing dynamic graphs to describe relationships among the log events and log fields by using a sliding window with a fixed time interval to snapshot a batch of the log events, capturing sequential patterns by employing temporal-attentive transformers to learn temporal dependencies within the sequential patterns, and detecting anomalous patterns in the log events based on relationships between the log events and temporal context determined from the temporal-attentive transformers.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for employing a time-series-to-text generation model to generate accurate description texts is provided. The method includes passing time series data through a time series encoder and a multilayer perceptron (MLP) classifier to obtain predicted concept labels, converting the predicted concept labels, by a serializer, to a text token sequence by concatenating an aspect term and an option term of every aspect, inputting the text token sequence into a pretrained language model including a bidirectional encoder and an autoregressive decoder, and using adapter layers to fine-tune the pretrained language model to generate description texts.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for locating root causes is provided. The method includes detecting a trigger point from entity metrics data and key performance indicator (KPI) data, generating a learned causal graph by fusing a state-invariant causal graph with a state-dependent causal graph, and locating the root causes by employing a random walk-based technique to estimate a probability score for each of the entity metrics data by starting from a KPI node.

Abstract: Methods and systems for training a model include performing skill discovery, using a set of demonstrations that includes known-good demonstrations and noisy demonstrations, to generate a set of skills. A unidirectional skill embedding model is trained in a first training while parameters of a skill matching model and low-level policies that relate skills to actions are held constant. The unidirectional skill embedding model, the skill matching model, and the low-level policies are trained together in an end-to-end fashion in a second training.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for detecting trigger points to identify root cause failure and fault events is provided. The method includes collecting, by a monitoring agent, entity metrics data and system key performance indicator (KPI) data, integrating the entity metrics data and the KPI data, constructing an initial system state space, detecting system state changes by calculating a distance between current batch data and an initial state, and dividing a system status into different states.

Abstract: A method for learning a self-explainable imitator by discovering causal relationships between states and actions is presented. The method includes obtaining, via an acquisition component, demonstrations of a target task from experts for training a model to generate a learned policy, training the model, via a learning component, the learning component computing actions to be taken with respect to states, generating, via a dynamic causal discovery component, dynamic causal graphs for each environment state, encoding, via a causal encoding component, discovered causal relationships by updating state variable embeddings, and outputting, via an output component, the learned policy including trajectories similar to the demonstrations from the experts.

Abstract: A method for learning a self-explainable imitator by discovering causal relationships between states and actions is presented. The method includes obtaining, via an acquisition component, demonstrations of a target task from experts for training a model to generate a learned policy, training the model, via a learning component, the learning component computing actions to be taken with respect to states, generating, via a dynamic causal discovery component, dynamic causal graphs for each environment state, encoding, via a causal encoding component, discovered causal relationships by updating state variable embeddings, and outputting, via an output component, the learned policy including trajectories similar to the demonstrations from the experts.

Abstract: A method for acquiring skills through imitation learning by employing a meta imitation learning framework with structured skill discovery (MILD) is presented. The method includes learning behaviors or tasks, by an agent, from demonstrations: by learning to decompose the demonstrations into segments, via a segmentation component, the segments corresponding to skills that are transferrable across different tasks, learning relationships between the skills that are transferrable across the different tasks, employing, via a graph generator, a graph neural network for learning implicit structures of the skills from the demonstrations to define structured skills, and generating policies from the structured skills to allow the agent to acquire the structured skills for application to one or more target tasks.

Abstract: A method for acquiring skills through imitation learning by employing a meta imitation learning framework with structured skill discovery (MILD) is presented. The method includes learning behaviors or tasks, by an agent, from demonstrations: by learning to decompose the demonstrations into segments, via a segmentation component, the segments corresponding to skills that are transferrable across different tasks, learning relationships between the skills that are transferrable across the different tasks, employing, via a graph generator, a graph neural network for learning implicit structures of the skills from the demonstrations to define structured skills, and generating policies from the structured skills to allow the agent to acquire the structured skills for application to one or more target tasks.

Abstract: A method for learning a self-explainable imitator by discovering causal relationships between states and actions is presented. The method includes obtaining, via an acquisition component, demonstrations of a target task from experts for training a model to generate a learned policy, training the model, via a learning component, the learning component computing actions to be taken with respect to states, generating, via a dynamic causal discovery component, dynamic causal graphs for each environment state, encoding, via a causal encoding component, discovered causal relationships by updating state variable embeddings, and outputting, via an output component, the learned policy including trajectories similar to the demonstrations from the experts.

Abstract: A method for performing contrastive learning for graph tasks and datasets by employing an information-aware graph contrastive learning framework is presented. The method includes obtaining two semantically similar views of a graph coupled with a label for training by employing a view augmentation component, feeding the two semantically similar views into respective encoder networks to extract latent representations preserving both structure and attribute information in the two views, optimizing a contrastive loss based on a contrastive mode by maximizing feature consistency between the latent representations, training a neural network with the optimized contrastive loss, and predicting a new graph label or a new node label in the graph.

Abstract: A method for acquiring skills through imitation learning by employing a meta imitation learning framework with structured skill discovery (MILD) is presented. The method includes learning behaviors or tasks, by an agent, from demonstrations: by learning to decompose the demonstrations into segments, via a segmentation component, the segments corresponding to skills that are transferrable across different tasks, learning relationships between the skills that are transferrable across the different tasks, employing, via a graph generator, a graph neural network for learning implicit structures of the skills from the demonstrations to define structured skills, and generating policies from the structured skills to allow the agent to acquire the structured skills for application to one or more target tasks.

Abstract: A method for performing contrastive learning for graph tasks and datasets by employing an information-aware graph contrastive learning framework is presented. The method includes obtaining two semantically similar views of a graph coupled with a label for training by employing a view augmentation component, feeding the two semantically similar views into respective encoder networks to extract latent representations preserving both structure and attribute information in the two views, optimizing a contrastive loss based on a contrastive mode by maximizing feature consistency between the latent representations, training a neural network with the optimized contrastive loss, and predicting a new graph label or a new node label in the graph.

Abstract: A method for performing contrastive learning for graph tasks and datasets by employing an information-aware graph contrastive learning framework is presented. The method includes obtaining two semantically similar views of a graph coupled with a label for training by employing a view augmentation component, feeding the two semantically similar views into respective encoder networks to extract latent representations preserving both structure and attribute information in the two views, optimizing a contrastive loss based on a contrastive mode by maximizing feature consistency between the latent representations, training a neural network with the optimized contrastive loss, and predicting a new graph label or a new node label in the graph.

Abstract: Provided herein are compositions and methods comprising modified adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsids. Also provided are methods of utilizing the provided compositions and methods as ocular therapeutics.

Abstract: A method interprets a convolutional sequence model. The method converts an input data sequence having input segments into output features. The method clusters the input segments into clusters using respective resolution-controllable class prototypes allocated to each of classes. Each respective class prototype includes a respective output feature subset characterizing a respective associated class. The method calculates, using the clusters, similarity scores that indicate a similarity of an output feature to a respective class prototypes responsive to distances between the output feature and the respective class prototypes. The method concatenates the similarity scores to obtain a similarity vector. The method performs a prediction and prediction support operation that provides a value of prediction and an interpretation for the value responsive to the input segments and similarity vector.