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 non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a machine learning program causing a computer to execute a process including: calculating an average and a variance of a latent variable by inputting input data to an encoder; sampling a noise based on a normal distribution of the variance; 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 a value and an error between the input data and the output data, the value being obtained by multiplying encoding information by a correction coefficient based on the noise, the encoding information being information of a probability distribution of the latent variable and a prior distribution of the latent variable.

Abstract: An axis seal device is provided between a vessel filled with a first gas of a first gas pressure and a rotation axis passing through the vessel. The axis seal device includes first to third dry gas seal sections. The first dry gas seal section is provided such that the rotation axis is rotatable, and has a first space section with a second gas pressure. The second dry gas seal section is provided subsequently to the first dry gas seal section such that the rotation axis is rotatable, and has a second space section with a third gas pressure. The third dry gas seal section is provided subsequently to the second dry gas seal section such that the rotation axis is rotatable, and has a third space section with a fourth gas pressure. The first gas pressure is lower than the second gas pressure, the second gas pressure is higher than the third gas pressure, the third gas pressure is higher than the fourth gas pressure and an atmospheric pressure, and the fourth gas pressure is lower than the atmospheric pressure.

Abstract: In a process for heat treating titanium alloys, and .alpha.+.beta. titanium alloy, heated and held in a temperature range above 500.degree. C. and below the .alpha.+.beta./.beta. transformation point, and then quenched, is further aged at a low temperature in the range between 50.degree. and 300.degree. C.

Abstract: A titanium alloy having a high degree of internal friction and suitable for rotating blades of turbomachines is composed of 5.5 - 6.75% Al, 1 - 5% V, 1 - 5% Mo, V plus Mo being greater than or equal to 5%, and the balance Ti and usual impurities, all by weight. A method of heat-treating the alloy comprises maintaining the same at a temperature not lower than 125.degree. C below its .beta. transformation point for a predetermined period of time and then rapidly cooling the alloy.