Abstract: A user device configured to perform wake-up word detection in a target language.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for adapting a pre-trained network for application to a different dataset includes arranging at least two different types of active adaptation modules in a pipeline configuration, wherein an output of a previous active adaptation module produces an input for a next active adaptation module in the pipeline in the form of adapted network data until a last active adaptation module, and wherein each of the at least two different types of adaptation modules can be switched on or off, determining at least one respective hyperparameter for each of the at least two different types of active adaptation modules, and applying the at least one respective determined hyperparameter to each of the at least two different types of active adaptation modules for processing received data from the pretrained network to determine an adapted network.

Abstract: An example system includes: interface circuitry; programmable circuitry; and instructions to cause the programmable circuitry to: reserve first memory addresses of a host system, the first memory addresses reserved for emulation of a guest system, the guest system based on a first instruction set architecture that is different from a second instruction set architecture of the host system; reserve second memory addresses of the host system that are contiguous with the first memory addresses, the second memory addresses reserved for a first emulated memory access instruction associated with an overflow in the guest system; reserve third memory addresses of the host system for a second emulated memory access instruction associated with an underflow in the guest system; and set memory access privileges of the second and third memory addresses to prevent at least one of a read, a write, or an execution access for the second and third memory addresses.

Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a conductive pad, a semiconductor die with an aluminum bond pad over a dielectric layer of the semiconductor die, a gold bump on the aluminum bond pad, a first intermetallic layer of gold and aluminum between the aluminum bond pad and the gold bump, a copper ball bond on the gold bump, a second intermetallic layer of copper and gold between the copper ball bond and the gold bump, a copper wire extending from the copper ball bond to the conductive pad, a stitch bond between the copper wire and the conductive pad.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an yttrium (Y)-added rare-earth permanent magnetic material and a preparation method thereof. A chemical formula of the material expressed in atomic percentage is (YxRE1-x)aFebalMbNc, wherein 0.05?x?0.4, 7?a?13, 0?b?3, 5?c?20, and the balance is Fe, namely, bal=100-a-b-c; RE represents a rare-earth element Sm, or a combination of the rare-earth element Sm and any one or more elements of Zr, Nd and Pr; M represents Co and/or Nb; and N represents nitrogen. In the preparation method, the rare-earth element Y is utilized to replace the element Sm of a samarium-iron-nitrogen material. By regulating a ratio of the element Sm to the element Y, viscosity of an alloy liquid can be reduced, and an amorphous forming ability of the material is enhanced.

Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques that include generating, based on a description of a scene, a movie or animation that represents at least one possible version of a story corresponding to the description of the scene. This disclosure also describes techniques for training a machine learning model to generate predefined data structures from textual information, visual information, and/or other information about a story, an event, a scene, or a sequence of events or scenes within a story. This disclosure also describes techniques for using GANs to generate, from input, an animation of motion (e.g., an animation or a video clip). This disclosure also describes techniques for implementing an explainable artificial intelligence system that may provide end users with information (e.g., through a user interface) that enables an understanding of at least some of the decisions made by the AI system.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a device. The device includes a processor; a memory; and translator logic. The processor is to execute a host instruction set. The translator logic is to determine whether an offset is a constant and whether the offset is greater than zero and less than a maximum offset in response to receiving a guest memory access instruction that contains a base address plus or minus the offset, the maximum offset related to at least one of a host instruction set architecture (ISA) and a guest ISA.

Abstract: A user device configured to perform wake-up word detection in a target language.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an interface for microphones, a separated source processor configured to analyze channels from the microphones, and a voice activity detector (VAD) circuit. The VAD circuit is configured to generate a voice estimate (VE) value. The VE value is to indicate a likelihood of human speech received by the microphones. Generating the VE value includes adjusting the VE value based upon a delay between two of the microphones. The VAD circuit is configured to provide the VE value to the separated source processor.

Abstract: A data programming method includes the following operations: assigning a first identity code to initial data according to a data type of the initial data; packing the first identity code, the initial data, and a check code to a new data packet; determining whether a first storage space in a flash memory stores a first data packet being the same as the new data packet; and if the first storage space does not store the first data packet, programming the new data packet to the first storage space in a first address sequence.

Abstract: A method of characterizing a subterranean geologic formation's response to hydraulic fracturing is presented.

Abstract: Methods and an apparatus for performing feature extraction on speech in a microphone signal with embedded noise processing to reduce the amount of processing are provided. In embodiments, feature extraction and the noise estimate use an output of the same Fourier Transform, such that the noise filtering of the speech is embedded with the feature extraction of the speech.

Abstract: A safe early warning method and device for full-section tunneling of a tunnel featuring dynamic water and weak surrounding rock, comprising establishing a dynamic coordinate system with an origin thereof moving along a tunnel excavation line, recording the moving distance of the origin, conducting three-dimensional laser scanning with the origin as a center to obtain point cloud data including coordinate data, collecting surrounding rock data; conducting deformation fitting on the point cloud data, calculating a fitting residual error, removing a noisy point, and conducting preprocessing; combining data of preprocessed point cloud, surrounding rock, and the tunnel excavation line to construct a tunnel excavation dynamic model; conducting stress analysis according to the model and determining whether to send out a safety early warning signal.

Abstract: Disclosed are a vehicle control method and apparatus, a storage medium and an electronic device.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present specification provide a payment processing method, apparatus, device, and system. The method includes: an Internet of Things (IoT) device determining payment information of a payment to be paid in response to a payment operation of a first user, and collecting to-be-verified biometric feature information of the first user; generating a payment request offline based on the payment information, the biometric feature information, and payment certificate information of the IoT device obtained in advance from a first service terminal; and sending the payment request to a second service terminal, for the second service terminal to send the payment request to the first service terminal, and for the first service terminal to perform payment processing based on the payment information and a payment account of the first user in response to the first service terminal determining that the payment request satisfies a predetermined payment condition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a modified sintered Nd—Fe—B magnet, and a preparation method and a use thereof. The modified sintered Nd—Fe—B magnet is prepared by performing grain boundary diffusion on a matrix, wherein the matrix is a sintered Nd—Fe—B magnet; a grain boundary diffusion source for the grain boundary diffusion consists of a first diffusion source and a second diffusion source; the first diffusion source is a PrMx alloy, M being at least one selected from a group consisted of Cu, Al, Zn, Mg, Ga, Sn, Ag, Pb, Bi, Ni, Nb, Mn, Co, Fe, Ti, Cr, Zr, Mo and Ge; and the second diffusion source is heavy rare earth Dy and/or Tb.

Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques that include generating, based on a description of a scene, a movie or animation that represents at least one possible version of a story corresponding to the description of the scene. This disclosure also describes techniques for training a machine learning model to generate predefined data structures from textual information, visual information, and/or other information about a story, an event, a scene, or a sequence of events or scenes within a story. This disclosure also describes techniques for using GANs to generate, from input, an animation of motion (e.g., an animation or a video clip). This disclosure also describes techniques for implementing an explainable artificial intelligence system that may provide end users with information (e.g., through a user interface) that enables an understanding of at least some of the decisions made by the AI system.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an R-T-B sintered magnet and a preparation method thereof. The sintered magnet includes a grain boundary region T1, a shell layer region T2 and an R2Fe14B grain region T3; at 10 ?m to 60 ?m from a surface of the sintered magnet toward a center thereof, an area ratio of the shell layer region T2 to the R2Fe14B grain region T3 is 0.1 to 0.3, and a thickness of the shell layer region T2 is 0.5 ?m to 1.2 ?m; and an average coating percent of the shell layer region T2 on the R2Fe14B grain region T3 is 80% or more. In the present invention, by optimizing a preparation process and a microstructure of a traditional rare earth permanent magnet, diffusion efficiency of heavy rare earth in the magnet is improved, such that coercivity of the magnet is greatly improved, and manufacturing cost is reduced.

Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a conductive pad, a semiconductor die with an aluminum bond pad over a dielectric layer of the semiconductor die, a gold bump on the aluminum bond pad, a first intermetallic layer of gold and aluminum between the aluminum bond pad and the gold bump, a copper ball bond on the gold bump, a second intermetallic layer of copper and gold between the copper ball bond and the gold bump, a copper wire extending from the copper ball bond to the conductive pad, a stitch bond between the copper wire and the conductive pad.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for determining user-content associations for determining and providing user-preferred content using multimodal embeddings include creating an embedding space for multimodal content by creating a first modality vector representation of the multimodal content having a first modality, creating a second modality vector representation of the multimodal content having a second modality, creating a user vector representation, as a third modality, for each user associated with at least a portion of the multimodal content, and embedding the first and the second modality vector representations and the user vector representations in the common embedding space using at least a mixture of loss functions for each modality pair of the first, the at least second and the third modalities that pushes closer co-occurring pairs of multimodal content.