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12 June 2022

Parking occupancy prediction (POP) plays a vital role in many parking-related smart services for better parking management. However, an issue hinders its mass deployment: many parking facilities cannot collect enough data to feed data-hungry machine...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Machine Learning Applied to Intelligent Systems and Data Analytics)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,473 Views
21 Pages

DRnet: Dynamic Retraining for Malicious Traffic Small-Sample Incremental Learning

  • Ruonan Wang,
  • Jinlong Fei,
  • Rongkai Zhang,
  • Maohua Guo and ,
  • Zan Qi and
  • Xue Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Deep learning has achieved good classification results in the field of traffic classification in recent years due to its good feature representation ability. However, the existing traffic classification technology cannot meet the requirements for the...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,678 Views
17 Pages

22 February 2022

Due to the problem of insufficient dynamic human ear data, the Changchun University dynamic human ear (CCU-DE) database, which is a small sample human ear database, was developed in this study. The database fully considers the various complex situati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Instrument and Measurement Based on Sensing Technology in China)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,249 Views
19 Pages

ES2FL: Ensemble Self-Supervised Feature Learning for Small Sample Classification of Hyperspectral Images

  • Bing Liu,
  • Kuiliang Gao,
  • Anzhu Yu,
  • Lei Ding and ,
  • Chunping Qiu and
  • Jia Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 August 2022

Classification with a few labeled samples has always been a longstanding problem in the field of hyperspectral image (HSI) processing and analysis. Aiming at the small sample characteristics of HSI classification, a novel ensemble self-supervised fea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hyperspectral Remote Sensing: Current Situation and New Challenges)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,375 Views
17 Pages

Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on Small Sample Learning of Maml–Triplet

  • Qiang Cheng,
  • Zhaoheng He,
  • Tao Zhang,
  • Ying Li and ,
  • Zhifeng Liu and
  • Ziling Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 October 2022

Since the emergence of artificial intelligence and deep learning methods, the fault diagnosis of bearings in rotating machinery has gradually been realized, reducing the high costs of bearing faults. However, in the actual work of the equipment, faul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Technologies and Applications of Machine Tools and Robot Systems)
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  • Open Access
687 Views
22 Pages

14 May 2026

Accurate and timely information on forest disturbance drivers is important for sustainable forest management, global carbon cycle accounting, and climate change response. However, forest disturbance classification is difficult due to two major challe...

(This article belongs to the Topic Quantifying Forest Structure, Biomass, and Dynamics Using Inventory and Remote Sensing Data)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,255 Views
16 Pages

21 January 2022

Small sample learning ability is one of the most significant characteristics of the human brain. However, its mechanism is yet to be fully unveiled. In recent years, brain-inspired artificial intelligence has become a very hot research domain. Resear...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Neuroscience, Neuroinformatics, and Neurocomputing)
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  • Open Access
535 Views
28 Pages

A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach for Small-Sample TOC Prediction in Saline Lacustrine Shale

  • Bo Yuan,
  • Bolin Zhang,
  • Yuanhao Zhang,
  • Jun Zhang and ,
  • Tao Hu,
  • Nansheng Qiu,
  • Zigen Wang,
  • Mingming Ma,
  • Zhiming Xiong and
  • Xiongqi Pang
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

16 July 2026

Total organic carbon (TOC) is a key parameter for geological sweet spot optimization and resource evaluation. However, accurate TOC prediction remains challenging under small-sample conditions because conventional physical and machine learning method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,408 Views
27 Pages

1 March 2023

Automated machining feature recognition is an essential component linking computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided process planning (CAPP). Deep learning (DL) has recently emerged as a promising method to improve machining feature recognition....

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,877 Views
16 Pages

Small-Sample Battery Capacity Prediction Using a Multi-Feature Transfer Learning Framework

  • Xiaoming Lu,
  • Xianbin Yang,
  • Xinhong Wang,
  • Yu Shi and ,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Yiwen Yao,
  • Xuefeng Gao,
  • Haicheng Xie and
  • Siyan Chen
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

7 February 2025

The accurate prediction of lithium-ion battery capacity is crucial for the safe and efficient operation of battery systems. Although data-driven approaches have demonstrated effectiveness in lifetime prediction, the acquisition of lifecycle data for...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in Batteries)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,108 Views
29 Pages

4 August 2022

The widely distributed “Step-type” landslides in the Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) area have caused serious casualties and heavy economic losses. The prediction research of landslide displacement will be beneficial to the establishment of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Remote Sensing for Geohazards)
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  • Open Access
1,497 Views
22 Pages

Post-stroke finger dysfunction severely impacts patients’ daily living abilities and quality of life. Traditional rehabilitation assessment methods face challenges such as high subjectivity, insufficient precision, and difficulty in capturing s...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
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  • Open Access
632 Views
15 Pages

2 May 2026

Addressing the challenges of extreme sample scarcity, complex underwater optical environments, and significant variations in lesion scales in real-world aquaculture, this paper proposes a small-sample grass carp disease recognition method, namely Swi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Pattern Recognition & Computer Vision, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,006 Views
21 Pages

31 January 2023

Aiming at the existing Direction of Arrival (DOA) methods based on neural network, a large number of samples are required to achieve signal-scene adaptation and accurate angle estimation. In the coherent signal environment, the problems of a larger a...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,661 Views
29 Pages

21 December 2021

Accurate quality prediction can find and eliminate quality hazards. It is difficult to construct an accurate quality mathematical model for the production of small samples with high dimensionality due to the influence of quality characteristics and t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Service Technology for Industrial Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,677 Views
25 Pages

20 December 2024

Rolling bearings play a crucial role in industrial equipment, and their failure is highly likely to cause a series of serious consequences. Traditional deep learning-based bearing fault diagnosis algorithms rely on large amounts of training data; tra...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,297 Views
20 Pages

14 August 2025

Palmprint recognition is becoming more and more common in the fields of security authentication, mobile payment, and crime detection. Aiming at the problem of small sample size and low recognition rate of palmprint, a small-sample palmprint recogniti...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,358 Views
30 Pages

8 December 2014

Multi-camera networks have gained great interest in video-based surveillance systems for security monitoring, access control, etc. Person re-identification is an essential and challenging task in multi-camera networks, which aims to determine if a gi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Computing for Mobile Security and Big Data Analytics)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,695 Views
21 Pages

18 April 2023

With the remarkable development of deep learning in the field of science, deep neural networks provide a new way to solve the Stefan problem. In this paper, deep neural networks combined with small sample learning and a general deep learning framewor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Modern Numerical Methods in Partial Differential Equations)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,560 Views
30 Pages

A Method for Predicting the Creep Rupture Life of Small-Sample Materials Based on Parametric Models and Machine Learning Models

  • Xu Zhang,
  • Jianyao Yao,
  • Yulin Wu,
  • Xuyang Liu and ,
  • Changyin Wang and
  • Hao Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 October 2023

In view of the differences in the applicability and prediction ability of different creep rupture life prediction models, we propose a creep rupture life prediction method in this paper. Various time–temperature parametric models, machine learn...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical and Computational Methods in Material and Mechanical Engineering)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,867 Views
22 Pages

5 May 2023

In order to improve the accuracy of the segmentation of buildings with small sample sizes, this paper proposes a building-segmentation network, ResFAUnet, with transfer learning and multi-scale feature fusion. The network is based on AttentionUnet. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing and Machine Learning of Signal and Image Processing)
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  • Open Access
601 Views
34 Pages

2 August 2026

Chinese local gazetteer maps contain visual evidence of historical cities and architecture, but their hand-drawn, low-texture, and small-sample characteristics make automatic recognition difficult. This study develops a transfer-learning workflow to...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,477 Views
27 Pages

24 July 2025

A fault diagnosis method based on meta-learning and an improved multi-channel convolutional neural network (MAML-MCCNN-ISENet) was proposed to solve the problems of insufficient feature extraction and low fault type identification accuracy of vibrati...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
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  • Open Access
892 Views
25 Pages

Interpretable Small-Sample Deep Learning with Approximate Attribution Enhancement for Atomically Precise Gold Nanoclusters Synthesis

  • Ziyue You,
  • Yitong Qin,
  • Yubing Gao,
  • Zhengzhi Mu and ,
  • Fu Liu and
  • Shuzhi Sam Ge
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 August 2026

Small experimental datasets make synthesis-condition modelling particularly sensitive to overfitting and data leakage. Here, a graph convolutional neural network (GCNN) was coupled with approximate attribution enhancement (AAE) and evaluated on 54 go...

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  • Open Access
509 Views
31 Pages

Accurate ship motion prediction is important for navigation safety, onboard decision support, and shipborne digital twins. Yet data-driven models trained on one vessel often degrade when applied to different hull forms, speed regimes, and sea states....

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,930 Views
14 Pages

4 May 2024

Traditional federated learning relies heavily on mature datasets, which typically consist of large volumes of uniformly distributed data. While acquiring extensive datasets is relatively straightforward in academic research, it becomes prohibitively...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,739 Views
18 Pages

A Small-Sample Fault Diagnosis Method for High-Voltage Circuit Breaker Spring Mechanisms Based on Multi-Source Feature Fusion and Stacking Ensemble Learning

  • Xining Li,
  • Hanyan Xiao,
  • Ke Zhao,
  • Lei Sun and ,
  • Tianxin Zhuang,
  • Haoyan Zhang and
  • Hongwei Mei
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

26 February 2026

To address the practical engineering challenges of limited fault samples for high-voltage circuit breaker spring operating mechanisms and the inability of single features to fully reflect equipment status, this paper proposes a small-sample fault dia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensor Technologies for Corrosion Monitoring)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
984 Views
24 Pages

14 April 2026

In continuous kraft pulping, key quality indicators such as Kappa number and pulp viscosity are usually measured offline at low frequency, which limits real-time quality monitoring and control. Although data-driven soft sensors have shown potential f...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,533 Views
22 Pages

Learning General-Purpose Representations for Cross-Domain Hyperspectral Images Classification with Small Samples

  • Kuiliang Gao,
  • Anzhu Yu,
  • Xiong You,
  • Chunping Qiu and ,
  • Bing Liu and
  • Wenyue Guo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 February 2023

Cross-domain classification with small samples is a more challenging and realistic experimental setup. Until now, few studies have focused on the problem of small-sample cross-domain classification between completely different hyperspectral images (H...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Hyperspectral Data Exploitation II)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,523 Views
16 Pages

Intra-Domain Transfer Learning for Fault Diagnosis with Small Samples

  • Liangwei Zhang,
  • Junyan Zhang,
  • Yeping Peng and
  • Jing Lin

12 July 2022

The concept of deep transfer learning has spawned broad research into fault diagnosis with small samples. A considerable covariate shift between the source and target domains, however, could result in negative transfer and lower fault diagnosis task...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industrial AI: Applications in Fault Detection, Diagnosis, and Prognosis)
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  • Open Access
406 Views
30 Pages

31 August 2026

Reliable prediction of monopile self-weight penetration depth is essential for drivability assessment and installation planning but remains challenging because of nonlinear pile–soil interaction and limited field data. This study compiles recor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monitoring and Evaluation of Marine Engineering Equipment and Structures—2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,089 Views
18 Pages

Underwater target classification methods based on deep learning suffer from obvious model overfitting and low recognition accuracy in the case of small samples and complex underwater environments. This paper proposes a novel classification network (E...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Sensing and Machine Learning to Underwater Acoustic)
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  • Open Access
1,698 Views
26 Pages

30 July 2026

Accurate extraction of vegetation information from high-resolution remote sensing (RS) imagery is crucial for efficient urban ecological environment monitoring and land use management. However, due to the high cost of manual annotation in remote sens...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning for Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing: Advancements in Image Classification and Semantic Segmentation)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,568 Views
20 Pages

19 September 2023

Change detection with heterogeneous remote sensing images (Hete-CD) plays a significant role in practical applications, particularly in cases where homogenous remote sensing images are unavailable. However, directly comparing bitemporal heterogeneous...

(This article belongs to the Topic Remote Sensing and GIS for Monitoring Land Use Change and Its Ecological Effects)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,669 Views
19 Pages

26 April 2024

The utilization of deep learning in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) has witnessed a recent surge owing to its remarkable feature extraction capabilities. Nonetheless, deep learning methodologies are often encumbered...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,596 Views
21 Pages

29 March 2023

Tomatoes are a crop of significant economic importance, and disease during growth poses a substantial threat to yield and quality. In this paper, we propose IBSA_Net, a tomato leaf disease recognition network that employs transfer learning and small...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,792 Views
15 Pages

22 October 2024

Data trading platforms play a crucial role in facilitating data circulation and promoting the sustainable allocation of data resources. Establishing a transparent, fair, and efficient pricing mechanism is key to ensuring the long-term stability and d...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,650 Views
24 Pages

Orthogonal Capsule Network with Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Small Sample Hyperspectral Image Classification

  • Prince Yaw Owusu Amoako,
  • Guo Cao,
  • Boshan Shi,
  • Di Yang and
  • Benedict Boakye Acka

9 January 2025

Most current hyperspectral image classification (HSIC) models require a large number of training samples, and when the sample size is small, the classification performance decreases. To address this issue, we propose an innovative model that combines...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,574 Views
15 Pages

Dynamic Programming BN Structure Learning Algorithm Integrating Double Constraints under Small Sample Condition

  • Zhigang Lv,
  • Yiwei Chen,
  • Ruohai Di,
  • Hongxi Wang and ,
  • Xiaojing Sun,
  • Chuchao He and
  • Xiaoyan Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

24 September 2022

The Bayesian Network (BN) structure learning algorithm based on dynamic programming can obtain global optimal solutions. However, when the sample cannot fully contain the information of the real structure, especially when the sample size is small, th...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence and Computational Methods: Modeling, Simulations and Optimization of Complex Systems)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,604 Views
14 Pages

1 September 2021

Three-dimensional (3D) face recognition has become a trending research direction in both industry and academia. However, traditional facial recognition methods carry high computational costs and face data storage costs. Deep learning has led to a sig...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,336 Views
21 Pages

Weakly Supervised Cross-Domain Person Re-Identification Algorithm Based on Small Sample Learning

  • Huiping Li,
  • Yan Wang,
  • Lingwei Zhu,
  • Wenchao Wang and ,
  • Kangning Yin,
  • Ye Li and
  • Guangqiang Yin
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

9 October 2023

This paper proposes a weakly supervised cross-domain person re-identification (Re-ID) method based on small sample data. In order to reduce the cost of data collection and annotation, the model design focuses on extracting and abstracting the informa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Imaging and Its Application)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,994 Views
20 Pages

Radar Moving Target Detection Based on Small-Sample Transfer Learning and Attention Mechanism

  • Jiang Zhu,
  • Cai Wen,
  • Chongdi Duan,
  • Weiwei Wang and
  • Xiaochao Yang

20 November 2024

Moving target detection is one of the most important tasks of radar systems. The clutter echo received by radar is usually strong and heterogeneous when the radar works in a complex terrain environment, resulting in performance degradation in moving...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Radar Systems for Target Detection and Tracking (Second Edition))
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,398 Views
17 Pages

Tr-Predictior: An Ensemble Transfer Learning Model for Small-Sample Cloud Workload Prediction

  • Chunhong Liu,
  • Jie Jiao,
  • Weili Li,
  • Jingxiong Wang and
  • Junna Zhang

3 December 2022

Accurate workload prediction plays a key role in intelligent scheduling decisions on cloud platforms. There are massive amounts of short-workload sequences in the cloud platform, and the small amount of data and the presence of outliers make accurate...

(This article belongs to the Topic Complex Data Analytics and Computing with Real-World Applications)
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  • Open Access
516 Views
23 Pages

10 August 2026

Dynamic gesture recognition under small-sample conditions remains challenging due to the large variations caused by users, viewpoints, motion patterns, and hand configurations. This study proposes a lightweight dynamic gesture recognition framework t...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,873 Views
25 Pages

9 August 2019

Deep neural networks are successful learning tools for building nonlinear models. However, a robust deep learning-based classification model needs a large dataset. Indeed, these models are often unstable when they use small datasets. To solve this is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary Algorithms in Health Technologies)
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  • Open Access
520 Views
23 Pages

23 June 2026

Existing intelligent fault diagnosis methods ignore the influence of sensors at different positions on the model fault diagnosis performance. Furthermore, the lack of interpretability leads to insufficient reliability of the model fault diagnosis res...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fault Diagnosis Technology in Machinery Manufacturing)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,530 Views
22 Pages

Fault Diagnosis of Wind Turbine Pitch Bearings Based on Online Soft-Label Meta-Learning and Gaussian Prototype Network

  • Lianghong Wang,
  • Zhongzhuang Bai,
  • Hongxiang Li,
  • Panpan Yang and ,
  • Jie Tao,
  • Xuemei Zou,
  • Jinliang Zhao and
  • Chunwei Wang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

20 August 2025

Meta-learning has demonstrated significant advantages in small-sample tasks and has attracted considerable attention in wind turbine fault diagnosis. However, due to extreme operating conditions and equipment aging, the monitoring data of wind turbin...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,338 Views
26 Pages

11 August 2025

This paper addresses the challenges of anomaly detection in industrial components by proposing a two-stage deep-learning approach combining semantic segmentation and knowledge distillation. Traditional methods, such as manual inspection and machine v...

(This article belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,466 Views
16 Pages

Construction of Prediction Models of Mass Ablation Rate for Silicone Rubber-Based Flexible Ablative Composites Based on a Small Dataset

  • Wenxing Chen,
  • Chuxiang Zhou,
  • Hao Zhang,
  • Liwei Yan and ,
  • Shengtai Zhou,
  • Yang Chen,
  • Zhengguang Heng,
  • Huawei Zou and
  • Mei Liang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

7 September 2024

The prediction of the ablation rate of silicone rubber-based composites is of great significance to accelerate the development of flexible thermal protection materials. Herein, a method which combines uniform design experimentation, active learning,...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
490 Views
29 Pages

Small-Sample Learning for Typology-Constrained Generative Design: Novel Framework and Application Practice in Linpan, China

  • Hailin Zhang,
  • Fuyu Wang,
  • Qingqing Peng,
  • Bingwu Liu and ,
  • Huai Guan,
  • Yang Yang and
  • Qianru Yang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

2 August 2026

To address the challenges of ambiguous regional feature identification, high digital modeling costs, and limited regional adaptability of general-purpose AIGC tools in the micro-renewal of Western Sichuan Linpan, this study proposes a typology-constr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI+ Green Building Design: Innovations, Applications and Challenges—Special Issue for 2026 4th International Conference on Green Building (ICoGB 2026))

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