In the current era of data-intensive applications, the demand for high-performance, cost-effective storage solutions is paramount. This paper introduces a Space-Performance Cost Model for key-value store, designed to guide cost-effective storage configuration decisions. The model quantifies the trade-offs between performance and storage costs, providing a framework for optimizing resource allocation in large-scale data serving environments. Guided by this cost model, we present Tier-Base, a distributed key-value store developed by Ant Group that optimizes total cost by strategically synchronizing data between cache and storage tiers, maximizing resource utilization and effectively handling skewed workloads. To enhance cost-efficiency, TierBase incorporates several optimization techniques, including pre-trained data compression, elastic threading mechanisms, and the utilization of persistent memory. We detail TierBase's architecture, key components, and the implementation of cost optimization strategies. Extensive evaluations using both synthetic benchmarks and real-world workloads demonstrate TierBase's superior cost-effectiveness compared to existing solutions. Furthermore, case studies from Ant Group's production environments showcase TierBase's ability to achieve up to 62% cost reduction in primary scenarios, highlighting its practical impact in large-scale online data serving.

Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction (ASTE) has emerged as a pivotal task in sentiment analysis , focusing on extracting the aspect terms along with the corresponding opinion terms and the expressed sentiments. Recently, generative models have achieved significant success in ASTE task. However, existing generative approaches fail to further model the specific relations within the context for ASTE at the encoding phase, making it difficult to establish the nuanced connections between aspect and opinion terms. Additionally, these approaches rely on simple structured templates at the decoding phase to pair aspect terms with opinion terms, which fails to provide effective relation information for the decoding process. To address the aforementioned issues, we propose ReHyGen, a novel relational hypergraph enhanced framework designed to enhance the relational modeling capabilities of generative ASTE models during both the encoding and decoding phases. Specifically, ReHyGen comprises two core components: the Relational Hypergraph Enhanced Module (RHEM) and the Relational Prompt Module (RPM). RHEM leverages the hypergraph attention network and auxiliary relation classification to capture high-order word interactions and boundary-sensitive word pair relations. RPM incorporates relational information into the decoding phase by providing relation-aware prompts, guiding the generation of more accurate target sequences. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our proposed framework significantly improve the performance of generative ASTE models.

In this letter, we propose a novel methodology for retrieving wave parameters, i.e., significant wave height and mean wave period, in near-nadir looking mode using a 77 GHz frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) multipleinput– multiple-output (MIMO) radar. First, the range-Doppler spectrum is estimated from the raw radar data, and the time-Doppler spectrum in the desired direction is obtained by integrating the digital beamforming algorithm with MIMO array techniques. Next, the radial velocity series are calculated using the spectral moment method. A Fourier transform is then applied to estimate the wave height spectrum from the radial velocity series, and the significant wave height and mean wave period can be obtained by the moment estimation method. Finally, the results obtained from numerical simulations and sea surface observations demonstrate that the retrieval method can extract wave parameters with reasonable performance at small incidence angles (0∼18°).

Single-Shot Echo Planar Imaging (SSEPI) based Diffusion Weighted Imaging (DWI) has shortcomings such as low resolution and severe distortions. In contrast, Multi-Shot EPI (MSEPI) provides optimal spatial resolution but increases scan time. This study proposed a Multiple b-value mOdel-based Residual Network (MORN) model to reconstruct multiple b-value high-resolution DWI from undersampled k-space data simultaneously. We incorporated Parallel Imaging (PI) into a residual U-net to reconstruct multiple b-value multi-coil data with the supervision of MUltiplexed Sensitivity-Encoding (MUSE) reconstructed Multi-Shot DWI (MSDWI). Moreover, asymmetric concatenations among different b-values and the combined loss to back propagate helped the feature transfer. After training and validation of the MORN in a dataset of 32 healthy cases, additional assessments were performed on 6 patients with different tumor types. The experimental results demonstrated that the MORN model outperformed conventional PI reconstruction (i.e. SENSE) and two state-of-the-art deep learning methods (SENSE-GAN and VSNet) in terms of PSNR (Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio), SSIM (Structual SIMilarity) and apparent diffusion coefficient maps. In addition, using the pre-trained model under DWI, the MORN achieved consistent fractional anisotrophy and mean diffusivity reconstructed from multiple diffusion directions. Hence, the proposed method shows potential in clinical application according to the observations on tumor patients as well as images of multiple diffusion directions.

OBJECTIVE: Accurate segmentation of liver tumors, which could help physicians make appropriate treatment decisions and assess the effectiveness of surgical treatment, is crucial for the clinical diagnosis of liver cancer. In this study, we propose a 4-dimensional (4D) deep learning model based on 3D convolution and convolutional long short-term memory (C-LSTM) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) lesion segmentation. METHODS: The proposed deep learning model utilizes 4D information on dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images to assist liver tumor segmentation. Specifically, a shallow U-net based 3D CNN module was designed to extract 3D spatial domain features from each DCE phase, followed by a 4-layer C-LSTM network module for time domain information exploitation. The combined information of multi-phase DCE images and the manner by which tissue imaging features change on multi-contrast images allow the network to more effectively learn the characteristics of HCC, resulting in better segmentation performance. RESULTS: The proposed model achieved a Dice score of 0.825± 0.077, a Hausdorff distance of 12.84± 8.14 mm, and a volume similarity of 0.891± 0.080 for liver tumor segmentation, which outperformed the 3D U-net model, RA-UNet model and other models in the ablation study in both internal and external test sets. Moreover, the performance of the proposed model is comparable to the nnU-Net model, which showed state-of-the-art performance in many segmentation tasks, with significantly reduced prediction time. CONCLUSION: The proposed 3D convolution and C-LSTM based model can achieve accurate segmentation of HCC lesions.