The 21st century has already witnessed so many outbreaks with pandemic potential, including SARS (2002), H1N1 (2009), MERS (2012), Ebola (2014), Zika virus (2015), and the COVID-19 pandemic (2019). Using 60 million geotagged Sina Weibo tweets covering over 20 million active accounts, we investigate the collective emotional dynamics on social media in the most recent global pandemic, i.e., COVID-19. This research features two highlights: (1) It focuses on the Chinese population located in the initial epicenter of the pandemic. (2) It examines the initial year after the pandemic outbreak, a critical period where emotions were most intense due to the uncertainty and rapid developments related to the crisis. Using cross-disciplinary methods, we reveal a positive connection between online emotional resonance and geographic proximity, demonstrating a direct mapping between virtual network distances and physical spatial embedding. We propose a percolation-based index to measure the nationwide emotional resonance level with which we illustrate the significant economic impact of the global health issue. Finally, we identify a leader-follower pattern in emotional resonance fluctuations based on time-lag emotion correlations, revealing that less active regions play a crucial role in leading and responding to emotional changes. In the face of long COVID and emerging global health crises, our analysis elucidates how collective emotional resonance evolves, providing potential directions for online opinion interventions during global shocks.

3D point cloud has been widely applied in virtual reality and augmented reality. A complex 3D scene always needs a large number of the point cloud to represent and demands a lot of space to store. Thus, point cloud compression becomes a crucial issue to research. In this paper, we propose a novel lossy geometric compression method of autoencoder based on DCGAN optimization. This method can reconstruct a high-quality point cloud and solves a large area of missing points in the process of compression and decompression. To improve the point cloud codec performance, we propose a multi-scale 3D deconvolution hopping connection structure to obtain a better-quality reconstructed point cloud under low bit rates. Our approach is the first GAN-based point cloud compression algorithm to our knowledge. Compared with state-of-the-art methods on the MVUB dataset, our approach achieves a better rate-distortion performance and visual quality.

For classification tasks, such as protein-protein interactions (PPI), support vector machines (SVMs) have been continually utilised as a standard machine learning model. However, most practices in PPIs classifications are limited to common circumstances with small datasets and low feature dimensions, due to the big computation burden of kernel functions and quadratic optimization of SVM. Alternatively, these practical experiences might tend to employ a linear model once the dataset becomes larger, which may have exclusively lost the kernel function's potential. Since there are different defined kernels and various groups of hyperparameter, the time costs in estimating a best set of hyperparameter by traditional grid search are subsequently tremendous for PPI classification. To address this challenge, in this paper, we present a more efficient solution of hyperparameter estimation by gaining acceleration with GPU, which trains SVM efficiently and accurately with kernel functions calculation accelerated on various PPI datasets. The experiments are firstly conducted on PPI classification task, and we have exclusively evaluated the effectiveness on five public classification datasets. Our solution demonstrates a faster and more accurate performance comparing with the state-of-the-art.