8.2LGMay 2
Hybrid Quantum Reinforcement Learning with QAOA for Improved Vehicle Routing OptimizationT. Satyanarayana Murthy, B. Swathi Sowmya, Santhosh Voruganti et al.
Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is one of the most complex NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem in transportation and logistics that requires a dynamic solution approach. In this paper we present a new hybrid approach that combines the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) into the QRL policy network, instead of the usual variational layers, QAOA mixing and cost Hamiltonian layers. This enhancement enables the agent to exploit problem specific particular quantum correlations when learning policies, and so richer exploration of the routing solution space. The QAOA-augmented QRL framework shows quicker convergence in training and can tackle larger VRP instances that are beyond the reach of Grover's Adaptive Search (GAS) and Quantum Reinforcement Learning (QRL) approaches. Experiments on standard VRP instances demonstrate better solutions, fewer episodes to converge and good memory usage on near term quantum hardware simulators. These findings demonstrate QAOA- integrated QRL as a viable approach to scalable, high quality quantum-assisted combinatorial optimization.
0.7CVApr 22
MAE-Based Self-Supervised Pretraining for Data-Efficient Medical Image Segmentation Using nnFormerR. M. Krishna Sureddi, T. Satyanarayana Murthy, Nomula Varsha Reddy et al.
Transformer architectures, including nnFormer,have demonstrated promising results in volumetric medical image segmentation by being able to capture long-range spatial interactions. Although they have high performance, these models need large quantities of labeled training data and are also likely to overfit and become training unstable. This is a serious practical problem because it is not only time-consuming but also expensive to obtain medical images that are annotated by experts. Moreover, fully supervised traditional training pipelines do not take advantage of the available large amounts of unlabeled medical imaging data that can be easily obtained in the clinics. We have solved these drawbacks by advancing the efficiency of the nnFormer with a self-supervised pretraining framework, which is based on the Masked Autoencoders (MAE). In this method, the model is pretrained on unlabeled volumetric medical images to reconstruct randomly masked parts of the input. This allows the encoder to learn meaningful anatomical and structural representations . The encoder is then further fine-tuned on a labeled dataset on the downstream segmentation task. Conducted Experiment shows that the offered method leads to a higher segmentation performance on the count of Dice score, a quicker convergence rate on the course of the fine-tuning procedure, and a superior generalization on the basis of limited labeled data . These findings validate that self-supervised learning combined with transformer-based segmentation models is an appropriate approach to the problem of data shortage in medical image analysis.
IVMar 17, 2025
Ship Detection in Remote Sensing Imagery for Arbitrarily Oriented Object DetectionBibi Erum Ayesha, T. Satyanarayana Murthy, Palamakula Ramesh Babu et al.
This research paper presents an innovative ship detection system tailored for applications like maritime surveillance and ecological monitoring. The study employs YOLOv8 and repurposed U-Net, two advanced deep learning models, to significantly enhance ship detection accuracy. Evaluation metrics include Mean Average Precision (mAP), processing speed, and overall accuracy. The research utilizes the "Airbus Ship Detection" dataset, featuring diverse remote sensing images, to assess the models' versatility in detecting ships with varying orientations and environmental contexts. Conventional ship detection faces challenges with arbitrary orientations, complex backgrounds, and obscured perspectives. Our approach incorporates YOLOv8 for real-time processing and U-Net for ship instance segmentation. Evaluation focuses on mAP, processing speed, and overall accuracy. The dataset is chosen for its diverse images, making it an ideal benchmark. Results demonstrate significant progress in ship detection. YOLOv8 achieves an 88% mAP, excelling in accurate and rapid ship detection. U Net, adapted for ship instance segmentation, attains an 89% mAP, improving boundary delineation and handling occlusions. This research enhances maritime surveillance, disaster response, and ecological monitoring, exemplifying the potential of deep learning models in ship detection.
IRMar 28, 2025
Domain Specific Question to SQL Conversion with Embedded Data Balancing TechniqueJyothi, T. Satyanarayana Murthy
The rise of deep learning in natural language processing has fostered the creation of text to structured query language models composed of an encoder and a decoder. Researchers have experimented with various intermediate processing like schema linking, table type aware, value extract. To generate accurate SQL results for the user question. However error analysis performed on the failed cases on these systems shows, 29 percentage of the errors would be because the system was unable to understand the values expressed by the user in their question. This challenge affects the generation of accurate SQL queries, especially when dealing with domain-specific terms and specific value conditions, where traditional methods struggle to maintain consistency and precision. To overcome these obstacles, proposed two intermediations like implementing data balancing technique and over sampling domain-specific queries which would refine the model architecture to enhance value recognition and fine tuning the model for domain-specific questions. This proposed solution achieved 10.98 percentage improvement in accuracy of the model performance compared to the state of the art model tested on WikiSQL dataset. to convert the user question accurately to SQL queries. Applying oversampling technique on the domain-specific questions shown a significant improvement as compared with traditional approaches.