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TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus Open
Introduction The TIMIT corpus of read speech is designed to provide speech data for acoustic-phonetic studies and for the development and evaluation of automatic speech recognition systems. TIMIT contains broadband recordings of 630 speake…
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Blockchain technology overview Open
Blockchains are tamper evident and tamper resistant digital ledgers\nimplemented in a distributed fashion (i.e., without a central repository) and\nusually without a central authority (i.e., a bank, company, or government). At\ntheir basic…
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Unified language model pre-training for natural language understanding and generation Open
This paper presents a new Unified pre-trained Language Model (UniLM) that can be fine-tuned for both natural language understanding and generation tasks. The model is pre-trained using three types of language modeling tasks: unidirectional…
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CODATA recommended values of the fundamental physical constants: 2014 Open
This report gives the 2014 self-consistent set of values of the constants and\nconversion factors of physics and chemistry recommended by the Committee on\nData for Science and Technology (CODATA). These values are based on a\nleast-square…
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CRYSTALS - Kyber: A CCA-Secure Module-Lattice-Based KEM Open
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Report on Post-Quantum Cryptography Open
The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) promotes the U.S. economy and public welfare by providing technical leadership for the Nation's measurement and standards infrastructu…
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Zero Trust Architecture Open
The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) promotes the U.S. economy and public welfare by providing technical leadership for the Nation's measurement and standards infrastructu…
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<i>SASfit</i>: a tool for small-angle scattering data analysis using a library of analytical expressions Open
SASfit is one of the mature programs for small-angle scattering data analysis and has been available for many years. This article describes the basic data processing and analysis workflow along with recent developments in the SASfit progra…
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Learning Deep Transformer Models for Machine Translation Open
Transformer is the state-of-the-art model in recent machine translation evaluations. Two strands of research are promising to improve models of this kind: the first uses wide networks (a.k.a. Transformer-Big) and has been the de facto stan…
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CRYSTALS-Dilithium: A Lattice-Based Digital Signature Scheme Open
In this paper, we present the lattice-based signature scheme Dilithium, which is a component of the CRYSTALS (Cryptographic Suite for Algebraic Lattices) suite that was submitted to NIST’s call for post-quantum cryptographic standards. The…
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Attentive Statistics Pooling for Deep Speaker Embedding Open
This paper proposes attentive statistics pooling for deep speaker embedding\nin text-independent speaker verification. In conventional speaker embedding,\nframe-level features are averaged over all the frames of a single utterance to\nform…
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Achieving Human Parity in Conversational Speech Recognition Open
Conversational speech recognition has served as a flagship speech recognition task since the release of the Switchboard corpus in the 1990s. In this paper, we measure the human error rate on the widely used NIST 2000 test set, and find tha…
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EMNIST: an extension of MNIST to handwritten letters Open
The MNIST dataset has become a standard benchmark for learning, classification and computer vision systems. Contributing to its widespread adoption are the understandable and intuitive nature of the task, its relatively small size and stor…
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Identification of small molecules using accurate mass MS/MS search Open
Tandem mass spectral library search (MS/MS) is the fastest way to correctly annotate MS/MS spectra from screening small molecules in fields such as environmental analysis, drug screening, lipid analysis, and metabolomics. The confidence in…
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Towards a standard for identifying and managing bias in artificial intelligence Open
As individuals and communities interact in and with an environment that is increasingly virtual they are often vulnerable to the commodification of their digital exhaust. Concepts and behavior that are ambiguous in nature are captured in t…
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Artificial intelligence for cybersecurity: Literature review and future research directions Open
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful technology that helps cybersecurity teams automate repetitive tasks, accelerate threat detection and response, and improve the accuracy of their actions to strengthen the security posture against …
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Harmonizing lipidomics: NIST interlaboratory comparison exercise for lipidomics using SRM 1950–Metabolites in Frozen Human Plasma Open
As the lipidomics field continues to advance, self-evaluation within the community is critical. Here, we performed an interlaboratory comparison exercise for lipidomics using Standard Reference Material (SRM) 1950-Metabolites in Frozen Hum…
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High-throughput powder diffraction measurement system consisting of multiple MYTHEN detectors at beamline BL02B2 of SPring-8 Open
In this study, we developed a user-friendly automatic powder diffraction measurement system for Debye–Scherrer geometry using a capillary sample at beamline BL02B2 of SPring-8. The measurement system consists of six one-dimensional solid-s…
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Status report on the third round of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization process Open
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is in the process of selecting public-key cryptographic algorithms through a public, competition-like process. The new public-key cryptography standards will specify additional digital sig…
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The microsoft 2016 conversational speech recognition system Open
We describe Microsoft's conversational speech recognition system, in which we combine recent developments in neural-network-based acoustic and language modeling to advance the state of the art on the Switchboard recognition task. Inspired …
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Status report on the first round of the NIST post-quantum cryptography standardization process Open
The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) promotes the U.S. economy and public welfare by providing technical leadership for the Nation's measurement and standards infrastructu…
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National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce Framework Open
The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at NIST promotes the U.S. economy and public welfare by providing technical leadership for the Nation's measurement and standards infrastructure.ITL develops tests, test methods, reference data, …
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Status report on the second round of the NIST post-quantum cryptography standardization process Open
The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) promotes the U.S. economy and public welfare by providing technical leadership for the Nation's measurement and standards infrastructu…
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The NIST REFPROP Database for Highly Accurate Properties of Industrially Important Fluids Open
The NIST REFPROP software program is a powerful tool for calculating thermophysical properties of industrially important fluids, and this manuscript describes the models implemented in, and features of, this software. REFPROP implements th…
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Face recognition vendor test part 3: Open
This is the third in a series of reports on ongoing face recognition vendor tests (FRVT) executed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).The first two reports cover, respectively, the performance of one-to-one face re…
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Improving the Transformer Translation Model with Document-Level Context Open
Although the Transformer translation model (Vaswani et al., 2017) has achieved state-of-the-art performance in a variety of translation tasks, how to use document-level context to deal with discourse phenomena problematic for Transformer s…
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Digital identity guidelines: authentication and lifecycle management Open
The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) promotes the U.S. economy and public welfare by providing technical leadership for the Nation's measurement and standards infrastructu…
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The SPHINCS <sup>+</sup> Signature Framework Open
We introduce SPHINCS+, a stateless hash-based signature framework. SPHINCS+ has significant advantages over the state of the art in terms of speed, signature size, and security, and is among the nine remaining signature schemes in the seco…
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Development of NIST Atomic Databases and Online Tools Open
Over the last 25 years, the atomic standard reference databases and online tools developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have provided users around the world with the highest-quality data on various atomic pa…
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A review on measurement science needs for real-time control of additive manufacturing metal powder bed fusion processes Open
Additive manufacturing technologies are increasingly used in the development of new products. However, variations in part quality in terms of material properties, dimensional tolerances, surface roughness and defects limit its broader acce…