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TourBERT: A pretrained language model for the tourism industry
Arefieva, Veronika, Egger, Roman
Tourism is one of the most important economic sectors in the world (Hollenhorst The Bidirectional Encoder Representations et al., 2014), and its services have many from Transformers (BERT) is currently the characteristics that distinguish them from most important and state-of-the-art natural other products. Services are not tangible language model (Tenney et al., 2019) since and cannot be tested in advance, which is its launch in 2018 by Google. BERT Large, why the customer assumes an increased which is based on a Transformer risk before starting the trip. The service is architecture, is considered one of the most co-created together with the customer, so powerful language models with 24 layers, the customer is an active co-creator of the 16 attention heads, and 340 million service. Services are subject to the unoactu parameters (Lan et al. 2019). BERT is a principle, which means they are pretrained model and can be fine-tuned to produced at the same time as they are perform numerous downstream tasks such consumed, and they are considered as text classification, question answering, bilateral, i.e. a reciprocal relationship sentiment analysis, extractive between persons (Chehimi, 2014). In summarization, named entity recognition, addition, tourism services are relatively or sentence similarity (Egger, 2022). The expensive compared to everyday products model was pretrained on a huge English and have an intercultural dimension.
Cross-Language Binary-Source Code Matching with Intermediate Representations
Gui, Yi, Wan, Yao, Zhang, Hongyu, Huang, Huifang, Sui, Yulei, Xu, Guandong, Shao, Zhiyuan, Jin, Hai
Binary-source code matching plays an important role in many security and software engineering related tasks such as malware detection, reverse engineering and vulnerability assessment. Currently, several approaches have been proposed for binary-source code matching by jointly learning the embeddings of binary code and source code in a common vector space. Despite much effort, existing approaches target on matching the binary code and source code written in a single programming language. However, in practice, software applications are often written in different programming languages to cater for different requirements and computing platforms. Matching binary and source code across programming languages introduces additional challenges when maintaining multi-language and multi-platform applications. To this end, this paper formulates the problem of cross-language binary-source code matching, and develops a new dataset for this new problem. We present a novel approach XLIR, which is a Transformer-based neural network by learning the intermediate representations for both binary and source code. To validate the effectiveness of XLIR, comprehensive experiments are conducted on two tasks of cross-language binary-source code matching, and cross-language source-source code matching, on top of our curated dataset. Experimental results and analysis show that our proposed XLIR with intermediate representations significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art models in both of the two tasks.
Apple Car concept has a 360-degree pod that swivels around
An engineer has created concept images of what the upcoming Apple Car could look like when it is finally released. Artistic renderings have been created by Devanga Borah, a mechanical engineer at Tezpur University in India, of an autonomous and fully electric vehicle. Like something out of a dystopian sci-fi film, the renderings depict a bizarre white car consisting of a spherical pod that swivels around 360-degrees on four wheels. The pod has a circular entrance that flings open like a couple of saloon doors to reveal'a cocoon-like cockpit' with two seats. Reminiscent of Apple's eMac computer from 2002, the vehicle is painted in glossy white and features the Apple logo between the front and back sets of wheels.
The smart bracelet that tracks your blood pressure
Mike Kisch, Aktiia CEO, told MailOnline that having constant blood pressure measurements in all settings was a'game changer' for doctors and patients That will be for doctors, allowing them to remotely gauge the progress of patients, even see what time of day medication should be taken. 'Right now, after they do the initial diagnosis and prescribe medication, they don't get a lot of data from the patient, so the likelihood that the first time it will work is low, so now they get ongoing data to see if they need to modify treatment. 'That is a game changer for the physician,' explains Mr Kisch. Data gathered by this device is fed into large scale cohort studies, with nine currently running or about to run around the world. One is about the way patient engagement in hypertension management programmes increase when using these products and how a doctors decision making process improves.
Making the AI desert bloom
Then you've probably seen a boab. Also known as the "tree of life", they can store 100,000 litres of water, which can feed, restore and invigorate nature even in the toughest of conditions. But the tree is not Australia's only boab -- in Melbourne, Boab AI is an investment company supporting a very different kind of ecosystem. "Artificial intelligence investment in Australia is a nascent but relatively new area where Victoria is leading the way," says Boab AI Managing Director Andrew Lai, a technology-focused venture capitalist who has helped hundreds of startups during his 15-year career. "Australia's share of world GDP is 1.8%, but our share of global AI funding is 0.22%, according to Pitchbook. So many people in Silicon Valley have become billionaires by investing in tech, but we just don't have that history and investment risk taking culture here. Most people just want to invest in real estate."
AI-based Carcinoma Detection and Classification Using Histopathological Images: A Systematic Review
Prabhua, Swathi, Prasada, Keerthana, Robels-Kelly, Antonio, Lu, Xuequan
Histopathological image analysis is the gold standard to diagnose cancer. Carcinoma is a subtype of cancer that constitutes more than 80% of all cancer cases. Squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma are two major subtypes of carcinoma, diagnosed by microscopic study of biopsy slides. However, manual microscopic evaluation is a subjective and time-consuming process. Many researchers have reported methods to automate carcinoma detection and classification. The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the automation of carcinoma diagnosis also reveals a significant rise in the use of deep network models. In this systematic literature review, we present a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art approaches reported in carcinoma diagnosis using histopathological images. Studies are selected from well-known databases with strict inclusion/exclusion criteria. We have categorized the articles and recapitulated their methods based on specific organs of carcinoma origin. Further, we have summarized pertinent literature on AI methods, highlighted critical challenges and limitations, and provided insights on future research direction in automated carcinoma diagnosis. Out of 101 articles selected, most of the studies experimented on private datasets with varied image sizes, obtaining accuracy between 63% and 100%. Overall, this review highlights the need for a generalized AI-based carcinoma diagnostic system. Additionally, it is desirable to have accountable approaches to extract microscopic features from images of multiple magnifications that should mimic pathologists' evaluations.
Lifelong Dynamic Optimization for Self-Adaptive Systems: Fact or Fiction?
When faced with changing environment, highly configurable software systems need to dynamically search for promising adaptation plan that keeps the best possible performance, e.g., higher throughput or smaller latency -- a typical planning problem for self-adaptive systems (SASs). However, given the rugged and complex search landscape with multiple local optima, such a SAS planning is challenging especially in dynamic environments. In this paper, we propose LiDOS, a lifelong dynamic optimization framework for SAS planning. What makes LiDOS unique is that to handle the "dynamic", we formulate the SAS planning as a multi-modal optimization problem, aiming to preserve the useful information for better dealing with the local optima issue under dynamic environment changes. This differs from existing planners in that the "dynamic" is not explicitly handled during the search process in planning. As such, the search and planning in LiDOS run continuously over the lifetime of SAS, terminating only when it is taken offline or the search space has been covered under an environment. Experimental results on three real-world SASs show that the concept of explicitly handling dynamic as part of the search in the SAS planning is effective, as LiDOS outperforms its stationary counterpart overall with up to 10x improvement. It also achieves better results in general over state-of-the-art planners and with 1.4x to 10x speedup on generating promising adaptation plans.
Unintended Bias in Language Model-driven Conversational Recommendation
Shen, Tianshu, Li, Jiaru, Bouadjenek, Mohamed Reda, Mai, Zheda, Sanner, Scott
Conversational Recommendation Systems (CRSs) have recently started to leverage pretrained language models (LM) such as BERT for their ability to semantically interpret a wide range of preference statement variations. However, pretrained LMs are well-known to be prone to intrinsic biases in their training data, which may be exacerbated by biases embedded in domain-specific language data(e.g., user reviews) used to fine-tune LMs for CRSs. We study a recently introduced LM-driven recommendation backbone (termed LMRec) of a CRS to investigate how unintended bias i.e., language variations such as name references or indirect indicators of sexual orientation or location that should not affect recommendations manifests in significantly shifted price and category distributions of restaurant recommendations. The alarming results we observe strongly indicate that LMRec has learned to reinforce harmful stereotypes through its recommendations. For example, offhand mention of names associated with the black community significantly lowers the price distribution of recommended restaurants, while offhand mentions of common male-associated names lead to an increase in recommended alcohol-serving establishments. These and many related results presented in this work raise a red flag that advances in the language handling capability of LM-drivenCRSs do not come without significant challenges related to mitigating unintended bias in future deployed CRS assistants with a potential reach of hundreds of millions of end-users.
A Non-Expert's Introduction to Data Ethics for Mathematicians
I give a short introduction to data ethics. My focal audience is mathematicians, but I hope that my discussion will also be useful to others. I am not an expert about data ethics, and my article is only a starting point. I encourage readers to examine the resources that I discuss and to continue to reflect carefully on data ethics and on the societal implications of data and data analysis throughout their lives.