As part of our Object Detection release posts, on this post, we would like to showcase the entire application development process from problem identification to model deployment, a seemingly ambitious undertaking. Let me tell you the story of how (and why) I built a plant disease detector web application. You too can build similar applications that will help you in your daily life in just a few hours. If you would like to play with the app, you can find it here and the source code is also available in this repository. A few days ago, I moved to a new home.

There are many similarities between the Transformer encoder and decoder, such as in their implementation of multi-head attention, layer normalization and a fully connected feed-forward network as their final sub-layer. Having implemented the Transformer encoder, we will now proceed to apply our knowledge in implementing the Transformer decoder, as a further step towards implementing the complete Transformer model. Our end goal remains the application of the complete model to Natural Language Processing (NLP). In this tutorial, you will discover how to implement the Transformer decoder from scratch in TensorFlow and Keras. Implementing the Transformer Decoder From Scratch in TensorFlow and Keras Photo by François Kaiser, some rights reserved.

With the Transformer architecture revolutionizing the implementation of attention, and achieving very promising results in the natural language processing domain, it was only a matter of time before we could see its application in the computer vision domain too. This was eventually achieved with the implementation of the Vision Transformer (ViT). In this tutorial, you will discover the architecture of the Vision Transformer model, and its application to the task of image classification. The Vision Transformer Model Photo by Paul Skorupskas, some rights reserved. We had seen how the emergence of the Transformer architecture of Vaswani et al. (2017) has revolutionized the use of attention, without relying on recurrence and convolutions as earlier attention models had previously done.

Recent years have seen advances on principles and guidance relating to accountable and ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) spring up around the globe. Specifically, Data Privacy, Accountability, Interpretability, Robustness, and Reasoning have been broadly recognized as fundamental principles of using machine learning (ML) technologies on decision-critical and/or privacy-sensitive applications. On the other hand, in tremendous real-world applications, data itself can be well represented as various structured formalisms, such as graph-structured data (e.g., networks), grid-structured data (e.g., images), sequential data (e.g., text), etc. By exploiting the inherently structured knowledge, one can design plausible approaches to identify and use more relevant variables to make reliable decisions, thereby facilitating real-world deployments.

Many real-world problems can be phrased as a multi-objective optimization problem, where the goal is to identify the best set of compromises between the competing objectives. Multi-objective Bayesian optimization (BO) is a sample efficient strategy that can be deployed to solve these vector-valued optimization problems where access is limited to a number of noisy objective function evaluations. In this paper, we propose a novel information-theoretic acquisition function for BO called Joint Entropy Search (JES), which considers the joint information gain for the optimal set of inputs and outputs. We present several analytical approximations to the JES acquisition function and also introduce an extension to the batch setting.

Among the many merits of Roman Słowiński in his so long and so rich scientific carrier, we have to consider his pioneering approach to the use of artificial intelligence methodologies to decision support, and, in particular, to Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) (for an updated state of the art see [48]). In this perspective, the proposal and the development of the Dominance-based Rough Set Approach (DRSA) is a cornerstone in the domain. The DRSA basic idea of a decision support procedure based on a decision model expressed in natural language and obtained from simple preference information in terms of exemplary decisions has attracted the interest of experts and it is now considered one of the three main approaches to MCDA, together with the classical Multiple Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT) [58] and the outranking approach [75]. In fact, DRSA is not a mere application to MCDA of concepts and tools already proposed and developed in the domain of artificial intelligence, knowledge discovery, data mining and machine learning. Indeed, consideration of preference orders typical for MCDA problems required a reformulation of many important concepts and methodologies, so that DRSA became a methodology viable and interesting per se also in these domains. Consequently, after more or less 25 years from the proposal of DRSA, we try to present a first assessment taking into consideration the basic ideas and the main developments.

Knowledge Tracing (KT), which aims to model student knowledge level and predict their performance, is one of the most important applications of user modeling. Modern KT approaches model and maintain an up-to-date state of student knowledge over a set of course concepts according to students' historical performance in attempting the problems. However, KT approaches were designed to model knowledge by observing relatively small problem-solving steps in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. While these approaches were applied successfully to model student knowledge by observing student solutions for simple problems, they do not perform well for modeling complex problem solving in students.M ost importantly, current models assume that all problem attempts are equally valuable in quantifying current student knowledge.However, for complex problems that involve many concepts at the same time, this assumption is deficient. In this paper, we argue that not all attempts are equivalently important in discovering students' knowledge state, and some attempts can be summarized together to better represent student performance. We propose a novel student knowledge tracing approach, Granular RAnk based TEnsor factorization (GRATE), that dynamically selects student attempts that can be aggregated while predicting students' performance in problems and discovering the concepts presented in them. Our experiments on three real-world datasets demonstrate the improved performance of GRATE, compared to the state-of-the-art baselines, in the task of student performance prediction. Our further analysis shows that attempt aggregation eliminates the unnecessary fluctuations from students' discovered knowledge states and helps in discovering complex latent concepts in the problems.

Purpose: Real-life applications using quadrotors introduce a number of disturbances and time-varying properties that pose a challenge to flight controllers. We observed that, when a quadrotor is tasked with picking up and dropping a payload, traditional PID and RL-based controllers found in literature struggle to maintain flight after the vehicle changes its dynamics due to interaction with this external object. Methods: In this work, we introduce domain randomization during the training phase of a low-level waypoint guidance controller based on Soft Actor-Critic. The resulting controller is evaluated on the proposed payload pick up and drop task with added disturbances that emulate real-life operation of the vehicle. Results & Conclusion: We show that, by introducing a certain degree of uncertainty in quadrotor dynamics during training, we can obtain a controller that is capable to perform the proposed task using a larger variation of quadrotor parameters. Additionally, the RL-based controller outperforms a traditional positional PID controller with optimized gains in this task, while remaining agnostic to different simulation parameters.

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As the first chief technology officer at tool manufacturer Stanley Black & Decker, Mark Maybury oversees the company's innovation portfolio and prioritizes the responsible use of artificial intelligence in its product development efforts.