The robustness of any machine learning solution is fundamentally bound by the data it was trained on. One way to generalize beyond the original training is through human-informed augmentation of the original dataset; however, it is impossible to specify all possible failure cases that can occur during deployment. To address this limitation we combine model-based reinforcement learning and model-interpretability methods to propose a solution that self-generates simulated scenarios constrained by environmental concepts and dynamics learned in an unsupervised manner. In particular, an internal model of the agent's environment is conditioned on low-dimensional concept representations of the input space that are sensitive to the agent's actions. We demonstrate this method within a standard realistic driving simulator in a simple point-to-point navigation task, where we show dramatic improvements in one-shot generalization to different instances of specified failure cases as well as zero-shot generalization to similar variations compared to model-based and model-free approaches.

Overfitting and generalization is an important concept in Machine Learning as only models that generalize are interesting for general applications. Yet some students have trouble learning this important concept through lectures and exercises. In this paper we describe common examples of students misunderstanding overfitting, and provide recommendations for possible solutions. We cover student misconceptions about overfitting, about solutions to overfitting, and implementation mistakes that are commonly confused with overfitting issues. We expect that our paper can contribute to improving student understanding and lectures about this important topic.

Demographic classification is essential in fairness assessment in recommender systems or in measuring unintended bias in online networks and voting systems. Important fields like education and politics, which often lay a foundation for the future of equality in society, need scrutiny to design policies that can better foster equality in resource distribution constrained by the unbalanced demographic distribution of people in the country. We collect three publicly available datasets to train state-of-the-art classifiers in the domain of gender and caste classification. We train the models in the Indian context, where the same name can have different styling conventions (Jolly Abraham/Kumar Abhishikta in one state may be written as Abraham Jolly/Abishikta Kumar in the other). Finally, we also perform cross-testing (training and testing on different datasets) to understand the efficacy of the above models. We also perform an error analysis of the prediction models. Finally, we attempt to assess the bias in the existing Indian system as case studies and find some intriguing patterns manifesting in the complex demographic layout of the sub-continent across the dimensions of gender and caste.

You're about to confront a pernicious new challenge that is spreading, kudzu-like, into your student writing assignments: papers augmented with artificial intelligence. The first online article generator debuted in 2005. Now, A.I.-generated text can now be found in novels, fake news articles and real news articles, marketing campaigns, and dozens of other written products. The tech is either free or cheap to use, which places it in the hands of anyone. Using an A.I. program is not "plagiarism" in the traditional sense--there's no previous work for the student to copy, and thus no original for teachers' plagiarism detectors to catch.

Learning a new language can be confusing and challenging. You are bombarded with YouTube videos claiming to teach you Python in 10 minutes. In the end, you get more confused and give up. Find out ways that work for you." Even if you understand the basics, you will get more confused in selecting and learning new tools. Furthermore, without structured learning, you will fail to pass any coding interview or test. Just like any skill, you need persistence and practice. In this blog, I have converted my Python learning experience into 7 easy to follow tips. Let's start the journey of becoming an expert Python programmer. Learning everything about Python is not necessary, but you need to build a base. For that, you need to understand the basics. There are plenty more things to learn, but for the starter stick to basics and practice. It is ok to make mistakes, forget the syntax, and get stuck in simple things. Do not force yourself to memorize. The most important thing is that you learn ...

This is another Free Coursera course to learn how deep learning with neural networks can be used to classify images and detect objects in images and videos. In this course, you will use convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to classify images and detect objects.

This is the best-seller course in ROS on Udemy. My course has been upgraded to the latest version of ROS, ROS Noetic, with several new videos explaining the fundamental concepts of ROS with hands-on illustrations. It will also give you the required skills to later learn ROS2 and navigation stack, as presented in my two other courses. Why am I teaching this course? Typically, new ROS users encounter many difficulties when they start programming with ROS.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are big topics these days, no matter what the domain is – finance, fintech, politics, health, education, science, blockchain, and so on. Would it still be possible to catch up if you missed the start and had only some basic knowledge in PHP or Javascript? It has even been used by some startups in the past five years as an opportunity to show off, so as to make their products and services more valuable to customers and investors. ML and AI can change everything if they are integrated into the value proposition. However, it is not something that should be taken lightly, ML is become more difficult to access as it requires specialists in AI and ML, and people who have studied the field, or who have dedicated time to be trained and certified on that subject, making it in certain cases harder for the general public to fully understand. There will be no mention of formulas, operations, series of numbers, or variances in this blog post. Since I am not a math nerd, I did not take the time to fully understand the deep skeleton of Machine Learning programs prior to this article, the probabilities, the calculations, the components, etc.

We are facing a global healthcare crisis today as the healthcare cost is ever climbing, but with the aging population, government fiscal revenue is ever dropping. To create a more efficient and effective healthcare system, three technical challenges immediately present themselves: healthcare access, healthcare equity, and healthcare efficiency. An autonomous mobile clinic solves the healthcare access problem by bringing healthcare services to the patient by the order of the patient's fingertips. Nevertheless, to enable a universal autonomous mobile clinic network, a three-stage technical roadmap needs to be achieved: In stage one, we focus on solving the inequity challenge in the existing healthcare system by combining autonomous mobility and telemedicine. In stage two, we develop an AI doctor for primary care, which we foster from infancy to adulthood with clean healthcare data. With the AI doctor, we can solve the inefficiency problem. In stage three, after we have proven that the autonomous mobile clinic network can truly solve the target clinical use cases, we shall open up the platform for all medical verticals, thus enabling universal healthcare through this whole new system.

With the increasing attention non-binary people receive in Western societies, strategies of gender-fair language have started to move away from binary (only female/male) concepts of gender. Nevertheless, hardly any approaches to take these identities into account into machine translation models exist so far. A lack of understanding of the socio-technical implications of such technologies risks further reproducing linguistic mechanisms of oppression and mislabelling. In this paper, we describe the methods and results of a workshop on gender-fair language and language technologies, which was led and organised by ten researchers from TU Wien, St. P\"olten UAS, FH Campus Wien and the University of Vienna and took place in Vienna in autumn 2021. A wide range of interest groups and their representatives were invited to ensure that the topic could be dealt with holistically. Accordingly, we aimed to include translators, machine translation experts and non-binary individuals (as "community experts") on an equal footing. Our analysis shows that gender in machine translation requires a high degree of context sensitivity, that developers of such technologies need to position themselves cautiously in a process still under social negotiation, and that flexible approaches seem most adequate at present. We then illustrate steps that follow from our results for the field of gender-fair language technologies so that technological developments can adequately line up with social advancements. ---- Mit zunehmender gesamtgesellschaftlicher Wahrnehmung nicht-bin\"arer Personen haben sich in den letzten Jahren auch Konzepte von genderfairer Sprache von der bisher verwendeten Binarit\"at (weiblich/m\"annlich) entfernt. Trotzdem gibt es bislang nur wenige Ans\"atze dazu, diese Identit\"aten in maschineller \"Ubersetzung abzubilden. Ein fehlendes Verst\"andnis unterschiedlicher sozio-technischer Implikationen derartiger Technologien birgt in sich die Gefahr, fehlerhafte Ansprachen und Bezeichnungen sowie sprachliche Unterdr\"uckungsmechanismen zu reproduzieren. In diesem Beitrag beschreiben wir die Methoden und Ergebnisse eines Workshops zu genderfairer Sprache in technologischen Zusammenh\"angen, der im Herbst 2021 in Wien stattgefunden hat. Zehn Forscher*innen der TU Wien, FH St. P\"olten, FH Campus Wien und Universit\"at Wien organisierten und leiteten den Workshop. Dabei wurden unterschiedlichste Interessensgruppen und deren Vertreter*innen breit gestreut eingeladen, um sicherzustellen, dass das Thema holistisch behandelt werden kann. Dementsprechend setzten wir uns zum Ziel, Machine-Translation-Entwickler*innen, \"Ubersetzer*innen, und nicht-bin\"are Privatpersonen (als "Lebenswelt-Expert*innen") gleichberechtigt einzubinden. Unsere Analyse zeigt, dass Geschlecht in maschineller \"Ubersetzung eine ma\ss{}geblich kontextsensible Herangehensweise erfordert, die Entwicklung von Sprachtechnologien sich vorsichtig in einem sich noch in Aushandlung befindlichen gesellschaftlichen Prozess positionieren muss, und flexible Ans\"atze derzeit am ad\"aquatesten erscheinen. Wir zeigen auf, welche n\"achsten Schritte im Bereich genderfairer Technologien notwendig sind, damit technische mit sozialen Entwicklungen mithalten k\"onnen.