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Towards Better Chinese-centric Neural Machine Translation for Low-resource Languages
Li, Bin, Weng, Yixuan, Xia, Fei, Deng, Hanjun
The last decade has witnessed enormous improvements in science and technology, stimulating the growing demand for economic and cultural exchanges in various countries. Building a neural machine translation (NMT) system has become an urgent trend, especially in the low-resource setting. However, recent work tends to study NMT systems for low-resource languages centered on English, while few works focus on low-resource NMT systems centered on other languages such as Chinese. To achieve this, the low-resource multilingual translation challenge of the 2021 iFL YTEK AI Developer Competition provides the Chinese-centric multilingual low-resource NMT tasks, where participants are required to build NMT systems based on the provided low-resource samples. In this paper, we present the winner competition system that leverages monolingual word embeddings data enhancement, bilingual curriculum learning, and contrastive re-ranking. In addition, a new Incomplete-Trust (In-trust) loss function is proposed to replace the traditional cross-entropy loss when training. The experimental results demonstrate that the implementation of these ideas leads better performance than other state-of-the-art methods. All the experimental codes are released at: https://github.com/WENGSYX/
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The Continuous Evolution of Artificial Intelligence in Our Society
Artificial intelligence is changing the modern workplace, raising important questions for our society. Everybody knows artificial intelligence (AI) is meant to bring a huge competitive edge to those who successfully adapt it. The challenge, however, is to identify what makes AI adaptation truly successful. In the past few years, we've seen many technology fads come and go. Maybe it didn't bring enough value.
UC Berkeley ML pioneer wins top computing gong
This year's ACM Prize in Computing is going toward a machine learning specialist whose work, even if you haven't heard of him, is likely to be familiar. Pieter Abbeel, UC Berkeley professor and co-founder of AI robotics company Covariant, was awarded the prize and its $250,000 bounty, which is given to those in the machine learning field "whose research contributions have fundamental impact and broad implications." Abbeel is a professor of computer science and electrical engineering whose work has already received some recognition. Along with this new award, he was named a top young innovator under 25 by the MIT Technology Review and won a prize given out to the best US PhD thesis in robotics and automation. ACM said Abbeel was a trailblazer in apprenticeship and reinforcement learning, and highlighted a clothes-folding robot he designed that was better able to manipulate deformable objects.
A Comprehensive Review of Sign Language Recognition: Different Types, Modalities, and Datasets
Madhiarasan, M., Roy, Partha Pratim
A machine can understand human activities, and the meaning of signs can help overcome the communication barriers between the inaudible and ordinary people. Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is a fascinating research area and a crucial task concerning computer vision and pattern recognition. Recently, SLR usage has increased in many applications, but the environment, background image resolution, modalities, and datasets affect the performance a lot. Many researchers have been striving to carry out generic real-time SLR models. This review paper facilitates a comprehensive overview of SLR and discusses the needs, challenges, and problems associated with SLR. We study related works about manual and non-manual, various modalities, and datasets. Research progress and existing state-of-the-art SLR models over the past decade have been reviewed. Finally, we find the research gap and limitations in this domain and suggest future directions. This review paper will be helpful for readers and researchers to get complete guidance about SLR and the progressive design of the state-of-the-art SLR model
Robotic nurse can dress a mannequin in a hospital gown
A two-armed robot can grasp a folded hospital gown and dress a medical mannequin lying on a bed. The technology isn't yet ready for use on people, but it is an experimental step towards artificial nurses in hospitals. Fan Zhang and Yiannis Demiris at Imperial College London tested their robot in a scenario that closely mimicked the Certified Nursing Assistant test used in US healthcare, in which a trainee nurse has to put an open-backed robe on a person with weak or paralysed arms. Instead of a human, however, they used a mannequin designed for medical training. Flexible objects like a gown are extremely difficult for robots to work with, because their overall shape and size vary dramatically depending on how they are draped.
In-person robotics competition returns to Windsor
For the first time in three years, the Windsor-Essex Great Lakes District Competition saw high school students from across Ontario put their robots to the test – as 17 teams battled it out Saturday at the St. Denis Centre to showcase their design and engineering skills. It marks the first district competition for robotics students in Windsor-Essex since 2019. Competitions in 2020 and 2021 were shut down due to COVID-19. That means for a student who joined their school's robotics team after Grade 9, this would be their only district competition before high school graduation. "I've wanted to join robotics for about three years now. But in Grade 10, I didn't because everything was getting shut down around springtime," said Sandwich Secondary student Alma Piche.
Advanced Reinforcement Learning in Python: cutting-edge DQNs
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2022 Doherty Award Recipient Howie Choset Kavčić-Moura Professor of Computer Science - The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University
Howie Choset is a Professor of Robotics where he serves as the co-director, along with Matt Travers, of the Biorobotics Lab. Choset's research program has made contributions to strategically significant problems in surgery, manufacturing, on-orbit maintenance, recycling and search and rescue. His work is most famous for its snake robots and other biologically inspired systems and recently his group has been contributing to robotic modularity, multi-agent planning, information-based search, and skill learning. Currently, Choset's projects include: medical support in the field, expeditionary robotics, on-orbit maintenance and construction of structures in space, rapidly carrying heavy objects up several flights of stairs, recycling of E-waste, food preparation, "edge"-sensing, and aerospace painting. Choset has led multi-PI projects centered on manufacturing: (1) automating the programming of robots for auto-body painting; (2) the development of mobile manipulators for agile and flexible fixture-free manufacturing of large structures in aerospace, and (3) the creation of a data-robot ecosystem for rapid manufacturing in the commercial electronics industry.
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