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SharkNinja Largely Prevails in Initial Determination in Patent Case Brought by iRobot
SharkNinja Operating LLC, a subsidiary of JS Global, an innovation leader in the consumer floorcare industry, announced that the International Trade Commission issued its Initial Determination in an ongoing patent case brought by iRobot Corp. (iRobot) against SharkNinja, largely in SharkNinja's favor. The Initial Determination, issued by the Administrative Law Judge, found for SharkNinja, and against iRobot, on two of the four remaining patents asserted by iRobot, and one claim of the remaining two patents. None of SharkNinja's top-selling AI Ultra products and none of SharkNinja's auto-empty robot products were found to infringe any valid patent claim. The Initial Determination found for iRobot on certain claims of two patents, which were asserted against a small subset of SharkNinja's product line. The Initial Determination is non-final, and is subject to review by the International Trade Commission, which should be completed by the beginning of February 2023.
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Constrained Deployment Optimization in Integrated Access and Backhaul Networks
Madapatha, Charitha, Makki, Behrooz, Guo, Hao, Svensson, Tommy
Integrated access and backhaul (IAB) is one of the promising techniques for 5G networks and beyond (6G), in which the same node/hardware is used to provide both backhaul and cellular services in a multi-hop fashion. Due to the sensitivity of the backhaul links with high rate/reliability demands, proper network planning is needed to make the IAB network performing appropriately and as good as possible. In this paper, we study the effect of deployment optimization on the coverage of IAB networks. We concentrate on the cases where, due to either geographical or interference management limitations, unconstrained IAB node placement is not feasible in some areas. To that end, we propose various millimeter wave (mmWave) blocking-aware constrained deployment optimization approaches. Our results indicate that, even with limitations on deployment optimization, network planning boosts the coverage of IAB networks considerably.
Spectral Algorithms Optimally Recover Planted Sub-structures
Dhara, Souvik, Gaudio, Julia, Mossel, Elchanan, Sandon, Colin
Spectral algorithms are an important building block in machine learning and graph algorithms. We are interested in studying when such algorithms can be applied directly to provide optimal solutions to inference tasks. Previous works by Abbe, Fan, Wang and Zhong (2020) and by Dhara, Gaudio, Mossel and Sandon (2022) showed the optimality for community detection in the Stochastic Block Model (SBM), as well as in a censored variant of the SBM. Here we show that this optimality is somewhat universal as it carries over to other planted substructures such as the planted dense subgraph problem and submatrix localization problem, as well as to a censored version of the planted dense subgraph problem.
SEAL : Interactive Tool for Systematic Error Analysis and Labeling
Rajani, Nazneen, Liang, Weixin, Chen, Lingjiao, Mitchell, Meg, Zou, James
With the advent of Transformers, large language models (LLMs) have saturated well-known NLP benchmarks and leaderboards with high aggregate performance. However, many times these models systematically fail on tail data or rare groups not obvious in aggregate evaluation. Identifying such problematic data groups is even more challenging when there are no explicit labels (e.g., ethnicity, gender, etc.) and further compounded for NLP datasets due to the lack of visual features to characterize failure modes (e.g., Asian males, animals indoors, waterbirds on land, etc.). This paper introduces an interactive Systematic Error Analysis and Labeling (\seal) tool that uses a two-step approach to first identify high error slices of data and then, in the second step, introduce methods to give human-understandable semantics to those underperforming slices. We explore a variety of methods for coming up with coherent semantics for the error groups using language models for semantic labeling and a text-to-image model for generating visual features. SEAL toolkit and demo screencast is available at https://huggingface.co/spaces/nazneen/seal.
Chinese Discourse Annotation Reference Manual
Peng, Siyao, Liu, Yang Janet, Zeldes, Amir
This document provides extensive guidelines and examples for Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) annotation in Mandarin Chinese. The guideline is divided into three sections. We first introduce preprocessing steps to prepare data for RST annotation. Secondly, we discuss syntactic criteria to segment texts into Elementary Discourse Units (EDUs). Lastly, we provide examples to define and distinguish discourse relations in different genres. We hope that this reference manual can facilitate RST annotations in Chinese and accelerate the development of the RST framework across languages.
An Exploration of Hierarchical Attention Transformers for Efficient Long Document Classification
Chalkidis, Ilias, Dai, Xiang, Fergadiotis, Manos, Malakasiotis, Prodromos, Elliott, Desmond
Non-hierarchical sparse attention Transformer-based models, such as Longformer and Big Bird, are popular approaches to working with long documents. There are clear benefits to these approaches compared to the original Transformer in terms of efficiency, but Hierarchical Attention Transformer (HAT) models are a vastly understudied alternative. We develop and release fully pre-trained HAT models that use segment-wise followed by cross-segment encoders and compare them with Longformer models and partially pre-trained HATs. In several long document downstream classification tasks, our best HAT model outperforms equally-sized Longformer models while using 10-20% less GPU memory and processing documents 40-45% faster. In a series of ablation studies, we find that HATs perform best with cross-segment contextualization throughout the model than alternative configurations that implement either early or late cross-segment contextualization. Our code is on GitHub: https://github.com/coastalcph/hierarchical-transformers.
FasterRisk: Fast and Accurate Interpretable Risk Scores
Liu, Jiachang, Zhong, Chudi, Li, Boxuan, Seltzer, Margo, Rudin, Cynthia
Over the last century, risk scores have been the most popular form of predictive model used in healthcare and criminal justice. Risk scores are sparse linear models with integer coefficients; often these models can be memorized or placed on an index card. Typically, risk scores have been created either without data or by rounding logistic regression coefficients, but these methods do not reliably produce high-quality risk scores. Recent work used mathematical programming, which is computationally slow. We introduce an approach for efficiently producing a collection of high-quality risk scores learned from data. Specifically, our approach produces a pool of almost-optimal sparse continuous solutions, each with a different support set, using a beam-search algorithm. Each of these continuous solutions is transformed into a separate risk score through a "star ray" search, where a range of multipliers are considered before rounding the coefficients sequentially to maintain low logistic loss. Our algorithm returns all of these high-quality risk scores for the user to consider. This method completes within minutes and can be valuable in a broad variety of applications.