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This free AI chatbot helps businesses fight COVID-19 misinformation

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Avaamo, a company that specializes in conversational AI, recently built a virtual assistant to translate natural language queries about the COVID-19 pandemic into reliable insights. In other words, it's an AI-powered chatbot that can answer just about any question you have about the pandemic. Avaamo's Project COVID uses a deep learning system called natural language processing to turn our questions about the pandemic into website and database queries. It works a lot like Google or Bing, you input text and the AI tries to find the most relevant information possible. The big difference is that Avaamo carefully guards the gates against misinformation by only surfacing results from reputable websites such as CDC, NIH, WHO, and Johns Hopkins.


Seeing Through Walls

Communications of the ACM

Machine vision coupled with artificial intelligence (AI) has made great strides toward letting computers understand images. Thanks to deep learning, which processes information in a way analogous to the human brain, machine vision is doing everything from keeping self-driving cars on the right track to improving cancer diagnosis by examining biopsy slides or x-ray images. Now some researchers are going beyond what the human eye or a camera lens can see, using machine learning to watch what people are doing on the other side of a wall. The technique relies on low-power radio frequency (RF) signals, which reflect off living tissue and metal but pass easily through wooden or plaster interior walls. AI can decipher those signals, not only to detect the presence of people, but also to see how they are moving, and even to predict the activity they are engaged in, from talking on a phone to brushing their teeth.


Leveraging Unlabeled Data

Communications of the ACM

Despite the rapid advances it has made it over the past decade, deep learning presents many industrial users with problems when they try to implement the technology, issues that the Internet giants have worked around through brute force. "The challenge that today's systems face is the amount of data they need for training," says Tim Ensor, head of artificial intelligence (AI) at U.K.-based technology company Cambridge Consultants. "On top of that, it needs to be structured data." Most of the commercial applications and algorithm benchmarks used to test deep neural networks (DNNs) consume copious quantities of labeled data; for example, images or pieces of text that have already been tagged in some way by a human to indicate what the sample represents. The Internet giants, who have collected the most data for use in training deep learning systems, have often resorted to crowdsourcing measures such as asking people to prove they are human during logins by identifying objects in a collection of images, or simply buying manual labor through services such as Amazon's Mechanical Turk.


Learning visual servo policies via planner cloning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This algorithm differs from Visual servoing in novel environments is an important AGGREVATE because problem. Given images produced by a camera, a visual servo it incorporates the value control policy guides a grasped part into a desired pose penalties and from DQfD relative to the environment. This problem appears in many because it uses supervised situations: reaching, grasping, peg insertion, stacking, machine targets rather than TD assembly tasks, etc. Whereas classical approaches to the targets. We compare PQC problem [6, 3, 27] typically make strong assumptions about the with several baselines and environment (fiducials, known object geometries, etc.), there algorithm ablations and has been a surge of interest recently in using deep learning show that it outperforms methods to solve these problems in more unstructured settings all these variations on two that incorporate novel objects [29, 14, 26, 8, 21, 28, 12, 13].


Privacy-Preserving Graph Neural Network for Node Classification

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Recently, Graph Neural Network (GNN) has achieved remarkable progresses in various real-world tasks on graph data, consisting of node features and the adjacent information between different nodes. High-performance GNN models always depend on both rich features and complete edge information in graph. However, such information could possibly be isolated by different data holders in practice, which is the so-called data isolation problem. To solve this problem, in this paper, we propose a Privacy-Preserving GNN (PPGNN) learning paradigm for node classification task, which can be generalized to existing GNN models. Specifically, we split the computation graph into two parts. We leave the private data (i.e., features, edges, and labels) related computations on data holders, and delegate the rest of computations to a semi-honest server. We conduct experiments on three benchmarks and the results demonstrate that PPGNN significantly outperforms the GNN models trained on the isolated data and has comparable performance with the traditional GNN trained on the mixed plaintext data.


Multi-view Alignment and Generation in CCA via Consistent Latent Encoding

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Multi-view alignment, achieving one-to-one correspondence of multi-view inputs, is critical in many real-world multi-view applications, especially for cross-view data analysis problems. Recently, an increasing number of works study this alignment problem with Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA). However, existing CCA models are prone to misalign the multiple views due to either the neglect of uncertainty or the inconsistent encoding of the multiple views. To tackle these two issues, this paper studies multi-view alignment from the Bayesian perspective. Delving into the impairments of inconsistent encodings, we propose to recover correspondence of the multi-view inputs by matching the marginalization of the joint distribution of multi-view random variables under different forms of factorization. To realize our design, we present Adversarial CCA (ACCA) which achieves consistent latent encodings by matching the marginalized latent encodings through the adversarial training paradigm. Our analysis based on conditional mutual information reveals that ACCA is flexible for handling implicit distributions. Extensive experiments on correlation analysis and cross-view generation under noisy input settings demonstrate the superiority of our model.


Connecting the Dots: Multivariate Time Series Forecasting with Graph Neural Networks

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Modeling multivariate time series has long been a subject that has attracted researchers from a diverse range of fields including economics, finance, and traffic. A basic assumption behind multivariate time series forecasting is that its variables depend on one another but, upon looking closely, it is fair to say that existing methods fail to fully exploit latent spatial dependencies between pairs of variables. In recent years, meanwhile, graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown high capability in handling relational dependencies. GNNs require well-defined graph structures for information propagation which means they cannot be applied directly for multivariate time series where the dependencies are not known in advance. In this paper, we propose a general graph neural network framework designed specifically for multivariate time series data. Our approach automatically extracts the uni-directed relations among variables through a graph learning module, into which external knowledge like variable attributes can be easily integrated. A novel mix-hop propagation layer and a dilated inception layer are further proposed to capture the spatial and temporal dependencies within the time series. The graph learning, graph convolution, and temporal convolution modules are jointly learned in an end-to-end framework. Experimental results show that our proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art baseline methods on 3 of 4 benchmark datasets and achieves on-par performance with other approaches on two traffic datasets which provide extra structural information.


Geodesics in fibered latent spaces: A geometric approach to learning correspondences between conditions

arXiv.org Machine Learning

This work introduces a geometric framework and a novel network architecture for creating correspondences between samples of different conditions. Under this formalism, the latent space is a fiber bundle stratified into a base space encoding conditions, and a fiber space encoding the variations within conditions. The correspondences between conditions are obtained by minimizing an energy functional, resulting in diffeomorphism flows between fibers. We illustrate this approach using MNIST and Olivetti and benchmark its performances on the task of batch correction, which is the problem of integrating multiple biological datasets together.


COBRA: Contrastive Bi-Modal Representation Algorithm

arXiv.org Machine Learning

There are a wide range of applications that involve multi-modal data, such as cross-modal retrieval, visual question-answering, and image captioning. Such applications are primarily dependent on aligned distributions of the different constituent modalities. Existing approaches generate latent embeddings for each modality in a joint fashion by representing them in a common manifold. However these joint embedding spaces fail to sufficiently reduce the modality gap, which affects the performance in downstream tasks. We hypothesize that these embeddings retain the intra-class relationships but are unable to preserve the inter-class dynamics. In this paper, we present a novel framework COBRA that aims to train two modalities (image and text) in a joint fashion inspired by the Contrastive Predictive Coding (CPC) and Noise Contrastive Estimation (NCE) paradigms which preserve both inter and intra-class relationships. We empirically show that this framework reduces the modality gap significantly and generates a robust and task agnostic joint-embedding space. We outperform existing work on four diverse downstream tasks spanning across seven benchmark cross-modal datasets.


Deep Learning Stochastic Gradient Descent

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