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Explanation-based Data Augmentation for Image Classification

Neural Information Processing Systems

Existing works have generated explanations for deep neural network decisions toprovide insights into model behavior. Weobservethat these explanations can also be used to identify concepts that caused misclassifications. This allows us to understand the possible limitations of the dataset used to train the model, particularly the under-represented regions in the dataset.


Why our ancestors had straight teeth without braces

Popular Science

Small jaws mean big problems for modern humans. Modern diets gave us smaller jaws--and a lifetime of orthodontic problems. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Every year, millions of children and teens undergo a common ritual of growing up: getting braces. And it's not just young folks who turn to metal brackets to handle some common dental issues--the Cleveland Clinic estimates that some 20% of new orthodontic patients are over the age of 18 .


Discovering Self-Protective Falling Policy for Humanoid Robot via Deep Reinforcement Learning

Shi, Diyuan, Lyu, Shangke, Wang, Donglin

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Humanoid robots have received significant research interests and advancements in recent years. Despite many successes, due to their morphology, dynamics and limitation of control policy, humanoid robots are prone to fall as compared to other embodiments like quadruped or wheeled robots. And its large weight, tall Center of Mass, high Degree-of-Freedom would cause serious hardware damages when falling uncontrolled, to both itself and surrounding objects. Existing researches in this field mostly focus on using control based methods that struggle to cater diverse falling scenarios and may introduce unsuitable human prior. On the other hand, large-scale Deep Reinforcement Learning and Curriculum Learning could be employed to incentivize humanoid agent discovering falling protection policy that fits its own nature and property. In this work, with carefully designed reward functions and domain diversification curriculum, we successfully train humanoid agent to explore falling protection behaviors and discover that by forming a `triangle' structure, the falling damages could be significantly reduced with its rigid-material body. With comprehensive metrics and experiments, we quantify its performance with comparison to other methods, visualize its falling behaviors and successfully transfer it to real world platform.


A High-Tech Ankle Guard Is Helping NBA Players Stay in the Game

WIRED

BetterGuards has teamed up with the NBA Training Association to outfit players with its adaptive ankle brace. The pro ballers are avoiding serious injury while evaluating the stabilizing design. Austin Reaves of the Los Angeles Lakers wears a BetterGuards ankle brace during the game against the Phoenix Suns in October, 2025. Matas Buzelis was in a situation every professional basketball player dreads. This sickening scenario often means an ankle injury is about to occur, especially for players like Buzelis with a lengthy history of them dating back to his high school years.


Meteorologist's stark warning to Americans to brace for a harsh winter with less snow but more nor'easters

Daily Mail - Science & tech

'Four dead and 12 injured' in Mississippi shooting after people descend on town for homecoming game Joe Biden, 82, receiving new treatment after'aggressive' cancer spread to his bones REVEALED: The secret George Soros network'behind America's street chaos'... and the dossier that shows how to stop it Tinnitus destroyed Peter's life but doctors dismissed him. Then he tried an extraordinary drug-free University of Cambridge-backed treatment that gives instant relief - no wonder medics say it's so'exciting' KENNEDY: Obama's bitter post about Trump's Gaza peace deal proves what I've long suspected about Barry... and it would make Sigmund Freud blush Gold is soaring... here's what the pros say you should do with your 401(k) before it's too late Model dubbed'the world's most beautiful girl' when she was six is now all grown up and looks VERY different as she poses up a storm at Paris Fashion Week Teacher was'so high on cocaine she thought one of her students was her dog' But now, a royal insider claims they're'just as entitled as their parents' with'shady friends' Heartbreaking moment NFL reporter makes brutal comment about player Xavier Legette's dead father in locker room interview Experts reveal the surprising TRUTH behind RFK Jr's link between circumcision and autism Bombshell records that damn Letitia James and show Trump was RIGHT... and the staggering sum she was swindling Trump starts DOGE 2.0 as mass layoffs take place across federal government amid shutdown Famed'Big Short' investor gives terrifying verdict on Trump hammering China with 100 PERCENT tariff... and issues doomsday warning to Wall Street Jennifer Aniston, you've betrayed every woman with your selfish admission about not having children: CAROLINE BULLOCK Meteorologist's stark warning to Americans to brace for a harsh winter with less snow but more nor'easters Meteorologists are already predicting what the winter months will bring, with some regions of the US expected to see less snow than last year, and nor'easters anticipated to ravage parts of the Northeast. Paul Pastelok, chief meteorologist for AccuWeather's long-range forecasting team, told the Daily Mail that while he didn't expect above normal snowfall for the winter season, he warned that those in the Northeast should brace for nor'easters and it would still be a harsh winter. Pastelok explained that the nor'easter over this weekend is on trend with what is to come, as rapidly developing storms come in off the East Coast. 'People may say, Well, you're forecasting less snow, so it doesn't look like a harsh winter.


Safety Assessment of Scaffolding on Construction Site using AI

Prabhu, Sameer, Patwardhan, Amit, Karim, Ramin

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In the construction industry, safety assessment is vital to ensure both the reliability of assets and the safety of workers. Scaffolding, a key structural support asset requires regular inspection to detect and identify alterations from the design rules that may compromise the integrity and stability. At present, inspections are primarily visual and are conducted by site manager or accredited personnel to identify deviations. However, visual inspection is time-intensive and can be susceptible to human errors, which can lead to unsafe conditions. This paper explores the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digitization to enhance the accuracy of scaffolding inspection and contribute to the safety improvement. A cloud-based AI platform is developed to process and analyse the point cloud data of scaffolding structure. The proposed system detects structural modifications through comparison and evaluation of certified reference data with the recent point cloud data. This approach may enable automated monitoring of scaffolding, reducing the time and effort required for manual inspections while enhancing the safety on a construction site.


Explanation-based Data Augmentation for Image Classification

Neural Information Processing Systems

All the datasets used in our paper are publicly available and are to be used for research purposes. Table 1 gives the download links and licenses of these datasets. Use is restricted to non-commercial research and educational purposesCUB-Families (2) https://github.com/HCPLab-SYSU/HS Use is restricted to non-commercial research and educational purposesTiny ImageNet http://cs231n.stanford.edu/tiny-imagenet-200.zip Use is restricted to non-commercial research and educational purposes Cardinal Cerulean Warbler Least Auklet Figure 1: Samples images for three classes of CUB dataset collected in (3). Abacus Arabian Camel Wooden Spoon Figure 2: Samples images for three classes of Tiny-ImageNet dataset collected using Flickr API.



The Rise of 'Vibe Hacking' Is the Next AI Nightmare

WIRED

In the near future one hacker may be able to unleash 20 zero-day attacks on different systems across the world all at once. Polymorphic malware could rampage across a codebase, using a bespoke generative AI system to rewrite itself as it learns and adapts. Armies of script kiddies could use purpose-built LLMs to unleash a torrent of malicious code at the push of a button. Case in point: as of this writing, an AI system is sitting at the top of several leaderboards on HackerOne--an enterprise bug bounty system. The AI is XBOW, a system aimed at whitehat pentesters that "autonomously finds and exploits vulnerabilities in 75 percent of web benchmarks," according to the company's website.