A significant and growing number of published scientific articles is found to involve fraudulent practices, posing a serious threat to the credibility and safety of research in fields such as medicine. We propose Pub-Guard-LLM, the first large language model-based system tailored to fraud detection of biomedical scientific articles. We provide three application modes for deploying Pub-Guard-LLM: vanilla reasoning, retrieval-augmented generation, and multi-agent debate. Each mode allows for textual explanations of predictions. To assess the performance of our system, we introduce an open-source benchmark, PubMed Retraction, comprising over 11K real-world biomedical articles, including metadata and retraction labels. We show that, across all modes, Pub-Guard-LLM consistently surpasses the performance of various baselines and provides more reliable explanations, namely explanations which are deemed more relevant and coherent than those generated by the baselines when evaluated by multiple assessment methods. By enhancing both detection performance and explainability in scientific fraud detection, Pub-Guard-LLM contributes to safeguarding research integrity with a novel, effective, open-source tool.

Side-scan sonar (SSS) is a lightweight acoustic sensor that is frequently deployed on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to provide high-resolution seafloor images. However, using side-scan images to perform simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) remains a challenge when there is a lack of 3D bathymetric information and discriminant features in the side-scan images. To tackle this, we propose a feature-based SLAM framework using side-scan sonar, which is able to automatically detect and robustly match keypoints between paired side-scan images. We then use the detected correspondences as constraints to optimize the AUV pose trajectory. The proposed method is evaluated on real data collected by a Hugin AUV, using as a ground truth reference both manually-annotated keypoints and a 3D bathymetry mesh from multibeam echosounder (MBES). Experimental results demonstrate that our approach is able to reduce drifts from the dead-reckoning system. The framework is made publicly available for the benefit of the community.

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The target of image-text clustering (ITC) is to find correct clusters by integrating complementary and consistent information of multi-modalities for these heterogeneous samples. However, the majority of current studies analyse ITC on the ideal premise that the samples in every modality are complete. This presumption, however, is not always valid in real-world situations. The missing data issue degenerates the image-text feature learning performance and will finally affect the generalization abilities in ITC tasks. Although a series of methods have been proposed to address this incomplete image text clustering issue (IITC), the following problems still exist: 1) most existing methods hardly consider the distinct gap between heterogeneous feature domains. 2) For missing data, the representations generated by existing methods are rarely guaranteed to suit clustering tasks. 3) Existing methods do not tap into the latent connections both inter and intra modalities. In this paper, we propose a Clustering-Induced Generative Incomplete Image-Text Clustering(CIGIT-C) network to address the challenges above. More specifically, we first use modality-specific encoders to map original features to more distinctive subspaces. The latent connections between intra and inter-modalities are thoroughly explored by using the adversarial generating network to produce one modality conditional on the other modality. Finally, we update the corresponding modalityspecific encoders using two KL divergence losses. Experiment results on public image-text datasets demonstrated that the suggested method outperforms and is more effective in the IITC job.

Advanced researches on connected vehicles have recently targeted to the integration of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) networks with Machine Learning (ML) tools and distributed decision making. Federated learning (FL) is emerging as a new paradigm to train machine learning (ML) models in distributed systems, including vehicles in V2X networks. Rather than sharing and uploading the training data to the server, the updating of model parameters (e.g., neural networks' weights and biases) is applied by large populations of interconnected vehicles, acting as local learners. Despite these benefits, the limitation of existing approaches is the centralized optimization which relies on a server for aggregation and fusion of local parameters, leading to the drawback of a single point of failure and scaling issues for increasing V2X network size. Meanwhile, in intelligent transport scenarios, data collected from onboard sensors are redundant, which degrades the performance of aggregation. To tackle these problems, we explore a novel idea of decentralized data processing and introduce a federated learning framework for in-network vehicles, C-DFL(Consensus based Decentralized Federated Learning), to tackle federated learning on connected vehicles and improve learning quality. Extensive simulations have been implemented to evaluate the performance of C-DFL, that demonstrates C-DFL outperforms the performance of conventional methods in all cases.

There is widespread agreement that responsible artificial intelligence requires principles such as fairness, transparency, privacy, human safety, and explainability. Nearly all ethicists and tech policy advocates stress these factors and push for algorithms that are fair, transparent, safe, and understandable.1 But it is not always clear how to operationalize these broad principles or how to handle situations where there are conflicts between competing goals.2 It is not easy to move from the abstract to the concrete in developing algorithms and sometimes a focus on one goal comes at the detriment of alternative objectives.3 In the criminal justice area, for example, Richard Berk and colleagues argue that there are many kinds of fairness and it is "impossible to maximize accuracy and fairness at the same time, and impossible simultaneously to satisfy all kinds of fairness."4

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The volume of peer-reviewed AI research papers has grown by more than 300 percent over the past three decades (Stanford AI Index 2019), and the top AI conferences in 2019 saw a deluge of paper. CVPR submissions spiked to 5,165, a 56 percent increase over 2018; ICLR received 1,591 main conference paper submissions, up 60 percent over last year; ACL reported a record-breaking 2,906 submissions, almost doubling last year's 1,544; and ICCV 2019 received 4,303 submissions, more than twice the 2017 total. As part of our year-end series, Synced spotlights 10 artificial intelligence papers that garnered extraordinary attention and accolades in 2019. Abstract: Finite-horizon lookahead policies are abundantly used in Reinforcement Learning and demonstrate impressive empirical success. Usually, the lookahead policies are implemented with specific planning methods such as Monte Carlo Tree Search (e.g. in AlphaZero).

The volume of peer-reviewed AI research papers has grown by more than 300 percent over the past three decades (Stanford AI Index 2019), and the top AI conferences in 2019 saw a deluge of paper. CVPR submissions spiked to 5,165, a 56 percent increase over 2018; ICLR received 1,591 main conference paper submissions, up 60 percent over last year; ACL reported a record-breaking 2,906 submissions, almost doubling last year's 1,544; and ICCV 2019 received 4,303 submissions, more than twice the 2017 total. As part of our year-end series, Synced spotlights 10 artificial intelligence papers that garnered extraordinary attention and accolades in 2019. Abstract: Finite-horizon lookahead policies are abundantly used in Reinforcement Learning and demonstrate impressive empirical success. Usually, the lookahead policies are implemented with specific planning methods such as Monte Carlo Tree Search (e.g. in AlphaZero).

While you were looking the other way, Toronto humbly produced some of the globe's top artificial intelligence and deep learning experts, companies, and innovations. Now is the time for the city to stand up tall and loudly proclaim what local folks already know: Toronto is at the center of AI innovation and its real-world applications. The city is home to world-class academic institutions like the University of Toronto and nearby to the University of Waterloo, both of which constantly churn out bright computer and data scientists, engineers, and developers building next-generation AI technologies. These institutions are world leaders in scientific research, creating an ecosystem ripe with opportunities for novel applications for AI, particularly in the fields of health and life sciences. My own company actively recruits staff from both schools.