深度学习目前是机器学习中最重要的分支，在语音识别，计算机视觉，图像分类和医学成像分析中的应用。植物识别是可以使用图像分类通过其叶子识别植物物种的领域之一。植物学家通过亲自检查将大量时间用于识别植物物种。本文描述了一种剖析瑞典叶子和识别植物物种的颜色图像的方法。为了实现更高的准确性，该任务是在预先训练的分类器VGG-19的帮助下使用转移学习完成的。分类的四个主要过程是图像预处理，图像增强，特征提取和识别，这些过程是作为整体模型评估的一部分进行的。 VGG-19分类器通过采用预定义的隐藏层（例如卷积层，最大池层和完全连接的层）来掌握叶子的特征，并最终使用Soft-Max层为所有植物类生成特征表示。该模型获得了与瑞典叶数据集的各个方面相关的知识，其中包含15种树类，并有助于预测未知植物的适当类别，准确性为99.70％，这比以前报告的研究工作高。

基于深度学习（DL）的降尺度已成为地球科学中的流行工具。越来越多的DL方法被采用来降低降水量的降水量数据，并在局部（〜几公里甚至更小）的尺度上产生更准确和可靠的估计值。尽管有几项研究采用了降水的动力学或统计缩减，但准确性受地面真理的可用性受到限制。衡量此类方法准确性的一个关键挑战是将缩小的数据与点尺度观测值进行比较，这些观察值通常在如此小的尺度上是无法使用的。在这项工作中，我们进行了基于DL的缩减，以估计印度气象部（IMD）的当地降水数据，该数据是通过近似从车站位置到网格点的价值而创建的。为了测试不同DL方法的疗效，我们采用了四种不同的缩小方法并评估其性能。所考虑的方法是（i）深度统计缩小（DEEPSD），增强卷积长期记忆（ConvlstM），完全卷积网络（U-NET）和超分辨率生成对抗网络（SR-GAN）。 SR-GAN中使用的自定义VGG网络是在这项工作中使用沉淀数据开发的。结果表明，SR-GAN是降水数据缩减的最佳方法。 IMD站的降水值验证了缩小的数据。这种DL方法为统计缩减提供了有希望的替代方法。

在本文中，正在研究精神任务 - 根脑 - 计算机接口（BCI）的分类，因为这些系统是BCI中的主要调查领域，因为这些系统可以增强具有严重残疾人的人们的生命。 BCI模型的性能主要取决于通过多个通道获得的特征向量的大小。在心理任务分类的情况下，培训样本的可用性最小。通常，特征选择用于通过摆脱无关紧要和多余的功能来增加心理任务分类的比率。本文提出了一种为精神任务分类选择相关和非冗余频谱特征的方法。这可以通过使用四个非常已知的多变量特征选择方法VIZ，BHATTACHARYA的距离，散射矩阵的比率，线性回归和最小冗余和最大相关性。这项工作还涉及对心理任务分类的多元和单变量特征选择的比较分析。在应用上述方法后，研究结果表明了精神任务分类的学习模型的性能的大量改进。此外，通过执行稳健的排名算法和弗里德曼的统计测试来认识所提出的方法的功效，以找到最佳组合并比较功率谱密度和特征选择方法的不同组合。

We introduce Argoverse 2 (AV2) - a collection of three datasets for perception and forecasting research in the self-driving domain. The annotated Sensor Dataset contains 1,000 sequences of multimodal data, encompassing high-resolution imagery from seven ring cameras, and two stereo cameras in addition to lidar point clouds, and 6-DOF map-aligned pose. Sequences contain 3D cuboid annotations for 26 object categories, all of which are sufficiently-sampled to support training and evaluation of 3D perception models. The Lidar Dataset contains 20,000 sequences of unlabeled lidar point clouds and map-aligned pose. This dataset is the largest ever collection of lidar sensor data and supports self-supervised learning and the emerging task of point cloud forecasting. Finally, the Motion Forecasting Dataset contains 250,000 scenarios mined for interesting and challenging interactions between the autonomous vehicle and other actors in each local scene. Models are tasked with the prediction of future motion for "scored actors" in each scenario and are provided with track histories that capture object location, heading, velocity, and category. In all three datasets, each scenario contains its own HD Map with 3D lane and crosswalk geometry - sourced from data captured in six distinct cities. We believe these datasets will support new and existing machine learning research problems in ways that existing datasets do not. All datasets are released under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Object movement identification is one of the most researched problems in the field of computer vision. In this task, we try to classify a pixel as foreground or background. Even though numerous traditional machine learning and deep learning methods already exist for this problem, the two major issues with most of them are the need for large amounts of ground truth data and their inferior performance on unseen videos. Since every pixel of every frame has to be labeled, acquiring large amounts of data for these techniques gets rather expensive. Recently, Zhao et al. [1] proposed one of a kind Arithmetic Distribution Neural Network (ADNN) for universal background subtraction which utilizes probability information from the histogram of temporal pixels and achieves promising results. Building onto this work, we developed an intelligent video surveillance system that uses ADNN architecture for motion detection, trims the video with parts only containing motion, and performs anomaly detection on the trimmed video.

The machine translation mechanism translates texts automatically between different natural languages, and Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has gained attention for its rational context analysis and fluent translation accuracy. However, processing low-resource languages that lack relevant training attributes like supervised data is a current challenge for Natural Language Processing (NLP). We incorporated a technique known Active Learning with the NMT toolkit Joey NMT to reach sufficient accuracy and robust predictions of low-resource language translation. With active learning, a semi-supervised machine learning strategy, the training algorithm determines which unlabeled data would be the most beneficial for obtaining labels using selected query techniques. We implemented two model-driven acquisition functions for selecting the samples to be validated. This work uses transformer-based NMT systems; baseline model (BM), fully trained model (FTM) , active learning least confidence based model (ALLCM), and active learning margin sampling based model (ALMSM) when translating English to Hindi. The Bilingual Evaluation Understudy (BLEU) metric has been used to evaluate system results. The BLEU scores of BM, FTM, ALLCM and ALMSM systems are 16.26, 22.56 , 24.54, and 24.20, respectively. The findings in this paper demonstrate that active learning techniques helps the model to converge early and improve the overall quality of the translation system.

We study the problem of planning under model uncertainty in an online meta-reinforcement learning (RL) setting where an agent is presented with a sequence of related tasks with limited interactions per task. The agent can use its experience in each task and across tasks to estimate both the transition model and the distribution over tasks. We propose an algorithm to meta-learn the underlying structure across tasks, utilize it to plan in each task, and upper-bound the regret of the planning loss. Our bound suggests that the average regret over tasks decreases as the number of tasks increases and as the tasks are more similar. In the classical single-task setting, it is known that the planning horizon should depend on the estimated model's accuracy, that is, on the number of samples within task. We generalize this finding to meta-RL and study this dependence of planning horizons on the number of tasks. Based on our theoretical findings, we derive heuristics for selecting slowly increasing discount factors, and we validate its significance empirically.

As language models have grown in parameters and layers, it has become much harder to train and infer with them on single GPUs. This is severely restricting the availability of large language models such as GPT-3, BERT-Large, and many others. A common technique to solve this problem is pruning the network architecture by removing transformer heads, fully-connected weights, and other modules. The main challenge is to discern the important parameters from the less important ones. Our goal is to find strong metrics for identifying such parameters. We thus propose two strategies: Cam-Cut based on the GradCAM interpretations, and Smooth-Cut based on the SmoothGrad, for calculating the importance scores. Through this work, we show that our scoring functions are able to assign more relevant task-based scores to the network parameters, and thus both our pruning approaches significantly outperform the standard weight and gradient-based strategies, especially at higher compression ratios in BERT-based models. We also analyze our pruning masks and find them to be significantly different from the ones obtained using standard metrics.

Neoplasms (NPs) and neurological diseases and disorders (NDDs) are amongst the major classes of diseases underlying deaths of a disproportionate number of people worldwide. To determine if there exist some distinctive features in the local wiring patterns of protein interactions emerging at the onset of a disease belonging to either of these two classes, we examined 112 and 175 protein interaction networks belonging to NPs and NDDs, respectively. Orbit usage profiles (OUPs) for each of these networks were enumerated by investigating the networks' local topology. 56 non-redundant OUPs (nrOUPs) were derived and used as network features for classification between these two disease classes. Four machine learning classifiers, namely, k-nearest neighbour (KNN), support vector machine (SVM), deep neural network (DNN), random forest (RF) were trained on these data. DNN obtained the greatest average AUPRC (0.988) among these classifiers. DNNs developed on node2vec and the proposed nrOUPs embeddings were compared using 5-fold cross validation on the basis of average values of the six of performance measures, viz., AUPRC, Accuracy, Sensitivity, Specificity, Precision and MCC. It was found that nrOUPs based classifier performed better in all of these six performance measures.

Customers are rapidly turning to social media for customer support. While brand agents on these platforms are motivated and well-intentioned to help and engage with customers, their efforts are often ignored if their initial response to the customer does not match a specific tone, style, or topic the customer is aiming to receive. The length of a conversation can reflect the effort and quality of the initial response made by a brand toward collaborating and helping consumers, even when the overall sentiment of the conversation might not be very positive. Thus, through this study, we aim to bridge this critical gap in the existing literature by analyzing language's content and stylistic aspects such as expressed empathy, psycho-linguistic features, dialogue tags, and metrics for quantifying personalization of the utterances that can influence the engagement of an interaction. This paper demonstrates that we can predict engagement using initial customer and brand posts.