血压（BP）是心血管疾病和中风最有影响力的生物标志物之一;因此，需要定期监测以诊断和预防医疗并发症的任何出现。目前携带的携带BP监测的无齿状方法，虽然是非侵入性和不引人注目的，涉及围绕指尖光肌谱（PPG）信号的显式特征工程。为了规避这一点，我们提出了一种端到端的深度学习解决方案，BP-Net，它使用PPG波形来估计通过中间连续动脉BP来估计收缩压BP（SBP），平均压力（MAP）和舒张压BP（DBP） （ABP）波形。根据英国高血压协会（BHS）标准的条款，BP-Net为SBP估计实现了DBP和地图估计和B级的A级。 BP-Net还满足了医疗仪器（AAMI）标准的推进和地图估计，分别实现了5.16mmHg和2.89mmHg的平均误差（MAE），分别用于SBP和DBP。此外，我们通过在Raspberry PI 4设备上部署BP-Net来建立我们的方法的无处不在的潜力，并为我们的模型实现4.25毫秒的推理时间来将PPG波形转换为ABP波形。

由于独特的驾驶特征，人类驾驶员具有独特的驾驶技术，知识和情感。驾驶员嗜睡一直是一个严重的问题，危害道路安全。因此，必须设计有效的嗜睡检测算法以绕过道路事故。杂项研究工作已经解决了检测异常的人类驾驶员行为的问题，以通过计算机视觉技术检查驾驶员和汽车动力学的正面面孔。尽管如此，常规方法仍无法捕获复杂的驾驶员行为特征。但是，以深度学习体系结构的起源，还进行了大量研究，以分析和识别使用神经网络算法的驾驶员的嗜睡。本文介绍了一个基于视觉变形金刚和Yolov5架构的新颖框架，以实现驾驶员嗜睡的识别。提出了定制的Yolov5预训练的结构，以提取面部提取，目的是提取感兴趣的区域（ROI）。由于以前的体系结构的局限性，本文引入了视觉变压器进行二进制图像分类，该二进制图像分类在公共数据集UTA-RLDD上经过训练和验证。该模型分别达到了96.2 \％和97.4 \％的培训和验证精度。为了进行进一步的评估，在各种光明情况下的39名参与者的自定义数据集上测试了拟议的框架，并获得了95.5 \％的准确性。进行的实验揭示了我们在智能运输系统中实用应用框架的重要潜力。

由于Covid-19-19疫苗可用，因此没有研究量化不同的灾难疏散策略如何减轻避难所中的大流行风险。因此，我们应用了一个年龄结构化的流行病学模型，称为易感性暴露感染（SEIR）模型，以研究台湾不同的疫苗摄取水平以及在台湾实施的转移方案在多大程度上降低了感染和延迟流行峰值的情况。台湾的转移协议涉及转移因曝光而自我占用的人，从而阻止了他们与集体庇护所的普通公众融合。转移方案，结合足够的疫苗摄取，可以减少相对于没有这种策略的情况，相对于场景，感染的最大数量和延迟爆发。当所有暴露的人的转移是不可能的，或者疫苗的摄取不足时，转移方案仍然很有价值。此外，一组主要由年轻人人口组成的撤离者往往会早日出现大流行峰值，并且在实施转移方案时，多数老年人组的感染比多数老年人多。但是，当不执行转移方案时，多数老年人群体比大多数年轻成人群体高达20％。

雅典娜2.0是一家亚历克萨奖的社会奖，这是最后两个Alexa奖奖挑战的决赛。雅典娜成功的一个原因是其新的对话管理战略，它允许它动态构建组件模块的对话和响应，导致每个互动的新型对话。在这里，我们在20/21竞争期间描述了Athena的Alexa奖的系统设计和性能。雅典娜的活跃演示以及视频录音将挑起对话AI的艺术状态的讨论。

Designing experiments often requires balancing between learning about the true treatment effects and earning from allocating more samples to the superior treatment. While optimal algorithms for the Multi-Armed Bandit Problem (MABP) provide allocation policies that optimally balance learning and earning, they tend to be computationally expensive. The Gittins Index (GI) is a solution to the MABP that can simultaneously attain optimality and computationally efficiency goals, and it has been recently used in experiments with Bernoulli and Gaussian rewards. For the first time, we present a modification of the GI rule that can be used in experiments with exponentially-distributed rewards. We report its performance in simulated 2- armed and 3-armed experiments. Compared to traditional non-adaptive designs, our novel GI modified design shows operating characteristics comparable in learning (e.g. statistical power) but substantially better in earning (e.g. direct benefits). This illustrates the potential that designs using a GI approach to allocate participants have to improve participant benefits, increase efficiencies, and reduce experimental costs in adaptive multi-armed experiments with exponential rewards.

Modelling and forecasting real-life human behaviour using online social media is an active endeavour of interest in politics, government, academia, and industry. Since its creation in 2006, Twitter has been proposed as a potential laboratory that could be used to gauge and predict social behaviour. During the last decade, the user base of Twitter has been growing and becoming more representative of the general population. Here we analyse this user base in the context of the 2021 Mexican Legislative Election. To do so, we use a dataset of 15 million election-related tweets in the six months preceding election day. We explore different election models that assign political preference to either the ruling parties or the opposition. We find that models using data with geographical attributes determine the results of the election with better precision and accuracy than conventional polling methods. These results demonstrate that analysis of public online data can outperform conventional polling methods, and that political analysis and general forecasting would likely benefit from incorporating such data in the immediate future. Moreover, the same Twitter dataset with geographical attributes is positively correlated with results from official census data on population and internet usage in Mexico. These findings suggest that we have reached a period in time when online activity, appropriately curated, can provide an accurate representation of offline behaviour.

Existing federated classification algorithms typically assume the local annotations at every client cover the same set of classes. In this paper, we aim to lift such an assumption and focus on a more general yet practical non-IID setting where every client can work on non-identical and even disjoint sets of classes (i.e., client-exclusive classes), and the clients have a common goal which is to build a global classification model to identify the union of these classes. Such heterogeneity in client class sets poses a new challenge: how to ensure different clients are operating in the same latent space so as to avoid the drift after aggregation? We observe that the classes can be described in natural languages (i.e., class names) and these names are typically safe to share with all parties. Thus, we formulate the classification problem as a matching process between data representations and class representations and break the classification model into a data encoder and a label encoder. We leverage the natural-language class names as the common ground to anchor the class representations in the label encoder. In each iteration, the label encoder updates the class representations and regulates the data representations through matching. We further use the updated class representations at each round to annotate data samples for locally-unaware classes according to similarity and distill knowledge to local models. Extensive experiments on four real-world datasets show that the proposed method can outperform various classical and state-of-the-art federated learning methods designed for learning with non-IID data.

This is paper for the smooth function approximation by neural networks (NN). Mathematical or physical functions can be replaced by NN models through regression. In this study, we get NNs that generate highly accurate and highly smooth function, which only comprised of a few weight parameters, through discussing a few topics about regression. First, we reinterpret inside of NNs for regression; consequently, we propose a new activation function--integrated sigmoid linear unit (ISLU). Then special charateristics of metadata for regression, which is different from other data like image or sound, is discussed for improving the performance of neural networks. Finally, the one of a simple hierarchical NN that generate models substituting mathematical function is presented, and the new batch concept ``meta-batch" which improves the performance of NN several times more is introduced. The new activation function, meta-batch method, features of numerical data, meta-augmentation with metaparameters, and a structure of NN generating a compact multi-layer perceptron(MLP) are essential in this study.

The existing methods for video anomaly detection mostly utilize videos containing identifiable facial and appearance-based features. The use of videos with identifiable faces raises privacy concerns, especially when used in a hospital or community-based setting. Appearance-based features can also be sensitive to pixel-based noise, straining the anomaly detection methods to model the changes in the background and making it difficult to focus on the actions of humans in the foreground. Structural information in the form of skeletons describing the human motion in the videos is privacy-protecting and can overcome some of the problems posed by appearance-based features. In this paper, we present a survey of privacy-protecting deep learning anomaly detection methods using skeletons extracted from videos. We present a novel taxonomy of algorithms based on the various learning approaches. We conclude that skeleton-based approaches for anomaly detection can be a plausible privacy-protecting alternative for video anomaly detection. Lastly, we identify major open research questions and provide guidelines to address them.

The Government of Kerala had increased the frequency of supply of free food kits owing to the pandemic, however, these items were static and not indicative of the personal preferences of the consumers. This paper conducts a comparative analysis of various clustering techniques on a scaled-down version of a real-world dataset obtained through a conjoint analysis-based survey. Clustering carried out by centroid-based methods such as k means is analyzed and the results are plotted along with SVD, and finally, a conclusion is reached as to which among the two is better. Once the clusters have been formulated, commodities are also decided upon for each cluster. Also, clustering is further enhanced by reassignment, based on a specific cluster loss threshold. Thus, the most efficacious clustering technique for designing a food kit tailored to the needs of individuals is finally obtained.