Pioneering dual-encoder pre-training works (e.g., CLIP and ALIGN) have revealed the potential of aligning multi-modal representations with contrastive learning. However, these require a tremendous amount data computational resources billion-level web hundreds GPUs), which prevent researchers limited from reproduction further exploration. To this end, we propose stack novel methods, significantl...

of about 40 million people with epilepsy, who live in developing countries, the majority do notreceive appropriate treatment. nonetheless, there are striking disparities among the so-called developing countries,however generally speaking, access to and availability of epilepsy management programs in developingcountries are very limited and therefore, the issue of developing epilepsy centers in ...

We analyze different methods of sorting and selecting a set of objects by their intrinsic value, via pairwise comparisons whose outcome is uncertain. After discussing the limits of repeated Round Robins, two new methods are presented: The ran-fil requires no previous knowledge on the set under consideration, yet displaying good performances even in the least favorable case. Themin-entmethod set...

In this paper we present our preliminary investigation of rational agents who can learn from their experience. We claim that such agents need to combine at least three attributes – deductive reasoning based on currently possessed knowledge, inductive learning from their history, and awareness of passing time (including the necessity to commit computational resources to tasks which need to be ca...

Several temporal planning systems (e.g. Allen & Koomen, Descartes , parcPLAN) divide the planning process into two distinct phases: action introduction and plan verification. This thesis develops a detailed model of these two phases and their “interface”, and shows how the model can be exploited to enhance the efficiency of plan generation. The main focus is on plan verification, and the contex...

This article describes how a small liberal arts college library created a digital library using existing staff and financial resources. The Hekman Digital Archive (HDA) was created using a digital media archive module of the library’s integrated library system, and is maintained by one library staff member with the help of numerous student assistants.