Generic Haskell is an extension of Haskell that supports the construction of generic programs. These lecture notes discuss three advanced generic programming applications: generic dictionaries, compressing XML documents, and the zipper: a data structure used to represent a tree together with a subtree that is the focus of attention, where that focus may move left, right, up or down the tree. Wh...

Recurrent neural network language models (RNNLMs) can be augmented with auxiliary features, which can provide an extra modality on top of the words. It has been found that RNNLMs perform best when trained on a large corpus of generic text and then fine-tuned on text corresponding to the sub-domain for which it is to be applied. However, in many cases the auxiliary features are available for the...

Cross-media retrieval is an imperative approach to handle the explosive growth of multimodal data on the web. However, how to effectively uncover the correlations between multimodal data has been a barrier to successful retrieval of cross-media data. The traditional approaches learn the connection between multiple modalities by direct utilization of hand-crafted low-level heterogeneous features...

Because of the intellectual attraction of the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution, its concepts are often borrowed to conceptualized evolutionary change also in non-biological domains. However, a heuristic strategy like that is problematic. An attempt is therefore made to identify generic features of evolution which transcend domain-specific characteristics. Epistemological, conceptual, and metho...

In a genetic image object recognition or categorization system, the relevant features or descriptors from a characteristic point, patch or region of an image are often obtained by different approaches. And these features are often separately selected and learned by machine learning methods. In this paper, the relation between distinct features obtained by different feature extraction approaches...

Quantum Darwinism posits that only specific information about a quantum system that is redundantly proliferated to many parts of its environment becomes accessible and objective, leading to the emergence of classical reality. However, it is not clear under what conditions this mechanism holds true. Here we prove that the emergence of classical features along the lines of quantum Darwinism is a ...