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48 results for human progress

Paper defines human progress, highlighting both positive and negative impacts.

problem Equating economic growth with human progress overlooks negative effects.
method Pragmatic approach to define human progress as an endless pursuit of wellbeing.
result Human progress leads to both positive and negative outcomes.

Deep learning's success requires vast computing power, making future progress unsustainable.

problem Deep learning's success is heavily dependent on computing power, making future progress unsustainable.
method Cataloging and extrapolating the dependency on computing power for various deep learning applications.
result Continued progress in deep learning applications will require more computationally-efficient methods.

Improved real-time visualizations of conversation turns using dynamic attention weights.

problem Uniform attention weights in sequential analysis tasks prevent meaningful visualization.
method Developed a method to track changes in turn importance over time.
result More informative real-time visuals confirmed by human reviewers.

Deep neural networks solve Raven's Progressive Matrices with high accuracy.

problem Testing relational reasoning in machine learning systems.
method Combining Wild Relation Networks with Multi-Layer Relation Networks and introducing Magnitude Encoding.
result Deep neural networks achieve 98.0 percent accuracy, significantly improving over previous methods.

Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has renewed interest in building systems that learn and think like people. Many advances have come from using deep neural networks trained end-to-end in tasks such as object recognition, video games, and board games, achieving performance that equals or even beats humans …

2016-04-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Humans outperform DNNs on image degradations, especially when signals weaken.

problem Comparing human and DNN robustness in object recognition under various image manipulations.
method Comparison of robustness between humans and DNNs (ResNet-152, VGG-19, GoogLeNet) on object recognition under 12 types of image degradations.
result Humans consistently outperform DNNs on object recognition, especially under weaker signals.

Quriosity analyzes curiosity-driven questions from diverse sources.

problem Understanding and analyzing human curiosity-driven questions.
method Collection of 13.5K questions from various sources, development of an iterative prompt improvement framework.
result 42% of questions are causal, revealing unique linguistic properties.

Paper evaluates deep generative models' ability to generalize geometric concepts.

problem Measuring deep generative models' ability to generalize across different geometric tasks.
method Raven's Progressive Matrices analogy, Infinite World dataset, Zero-Shot Intelligence Metric ZSI.
result Identifies bottlenecks and proposes optimization methods for few-shot and zero-shot learning.

Paper proposes a progressive ensemble network for zero-shot image recognition.

problem Challenges of zero-shot learning due to lack of labeled data and expanding categories.
method Proposes a progressive ensemble network with multiple projected label embeddings.
result Demonstrates improved zero-shot image recognition performance on multiple datasets.

Study finds humans outperform DNNs in object recognition under degraded images.

problem Comparing human and DNN object recognition robustness under image manipulations.
method Comparative analysis of human and DNN generalization abilities towards image degradations.
result Humans show greater robustness in object recognition under image manipulations compared to DNNs.

A general theory of innovation and progress in human society is outlined, based on the combat between two opposite forces (conservatism/inertia and speculative herding "bubble" behavior). We contend that human affairs are characterized by ubiquitous ``bubbles'', which involve huge risks which would not otherwise be tak…

2007-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

New approach improves human activity recognition with wearables.

problem Improving human activity recognition with wearables.
method Exploiting latent relationships between multi-channel sensor modalities, data-agnostic augmentation, and a classification loss criterion.
result Achieves new state-of-the-art performance on four diverse activity recognition benchmarks.

Benchmark for math reasoning models from human proofs.

problem Measuring and accelerating machine learning models in high-level mathematical reasoning.
method Built a non-synthetic dataset from theorem prover proofs, defined a task for model to fill in missing propositions, used hierarchical transformer to improve performance.
result Neural models can capture non-trivial mathematical reasoning, hierarchical transformer outperforms baseline.

AGAN automates GAN design, outperforming human-designed models.

problem Designing effective GAN architectures requires human expertise and trial-and-error.
method Automated neural architecture search (AGAN) for deep generative models.
result AGAN finds architectures that outperform state-of-the-art models in unsupervised and supervised image generation tasks.

Bayesian Neural Networks improve uncertainty modeling in facial emotion recognition.

problem High aleatoric uncertainty and visual ambiguity in facial emotion recognition.
method Bayesian Neural Networks approximated using MC-Dropout, MC-DropConnect, or Ensemble methods.
result Bayesian Neural Networks produce more human-like output probabilities.

Knowing and modelling the migration phenomena and especially the social and economic consequences have a theoretical and practical importance, being related to their consequences for development, economic progress (or as appropriate, regression), environmental influences etc. One of the causes of migration, especially …

2012-02-05abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper proposes an ADMM-based method for progressive weight pruning of deep neural networks.

problem Large model size of deep neural networks hinder their applications on edge devices.
method Progressive weight pruning using ADMM for non-convex optimization problems.
result Achieves up to 34 times pruning rate for ImageNet and 167 times for MNIST datasets.

HAR-Net combines deep features with traditional hand-crafted features for better human activity recognition.

problem Challenges in traditional HAR methods, especially feature extraction.
method Combines deep learning and traditional feature engineering.
result Performance improvement of 0.9% compared to traditional SVM.

Iterated Amplification uses subproblem solutions to build training signals for complex tasks.

problem Learning complex tasks when humans can't directly evaluate performance.
method Progressively builds training signal by combining solutions to easier subproblems.
result Efficiently learns complex behaviors in algorithmic environments.

Agents learn to play a first-person multiplayer game at human level performance.

problem Training AI agents for complex, multi-agent, real-time environments.
method Population-based deep reinforcement learning with concurrent training of multiple agents.
result Achieved human-level performance in a first-person multiplayer game.

Compared to machines, humans are extremely good at classifying images into categories, especially when they possess prior knowledge of the categories at hand. If this prior information is not available, supervision in the form of teaching images is required. To learn categories more quickly, people should see important…

2015-04-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Boosted trees improve reinforcement learning solutions that are easy to understand.

problem Creating accurate reinforcement learning solutions that are also easy to understand.
method Using boosted regression trees to combine multiple regression trees.
result Boosted regression trees produce solutions that are as accurate as other methods but are also easy to understand.

EDINET-Bench evaluates LLMs on complex financial tasks using Japanese financial statements.

problem Challenges in evaluating LLMs on financial tasks due to specialized expertise and scarce benchmarks.
method Developed EDINET-Bench, an open-source Japanese financial benchmark for LLMs on tasks like fraud detection and earnings forecasting.
result State-of-the-art LLMs perform only marginally better than logistic regression in financial tasks, highlighting the need for more realistic benchmarks.

Machine learning is the science of discovering statistical dependencies in data, and the use of those dependencies to perform predictions. During the last decade, machine learning has made spectacular progress, surpassing human performance in complex tasks such as object recognition, car driving, and computer gaming. H…

2016-07-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Survey of LLMs in finance tasks, highlighting progress and challenges.

problem Transforming financial practices with advanced LLMs.
method Exploration of various financial tasks, categorization, and analysis of methodologies.
result Unlocking novel opportunities for financial applications with LLMs.

Deep models can be fooled by maliciously crafted examples.

problem Deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples that can mislead predictions without being noticed by humans.
method Reviews adversarial example generation methods and defenses, discusses their limitations and future prospects.
result Adversarial examples can mislead deep learning models without being distinguishable by humans.