Replacing Biden with anyone but Harris would be a real headache for Democrats

Replacing Biden with anyone but Harris would be a real headache for Democrats

Democrats would have a practical and political nightmare on their hands if President Joe Biden drops out and they decide to push Vice President Kamala Harris to the sidelines instead of the top of the ticket.On Wednesday, Biden and Harris jointly proclaimed to campaign aides that they would press on in the face of growing criticism following Biden's disastrous debate, according to the Associated Press."I am running. I am the leader of the Democratic Party. No one is pushing me out," he said, according to the AP.No one, least of all Biden's running mate, can be seen publicly pressuring Biden…
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Unveiling and Controlling Anomalous Attention Distribution in Transformers

Unveiling and Controlling Anomalous Attention Distribution in Transformers

arXiv:2407.01601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the advent of large models based on the Transformer architecture, researchers have observed an anomalous phenomenon in the Attention mechanism--there is a very high attention on the first element, which is prevalent across Transformer-based models. It is crucial to understand it for the development of techniques focusing on attention distribution, such as Key-Value (KV) Cache compression and infinite extrapolation; however, the latent cause leaves to be unknown. In this paper, we analyze such a phenomenon from the perspective of waiver phenomenon, which involves reducing the internal values of certain elements in the Softmax function,…
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Optimized Learning for X-Ray Image Classification for Multi-Class Disease Diagnoses with Accelerated Computing Strategies

Optimized Learning for X-Ray Image Classification for Multi-Class Disease Diagnoses with Accelerated Computing Strategies

[Submitted on 1 Jul 2024] View a PDF of the paper titled Optimized Learning for X-Ray Image Classification for Multi-Class Disease Diagnoses with Accelerated Computing Strategies, by Sebastian A. Cruz Romero and 3 other authors View PDF Abstract:X-ray image-based disease diagnosis lies in ensuring the precision of identifying afflictions within the sample, a task fraught with challenges stemming from the occurrence of false positives and false negatives. False positives introduce the risk of erroneously identifying non-existent conditions, leading to misdiagnosis and a decline in patient care quality. Conversely, false negatives pose the threat of overlooking genuine abnormalities, potentially causing delays…
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Japan’s government says goodbye to floppy disks

Japan’s government says goodbye to floppy disks

Floppy disks may seem like a relic from an ancient time of computers but there are still places and even governments in the world that still use them to run its most basic functions. Japan is no longer one of those countries.Japan’s Digital Agency announced on Wednesday it has rid its use of outdated floppy disks to operate its government computer systems. The only system still in place that requires the use of floppy disks is an environmental system that monitors vehicle recycling, according to Reuters.Digital Minister Taro Kono declared in a statement to the news agency, “We have won…
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NLPGuard: A Framework for Mitigating the Use of Protected Attributes by NLP Classifiers

NLPGuard: A Framework for Mitigating the Use of Protected Attributes by NLP Classifiers

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Two luxury rivals are joining forces — and Amazon is getting in on the action

Two luxury rivals are joining forces — and Amazon is getting in on the action

Amazon — which has long tried to boost its luxury offerings as part of its "everything store" concept — and Salesforce are getting in on it, too, with both taking minority stakes in the new company, Saks Global. The pair will provide technology and logistics support to the latest luxury giant, the Journal said.As e-commerce and the power of luxury conglomerates like LVMH and Kering have grown, department stores are facing diminishing returns. In 2020, Lord & Taylor filed for bankruptcy. Macy's announced in February that it would be closing 150 stores over the next three years. In a way,…
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Long-Term Prediction Accuracy Improvement of Data-Driven Medium-Range Global Weather Forecast

Long-Term Prediction Accuracy Improvement of Data-Driven Medium-Range Global Weather Forecast

arXiv:2407.01598v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term stability stands as a crucial requirement in data-driven medium-range global weather forecasting. Spectral bias is recognized as the primary contributor to instabilities, as data-driven methods difficult to learn small-scale dynamics. In this paper, we reveal that the universal mechanism for these instabilities is not only related to spectral bias but also to distortions brought by processing spherical data using conventional convolution. These distortions lead to a rapid amplification of errors over successive long-term iterations, resulting in a significant decline in forecast accuracy. To address this issue, a universal neural operator called the Spherical Harmonic…
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SeFlow: A Self-Supervised Scene Flow Method in Autonomous Driving

SeFlow: A Self-Supervised Scene Flow Method in Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2407.01702v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scene flow estimation predicts the 3D motion at each point in successive LiDAR scans. This detailed, point-level, information can help autonomous vehicles to accurately predict and understand dynamic changes in their surroundings. Current state-of-the-art methods require annotated data to train scene flow networks and the expense of labeling inherently limits their scalability. Self-supervised approaches can overcome the above limitations, yet face two principal challenges that hinder optimal performance: point distribution imbalance and disregard for object-level motion constraints. In this paper, we propose SeFlow, a self-supervised method that integrates efficient dynamic classification into a learning-based scene…
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