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Combining Language and Vision with a Multimodal Skip-gram Model
We extend the SKIP-GRAM model of Mikolov et al. (2013a) by taking visual
information into account. Like SKIP-GRAM, our multimodal models (MMSKIP-GRAM)
build vector-based word representations by learning to predict linguistic
contexts in text corpora. However, for a restricted set of words, the models
are also exposed to visual representations of the objects they denote
(extracted from natural images), and must predict linguistic and visual
features jointly. The MMSKIP-GRAM models achieve good performance on a variety
of semantic benchmarks. Moreover, since they propagate visual information to
all words, we use them to improve image labeling and retrieval in the zero-shot
setup, where the test concepts are never seen during model training. Finally,
the MMSKIP-GRAM models discover intriguing visual properties of abstract words,
paving the way to realistic implementations of embodied theories of meaning.Comment: accepted at NAACL 2015, camera ready version, 11 page
Dispelling the N^3 myth for the Kt jet-finder
At high-energy colliders, jets of hadrons are the observable counterparts of
the perturbative concepts of quarks and gluons. Good procedures for identifying
jets are central to experimental analyses and comparisons with theory. The Kt
family of successive recombination jet finders has been widely advocated
because of its conceptual simplicity and flexibility and its unique ability to
approximately reconstruct the partonic branching sequence in an event. Until
now however, it had been believed that for an ensemble of N particles the
algorithmic complexity of the Kt jet finder scaled as N^3, a severe issue in
the high multiplicity environments of LHC and heavy-ion colliders. We here show
that the computationally complex part of Kt jet-clustering can be reduced to
two-dimensional nearest neighbour location for a dynamic set of points.
Borrowing techniques developed for this extensively studied problem in
computational geometry, Kt jet-finding can then be performed in N ln N time.
Code based on these ideas is found to run faster than all other jet finders in
current use.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures; v2, to appear in Phys.Lett.B, includes an extra
section briefly discussing the issues of jet areas and pileup subtraction,
and also the Cambridge/Aachen jet finde
The Potential for Student Performance Prediction in Small Cohorts with Minimal Available Attributes
The measurement of student performance during their progress through university study provides academic leadership with critical information on each student’s likelihood of success. Academics have traditionally used their interactions with individual students through class activities and interim assessments to identify those “at risk” of failure/withdrawal. However, modern university environments, offering easy on-line availability of course material, may see reduced lecture/tutorial attendance, making such identification more challenging. Modern data mining and machine learning techniques provide increasingly accurate predictions of student examination assessment marks, although these approaches have focussed upon large student populations and wide ranges of data attributes per student. However, many university modules comprise relatively small student cohorts, with institutional protocols limiting the student attributes available for analysis. It appears that very little research attention has been devoted to this area of analysis and prediction. We describe an experiment conducted on a final-year university module student cohort of 23, where individual student data are limited to lecture/tutorial attendance, virtual learning environment accesses and intermediate assessments. We found potential for predicting individual student interim and final assessment marks in small student cohorts with very limited attributes and that these predictions could be useful to support module leaders in identifying students potentially “at risk.”.Peer reviewe
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