569 research outputs found
Pragmatism in Pediatric Neurosurgery:More Than a Pipe Dream? A Systematic Literature Review and Analysis
Prompt Generation Networks for Input-based Adaptation of Frozen Vision Transformers
With the introduction of the transformer architecture in computer vision,
increasing model scale has been demonstrated as a clear path to achieving
performance and robustness gains. However, with model parameter counts reaching
the billions, classical finetuning approaches are becoming increasingly
limiting and even unfeasible when models become hosted as inference APIs, as in
NLP. To this end, visual prompt learning, whereby a model is adapted by
learning additional inputs, has emerged as a potential solution for adapting
frozen and cloud-hosted models: During inference, this neither requires access
to the internals of models' forward pass function, nor requires any
post-processing. In this work, we propose the Prompt Generation Network (PGN)
that generates high performing, input-dependent prompts by sampling from an
end-to-end learned library of tokens. We further introduce the "prompt
inversion" trick, with which PGNs can be efficiently trained in a latent space
but deployed as strictly input-only prompts for inference. We show the PGN is
effective in adapting pre-trained models to various new datasets: It surpasses
previous methods by a large margin on 12/12 datasets and even outperforms
full-finetuning on 5/12, while requiring 100x less parameters.Comment: Tech report, 12 pages. Code: https://github.com/jochemloedeman/PG
Climate model variability leads to uncertain predictions of the future abundance of stream macroinvertebrates
Climate change has the potential to alter the flow regimes of rivers and consequently affect the taxonomic and functional diversity of freshwater organisms. We modeled future flow regimes for the 2050 and 2090 time horizons and tested how flow regimes impact the abundance of 150 macroinvertebrate species and their functional trait compositions in one lowland river catchment (Treene) and one mountainous river catchment (Kinzig) in Europe. We used all 16 global circulation models (GCMs) and regional climate models (RCMs) of the CORDEX dataset under the RCP 8.5 scenario to calculate future river flows. The high variability in relative change of flow among the 16 climate models cascaded into the ecological models and resulted in substantially different predicted abundance values for single species. This variability also cascades into any subsequent analysis of taxonomic or functional freshwater biodiversity. Our results showed that flow alteration effects are different depending on the catchment and the underlying species pool. Documenting such uncertainties provides a basis for the further assessment of potential climate-change impacts on freshwater taxa distributions
Surface wave control for large arrays of microwave kinetic inductance detectors
Large ultra-sensitive detector arrays are needed for present and future
observatories for far infra-red, submillimeter wave (THz), and millimeter wave
astronomy. With increasing array size, it is increasingly important to control
stray radiation inside the detector chips themselves, the surface wave. We
demonstrate this effect with focal plane arrays of 880 lens-antenna coupled
Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs). Presented here are near field
measurements of the MKID optical response versus the position on the array of a
reimaged optical source. We demonstrate that the optical response of a detector
in these arrays saturates off-pixel at the dB level compared to the
peak pixel response. The result is that the power detected from a point source
at the pixel position is almost identical to the stray response integrated over
the chip area. With such a contribution, it would be impossible to measure
extended sources, while the point source sensitivity is degraded due to an
increase of the stray loading. However, we show that by incorporating an
on-chip stray light absorber, the surface wave contribution is reduced by a
factor 10. With the on-chip stray light absorber the point source response
is close to simulations down to the dB level, the simulation based on
an ideal Gaussian illumination of the optics. In addition, as a crosscheck we
show that the extended source response of a single pixel in the array with the
absorbing grid is in agreement with the integral of the point source
measurements.Comment: accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science
and Technolog
What influences students' peer-feedback uptake? Relations between error tolerance, feedback tolerance, writing self-efficacy, perceived language skills and peer-feedback processing
This study investigated the extent to which the uptake of peer-feedback of 10th grade students (N = 160, age range = 15–16) related to intrapersonal factors (error tolerance, feedback tolerance, and writing self-efficacy) and interpersonal factors (feedback provider's language skills, as perceived by the feedback recipient). Two groups of students received similar feedback on their writing performance, provided by trained research-assistants. Half the students was led to believe that feedback was provided by a peer perceived to have stronger language skills than their own, whereas the other half was led to believe that feedback was provided by a peer perceived to have weaker language skills than their own. Results showed that (1) error tolerance was related to feedback tolerance, (2) perceived language skills of the feedback provider positively related to the uptake of peer-feedback on writing style, and (3) error tolerance, feedback tolerance, and writing self-efficacy did not relate to peer-feedback uptake. These results emphasize the central role of errors in peer-feedback processing and they imply that the importance of interpersonal factors should not be overlooked when predicting or explaining peer-feedback uptake
Eliminating stray radiation inside large area imaging arrays
With increasing array size, it is increasingly important to control stray
radiation inside the detector chips themselves. We demonstrate this effect with
focal plane arrays of absorber coupled Lumped Element microwave Kinetic
Inductance Detectors (LEKIDs) and lens-antenna coupled distributed quarter
wavelength Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs). In these arrays the
response from a point source at the pixel position is at a similar level to the
stray response integrated over the entire chip area. For the antenna coupled
arrays, we show that this effect can be suppressed by incorporating an on-chip
stray light absorber. A similar method should be possible with the LEKID array,
especially when they are lens coupled.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1707.0214
Multi-scale gridded urban morphometrics for settlement classification and population mapping
Urban areas are expanding rapidly around the world, and much of this growth is expected in low- and middle-income countries. Policy makers, researchers, and those implementing development projects need up-to-date and consistent information on cities in order to plan and track progress towards Sustainable Development Goals. Yet in many places experiencing rapid growth, information on urban areas and their population is lacking, outdated or incomplete. In recent years, increasing availability of very high spatial resolution imagery (<1 m resolution) and computing power is enabling sets of building footprint polygons to be automatically extracted from the imagery and mapped for whole countries. These building footprint datasets provide a unique resource to study urban morphometrics in places which may lack other local data. This paper demonstrates the use of a spatial grid to classify urban fabric into settlement types. This unit of analysis is in contrast to plots or parcels which are more commonly used in urban morphology studies, and a case study in Southampton, UK is used to explore the sensitivity of the results to varying the parameters used to define the size of the grid. These initial results suggest that multiple scales of observation windows can be combined to identify key patterns across space and that multiple grid resolutions can give relatively consistent classification results. Future work is needed to explore the use of grids to study urban form in other settings
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