Probabilistic Adaptive Computation Time

We present a probabilistic model with discrete latent variables that control the computation time in deep learning models such as ResNets and LSTMs. A prior on the latent variables expresses the preference for faster computation. The amount of computation for an input is determined via amortized maximum a posteriori (MAP) inference. MAP inference is performed using a novel stochastic variational optimization method. The recently proposed Adaptive Computation Time mechanism can be seen as an ad-hoc relaxation of this model. We demonstrate training using the general-purpose Concrete relaxation of discrete variables. Evaluation on ResNet shows that our method matches the speed-accuracy trade-off of Adaptive Computation Time, while allowing for evaluation with a simple deterministic procedure that has a lower memory footprint

Spatially Adaptive Computation Time for Residual Networks

This paper proposes a deep learning architecture based on Residual Network that dynamically adjusts the number of executed layers for the regions of the image. This architecture is end-to-end trainable, deterministic and problem-agnostic. It is therefore applicable without any modifications to a wide range of computer vision problems such as image classification, object detection and image segmentation. We present experimental results showing that this model improves the computational efficiency of Residual Networks on the challenging ImageNet classification and COCO object detection datasets. Additionally, we evaluate the computation time maps on the visual saliency dataset cat2000 and find that they correlate surprisingly well with human eye fixation positions.Comment: CVPR 201

SOME METHODS OF OPTIMIZATION OF TREATMENT OF PURULENT SURGICAL INFECTION

Treatment of 3 groups of patients with purulent surgical infection was analyzed. In the first group of patients (15) with extensive purulent necrotic wounds hydrosurgical method. (Versajet) was used, that allowed to prepare the wound for autoplasty or to achieve self-epithelization. In the second group of patients (64) with the most common forms of purulent surgical infection at the local treatment electroactivated water solutions (anolyte, catholyte) were used. Their application promoted smooth course of wound process and decrease of terms of treatment. In the third group of patients (16) with vast traumatic area existing during the long time in the regeneration. phase heterogeneous fibrin was locally applied. Activation of granulation process and of islet and. marginal epithelialization was marked

Opisthorchiasis from Imported Raw Fish

Acute liver fluke infection results from eating raw fish illegally imported from Siberia

The World System of Socialism in A New Upsurge

Since the October Revolution the world split into two systems â capitalism and socialism, each developing according to its own laws. While the sharpest contradiction on the international scene is that between the socialist camp and the imperialist aggressive block, the capitalist system is being split further by irreconcilable contradictions. The socialist camp and the peace-loving non-socialist countries now form a great "zone of peace" with a population 1.7 billion. It would be a mistake to consider the whole capitalist world as a united military-political camp.

Principal Formsof Increasing Real Wages in the USSR

In. a socialist economy, the most important result of a continuous rise in labor productivity and in the production of the society is that the real income of the workers systematically increases. Between 1940 and 1958, the real income of the workers and employees of our country has more or less doubled, and at the present time is many times higher than it was in 1913. A further substantial rise in the real income of the workers is being planned for the sevenyear period that has just started. The control figures for the development of the national economy of the USSR during 1959 -1965 call for an average 4~ increase in the real income of the individual worker. The realization of this goal will help to raise the prosperity level of our people to a height inaccessible to capitalism.