Learning Fashion Compatibility with Bidirectional LSTMs

The ubiquity of online fashion shopping demands effective recommendation services for customers. In this paper, we study two types of fashion recommendation: (i) suggesting an item that matches existing components in a set to form a stylish outfit (a collection of fashion items), and (ii) generating an outfit with multimodal (images/text) specifications from a user. To this end, we propose to jointly learn a visual-semantic embedding and the compatibility relationships among fashion items in an end-to-end fashion. More specifically, we consider a fashion outfit to be a sequence (usually from top to bottom and then accessories) and each item in the outfit as a time step. Given the fashion items in an outfit, we train a bidirectional LSTM (Bi-LSTM) model to sequentially predict the next item conditioned on previous ones to learn their compatibility relationships. Further, we learn a visual-semantic space by regressing image features to their semantic representations aiming to inject attribute and category information as a regularization for training the LSTM. The trained network can not only perform the aforementioned recommendations effectively but also predict the compatibility of a given outfit. We conduct extensive experiments on our newly collected Polyvore dataset, and the results provide strong qualitative and quantitative evidence that our framework outperforms alternative methods.Comment: ACM MM 1

Functional annotation of creeping bentgrass protein sequences based on convolutional neural network

Background: Creeping bentgrass (Agrostis soionifera) is a perennial grass of Gramineae, belonging to cold season turfgrass, but has shallow adventitious roots, poor disease-resistance. Little is known about the ISR mechanism of turfgrass and the signal transduction involved in disease-resistance induction, especially the function of a large number of disease-resistance related proteins are urgent to be explored. Results: In this work, the protein sequences of creeping bentgrass were measured and annotated by a functional prediction model based on convolutional neural network. Creeping bentgrass seedlings were grown with BDO treatment, and the ISR response was induced by infecting Rhizoctonia solani. We preformed the transcriptome analysis by Illumina Sequencing and high-quality unigenes were obtained. A minority of assembled unigenes were functionally annotated according to the database alignment while a large part of the obtained amino acid sequences was left non-annotated. To treat the non-annotated sequences, a prediction model was established by training the data set from GO families in three domains to acquire good performance, especially the higher false positive control rate. With such model, we analyzed the non-annotated protein sequences of creeping bentgrass transcriptome, and annotated the disease-resistance response and signal transduction related proteins. Conclusions: The results provide good candidates of the proteins with certain functions. With the results in this work, the waste of transcriptome sequencing data of creeping bentgrass can be avoided, and research time and labor for the analysis of ISR characteristics of creeping bentgrass will be saved in further research. It also provides reference for the sequence analysis of turfgrass disease-resistance research.Comment: 12 pages,3 figure

γγ→tcˉ+ctˉ\gamma\gamma \to t\bar{c}+c\bar{t} in a supersymmetric theory with an explicit R-parity violation

We studied the process $\gamma\gamma \to t\bar{c}+c\bar{t}$ in a $R_{p}$ violating supersymmetric Model with the effects from both B- and L-violating interactions. The calculation shows that it is possible to detect a $R_{p}$ violating signal at the Next Linear Collider. Information about the B-violating interaction in this model could be obtained under very clean background, if we take the present upper bounds for the parameters in the supersymmetric $\rlap/ R_{p}$ interactions. Even if we can not detect a signal of $\rlap/R_{p}$ in the experiment, we may get more stringent constraints on the heavy-flavor $\rlap/R_{p}$ couplings.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figure

MHLAT: Multi-hop Label-wise Attention Model for Automatic ICD Coding

International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding is the task of assigning ICD diagnosis codes to clinical notes. This can be challenging given the large quantity of labels (nearly 9,000) and lengthy texts (up to 8,000 tokens). However, unlike the single-pass reading process in previous works, humans tend to read the text and label definitions again to get more confident answers. Moreover, although pretrained language models have been used to address these problems, they suffer from huge memory usage. To address the above problems, we propose a simple but effective model called the Multi-Hop Label-wise ATtention (MHLAT), in which multi-hop label-wise attention is deployed to get more precise and informative representations. Extensive experiments on three benchmark MIMIC datasets indicate that our method achieves significantly better or competitive performance on all seven metrics, with much fewer parameters to optimize.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, accepted in ICASSP 202