149 research outputs found
Renewable energy and economic growth hypothesis: Evidence from N-11 countries
In the recent years, the trend of environmental sustainability is
rapidly increasing by adopting renewable energy resources.
However, the main concern is that whether renewable energy
consumption contributes to economic growth. To investigate the
issue, this study analyzes renewable energy led economic growth
hypothesis in the Next-11 economies over the period 1990–2020.
Also, this study aims to examine the influence of industry value
added, gross national expenditure, and trade openness on economic
growth of these economies. Along with the second-generation
panel unit root test, this study employed the nonparametric
panel data approach, i.e., quantile method of moments
regression. The estimated results reveal the slopes coefficients are
heterogeneous and cross-sectional dependency is present in the
panel. The non-parametric approach reveals that validity of
renewable energy led growth hypothesis. Also, the industry value
added, gross national expenditure, and trade openness are found
positively affecting economic growth of these economies. The
panel causality test gives indication of the two way causal association
between the variables. Based on the obtained results, policy
implications are also provided for governors and researchers
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Beyond the Obvious: Evaluating the Reasoning Ability In Real-life Scenarios of Language Models on Life Scapes Reasoning Benchmark~(LSR-Benchmark)
This paper introduces the Life Scapes Reasoning Benchmark (LSR-Benchmark), a
novel dataset targeting real-life scenario reasoning, aiming to close the gap
in artificial neural networks' ability to reason in everyday contexts. In
contrast to domain knowledge reasoning datasets, LSR-Benchmark comprises
free-text formatted questions with rich information on real-life scenarios,
human behaviors, and character roles. The dataset consists of 2,162 questions
collected from open-source online sources and is manually annotated to improve
its quality. Experiments are conducted using state-of-the-art language models,
such as gpt3.5-turbo and instruction fine-tuned llama models, to test the
performance in LSR-Benchmark. The results reveal that humans outperform these
models significantly, indicating a persisting challenge for machine learning
models in comprehending daily human life
DeepFacePencil: Creating Face Images from Freehand Sketches
In this paper, we explore the task of generating photo-realistic face images
from hand-drawn sketches. Existing image-to-image translation methods require a
large-scale dataset of paired sketches and images for supervision. They
typically utilize synthesized edge maps of face images as training data.
However, these synthesized edge maps strictly align with the edges of the
corresponding face images, which limit their generalization ability to real
hand-drawn sketches with vast stroke diversity. To address this problem, we
propose DeepFacePencil, an effective tool that is able to generate
photo-realistic face images from hand-drawn sketches, based on a novel dual
generator image translation network during training. A novel spatial attention
pooling (SAP) is designed to adaptively handle stroke distortions which are
spatially varying to support various stroke styles and different levels of
details. We conduct extensive experiments and the results demonstrate the
superiority of our model over existing methods on both image quality and model
generalization to hand-drawn sketches.Comment: ACM MM 2020 (oral
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