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Critically Examining the "Neural Hype": Weak Baselines and the Additivity of Effectiveness Gains from Neural Ranking Models
Is neural IR mostly hype? In a recent SIGIR Forum article, Lin expressed
skepticism that neural ranking models were actually improving ad hoc retrieval
effectiveness in limited data scenarios. He provided anecdotal evidence that
authors of neural IR papers demonstrate "wins" by comparing against weak
baselines. This paper provides a rigorous evaluation of those claims in two
ways: First, we conducted a meta-analysis of papers that have reported
experimental results on the TREC Robust04 test collection. We do not find
evidence of an upward trend in effectiveness over time. In fact, the best
reported results are from a decade ago and no recent neural approach comes
close. Second, we applied five recent neural models to rerank the strong
baselines that Lin used to make his arguments. A significant improvement was
observed for one of the models, demonstrating additivity in gains. While there
appears to be merit to neural IR approaches, at least some of the gains
reported in the literature appear illusory.Comment: Published in the Proceedings of the 42nd Annual International ACM
SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR
2019
Development of Computer Vision-Enhanced Smart Golf Ball Retriever
An automatic vehicle system was developed to assist golfers in collecting golf balls from a practice field. Computer vision methodology was utilized to enhance the detection of golf balls in shallow and/or deep grass regions. The free software OpenCV was used in this project because of its powerful features and supported repository. The homemade golf ball picker was built with a smart recognition function for golf balls and can lock onto targets by itself. A set of field tests was completed in which the rate of golf ball recognition was as high as 95%. We report that this homemade smart golf ball picker can reduce the tremendous amount of labor associated with having to gather golf balls scattered throughout a practice field
Soliton transverse instabilities in nonlocal nonlinear media
We analyze the transverse instabilities of spatial bright solitons in
nonlocal nonlinear media, both analytically and numerically. We demonstrate
that the nonlocal nonlinear response leads to a dramatic suppression of the
transverse instability of the soliton stripes, and we derive the asymptotic
expressions for the instability growth rate in both short- and long-wave
approximations.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figure
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K-quantum Nonlinear Jaynes-Cummings Model in Two Trapped Ions
A k-quantum nonlinear Jaynes-Cummings model for two trapped ions interacting
with laser beams resonant to k-th red side-band of center-of-mass mode, far
from Lamb-Dicke regime, has been obtained. The exact analytic solution showed
the existence of quantum collapses and revivals of the occupation of two atoms.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Degeneracy of Landau Level and Quantum Group SL_q(2)
We show that there is a kind of quantum group symmetry in the
usual Landau problem and it is this quantum group symmetry that governs the
degeneracy of Landau levels. We find that under the periodic boundary
condition, the degree of degeneracy of Landau levels is finite, and it just
equals the dimension of the irreducible cyclic representation of the quantum
group .Comment: 10 pages, Preprint ( reprint ) of Nankai Institute of Mathematics.
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