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The George Washington University has educated generations of international leaders and advanced the understanding of important global issues since 1821. The Elliott School of International Affairs, named in honor of former GW President Lloyd H. Elliott...

Visualizing Deep Similarity Networks

For convolutional neural network models that optimize an image embedding...
01/02/2019 ∙ by Abby Stylianou, et al. ∙ 34 ∙ share

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COVID-19 CT Image Synthesis with a Conditional Generative Adversarial Network

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an ongoing global pandemic that h...
07/29/2020 ∙ by Yifan Jiang, et al. ∙ 25 ∙ share

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Learning Geo-Temporal Image Features

We propose to implicitly learn to extract geo-temporal image features, w...
09/16/2019 ∙ by Menghua Zhai, et al. ∙ 9 ∙ share

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Detecting Emergent Intersectional Biases: Contextualized Word Embeddings Contain a Distribution of Human-like Biases

With the starting point that implicit human biases are reflected in the ...
06/06/2020 ∙ by Wei Guo, et al. ∙ 9 ∙ share

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Dim the Lights! – Low-Rank Prior Temporal Data for Specular-Free Video Recovery

The appearance of an object is significantly affected by the illuminatio...
12/17/2019 ∙ by Samar M. Alsaleh, et al. ∙ 7 ∙ share

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Prudence When Assuming Normality: an advice for machine learning practitioners

In a binary classification problem the feature vector (predictor) is the...
07/30/2019 ∙ by Waleed A. Yousef, et al. ∙ 3 ∙ share

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Meaningful Models: Utilizing Conceptual Structure to Improve Machine Learning Interpretability

The last decade has seen huge progress in the development of advanced ma...
07/01/2016 ∙ by Nick Condry, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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An Experiment with Hierarchical Bayesian Record Linkage

In record linkage (RL), or exact file matching, the goal is to identify ...
12/20/2012 ∙ by Michael D. Larsen, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Linear Time Recognition Algorithms for Topological Invariants in 3D

In this paper, we design linear time algorithms to recognize and determi...
04/12/2008 ∙ by Li Chen, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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D3NOC: Dynamic Data-Driven Network On Chip in Photonic Electronic Hybrids

In this paper, we present a reconfigurable hybrid Photonic-Plasmonic Net...
08/22/2017 ∙ by Armin Mehrabian, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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On partitions into squares of distinct integers whose reciprocals sum to 1

In 1963, Graham proved that all integers greater than 77 (but not 77 its...
01/18/2018 ∙ by Max A. Alekseyev, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Chronos: A Unifying Optimization Framework for Speculative Execution of Deadline-critical MapReduce Jobs

Meeting desired application deadlines in cloud processing systems such a...
04/16/2018 ∙ by Maotong Xu, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Evaluation of Unsupervised Compositional Representations

We evaluated various compositional models, from bag-of-words representat...
06/12/2018 ∙ by Hanan Aldarmaki, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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PCNNA: A Photonic Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been the centerpiece of many ap...
07/23/2018 ∙ by Armin Mehrabian, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Statistical Inference of Covariate-Adjusted Randomized Experiments

Covariate-adjusted randomization procedure is frequently used in compara...
07/25/2018 ∙ by Wei Ma, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Deep Randomized Ensembles for Metric Learning

Learning embedding functions, which map semantically related inputs to n...
08/13/2018 ∙ by Hong Xuan, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Annotation Scaffolds for Object Modeling and Manipulation

We present and evaluate an approach for human-in-the-loop specification ...
08/20/2018 ∙ by Pablo Frank-Bolton, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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End to End Video Segmentation for Driving : Lane Detection For Autonomous Car

Safety and decline of road traffic accidents remain important issues of ...
12/13/2018 ∙ by Wenhui Zhang, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Efficient, Dynamic Multi-tenant Edge Computation in EdgeOS

In the future, computing will be immersed in the world around us – from ...
01/04/2019 ∙ by Yuxin Ren, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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On the Benefits of Waiting in Status Update Systems

This paper explores the potential of waiting before packet transmission ...
01/09/2019 ∙ by Peng Zou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Relative Age of Information: A New Metric for Status Update Systems

In this paper, we introduce a new data freshness metric, relative Age of...
01/16/2019 ∙ by Peng Zou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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A Reconfigurable High-Performance Optical Data Center Architecture

Optical data center network architectures are becoming attractive becaus...
01/19/2019 ∙ by Chong Liu, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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A Hierarchical WDM-based Scalable Data Center Network Architecture

Massive data centers are at the heart of the Internet. The rapid growth ...
01/19/2019 ∙ by Maotong Xu, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Quantum Terrorism: Collective Vulnerability of Global Quantum Systems

The major imminent investments in quantum technologies will bring concep...
01/25/2019 ∙ by N. F. Johnson, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Hotels-50K: A Global Hotel Recognition Dataset

Recognizing a hotel from an image of a hotel room is important for human...
01/26/2019 ∙ by Abby Stylianou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Improved Embeddings with Easy Positive Triplet Mining

Deep metric learning seeks to define an embedding where semantically sim...
04/08/2019 ∙ by Hong Xuan, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Reproducible Workflow on a Public Cloud for Computational Fluid Dynamics

In a new effort to make our research transparent and reproducible by oth...
04/16/2019 ∙ by Olivier Mesnard, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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SvTPM: A Secure and Efficient vTPM in the Cloud

Virtual Trusted Platform Modules (vTPMs) have been widely used in commer...
05/21/2019 ∙ by Juan Wang, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Trading Off Computation with Transmission in Status Update Systems

This paper is motivated by emerging edge computing applications in which...
07/01/2019 ∙ by Peng Zou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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AUC: Nonparametric Estimators and Their Smoothness

Nonparametric estimation of a statistic, in general, and of the error ra...
07/30/2019 ∙ by Waleed A. Yousef, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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A Leisurely Look at Versions and Variants of the Cross Validation Estimator

Many versions of cross-validation (CV) exist in the literature; and each...
07/31/2019 ∙ by Waleed A. Yousef, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Efficient Sentence Embedding using Discrete Cosine Transform

Vector averaging remains one of the most popular sentence embedding meth...
09/06/2019 ∙ by Nada Almarwani, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Visualizing How Embeddings Generalize

Deep metric learning is often used to learn an embedding function that c...
09/16/2019 ∙ by Xiaotong Liu, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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SoK: Blockchain Technology and Its Potential Use Cases

Bitcoin's success has led to significant interest in its underlying comp...
09/27/2019 ∙ by Scott Ruoti, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Overview for the Second Shared Task on Language Identification in Code-Switched Data

We present an overview of the second shared task on language identificat...
09/28/2019 ∙ by Giovanni Molina, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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WASA: A Web Application for Sequence Annotation

Data annotation is an important and necessary task for all NLP applicati...
09/28/2019 ∙ by Fahad AlGhamdi, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Part of speech tagging for code switched data

We address the problem of Part of Speech tagging (POS) in the context of...
09/28/2019 ∙ by Fahad AlGhamdi, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Identifying Nuances in Fake News vs. Satire: Using Semantic and Linguistic Cues

The blurry line between nefarious fake news and protected-speech satire ...
10/02/2019 ∙ by Or Levi, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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TraffickCam: Explainable Image Matching For Sex Trafficking Investigations

Investigations of sex trafficking sometimes have access to photographs o...
10/08/2019 ∙ by Abby Stylianou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Orienting Ordered Scaffolds: Complexity and Algorithms

Despite the recent progress in genome sequencing and assembly, many of t...
11/25/2019 ∙ by Sergey Aganezov, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Hopping-Proof and Fee-Free Pooled Mining in Blockchain

The pool-hopping attack casts down the expected profits of both the mini...
12/25/2019 ∙ by Hongwei Shi, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Engineers Code: reusable open learning modules for engineering computations

Undergraduate programs in science and engineering include at least one c...
12/16/2019 ∙ by Lorena A Barba, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Timely Status Updating through Intermittent Sensing and Transmission

We consider a novel intermittent status updating model where an energy h...
01/04/2020 ∙ by Omur Ozel, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Egoistic Incentives Based on Zero-Determinant Alliances for Large-Scale Systems

Social dilemmas exist in various fields and give rise to the so-called f...
01/08/2020 ∙ by Shengling Wang, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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A Distributionally Robust Area Under Curve Maximization Model

Area under ROC curve (AUC) is a widely used performance measure for clas...
02/18/2020 ∙ by Wenbo Ma, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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A Bilinear Partially Penalized Immersed Finite Element Method for Elliptic Interface Problems with Multi-Domains and Triple-Junction Points

In this article, we introduce a new partially penalized immersed finite ...
03/03/2020 ∙ by Yuan Chen, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Diversity, Density, and Homogeneity: Quantitative Characteristic Metrics for Text Collections

Summarizing data samples by quantitative measures has a long history, wi...
03/19/2020 ∙ by Yi-An Lai, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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On Age and Value of Information in Status Update Systems

Motivated by the inherent value of packets arising in many cyber-physica...
03/31/2020 ∙ by Peng Zou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Building a Shared Resource HPC Center Across University Schools and Institutes: A Case Study

Over the past several years, The George Washington University has recrui...
03/30/2020 ∙ by Glen MacLachlan, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Learning to Classify Intents and Slot Labels Given a Handful of Examples

Intent classification (IC) and slot filling (SF) are core components in ...
04/22/2020 ∙ by Jason Krone, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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