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To automatically classify biological images, machine learning techniques have been widely used to train the classifiers from labeled images. For a new category of biologi[...]

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Answering questions effectively involves a complex interconnected set of linguistic and statistical analysis tools, which can be difficult to investigate and evaluate on [...]

Financial institutions need to measure risks within their credit portfolios (homeloans, credit card, auto loans, etc.) for regulatory requirements and for internal riskma[...]

Despite the rising popularity and utilization of intelligent systems, much of thebuilt environment, especially architecture, remains prescriptive or responsive in nature.[...]

"Bantu" is a term used to describe lineages of people in around 600 different ethnic groups on the African continent ranging from modern-day Cameroon to South Africa. The[...]

Video analysis plays an important role in the field of computer vision and finds its application in many areas. Fine-grained event classification is one of the most chall[...]

Causal modeling enables robust counterfactual reasoning and interventional mechanisms to make predictions across different hypothetical scenarios. Nevertheless, uncoverin[...]