Understanding Encoder and Decoder in Combinational Logic Circuits
In the world of digital systems, encoders and decoders play a crucial role in converting incoming information into appropriate binary forms for processing and output. Encoders transform data into binary codes suitable for display, while decoders ensure that binary data is correctly interpreted and u
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Knowledge Distillation for Streaming ASR Encoder with Non-streaming Layer
The research introduces a novel knowledge distillation (KD) method for transitioning from non-streaming to streaming ASR encoders by incorporating auxiliary non-streaming layers and a special KD loss function. This approach enhances feature extraction, improves robustness to frame misalignment, and
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Evolution of Neural Models: From RNN/LSTM to Transformers
Neural models have evolved from RNN/LSTM, designed for language processing tasks, to Transformers with enhanced context modeling. Transformers introduce features like attention, encoder-decoder architecture (e.g., BERT/GPT), and fine-tuning techniques for training. Pretrained models like BERT and GP
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Understanding Convolutional Codes in Digital Communication
Convolutional codes provide an efficient alternative to linear block coding by grouping data into smaller blocks and encoding them into output bits. These codes are defined by parameters (n, k, L) and realized using a convolutional structure. Generators play a key role in determining the connections
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ELECTRA: Pre-Training Text Encoders as Discriminators
Efficiently learning an encoder that classifies token replacements accurately using ELECTRA method, which involves replacing some input tokens with samples from a generator instead of masking. The key idea is to train a text encoder to distinguish input tokens from negative samples, resulting in bet
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Decoding and NLG Examples in CSE 490U Section Week 10
This content delves into the concept of decoding in natural language generation (NLG) using RNN Encoder-Decoder models. It discusses decoding approaches such as greedy decoding, sampling from probability distributions, and beam search in RNNs. It also explores applications of decoding and machine tr
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Comparing CLIP vs. LLaVA on Zero-Shot Classification by Misaki Matsuura
In this study by Misaki Matsuura, the effectiveness of CLIP (contrastive language-image pre-training) and LLaVA (large language-and-vision assistant) on zero-shot classification is explored. CLIP, with 63 million parameters, retrieves textual labels based on internet image-text pairs. On the other h
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Understanding Variational Autoencoders (VAE) in Machine Learning
Autoencoders are neural networks designed to reproduce their input, with Variational Autoencoders (VAE) adding a probabilistic aspect to the encoding and decoding process. VAE makes use of encoder and decoder models that work together to learn probabilistic distributions for latent variables, enabli
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Solar Energy Generator Design Rendering and Prototype Details
Solar Energy Generator design includes a prototype system mounted in a Pelican case with various peripherals. The system features a Laser Cut Delrin Panel covering all electronics with display, buttons, and a rotary encoder. External connections are facilitated through Souriau UTS circular connector
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Generating Sense-specific Example Sentences with BART Approach
This work focuses on generating sense-specific example sentences using BART (Bidirectional and AutoRegressive Transformers) by conditioning on the target word and its contextual representation from another sentence with the desired sense. The approach involves two components: a contextual word encod
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Optimized Colour Ordering for Grey to Colour Transformation
The research discusses the challenge of recovering a colour image from a grey-level image efficiently. It presents a solution involving parametric curve optimization in the encoder and decoder sides, minimizing errors and encapsulating colour data. The Parametric Curve maps grayscale values to colou
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ZEN: Pre-training Chinese Text Encoder Enhanced by N-gram Representations
The ZEN model improves pre-training procedures by incorporating n-gram representations, addressing limitations of existing methods like BERT and ERNIE. By leveraging n-grams, ZEN enhances encoder training and generalization capabilities, demonstrating effectiveness across various NLP tasks and datas
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Training wav2vec on Multiple Languages From Scratch
Large amount of parallel speech-text data is not available in most languages, leading to the development of wav2vec for ASR systems. The training process involves self-supervised pretraining and low-resource finetuning. The model architecture includes a multi-layer convolutional feature encoder, qua
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Transformer Neural Networks for Sequence-to-Sequence Translation
In the domain of neural networks, the Transformer architecture has revolutionized sequence-to-sequence translation tasks. This involves attention mechanisms, multi-head attention, transformer encoder layers, and positional embeddings to enhance the translation process. Additionally, Encoder-Decoder
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OWSM-CTC: An Open Encoder-Only Speech Foundation Model
Explore OWSM-CTC, an innovative encoder-only model for diverse language speech-to-text tasks inspired by Whisper and OWSM. Learn about its non-autoregressive approach and implications for multilingual ASR, ST, and LID.
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Efficient Video Encoder on CPU+FPGA Platform
Explore the integration of CPU and FPGA for a highly efficient and flexible video encoder. Learn about the motivation, industry trends, discussions, Xilinx Zynq architecture, design process, H.264 baseline profile, and more to achieve high throughput, low power consumption, and easy upgrading.
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Neural Image Caption Generation: Show and Tell with NIC Model Architecture
This presentation delves into the intricacies of Neural Image Captioning, focusing on a model known as Neural Image Caption (NIC). The NIC's primary goal is to automatically generate descriptive English sentences for images. Leveraging the Encoder-Decoder structure, the NIC uses a deep CNN as the en
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