December 29, 2024

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How Bias in Medical AI Affects Diagnoses Across Different Groups | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and Introduction Related work Methods 3.1 Positive-sum fairness 3.2 Application Experiments 4.1 Initial results 4.2 Positive-sum fairness Conclusion and References Bias is commonly identified in medical image analysis applications [38,40]. For instance [6], a CNN trained on brain MRI resulted in a significant difference between ethnicities. Seyyed-Kalantari et al. [32] observed that minorities received higher rates of algorithmic underdiagnosis. Zong et al. [40] assessed bias mitigation algorithms inand out-of-distribution settings. The

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Exploring Positive-Sum Fairness in Medical AI | HackerNoon

Authors: (1) Samia Belhadj∗, Lunit Inc., Seoul, Republic of Korea ([email protected]); (2) Sanguk Park [0009 −0005 −0538 −5522]*, Lunit Inc., Seoul, Republic of Korea ([email protected]); (3) Ambika Seth, Lunit Inc., Seoul, Republic of Korea ([email protected]); (4) Hesham Dar [0009 −0003 −6458 −2097], Lunit Inc., Seoul, Republic of Korea ([email protected]); (5) Thijs Kooi [0009 −0003 −6458 −2097], Kooi, Lunit Inc., Seoul, Republic of Korea ([email protected]). Table of Links Abstract and Introduction Related work Methods 3.1 Positive-sum

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Despite intense AI arms race, we’re in for a multi-modal future

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Every week — sometimes every day—a new state-of-the-art AI model is born to the world. As we move into 2025, the pace at which new models are being released is dizzying, if not exhausting. The curve of the rollercoaster is continuing to grow exponentially, and fatigue and wonder have become constant companions. Each release highlights why

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LLaVA-Phi: Limitations and What You Can Expect in the Future | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Related Work 3. LLaVA-Phi and 3.1. Training 3.2. Qualitative Results 4. Experiments 5. Conclusion, Limitation, and Future Works and References 5. Conclusion, Limitation, and Future Works We introduce LLaVA-Phi, a vision language assistant developed using the compact language model Phi-2. Our work demonstrates that such small vision-language models can perform effectively on standard benchmarks when combined with the LLaVA training methodology and a select dataset of high-quality

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GPS Is Broken, And It’s Holding Tech Back | HackerNoon

In a world dominated by connectivity, we rely on GPS for everything from navigating city streets to tracking the arrival of our food delivery. But most of us don’t give much thought to how it all works—until it doesn’t. Whether it’s your Uber driver getting lost in a crowded urban area, your delivery package arriving late, or an autonomous vehicle encountering a signal disruption, the vulnerabilities of GPS are becoming clearer. As we move toward

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LLaVA-Phi: Qualitative Results – Take A Look At Its Remarkable Generelization Capabilities | HackerNoon

Authors: (1) Yichen Zhu, Midea Group; (2) Minjie Zhu, Midea Group and East China Normal University; (3) Ning Liu, Midea Group; (4) Zhicai Ou, Midea Group; (5) Xiaofeng Mou, Midea Group. Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Related Work 3. LLaVA-Phi and 3.1. Training 3.2. Qualitative Results 4. Experiments 5. Conclusion, Limitation, and Future Works and References 3.2. Qualitative Results We present several examples that demonstrate the remarkable generalization capabilities of LLaVA-Phi, comparing

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Five breakthroughs that make OpenAI’s o3 a turning point for AI — and one big challenge

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The end of the year 2024 has brought reckonings for artificial intelligence, as industry insiders feared progress toward even more intelligent AI is slowing down. But OpenAI’s o3 model, announced just last week, has sparked a fresh wave of excitement and debate, and suggests big improvements are still to come in 2025 and beyond. This model,

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AI

Introducing n-Step Temporal-Difference Methods

Dissecting “Reinforcement Learning” by Richard S. Sutton with custom Python implementations, Episode V Oliver S · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 10 min read · 11 hours ago — In our previous post, we wrapped up the introductory series on fundamental reinforcement learning (RL) techniques by exploring Temporal-Difference (TD) learning. TD methods merge the strengths of Dynamic Programming (DP) and Monte Carlo (MC) methods, leveraging their best features to form some of the

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2025’s upcoming games poised to be best-sellers

As we close out the eventful year 2024, we look ahead to a games release calendar that is already teeming with excellent titles. Several of the games launching in 2025 have already cultivated large fanbases and media interest, building up anticipation for them ahead of their launch. Following on from Dean’s own most-anticipated games list, the games on this list are most likely to top the sales charts in the coming year. 2025’s titles are

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GPS Spoofing Attacks Are Dangerously Misleading Airliners

2 min read Margo Anderson is senior associate editor and telecommunications editor at IEEE Spectrum. Stuart Bradford In 2023, at least 20 civilian aircraft flying through the Middle East were misled by their onboard GPS units into flying near Iranian airspace without clearance—situations that could have provoked an international incident. These planes were victims of GPS spoofing, in which deceptive signals from the ground, disguised as trustworthy signals from GPS satellites in orbit, trick an

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