December 31, 2024

Software

Research Suggests AI Models Can Deliver More Accurate Diagnoses Without Discrimination | HackerNoon

In this paper, we presented the notion of positive-sum fairness and argued that larger disparities are not necessarily harmful, as long as it does not come at the expense of a specific subgroup performance. The general performance, standard fairness and positive-sum fairness of four models was analyzed, each leveraging sensitive attributes in a different way. Our study highlights the need for a nuanced understanding of fairness metrics and their implications in real-world applications. Good incorporation

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Robotics

Focal One completes study to expand access to robotic prostate cancer treatment – The Robot Report

Focal One focuses high-intensity ultrasound waves on affected areas, destroying cancer cells in the gland without damaging the healthy surrounding tissue. | Source: EDAP Earlier this year, EDAP TMS SA announced the full results of a HIFI study evaluating the high-intensity focused ultrasound, or HIFU, treatment of localized prostate cancer. The study compared the French company’s robotic Focal One system against radical prostatectomy, or RP, surgery as the first line of treatment.  HIFI was the

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How AI Models Can Detect Lung Conditions Fairly | 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 4.2 Positive-sum fairness between protected subgroups for M2 compared with M1 cannot be considered harmful as every protected subgroup’s performance was individually increased. On the other hand, for lung lesions, model M4 improved fairness (smaller disparity between the most advantaged and least advantaged subgroups) as shown in the figure 3a. However,

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Software

New Findings Show How Positive-Sum Fairness Changes the Performance of Medical AI Models | 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 4.1 Initial results According to traditional group fairness, in assessing the results of the four models shown in figure 3a one could conclude that: M2 improves the overall performance Our results show that M2 outperforms M1 in terms of AUROC. This is in line with our expectation as we are providing

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Software

How Good Is PagedAttention at Memory Sharing? | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background and 2.1 Transformer-Based Large Language Models 2.2 LLM Service & Autoregressive Generation 2.3 Batching Techniques for LLMs 3 Memory Challenges in LLM Serving 3.1 Memory Management in Existing Systems 4 Method and 4.1 PagedAttention 4.2 KV Cache Manager 4.3 Decoding with PagedAttention and vLLM 4.4 Application to Other Decoding Scenarios 4.5 Scheduling and Preemption 4.6 Distributed Execution 5 Implementation 6 Evaluation and 6.1 Experimental Setup 6.2

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AR/VR

Netflix’s Squid Game: Unleashed hits No. 1 top free game in 24 countries

Netflix announced that its Squid Game: Unleashed mobile game has reached No. 1 Top Free Action Game in 57 countries and the No. 1 Top Free Game’ in 24 countries on the App Store charts. The Netflix multiplayer video game from Bossfight released on December 17 just before the highly-anticipated release of Squid Game Season 2 on December 26. (I’m about three episodes into the show and I’m hooked again on its gritty human drama). Netflix also simultaneously released its first week viewing data

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AI

Multi-Agentic RAG with Hugging Face Code Agents

Using Qwen2.5–7B-Instruct powered code agents to create a local, open source, multi-agentic RAG system Gabriele Sgroi, PhD · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 61 min read · 8 hours ago — Photo by Jaredd Craig on Unsplash Large Language Models have shown impressive capabilities and they are still undergoing steady improvements with each new generation of models released. Applications such as chatbots and summarisation can directly exploit the language proficiency of LLMs as

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Remembering Former IEEE President Emerson Pugh

31 Dec 2024 3 min read IEEE Fellow Emerson Pugh and his wife Betsy at the 2024 IEEE Honors Ceremony in Boston. Emerson Pugh Emerson W. Pugh, 1989 IEEE president, died on 8 December at the age of 95. The IEEE Fellow served as president of the IEEE Foundation from 2000 to 2004. “Emerson Pugh was one of the very first IEEE volunteers I met when I joined the IEEE staff in 1997,” says Karen

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AI

Stop the Count! Why Putting A Time Limit on Metrics is Critical for Fast and Accurate Experiments

Why your experiments might never reach significance Zach Flynn · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 6 min read · Jul 17, 2024 — Photo by Andrik Langfield on Unsplash Introduction Experiments usually compare the frequency of an event (or some other sum metric) after either exposure (treatment) or non-exposure (control) to some intervention. For example: we might compare the number of purchases, minutes spent watching content, or number of clicks on a call-to-action.

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