Researchers from MIT and the University of Washington have developed a method to model the behaviour of an agent, including its computational limitations, predicting future behaviours by examining prior actions. The method applies to both humans and AI, and has a wide range of potential applications, including predicting navigation goals from past routes and forecasting…
Health-monitoring apps that assist people in managing chronic diseases or tracking fitness goals work with the help of large machine-learning models, which are often shuttled between a user's smartphone and a central memory server. This process can slow down the app's performance and drain the energy of the device. While machine-learning accelerators can help to…
Large Language Models (LLMs) have improved significantly, but challenges persist, particularly in the prefilling stage. This is because the cost of computing attention increases with the number of tokens in the prompts, leading to a slow time-to-first-token (TTFT). As such, optimizing TTFT is crucial for efficient LLM inference.
Various methods have been proposed to improve…
Before the development of PILOT (PIecewise Linear Organic Tree), linear model trees were slow to fit and susceptible to overfitting, notably with large datasets. The traditional regression trees faced challenges capturing linear relationships efficiently. Linear model trees also encountered problems with interpretability when integrating linear models in leaf nodes. The research points out the need…
Multi-target multi-camera tracking (MTMCT) has become indispensable in intelligent transportation systems, yet real-world applications are complex due to a shortage of publicly available data and laborious manual annotation. MTMCT involves tracking vehicles across multiple camera lenses, detecting objects, carrying out multi-object tracking, and finally clustering trajectories to generate a comprehensive image of vehicle movement. MTMCT…
In the domain of visual question answering (VQA), the Multi-Image Visual Question Answering (MIQA) remains a major hurdle. It entails generating pertinent and grounded responses to natural language prompts founded on a vast assortment of images. While large multimodal models (LMMs) have proven competent in single-image VQA, they falter when dealing with queries involving an…