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The Dynamic Duo of Collaborative Masking and Target for Advanced Masked Autoencoder Learning
Masked autoencoders (MAE) have recently succeeded in self-supervised vision representation learning. Previous work mainly applied custom-designed (e.g., random, block-wise) masking or teacher (e.g., CLIP)-guided masking and targets. However, they ignore the potential role of the self-training (student) model in giving feedback to the teacher for masking and targets. In this work, we present to integrate Collaborative Masking and Targets for boosting Masked AutoEncoders, namely CMT-MAE. Specifically, CMT-MAE leverages a simple collaborative masking mechanism through linear aggregation across attentions from both teacher and student models. We further propose using the output features from those two models as the collaborative target of the decoder. Our simple and effective framework pre-trained on ImageNet-1K achieves state-of-the-art linear probing and fine-tuning performance. In particular, using ViT-base, we improve the fine-tuning results of the vanilla MAE from 83.6% to 85.7%
Scaling Diffusion Mamba with Bidirectional SSMs for Efficient 3D Shape Generation
Recent advancements in sequence modeling have led to the development of the Mamba architecture, noted for its selective state space approach, offering a promising avenue for efficient long sequence handling. However, its application in 3D shape generation, particularly at high resolutions, remains underexplored. Traditional diffusion transformers (DiT) with self-attention mechanisms, despite their potential, face scalability challenges due to the cubic complexity of attention operations as input length increases. This complexity becomes a significant hurdle when dealing with high-resolution voxel sizes. To address this challenge, we introduce a novel diffusion architecture tailored for 3D point clouds generation—Diffusion Mamba (DiM-3D). This architecture forgoes traditional attention mechanisms, instead utilizing the inherent efficiency of the Mamba architecture to maintain linear complexity with respect to sequence length. DiM-3D is characterized by fast inference times and substantially lower computational demands, quantified in reduced Gflops, thereby addressing the key scalability issues of prior models. Our empirical results on the ShapeNet benchmark demonstrate that DiM-3D achieves state-of-the-art performance in generating high-fidelity and diverse 3D shapes. Additionally, DiM-3D shows superior capabilities in tasks like 3D point cloud completion. This not only proves the model's scalability but also underscores its efficiency in generating detailed, high-resolution voxels necessary for advanced 3D shape modeling, particularly excelling in environments requiring 256-resolution voxel sizes. Through these findings, we illustrate the exceptional scalability and efficiency of the Diffusion Mamba framework in 3D shape generation, setting a new standard for the field and paving the way for future explorations in high-resolution 3D modeling technologies
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
We provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Efficient 3D Shape Generation via Diffusion Mamba with Bidirectional SSMs
Recent advancements in sequence modeling have led to the development of the
Mamba architecture, noted for its selective state space approach, offering a
promising avenue for efficient long sequence handling. However, its application
in 3D shape generation, particularly at high resolutions, remains
underexplored. Traditional diffusion transformers (DiT) with self-attention
mechanisms, despite their potential, face scalability challenges due to the
cubic complexity of attention operations as input length increases. This
complexity becomes a significant hurdle when dealing with high-resolution voxel
sizes. To address this challenge, we introduce a novel diffusion architecture
tailored for 3D point clouds generation-Diffusion Mamba (DiM-3D). This
architecture forgoes traditional attention mechanisms, instead utilizing the
inherent efficiency of the Mamba architecture to maintain linear complexity
with respect to sequence length. DiM-3D is characterized by fast inference
times and substantially lower computational demands, quantified in reduced
Gflops, thereby addressing the key scalability issues of prior models. Our
empirical results on the ShapeNet benchmark demonstrate that DiM-3D achieves
state-of-the-art performance in generating high-fidelity and diverse 3D shapes.
Additionally, DiM-3D shows superior capabilities in tasks like 3D point cloud
completion. This not only proves the model's scalability but also underscores
its efficiency in generating detailed, high-resolution voxels necessary for
advanced 3D shape modeling, particularly excelling in environments requiring
high-resolution voxel sizes. Through these findings, we illustrate the
exceptional scalability and efficiency of the Diffusion Mamba framework in 3D
shape generation, setting a new standard for the field and paving the way for
future explorations in high-resolution 3D modeling technologies
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
We conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
We have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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