A method can be implemented on a microcontroller that includes at least one memory. The microcontroller is configured to receive sets of multivariable data from at least one sensor and the memory is configured to store a predefined number of categories. A category is associated with a mean and a covariance matrix. The method can be used to the detection of anomalies from the sets of multivariable data.

An electronic device has an activation function functional block that implements an activation function. During operation, the activation function functional block receives an input including a plurality of bits representing a numerical value. The activation function functional block then determines a range from among a plurality of ranges into which the input falls, each range including a separate portion of possible numerical values of the input. The activation function functional block next generates a result of a linear function associated with the range. Generating the result includes using a separate linear function that is associated with each range in the plurality of ranges to approximate results of the activation function within that range.

Convolutional neural networks for detecting objects of interest within images of biological specimens are disclosed. Also disclosed are systems and methods of training and using such networks, one method including: obtaining a sample image and at least one of a set of positive points and a set of negative points, wherein each positive point identifies a location of one object of interest within the sample image, and each negative point identifies a location of one object of no-interest within the sample image; obtaining one or more predefined characteristics of objects of interest and/or objects of no-interest, and based on the predefined characteristics, generating a boundary map comprising a positive area around each positive point the set of positive points, and/or a negative area around each negative point in the set of negative points; and training the convolutional neural network using the sample image and the boundary map.

A method includes filtering a point cloud transformation of a 3D object to generate a 3D lattice and processing the 3D lattice through a series of bilateral convolution networks (BCL), each BCL in the series having a lower lattice feature scale than a preceding BCL in the series. The output of each BCL in the series is concatenated to generate an intermediate 3D lattice. Further filtering of the intermediate 3D lattice generates a first prediction of features of the 3D object.

Automated data analytics techniques for non-tabular data sets may include methods and systems for (1) automatically developing models that perform tasks in the domains of computer vision, audio processing, speech processing, text processing, or natural language processing; (2) automatically developing models that analyze heterogeneous data sets containing image data and non-image data, and/or heterogeneous data sets containing tabular data and non-tabular data; (3) determining the importance of an image feature with respect to a modeling task, (4) explaining the value of a modeling target based at least in part on an image feature, and (5) detecting drift in image data. In some cases, multi-stage models may be developed, wherein a pre-trained feature extraction model extracts low-, mid-, high-, and/or highest-level features of non-tabular data, and a data analytics models uses those features (or features derived therefrom) to perform a data analytics task.

A configuration system may generate synthetic datasets based on machine learning, and may provide the synthetic datasets in order to configure, train, test, and/or otherwise modify operation of network equipment and/or other devices. The configuration system may receive a sampling of data used by the particular network equipment, and may determine parameters that define values for the variables represented in the sampling. The configuration system may generate different datasets based on the parameters, and may determine an accuracy of each dataset to the sampling based on the values of each dataset conforming by different amounts to the parameters that define the values for the variables represented in the sampling by different amounts. The configuration system may modify the network equipment operation using the values from a particular dataset in response to determining that the accuracy of the particular dataset is greatest to the sampling.

A method for training a model based on multi-modal data joint learning, includes: obtaining multi-modal data; in which the multi-modal data include at least one type of single-modal data and at least one type of Pair multi-modal data; inputting the single-modal data and the Pair multi-modal data into a decoupling attention Transformer network model to generate respectively Token semantic representation features and cross-modal semantic representation features; and training the decoupling attention Transformer network model based on the Token semantic representation features and the cross-modal semantic representation features.

A processor obtains an audio sample captured by an audio sensor of a mobile device. The processor determines a context categorization for the mobile device based at least one the audio sample. The context categorization comprises at least one motion state and a vehicle indicator corresponding to a context experienced by the mobile device when the audio sample was captured. Determining the context categorization comprises analyzing the audio sample using a classification engine. The processor provides the context categorization for the mobile device as input to a crowd-sourcing or positioning process.

Techniques for automatically extracting data from documents using multiple deep learning models are provided. According to one set of embodiments, a computer system can receive a document in an electronic format and can segment, using an image segmentation deep learning model, the document into a plurality of segments, where each segment corresponds to a visually discrete portion of the document and is classified as being one of a plurality of types. The computer system can then, for each segment in the plurality of segments, retrieve text in the segment using optical character recognition (OCR) and extract data in the segment from the retrieved text using a named entity recognition (NER) deep learning model, where the retrieving and the extracting are performed in a manner that takes into account the segment's type.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores therein a prediction program that causes a computer to execute a process including obtaining a machine learning model trained by using training data, the machine learning model predicting presence or absence of purchase actions or predetermined actions of users corresponding to feature information on the users, the training data including feature information on users and information indicating the presence or the absence of the purchase actions of commercial products or the predetermined actions, receiving input of a budget amount in an entry field displayed on a display in association with a user group including users including a common feature in the feature information, and displaying, in association with the budget amount on the display, feature information on the users included in the user group corresponding to the entry field.