Massimo: Public Queue Monitoring and Management using Mass-Spring Model

An efficient system of a queue control and regulation in public spaces is very important in order to avoid the traffic jams and to improve the customer satisfaction. This article offers a detailed road map based on a merger of intelligent systems and creating an efficient systems of queues in public places. Through the utilization of different technologies i.e. computer vision, machine learning algorithms, deep learning our system provide accurate information about the place is crowded or not and the necessary efforts to be taken.

Measuring Sustainability Intention of ESG Fund Disclosure using Few-Shot Learning

Global sustainable fund universe encompasses open-end funds and exchange-traded funds (ETF) that, by prospectus or other regulatory filings, claim to focus on Environment, Social and Governance (ESG). Challengingly, the claims can only be confirmed by examining the textual disclosures to check if there is presence of intentionality and ESG focus on its investment strategy. Currently, there is no regulation to enforce sustainability in ESG products space. This paper proposes a unique method and system to classify and score the fund prospectuses in the sustainable universe regarding specificity and transparency of language. We aim to employ few-shot learners to identify specific, ambiguous, and generic sustainable investment-related language. Additionally, we construct a ratio metric to determine language score and rating to rank products and quantify sustainability claims for US sustainable universe. As a by-product, we publish manually annotated quality training dataset on Hugging Face (ESG-Prospectus-Clarity-Category under cc-by-nc-sa-4.0) of more than 1K ESG textual statements. The performance of the few-shot finetuning approach is compared with zero-shot models e.g., Llama-13B, GPT 3.5 Turbo etc. We found that prompting large language models are not accurate for domain specific tasks due to misalignment issues. The few-shot finetuning techniques outperform zero-shot models by large margins of more than absolute ~30% in precision, recall and F1 metrics on completely unseen ESG languages (test set). Overall, the paper attempts to establish a systematic and scalable approach to measure and rate sustainability intention quantitatively for sustainable funds using texts in prospectus. Regulatory bodies, investors, and advisors may utilize the findings of this research to reduce cognitive load in investigating or screening of ESG funds which accurately reflects the ESG intention.

Comparative Study of Language Models on Cross-Domain Data with Model Agnostic Explainability

With the recent influx of bidirectional contextualized transformer language models in the NLP, it becomes a necessity to have a systematic comparative study of these models on variety of datasets. Also, the performance of these language models has not been explored on non-GLUE datasets. The study presented in paper compares the state-of-the-art language models - BERT, ELECTRA and its derivatives which include RoBERTa, ALBERT and DistilBERT. We conducted experiments by finetuning these models for cross domain and disparate data and penned an in-depth analysis of model's performances. Moreover, an explainability of language models coherent with pretraining is presented which verifies the context capturing capabilities of these models through a model agnostic approach. The experimental results establish new state-of-the-art for Yelp 2013 rating classification task and Financial Phrasebank sentiment detection task with 69% accuracy and 88.2% accuracy respectively. Finally, the study conferred here can greatly assist industry researchers in choosing the language model effectively in terms of performance or compute efficiency.

SieveNet: A Unified Framework for Robust Image-Based Virtual Try-On

Image-based virtual try-on for fashion has gained considerable attention recently. The task requires trying on a clothing item on a target model image. An efficient framework for this is composed of two stages: (1) warping (transforming) the try-on cloth to align with the pose and shape of the target model, and (2) a texture transfer module to seamlessly integrate the warped try-on cloth onto the target model image. Existing methods suffer from artifacts and distortions in their try-on output. In this work, we present SieveNet, a framework for robust image-based virtual try-on. Firstly, we introduce a multi-stage coarse-to-fine warping network to better model fine-grained intricacies (while transforming the try-on cloth) and train it with a novel perceptual geometric matching loss. Next, we introduce a try-on cloth conditioned segmentation mask prior to improve the texture transfer network. Finally, we also introduce a dueling triplet loss strategy for training the texture translation network which further improves the quality of the generated try-on results. We present extensive qualitative and quantitative evaluations of each component of the proposed pipeline and show significant performance improvements against the current state-of-the-art method.