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3つの要点 ✔️ Focal Lossのハイパーパラメータγを適応的に調整するAdaFocalを提案 ✔️ 既存手法と比べ、同等の分類性能を保ちながら高いcalibration性能を達成 ✔️ 分布外検出タスクにおいても有効性があることが確認された AdaFocal: Calibration-aware Adaptive Focal Loss written by Arindam Ghosh, Thomas Schaaf, Matthew R. Gormley (Submitted on 21 Nov 2022 (v1), last revised 16 Jun 2023 (this version, v2)) Comments: Published in NeurIPS 2022. Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computer Vision a
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Animatable Gaussians: Learning Pose-dependent Gaussian Maps for High-fidelity Human Avatar Modeling Zhe Li1, Zerong Zheng2, Lizhen Wang1, Yebin Liu1 1Tsinghua University 2NNKosmos Technology Abstract Modeling animatable human avatars from RGB videos is a long-standing and challenging problem. Recent works usually adopt MLP-based neural radiance fields (NeRF) to represent 3D humans, but it remai
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There's one part of this document that I would push extremely hard against, and that's the notion that "extended grapheme clusters" are the one true, right way to think of characters in Unicode, and therefore any language that views the length in any other way is doing it wrong.The truth of the matter is that there are several different definitions of "character", depending on what you want to use
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