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Recent Submissions
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Tracking translation invariance in CNNs
(Southern African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research, 2020)Although Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely used, their translation invariance (ability to deal with translated inputs) is still subject to some controversy. We explore this question using translation-sensitivity ... -
Stride and translation invariance in CNNs
(Southern African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research, 2020)Convolutional Neural Networks have become the standard for image classification tasks, however, these architectures are not invariant to translations of the input image. This lack of invariance is attributed to the use of ... -
Pairwise networks for feature ranking of a geomagnetic storm model
(South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 2020)Feedforward neural networks provide the basis for complex regression models that produce accurate predictions in a variety of applications. However, they generally do not explicitly provide any information about the utility ... -
Using summary layers to probe neural network behaviour
(South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 2020)No framework exists that can explain and predict the generalisation ability of deep neural networks in general circumstances. In fact, this question has not been answered for some of the least complicated of neural network ... -
Benign interpolation of noise in deep learning
(South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 2020)The understanding of generalisation in machine learning is in a state of flux, in part due to the ability of deep learning models to interpolate noisy training data and still perform appropriately on out-of-sample data, ... -
Pre-interpolation loss behavior in neural networks
(Springer, 2020)When training neural networks as classifiers, it is common to observe an increase in average test loss while still maintaining or improving the overall classification accuracy on the same dataset. In spite of the ubiquity ... -
The South African directory enquiries (SADE) name corpus
(Springer, 2020)We present the design and development of a South African directory enquiries (DE) corpus. It contains audio and orthographic transcriptions of a wide range of South African names produced by first language speakers of four ... -
Optimising word embeddings for recognised multilingual speech
(Southern African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research, 2020)Word embeddings are widely used in natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Most work on word embeddings focuses on monolingual languages with large available datasets. For embeddings to be useful in a multilingual ... -
Classifying recognised speech with deep neural networks
(Southern African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research, 2020)We investigate whether word embeddings using deep neural networks can assist in the analysis of text produced by a speechrecognition system. In particular, we develop algorithms to identify which words are incorrectly ... -
Exploring neural network training dynamics through binary node activations
(Southern African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research, 2020)Each node in a neural network is trained to activate for a specific region in the input domain. Any training samples that fall within this domain are therefore implicitly clustered together. Recent work has highlighted ... -
Using a meta-model to compensate for training-evaluation mismatches
(Southern African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research, 2020)One of the fundamental assumptions of machine learning is that learnt models are applied to data that is identically distributed to the training data. This assumption is often not realistic: for example, data collected ... -
Convolution algebra for extended Feller convolution
(Springer, 2020)We apply the recently introduced framework of admissible homomorphisms in the form of a convolution algebra of C2-valued admissible homomorphisms to handle two-dimensional uni-directional homogeneous stochastic kernels. ... -
Comments on: Tests for multivariate normalit: a critical review with emphasis on weighted L2 -statistics
(Springer, 2020)We discuss extension of the BHEP test to more general families of distributions -
Comparison of body mass index and fat percentage criteria classification of 7-13 year-old rural boys in South Africa
(BMC, 2020)Abstract Background: The aim of this paper was to investigate whether BMI and fat percentage classification criteria, would classify a sample of 7–13 year old boys from a rural background in similar nutritional ... -
Ten research questions to support South Africa’s Inland Fisheries Policy
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)South Africa is in the process of developing a National Freshwater (Inland) Wild Capture Fisheries Policy. A properly focused research strategy is essential to guide the policy development process, and thus a dedicated ... -
Chitosan composite biomaterials for bone tissue engineering: a review
(Springer, 2020)The bone is a highly dynamic tissue with the remarkable ability to remodel and is in a continuous cycle of resorption and renewal as a result of internal mediators and external mechanical demands. Researchers have doubled ... -
Genetic fuzzy rule extraction for optimised sizing and control of hybrid renewable energy hydrogen systems
(Elsevier, 2020)A major challenge related to the design of a hybrid renewable energy hydrogen system is which energy sources to include and at what capacity, for regionally different potentials of renewable energy and hydrogen demand. In ... -
Prevalence of dyslipidaemia among type 2 diabetes mellitus patients in the Western Cape, South Africa
(MDPI, 2020)Dyslipidaemia, an irregular aggregate of lipids in the blood is common in diabetes and cardiovascular disease sufferers. A cross-sectional study on the prevalence of dyslipidaemia was performed among type 2 diabetes mellitus ... -
Methylene blue analogues: in vitro antimicrobial minimum inhibitory concentrations and in silico pharmacophore modelling
(Elsevier, 2020)It has been shown that methylene blue has antimicrobial properties although few studies have determined its minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), which is the gold standard used to measure antimicrobial activity. The ... -
Metronidazole-conjugates: a comprehensive review of recent developments towards synthesis and medicinal perspective
(Elsevier, 2020)Nitroimidazoles based compounds remain a hot topic of research in medicinal chemistry due to their numerous biological activities. Moreover, many clinical candidates based on this chemical core have been reported to be ...
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