The document proposes a replicated Siamese LSTM model for semantic textual similarity (STS) and information retrieval (IR) in an industrial diagnostic ticketing system. The system aims to retrieve relevant solutions from a knowledge base of tickets given a query. However, the text pairs in the system are often asymmetric in length and content. The proposed model addresses this by learning complementary representations of text pairs in a highly structured latent space using a replicated Siamese LSTM architecture and multi-channel Manhattan metric. It aims to capture similarity at both coarse-grained topic and fine-grained semantic levels to better handle asymmetric texts. The model is evaluated on STS and IR tasks for the industrial ticketing system.
PowerArtist™ includes production-proven RTL power analysis with interactive visual debug, analysis-driven automatic RTL power reduction, and a Tcl interface to the database enabling custom reports and tracking of power through regressions. PowerArtist generated models bridge the RTL and layout gap delivering physical-aware RTL power accuracy and RTL-power driven early power grid integrity. This presentation provides an overview of PowerArtist and covers RTL design-for-power best practices using real-life examples. Learn more on our website: https://bit.ly/10Rpcxu
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NEXGEN TECHNOLOGY as an efficient Software Training Center located at Pondicherry with IT Training on IEEE Projects in Android,IEEE IT B.Tech Student Projects, Android Projects Training with Placements Pondicherry, IEEE projects in pondicherry, final IEEE Projects in Pondicherry , MCA, BTech, BCA Projects in Pondicherry, Bulk IEEE PROJECTS IN Pondicherry.So far we have reached almost all engineering colleges located in Pondicherry and around 90km
Nexgen Technology Address:
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Near SBI ATM,
Puducherry.
Email Id: praveen@nexgenproject.com.
www.nexgenproject.com
Mobile: 9751442511,9791938249
Telephone: 0413-2211159.
NEXGEN TECHNOLOGY as an efficient Software Training Center located at Pondicherry with IT Training on IEEE Projects in Android,IEEE IT B.Tech Student Projects, Android Projects Training with Placements Pondicherry, IEEE projects in pondicherry, final IEEE Projects in Pondicherry , MCA, BTech, BCA Projects in Pondicherry, Bulk IEEE PROJECTS IN Pondicherry.So far we have reached almost all engineering colleges located in Pondicherry and around 90km
PowerArtist™ includes production-proven RTL power analysis with interactive visual debug, analysis-driven automatic RTL power reduction, and a Tcl interface to the database enabling custom reports and tracking of power through regressions. PowerArtist generated models bridge the RTL and layout gap delivering physical-aware RTL power accuracy and RTL-power driven early power grid integrity. This presentation provides an overview of PowerArtist and covers RTL design-for-power best practices using real-life examples. Learn more on our website: https://bit.ly/10Rpcxu
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Telephone: 0413-2211159.
NEXGEN TECHNOLOGY as an efficient Software Training Center located at Pondicherry with IT Training on IEEE Projects in Android,IEEE IT B.Tech Student Projects, Android Projects Training with Placements Pondicherry, IEEE projects in pondicherry, final IEEE Projects in Pondicherry , MCA, BTech, BCA Projects in Pondicherry, Bulk IEEE PROJECTS IN Pondicherry.So far we have reached almost all engineering colleges located in Pondicherry and around 90km
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NEXGEN TECHNOLOGY as an efficient Software Training Center located at Pondicherry with IT Training on IEEE Projects in Android,IEEE IT B.Tech Student Projects, Android Projects Training with Placements Pondicherry, IEEE projects in pondicherry, final IEEE Projects in Pondicherry , MCA, BTech, BCA Projects in Pondicherry, Bulk IEEE PROJECTS IN Pondicherry.So far we have reached almost all engineering colleges located in Pondicherry and around 90km
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Puducherry.
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www.nexgenproject.com
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NEXGEN TECHNOLOGY as an efficient Software Training Center located at Pondicherry with IT Training on IEEE Projects in Android,IEEE IT B.Tech Student Projects, Android Projects Training with Placements Pondicherry, IEEE projects in pondicherry, final IEEE Projects in Pondicherry , MCA, BTech, BCA Projects in Pondicherry, Bulk IEEE PROJECTS IN Pondicherry.So far we have reached almost all engineering colleges located in Pondicherry and around 90km
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http://bit.ly/GabrielNoaje
2) GPUs in Data Science Pipelines ( 30 mins)
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However, algorithms require specific knowledge of the GPU architecture and expertise to achieve significant results.
In this work, we describe a methodology for automatic GPU kernel optimization.
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The Smith-Waterman algorithm is one of the most used algorithms in genomics pipelines.
The algorithm finds the optimal local alignment between two genomic sequences, at the cost of being particularly compute-intensive.
The popular X-drop algorithm reduces the time required by the alignment by searching only for high-quality alignments.
The algorithms accelerated using our methodology achieve more than 6x and 3x speed-up, for the X-drop and Smith-Waterman algorithms respectively, with respect to the state of the art implementation of these algorithms.
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ICLR 2019 conference paper.
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Invited Talk @ Google AI, New York City USA.
Talk includes: Neural Relation Extraction (AAAI-2019 paper) and Neural Topic Modeling (AAAI-2019 and ICLR-2019 papers).
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However, algorithms require specific knowledge of the GPU architecture and expertise to achieve significant results.
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The Smith-Waterman algorithm is one of the most used algorithms in genomics pipelines.
The algorithm finds the optimal local alignment between two genomic sequences, at the cost of being particularly compute-intensive.
The popular X-drop algorithm reduces the time required by the alignment by searching only for high-quality alignments.
The algorithms accelerated using our methodology achieve more than 6x and 3x speed-up, for the X-drop and Smith-Waterman algorithms respectively, with respect to the state of the art implementation of these algorithms.
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