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The deep learning revolution is touching all scientific disciplines and corners of our lives as a means of harnessing the power of big data. Marine ecology is no exception. These new methods provide analysis of data from sensors, cameras,…
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The use of machine learning in chemistry has become a common practice. At the same time, despite the success of modern machine learning methods, the lack of data limits their use. Using a transfer learning methodology can help solve this…
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Continual Learning (CL) allows applications such as user personalization and household robots to learn on the fly and adapt to context. This is an important feature when context, actions, and users change. However, enabling CL on…
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