no code implementations • 4 Feb 2021 • Veljko Dubljević, George F. List, Jovan Milojevich, Nirav Ajmeri, William Bauer, Munindar P. Singh, Eleni Bardaka, Thomas Birkland, Charles Edwards, Roger Mayer, Ioan Muntean, Thomas Powers, Hesham Rakha, Vance Ricks, M. Shoaib Samandar
There is a pressing need to address relevant social concerns to allow for the development of systems of intelligent agents that are informed and cognizant of ethical standards.
no code implementations • 30 Oct 2018 • Thomas Powers, Rasool Fakoor, Siamak Shakeri, Abhinav Sethy, Amanjit Kainth, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Ruhi Sarikaya
Optimal selection of a subset of items from a given set is a hard problem that requires combinatorial optimization.
1 code implementation • 21 Sep 2017 • Scott Wisdom, Thomas Powers, James Pitton, Les Atlas
This interpretability also provides principled initializations that enable faster training and convergence to better solutions compared to conventional random initialization.
1 code implementation • 22 Nov 2016 • Scott Wisdom, Thomas Powers, James Pitton, Les Atlas
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are powerful and effective for processing sequential data.
2 code implementations • NeurIPS 2016 • Scott Wisdom, Thomas Powers, John R. Hershey, Jonathan Le Roux, Les Atlas
To address this question, we propose full-capacity uRNNs that optimize their recurrence matrix over all unitary matrices, leading to significantly improved performance over uRNNs that use a restricted-capacity recurrence matrix.
Ranked #25 on Sequential Image Classification on Sequential MNIST
Open-Ended Question Answering Sequential Image Classification
no code implementations • 2 Sep 2015 • Scott Wisdom, Thomas Powers, Les Atlas, James Pitton
Our approach centers around using a single-channel minimum mean-square error log-spectral amplitude (MMSE-LSA) estimator proposed by Habets, which scales coefficients in a time-frequency domain to suppress noise and reverberation.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2