Preliminary Investigation
Preliminary investigations in various scientific fields currently focus on evaluating the efficacy and limitations of novel models and techniques before full-scale deployment. Research spans diverse areas, including developing more flexible and adaptable machine learning models (e.g., exploring Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks and adapting large language models for low-resource scenarios), improving the accuracy and robustness of existing systems (e.g., enhancing automatic speaker verification and medical image analysis), and exploring new applications of existing technologies (e.g., using multimodal models for medical image interpretation and ultrasound for wound healing monitoring). These preliminary studies are crucial for identifying promising avenues of research and guiding the development of more effective and reliable technologies across numerous domains.
Papers
Suitability of KANs for Computer Vision: A preliminary investigation
Basim Azam, Naveed Akhtar
An Initial Investigation of Language Adaptation for TTS Systems under Low-resource Scenarios
Cheng Gong, Erica Cooper, Xin Wang, Chunyu Qiang, Mengzhe Geng, Dan Wells, Longbiao Wang, Jianwu Dang, Marc Tessier, Aidan Pine, Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi