动力学受部分微分方程（PDE）控制的物理系统在许多领域（从工程设计到天气预报）中找到了应用。从此类PDE中获取解决方案的过程对于大规模和参数化问题的计算昂贵。在这项工作中，使用LSTM和TCN等时间表预测开发的深度学习技术，或用于为CNN等空间功能提取而开发的，用于建模系统动力学，以占主导问题。这些模型将输入作为从PDE获得的连续时间步长的一系列高保真矢量解，并预测使用自动回归的后续时间步长的解决方案；从而减少获得此类高保真解决方案所需的计算时间和功率。这些模型经过数值基准测试（1D汉堡的方程式和Stoker的大坝断裂问题），以评估长期预测准确性，甚至在训练域之外（外推）。在向预测模型输入之前，使用非侵入性的降低订购建模技术（例如深度自动编码网络）来压缩高保真快照，以减少在线和离线阶段的复杂性和所需的计算。深层合奏被用来对预测模型进行不确定性量化，该模型提供了有关认知不确定性导致预测方差的信息。

The rapid growth of machine translation (MT) systems has necessitated comprehensive studies to meta-evaluate evaluation metrics being used, which enables a better selection of metrics that best reflect MT quality. Unfortunately, most of the research focuses on high-resource languages, mainly English, the observations for which may not always apply to other languages. Indian languages, having over a billion speakers, are linguistically different from English, and to date, there has not been a systematic study of evaluating MT systems from English into Indian languages. In this paper, we fill this gap by creating an MQM dataset consisting of 7000 fine-grained annotations, spanning 5 Indian languages and 7 MT systems, and use it to establish correlations between annotator scores and scores obtained using existing automatic metrics. Our results show that pre-trained metrics, such as COMET, have the highest correlations with annotator scores. Additionally, we find that the metrics do not adequately capture fluency-based errors in Indian languages, and there is a need to develop metrics focused on Indian languages. We hope that our dataset and analysis will help promote further research in this area.

We present, Naamapadam, the largest publicly available Named Entity Recognition (NER) dataset for the 11 major Indian languages from two language families. In each language, it contains more than 400k sentences annotated with a total of at least 100k entities from three standard entity categories (Person, Location and Organization) for 9 out of the 11 languages. The training dataset has been automatically created from the Samanantar parallel corpus by projecting automatically tagged entities from an English sentence to the corresponding Indian language sentence. We also create manually annotated testsets for 8 languages containing approximately 1000 sentences per language. We demonstrate the utility of the obtained dataset on existing testsets and the Naamapadam-test data for 8 Indic languages. We also release IndicNER, a multilingual mBERT model fine-tuned on the Naamapadam training set. IndicNER achieves the best F1 on the Naamapadam-test set compared to an mBERT model fine-tuned on existing datasets. IndicNER achieves an F1 score of more than 80 for 7 out of 11 Indic languages. The dataset and models are available under open-source licenses at https://ai4bharat.iitm.ac.in/naamapadam.

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the form of an interpretable and semiautomatic approach to stage grading ocular pathologies such as Diabetic retinopathy, Hypertensive retinopathy, and other retinopathies on the backdrop of major systemic diseases. The experimental study aims to evaluate an explainable staged grading process without using deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) directly. Many current CNN-based deep neural networks used for diagnosing retinal disorders might have appreciable performance but fail to pinpoint the basis driving their decisions. To improve these decisions' transparency, we have proposed a clinician-in-the-loop assisted intelligent workflow that performs a retinal vascular assessment on the fundus images to derive quantifiable and descriptive parameters. The retinal vessel parameters meta-data serve as hyper-parameters for better interpretation and explainability of decisions. The semiautomatic methodology aims to have a federated approach to AI in healthcare applications with more inputs and interpretations from clinicians. The baseline process involved in the machine learning pipeline through image processing techniques for optic disc detection, vessel segmentation, and arteriole/venule identification.

In this work, we introduce IndicXTREME, a benchmark consisting of nine diverse tasks covering 18 languages from the Indic sub-continent belonging to four different families. Across languages and tasks, IndicXTREME contains a total of 103 evaluation sets, of which 51 are new contributions to the literature. To maintain high quality, we only use human annotators to curate or translate\footnote{for IndicXParaphrase, where an automatic translation system is used, a second human verification and correction step is done.} our datasets. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first effort toward creating a standard benchmark for Indic languages that aims to test the zero-shot capabilities of pretrained language models. We also release IndicCorp v2, an updated and much larger version of IndicCorp that contains 20.9 billion tokens in 24 languages. We pretrain IndicBERT v2 on IndicCorp v2 and evaluate it on IndicXTREME to show that it outperforms existing multilingual language models such as XLM-R and MuRIL.

Soft actuators have attracted a great deal of interest in the context of rehabilitative and assistive robots for increasing safety and lowering costs as compared to rigid-body robotic systems. During actuation, soft actuators experience high levels of deformation, which can lead to microscale fractures in their elastomeric structure, which fatigues the system over time and eventually leads to macroscale damages and eventually failure. This paper reports finite element modeling (FEM) of pneu-nets at high angles, along with repetitive experimentation at high deformation rates, in order to study the effect and behavior of fatigue in soft robotic actuators, which would result in deviation from the ideal behavior. Comparing the FEM model and experimental data, we show that FEM can model the performance of the actuator before fatigue to a bending angle of 167 degrees with ~96% accuracy. We also show that the FEM model performance will drop to 80% due to fatigue after repetitive high-angle bending. The results of this paper objectively highlight the emergence of fatigue over cyclic activation of the system and the resulting deviation from the computational FEM model. Such behavior can be considered in future controllers to adapt the system with time-variable and non-autonomous response dynamics of soft robots.

Deep learning based text-to-speech (TTS) systems have been evolving rapidly with advances in model architectures, training methodologies, and generalization across speakers and languages. However, these advances have not been thoroughly investigated for Indian language speech synthesis. Such investigation is computationally expensive given the number and diversity of Indian languages, relatively lower resource availability, and the diverse set of advances in neural TTS that remain untested. In this paper, we evaluate the choice of acoustic models, vocoders, supplementary loss functions, training schedules, and speaker and language diversity for Dravidian and Indo-Aryan languages. Based on this, we identify monolingual models with FastPitch and HiFi-GAN V1, trained jointly on male and female speakers to perform the best. With this setup, we train and evaluate TTS models for 13 languages and find our models to significantly improve upon existing models in all languages as measured by mean opinion scores. We open-source all models on the Bhashini platform.

视力变压器由于其出色的性能而越来越多地嵌入工业系统中，但是它们的记忆力和力量要求使它们部署到边缘设备是一项艰巨的任务。因此，现在，模型压缩技术被广泛用于在边缘设备上部署模型，因为它们减少了资源需求并使模型推理非常快速有效。但是，从安全角度来看，它们的可靠性和鲁棒性是安全至关重要应用中的另一个主要问题。对抗性攻击就像ML算法的光学幻象一样，它们可能会严重影响模型的准确性和可靠性。在这项工作中，我们研究了对抗样品在SOTA视觉变压器模型上跨3个SOTA压缩版本的可传递性，并推断出不同压缩技术对对抗攻击的影响。

最近的研究揭示了NLP数据和模型中的不良偏见。但是，这些努力的重点是西方的社会差异，并且无法直接携带其他地质文化背景。在本文中，我们关注印度背景下的NLP公平。我们首先简要说明印度的社会差异斧头。我们为印度背景下的公平评估建立资源，并利用它们来证明沿着某些轴的预测偏见。然后，我们深入研究了地区和宗教的社会刻板印象，证明了其在Corpora＆Models中的普遍性。最后，我们概述了一个整体研究议程，以重新定义印度背景的NLP公平研究，考虑印度社会背景，弥合能力，资源和适应印度文化价值的技术差距。尽管我们在这里专注于“印度”，但可以在其他地理文化背景下进行重新连接化。

流行模型是理解传染病的强大工具。但是，随着它们的大小和复杂性的增加，它们可以迅速在计算上棘手。建模方法的最新进展表明，替代模型可用于模拟具有高维参数空间的复杂流行模型。我们表明，深层序列到序列（SEQ2SEQ）模型可以作为具有基于序列模型参数的复杂流行病模型的准确替代物，从而有效地复制了季节性和长期传播动力学。一旦受过培训，我们的代理人可以预测场景比原始模型快几千倍，从而使其非常适合策略探索。我们证明，用博学的模拟器代替传统的流行模型有助于强大的贝叶斯推断。