Publications

Socially Assistive Robots for patients with Alzheimer's Disease: A scoping review.
Vania Karami
Mark J. Yaffe
Genevieve Gore
AJung Moon
S. A. Rahimi
2024-02-29
Archives of gerontology and geriatrics (Print) (published)
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Sources of Richness and Ineffability for Phenomenally Conscious States
Xu Ji
Conscious states (states that there is something it is like to be in) seem both rich or full of detail, and ineffable or hard to fully descr… (see more)ibe or recall. The problem of ineffability, in particular, is a longstanding issue in philosophy that partly motivates the explanatory gap: the belief that consciousness cannot be reduced to underlying physical processes. Here, we provide an information theoretic dynamical systems perspective on the richness and ineffability of consciousness. In our framework, the richness of conscious experience corresponds to the amount of information in a conscious state and ineffability corresponds to the amount of information lost at different stages of processing. We describe how attractor dynamics in working memory would induce impoverished recollections of our original experiences, how the discrete symbolic nature of language is insufficient for describing the rich and high-dimensional structure of experiences, and how similarity in the cognitive function of two individuals relates to improved communicability of their experiences to each other. While our model may not settle all questions relating to the explanatory gap, it makes progress toward a fully physicalist explanation of the richness and ineffability of conscious experience: two important aspects that seem to be part of what makes qualitative character so puzzling.
2024-02-29
Neuroscience of Consciousness (published)
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Substitution of dietary monounsaturated fatty acids from olive oil for saturated fatty acids from lard increases low-density lipoprotein apolipoprotein B-100 fractional catabolic rate in subjects with dyslipidemia associated with insulin resistance: a randomized controlled trial
Louis-Charles Desjardins
Francis Brière
André J Tremblay
Maryka Rancourt-Bouchard
Jean-Philippe Drouin-Chartier
J. Corbeil
Valéry Lemelin
Amélie Charest
Ernst J Schaefer
Benoit Lamarche
Patrick Couture
2024-02-29
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (published)
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Substitution of dietary monounsaturated fatty acids from olive oil for saturated fatty acids from lard increases LDL apolipoprotein B-100 fractional catabolic rate in subjects with dyslipidemia associated with insulin resistance: a randomized controlled trial.
Louis-Charles Desjardins
Francis Brière
André J Tremblay
Maryka Rancourt-Bouchard
Jean-Philippe Drouin-Chartier
J. Corbeil
Valéry Lemelin
Amélie Charest
Ernst J Schaefer
Benoit Lamarche
Patrick Couture
2024-02-29
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (published)
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The effects of nature-based vs. indoor settings on the adaptability, performance and affect of calisthenics exercisers. A registered report.
Henrique Brito
Henrique Lopes
Margarida Carvalho
Daniel Carrilho
Adriano Carvalho
Duarte Araújo
2024-02-29
Psychology of Sport And Exercise (published)
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The « jingle-jangle fallacy » of empathy: Delineating affective, cognitive and motor components of empathy from behavioral synchrony using a virtual agent
Julia Ayache
Guillaume Dumas
Alexander Sumich
D. Kuss
Darren Rhodes
Nadja Heym
2024-02-29
Personality and Individual Differences (published)
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The World Health Organization as an engine of ideational robustness
Jean-Louis Denis
Gaëlle Foucault
Pierre Larouche
Catherine Régis
Miriam Cohen
Marie-Andree Girard
The paper focuses on the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in promoting a healthy world population as a generative and robust idea… (see more) within health policy. The WHO’s health credo transcends national boundaries to promote health globally. It is embedded in norms, values, and standards promulgated by the organization and contributes in shaping the health responses of national governments. Ideational robustness refers to the ability of the WHO to adapt its health credo to changing contexts and circumstances, thus promoting the legitimacy of an international health order. Disturbances, including the Covid-19 pandemic, test the credo’s robustness, forcing the WHO to constantly work at reframing ideas to adapt to political forces and competing logics that structure the field of international health. Empirically, the paper is based on an historical analysis of the evolution of the health credo of the WHO since its inception. Qualitative content analysis of secondary sources, such as policy documents, explores how ideational work performed by WHO leaders impacts on the organization’s position and legitimacy. Ideational robustness appears to be largely influenced by leadership vision, preexisting organizational structure, and the political economy of international health. Ideational robustness appears as a powerful yet insufficient ingredient of policy success.
2024-02-29
Policy and Society (published)
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COSMIC: Mutual Information for Task-Agnostic Summarization Evaluation
Maxime Darrin
Philippe Formont
Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
Pablo Piantanida
Assessing the quality of summarizers poses significant challenges. In response, we propose a novel task-oriented evaluation approach that as… (see more)sesses summarizers based on their capacity to produce summaries that are useful for downstream tasks, while preserving task outcomes. We theoretically establish a direct relationship between the resulting error probability of these tasks and the mutual information between source texts and generated summaries. We introduce
2024-02-28
ArXiv (preprint)
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Crowdkeeping in Last-mile Delivery
Xin Wang
Okan Arslan
Erick Delage
2024-02-28
Transportation Science (published)
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Griffin: Mixing Gated Linear Recurrences with Local Attention for Efficient Language Models
Soham De
Samuel L. Smith
Anushan Fernando
Aleksandar Botev
George Cristian-Muraru
Albert Gu
Ruba Haroun
Leonard Berrada
Yutian Chen 0001
Srivatsan Srinivasan
Guillaume Desjardins
Arnaud Doucet
David Mark Budden
Yee Whye Teh
Razvan Pascanu
Nando de Freitas
Caglar Gulçehre
2024-02-28
ArXiv (preprint)
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StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2: The Next Generation
Anton Lozhkov
Raymond Li
Loubna Ben allal
Federico Cassano
Joel Lamy-Poirier
Nouamane Tazi
Ao Tang
Dmytro Pykhtar
Jiawei Liu
Yuxiang Wei
Tianyang Liu
Max Tian
Denis Kocetkov
Arthur Zucker
Younes Belkada
Zijian Wang
Qian Liu
Dmitry Abulkhanov
Indraneil Paul
Zhuang Li … (see 46 more)
Wen-Ding Li
Megan L. Risdal
Jia LI
Jian Zhu
Terry Yue Zhuo
Evgenii Zheltonozhskii
Nii Osae Osae Dade
Wenhao Yu
Lucas Krauss
Naman Jain
Yixuan Su
Xuanli He
Manan Dey
Edoardo Abati
Yekun Chai
Niklas Muennighoff
Xiangru Tang
Muhtasham Oblokulov
Christopher Akiki
Marc Marone
Chenghao Mou
Mayank Mishra
Alex Gu
Binyuan Hui
Tri Dao
Armel Zebaze
Olivier Dehaene
Nicolas Patry
Canwen Xu
Julian McAuley
Han Hu
Torsten Scholak
Sebastien Paquet
Jennifer Robinson
Carolyn Jane Anderson
Nicolas Chapados
Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary
Nima Tajbakhsh
Yacine Jernite
Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis
Lingming Zhang
Sean Hughes
Thomas Wolf
Arjun Guha
Leandro Von Werra
Harm de Vries
The BigCode project, an open-scientific collaboration focused on the responsible development of Large Language Models for Code (Code LLMs), … (see more)introduces StarCoder2. In partnership with Software Heritage (SWH), we build The Stack v2 on top of the digital commons of their source code archive. Alongside the SWH repositories spanning 619 programming languages, we carefully select other high-quality data sources, such as GitHub pull requests, Kaggle notebooks, and code documentation. This results in a training set that is 4x larger than the first StarCoder dataset. We train StarCoder2 models with 3B, 7B, and 15B parameters on 3.3 to 4.3 trillion tokens and thoroughly evaluate them on a comprehensive set of Code LLM benchmarks. We find that our small model, StarCoder2-3B, outperforms other Code LLMs of similar size on most benchmarks, and also outperforms StarCoderBase-15B. Our large model, StarCoder2- 15B, significantly outperforms other models of comparable size. In addition, it matches or outperforms CodeLlama-34B, a model more than twice its size. Although DeepSeekCoder- 33B is the best-performing model at code completion for high-resource languages, we find that StarCoder2-15B outperforms it on math and code reasoning benchmarks, as well as several low-resource languages. We make the model weights available under an OpenRAIL license and ensure full transparency regarding the training data by releasing the SoftWare Heritage persistent IDentifiers (SWHIDs) of the source code data.
2024-02-28
ArXiv (preprint)
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The use of dose surface maps as a tool to investigate spatial dose delivery accuracy for the rectum during prostate radiotherapy
Haley Patrick
J. Kildea
2024-02-28
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics (published)
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