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HACARUS Tech Blog: Segment Anything Tutorial

WhatisSegmentAnything?TheSegment-AnythingModelisahigh-performancesegmentationmodelforextractingobjectsofinterestinanimage.Thismodelallowsyoutospecifytheobjectsofinterestthroughannotations,clickpointsorboundingboxes,toobtainversatileandhigh-qualitysegmentationresults.TheflowofsegmentationusingSAMisshowninthefigurebelow.SAMArchitectureTheSAMarchitectureconvertsimagesintotensorsusinganimageencoder,convertspointandboundingboxpromptsintotensorsusingaprompt…

2022

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RuleFit: A Modeling Method for Automatically Extracting Interactions

IntroductionHelloeveryone,thankyouforreadingmyarticletoday.MynameisYushiro,adatascientistatHACARUS.AtHACARUS,weworkwithvariousmachinelearningmodelsandwealsowriteblogsaboutlearningandinterpretationmethodsforAI. Inmypreviousarticle,IintroducedthetopicofPDP,ICEplots,andd-ICE.Theseareallinterpretationmethodsformachinelearningmodelsthatcanbeappliedtoanymodel.WhilePDPandICEplotsareusefulforvisualizingthe…

2021

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Visualizing AI: PDP Reliability using d-ICE

IntroductionHelloeveryone,thisisYushiro,adatascientistatHACARUS. Thesedays,withlibrariessuchasScikit-learn,TensorFlow,andPyTorch,itisbecomingincreasinglyeasytocreatemachinelearningmodelsusingdata.Thesemodelsarecommonlyusedtomakepredictionsfornewdatabasedondatafromthepast. However,asthesemodelsbecomemorecomplex,theissuesofblack-boxingbecomemoreprevalent.Thismakesitdifficultforuserstounderstandthereasoningbehindthemodel’sdecision-making.Black-boxingis…

2021

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Methods for AI Visualization: PDPs & ICE Plots

IntroductionHelloeveryone,IamYushiroYamashita,adatascientistatHACARUS.TodayIwouldliketodiscussmethodsforvisualizingAI’sdecision-makingcriteriausingseveraldifferentmodels.Whenitcomestomachinelearning,itiseasytodevelopapredictivemodelaslongasyouhavesufficientdata.However,whenusingmorecomplexmodels,suchasforensemblesorneuralnetworks,werunintotheissueofmodelinterpretability.Soeventhoughthesemodelsimproveperformance,itisdifficult…

2021

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Edge AI Evangelist’s Thoughts Vol.15: Bluetooth Microcomputers – Part 2

Helloeveryone,thisisHaruyukiTago,EdgeEvangelistatHACARUS'TokyoR&Dcenter.Inthisseriesofarticles,IwillsharesomeinsightsfrommydecadesofexperienceinthesemiconductorindustryandIwillcommentonvariousAIindustry-relatedtopicsfrommyuniqueperspective.Inthisvolume,Iwillcontinuemydiscussionaboutmicrocomputers.Inparticular,IwouldliketotalkaboutitsBluetoothfunctionalityfordatacollectioninanedgeAIsystem. BluetoothEnabledMicrocomputersInpart1…

2021

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Edge AI Evangelist’s Thoughts Vol.14: Bluetooth Microcomputers – Part 1

Helloeveryone,I’mHaruyukiTago,EdgeEvangelistattheHACARUSTokyoR&Dcenter.Inthisseriesofarticles,IwillsharesomeinsightsfrommydecadesofexperienceinthesemiconductorindustryandIwillcommentonvariousAIindustry-relatedtopicsfrommyuniqueperspective.Inthisvolume,IwouldliketotalkalittleaboutmicrocomputerswithBluetoothfunctionality.ThemicrocomputerswewillcovertodayarealsodesignedfordatacollectioninedgeAIsystems.MicrocomputerswithBluetoothFunctionality…

2021

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Edge AI Evangelist’s Thoughts Vol.12: Cloud-Native Processors

Helloeveryone,I’mHaruyukiTago,EdgeEvangelistatHACARUSTokyoR&Dcenter.Inthisseriesofarticles,IwillsharesomeinsightsfrommydecadesofexperienceinthesemiconductorindustryandIwillcommentonvariousAIindustry-relatedtopicsfrommyuniqueperspective.Inthe12thvolumeofthiswebseries,Iwillintroducetwonewseriesofcloud-nativeprocessorsdevelopedforuseindatacenters.TheprocessorsIwillgooverhavebeendevelopedbyAmazonandAmpere,…

2021

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Edge AI Evangelist’s Thoughts Vol. 11: An Emerging Trend in Semiconductor Industry – Chiplets

Helloeveryone,I’mHaruyukiTago,EdgeEvangelistatHACARUSTokyoR&Dcenter.Inthisseriesofarticles,IwillsharesomeinsightsfrommydecadesofexperienceinthesemiconductorindustryandIwillcommentonvariousAIindustry-relatedtopicsfrommyuniqueperspective.Intoday’sarticle,Iamexcitedtoshareinformationaboutchipletsandhowtheyhavebeenchangingthesemiconductorindustrysince2011.Chipletshavebeeninstrumentalinbreakingthroughmanyofthetraditionallimitationssurroundingchip…

2021

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Edge AI Evangelist’s Thoughts Vol.9: Xilinx’s New FPGA Versal Platform

Helloeveryone,I’mHaruyukiTago,EdgeEvangelistatHACARUSTokyoR&Dcenter.Inthisseriesofarticles,IwillsharesomeinsightsfrommydecadesofexperienceinthesemiconductorindustryandIwillcommentonvariousAIindustryrelatedtopicsfrommyuniqueperspective.Involumeeightofthisseries,wetalkedaboutSony’sSPRESENSEdeviceandafewpotentialusesforthesystem.InparticularwediscussedanexperimentwhereSPRESENSEwasusedtoanalyzevariousfactorsaffecting…

2021

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Edge AI Evangelist’s Thoughts Vol.7: Secrets of Fugaku, the World’s Best CPU

Helloeveryone,I’mHaruyukiTago,EdgeEvangelistatHACARUSTokyoR&Dcenter.Inthisseriesofarticles,IwillsharesomeinsightsfrommydecadesofexperienceinthesemiconductorindustryandIwillcommentonvariousAIindustryrelatedtopicsfrommyuniqueperspective.Today,let’sdiscussthesecretsofFugaku,theworld’sbestperformingCPUanditsuniquedesign.IwasonceamemberoftheSoCdesignteamforembeddedmicroprocessorsandgameconsoles,whichheavilyrelied…