Genetic algorithms, a sort of algorithms belonging to a more general category, so called meta-heuristics, know today a great expansion in terms of target applications, including biology, chemistry and medicine. They are inspired from primary observations in nature (Lamarck, 1809; Darwin, 1859; Mendel, 1865; Fisher, 1918), and started with simulation of artificial selection of organisms with mul...

Although team allegiance is usually associated with optimistic predictions about team performance, the authors hypothesized that preferences for one’s group can also lead to pessimistic predictions. Upon arrival to the laboratory, groups of four participants were split into teams of two based on bogus criteria. Participants were informed that their teammate would compete against a member of the...

Despite their widespread adoption, Product Quantization techniques were recently shown to be inferior to other hashing techniques. In this work, we present an improved Deep Product Quantization (DPQ) technique that leads to more accurate retrieval and classification than the latest state of the art methods, while having similar computational complexity and memory footprint as the Product Quanti...