The concept of synthetic gradient introduced by Jaderberg et al. (2016) provides an avant-garde framework for asynchronous learning of neural network. Their model, however, has a weakness in its construction, because the structure of their synthetic gradient has little relation to the objective function of the target task. In this paper we introduce virtual forward-backward networks (VFBN). VFB...

This paper outlines how wearables recon!gure notions of performativity because of their admixtures of human/nonhuman agencies. It argues that contemporary wearables, in a continuum with technological/body performative entanglement dating from early 20th century art (Avant-Garde), materially alter practices of performativity because they propose new and intimately co-dependent agencies of the hu...

Il est possible, il suffit de le constater, qu'un ancien bagnard devienne Préfet de police, c'était sous le troisième empire, il est vrai, mais plus récemment nous avons pu constater qu'on pouvait faire un excellent garde des sceaux d'un personnage à l'odeur étrange à renifler. Les Partis eux-mêmes, gardiens de la salubrité publique, plongent leurs racines financières dans un étrange fumier. No...

In this paper we aim to introduce a systematic way to derive relaxation terms for the Boltzmann equation based under minimization problem of the entropy under moments constraints [7], [11]. In particular the moment constraints and corresponding coefficients are linked with the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the linearized collision operator through the Chapman-Enskog expansion. Then we deduc...

The citation for Soyinka’s 1986 Nobel prize for literature reads: “Who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones, fashions the drama of existence”. The “wide cultural perspective” mentioned refers to the fact that Soyinka’s writings, especially the dramas for which he is best known, are at once deeply rooted in traditional African expressive and performance forms like myths and r...

This paper reports on the architecture and performance of a creative artificially-intuitive and reasoning agent (CAIRA) as an improviser and conductor for improvised avant-garde music. The agent’s listening skills are based on a music recognition system that simulates the human auditory periphery to perform an Auditory Scene Analysis (ASA). Its simulation of cognitive processes includes a cogni...

J.-F. Rontani, B. Charriere, M. Petit, F. Vaultier, H. J. Heipieper, H. Link, G. Chaillou, and R. Sempéré Aix-Marseille Univ., Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO), UMR7294, CNRS/INSU, UMR235, IRD, 13288, Marseille, Cedex 09; Universite du Sud Toulon-Var (MIO), 83957, La Garde cedex, France Department Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Permo...