Medical visual question answering(MedVQA)faces unique challenges due to the high precision required for images and the specialized nature of the questions.These challenges include insufficient feature extraction capab...Medical visual question answering(MedVQA)faces unique challenges due to the high precision required for images and the specialized nature of the questions.These challenges include insufficient feature extraction capabilities,a lack of textual priors,and incomplete information fusion and interaction.This paper proposes an enhanced bootstrapping language-image pre-training(BLIP)model for MedVQA based on multimodal feature augmentation and triple-path collaborative attention(FCA-BLIP)to address these issues.First,FCA-BLIP employs a unified bootstrap multimodal model architecture that integrates ResNet and bidirectional encoder representations from Transformer(BERT)models to enhance feature extraction capabilities.It enables a more precise analysis of the details in images and questions.Next,the pre-trained BLIP model is used to extract features from image-text sample pairs.The model can understand the semantic relationships and shared information between images and text.Finally,a novel attention structure is developed to fuse the multimodal feature vectors,thereby improving the alignment accuracy between modalities.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method performs well in clinical visual question-answering tasks.For the MedVQA task of staging diabetic macular edema in fundus imaging,the proposed method outperforms the existing major models in several performance metrics.展开更多
The medical education of the Song dynasty constitutes a pivotal aspect within the broader framework of ancient Chinese medical education. The advent of the imperial examination system coincided with the emergence of a...The medical education of the Song dynasty constitutes a pivotal aspect within the broader framework of ancient Chinese medical education. The advent of the imperial examination system coincided with the emergence of a medical examination system, which served as the cornerstone for the subsequent evolution of medical education. According to historical records, the Song government established dedicated medical departments, along with comprehensive systems encompassing medical professors, students, and examinations. By examining extant medical historical documents, such as Tai Yi Ju Zhu Ke Cheng Wen Ge(《太医局诸科程文格》 Examination Answers and Standards of the Imperial Medical Bureau), researchers and readers can obtain a comprehensive understanding of the medical system that prevailed in the Song dynasty. While the intricate details of medical education during this era are not explicitly documented in historical records, modern researchers have the opportunity to uncover the entire view of medical education, particularly the medical examination system, through rigorous analysis of these extant historical medical documents. Such studies offer valuable insights into the developmental trajectory of the ancient Chinese medical examination system and provide crucial references for contemporary medical education. By conducting in-depth literature research and analysis of Tai Yi Ju Zhu Ke Cheng Wen Ge, this study endeavors to reconstruct the authentic scenario of medical examinations in the Song dynasty, as presented in the document, for the benefit of modern readers and researchers.展开更多
In the context of power generation companies, vast amounts of specialized data and expert knowledge have been accumulated. However, challenges such as data silos and fragmented knowledge hinder the effective utilizati...In the context of power generation companies, vast amounts of specialized data and expert knowledge have been accumulated. However, challenges such as data silos and fragmented knowledge hinder the effective utilization of this information. This study proposes a novel framework for intelligent Question-and-Answer (Q&A) systems based on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to address these issues. The system efficiently acquires domain-specific knowledge by leveraging external databases, including Relational Databases (RDBs) and graph databases, without additional fine-tuning for Large Language Models (LLMs). Crucially, the framework integrates a Dynamic Knowledge Base Updating Mechanism (DKBUM) and a Weighted Context-Aware Similarity (WCAS) method to enhance retrieval accuracy and mitigate inherent limitations of LLMs, such as hallucinations and lack of specialization. Additionally, the proposed DKBUM dynamically adjusts knowledge weights within the database, ensuring that the most recent and relevant information is utilized, while WCAS refines the alignment between queries and knowledge items by enhanced context understanding. Experimental validation demonstrates that the system can generate timely, accurate, and context-sensitive responses, making it a robust solution for managing complex business logic in specialized industries.展开更多
With recent advancements in robotic surgery,notable strides have been made in visual question answering(VQA).Existing VQA systems typically generate textual answers to questions but fail to indicate the location of th...With recent advancements in robotic surgery,notable strides have been made in visual question answering(VQA).Existing VQA systems typically generate textual answers to questions but fail to indicate the location of the relevant content within the image.This limitation restricts the interpretative capacity of the VQA models and their abil-ity to explore specific image regions.To address this issue,this study proposes a grounded VQA model for robotic surgery,capable of localizing a specific region during answer prediction.Drawing inspiration from prompt learning in language models,a dual-modality prompt model was developed to enhance precise multimodal information interactions.Specifically,two complementary prompters were introduced to effectively integrate visual and textual prompts into the encoding process of the model.A visual complementary prompter merges visual prompt knowl-edge with visual information features to guide accurate localization.The textual complementary prompter aligns vis-ual information with textual prompt knowledge and textual information,guiding textual information towards a more accurate inference of the answer.Additionally,a multiple iterative fusion strategy was adopted for comprehensive answer reasoning,to ensure high-quality generation of textual and grounded answers.The experimental results vali-date the effectiveness of the model,demonstrating its superiority over existing methods on the EndoVis-18 and End-oVis-17 datasets.展开更多
In the field of natural language processing(NLP),there have been various pre-training language models in recent years,with question answering systems gaining significant attention.However,as algorithms,data,and comput...In the field of natural language processing(NLP),there have been various pre-training language models in recent years,with question answering systems gaining significant attention.However,as algorithms,data,and computing power advance,the issue of increasingly larger models and a growing number of parameters has surfaced.Consequently,model training has become more costly and less efficient.To enhance the efficiency and accuracy of the training process while reducing themodel volume,this paper proposes a first-order pruningmodel PAL-BERT based on the ALBERT model according to the characteristics of question-answering(QA)system and language model.Firstly,a first-order network pruning method based on the ALBERT model is designed,and the PAL-BERT model is formed.Then,the parameter optimization strategy of the PAL-BERT model is formulated,and the Mish function was used as an activation function instead of ReLU to improve the performance.Finally,after comparison experiments with traditional deep learning models TextCNN and BiLSTM,it is confirmed that PALBERT is a pruning model compression method that can significantly reduce training time and optimize training efficiency.Compared with traditional models,PAL-BERT significantly improves the NLP task’s performance.展开更多
Recent advancements in natural language processing have given rise to numerous pre-training language models in question-answering systems.However,with the constant evolution of algorithms,data,and computing power,the ...Recent advancements in natural language processing have given rise to numerous pre-training language models in question-answering systems.However,with the constant evolution of algorithms,data,and computing power,the increasing size and complexity of these models have led to increased training costs and reduced efficiency.This study aims to minimize the inference time of such models while maintaining computational performance.It also proposes a novel Distillation model for PAL-BERT(DPAL-BERT),specifically,employs knowledge distillation,using the PAL-BERT model as the teacher model to train two student models:DPAL-BERT-Bi and DPAL-BERTC.This research enhances the dataset through techniques such as masking,replacement,and n-gram sampling to optimize knowledge transfer.The experimental results showed that the distilled models greatly outperform models trained from scratch.In addition,although the distilled models exhibit a slight decrease in performance compared to PAL-BERT,they significantly reduce inference time to just 0.25%of the original.This demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed approach in balancing model performance and efficiency.展开更多
The weapon and equipment operational requirement analysis(WEORA) is a necessary condition to win a future war,among which the acquisition of knowledge about weapons and equipment is a great challenge. The main challen...The weapon and equipment operational requirement analysis(WEORA) is a necessary condition to win a future war,among which the acquisition of knowledge about weapons and equipment is a great challenge. The main challenge is that the existing weapons and equipment data fails to carry out structured knowledge representation, and knowledge navigation based on natural language cannot efficiently support the WEORA. To solve above problem, this research proposes a method based on question answering(QA) of weapons and equipment knowledge graph(WEKG) to construct and navigate the knowledge related to weapons and equipment in the WEORA. This method firstly constructs the WEKG, and builds a neutral network-based QA system over the WEKG by means of semantic parsing for knowledge navigation. Finally, the method is evaluated and a chatbot on the QA system is developed for the WEORA. Our proposed method has good performance in the accuracy and efficiency of searching target knowledge, and can well assist the WEORA.展开更多
Background External knowledge representations play an essential role in knowledge-based visual question and answering to better understand complex scenarios in the open world.Recent entity-relationship embedding appro...Background External knowledge representations play an essential role in knowledge-based visual question and answering to better understand complex scenarios in the open world.Recent entity-relationship embedding approaches are deficient in representing some complex relations,resulting in a lack of topic-related knowledge and redundancy in topic-irrelevant information.Methods To this end,we propose MKEAH:Multimodal Knowledge Extraction and Accumulation on Hyperplanes.To ensure that the lengths of the feature vectors projected onto the hyperplane compare equally and to filter out sufficient topic-irrelevant information,two losses are proposed to learn the triplet representations from the complementary views:range loss and orthogonal loss.To interpret the capability of extracting topic-related knowledge,we present the Topic Similarity(TS)between topic and entity-relations.Results Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of hyperplane embedding for knowledge representation in knowledge-based visual question answering.Our model outperformed state-of-the-art methods by 2.12%and 3.24%on two challenging knowledge-request datasets:OK-VQA and KRVQA,respectively.Conclusions The obvious advantages of our model in TS show that using hyperplane embedding to represent multimodal knowledge can improve its ability to extract topic-related knowledge.展开更多
钻井顶部驱动装置结构复杂、故障类型多样,现有的故障树分析法和专家系统难以有效应对复杂多变的现场情况。为此,利用知识图谱在结构化与非结构化信息融合、故障模式关联分析以及先验知识传递方面的优势,提出了一种基于知识图谱的钻井...钻井顶部驱动装置结构复杂、故障类型多样,现有的故障树分析法和专家系统难以有效应对复杂多变的现场情况。为此,利用知识图谱在结构化与非结构化信息融合、故障模式关联分析以及先验知识传递方面的优势,提出了一种基于知识图谱的钻井顶部驱动装置故障诊断方法,利用以Transformer为基础的双向编码器模型(Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers,BERT)构建了混合神经网络模型BERT-BiLSTM-CRF与BERT-BiLSTM-Attention,分别实现了顶驱故障文本数据的命名实体识别和关系抽取,并通过相似度计算,实现了故障知识的有效融合和智能问答,最终构建了顶部驱动装置故障诊断方法。研究结果表明:①在故障实体识别任务上,BERT-BiLSTM-CRF模型的精确度达到95.49%,能够有效识别故障文本中的信息实体;②在故障关系抽取上,BERT-BiLSTM-Attention模型的精确度达到93.61%,实现了知识图谱关系边的正确建立;③开发的问答系统实现了知识图谱的智能应用,其在多个不同类型问题上的回答准确率超过了90%,能够满足现场使用需求。结论认为,基于知识图谱的故障诊断方法能够有效利用顶部驱动装置的先验知识,实现故障的快速定位与智能诊断,具备良好的应用前景。展开更多
以ChatGPT为代表的大型语言模型(LLMs)在多种任务中展现了巨大潜力。然而,LLMs仍然面临幻觉现象和长尾知识遗忘等问题。为了解决这些问题,现有方法通过结合知识图谱等外部知识显著增强LLMs的生成能力,从而提升回答的准确性和完整性。但...以ChatGPT为代表的大型语言模型(LLMs)在多种任务中展现了巨大潜力。然而,LLMs仍然面临幻觉现象和长尾知识遗忘等问题。为了解决这些问题,现有方法通过结合知识图谱等外部知识显著增强LLMs的生成能力,从而提升回答的准确性和完整性。但是,这些方法存在如知识图谱构建复杂、语义丢失以及知识单向流动等问题。为此,我们提出了一种双向增强框架,不仅利用知识图谱增强LLMs的生成效果,而且利用LLMs的推理结果补充知识图谱,从而形成知识的双向流动,并最终形成知识图谱与LLMs之间的循环正反馈,不断优化系统效果。此外,通过设计增强知识图谱(Enhanced Knowledge Graph,EKG),我们将关系抽取任务延迟到检索阶段,降低知识图谱的构建成本,并利用向量检索技术缓解语义丢失问题。基于此框架,本文构建了双向增强系统——BEKO(Bidirectional Enhancement with a Knowledge Ocean)系统,并在关系推理应用中相比传统方法取得明显的性能提升,验证了双向增强框架的可行性和有效性。BEKO系统目前已经部署在公开的网站——ko.zhonghuapu.com。展开更多
基金Supported by the Program for Liaoning Excellent Talents in University(No.LR15045)the Liaoning Provincial Science and Technology Department Applied Basic Research Plan(No.101300243).
文摘Medical visual question answering(MedVQA)faces unique challenges due to the high precision required for images and the specialized nature of the questions.These challenges include insufficient feature extraction capabilities,a lack of textual priors,and incomplete information fusion and interaction.This paper proposes an enhanced bootstrapping language-image pre-training(BLIP)model for MedVQA based on multimodal feature augmentation and triple-path collaborative attention(FCA-BLIP)to address these issues.First,FCA-BLIP employs a unified bootstrap multimodal model architecture that integrates ResNet and bidirectional encoder representations from Transformer(BERT)models to enhance feature extraction capabilities.It enables a more precise analysis of the details in images and questions.Next,the pre-trained BLIP model is used to extract features from image-text sample pairs.The model can understand the semantic relationships and shared information between images and text.Finally,a novel attention structure is developed to fuse the multimodal feature vectors,thereby improving the alignment accuracy between modalities.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method performs well in clinical visual question-answering tasks.For the MedVQA task of staging diabetic macular edema in fundus imaging,the proposed method outperforms the existing major models in several performance metrics.
文摘The medical education of the Song dynasty constitutes a pivotal aspect within the broader framework of ancient Chinese medical education. The advent of the imperial examination system coincided with the emergence of a medical examination system, which served as the cornerstone for the subsequent evolution of medical education. According to historical records, the Song government established dedicated medical departments, along with comprehensive systems encompassing medical professors, students, and examinations. By examining extant medical historical documents, such as Tai Yi Ju Zhu Ke Cheng Wen Ge(《太医局诸科程文格》 Examination Answers and Standards of the Imperial Medical Bureau), researchers and readers can obtain a comprehensive understanding of the medical system that prevailed in the Song dynasty. While the intricate details of medical education during this era are not explicitly documented in historical records, modern researchers have the opportunity to uncover the entire view of medical education, particularly the medical examination system, through rigorous analysis of these extant historical medical documents. Such studies offer valuable insights into the developmental trajectory of the ancient Chinese medical examination system and provide crucial references for contemporary medical education. By conducting in-depth literature research and analysis of Tai Yi Ju Zhu Ke Cheng Wen Ge, this study endeavors to reconstruct the authentic scenario of medical examinations in the Song dynasty, as presented in the document, for the benefit of modern readers and researchers.
文摘In the context of power generation companies, vast amounts of specialized data and expert knowledge have been accumulated. However, challenges such as data silos and fragmented knowledge hinder the effective utilization of this information. This study proposes a novel framework for intelligent Question-and-Answer (Q&A) systems based on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to address these issues. The system efficiently acquires domain-specific knowledge by leveraging external databases, including Relational Databases (RDBs) and graph databases, without additional fine-tuning for Large Language Models (LLMs). Crucially, the framework integrates a Dynamic Knowledge Base Updating Mechanism (DKBUM) and a Weighted Context-Aware Similarity (WCAS) method to enhance retrieval accuracy and mitigate inherent limitations of LLMs, such as hallucinations and lack of specialization. Additionally, the proposed DKBUM dynamically adjusts knowledge weights within the database, ensuring that the most recent and relevant information is utilized, while WCAS refines the alignment between queries and knowledge items by enhanced context understanding. Experimental validation demonstrates that the system can generate timely, accurate, and context-sensitive responses, making it a robust solution for managing complex business logic in specialized industries.
基金supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China,No.2021ZD0112400National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.U1908214+5 种基金Program for Innovative Research Team at the University of Liaoning Province,No.LT2020015the Support Plan for Key Field Innovation Team of Dalian,No.2021RT06the Support Plan for Leading Innovation Team of Dalian University,No.XLJ202010Program for the Liaoning Province Doctoral Research Starting Fund,No.2022-BS-336Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Intelligent Computing(Dalian University),and Ministry of Education,No.ADIC2022003Interdisciplinary Project of Dalian University,No.DLUXK-2023-QN-015.
文摘With recent advancements in robotic surgery,notable strides have been made in visual question answering(VQA).Existing VQA systems typically generate textual answers to questions but fail to indicate the location of the relevant content within the image.This limitation restricts the interpretative capacity of the VQA models and their abil-ity to explore specific image regions.To address this issue,this study proposes a grounded VQA model for robotic surgery,capable of localizing a specific region during answer prediction.Drawing inspiration from prompt learning in language models,a dual-modality prompt model was developed to enhance precise multimodal information interactions.Specifically,two complementary prompters were introduced to effectively integrate visual and textual prompts into the encoding process of the model.A visual complementary prompter merges visual prompt knowl-edge with visual information features to guide accurate localization.The textual complementary prompter aligns vis-ual information with textual prompt knowledge and textual information,guiding textual information towards a more accurate inference of the answer.Additionally,a multiple iterative fusion strategy was adopted for comprehensive answer reasoning,to ensure high-quality generation of textual and grounded answers.The experimental results vali-date the effectiveness of the model,demonstrating its superiority over existing methods on the EndoVis-18 and End-oVis-17 datasets.
基金Supported by Sichuan Science and Technology Program(2021YFQ0003,2023YFSY0026,2023YFH0004).
文摘In the field of natural language processing(NLP),there have been various pre-training language models in recent years,with question answering systems gaining significant attention.However,as algorithms,data,and computing power advance,the issue of increasingly larger models and a growing number of parameters has surfaced.Consequently,model training has become more costly and less efficient.To enhance the efficiency and accuracy of the training process while reducing themodel volume,this paper proposes a first-order pruningmodel PAL-BERT based on the ALBERT model according to the characteristics of question-answering(QA)system and language model.Firstly,a first-order network pruning method based on the ALBERT model is designed,and the PAL-BERT model is formed.Then,the parameter optimization strategy of the PAL-BERT model is formulated,and the Mish function was used as an activation function instead of ReLU to improve the performance.Finally,after comparison experiments with traditional deep learning models TextCNN and BiLSTM,it is confirmed that PALBERT is a pruning model compression method that can significantly reduce training time and optimize training efficiency.Compared with traditional models,PAL-BERT significantly improves the NLP task’s performance.
基金supported by Sichuan Science and Technology Program(2023YFSY0026,2023YFH0004).
文摘Recent advancements in natural language processing have given rise to numerous pre-training language models in question-answering systems.However,with the constant evolution of algorithms,data,and computing power,the increasing size and complexity of these models have led to increased training costs and reduced efficiency.This study aims to minimize the inference time of such models while maintaining computational performance.It also proposes a novel Distillation model for PAL-BERT(DPAL-BERT),specifically,employs knowledge distillation,using the PAL-BERT model as the teacher model to train two student models:DPAL-BERT-Bi and DPAL-BERTC.This research enhances the dataset through techniques such as masking,replacement,and n-gram sampling to optimize knowledge transfer.The experimental results showed that the distilled models greatly outperform models trained from scratch.In addition,although the distilled models exhibit a slight decrease in performance compared to PAL-BERT,they significantly reduce inference time to just 0.25%of the original.This demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed approach in balancing model performance and efficiency.
文摘The weapon and equipment operational requirement analysis(WEORA) is a necessary condition to win a future war,among which the acquisition of knowledge about weapons and equipment is a great challenge. The main challenge is that the existing weapons and equipment data fails to carry out structured knowledge representation, and knowledge navigation based on natural language cannot efficiently support the WEORA. To solve above problem, this research proposes a method based on question answering(QA) of weapons and equipment knowledge graph(WEKG) to construct and navigate the knowledge related to weapons and equipment in the WEORA. This method firstly constructs the WEKG, and builds a neutral network-based QA system over the WEKG by means of semantic parsing for knowledge navigation. Finally, the method is evaluated and a chatbot on the QA system is developed for the WEORA. Our proposed method has good performance in the accuracy and efficiency of searching target knowledge, and can well assist the WEORA.
基金Supported by National Nature Science Foudation of China(61976160,61906137,61976158,62076184,62076182)Shanghai Science and Technology Plan Project(21DZ1204800)。
文摘Background External knowledge representations play an essential role in knowledge-based visual question and answering to better understand complex scenarios in the open world.Recent entity-relationship embedding approaches are deficient in representing some complex relations,resulting in a lack of topic-related knowledge and redundancy in topic-irrelevant information.Methods To this end,we propose MKEAH:Multimodal Knowledge Extraction and Accumulation on Hyperplanes.To ensure that the lengths of the feature vectors projected onto the hyperplane compare equally and to filter out sufficient topic-irrelevant information,two losses are proposed to learn the triplet representations from the complementary views:range loss and orthogonal loss.To interpret the capability of extracting topic-related knowledge,we present the Topic Similarity(TS)between topic and entity-relations.Results Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of hyperplane embedding for knowledge representation in knowledge-based visual question answering.Our model outperformed state-of-the-art methods by 2.12%and 3.24%on two challenging knowledge-request datasets:OK-VQA and KRVQA,respectively.Conclusions The obvious advantages of our model in TS show that using hyperplane embedding to represent multimodal knowledge can improve its ability to extract topic-related knowledge.
文摘钻井顶部驱动装置结构复杂、故障类型多样,现有的故障树分析法和专家系统难以有效应对复杂多变的现场情况。为此,利用知识图谱在结构化与非结构化信息融合、故障模式关联分析以及先验知识传递方面的优势,提出了一种基于知识图谱的钻井顶部驱动装置故障诊断方法,利用以Transformer为基础的双向编码器模型(Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers,BERT)构建了混合神经网络模型BERT-BiLSTM-CRF与BERT-BiLSTM-Attention,分别实现了顶驱故障文本数据的命名实体识别和关系抽取,并通过相似度计算,实现了故障知识的有效融合和智能问答,最终构建了顶部驱动装置故障诊断方法。研究结果表明:①在故障实体识别任务上,BERT-BiLSTM-CRF模型的精确度达到95.49%,能够有效识别故障文本中的信息实体;②在故障关系抽取上,BERT-BiLSTM-Attention模型的精确度达到93.61%,实现了知识图谱关系边的正确建立;③开发的问答系统实现了知识图谱的智能应用,其在多个不同类型问题上的回答准确率超过了90%,能够满足现场使用需求。结论认为,基于知识图谱的故障诊断方法能够有效利用顶部驱动装置的先验知识,实现故障的快速定位与智能诊断,具备良好的应用前景。
文摘以ChatGPT为代表的大型语言模型(LLMs)在多种任务中展现了巨大潜力。然而,LLMs仍然面临幻觉现象和长尾知识遗忘等问题。为了解决这些问题,现有方法通过结合知识图谱等外部知识显著增强LLMs的生成能力,从而提升回答的准确性和完整性。但是,这些方法存在如知识图谱构建复杂、语义丢失以及知识单向流动等问题。为此,我们提出了一种双向增强框架,不仅利用知识图谱增强LLMs的生成效果,而且利用LLMs的推理结果补充知识图谱,从而形成知识的双向流动,并最终形成知识图谱与LLMs之间的循环正反馈,不断优化系统效果。此外,通过设计增强知识图谱(Enhanced Knowledge Graph,EKG),我们将关系抽取任务延迟到检索阶段,降低知识图谱的构建成本,并利用向量检索技术缓解语义丢失问题。基于此框架,本文构建了双向增强系统——BEKO(Bidirectional Enhancement with a Knowledge Ocean)系统,并在关系推理应用中相比传统方法取得明显的性能提升,验证了双向增强框架的可行性和有效性。BEKO系统目前已经部署在公开的网站——ko.zhonghuapu.com。
