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AXLearn: Modular Large Model Training on Heterogeneous Infrastructure Open

Mark Lee, Tom Gunter, Chang Lan, John Peebles, Huaping Zhou , et al. · 2025

We design and implement AXLearn, a production deep learning system that facilitates scalable and high-performance training of large deep learning models. Compared to other state-of-the-art deep learning systems, AXLearn has a unique focus …

Autofluorescence Imaging of Parathyroid and Thyroid Under Visible and Near-IR Light Excitation Open

Zhenguo Wu, Sam M. Wiseman, Haishan Zeng · 2025

Chemistry Medicine Materials science

Identifying parathyroid glands during surgery is challenging and time-consuming due to their small size (3–5 mm) and camouflaged appearance in the background of the thyroid, lymph nodes, fat, and other neck structures. For the gland itself…

Follow-up and transition of care for low recurrence risk thyroid cancer patients in Canada Open

Ralf Paschke, Sana Ghaznavi, Syed Ali Imran, Jennifer Jacquier, Heather Lochnan , et al. · 2025

Medicine Physics

The incidence of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) has increased significantly in recent decades. Following initial diagnosis, DTC patients are classified according to the American Thyroid Association (ATA) as low, intermediate, and high…

Thyroid cancer quality of care indicators: A scoping review Open

Kurosh Ameri, Michelle Kwon, Akie Watanabe, Sam M. Wiseman · 2025

Medicine Philosophy

Developing an evidence-based QI list can identify care gaps, direct targeted interventions, promote care standardization, and improve outcomes for thyroid cancer patients.

Exploring Gender Diversity in Canadian Surgical Residency Leadership Open

Kaitlyn Harding, A.J. Lowik, Caroline Guinard, Sam M. Wiseman · 2024

Medicine Psychology Political science

Cis men continue to outnumber all others in surgical training leadership. More cis women than expected work in general surgery training leadership. However, these findings must be interpreted with caution considering the low survey respons…

Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Open

Tom Gunter, Z. Wang, Chong Wang, Ruoming Pang, A. G. Hari Narayanan , et al. · 2024

Computer science History

We present foundation language models developed to power Apple Intelligence features, including a ~3 billion parameter model designed to run efficiently on devices and a large server-based language model designed for Private Cloud Compute.…

To infinity and beyond: A historical bibliometric analysis of medullary thyroid carcinoma Open

Kylie Nabata, Reina Lim, Rachel Leong, Sam M. Wiseman · 2024

Medicine Mathematics

Bibliometric study of the topic of MTC has allowed for identification, characterization and appreciation of many of the key historical developments in this field. Bibliometric analysis can also be helpful in identifying research frontiers.

MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training Open

Brandon McKinzie, Zhe Gan, Jean-Philippe Fauconnier, Sam Dodge, Bowen Zhang , et al. · 2024

Computer science Psychology Geography

In this work, we discuss building performant Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). In particular, we study the importance of various architecture components and data choices. Through careful and comprehensive ablations of the image enc…

Improving the quality of care of Canadians waiting for elective surgery: an important health care priority Open

Sam M. Wiseman, Jason M. Sutherland · 2023

Medicine Economics Sociology

The backlog of cases on surgical wait lists is a substantial problem for surgical patients, their families, surgeons, health care systems and governments. There are several approaches governments can take to improve the health, well-being …

A contemporary systematic review of the complications associated with SURGICEL Open

Matthew Masoudi, Jacob Wiseman, Sam M. Wiseman · 2023

Medicine Political science

This review aims to summarize the findings from recent literature (2010–2022) reporting on complications that resulted from the surgical use of SURGICEL for intraoperative hemostasis. A literature search was conducted using the MEDLINE (OV…

BM25 Query Augmentation Learned End-to-End Open

Xiaoyin Chen, Sam M. Wiseman · 2023

Computer science Political science Medicine

Given BM25's enduring competitiveness as an information retrieval baseline, we investigate to what extent it can be even further improved by augmenting and re-weighting its sparse query-vector representation. We propose an approach to lear…

Approximating CKY with Transformers Open

Ghazal Khalighinejad, Ollie Liu, Sam M. Wiseman · 2023

Computer science Mathematics Engineering

We investigate the ability of transformer models to approximate the CKY algorithm, using them to directly predict a sentence's parse and thus avoid the CKY algorithm's cubic dependence on sentence length. We find that on standard constitue…

Data from Phosphorylated Caveolin-1 Regulates Rho/ROCK-Dependent Focal Adhesion Dynamics and Tumor Cell Migration and Invasion Open