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The application of mineral sunscreens is an effective and safe way to protect skin from damage by UV rays. However, many options on the market are not formulated with darker skin tones in mind, so they end up looking chalky. Tinted Pickering emulsions synthesized from polydopamine (PDA), a biologically friendly melanin-like particle, have the potential to resolve these issues and provide better protection for conditions such as hyperpigmentation and melisma. In this study, a series of amorphous SiO2–PDA nanoparticles with fumed silica as the nucleus scaffold and PDA coating as the adhesive layer were synthesized by a simple one-pot method. Compared to the pure spherical PDA nanoparticles without a scaffold, SiO2–PDA has a higher particle yield, lighter color, better dispersion performance, and superior emulsification ability. When further applied to the Pickering emulsion sunscreen, the chromaticity of the emulsions can be flexibly adjusted and effectively improved by the addition of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles. Additionally, SiO2–PDA stabilized emulsion exhibits high UV absorption, photothermal effect, high free radical scavenging, and low skin penetration, which is a potential candidate by combining biocompatibility, long-term stability, and high safety in tinted sunscreens as well as other biomedical applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fashion image retrieval is one of the important services of e-commerce platforms, and it is also the basis of various fashion-related AI applications. Studies have shown that in a multi-modal environment (images + attribute labels), embedding items into specific attribute spaces can support more fine-grained similarity measures, which is especially suitable for fashion retrieval tasks. In this paper, we propose an attention-based attribute-guided similarity learning network (AttnFashion) for fashion image retrieval. The core of this network is an attribute-guided spatial attention module and an attribute-guided channel attention module, which correspond to the mapping between attributes and image regions, and the mapping between attributes and high-level image semantics, respectively. To make these two modules interact deeply, we design a parallel structure that allows them to share attribute embeddings and guide each other to extract specific features, which also helps to reduce the network parameters of the attention modules. An adaptive feature fusion strategy is proposed to synthesise the features extracted by the two modules. Extensive experiments show that the proposed AttnFashion performs better than current competitive networks in the field of fine-grained attribute-based fashion retrieval. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Extracting more information from feature interactions is essential to improve click-through rate (CTR) prediction accuracy. Although deep learning technology can help capture high-order feature interactions, the combination of features lacks interpretability. In this paper, we propose a multi-semantic feature interaction learning network (MeFiNet), which utilizes convolution operations to map feature interactions to multi-semantic spaces to improve their expressive ability and uses an improved Squeeze & Excitation method based on SENet to learn the importance of these interactions in different semantic spaces. The Squeeze operation helps to obtain the global importance distribution of semantic spaces, and the Excitation operation helps to dynamically re-assign the weights of semantic features so that both semantic diversity and feature diversity are considered in the model. The generated multi-semantic feature interactions are concatenated with the original feature embeddings and input into a deep learning network. Experiments on three public datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model. Compared with state-of-the-art methods, the model achieves excellent performance (+ 0.18% in AUC and - 0.34% in LogLoss VS DeepFM; + 0.19% in AUC and - 0.33% in LogLoss VS FiBiNet). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, joint entity–relation extraction (ERE) models have become a hot research topic in natural language processing (NLP). Several studies have proposed a span-based ERE framework, which utilizes simple span embeddings for entity and relation classification. This framework addresses the issues of overlap and error propagation that were present in previous entity–relation extraction models. However, span-based models overlook the influence of lexical information on the semantic representation of the span and fail to consider relations with a strong intrinsic connection between span pairs. To tackle these aforementioned issues, we present a new ERE model called ER-LAC (Span-based Joint Entity and Relation Extraction Model with Multi-level Lexical and Attention on Context Features). This model is designed with multi-granularity lexical features to enhance the semantic representation of spans, and a transformer classifier is employed to capture the internal connections between span pairs, thereby improving the performance of relational classification. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model, ablation experiments were conducted on the CoNLL04 dataset. The proposed model was also compared with other models on three datasets, showcasing its computational efficiency. The results indicate that the introduced lexical features and classifier enhance the F1 score for entity extraction by 0.84% to 2.04% and improve the F1 score for relationship classification by 0.96% to 2.26% when compared to the previous state-of-the-art (SOTA) model and the baseline SpERT model, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The demand for image retrieval with text manipulation exists in many fields, such as e-commerce and Internet search. Deep metric learning methods are used by most researchers to calculate the similarity between the query and the candidate image by fusing the global feature of the query image and the text feature. However, the text usually corresponds to the local feature of the query image rather than the global feature. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a framework of image retrieval with text manipulation by local feature modification (LFM-IR) which can focus on the related image regions and attributes and perform modification. A spatial attention module and a channel attention module are designed to realize the semantic mapping between image and text. We achieve excellent performance on three benchmark datasets, namely Color-Shape-Size (CSS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) States and Fashion200K (+8.3%, +0.7% and +4.6% in R@1). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]