Arifa Akter

Md. Tarek Hasan, Mohammad Nazmush Shamael, Arifa Akter et al.

Sustainable development is a framework for achieving human development goals. It provides natural systems' ability to deliver natural resources and ecosystem services. Sustainable development is crucial for the economy and society. Artificial intelligence (AI) has attracted increasing attention in recent years, with the potential to have a positive influence across many domains. AI is a commonly employed component in the quest for long-term sustainability. In this study, we explore the impact of AI on three pillars of sustainable development: society, environment, and economy, as well as numerous case studies from which we may deduce the impact of AI in a variety of areas, i.e., agriculture, classifying waste, smart water management, and Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems. Furthermore, we present AI-based strategies for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which are effective for developing countries like Bangladesh. The framework that we propose may reduce the negative impact of AI and promote the proactiveness of this technology.

Md. Tarek Hasan, Arifa Akter, Mohammad Nazmush Shamael et al.

Dropout is an effective strategy for the regularization of deep neural networks. Applying tabu to the units that have been dropped in the recent epoch and retaining them for training ensures diversification in dropout. In this paper, we improve the Tabu Dropout mechanism for training deep neural networks in two ways. Firstly, we propose to use tabu tenure, or the number of epochs a particular unit will not be dropped. Different tabu tenures provide diversification to boost the training of deep neural networks based on the search landscape. Secondly, we propose an adaptive tabu algorithm that automatically selects the tabu tenure based on the training performances through epochs. On several standard benchmark datasets, the experimental results show that the adaptive tabu dropout and tabu tenure dropout diversify and perform significantly better compared to the standard dropout and basic tabu dropout mechanisms.