Salesforce.com

About: Salesforce.com is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: User interface & Object (computer science). The organization has 2418 authors who have published 2775 publications receiving 63956 citations.

Interpretable Counting for Visual Question Answering

Abstract: Questions that require counting a variety of objects in images remain a major challenge in visual question answering (VQA). The most common approaches to VQA involve either classifying answers based on fixed length representations of both the image and question or summing fractional counts estimated from each section of the image. In contrast, we treat counting as a sequential decision process and force our model to make discrete choices of what to count. Specifically, the model sequentially selects from detected objects and learns interactions between objects that influence subsequent selections. A distinction of our approach is its intuitive and interpretable output, as discrete counts are automatically grounded in the image. Furthermore, our method outperforms the state of the art architecture for VQA on multiple metrics that evaluate counting.

Identifying relevant feed items to display in a feed of an enterprise social networking system

Abstract: Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer program products for identifying relevant feed items to display in a feed of an enterprise social networking system. A plurality of data items from one or more of a plurality of data sources may be identified as relevant to a user by satisfying one or more relevancy parameters comprising: a data source providing the data item being one of an inner circle of data sources, content of the data item being identifiable using an interest graph associated with the user, the data item comprising a mention of the user, and the data item being designated as relevant to a group or an organization with which the user is associated. A highlights feed can include the identified data items as feed items. The feed items can be arranged according to a determined characteristic of each data item.

System and method for performance tuning of garbage collection algorithms

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for tuning a garbage collection algorithm. The apparatus includes a request generator configured to generate a transaction request including parameters Ta, Te, and M, where Ta represents a transaction request inter-arrival time, Te represents a transaction request execution time, and M represents a transaction request memory allocation amount. The apparatus also includes a memory allocation module, an active request queue, and a garbage collection (GC) module. The memory allocation module is configured to admit the formatted transaction request to the queue if at least M heap memory is available, and to initiate a GC routine if M heap memory is not available.

Method and system for remote debug protocol proxying for production debugging; selective session and user routing for debugging in multi-tenant cloud computing infrastructure

Abstract: A proxy server receives requests, and determines which application server of a cluster of servers to send the request. The determination may be based on a load balancing algorithm. The proxy server determines whether each request is a debug request. The proxy server send the debug request to a debug server, but blocks unsafe debug statements from reaching the debug server.

Method and system for escalating content of discussions to particular memory locations

Abstract: In this specification, online communities also referred to as forums, are used as a customer support tool. Users of the forum post questions and replies. In some embodiments users can vote on the replies. The authorized personnel can add an entry in a database based on the forum content. In an embodiment, such an entry could be in customer case management system when a question is not well answered or not answered at all and needs attention of customer support agent. In another embodiment, the entry could be in a knowledge base management system when a question is well answered and is considered to be potentially useful for many forum users. Any of the above embodiments can be used independently or together with any combination of other embodiments.