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Multidimensional classification of hippocampal shape features discriminates Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment from normal aging
cs.CV
We describe a new method to automatically discriminate between patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and elderly controls, based on multidimensional classification of hippocampal shape features. This approach uses spherical harmonics (SPHARM) coefficients to model the shape of the hi...
computer science
9,702
EnzyNet: enzyme classification using 3D convolutional neural networks on spatial representation
cs.CV
During the past decade, with the significant progress of computational power as well as ever-rising data availability, deep learning techniques became increasingly popular due to their excellent performance on computer vision problems. The size of the Protein Data Bank has increased more than 15 fold since 1999, which ...
computer science
9,703
Estimating speech from lip dynamics
cs.CV
The goal of this project is to develop a limited lip reading algorithm for a subset of the English language. We consider a scenario in which no audio information is available. The raw video is processed and the position of the lips in each frame is extracted. We then prepare the lip data for processing and classify the...
computer science
9,704
Encoding Multi-Resolution Brain Networks Using Unsupervised Deep Learning
stat.ML
The main goal of this study is to extract a set of brain networks in multiple time-resolutions to analyze the connectivity patterns among the anatomic regions for a given cognitive task. We suggest a deep architecture which learns the natural groupings of the connectivity patterns of human brain in multiple time-resolu...
computer science
9,705
Efficient training-image based geostatistical simulation and inversion using a spatial generative adversarial neural network
stat.ML
Probabilistic inversion within a multiple-point statistics framework is still computationally prohibitive for large-scale problems. To partly address this, we introduce and evaluate a new training-image based simulation and inversion approach for complex geologic media. Our approach relies on a deep neural network of t...
computer science
9,706
Continual One-Shot Learning of Hidden Spike-Patterns with Neural Network Simulation Expansion and STDP Convergence Predictions
cs.CV
This paper presents a constructive algorithm that achieves successful one-shot learning of hidden spike-patterns in a competitive detection task. It has previously been shown (Masquelier et al., 2008) that spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) and lateral inhibition can result in neurons competitively tuned to repea...
computer science
9,707
Yet Another ADNI Machine Learning Paper? Paving The Way Towards Fully-reproducible Research on Classification of Alzheimer's Disease
stat.ML
In recent years, the number of papers on Alzheimer's disease classification has increased dramatically, generating interesting methodological ideas on the use machine learning and feature extraction methods. However, practical impact is much more limited and, eventually, one could not tell which of these approaches are...
computer science
9,708
Statistical learning of spatiotemporal patterns from longitudinal manifold-valued networks
stat.ML
We introduce a mixed-effects model to learn spatiotempo-ral patterns on a network by considering longitudinal measures distributed on a fixed graph. The data come from repeated observations of subjects at different time points which take the form of measurement maps distributed on a graph such as an image or a mesh. Th...
computer science
9,709
Smoothness-based Edge Detection using Low-SNR Camera for Robot Navigation
cs.CV
In the emerging advancement in the branch of autonomous robotics, the ability of a robot to efficiently localize and construct maps of its surrounding is crucial. This paper deals with utilizing thermal-infrared cameras, as opposed to conventional cameras as the primary sensor to capture images of the robot's surroundi...
computer science
9,710
Anatomical Pattern Analysis for decoding visual stimuli in human brains
stat.ML
Background: A universal unanswered question in neuroscience and machine learning is whether computers can decode the patterns of the human brain. Multi-Voxels Pattern Analysis (MVPA) is a critical tool for addressing this question. However, there are two challenges in the previous MVPA methods, which include decreasing...
computer science
9,711
Iterative PET Image Reconstruction Using Convolutional Neural Network Representation
cs.CV
PET image reconstruction is challenging due to the ill-poseness of the inverse problem and limited number of detected photons. Recently deep neural networks have been widely and successfully used in computer vision tasks and attracted growing interests in medical imaging. In this work, we trained a deep residual convol...
computer science
9,712
Deep Hyperalignment
cs.CV
This paper proposes Deep Hyperalignment (DHA) as a regularized, deep extension, scalable Hyperalignment (HA) method, which is well-suited for applying functional alignment to fMRI datasets with nonlinearity, high-dimensionality (broad ROI), and a large number of subjects. Unlink previous methods, DHA is not limited by ...
computer science
9,713
Multimodal Observation and Interpretation of Subjects Engaged in Problem Solving
cs.HC
In this paper we present the first results of a pilot experiment in the capture and interpretation of multimodal signals of human experts engaged in solving challenging chess problems. Our goal is to investigate the extent to which observations of eye-gaze, posture, emotion and other physiological signals can be used t...
computer science
9,714
Densely Connected Convolutional Networks and Signal Quality Analysis to Detect Atrial Fibrillation Using Short Single-Lead ECG Recordings
eess.SP
The development of new technology such as wearables that record high-quality single channel ECG, provides an opportunity for ECG screening in a larger population, especially for atrial fibrillation screening. The main goal of this study is to develop an automatic classification algorithm for normal sinus rhythm (NSR), ...
computer science
9,715
Linear-Time Algorithm in Bayesian Image Denoising based on Gaussian Markov Random Field
stat.ML
In this paper, we consider Bayesian image denoising based on a Gaussian Markov random field (GMRF) model, for which we propose an new algorithm. Our method can solve Bayesian image denoising problems, including hyperparameter estimation, in $O(n)$-time, where $n$ is the number of pixels in a given image. From the persp...
computer science
9,716
Updating the VESICLE-CNN Synapse Detector
cs.CV
We present an updated version of the VESICLE-CNN algorithm presented by Roncal et al. (2014). The original implementation makes use of a patch-based approach. This methodology is known to be slow due to repeated computations. We update this implementation to be fully convolutional through the use of dilated convolution...
computer science
9,717
Revealing structure components of the retina by deep learning networks
stat.ML
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated impressive performance on visual object classification tasks. In addition, it is a useful model for predication of neuronal responses recorded in visual system. However, there is still no clear understanding of what CNNs learn in terms of visual neuronal circu...
computer science
9,718
SolarisNet: A Deep Regression Network for Solar Radiation Prediction
cs.CV
Effective utilization of photovoltaic (PV) plants requires weather variability robust global solar radiation (GSR) forecasting models. Random weather turbulence phenomena coupled with assumptions of clear sky model as suggested by Hottel pose significant challenges to parametric & non-parametric models in GSR conversio...
computer science
9,719
Parallel transport in shape analysis: a scalable numerical scheme
cs.CV
The analysis of manifold-valued data requires efficient tools from Riemannian geometry to cope with the computational complexity at stake. This complexity arises from the always-increasing dimension of the data, and the absence of closed-form expressions to basic operations such as the Riemannian logarithm. In this pap...
computer science
9,720
Robust PCA, Subspace Learning, and Tracking
cs.IT
PCA is one of the most widely used dimension reduction techniques. A related easier problem is "subspace learning" or "subspace estimation". Given relatively clean data, both are easily solved via singular value decomposition (SVD). The problem of subspace learning or PCA in the presence of outliers is called robust su...
computer science
9,721
A fatal point concept and a low-sensitivity quantitative measure for traffic safety analytics
cs.CV
The variability of the clusters generated by clustering techniques in the domain of latitude and longitude variables of fatal crash data are significantly unpredictable. This unpredictability, caused by the randomness of fatal crash incidents, reduces the accuracy of crash frequency (i.e., counts of fatal crashes per c...
computer science
9,722
Tighter Lifting-Free Convex Relaxations for Quadratic Matching Problems
math.OC
In this work we study convex relaxations of quadratic optimisation problems over permutation matrices. While existing semidefinite programming approaches can achieve remarkably tight relaxations, they have the strong disadvantage that they lift the original $n {\times} n$-dimensional variable to an $n^2 {\times} n^2$-d...
computer science
9,723
MR image reconstruction using deep density priors
cs.CV
Purpose: MR image reconstruction exploits regularization to compensate for missing k-space data. In this work, we propose to learn the probability distribution of MR image patches with neural networks and use this distribution as prior information constraining images during reconstruction, effectively employing it as r...
computer science
9,724
Toward Multimodal Image-to-Image Translation
cs.CV
Many image-to-image translation problems are ambiguous, as a single input image may correspond to multiple possible outputs. In this work, we aim to model a \emph{distribution} of possible outputs in a conditional generative modeling setting. The ambiguity of the mapping is distilled in a low-dimensional latent vector,...
computer science
9,725
Stochastic reconstruction of an oolitic limestone by generative adversarial networks
cs.CV
Stochastic image reconstruction is a key part of modern digital rock physics and materials analysis that aims to create numerous representative samples of material micro-structures for upscaling, numerical computation of effective properties and uncertainty quantification. We present a method of three-dimensional stoch...
computer science
9,726
Distributed Mapper
cs.CV
The construction of Mapper has emerged in the last decade as a powerful and effective topological data analysis tool that approximates and generalizes other topological summaries, such as the Reeb graph, the contour tree, split, and joint trees. In this paper we study the parallel analysis of the construction of Mapper...
computer science
9,727
Nearly Optimal Robust Subspace Tracking and Dynamic Robust PCA
cs.IT
We study the robust subspace tracking (RST) problem and obtain one of the first provable guarantees for it. The goal of RST is to track data that lies in a slowly changing low-dimensional subspace, and the subspaces themselves, while being robust to corruption by (often large magnitude) sparse outliers. It can be simpl...
computer science
9,728
Attenuation Correction for Brain PET imaging using Deep Neural Network based on Dixon and ZTE MR images
cs.CV
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a functional imaging modality widely used in neuroscience studies. To obtain meaningful quantitative results from PET images, attenuation correction is necessary during image reconstruction. For PET/MR hybrid systems, PET attenuation is challenging as Magnetic Resonance (MR) images...
computer science
9,729
Incremental Adversarial Domain Adaptation for Continually Changing Environments
stat.ML
Continuous appearance shifts such as changes in weather and lighting conditions can impact the performance of deployed machine learning models. While unsupervised domain adaptation aims to address this challenge, current approaches do not utilise the continuity of the occurring shifts. In particular, many robotics appl...
computer science
9,730
Towards dense object tracking in a 2D honeybee hive
cs.CV
From human crowds to cells in tissue, the detection and efficient tracking of multiple objects in dense configurations is an important and unsolved problem. In the past, limitations of image analysis have restricted studies of dense groups to tracking a single or subset of marked individuals, or to coarse-grained group...
computer science
9,731
Optimizing Channel Selection for Seizure Detection
eess.SP
Interpretation of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals can be complicated by obfuscating artifacts. Artifact detection plays an important role in the observation and analysis of EEG signals. Spatial information contained in the placement of the electrodes can be exploited to accurately detect artifacts. However, when few...
computer science
9,732
Improved EEG Event Classification Using Differential Energy
eess.SP
Feature extraction for automatic classification of EEG signals typically relies on time frequency representations of the signal. Techniques such as cepstral-based filter banks or wavelets are popular analysis techniques in many signal processing applications including EEG classification. In this paper, we present a com...
computer science
9,733
Generating Adversarial Examples with Adversarial Networks
cs.CR
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been found to be vulnerable to adversarial examples resulting from adding small-magnitude perturbations to inputs. Such adversarial examples can mislead DNNs to produce adversary-selected results. Different attack strategies have been proposed to generate adversarial examples, but how t...
computer science
9,734
Spatially Transformed Adversarial Examples
cs.CR
Recent studies show that widely used deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to carefully crafted adversarial examples. Many advanced algorithms have been proposed to generate adversarial examples by leveraging the $\mathcal{L}_p$ distance for penalizing perturbations. Researchers have explored different defense met...
computer science
9,735
Feature Decomposition Based Saliency Detection in Electron Cryo-Tomograms
cs.CV
Electron Cryo-Tomography (ECT) allows 3D visualization of subcellular structures at the submolecular resolution in close to the native state. However, due to the high degree of structural complexity and imaging limits, the automatic segmentation of cellular components from ECT images is very difficult. To complement an...
computer science
9,736
Model compression for faster structural separation of macromolecules captured by Cellular Electron Cryo-Tomography
cs.CV
Electron Cryo-Tomography (ECT) enables 3D visualization of macromolecule structure inside single cells. Macromolecule classification approaches based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) were developed to separate millions of macromolecules captured from ECT systematically. However, given the fast accumulation of ECT...
computer science
9,737
Image restoration with generalized Gaussian mixture model patch priors
eess.IV
Patch priors have became an important component of image restoration. A powerful approach in this category of restoration algorithms is the popular Expected Patch Log-likelihood (EPLL) algorithm. EPLL uses a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) prior learned on clean image patches as a way to regularize degraded patches. In th...
computer science
9,738
Highly accurate model for prediction of lung nodule malignancy with CT scans
cs.CV
Computed tomography (CT) examinations are commonly used to predict lung nodule malignancy in patients, which are shown to improve noninvasive early diagnosis of lung cancer. It remains challenging for computational approaches to achieve performance comparable to experienced radiologists. Here we present NoduleX, a syst...
computer science
9,739
Convolutional Hashing for Automated Scene Matching
cs.CV
We present a powerful new loss function and training scheme for learning binary hash functions. In particular, we demonstrate our method by creating for the first time a neural network that outperforms state-of-the-art Haar wavelets and color layout descriptors at the task of automated scene matching. By accurately rel...
computer science
9,740
Deep learning based supervised semantic segmentation of Electron Cryo-Subtomograms
cs.CV
Cellular Electron Cryo-Tomography (CECT) is a powerful imaging technique for the 3D visualization of cellular structure and organization at submolecular resolution. It enables analyzing the native structures of macromolecular complexes and their spatial organization inside single cells. However, due to the high degree ...
computer science
9,741
Conditioning of three-dimensional generative adversarial networks for pore and reservoir-scale models
stat.ML
Geostatistical modeling of petrophysical properties is a key step in modern integrated oil and gas reservoir studies. Recently, generative adversarial networks (GAN) have been shown to be a successful method for generating unconditional simulations of pore- and reservoir-scale models. This contribution leverages the di...
computer science
9,742
DropLasso: A robust variant of Lasso for single cell RNA-seq data
cs.CV
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a fast growing approach to measure the genome-wide transcriptome of many individual cells in parallel, but results in noisy data with many dropout events. Existing methods to learn molecular signatures from bulk transcriptomic data may therefore not be adapted to scRNA-seq data...
computer science
9,743
A General Pipeline for 3D Detection of Vehicles
cs.CV
Autonomous driving requires 3D perception of vehicles and other objects in the in environment. Much of the current methods support 2D vehicle detection. This paper proposes a flexible pipeline to adopt any 2D detection network and fuse it with a 3D point cloud to generate 3D information with minimum changes of the 2D d...
computer science
9,744
Applicability and interpretation of the deterministic weighted cepstral distance
cs.SY
Quantifying similarity between data objects is an important part of modern data science. Deciding what similarity measure to use is very application dependent. In this paper, we combine insights from systems theory and machine learning, and investigate the weighted cepstral distance, which was previously defined for si...
computer science
9,745
Classifying Online Dating Profiles on Tinder using FaceNet Facial Embeddings
cs.CV
A method to produce personalized classification models to automatically review online dating profiles on Tinder is proposed, based on the user's historical preference. The method takes advantage of a FaceNet facial classification model to extract features which may be related to facial attractiveness. The embeddings fr...
computer science
9,746
Synchronisation of Partial Multi-Matchings via Non-negative Factorisations
cs.CV
In this work we study permutation synchronisation for the challenging case of partial permutations, which plays an important role for the problem of matching multiple objects (e.g. images or shapes). The term synchronisation refers to the property that the set of pairwise matchings is cycle-consistent, i.e. in the full...
computer science
9,747
Positive-unlabeled convolutional neural networks for particle picking in cryo-electron micrographs
cs.CV
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) is fast becoming the preferred method for protein structure determination. Particle picking is a significant bottleneck in the solving of protein structures from single particle cryoEM. Hand labeling sufficient numbers of particles can take months of effort and current computationally ...
computer science
9,748
Distributed Real-Time Sentiment Analysis for Big Data Social Streams
stat.ML
Big data trend has enforced the data-centric systems to have continuous fast data streams. In recent years, real-time analytics on stream data has formed into a new research field, which aims to answer queries about what-is-happening-now with a negligible delay. The real challenge with real-time stream data processing ...
computer science
9,749
Topic Similarity Networks: Visual Analytics for Large Document Sets
cs.CL
We investigate ways in which to improve the interpretability of LDA topic models by better analyzing and visualizing their outputs. We focus on examining what we refer to as topic similarity networks: graphs in which nodes represent latent topics in text collections and links represent similarity among topics. We descr...
computer science
9,750
Learning about Spanish dialects through Twitter
stat.ML
This paper maps the large-scale variation of the Spanish language by employing a corpus based on geographically tagged Twitter messages. Lexical dialects are extracted from an analysis of variants of tens of concepts. The resulting maps show linguistic variation on an unprecedented scale across the globe. We discuss th...
computer science
9,751
Anchored Correlation Explanation: Topic Modeling with Minimal Domain Knowledge
cs.CL
While generative models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) have proven fruitful in topic modeling, they often require detailed assumptions and careful specification of hyperparameters. Such model complexity issues only compound when trying to generalize generative models to incorporate human input. We introduce ...
computer science
9,752
Computational Content Analysis of Negative Tweets for Obesity, Diet, Diabetes, and Exercise
cs.SI
Social media based digital epidemiology has the potential to support faster response and deeper understanding of public health related threats. This study proposes a new framework to analyze unstructured health related textual data via Twitter users' post (tweets) to characterize the negative health sentiments and non-...
computer science
9,753
Characterizing Diabetes, Diet, Exercise, and Obesity Comments on Twitter
cs.SI
Social media provide a platform for users to express their opinions and share information. Understanding public health opinions on social media, such as Twitter, offers a unique approach to characterizing common health issues such as diabetes, diet, exercise, and obesity (DDEO), however, collecting and analyzing a larg...
computer science
9,754
$A^{4}NT$: Author Attribute Anonymity by Adversarial Training of Neural Machine Translation
cs.CR
Text-based analysis methods allow to reveal privacy relevant author attributes such as gender, age and identify of the text's author. Such methods can compromise the privacy of an anonymous author even when the author tries to remove privacy sensitive content. In this paper, we propose an automatic method, called Adver...
computer science
9,755
Mining Public Opinion about Economic Issues: Twitter and the U.S. Presidential Election
cs.SI
Opinion polls have been the bridge between public opinion and politicians in elections. However, developing surveys to disclose people's feedback with respect to economic issues is limited, expensive, and time-consuming. In recent years, social media such as Twitter has enabled people to share their opinions regarding ...
computer science
9,756
A Theory of Universal Artificial Intelligence based on Algorithmic Complexity
cs.AI
Decision theory formally solves the problem of rational agents in uncertain worlds if the true environmental prior probability distribution is known. Solomonoff's theory of universal induction formally solves the problem of sequence prediction for unknown prior distribution. We combine both ideas and get a parameterles...
computer science
9,757
Noise-Tolerant Learning, the Parity Problem, and the Statistical Query Model
cs.LG
We describe a slightly sub-exponential time algorithm for learning parity functions in the presence of random classification noise. This results in a polynomial-time algorithm for the case of parity functions that depend on only the first O(log n log log n) bits of input. This is the first known instance of an efficien...
computer science
9,758
General Loss Bounds for Universal Sequence Prediction
cs.AI
The Bayesian framework is ideally suited for induction problems. The probability of observing $x_t$ at time $t$, given past observations $x_1...x_{t-1}$ can be computed with Bayes' rule if the true distribution $\mu$ of the sequences $x_1x_2x_3...$ is known. The problem, however, is that in many cases one does not even...
computer science
9,759
An effective Procedure for Speeding up Algorithms
cs.CC
The provably asymptotically fastest algorithm within a factor of 5 for formally described problems will be constructed. The main idea is to enumerate all programs provably equivalent to the original problem by enumerating all proofs. The algorithm could be interpreted as a generalization and improvement of Levin search...
computer science
9,760
Fitness Uniform Selection to Preserve Genetic Diversity
cs.AI
In evolutionary algorithms, the fitness of a population increases with time by mutating and recombining individuals and by a biased selection of more fit individuals. The right selection pressure is critical in ensuring sufficient optimization progress on the one hand and in preserving genetic diversity to be able to e...
computer science
9,761
Bounds on sample size for policy evaluation in Markov environments
cs.LG
Reinforcement learning means finding the optimal course of action in Markovian environments without knowledge of the environment's dynamics. Stochastic optimization algorithms used in the field rely on estimates of the value of a policy. Typically, the value of a policy is estimated from results of simulating that very...
computer science
9,762
Convergence and Error Bounds for Universal Prediction of Nonbinary Sequences
cs.LG
Solomonoff's uncomputable universal prediction scheme $\xi$ allows to predict the next symbol $x_k$ of a sequence $x_1...x_{k-1}$ for any Turing computable, but otherwise unknown, probabilistic environment $\mu$. This scheme will be generalized to arbitrary environmental classes, which, among others, allows the constru...
computer science
9,763
Self-Optimizing and Pareto-Optimal Policies in General Environments based on Bayes-Mixtures
cs.AI
The problem of making sequential decisions in unknown probabilistic environments is studied. In cycle $t$ action $y_t$ results in perception $x_t$ and reward $r_t$, where all quantities in general may depend on the complete history. The perception $x_t$ and reward $r_t$ are sampled from the (reactive) environmental pro...
computer science
9,764
Optimal Ordered Problem Solver
cs.AI
We present a novel, general, optimally fast, incremental way of searching for a universal algorithm that solves each task in a sequence of tasks. The Optimal Ordered Problem Solver (OOPS) continually organizes and exploits previously found solutions to earlier tasks, efficiently searching not only the space of domain-s...
computer science
9,765
Convergence and Loss Bounds for Bayesian Sequence Prediction
cs.LG
The probability of observing $x_t$ at time $t$, given past observations $x_1...x_{t-1}$ can be computed with Bayes' rule if the true generating distribution $\mu$ of the sequences $x_1x_2x_3...$ is known. If $\mu$ is unknown, but known to belong to a class $M$ one can base ones prediction on the Bayes mix $\xi$ defined...
computer science
9,766
The New AI: General & Sound & Relevant for Physics
cs.AI
Most traditional artificial intelligence (AI) systems of the past 50 years are either very limited, or based on heuristics, or both. The new millennium, however, has brought substantial progress in the field of theoretically optimal and practically feasible algorithms for prediction, search, inductive inference based o...
computer science
9,767
Universal Sequential Decisions in Unknown Environments
cs.AI
We give a brief introduction to the AIXI model, which unifies and overcomes the limitations of sequential decision theory and universal Solomonoff induction. While the former theory is suited for active agents in known environments, the latter is suited for passive prediction of unknown environments.
computer science
9,768
Bayesian Treatment of Incomplete Discrete Data applied to Mutual Information and Feature Selection
cs.LG
Given the joint chances of a pair of random variables one can compute quantities of interest, like the mutual information. The Bayesian treatment of unknown chances involves computing, from a second order prior distribution and the data likelihood, a posterior distribution of the chances. A common treatment of incomple...
computer science
9,769
Optimality of Universal Bayesian Sequence Prediction for General Loss and Alphabet
cs.LG
Various optimality properties of universal sequence predictors based on Bayes-mixtures in general, and Solomonoff's prediction scheme in particular, will be studied. The probability of observing $x_t$ at time $t$, given past observations $x_1...x_{t-1}$ can be computed with the chain rule if the true generating distrib...
computer science
9,770
Convergence of Discrete MDL for Sequential Prediction
cs.LG
We study the properties of the Minimum Description Length principle for sequence prediction, considering a two-part MDL estimator which is chosen from a countable class of models. This applies in particular to the important case of universal sequence prediction, where the model class corresponds to all algorithms for s...
computer science
9,771
Deriving a Stationary Dynamic Bayesian Network from a Logic Program with Recursive Loops
cs.AI
Recursive loops in a logic program present a challenging problem to the PLP framework. On the one hand, they loop forever so that the PLP backward-chaining inferences would never stop. On the other hand, they generate cyclic influences, which are disallowed in Bayesian networks. Therefore, in existing PLP approaches lo...
computer science
9,772
Monotone Conditional Complexity Bounds on Future Prediction Errors
cs.LG
We bound the future loss when predicting any (computably) stochastic sequence online. Solomonoff finitely bounded the total deviation of his universal predictor M from the true distribution m by the algorithmic complexity of m. Here we assume we are at a time t>1 and already observed x=x_1...x_t. We bound the future pr...
computer science
9,773
Robust Inference of Trees
cs.LG
This paper is concerned with the reliable inference of optimal tree-approximations to the dependency structure of an unknown distribution generating data. The traditional approach to the problem measures the dependency strength between random variables by the index called mutual information. In this paper reliability i...
computer science
9,774
Low-rank matrix factorization with attributes
cs.LG
We develop a new collaborative filtering (CF) method that combines both previously known users' preferences, i.e. standard CF, as well as product/user attributes, i.e. classical function approximation, to predict a given user's interest in a particular product. Our method is a generalized low rank matrix completion pro...
computer science
9,775
A Novel Bayesian Classifier using Copula Functions
cs.LG
A useful method for representing Bayesian classifiers is through \emph{discriminant functions}. Here, using copula functions, we propose a new model for discriminants. This model provides a rich and generalized class of decision boundaries. These decision boundaries significantly boost the classification accuracy espec...
computer science
9,776
Algorithmic Complexity Bounds on Future Prediction Errors
cs.LG
We bound the future loss when predicting any (computably) stochastic sequence online. Solomonoff finitely bounded the total deviation of his universal predictor $M$ from the true distribution $mu$ by the algorithmic complexity of $mu$. Here we assume we are at a time $t>1$ and already observed $x=x_1...x_t$. We bound t...
computer science
9,777
Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Routing
cs.LG
Reinforcement learning means learning a policy--a mapping of observations into actions--based on feedback from the environment. The learning can be viewed as browsing a set of policies while evaluating them by trial through interaction with the environment. We present an application of gradient ascent algorithm for rei...
computer science
9,778
Learning a Machine for the Decision in a Partially Observable Markov Universe
math.GM
In this paper, we are interested in optimal decisions in a partially observable Markov universe. Our viewpoint departs from the dynamic programming viewpoint: we are directly approximating an optimal strategic tree depending on the observation. This approximation is made by means of a parameterized probabilistic law. I...
computer science
9,779
The Role of Time in the Creation of Knowledge
cs.LG
This paper I assume that in humans the creation of knowledge depends on a discrete time, or stage, sequential decision-making process subjected to a stochastic, information transmitting environment. For each time-stage, this environment randomly transmits Shannon type information-packets to the decision-maker, who exam...
computer science
9,780
Clustering and Feature Selection using Sparse Principal Component Analysis
cs.AI
In this paper, we study the application of sparse principal component analysis (PCA) to clustering and feature selection problems. Sparse PCA seeks sparse factors, or linear combinations of the data variables, explaining a maximum amount of variance in the data while having only a limited number of nonzero coefficients...
computer science
9,781
A Reactive Tabu Search Algorithm for Stimuli Generation in Psycholinguistics
cs.AI
The generation of meaningless "words" matching certain statistical and/or linguistic criteria is frequently needed for experimental purposes in Psycholinguistics. Such stimuli receive the name of pseudowords or nonwords in the Cognitive Neuroscience literatue. The process for building nonwords sometimes has to be based...
computer science
9,782
On the Complexity of Binary Samples
cs.DM
Consider a class $\mH$ of binary functions $h: X\to\{-1, +1\}$ on a finite interval $X=[0, B]\subset \Real$. Define the {\em sample width} of $h$ on a finite subset (a sample) $S\subset X$ as $\w_S(h) \equiv \min_{x\in S} |\w_h(x)|$, where $\w_h(x) = h(x) \max\{a\geq 0: h(z)=h(x), x-a\leq z\leq x+a\}$. Let $\mathbb{S}_...
computer science
9,783
Knowledge Technologies
cs.CY
Several technologies are emerging that provide new ways to capture, store, present and use knowledge. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive introduction to five of the most important of these technologies: Knowledge Engineering, Knowledge Based Engineering, Knowledge Webs, Ontologies and Semantic Webs. For ...
computer science
9,784
Rollout Sampling Approximate Policy Iteration
cs.LG
Several researchers have recently investigated the connection between reinforcement learning and classification. We are motivated by proposals of approximate policy iteration schemes without value functions which focus on policy representation using classifiers and address policy learning as a supervised learning probl...
computer science
9,785
Algorithm Selection as a Bandit Problem with Unbounded Losses
cs.AI
Algorithm selection is typically based on models of algorithm performance, learned during a separate offline training sequence, which can be prohibitively expensive. In recent work, we adopted an online approach, in which a performance model is iteratively updated and used to guide selection on a sequence of problem in...
computer science
9,786
Learning Hidden Markov Models using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization
cs.LG
The Baum-Welsh algorithm together with its derivatives and variations has been the main technique for learning Hidden Markov Models (HMM) from observational data. We present an HMM learning algorithm based on the non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) of higher order Markovian statistics that is structurally different...
computer science
9,787
Time Hopping technique for faster reinforcement learning in simulations
cs.AI
This preprint has been withdrawn by the author for revision
computer science
9,788
Eligibility Propagation to Speed up Time Hopping for Reinforcement Learning
cs.AI
A mechanism called Eligibility Propagation is proposed to speed up the Time Hopping technique used for faster Reinforcement Learning in simulations. Eligibility Propagation provides for Time Hopping similar abilities to what eligibility traces provide for conventional Reinforcement Learning. It propagates values from o...
computer science
9,789
Continuous Strategy Replicator Dynamics for Multi--Agent Learning
cs.LG
The problem of multi-agent learning and adaptation has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. It has been suggested that the dynamics of multi agent learning can be studied using replicator equations from population biology. Most existing studies so far have been limited to discrete strategy spaces with a...
computer science
9,790
Differentially Private Empirical Risk Minimization
cs.LG
Privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms are crucial for the increasingly common setting in which personal data, such as medical or financial records, are analyzed. We provide general techniques to produce privacy-preserving approximations of classifiers learned via (regularized) empirical risk minimization (ERM)...
computer science
9,791
A Minimum Relative Entropy Controller for Undiscounted Markov Decision Processes
cs.AI
Adaptive control problems are notoriously difficult to solve even in the presence of plant-specific controllers. One way to by-pass the intractable computation of the optimal policy is to restate the adaptive control as the minimization of the relative entropy of a controller that ignores the true plant dynamics from a...
computer science
9,792
A Generalization of the Chow-Liu Algorithm and its Application to Statistical Learning
cs.IT
We extend the Chow-Liu algorithm for general random variables while the previous versions only considered finite cases. In particular, this paper applies the generalization to Suzuki's learning algorithm that generates from data forests rather than trees based on the minimum description length by balancing the fitness ...
computer science
9,793
Designing neural networks that process mean values of random variables
cs.AI
We introduce a class of neural networks derived from probabilistic models in the form of Bayesian networks. By imposing additional assumptions about the nature of the probabilistic models represented in the networks, we derive neural networks with standard dynamics that require no training to determine the synaptic wei...
computer science
9,794
Distantly Labeling Data for Large Scale Cross-Document Coreference
cs.AI
Cross-document coreference, the problem of resolving entity mentions across multi-document collections, is crucial to automated knowledge base construction and data mining tasks. However, the scarcity of large labeled data sets has hindered supervised machine learning research for this task. In this paper we develop an...
computer science
9,795
A Probabilistic Approach for Learning Folksonomies from Structured Data
cs.AI
Learning structured representations has emerged as an important problem in many domains, including document and Web data mining, bioinformatics, and image analysis. One approach to learning complex structures is to integrate many smaller, incomplete and noisy structure fragments. In this work, we present an unsupervise...
computer science
9,796
Agnostic Learning of Monomials by Halfspaces is Hard
cs.CC
We prove the following strong hardness result for learning: Given a distribution of labeled examples from the hypercube such that there exists a monomial consistent with $(1-\eps)$ of the examples, it is NP-hard to find a halfspace that is correct on $(1/2+\eps)$ of the examples, for arbitrary constants $\eps > 0$. In ...
computer science
9,797
Closed-set-based Discovery of Bases of Association Rules
cs.LG
The output of an association rule miner is often huge in practice. This is why several concise lossless representations have been proposed, such as the "essential" or "representative" rules. We revisit the algorithm given by Kryszkiewicz (Int. Symp. Intelligent Data Analysis 2001, Springer-Verlag LNCS 2189, 350-359) fo...
computer science
9,798
Border Algorithms for Computing Hasse Diagrams of Arbitrary Lattices
cs.AI
The Border algorithm and the iPred algorithm find the Hasse diagrams of FCA lattices. We show that they can be generalized to arbitrary lattices. In the case of iPred, this requires the identification of a join-semilattice homomorphism into a distributive lattice.
computer science
9,799
Bridging the Gap between Reinforcement Learning and Knowledge Representation: A Logical Off- and On-Policy Framework
cs.AI
Knowledge Representation is important issue in reinforcement learning. In this paper, we bridge the gap between reinforcement learning and knowledge representation, by providing a rich knowledge representation framework, based on normal logic programs with answer set semantics, that is capable of solving model-free rei...
computer science
9,800
Inferring Disease and Gene Set Associations with Rank Coherence in Networks
cs.AI
A computational challenge to validate the candidate disease genes identified in a high-throughput genomic study is to elucidate the associations between the set of candidate genes and disease phenotypes. The conventional gene set enrichment analysis often fails to reveal associations between disease phenotypes and the ...
computer science