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Modeling State-Conditional Observation Distribution using Weighted Stereo Samples for Factorial Speech Processing Models
cs.LG
This paper investigates the effectiveness of factorial speech processing models in noise-robust automatic speech recognition tasks. For this purpose, the paper proposes an idealistic approach for modeling state-conditional observation distribution of factorial models based on weighted stereo samples. This approach is a...
computer science
9,902
ProtVec: A Continuous Distributed Representation of Biological Sequences
cs.AI
We introduce a new representation and feature extraction method for biological sequences. Named bio-vectors (BioVec) to refer to biological sequences in general with protein-vectors (ProtVec) for proteins (amino-acid sequences) and gene-vectors (GeneVec) for gene sequences, this representation can be widely used in app...
computer science
9,903
A Machine Learning Approach to Predicting the Smoothed Complexity of Sorting Algorithms
cs.LG
Smoothed analysis is a framework for analyzing the complexity of an algorithm, acting as a bridge between average and worst-case behaviour. For example, Quicksort and the Simplex algorithm are widely used in practical applications, despite their heavy worst-case complexity. Smoothed complexity aims to better characteri...
computer science
9,904
When to Reset Your Keys: Optimal Timing of Security Updates via Learning
cs.LG
Cybersecurity is increasingly threatened by advanced and persistent attacks. As these attacks are often designed to disable a system (or a critical resource, e.g., a user account) repeatedly, it is crucial for the defender to keep updating its security measures to strike a balance between the risk of being compromised ...
computer science
9,905
Generalizing Skills with Semi-Supervised Reinforcement Learning
cs.LG
Deep reinforcement learning (RL) can acquire complex behaviors from low-level inputs, such as images. However, real-world applications of such methods require generalizing to the vast variability of the real world. Deep networks are known to achieve remarkable generalization when provided with massive amounts of labele...
computer science
9,906
Algorithmic Songwriting with ALYSIA
cs.AI
This paper introduces ALYSIA: Automated LYrical SongwrIting Application. ALYSIA is based on a machine learning model using Random Forests, and we discuss its success at pitch and rhythm prediction. Next, we show how ALYSIA was used to create original pop songs that were subsequently recorded and produced. Finally, we d...
computer science
9,907
Enhancing Use Case Points Estimation Method Using Soft Computing Techniques
cs.SE
Software estimation is a crucial task in software engineering. Software estimation encompasses cost, effort, schedule, and size. The importance of software estimation becomes critical in the early stages of the software life cycle when the details of software have not been revealed yet. Several commercial and non-comme...
computer science
9,908
Deep Learning of Robotic Tasks without a Simulator using Strong and Weak Human Supervision
cs.AI
We propose a scheme for training a computerized agent to perform complex human tasks such as highway steering. The scheme is designed to follow a natural learning process whereby a human instructor teaches a computerized trainee. The learning process consists of five elements: (i) unsupervised feature learning; (ii) su...
computer science
9,909
Controlling Robot Morphology from Incomplete Measurements
cs.RO
Mobile robots with complex morphology are essential for traversing rough terrains in Urban Search & Rescue missions (USAR). Since teleoperation of the complex morphology causes high cognitive load of the operator, the morphology is controlled autonomously. The autonomous control measures the robot state and surrounding...
computer science
9,910
DeepCancer: Detecting Cancer through Gene Expressions via Deep Generative Learning
cs.AI
Transcriptional profiling on microarrays to obtain gene expressions has been used to facilitate cancer diagnosis. We propose a deep generative machine learning architecture (called DeepCancer) that learn features from unlabeled microarray data. These models have been used in conjunction with conventional classifiers th...
computer science
9,911
A Unit Selection Methodology for Music Generation Using Deep Neural Networks
cs.SD
Several methods exist for a computer to generate music based on data including Markov chains, recurrent neural networks, recombinancy, and grammars. We explore the use of unit selection and concatenation as a means of generating music using a procedure based on ranking, where, we consider a unit to be a variable length...
computer science
9,912
Incorporating Human Domain Knowledge into Large Scale Cost Function Learning
cs.RO
Recent advances have shown the capability of Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (FCN) to model cost functions for motion planning in the context of learning driving preferences purely based on demonstration data from human drivers. While pure learning from demonstrations in the framework of Inverse Reinforcement Learn...
computer science
9,913
Deep Reinforcement Learning with Successor Features for Navigation across Similar Environments
cs.RO
In this paper we consider the problem of robot navigation in simple maze-like environments where the robot has to rely on its onboard sensors to perform the navigation task. In particular, we are interested in solutions to this problem that do not require localization, mapping or planning. Additionally, we require that...
computer science
9,914
Exploiting sparsity to build efficient kernel based collaborative filtering for top-N item recommendation
cs.IR
The increasing availability of implicit feedback datasets has raised the interest in developing effective collaborative filtering techniques able to deal asymmetrically with unambiguous positive feedback and ambiguous negative feedback. In this paper, we propose a principled kernel-based collaborative filtering method ...
computer science
9,915
Computing Human-Understandable Strategies
cs.GT
Algorithms for equilibrium computation generally make no attempt to ensure that the computed strategies are understandable by humans. For instance the strategies for the strongest poker agents are represented as massive binary files. In many situations, we would like to compute strategies that can actually be implement...
computer science
9,916
Deep-learning in Mobile Robotics - from Perception to Control Systems: A Survey on Why and Why not
cs.RO
Deep-learning has dramatically changed the world overnight. It greatly boosted the development of visual perception, object detection, and speech recognition, etc. That was attributed to the multiple convolutional processing layers for abstraction of learning representations from massive data. The advantages of deep co...
computer science
9,917
Efficient iterative policy optimization
cs.AI
We tackle the issue of finding a good policy when the number of policy updates is limited. This is done by approximating the expected policy reward as a sequence of concave lower bounds which can be efficiently maximized, drastically reducing the number of policy updates required to achieve good performance. We also ex...
computer science
9,918
A Contextual-Bandit Approach to Personalized News Article Recommendation
cs.LG
Personalized web services strive to adapt their services (advertisements, news articles, etc) to individual users by making use of both content and user information. Despite a few recent advances, this problem remains challenging for at least two reasons. First, web service is featured with dynamically changing pools o...
computer science
9,919
Inductive Logic Programming in Databases: from Datalog to DL+log
cs.LO
In this paper we address an issue that has been brought to the attention of the database community with the advent of the Semantic Web, i.e. the issue of how ontologies (and semantics conveyed by them) can help solving typical database problems, through a better understanding of KR aspects related to databases. In part...
computer science
9,920
A Formal Approach to Modeling the Memory of a Living Organism
cs.AI
We consider a living organism as an observer of the evolution of its environment recording sensory information about the state space X of the environment in real time. Sensory information is sampled and then processed on two levels. On the biological level, the organism serves as an evaluation mechanism of the subjecti...
computer science
9,921
Adaptive Submodularity: Theory and Applications in Active Learning and Stochastic Optimization
cs.LG
Solving stochastic optimization problems under partial observability, where one needs to adaptively make decisions with uncertain outcomes, is a fundamental but notoriously difficult challenge. In this paper, we introduce the concept of adaptive submodularity, generalizing submodular set functions to adaptive policies....
computer science
9,922
CHR(PRISM)-based Probabilistic Logic Learning
cs.PL
PRISM is an extension of Prolog with probabilistic predicates and built-in support for expectation-maximization learning. Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) is a high-level programming language based on multi-headed multiset rewrite rules. In this paper, we introduce a new probabilistic logic formalism, called CHRiSM, b...
computer science
9,923
Approximate Judgement Aggregation
cs.GT
In this paper we analyze judgement aggregation problems in which a group of agents independently votes on a set of complex propositions that has some interdependency constraint between them(e.g., transitivity when describing preferences). We consider the issue of judgement aggregation from the perspective of approximat...
computer science
9,924
Prediction by Compression
cs.IT
It is well known that text compression can be achieved by predicting the next symbol in the stream of text data based on the history seen up to the current symbol. The better the prediction the more skewed the conditional probability distribution of the next symbol and the shorter the codeword that needs to be assigned...
computer science
9,925
Memristor Crossbar-based Hardware Implementation of IDS Method
cs.LG
Ink Drop Spread (IDS) is the engine of Active Learning Method (ALM), which is the methodology of soft computing. IDS, as a pattern-based processing unit, extracts useful information from a system subjected to modeling. In spite of its excellent potential in solving problems such as classification and modeling compared ...
computer science
9,926
Bootstrapping Intrinsically Motivated Learning with Human Demonstrations
cs.LG
This paper studies the coupling of internally guided learning and social interaction, and more specifically the improvement owing to demonstrations of the learning by intrinsic motivation. We present Socially Guided Intrinsic Motivation by Demonstration (SGIM-D), an algorithm for learning in continuous, unbounded and n...
computer science
9,927
A Study on Using Uncertain Time Series Matching Algorithms in MapReduce Applications
cs.DC
In this paper, we study CPU utilization time patterns of several Map-Reduce applications. After extracting running patterns of several applications, the patterns with their statistical information are saved in a reference database to be later used to tweak system parameters to efficiently execute unknown applications i...
computer science
9,928
Graph Laplacians on Singular Manifolds: Toward understanding complex spaces: graph Laplacians on manifolds with singularities and boundaries
cs.AI
Recently, much of the existing work in manifold learning has been done under the assumption that the data is sampled from a manifold without boundaries and singularities or that the functions of interest are evaluated away from such points. At the same time, it can be argued that singularities and boundaries are an imp...
computer science
9,929
Learning-Assisted Automated Reasoning with Flyspeck
cs.AI
The considerable mathematical knowledge encoded by the Flyspeck project is combined with external automated theorem provers (ATPs) and machine-learning premise selection methods trained on the proofs, producing an AI system capable of answering a wide range of mathematical queries automatically. The performance of this...
computer science
9,930
Time-Series Classification Through Histograms of Symbolic Polynomials
cs.AI
Time-series classification has attracted considerable research attention due to the various domains where time-series data are observed, ranging from medicine to econometrics. Traditionally, the focus of time-series classification has been on short time-series data composed of a unique pattern with intraclass pattern d...
computer science
9,931
Optimistic Concurrency Control for Distributed Unsupervised Learning
cs.LG
Research on distributed machine learning algorithms has focused primarily on one of two extremes - algorithms that obey strict concurrency constraints or algorithms that obey few or no such constraints. We consider an intermediate alternative in which algorithms optimistically assume that conflicts are unlikely and if ...
computer science
9,932
Learning Lambek grammars from proof frames
cs.LG
In addition to their limpid interface with semantics, categorial grammars enjoy another important property: learnability. This was first noticed by Buskowsky and Penn and further studied by Kanazawa, for Bar-Hillel categorial grammars. What about Lambek categorial grammars? In a previous paper we showed that product ...
computer science
9,933
Lemma Mining over HOL Light
cs.AI
Large formal mathematical libraries consist of millions of atomic inference steps that give rise to a corresponding number of proved statements (lemmas). Analogously to the informal mathematical practice, only a tiny fraction of such statements is named and re-used in later proofs by formal mathematicians. In this work...
computer science
9,934
Post-Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Learning and Nonmonotonic Reasoning
cs.AI
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning and Machine Learning are two important fields in AI. Nonmonotonic logic programming (NMLP) and Answer Set Programming (ASP) provide formal languages for representing and reasoning with commonsense knowledge and realize declarative problem solving in AI. On the other side, Inductiv...
computer science
9,935
Volumetric Spanners: an Efficient Exploration Basis for Learning
cs.LG
Numerous machine learning problems require an exploration basis - a mechanism to explore the action space. We define a novel geometric notion of exploration basis with low variance, called volumetric spanners, and give efficient algorithms to construct such a basis. We show how efficient volumetric spanners give rise...
computer science
9,936
Distributed Policy Evaluation Under Multiple Behavior Strategies
cs.MA
We apply diffusion strategies to develop a fully-distributed cooperative reinforcement learning algorithm in which agents in a network communicate only with their immediate neighbors to improve predictions about their environment. The algorithm can also be applied to off-policy learning, meaning that the agents can pre...
computer science
9,937
CTBNCToolkit: Continuous Time Bayesian Network Classifier Toolkit
cs.AI
Continuous time Bayesian network classifiers are designed for temporal classification of multivariate streaming data when time duration of events matters and the class does not change over time. This paper introduces the CTBNCToolkit: an open source Java toolkit which provides a stand-alone application for temporal cla...
computer science
9,938
XML Matchers: approaches and challenges
cs.DB
Schema Matching, i.e. the process of discovering semantic correspondences between concepts adopted in different data source schemas, has been a key topic in Database and Artificial Intelligence research areas for many years. In the past, it was largely investigated especially for classical database models (e.g., E/R sc...
computer science
9,939
Collaborative Filtering Ensemble for Personalized Name Recommendation
cs.IR
Out of thousands of names to choose from, picking the right one for your child is a daunting task. In this work, our objective is to help parents making an informed decision while choosing a name for their baby. We follow a recommender system approach and combine, in an ensemble, the individual rankings produced by sim...
computer science
9,940
Are There Good Mistakes? A Theoretical Analysis of CEGIS
cs.LO
Counterexample-guided inductive synthesis CEGIS is used to synthesize programs from a candidate space of programs. The technique is guaranteed to terminate and synthesize the correct program if the space of candidate programs is finite. But the technique may or may not terminate with the correct program if the candidat...
computer science
9,941
Non-myopic learning in repeated stochastic games
cs.GT
In repeated stochastic games (RSGs), an agent must quickly adapt to the behavior of previously unknown associates, who may themselves be learning. This machine-learning problem is particularly challenging due, in part, to the presence of multiple (even infinite) equilibria and inherently large strategy spaces. In this ...
computer science
9,942
Top Rank Optimization in Linear Time
cs.LG
Bipartite ranking aims to learn a real-valued ranking function that orders positive instances before negative instances. Recent efforts of bipartite ranking are focused on optimizing ranking accuracy at the top of the ranked list. Most existing approaches are either to optimize task specific metrics or to extend the ra...
computer science
9,943
Distributed Submodular Maximization
cs.LG
Many large-scale machine learning problems--clustering, non-parametric learning, kernel machines, etc.--require selecting a small yet representative subset from a large dataset. Such problems can often be reduced to maximizing a submodular set function subject to various constraints. Classical approaches to submodular ...
computer science
9,944
Learning Fuzzy Controllers in Mobile Robotics with Embedded Preprocessing
cs.RO
The automatic design of controllers for mobile robots usually requires two stages. In the first stage,sensorial data are preprocessed or transformed into high level and meaningful values of variables whichare usually defined from expert knowledge. In the second stage, a machine learning technique is applied toobtain a ...
computer science
9,945
Highly comparative fetal heart rate analysis
cs.LG
A database of fetal heart rate (FHR) time series measured from 7221 patients during labor is analyzed with the aim of learning the types of features of these recordings that are informative of low cord pH. Our 'highly comparative' analysis involves extracting over 9000 time-series analysis features from each FHR time s...
computer science
9,946
A New Approach of Learning Hierarchy Construction Based on Fuzzy Logic
cs.CY
In recent years, adaptive learning systems rely increasingly on learning hierarchy to customize the educational logic developed in their courses. Most approaches do not consider that the relationships of prerequisites between the skills are fuzzy relationships. In this article, we describe a new approach of a practical...
computer science
9,947
Efficient Decision-Making by Volume-Conserving Physical Object
cs.AI
We demonstrate that any physical object, as long as its volume is conserved when coupled with suitable operations, provides a sophisticated decision-making capability. We consider the problem of finding, as accurately and quickly as possible, the most profitable option from a set of options that gives stochastic reward...
computer science
9,948
Grounding Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Models for Knowledge Transfer
cs.LG
Methods of deep machine learning enable to to reuse low-level representations efficiently for generating more abstract high-level representations. Originally, deep learning has been applied passively (e.g., for classification purposes). Recently, it has been extended to estimate the value of actions for autonomous agen...
computer science
9,949
Robobarista: Object Part based Transfer of Manipulation Trajectories from Crowd-sourcing in 3D Pointclouds
cs.RO
There is a large variety of objects and appliances in human environments, such as stoves, coffee dispensers, juice extractors, and so on. It is challenging for a roboticist to program a robot for each of these object types and for each of their instantiations. In this work, we present a novel approach to manipulation p...
computer science
9,950
Learning of Behavior Trees for Autonomous Agents
cs.RO
Definition of an accurate system model for Automated Planner (AP) is often impractical, especially for real-world problems. Conversely, off-the-shelf planners fail to scale up and are domain dependent. These drawbacks are inherited from conventional transition systems such as Finite State Machines (FSMs) that describes...
computer science
9,951
Strategic Teaching and Learning in Games
cs.GT
It is known that there are uncoupled learning heuristics leading to Nash equilibrium in all finite games. Why should players use such learning heuristics and where could they come from? We show that there is no uncoupled learning heuristic leading to Nash equilibrium in all finite games that a player has an incentive t...
computer science
9,952
Discovering Valuable Items from Massive Data
cs.LG
Suppose there is a large collection of items, each with an associated cost and an inherent utility that is revealed only once we commit to selecting it. Given a budget on the cumulative cost of the selected items, how can we pick a subset of maximal value? This task generalizes several important problems such as multi-...
computer science
9,953
A Framework for Constrained and Adaptive Behavior-Based Agents
cs.AI
Behavior Trees are commonly used to model agents for robotics and games, where constrained behaviors must be designed by human experts in order to guarantee that these agents will execute a specific chain of actions given a specific set of perceptions. In such application areas, learning is a desirable feature to provi...
computer science
9,954
Deep Knowledge Tracing
cs.AI
Knowledge tracing---where a machine models the knowledge of a student as they interact with coursework---is a well established problem in computer supported education. Though effectively modeling student knowledge would have high educational impact, the task has many inherent challenges. In this paper we explore the ut...
computer science
9,955
Fast Convergence of Regularized Learning in Games
cs.GT
We show that natural classes of regularized learning algorithms with a form of recency bias achieve faster convergence rates to approximate efficiency and to coarse correlated equilibria in multiplayer normal form games. When each player in a game uses an algorithm from our class, their individual regret decays at $O(T...
computer science
9,956
Semi-supervised Multi-sensor Classification via Consensus-based Multi-View Maximum Entropy Discrimination
cs.IT
In this paper, we consider multi-sensor classification when there is a large number of unlabeled samples. The problem is formulated under the multi-view learning framework and a Consensus-based Multi-View Maximum Entropy Discrimination (CMV-MED) algorithm is proposed. By iteratively maximizing the stochastic agreement ...
computer science
9,957
Achieving Synergy in Cognitive Behavior of Humanoids via Deep Learning of Dynamic Visuo-Motor-Attentional Coordination
cs.AI
The current study examines how adequate coordination among different cognitive processes including visual recognition, attention switching, action preparation and generation can be developed via learning of robots by introducing a novel model, the Visuo-Motor Deep Dynamic Neural Network (VMDNN). The proposed model is b...
computer science
9,958
A New Framework for Distributed Submodular Maximization
cs.DS
A wide variety of problems in machine learning, including exemplar clustering, document summarization, and sensor placement, can be cast as constrained submodular maximization problems. A lot of recent effort has been devoted to developing distributed algorithms for these problems. However, these results suffer from hi...
computer science
9,959
Solomonoff Induction Violates Nicod's Criterion
cs.LG
Nicod's criterion states that observing a black raven is evidence for the hypothesis H that all ravens are black. We show that Solomonoff induction does not satisfy Nicod's criterion: there are time steps in which observing black ravens decreases the belief in H. Moreover, while observing any computable infinite string...
computer science
9,960
Learning Action Models: Qualitative Approach
cs.LG
In dynamic epistemic logic, actions are described using action models. In this paper we introduce a framework for studying learnability of action models from observations. We present first results concerning propositional action models. First we check two basic learnability criteria: finite identifiability (conclusivel...
computer science
9,961
Framework for learning agents in quantum environments
cs.AI
In this paper we provide a broad framework for describing learning agents in general quantum environments. We analyze the types of classically specified environments which allow for quantum enhancements in learning, by contrasting environments to quantum oracles. We show that whether or not quantum improvements are at ...
computer science
9,962
Schema Independent Relational Learning
cs.DB
Learning novel concepts and relations from relational databases is an important problem with many applications in database systems and machine learning. Relational learning algorithms learn the definition of a new relation in terms of existing relations in the database. Nevertheless, the same data set may be represente...
computer science
9,963
ERBlox: Combining Matching Dependencies with Machine Learning for Entity Resolution
cs.DB
Entity resolution (ER), an important and common data cleaning problem, is about detecting data duplicate representations for the same external entities, and merging them into single representations. Relatively recently, declarative rules called matching dependencies (MDs) have been proposed for specifying similarity co...
computer science
9,964
Research: Analysis of Transport Model that Approximates Decision Taker's Preferences
cs.LG
Paper provides a method for solving the reverse Monge-Kantorovich transport problem (TP). It allows to accumulate positive decision-taking experience made by decision-taker in situations that can be presented in the form of TP. The initial data for the solution of the inverse TP is the information on orders, inventorie...
computer science
9,965
Recurrent Reinforcement Learning: A Hybrid Approach
cs.LG
Successful applications of reinforcement learning in real-world problems often require dealing with partially observable states. It is in general very challenging to construct and infer hidden states as they often depend on the agent's entire interaction history and may require substantial domain knowledge. In this wor...
computer science
9,966
Sports highlights generation based on acoustic events detection: A rugby case study
cs.SD
We approach the challenging problem of generating highlights from sports broadcasts utilizing audio information only. A language-independent, multi-stage classification approach is employed for detection of key acoustic events which then act as a platform for summarization of highlight scenes. Objective results and hum...
computer science
9,967
Learning Adversary Behavior in Security Games: A PAC Model Perspective
cs.AI
Recent applications of Stackelberg Security Games (SSG), from wildlife crime to urban crime, have employed machine learning tools to learn and predict adversary behavior using available data about defender-adversary interactions. Given these recent developments, this paper commits to an approach of directly learning th...
computer science
9,968
Toward an Efficient Multi-class Classification in an Open Universe
cs.LG
Classification is a fundamental task in machine learning and data mining. Existing classification methods are designed to classify unknown instances within a set of previously known training classes. Such a classification takes the form of a prediction within a closed-set of classes. However, a more realistic scenario ...
computer science
9,969
Learning in Auctions: Regret is Hard, Envy is Easy
cs.GT
A line of recent work provides welfare guarantees of simple combinatorial auction formats, such as selling m items via simultaneous second price auctions (SiSPAs) (Christodoulou et al. 2008, Bhawalkar and Roughgarden 2011, Feldman et al. 2013). These guarantees hold even when the auctions are repeatedly executed and pl...
computer science
9,970
Seeing the Unseen Network: Inferring Hidden Social Ties from Respondent-Driven Sampling
cs.SI
Learning about the social structure of hidden and hard-to-reach populations --- such as drug users and sex workers --- is a major goal of epidemiological and public health research on risk behaviors and disease prevention. Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a peer-referral process widely used by many health organizati...
computer science
9,971
Multiagent Cooperation and Competition with Deep Reinforcement Learning
cs.AI
Multiagent systems appear in most social, economical, and political situations. In the present work we extend the Deep Q-Learning Network architecture proposed by Google DeepMind to multiagent environments and investigate how two agents controlled by independent Deep Q-Networks interact in the classic videogame Pong. B...
computer science
9,972
Robotic Search & Rescue via Online Multi-task Reinforcement Learning
cs.AI
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a general and well-known method that a robot can use to learn an optimal control policy to solve a particular task. We would like to build a versatile robot that can learn multiple tasks, but using RL for each of them would be prohibitively expensive in terms of both time and wear-and-tea...
computer science
9,973
Object-based World Modeling in Semi-Static Environments with Dependent Dirichlet-Process Mixtures
cs.AI
To accomplish tasks in human-centric indoor environments, robots need to represent and understand the world in terms of objects and their attributes. We refer to this attribute-based representation as a world model, and consider how to acquire it via noisy perception and maintain it over time, as objects are added, cha...
computer science
9,974
Bayesian Matrix Completion via Adaptive Relaxed Spectral Regularization
cs.NA
Bayesian matrix completion has been studied based on a low-rank matrix factorization formulation with promising results. However, little work has been done on Bayesian matrix completion based on the more direct spectral regularization formulation. We fill this gap by presenting a novel Bayesian matrix completion method...
computer science
9,975
Deep Reinforcement Learning with Attention for Slate Markov Decision Processes with High-Dimensional States and Actions
cs.AI
Many real-world problems come with action spaces represented as feature vectors. Although high-dimensional control is a largely unsolved problem, there has recently been progress for modest dimensionalities. Here we report on a successful attempt at addressing problems of dimensionality as high as $2000$, of a particul...
computer science
9,976
Risk-Constrained Reinforcement Learning with Percentile Risk Criteria
cs.AI
In many sequential decision-making problems one is interested in minimizing an expected cumulative cost while taking into account \emph{risk}, i.e., increased awareness of events of small probability and high consequences. Accordingly, the objective of this paper is to present efficient reinforcement learning algorithm...
computer science
9,977
Scalable Models for Computing Hierarchies in Information Networks
cs.AI
Information hierarchies are organizational structures that often used to organize and present large and complex information as well as provide a mechanism for effective human navigation. Fortunately, many statistical and computational models exist that automatically generate hierarchies; however, the existing approache...
computer science
9,978
Learning Preferences for Manipulation Tasks from Online Coactive Feedback
cs.RO
We consider the problem of learning preferences over trajectories for mobile manipulators such as personal robots and assembly line robots. The preferences we learn are more intricate than simple geometric constraints on trajectories; they are rather governed by the surrounding context of various objects and human inte...
computer science
9,979
Robobarista: Learning to Manipulate Novel Objects via Deep Multimodal Embedding
cs.RO
There is a large variety of objects and appliances in human environments, such as stoves, coffee dispensers, juice extractors, and so on. It is challenging for a roboticist to program a robot for each of these object types and for each of their instantiations. In this work, we present a novel approach to manipulation p...
computer science
9,980
Trust from the past: Bayesian Personalized Ranking based Link Prediction in Knowledge Graphs
cs.LG
Link prediction, or predicting the likelihood of a link in a knowledge graph based on its existing state is a key research task. It differs from a traditional link prediction task in that the links in a knowledge graph are categorized into different predicates and the link prediction performance of different predicates...
computer science
9,981
Quantum machine learning with glow for episodic tasks and decision games
cs.AI
We consider a general class of models, where a reinforcement learning (RL) agent learns from cyclic interactions with an external environment via classical signals. Perceptual inputs are encoded as quantum states, which are subsequently transformed by a quantum channel representing the agent's memory, while the outcome...
computer science
9,982
ERBlox: Combining Matching Dependencies with Machine Learning for Entity Resolution
cs.DB
Entity resolution (ER), an important and common data cleaning problem, is about detecting data duplicate representations for the same external entities, and merging them into single representations. Relatively recently, declarative rules called "matching dependencies" (MDs) have been proposed for specifying similarity ...
computer science
9,983
Network of Bandits insure Privacy of end-users
cs.AI
In order to distribute the best arm identification task as close as possible to the user's devices, on the edge of the Radio Access Network, we propose a new problem setting, where distributed players collaborate to find the best arm. This architecture guarantees privacy to end-users since no events are stored. The onl...
computer science
9,984
Random Forest Based Approach for Concept Drift Handling
cs.AI
Concept drift has potential in smart grid analysis because the socio-economic behaviour of consumers is not governed by the laws of physics. Likewise there are also applications in wind power forecasting. In this paper we present decision tree ensemble classification method based on the Random Forest algorithm for conc...
computer science
9,985
Recommendations as Treatments: Debiasing Learning and Evaluation
cs.LG
Most data for evaluating and training recommender systems is subject to selection biases, either through self-selection by the users or through the actions of the recommendation system itself. In this paper, we provide a principled approach to handling selection biases, adapting models and estimation techniques from ca...
computer science
9,986
Machine learning meets network science: dimensionality reduction for fast and efficient embedding of networks in the hyperbolic space
cs.AI
Complex network topologies and hyperbolic geometry seem specularly connected, and one of the most fascinating and challenging problems of recent complex network theory is to map a given network to its hyperbolic space. The Popularity Similarity Optimization (PSO) model represents - at the moment - the climax of this th...
computer science
9,987
Latent Skill Embedding for Personalized Lesson Sequence Recommendation
cs.LG
Students in online courses generate large amounts of data that can be used to personalize the learning process and improve quality of education. In this paper, we present the Latent Skill Embedding (LSE), a probabilistic model of students and educational content that can be used to recommend personalized sequences of l...
computer science
9,988
How effective can simple ordinal peer grading be?
cs.AI
Ordinal peer grading has been proposed as a simple and scalable solution for computing reliable information about student performance in massive open online courses. The idea is to outsource the grading task to the students themselves as follows. After the end of an exam, each student is asked to rank ---in terms of qu...
computer science
9,989
Guided Cost Learning: Deep Inverse Optimal Control via Policy Optimization
cs.LG
Reinforcement learning can acquire complex behaviors from high-level specifications. However, defining a cost function that can be optimized effectively and encodes the correct task is challenging in practice. We explore how inverse optimal control (IOC) can be used to learn behaviors from demonstrations, with applicat...
computer science
9,990
Continuous Deep Q-Learning with Model-based Acceleration
cs.LG
Model-free reinforcement learning has been successfully applied to a range of challenging problems, and has recently been extended to handle large neural network policies and value functions. However, the sample complexity of model-free algorithms, particularly when using high-dimensional function approximators, tends ...
computer science
9,991
Deep Reinforcement Learning from Self-Play in Imperfect-Information Games
cs.LG
Many real-world applications can be described as large-scale games of imperfect information. To deal with these challenging domains, prior work has focused on computing Nash equilibria in a handcrafted abstraction of the domain. In this paper we introduce the first scalable end-to-end approach to learning approximate N...
computer science
9,992
Hierarchical Decision Making In Electricity Grid Management
cs.AI
The power grid is a complex and vital system that necessitates careful reliability management. Managing the grid is a difficult problem with multiple time scales of decision making and stochastic behavior due to renewable energy generations, variable demand and unplanned outages. Solving this problem in the face of unc...
computer science
9,993
Unscented Bayesian Optimization for Safe Robot Grasping
cs.RO
We address the robot grasp optimization problem of unknown objects considering uncertainty in the input space. Grasping unknown objects can be achieved by using a trial and error exploration strategy. Bayesian optimization is a sample efficient optimization algorithm that is especially suitable for this setups as it ac...
computer science
9,994
UTA-poly and UTA-splines: additive value functions with polynomial marginals
math.OC
Additive utility function models are widely used in multiple criteria decision analysis. In such models, a numerical value is associated to each alternative involved in the decision problem. It is computed by aggregating the scores of the alternative on the different criteria of the decision problem. The score of an al...
computer science
9,995
Near-Optimal Active Learning of Halfspaces via Query Synthesis in the Noisy Setting
cs.AI
In this paper, we consider the problem of actively learning a linear classifier through query synthesis where the learner can construct artificial queries in order to estimate the true decision boundaries. This problem has recently gained a lot of interest in automated science and adversarial reverse engineering for wh...
computer science
9,996
From virtual demonstration to real-world manipulation using LSTM and MDN
cs.RO
Robots assisting the disabled or elderly must perform complex manipulation tasks and must adapt to the home environment and preferences of their user. Learning from demonstration is a promising choice, that would allow the non-technical user to teach the robot different tasks. However, collecting demonstrations in the ...
computer science
9,997
Item2Vec: Neural Item Embedding for Collaborative Filtering
cs.LG
Many Collaborative Filtering (CF) algorithms are item-based in the sense that they analyze item-item relations in order to produce item similarities. Recently, several works in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) suggested to learn a latent representation of words using neural embedding algorithms. Among the...
computer science
9,998
Automated Correction for Syntax Errors in Programming Assignments using Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.PL
We present a method for automatically generating repair feedback for syntax errors for introductory programming problems. Syntax errors constitute one of the largest classes of errors (34%) in our dataset of student submissions obtained from a MOOC course on edX. The previous techniques for generating automated feed- b...
computer science
9,999
Low-Complexity Stochastic Generalized Belief Propagation
cs.LG
The generalized belief propagation (GBP), introduced by Yedidia et al., is an extension of the belief propagation (BP) algorithm, which is widely used in different problems involved in calculating exact or approximate marginals of probability distributions. In many problems, it has been observed that the accuracy of GB...
computer science
10,000
Query-Efficient Imitation Learning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
cs.LG
One way to approach end-to-end autonomous driving is to learn a policy function that maps from a sensory input, such as an image frame from a front-facing camera, to a driving action, by imitating an expert driver, or a reference policy. This can be done by supervised learning, where a policy function is tuned to minim...
computer science