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10,001
TensorLog: A Differentiable Deductive Database
cs.AI
Large knowledge bases (KBs) are useful in many tasks, but it is unclear how to integrate this sort of knowledge into "deep" gradient-based learning systems. To address this problem, we describe a probabilistic deductive database, called TensorLog, in which reasoning uses a differentiable process. In TensorLog, each cla...
computer science
10,002
Learning to Communicate with Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
cs.AI
We consider the problem of multiple agents sensing and acting in environments with the goal of maximising their shared utility. In these environments, agents must learn communication protocols in order to share information that is needed to solve the tasks. By embracing deep neural networks, we are able to demonstrate ...
computer science
10,003
Adaptive ADMM with Spectral Penalty Parameter Selection
cs.LG
The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a versatile tool for solving a wide range of constrained optimization problems, with differentiable or non-differentiable objective functions. Unfortunately, its performance is highly sensitive to a penalty parameter, which makes ADMM often unreliable and hard t...
computer science
10,004
Internal Guidance for Satallax
cs.LO
We propose a new internal guidance method for automated theorem provers based on the given-clause algorithm. Our method influences the choice of unprocessed clauses using positive and negative examples from previous proofs. To this end, we present an efficient scheme for Naive Bayesian classification by generalising la...
computer science
10,005
Distance Metric Ensemble Learning and the Andrews-Curtis Conjecture
cs.AI
Motivated by the search for a counterexample to the Poincar\'e conjecture in three and four dimensions, the Andrews-Curtis conjecture was proposed in 1965. It is now generally suspected that the Andrews-Curtis conjecture is false, but small potential counterexamples are not so numerous, and previous work has attempted ...
computer science
10,006
DeepMath - Deep Sequence Models for Premise Selection
cs.AI
We study the effectiveness of neural sequence models for premise selection in automated theorem proving, one of the main bottlenecks in the formalization of mathematics. We propose a two stage approach for this task that yields good results for the premise selection task on the Mizar corpus while avoiding the hand-engi...
computer science
10,007
Proceedings First International Workshop on Hammers for Type Theories
cs.LO
This volume of EPTCS contains the proceedings of the First Workshop on Hammers for Type Theories (HaTT 2016), held on 1 July 2016 as part of the International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2016) in Coimbra, Portugal. The proceedings contain four regular papers, as well as abstracts of the two invited t...
computer science
10,008
A Comparative Analysis of classification data mining techniques : Deriving key factors useful for predicting students performance
cs.LG
Students opting for Engineering as their discipline is increasing rapidly. But due to various factors and inappropriate primary education in India, failure rates are high. Students are unable to excel in core engineering because of complex and mathematical subjects. Hence, they fail in such subjects. With the help of d...
computer science
10,009
The VGLC: The Video Game Level Corpus
cs.HC
Levels are a key component of many different video games, and a large body of work has been produced on how to procedurally generate game levels. Recently, Machine Learning techniques have been applied to video game level generation towards the purpose of automatically generating levels that have the properties of the ...
computer science
10,010
Neural Network Based Next-Song Recommendation
cs.IR
Recently, the next-item/basket recommendation system, which considers the sequential relation between bought items, has drawn attention of researchers. The utilization of sequential patterns has boosted performance on several kinds of recommendation tasks. Inspired by natural language processing (NLP) techniques, we pr...
computer science
10,011
A Reduction for Optimizing Lattice Submodular Functions with Diminishing Returns
cs.DS
A function $f: \mathbb{Z}_+^E \rightarrow \mathbb{R}_+$ is DR-submodular if it satisfies $f(\bx + \chi_i) -f (\bx) \ge f(\by + \chi_i) - f(\by)$ for all $\bx\le \by, i\in E$. Recently, the problem of maximizing a DR-submodular function $f: \mathbb{Z}_+^E \rightarrow \mathbb{R}_+$ subject to a budget constraint $\|\bx\|...
computer science
10,012
Technical Report: Towards a Universal Code Formatter through Machine Learning
cs.PL
There are many declarative frameworks that allow us to implement code formatters relatively easily for any specific language, but constructing them is cumbersome. The first problem is that "everybody" wants to format their code differently, leading to either many formatter variants or a ridiculous number of configurati...
computer science
10,013
subgraph2vec: Learning Distributed Representations of Rooted Sub-graphs from Large Graphs
cs.LG
In this paper, we present subgraph2vec, a novel approach for learning latent representations of rooted subgraphs from large graphs inspired by recent advancements in Deep Learning and Graph Kernels. These latent representations encode semantic substructure dependencies in a continuous vector space, which is easily expl...
computer science
10,014
Performance Based Evaluation of Various Machine Learning Classification Techniques for Chronic Kidney Disease Diagnosis
cs.LG
Areas where Artificial Intelligence (AI) & related fields are finding their applications are increasing day by day, moving from core areas of computer science they are finding their applications in various other domains.In recent times Machine Learning i.e. a sub-domain of AI has been widely used in order to assist med...
computer science
10,015
Fractal Dimension Pattern Based Multiresolution Analysis for Rough Estimator of Person-Dependent Audio Emotion Recognition
cs.AI
As a general means of expression, audio analysis and recognition has attracted much attentions for its wide applications in real-life world. Audio emotion recognition (AER) attempts to understand emotional states of human with the given utterance signals, and has been studied abroad for its further development on frien...
computer science
10,016
Adaptive Neighborhood Graph Construction for Inference in Multi-Relational Networks
cs.SI
A neighborhood graph, which represents the instances as vertices and their relations as weighted edges, is the basis of many semi-supervised and relational models for node labeling and link prediction. Most methods employ a sequential process to construct the neighborhood graph. This process often consists of generatin...
computer science
10,017
Application of Statistical Relational Learning to Hybrid Recommendation Systems
cs.AI
Recommendation systems usually involve exploiting the relations among known features and content that describe items (content-based filtering) or the overlap of similar users who interacted with or rated the target item (collaborative filtering). To combine these two filtering approaches, current model-based hybrid rec...
computer science
10,018
CaR-FOREST: Joint Classification-Regression Decision Forests for Overlapping Audio Event Detection
cs.SD
This report describes our submissions to Task2 and Task3 of the DCASE 2016 challenge. The systems aim at dealing with the detection of overlapping audio events in continuous streams, where the detectors are based on random decision forests. The proposed forests are jointly trained for classification and regression simu...
computer science
10,019
Explaining Deep Convolutional Neural Networks on Music Classification
cs.LG
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been actively adopted in the field of music information retrieval, e.g. genre classification, mood detection, and chord recognition. However, the process of learning and prediction is little understood, particularly when it is applied to spectrograms. We introduce auralisa...
computer science
10,020
DeepQA: Improving the estimation of single protein model quality with deep belief networks
cs.AI
Protein quality assessment (QA) by ranking and selecting protein models has long been viewed as one of the major challenges for protein tertiary structure prediction. Especially, estimating the quality of a single protein model, which is important for selecting a few good models out of a large model pool consisting of ...
computer science
10,021
The Price of Anarchy in Auctions
cs.GT
This survey outlines a general and modular theory for proving approximation guarantees for equilibria of auctions in complex settings. This theory complements traditional economic techniques, which generally focus on exact and optimal solutions and are accordingly limited to relatively stylized settings. We highlight...
computer science
10,022
Discovering Latent States for Model Learning: Applying Sensorimotor Contingencies Theory and Predictive Processing to Model Context
cs.RO
Autonomous robots need to be able to adapt to unforeseen situations and to acquire new skills through trial and error. Reinforcement learning in principle offers a suitable methodological framework for this kind of autonomous learning. However current computational reinforcement learning agents mostly learn each indivi...
computer science
10,023
Learning Transferable Policies for Monocular Reactive MAV Control
cs.RO
The ability to transfer knowledge gained in previous tasks into new contexts is one of the most important mechanisms of human learning. Despite this, adapting autonomous behavior to be reused in partially similar settings is still an open problem in current robotics research. In this paper, we take a small step in this...
computer science
10,024
Context Discovery for Model Learning in Partially Observable Environments
cs.RO
The ability to learn a model is essential for the success of autonomous agents. Unfortunately, learning a model is difficult in partially observable environments, where latent environmental factors influence what the agent observes. In the absence of a supervisory training signal, autonomous agents therefore require a ...
computer science
10,025
ZaliQL: A SQL-Based Framework for Drawing Causal Inference from Big Data
cs.DB
Causal inference from observational data is a subject of active research and development in statistics and computer science. Many toolkits have been developed for this purpose that depends on statistical software. However, these toolkits do not scale to large datasets. In this paper we describe a suite of techniques fo...
computer science
10,026
A Formal Solution to the Grain of Truth Problem
cs.AI
A Bayesian agent acting in a multi-agent environment learns to predict the other agents' policies if its prior assigns positive probability to them (in other words, its prior contains a \emph{grain of truth}). Finding a reasonably large class of policies that contains the Bayes-optimal policies with respect to this cla...
computer science
10,027
Recognizing Detailed Human Context In-the-Wild from Smartphones and Smartwatches
cs.AI
The ability to automatically recognize a person's behavioral context can contribute to health monitoring, aging care and many other domains. Validating context recognition in-the-wild is crucial to promote practical applications that work in real-life settings. We collected over 300k minutes of sensor data with context...
computer science
10,028
Semiring Programming: A Framework for Search, Inference and Learning
cs.AI
To solve hard problems, AI relies on a variety of disciplines such as logic, probabilistic reasoning, machine learning and mathematical programming. Although it is widely accepted that solving real-world problems requires an integration amongst these, contemporary representation methodologies offer little support for t...
computer science
10,029
Discovering Sound Concepts and Acoustic Relations In Text
cs.SD
In this paper we describe approaches for discovering acoustic concepts and relations in text. The first major goal is to be able to identify text phrases which contain a notion of audibility and can be termed as a sound or an acoustic concept. We also propose a method to define an acoustic scene through a set of sound ...
computer science
10,030
Learning from the Hindsight Plan -- Episodic MPC Improvement
cs.RO
Model predictive control (MPC) is a popular control method that has proved effective for robotics, among other fields. MPC performs re-planning at every time step. Re-planning is done with a limited horizon per computational and real-time constraints and often also for robustness to potential model errors. However, the...
computer science
10,031
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation with Asynchronous Off-Policy Updates
cs.RO
Reinforcement learning holds the promise of enabling autonomous robots to learn large repertoires of behavioral skills with minimal human intervention. However, robotic applications of reinforcement learning often compromise the autonomy of the learning process in favor of achieving training times that are practical fo...
computer science
10,032
Collective Robot Reinforcement Learning with Distributed Asynchronous Guided Policy Search
cs.LG
In principle, reinforcement learning and policy search methods can enable robots to learn highly complex and general skills that may allow them to function amid the complexity and diversity of the real world. However, training a policy that generalizes well across a wide range of real-world conditions requires far grea...
computer science
10,033
Micro-Data Learning: The Other End of the Spectrum
cs.AI
Many fields are now snowed under with an avalanche of data, which raises considerable challenges for computer scientists. Meanwhile, robotics (among other fields) can often only use a few dozen data points because acquiring them involves a process that is expensive or time-consuming. How can an algorithm learn with onl...
computer science
10,034
EPOpt: Learning Robust Neural Network Policies Using Model Ensembles
cs.LG
Sample complexity and safety are major challenges when learning policies with reinforcement learning for real-world tasks, especially when the policies are represented using rich function approximators like deep neural networks. Model-based methods where the real-world target domain is approximated using a simulated so...
computer science
10,035
Ranking academic institutions on potential paper acceptance in upcoming conferences
cs.AI
The crux of the problem in KDD Cup 2016 involves developing data mining techniques to rank research institutions based on publications. Rank importance of research institutions are derived from predictions on the number of full research papers that would potentially get accepted in upcoming top-tier conferences, utiliz...
computer science
10,036
Heuristic Approaches for Generating Local Process Models through Log Projections
cs.LG
Local Process Model (LPM) discovery is focused on the mining of a set of process models where each model describes the behavior represented in the event log only partially, i.e. subsets of possible events are taken into account to create so-called local process models. Often such smaller models provide valuable insight...
computer science
10,037
Transfer from Simulation to Real World through Learning Deep Inverse Dynamics Model
cs.RO
Developing control policies in simulation is often more practical and safer than directly running experiments in the real world. This applies to policies obtained from planning and optimization, and even more so to policies obtained from reinforcement learning, which is often very data demanding. However, a policy that...
computer science
10,038
An Information Theoretic Feature Selection Framework for Big Data under Apache Spark
cs.AI
With the advent of extremely high dimensional datasets, dimensionality reduction techniques are becoming mandatory. Among many techniques, feature selection has been growing in interest as an important tool to identify relevant features on huge datasets --both in number of instances and features--. The purpose of this ...
computer science
10,039
Quantum-enhanced machine learning
cs.AI
The emerging field of quantum machine learning has the potential to substantially aid in the problems and scope of artificial intelligence. This is only enhanced by recent successes in the field of classical machine learning. In this work we propose an approach for the systematic treatment of machine learning, from the...
computer science
10,040
Synthesis of Shared Control Protocols with Provable Safety and Performance Guarantees
cs.RO
We formalize synthesis of shared control protocols with correctness guarantees for temporal logic specifications. More specifically, we introduce a modeling formalism in which both a human and an autonomy protocol can issue commands to a robot towards performing a certain task. These commands are blended into a joint i...
computer science
10,041
Learning-Theoretic Foundations of Algorithm Configuration for Combinatorial Partitioning Problems
cs.DS
Max-cut, clustering, and many other partitioning problems that are of significant importance to machine learning and other scientific fields are NP-hard, a reality that has motivated researchers to develop a wealth of approximation algorithms and heuristics. Although the best algorithm to use typically depends on the s...
computer science
10,042
Composing Music with Grammar Argumented Neural Networks and Note-Level Encoding
cs.LG
Creating aesthetically pleasing pieces of art, including music, has been a long-term goal for artificial intelligence research. Despite recent successes of long-short term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in sequential learning, LSTM neural networks have not, by themselves, been able to generate natural-s...
computer science
10,043
Monte Carlo Connection Prover
cs.LO
Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a technique to guide search in a large decision space by taking random samples and evaluating their outcome. In this work, we study MCTS methods in the context of the connection calculus and implement them on top of the leanCoP prover. This includes proposing useful proof-state evaluat...
computer science
10,044
Structural Causal Models: Cycles, Marginalizations, Exogenous Reparametrizations and Reductions
stat.ME
Structural causal models (SCMs), also known as non-parametric structural equation models (NP-SEMs), are widely used for causal modeling purposes. In this paper, we give a rigorous treatment of structural causal models, dealing with measure-theoretic complications that arise in the presence of cyclic relations. The cent...
computer science
10,045
A Survey of Credit Card Fraud Detection Techniques: Data and Technique Oriented Perspective
cs.CR
Credit card plays a very important rule in today's economy. It becomes an unavoidable part of household, business and global activities. Although using credit cards provides enormous benefits when used carefully and responsibly,significant credit and financial damages may be caused by fraudulent activities. Many techni...
computer science
10,046
Training an Interactive Humanoid Robot Using Multimodal Deep Reinforcement Learning
cs.LG
Training robots to perceive, act and communicate using multiple modalities still represents a challenging problem, particularly if robots are expected to learn efficiently from small sets of example interactions. We describe a learning approach as a step in this direction, where we teach a humanoid robot how to play th...
computer science
10,047
BliStrTune: Hierarchical Invention of Theorem Proving Strategies
cs.LO
Inventing targeted proof search strategies for specific problem sets is a difficult task. State-of-the-art automated theorem provers (ATPs) such as E allow a large number of user-specified proof search strategies described in a rich domain specific language. Several machine learning methods that invent strategies autom...
computer science
10,048
SeDMiD for Confusion Detection: Uncovering Mind State from Time Series Brain Wave Data
cs.AI
Understanding how brain functions has been an intriguing topic for years. With the recent progress on collecting massive data and developing advanced technology, people have become interested in addressing the challenge of decoding brain wave data into meaningful mind states, with many machine learning models and algor...
computer science
10,049
On the Usability of Probably Approximately Correct Implication Bases
cs.AI
We revisit the notion of probably approximately correct implication bases from the literature and present a first formulation in the language of formal concept analysis, with the goal to investigate whether such bases represent a suitable substitute for exact implication bases in practical use-cases. To this end, we qu...
computer science
10,050
Toward negotiable reinforcement learning: shifting priorities in Pareto optimal sequential decision-making
cs.AI
Existing multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) algorithms do not account for objectives that arise from players with differing beliefs. Concretely, consider two players with different beliefs and utility functions who may cooperate to build a machine that takes actions on their behalf. A representation is neede...
computer science
10,051
Learning local trajectories for high precision robotic tasks : application to KUKA LBR iiwa Cartesian positioning
cs.AI
To ease the development of robot learning in industry, two conditions need to be fulfilled. Manipulators must be able to learn high accuracy and precision tasks while being safe for workers in the factory. In this paper, we extend previously submitted work which consists in rapid learning of local high accuracy behavio...
computer science
10,052
Real-Time Bidding by Reinforcement Learning in Display Advertising
cs.LG
The majority of online display ads are served through real-time bidding (RTB) --- each ad display impression is auctioned off in real-time when it is just being generated from a user visit. To place an ad automatically and optimally, it is critical for advertisers to devise a learning algorithm to cleverly bid an ad im...
computer science
10,053
Real-time eSports Match Result Prediction
stat.AP
In this paper, we try to predict the winning team of a match in the multiplayer eSports game Dota 2. To address the weaknesses of previous work, we consider more aspects of prior (pre-match) features from individual players' match history, as well as real-time (during-match) features at each minute as the match progres...
computer science
10,054
Residual LSTM: Design of a Deep Recurrent Architecture for Distant Speech Recognition
cs.LG
In this paper, a novel architecture for a deep recurrent neural network, residual LSTM is introduced. A plain LSTM has an internal memory cell that can learn long term dependencies of sequential data. It also provides a temporal shortcut path to avoid vanishing or exploding gradients in the temporal domain. The residua...
computer science
10,055
Achieving Privacy in the Adversarial Multi-Armed Bandit
cs.LG
In this paper, we improve the previously best known regret bound to achieve $\epsilon$-differential privacy in oblivious adversarial bandits from $\mathcal{O}{(T^{2/3}/\epsilon)}$ to $\mathcal{O}{(\sqrt{T} \ln T /\epsilon)}$. This is achieved by combining a Laplace Mechanism with EXP3. We show that though EXP3 is alrea...
computer science
10,056
Label Propagation on K-partite Graphs with Heterophily
cs.LG
In this paper, for the first time, we study label propagation in heterogeneous graphs under heterophily assumption. Homophily label propagation (i.e., two connected nodes share similar labels) in homogeneous graph (with same types of vertices and relations) has been extensively studied before. Unfortunately, real-life ...
computer science
10,057
ENIGMA: Efficient Learning-based Inference Guiding Machine
cs.LO
ENIGMA is a learning-based method for guiding given clause selection in saturation-based theorem provers. Clauses from many proof searches are classified as positive and negative based on their participation in the proofs. An efficient classification model is trained on this data, using fast feature-based characterizat...
computer science
10,058
Deep Network Guided Proof Search
cs.AI
Deep learning techniques lie at the heart of several significant AI advances in recent years including object recognition and detection, image captioning, machine translation, speech recognition and synthesis, and playing the game of Go. Automated first-order theorem provers can aid in the formalization and verificatio...
computer science
10,059
Fast Exact k-Means, k-Medians and Bregman Divergence Clustering in 1D
cs.DS
The $k$-Means clustering problem on $n$ points is NP-Hard for any dimension $d\ge 2$, however, for the 1D case there exist exact polynomial time algorithms. Previous literature reported an $O(kn^2)$ time dynamic programming algorithm that uses $O(kn)$ space. We present a new algorithm computing the optimal clustering i...
computer science
10,060
Click Through Rate Prediction for Contextual Advertisment Using Linear Regression
cs.IR
This research presents an innovative and unique way of solving the advertisement prediction problem which is considered as a learning problem over the past several years. Online advertising is a multi-billion-dollar industry and is growing every year with a rapid pace. The goal of this research is to enhance click thro...
computer science
10,061
Towards "AlphaChem": Chemical Synthesis Planning with Tree Search and Deep Neural Network Policies
cs.AI
Retrosynthesis is a technique to plan the chemical synthesis of organic molecules, for example drugs, agro- and fine chemicals. In retrosynthesis, a search tree is built by analysing molecules recursively and dissecting them into simpler molecular building blocks until one obtains a set of known building blocks. The se...
computer science
10,062
Traffic Lights with Auction-Based Controllers: Algorithms and Real-World Data
cs.AI
Real-time optimization of traffic flow addresses important practical problems: reducing a driver's wasted time, improving city-wide efficiency, reducing gas emissions and improving air quality. Much of the current research in traffic-light optimization relies on extending the capabilities of traffic lights to either co...
computer science
10,063
A Theoretical Analysis of First Heuristics of Crowdsourced Entity Resolution
cs.DB
Entity resolution (ER) is the task of identifying all records in a database that refer to the same underlying entity, and are therefore duplicates of each other. Due to inherent ambiguity of data representation and poor data quality, ER is a challenging task for any automated process. As a remedy, human-powered ER via ...
computer science
10,064
Graph Based Relational Features for Collective Classification
cs.IR
Statistical Relational Learning (SRL) methods have shown that classification accuracy can be improved by integrating relations between samples. Techniques such as iterative classification or relaxation labeling achieve this by propagating information between related samples during the inference process. When only a few...
computer science
10,065
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning in Sequential Social Dilemmas
cs.MA
Matrix games like Prisoner's Dilemma have guided research on social dilemmas for decades. However, they necessarily treat the choice to cooperate or defect as an atomic action. In real-world social dilemmas these choices are temporally extended. Cooperativeness is a property that applies to policies, not elementary act...
computer science
10,066
Revisiting Distributed Synchronous SGD
cs.DC
Distributed training of deep learning models on large-scale training data is typically conducted with asynchronous stochastic optimization to maximize the rate of updates, at the cost of additional noise introduced from asynchrony. In contrast, the synchronous approach is often thought to be impractical due to idle tim...
computer science
10,067
Hemingway: Modeling Distributed Optimization Algorithms
cs.DC
Distributed optimization algorithms are widely used in many industrial machine learning applications. However choosing the appropriate algorithm and cluster size is often difficult for users as the performance and convergence rate of optimization algorithms vary with the size of the cluster. In this paper we make the c...
computer science
10,068
Towards a Common Implementation of Reinforcement Learning for Multiple Robotic Tasks
cs.AI
Mobile robots are increasingly being employed for performing complex tasks in dynamic environments. Reinforcement learning (RL) methods are recognized to be promising for specifying such tasks in a relatively simple manner. However, the strong dependency between the learning method and the task to learn is a well-known...
computer science
10,069
DeepCloak: Masking Deep Neural Network Models for Robustness Against Adversarial Samples
cs.LG
Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks (DNN) are vulnerable to adversarial samples: maliciously-perturbed samples crafted to yield incorrect model outputs. Such attacks can severely undermine DNN systems, particularly in security-sensitive settings. It was observed that an adversary could easily generate a...
computer science
10,070
Strongly-Typed Agents are Guaranteed to Interact Safely
cs.LG
As artificial agents proliferate, it is becoming increasingly important to ensure that their interactions with one another are well-behaved. In this paper, we formalize a common-sense notion of when algorithms are well-behaved: an algorithm is safe if it does no harm. Motivated by recent progress in deep learning, we f...
computer science
10,071
Analysis of Agent Expertise in Ms. Pac-Man using Value-of-Information-based Policies
cs.LG
Conventional reinforcement learning methods for Markov decision processes rely on weakly-guided, stochastic searches to drive the learning process. It can therefore be difficult to predict what agent behaviors might emerge. In this paper, we consider an information-theoretic cost function for performing constrained sto...
computer science
10,072
Stabilising Experience Replay for Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
cs.AI
Many real-world problems, such as network packet routing and urban traffic control, are naturally modeled as multi-agent reinforcement learning (RL) problems. However, existing multi-agent RL methods typically scale poorly in the problem size. Therefore, a key challenge is to translate the success of deep learning on s...
computer science
10,073
Virtual-to-real Deep Reinforcement Learning: Continuous Control of Mobile Robots for Mapless Navigation
cs.RO
We present a learning-based mapless motion planner by taking the sparse 10-dimensional range findings and the target position with respect to the mobile robot coordinate frame as input and the continuous steering commands as output. Traditional motion planners for mobile ground robots with a laser range sensor mostly d...
computer science
10,074
Truth and Regret in Online Scheduling
cs.GT
We consider a scheduling problem where a cloud service provider has multiple units of a resource available over time. Selfish clients submit jobs, each with an arrival time, deadline, length, and value. The service provider's goal is to implement a truthful online mechanism for scheduling jobs so as to maximize the soc...
computer science
10,075
Metric Learning for Generalizing Spatial Relations to New Objects
cs.RO
Human-centered environments are rich with a wide variety of spatial relations between everyday objects. For autonomous robots to operate effectively in such environments, they should be able to reason about these relations and generalize them to objects with different shapes and sizes. For example, having learned to pl...
computer science
10,076
Towards Generalization and Simplicity in Continuous Control
cs.LG
This work shows that policies with simple linear and RBF parameterizations can be trained to solve a variety of continuous control tasks, including the OpenAI gym benchmarks. The performance of these trained policies are competitive with state of the art results, obtained with more elaborate parameterizations such as f...
computer science
10,077
Robust Adversarial Reinforcement Learning
cs.LG
Deep neural networks coupled with fast simulation and improved computation have led to recent successes in the field of reinforcement learning (RL). However, most current RL-based approaches fail to generalize since: (a) the gap between simulation and real world is so large that policy-learning approaches fail to trans...
computer science
10,078
An Integrated and Scalable Platform for Proactive Event-Driven Traffic Management
cs.AI
Traffic on freeways can be managed by means of ramp meters from Road Traffic Control rooms. Human operators cannot efficiently manage a network of ramp meters. To support them, we present an intelligent platform for traffic management which includes a new ramp metering coordination scheme in the decision making module,...
computer science
10,079
Learning a Unified Control Policy for Safe Falling
cs.RO
Being able to fall safely is a necessary motor skill for humanoids performing highly dynamic tasks, such as running and jumping. We propose a new method to learn a policy that minimizes the maximal impulse during the fall. The optimization solves for both a discrete contact planning problem and a continuous optimal con...
computer science
10,080
Efficient Simulation of Financial Stress Testing Scenarios with Suppes-Bayes Causal Networks
cs.LG
The most recent financial upheavals have cast doubt on the adequacy of some of the conventional quantitative risk management strategies, such as VaR (Value at Risk), in many common situations. Consequently, there has been an increasing need for verisimilar financial stress testings, namely simulating and analyzing fina...
computer science
10,081
Real-Time Machine Learning: The Missing Pieces
cs.DC
Machine learning applications are increasingly deployed not only to serve predictions using static models, but also as tightly-integrated components of feedback loops involving dynamic, real-time decision making. These applications pose a new set of requirements, none of which are difficult to achieve in isolation, but...
computer science
10,082
Weighted Voting Via No-Regret Learning
cs.GT
Voting systems typically treat all voters equally. We argue that perhaps they should not: Voters who have supported good choices in the past should be given higher weight than voters who have supported bad ones. To develop a formal framework for desirable weighting schemes, we draw on no-regret learning. Specifically, ...
computer science
10,083
Deep Decentralized Multi-task Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning under Partial Observability
cs.LG
Many real-world tasks involve multiple agents with partial observability and limited communication. Learning is challenging in these settings due to local viewpoints of agents, which perceive the world as non-stationary due to concurrently-exploring teammates. Approaches that learn specialized policies for individual t...
computer science
10,084
Information-theoretic Model Identification and Policy Search using Physics Engines with Application to Robotic Manipulation
cs.RO
We consider the problem of a robot learning the mechanical properties of objects through physical interaction with the object, and introduce a practical, data-efficient approach for identifying the motion models of these objects. The proposed method utilizes a physics engine, where the robot seeks to identify the inert...
computer science
10,085
Learning Visual Servoing with Deep Features and Fitted Q-Iteration
cs.LG
Visual servoing involves choosing actions that move a robot in response to observations from a camera, in order to reach a goal configuration in the world. Standard visual servoing approaches typically rely on manually designed features and analytical dynamics models, which limits their generalization capability and of...
computer science
10,086
Brief Notes on Hard Takeoff, Value Alignment, and Coherent Extrapolated Volition
cs.AI
I make some basic observations about hard takeoff, value alignment, and coherent extrapolated volition, concepts which have been central in analyses of superintelligent AI systems.
computer science
10,087
Neural Audio Synthesis of Musical Notes with WaveNet Autoencoders
cs.LG
Generative models in vision have seen rapid progress due to algorithmic improvements and the availability of high-quality image datasets. In this paper, we offer contributions in both these areas to enable similar progress in audio modeling. First, we detail a powerful new WaveNet-style autoencoder model that condition...
computer science
10,088
Embodied Artificial Intelligence through Distributed Adaptive Control: An Integrated Framework
cs.AI
In this paper, we argue that the future of Artificial Intelligence research resides in two keywords: integration and embodiment. We support this claim by analyzing the recent advances of the field. Regarding integration, we note that the most impactful recent contributions have been made possible through the integratio...
computer science
10,089
Fully Distributed and Asynchronized Stochastic Gradient Descent for Networked Systems
cs.LG
This paper considers a general data-fitting problem over a networked system, in which many computing nodes are connected by an undirected graph. This kind of problem can find many real-world applications and has been studied extensively in the literature. However, existing solutions either need a central controller for...
computer science
10,090
Monte Carlo Tree Search with Sampled Information Relaxation Dual Bounds
math.OC
Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), most famously used in game-play artificial intelligence (e.g., the game of Go), is a well-known strategy for constructing approximate solutions to sequential decision problems. Its primary innovation is the use of a heuristic, known as a default policy, to obtain Monte Carlo estimates of...
computer science
10,091
Learning of Human-like Algebraic Reasoning Using Deep Feedforward Neural Networks
cs.AI
There is a wide gap between symbolic reasoning and deep learning. In this research, we explore the possibility of using deep learning to improve symbolic reasoning. Briefly, in a reasoning system, a deep feedforward neural network is used to guide rewriting processes after learning from algebraic reasoning examples pro...
computer science
10,092
Maximum Resilience of Artificial Neural Networks
cs.LG
The deployment of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in safety-critical applications poses a number of new verification and certification challenges. In particular, for ANN-enabled self-driving vehicles it is important to establish properties about the resilience of ANNs to noisy or even maliciously manipulated sensory ...
computer science
10,093
Formal Verification of Piece-Wise Linear Feed-Forward Neural Networks
cs.LO
We present an approach for the verification of feed-forward neural networks in which all nodes have a piece-wise linear activation function. Such networks are often used in deep learning and have been shown to be hard to verify for modern satisfiability modulo theory (SMT) and integer linear programming (ILP) solvers. ...
computer science
10,094
SLDR-DL: A Framework for SLD-Resolution with Deep Learning
cs.AI
This paper introduces an SLD-resolution technique based on deep learning. This technique enables neural networks to learn from old and successful resolution processes and to use learnt experiences to guide new resolution processes. An implementation of this technique is named SLDR-DL. It includes a Prolog library of de...
computer science
10,095
Data Readiness Levels
cs.DB
Application of models to data is fraught. Data-generating collaborators often only have a very basic understanding of the complications of collating, processing and curating data. Challenges include: poor data collection practices, missing values, inconvenient storage mechanisms, intellectual property, security and pri...
computer science
10,096
Probabilistically Safe Policy Transfer
cs.RO
Although learning-based methods have great potential for robotics, one concern is that a robot that updates its parameters might cause large amounts of damage before it learns the optimal policy. We formalize the idea of safe learning in a probabilistic sense by defining an optimization problem: we desire to maximize t...
computer science
10,097
Learning to Represent Haptic Feedback for Partially-Observable Tasks
cs.RO
The sense of touch, being the earliest sensory system to develop in a human body [1], plays a critical part of our daily interaction with the environment. In order to successfully complete a task, many manipulation interactions require incorporating haptic feedback. However, manually designing a feedback mechanism can ...
computer science
10,098
Automatic Goal Generation for Reinforcement Learning Agents
cs.LG
Reinforcement learning is a powerful technique to train an agent to perform a task. However, an agent that is trained using reinforcement learning is only capable of achieving the single task that is specified via its reward function. Such an approach does not scale well to settings in which an agent needs to perform a...
computer science
10,099
Atari games and Intel processors
cs.DC
The asynchronous nature of the state-of-the-art reinforcement learning algorithms such as the Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic algorithm, makes them exceptionally suitable for CPU computations. However, given the fact that deep reinforcement learning often deals with interpreting visual information, a large part of ...
computer science
10,100
Detection Algorithms for Communication Systems Using Deep Learning
cs.LG
The design and analysis of communication systems typically rely on the development of mathematical models that describe the underlying communication channel, which dictates the relationship between the transmitted and the received signals. However, in some systems, such as molecular communication systems where chemical...
computer science