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TOMAAT: volumetric medical image analysis as a cloud service
cs.CV
Deep learning has been recently applied to a multitude of computer vision and medical image analysis problems. Although recent research efforts have improved the state of the art, most of the methods cannot be easily accessed, compared or used by either researchers or the general public. Researchers often publish their...
computer science
40,311
Adaptive Polar Active Contour for Segmentation and Tracking in Ultrasound Videos
eess.IV
Detection of relative changes in circulating blood volume is important to guide resuscitation and manage a variety of medical conditions including sepsis, trauma, dialysis and congestive heart failure. Recent studies have shown that estimates of circulating blood volume can be obtained from the cross-sectional area (CS...
computer science
40,312
Fusion of stereo and still monocular depth estimates in a self-supervised learning context
cs.CV
We study how autonomous robots can learn by themselves to improve their depth estimation capability. In particular, we investigate a self-supervised learning setup in which stereo vision depth estimates serve as targets for a convolutional neural network (CNN) that transforms a single still image to a dense depth map. ...
computer science
40,313
A Survey of Deep Learning Techniques for Mobile Robot Applications
cs.CV
Advancements in deep learning over the years have attracted research into how deep artificial neural networks can be used in robotic systems. This research survey will present a summarization of the current research with a specific focus on the gains and obstacles for deep learning to be applied to mobile robotics.
computer science
40,314
Joint 3D Face Reconstruction and Dense Alignment with Position Map Regression Network
cs.CV
We propose a straightforward method that simultaneously reconstructs the 3D facial structure and provides dense alignment. To achieve this, we design a 2D representation called UV position map which records the 3D shape of a complete face in UV space, then train a simple Convolutional Neural Network to regress it from ...
computer science
40,315
Densely Connected Pyramid Dehazing Network
cs.CV
We propose a new end-to-end single image dehazing method, called Densely Connected Pyramid Dehazing Network (DCPDN), which can jointly learn the transmission map, atmospheric light and dehazing all together. The end-to-end learning is achieved by directly embedding the atmospheric scattering model into the network, the...
computer science
40,316
How accurate are the time delay estimates in gravitational lensing?
cs.LG
We present a novel approach to estimate the time delay between light curves of multiple images in a gravitationally lensed system, based on Kernel methods in the context of machine learning. We perform various experiments with artificially generated irregularly-sampled data sets to study the effect of the various level...
computer science
40,317
Practical algorithms for on-line sampling
cs.LG
One of the core applications of machine learning to knowledge discovery consists on building a function (a hypothesis) from a given amount of data (for instance a decision tree or a neural network) such that we can use it afterwards to predict new instances of the data. In this paper, we focus on a particular situation...
computer science
40,318
Predicting the expected behavior of agents that learn about agents: the CLRI framework
cs.MA
We describe a framework and equations used to model and predict the behavior of multi-agent systems (MASs) with learning agents. A difference equation is used for calculating the progression of an agent's error in its decision function, thereby telling us how the agent is expected to fare in the MAS. The equation relie...
computer science
40,319
MOO: A Methodology for Online Optimization through Mining the Offline Optimum
cs.DS
Ports, warehouses and courier services have to decide online how an arriving task is to be served in order that cost is minimized (or profit maximized). These operators have a wealth of historical data on task assignments; can these data be mined for knowledge or rules that can help the decision-making? MOO is a nove...
computer science
40,320
Data Mining to Measure and Improve the Success of Web Sites
cs.LG
For many companies, competitiveness in e-commerce requires a successful presence on the web. Web sites are used to establish the company's image, to promote and sell goods and to provide customer support. The success of a web site affects and reflects directly the success of the company in the electronic market. In thi...
computer science
40,321
Design of an Electro-Hydraulic System Using Neuro-Fuzzy Techniques
cs.RO
Increasing demands in performance and quality make drive systems fundamental parts in the progressive automation of industrial processes. Their conventional models become inappropriate and have limited scope if one requires a precise and fast performance. So, it is important to incorporate learning capabilities into dr...
computer science
40,322
Torque Ripple Minimization in a Switched Reluctance Drive by Neuro-Fuzzy Compensation
cs.RO
Simple power electronic drive circuit and fault tolerance of converter are specific advantages of SRM drives, but excessive torque ripple has limited its use to special applications. It is well known that controlling the current shape adequately can minimize the torque ripple. This paper presents a new method for shapi...
computer science
40,323
A Fuzzy Relational Identification Algorithm and Its Application to Predict The Behaviour of a Motor Drive System
cs.RO
Fuzzy relational identification builds a relational model describing systems behaviour by a nonlinear mapping between its variables. In this paper, we propose a new fuzzy relational algorithm based on simplified max-min relational equation. The algorithm presents an adaptation method applied to gravity-center of each f...
computer science
40,324
Applications of Data Mining to Electronic Commerce
cs.LG
Electronic commerce is emerging as the killer domain for data mining technology. The following are five desiderata for success. Seldom are they they all present in one data mining application. 1. Data with rich descriptions. For example, wide customer records with many potentially useful fields allow data mining al...
computer science
40,325
Fault Detection using Immune-Based Systems and Formal Language Algorithms
cs.CE
This paper describes two approaches for fault detection: an immune-based mechanism and a formal language algorithm. The first one is based on the feature of immune systems in distinguish any foreign cell from the body own cell. The formal language approach assumes the system as a linguistic source capable of generating...
computer science
40,326
Web Mining Research: A Survey
cs.LG
With the huge amount of information available online, the World Wide Web is a fertile area for data mining research. The Web mining research is at the cross road of research from several research communities, such as database, information retrieval, and within AI, especially the sub-areas of machine learning and natura...
computer science
40,327
Provably Fast and Accurate Recovery of Evolutionary Trees through Harmonic Greedy Triplets
cs.DS
We give a greedy learning algorithm for reconstructing an evolutionary tree based on a certain harmonic average on triplets of terminal taxa. After the pairwise distances between terminal taxa are estimated from sequence data, the algorithm runs in O(n^2) time using O(n) work space, where n is the number of terminal ta...
computer science
40,328
Learning to Cooperate via Policy Search
cs.LG
Cooperative games are those in which both agents share the same payoff structure. Value-based reinforcement-learning algorithms, such as variants of Q-learning, have been applied to learning cooperative games, but they only apply when the game state is completely observable to both agents. Policy search methods are a r...
computer science
40,329
Bipartite graph partitioning and data clustering
cs.IR
Many data types arising from data mining applications can be modeled as bipartite graphs, examples include terms and documents in a text corpus, customers and purchasing items in market basket analysis and reviewers and movies in a movie recommender system. In this paper, we propose a new data clustering method based o...
computer science
40,330
Machine Learning in Automated Text Categorization
cs.IR
The automated categorization (or classification) of texts into predefined categories has witnessed a booming interest in the last ten years, due to the increased availability of documents in digital form and the ensuing need to organize them. In the research community the dominant approach to this problem is based on m...
computer science
40,331
The performance of the batch learner algorithm
cs.LG
We analyze completely the convergence speed of the \emph{batch learning algorithm}, and compare its speed to that of the memoryless learning algorithm and of learning with memory. We show that the batch learning algorithm is never worse than the memoryless learning algorithm (at least asymptotically). Its performance \...
computer science
40,332
The Dynamics of AdaBoost Weights Tells You What's Hard to Classify
cs.LG
The dynamical evolution of weights in the Adaboost algorithm contains useful information about the role that the associated data points play in the built of the Adaboost model. In particular, the dynamics induces a bipartition of the data set into two (easy/hard) classes. Easy points are ininfluential in the making of ...
computer science
40,333
Learning to Play Games in Extensive Form by Valuation
cs.LG
A valuation for a player in a game in extensive form is an assignment of numeric values to the players moves. The valuation reflects the desirability moves. We assume a myopic player, who chooses a move with the highest valuation. Valuations can also be revised, and hopefully improved, after each play of the game. Here...
computer science
40,334
On Learning by Exchanging Advice
cs.LG
One of the main questions concerning learning in Multi-Agent Systems is: (How) can agents benefit from mutual interaction during the learning process?. This paper describes the study of an interactive advice-exchange mechanism as a possible way to improve agents' learning performance. The advice-exchange technique, dis...
computer science
40,335
Capturing Knowledge of User Preferences: ontologies on recommender systems
cs.LG
Tools for filtering the World Wide Web exist, but they are hampered by the difficulty of capturing user preferences in such a dynamic environment. We explore the acquisition of user profiles by unobtrusive monitoring of browsing behaviour and application of supervised machine-learning techniques coupled with an ontolog...
computer science
40,336
Interface agents: A review of the field
cs.MA
This paper reviews the origins of interface agents, discusses challenges that exist within the interface agent field and presents a survey of current attempts to find solutions to these challenges. A history of agent systems from their birth in the 1960's to the current day is described, along with the issues they try ...
computer science
40,337
Exploiting Synergy Between Ontologies and Recommender Systems
cs.LG
Recommender systems learn about user preferences over time, automatically finding things of similar interest. This reduces the burden of creating explicit queries. Recommender systems do, however, suffer from cold-start problems where no initial information is available early on upon which to base recommendations. Sema...
computer science
40,338
Required sample size for learning sparse Bayesian networks with many variables
cs.LG
Learning joint probability distributions on n random variables requires exponential sample size in the generic case. Here we consider the case that a temporal (or causal) order of the variables is known and that the (unknown) graph of causal dependencies has bounded in-degree Delta. Then the joint measure is uniquely d...
computer science
40,339
Mining the Web for Lexical Knowledge to Improve Keyphrase Extraction: Learning from Labeled and Unlabeled Data
cs.LG
Keyphrases are useful for a variety of purposes, including summarizing, indexing, labeling, categorizing, clustering, highlighting, browsing, and searching. The task of automatic keyphrase extraction is to select keyphrases from within the text of a given document. Automatic keyphrase extraction makes it feasible to ge...
computer science
40,340
Unsupervised Learning of Semantic Orientation from a Hundred-Billion-Word Corpus
cs.LG
The evaluative character of a word is called its semantic orientation. A positive semantic orientation implies desirability (e.g., "honest", "intrepid") and a negative semantic orientation implies undesirability (e.g., "disturbing", "superfluous"). This paper introduces a simple algorithm for unsupervised learning of s...
computer science
40,341
Learning to Extract Keyphrases from Text
cs.LG
Many academic journals ask their authors to provide a list of about five to fifteen key words, to appear on the first page of each article. Since these key words are often phrases of two or more words, we prefer to call them keyphrases. There is a surprisingly wide variety of tasks for which keyphrases are useful, as w...
computer science
40,342
Extraction of Keyphrases from Text: Evaluation of Four Algorithms
cs.LG
This report presents an empirical evaluation of four algorithms for automatically extracting keywords and keyphrases from documents. The four algorithms are compared using five different collections of documents. For each document, we have a target set of keyphrases, which were generated by hand. The target keyphrases ...
computer science
40,343
Mapping Subsets of Scholarly Information
cs.IR
We illustrate the use of machine learning techniques to analyze, structure, maintain, and evolve a large online corpus of academic literature. An emerging field of research can be identified as part of an existing corpus, permitting the implementation of a more coherent community structure for its practitioners.
computer science
40,344
Semantic Linking - a Context-Based Approach to Interactivity in Hypermedia
cs.IR
The semantic Web initiates new, high level access schemes to online content and applications. One area of superior need for a redefined content exploration is given by on-line educational applications and their concepts of interactivity in the framework of open hypermedia systems. In the present paper we discuss aspect...
computer science
40,345
Hypermedia Learning Objects System - On the Way to a Semantic Educational Web
cs.IR
While eLearning systems become more and more popular in daily education, available applications lack opportunities to structure, annotate and manage their contents in a high-level fashion. General efforts to improve these deficits are taken by initiatives to define rich meta data sets and a semanticWeb layer. In the pr...
computer science
40,346
Online convex optimization in the bandit setting: gradient descent without a gradient
cs.LG
We consider a the general online convex optimization framework introduced by Zinkevich. In this setting, there is a sequence of convex functions. Each period, we must choose a signle point (from some feasible set) and pay a cost equal to the value of the next function on our chosen point. Zinkevich shows that, if the e...
computer science
40,347
Journal of New Democratic Methods: An Introduction
cs.CY
This paper describes a new breed of academic journals that use statistical machine learning techniques to make them more democratic. In particular, not only can anyone submit an article, but anyone can also become a reviewer. Machine learning is used to decide which reviewers accurately represent the views of the journ...
computer science
40,348
On sample complexity for computational pattern recognition
cs.LG
In statistical setting of the pattern recognition problem the number of examples required to approximate an unknown labelling function is linear in the VC dimension of the target learning class. In this work we consider the question whether such bounds exist if we restrict our attention to computable pattern recognitio...
computer science
40,349
Selection in Scale-Free Small World
cs.LG
In this paper we compare the performance characteristics of our selection based learning algorithm for Web crawlers with the characteristics of the reinforcement learning algorithm. The task of the crawlers is to find new information on the Web. The selection algorithm, called weblog update, modifies the starting URL l...
computer science
40,350
The Signed Distance Function: A New Tool for Binary Classification
cs.LG
From a geometric perspective most nonlinear binary classification algorithms, including state of the art versions of Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Radial Basis Function Network (RBFN) classifiers, and are based on the idea of reconstructing indicator functions. We propose instead to use reconstruction of the signed ...
computer science
40,351
Parameter Estimation of Hidden Diffusion Processes: Particle Filter vs. Modified Baum-Welch Algorithm
cs.DS
We propose a new method for the estimation of parameters of hidden diffusion processes. Based on parametrization of the transition matrix, the Baum-Welch algorithm is improved. The algorithm is compared to the particle filter in application to the noisy periodic systems. It is shown that the modified Baum-Welch algorit...
computer science
40,352
Online Learning and Resource-Bounded Dimension: Winnow Yields New Lower Bounds for Hard Sets
cs.CC
We establish a relationship between the online mistake-bound model of learning and resource-bounded dimension. This connection is combined with the Winnow algorithm to obtain new results about the density of hard sets under adaptive reductions. This improves previous work of Fu (1995) and Lutz and Zhao (2000), and solv...
computer science
40,353
How to Beat the Adaptive Multi-Armed Bandit
cs.DS
The multi-armed bandit is a concise model for the problem of iterated decision-making under uncertainty. In each round, a gambler must pull one of $K$ arms of a slot machine, without any foreknowledge of their payouts, except that they are uniformly bounded. A standard objective is to minimize the gambler's regret, def...
computer science
40,354
Metric State Space Reinforcement Learning for a Vision-Capable Mobile Robot
cs.RO
We address the problem of autonomously learning controllers for vision-capable mobile robots. We extend McCallum's (1995) Nearest-Sequence Memory algorithm to allow for general metrics over state-action trajectories. We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach by successfully running our algorithm on a real mobile r...
computer science
40,355
Revealing the Autonomous System Taxonomy: The Machine Learning Approach
cs.NI
Although the Internet AS-level topology has been extensively studied over the past few years, little is known about the details of the AS taxonomy. An AS "node" can represent a wide variety of organizations, e.g., large ISP, or small private business, university, with vastly different network characteristics, external ...
computer science
40,356
HCI and Educational Metrics as Tools for VLE Evaluation
cs.HC
The general set of HCI and Educational principles are considered and a classification system constructed. A frequency analysis of principles is used to obtain the most significant set. Metrics are devised to provide objective measures of these principles and a consistent testing regime devised. These principles are use...
computer science
40,357
Query Chains: Learning to Rank from Implicit Feedback
cs.LG
This paper presents a novel approach for using clickthrough data to learn ranked retrieval functions for web search results. We observe that users searching the web often perform a sequence, or chain, of queries with a similar information need. Using query chains, we generate new types of preference judgments from sear...
computer science
40,358
Evaluating the Robustness of Learning from Implicit Feedback
cs.LG
This paper evaluates the robustness of learning from implicit feedback in web search. In particular, we create a model of user behavior by drawing upon user studies in laboratory and real-world settings. The model is used to understand the effect of user behavior on the performance of a learning algorithm for ranked re...
computer science
40,359
Minimally Invasive Randomization for Collecting Unbiased Preferences from Clickthrough Logs
cs.IR
Clickthrough data is a particularly inexpensive and plentiful resource to obtain implicit relevance feedback for improving and personalizing search engines. However, it is well known that the probability of a user clicking on a result is strongly biased toward documents presented higher in the result set irrespective o...
computer science
40,360
The generating function of the polytope of transport matrices $U(r,c)$ as a positive semidefinite kernel of the marginals $r$ and $c$
cs.LG
This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial error in the proof of Lemma 5.
computer science
40,361
Motion Primitives for Robotic Flight Control
cs.RO
We introduce a simple framework for learning aggressive maneuvers in flight control of UAVs. Having inspired from biological environment, dynamic movement primitives are analyzed and extended using nonlinear contraction theory. Accordingly, primitives of an observed movement are stably combined and concatenated. We dem...
computer science
40,362
Mining Generalized Graph Patterns based on User Examples
cs.DS
There has been a lot of recent interest in mining patterns from graphs. Often, the exact structure of the patterns of interest is not known. This happens, for example, when molecular structures are mined to discover fragments useful as features in chemical compound classification task, or when web sites are mined to di...
computer science
40,363
A Relational Approach to Functional Decomposition of Logic Circuits
cs.DM
Functional decomposition of logic circuits has profound influence on all quality aspects of the cost-effective implementation of modern digital systems. In this paper, a relational approach to the decomposition of logic circuits is proposed. This approach is parallel to the normalization of relational databases, they a...
computer science
40,364
CSCR:Computer Supported Collaborative Research
cs.HC
It is suggested that a new area of CSCR (Computer Supported Collaborative Research) is distinguished from CSCW and CSCL and that the demarcation between the three areas could do with greater clarification and prescription.
computer science
40,365
A Delta Debugger for ILP Query Execution
cs.PL
Because query execution is the most crucial part of Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) algorithms, a lot of effort is invested in developing faster execution mechanisms. These execution mechanisms typically have a low-level implementation, making them hard to debug. Moreover, other factors such as the complexity of the ...
computer science
40,366
Learning Complexity Dimensions for a Continuous-Time Control System
math.OC
This paper takes a computational learning theory approach to a problem of linear systems identification. It is assumed that input signals have only a finite number k of frequency components, and systems to be identified have dimension no greater than n. The main result establishes that the sample complexity needed for ...
computer science
40,367
A Model for Prejudiced Learning in Noisy Environments
nlin.AO
Based on the heuristics that maintaining presumptions can be beneficial in uncertain environments, we propose a set of basic axioms for learning systems to incorporate the concept of prejudice. The simplest, memoryless model of a deterministic learning rule obeying the axioms is constructed, and shown to be equivalent ...
computer science
40,368
Combinatorial Approach to Object Analysis
nlin.AO
We present a perceptional mathematical model for image and signal analysis. A resemblance measure is defined, and submitted to an innovating combinatorial optimization algorithm. Numerical Simulations are also presented
computer science
40,369
Metric learning pairwise kernel for graph inference
cs.LG
Much recent work in bioinformatics has focused on the inference of various types of biological networks, representing gene regulation, metabolic processes, protein-protein interactions, etc. A common setting involves inferring network edges in a supervised fashion from a set of high-confidence edges, possibly character...
computer science
40,370
Improved Bounds on Quantum Learning Algorithms
cs.LG
In this article we give several new results on the complexity of algorithms that learn Boolean functions from quantum queries and quantum examples. Hunziker et al. conjectured that for any class C of Boolean functions, the number of quantum black-box queries which are required to exactly identify an unknown function ...
computer science
40,371
Statistical Mechanics of Nonlinear On-line Learning for Ensemble Teachers
cs.LG
We analyze the generalization performance of a student in a model composed of nonlinear perceptrons: a true teacher, ensemble teachers, and the student. We calculate the generalization error of the student analytically or numerically using statistical mechanics in the framework of on-line learning. We treat two well-kn...
computer science
40,372
Quantum Algorithms for Learning and Testing Juntas
cs.LG
In this article we develop quantum algorithms for learning and testing juntas, i.e. Boolean functions which depend only on an unknown set of k out of n input variables. Our aim is to develop efficient algorithms: - whose sample complexity has no dependence on n, the dimension of the domain the Boolean functions are d...
computer science
40,373
Virtual screening with support vector machines and structure kernels
cs.LG
Support vector machines and kernel methods have recently gained considerable attention in chemoinformatics. They offer generally good performance for problems of supervised classification or regression, and provide a flexible and computationally efficient framework to include relevant information and prior knowledge ab...
computer science
40,374
A Dichotomy Theorem for General Minimum Cost Homomorphism Problem
cs.LG
In the constraint satisfaction problem ($CSP$), the aim is to find an assignment of values to a set of variables subject to specified constraints. In the minimum cost homomorphism problem ($MinHom$), one is additionally given weights $c_{va}$ for every variable $v$ and value $a$, and the aim is to find an assignment $f...
computer science
40,375
Filtering Additive Measurement Noise with Maximum Entropy in the Mean
cs.LG
The purpose of this note is to show how the method of maximum entropy in the mean (MEM) may be used to improve parametric estimation when the measurements are corrupted by large level of noise. The method is developed in the context on a concrete example: that of estimation of the parameter in an exponential distributi...
computer science
40,376
Learning for Dynamic Bidding in Cognitive Radio Resources
cs.LG
In this paper, we model the various wireless users in a cognitive radio network as a collection of selfish, autonomous agents that strategically interact in order to acquire the dynamically available spectrum opportunities. Our main focus is on developing solutions for wireless users to successfully compete with each o...
computer science
40,377
Fast Selection of Spectral Variables with B-Spline Compression
cs.LG
The large number of spectral variables in most data sets encountered in spectral chemometrics often renders the prediction of a dependent variable uneasy. The number of variables hopefully can be reduced, by using either projection techniques or selection methods; the latter allow for the interpretation of the selected...
computer science
40,378
Resampling methods for parameter-free and robust feature selection with mutual information
cs.LG
Combining the mutual information criterion with a forward feature selection strategy offers a good trade-off between optimality of the selected feature subset and computation time. However, it requires to set the parameter(s) of the mutual information estimator and to determine when to halt the forward procedure. These...
computer science
40,379
A Universal Kernel for Learning Regular Languages
cs.LG
We give a universal kernel that renders all the regular languages linearly separable. We are not able to compute this kernel efficiently and conjecture that it is intractable, but we do have an efficient $\eps$-approximation.
computer science
40,380
Reconstruction of Markov Random Fields from Samples: Some Easy Observations and Algorithms
cs.CC
Markov random fields are used to model high dimensional distributions in a number of applied areas. Much recent interest has been devoted to the reconstruction of the dependency structure from independent samples from the Markov random fields. We analyze a simple algorithm for reconstructing the underlying graph defini...
computer science
40,381
A New Theoretic Foundation for Cross-Layer Optimization
cs.NI
Cross-layer optimization solutions have been proposed in recent years to improve the performance of network users operating in a time-varying, error-prone wireless environment. However, these solutions often rely on ad-hoc optimization approaches, which ignore the different environmental dynamics experienced at various...
computer science
40,382
Improved Collaborative Filtering Algorithm via Information Transformation
cs.LG
In this paper, we propose a spreading activation approach for collaborative filtering (SA-CF). By using the opinion spreading process, the similarity between any users can be obtained. The algorithm has remarkably higher accuracy than the standard collaborative filtering (CF) using Pearson correlation. Furthermore, we ...
computer science
40,383
Online EM Algorithm for Latent Data Models
stat.CO
In this contribution, we propose a generic online (also sometimes called adaptive or recursive) version of the Expectation-Maximisation (EM) algorithm applicable to latent variable models of independent observations. Compared to the algorithm of Titterington (1984), this approach is more directly connected to the usual...
computer science
40,384
Sign Language Tutoring Tool
cs.LG
In this project, we have developed a sign language tutor that lets users learn isolated signs by watching recorded videos and by trying the same signs. The system records the user's video and analyses it. If the sign is recognized, both verbal and animated feedback is given to the user. The system is able to recognize ...
computer science
40,385
Isotropic PCA and Affine-Invariant Clustering
cs.LG
We present a new algorithm for clustering points in R^n. The key property of the algorithm is that it is affine-invariant, i.e., it produces the same partition for any affine transformation of the input. It has strong guarantees when the input is drawn from a mixture model. For a mixture of two arbitrary Gaussians, the...
computer science
40,386
Dependence Structure Estimation via Copula
cs.LG
We propose a new framework for dependence structure learning via copula. Copula is a statistical theory on dependence and measurement of association. Graphical models are considered as a type of special case of copula families, named product copula. In this paper, a nonparametric algorithm for copula estimation is pres...
computer science
40,387
On-line Learning of an Unlearnable True Teacher through Mobile Ensemble Teachers
cs.LG
On-line learning of a hierarchical learning model is studied by a method from statistical mechanics. In our model a student of a simple perceptron learns from not a true teacher directly, but ensemble teachers who learn from the true teacher with a perceptron learning rule. Since the true teacher and the ensemble teach...
computer science
40,388
An optimization problem on the sphere
cs.LG
We prove existence and uniqueness of the minimizer for the average geodesic distance to the points of a geodesically convex set on the sphere. This implies a corresponding existence and uniqueness result for an optimal algorithm for halfspace learning, when data and target functions are drawn from the uniform distribut...
computer science
40,389
Algorithms for Dynamic Spectrum Access with Learning for Cognitive Radio
cs.NI
We study the problem of dynamic spectrum sensing and access in cognitive radio systems as a partially observed Markov decision process (POMDP). A group of cognitive users cooperatively tries to exploit vacancies in primary (licensed) channels whose occupancies follow a Markovian evolution. We first consider the scenari...
computer science
40,390
Quantum classification
cs.LG
Quantum classification is defined as the task of predicting the associated class of an unknown quantum state drawn from an ensemble of pure states given a finite number of copies of this state. By recasting the state discrimination problem within the framework of Machine Learning (ML), we can use the notion of learning...
computer science
40,391
Multi-Armed Bandits in Metric Spaces
cs.DS
In a multi-armed bandit problem, an online algorithm chooses from a set of strategies in a sequence of trials so as to maximize the total payoff of the chosen strategies. While the performance of bandit algorithms with a small finite strategy set is quite well understood, bandit problems with large strategy sets are st...
computer science
40,392
Adaptive Base Class Boost for Multi-class Classification
cs.LG
We develop the concept of ABC-Boost (Adaptive Base Class Boost) for multi-class classification and present ABC-MART, a concrete implementation of ABC-Boost. The original MART (Multiple Additive Regression Trees) algorithm has been very successful in large-scale applications. For binary classification, ABC-MART recovers...
computer science
40,393
Non-Confluent NLC Graph Grammar Inference by Compressing Disjoint Subgraphs
cs.LG
Grammar inference deals with determining (preferable simple) models/grammars consistent with a set of observations. There is a large body of research on grammar inference within the theory of formal languages. However, there is surprisingly little known on grammar inference for graph grammars. In this paper we take a f...
computer science
40,394
Object Classification by means of Multi-Feature Concept Learning in a Multi Expert-Agent System
cs.MA
Classification of some objects in classes of concepts is an essential and even breathtaking task in many applications. A solution is discussed here based on Multi-Agent systems. A kernel of some expert agents in several classes is to consult a central agent decide among the classification problem of a certain object. T...
computer science
40,395
Evolvability need not imply learnability
cs.LG
We show that Boolean functions expressible as monotone disjunctive normal forms are PAC-evolvable under a uniform distribution on the Boolean cube if the hypothesis size is allowed to remain fixed. We further show that this result is insufficient to prove the PAC-learnability of monotone Boolean functions, thereby demo...
computer science
40,396
Learning convex bodies is hard
cs.LG
We show that learning a convex body in $\RR^d$, given random samples from the body, requires $2^{\Omega(\sqrt{d/\eps})}$ samples. By learning a convex body we mean finding a set having at most $\eps$ relative symmetric difference with the input body. To prove the lower bound we construct a hard to learn family of conve...
computer science
40,397
Why Global Performance is a Poor Metric for Verifying Convergence of Multi-agent Learning
cs.MA
Experimental verification has been the method of choice for verifying the stability of a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithm as the number of agents grows and theoretical analysis becomes prohibitively complex. For cooperative agents, where the ultimate goal is to optimize some global metric, the stabil...
computer science
40,398
Efficient Construction of Neighborhood Graphs by the Multiple Sorting Method
cs.DS
Neighborhood graphs are gaining popularity as a concise data representation in machine learning. However, naive graph construction by pairwise distance calculation takes $O(n^2)$ runtime for $n$ data points and this is prohibitively slow for millions of data points. For strings of equal length, the multiple sorting met...
computer science
40,399
Coevolutionary Genetic Algorithms for Establishing Nash Equilibrium in Symmetric Cournot Games
cs.GT
We use co-evolutionary genetic algorithms to model the players' learning process in several Cournot models, and evaluate them in terms of their convergence to the Nash Equilibrium. The "social-learning" versions of the two co-evolutionary algorithms we introduce, establish Nash Equilibrium in those models, in contrast ...
computer science
40,400
Online Learning of Assignments that Maximize Submodular Functions
cs.LG
Which ads should we display in sponsored search in order to maximize our revenue? How should we dynamically rank information sources to maximize value of information? These applications exhibit strong diminishing returns: Selection of redundant ads and information sources decreases their marginal utility. We show that ...
computer science
40,401
An Application of Bayesian classification to Interval Encoded Temporal mining with prioritized items
cs.DB
In real life, media information has time attributes either implicitly or explicitly known as temporal data. This paper investigates the usefulness of applying Bayesian classification to an interval encoded temporal database with prioritized items. The proposed method performs temporal mining by encoding the database wi...
computer science
40,402
Sharp Dichotomies for Regret Minimization in Metric Spaces
cs.DS
The Lipschitz multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem generalizes the classical multi-armed bandit problem by assuming one is given side information consisting of a priori upper bounds on the difference in expected payoff between certain pairs of strategies. Classical results of (Lai and Robbins 1985) and (Auer et al. 2002) i...
computer science
40,403
A Dynamic Near-Optimal Algorithm for Online Linear Programming
cs.DS
A natural optimization model that formulates many online resource allocation and revenue management problems is the online linear program (LP) in which the constraint matrix is revealed column by column along with the corresponding objective coefficient. In such a model, a decision variable has to be set each time a co...
computer science
40,404
Towards Industrialized Conception and Production of Serious Games
cs.LG
Serious Games (SGs) have experienced a tremendous outburst these last years. Video game companies have been producing fun, user-friendly SGs, but their educational value has yet to be proven. Meanwhile, cognition research scientist have been developing SGs in such a way as to guarantee an educational gain, but the fun ...
computer science
40,405
Training a Large Scale Classifier with the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm
cs.LG
In a previous publication we proposed discrete global optimization as a method to train a strong binary classifier constructed as a thresholded sum over weak classifiers. Our motivation was to cast the training of a classifier into a format amenable to solution by the quantum adiabatic algorithm. Applying adiabatic qua...
computer science
40,406
An ensemble approach for feature selection of Cyber Attack Dataset
cs.CR
Feature selection is an indispensable preprocessing step when mining huge datasets that can significantly improve the overall system performance. Therefore in this paper we focus on a hybrid approach of feature selection. This method falls into two phases. The filter phase select the features with highest information g...
computer science
40,407
The Gaussian Surface Area and Noise Sensitivity of Degree-$d$ Polynomials
cs.CC
We provide asymptotically sharp bounds for the Gaussian surface area and the Gaussian noise sensitivity of polynomial threshold functions. In particular we show that if $f$ is a degree-$d$ polynomial threshold function, then its Gaussian sensitivity at noise rate $\epsilon$ is less than some quantity asymptotic to $\fr...
computer science
40,408
Application of k Means Clustering algorithm for prediction of Students Academic Performance
cs.LG
The ability to monitor the progress of students academic performance is a critical issue to the academic community of higher learning. A system for analyzing students results based on cluster analysis and uses standard statistical algorithms to arrange their scores data according to the level of their performance is de...
computer science
40,409
A Complete Characterization of Statistical Query Learning with Applications to Evolvability
cs.CC
Statistical query (SQ) learning model of Kearns (1993) is a natural restriction of the PAC learning model in which a learning algorithm is allowed to obtain estimates of statistical properties of the examples but cannot see the examples themselves. We describe a new and simple characterization of the query complexity o...
computer science