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An Initial Seed Selection Algorithm for K-means Clustering of Georeferenced Data to Improve Replicability of Cluster Assignments for Mapping Application
cs.LG
K-means is one of the most widely used clustering algorithms in various disciplines, especially for large datasets. However the method is known to be highly sensitive to initial seed selection of cluster centers. K-means++ has been proposed to overcome this problem and has been shown to have better accuracy and computa...
computer science
40,711
CT-Mapper: Mapping Sparse Multimodal Cellular Trajectories using a Multilayer Transportation Network
cs.SI
Mobile phone data have recently become an attractive source of information about mobility behavior. Since cell phone data can be captured in a passive way for a large user population, they can be harnessed to collect well-sampled mobility information. In this paper, we propose CT-Mapper, an unsupervised algorithm that ...
computer science
40,712
Observing and Recommending from a Social Web with Biases
cs.DB
The research question this report addresses is: how, and to what extent, those directly involved with the design, development and employment of a specific black box algorithm can be certain that it is not unlawfully discriminating (directly and/or indirectly) against particular persons with protected characteristics (e...
computer science
40,713
Unbiased Comparative Evaluation of Ranking Functions
cs.IR
Eliciting relevance judgments for ranking evaluation is labor-intensive and costly, motivating careful selection of which documents to judge. Unlike traditional approaches that make this selection deterministically, probabilistic sampling has shown intriguing promise since it enables the design of estimators that are p...
computer science
40,714
Towards Reduced Reference Parametric Models for Estimating Audiovisual Quality in Multimedia Services
cs.MM
We have developed reduced reference parametric models for estimating perceived quality in audiovisual multimedia services. We have created 144 unique configurations for audiovisual content including various application and network parameters such as bitrates and distortions in terms of bandwidth, packet loss rate and j...
computer science
40,715
Convolutional Neural Networks For Automatic State-Time Feature Extraction in Reinforcement Learning Applied to Residential Load Control
cs.LG
Direct load control of a heterogeneous cluster of residential demand flexibility sources is a high-dimensional control problem with partial observability. This work proposes a novel approach that uses a convolutional neural network to extract hidden state-time features to mitigate the curse of partial observability. Mo...
computer science
40,716
Detection of epileptic seizure in EEG signals using linear least squares preprocessing
cs.LG
An epileptic seizure is a transient event of abnormal excessive neuronal discharge in the brain. This unwanted event can be obstructed by detection of electrical changes in the brain that happen before the seizure takes place. The automatic detection of seizures is necessary since the visual screening of EEG recordings...
computer science
40,717
A movie genre prediction based on Multivariate Bernoulli model and genre correlations
cs.IR
Movie ratings play an important role both in determining the likelihood of a potential viewer to watch the movie and in reflecting the current viewer satisfaction with the movie. They are available in several sources like the television guide, best-selling reference books, newspaper columns, and television programs. Fu...
computer science
40,718
Music transcription modelling and composition using deep learning
cs.SD
We apply deep learning methods, specifically long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, to music transcription modelling and composition. We build and train LSTM networks using approximately 23,000 music transcriptions expressed with a high-level vocabulary (ABC notation), and use them to generate new transcriptions. Our ...
computer science
40,719
Joint Sound Source Separation and Speaker Recognition
cs.SD
Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) has already been applied to learn speaker characterizations from single or non-simultaneous speech for speaker recognition applications. It is also known for its good performance in (blind) source separation for simultaneous speech. This paper explains how NMF can be used to join...
computer science
40,720
A game-theoretic version of Oakes' example for randomized forecasting
cs.LG
Using the game-theoretic framework for probability, Vovk and Shafer. have shown that it is always possible, using randomization, to make sequential probability forecasts that pass any countable set of well-behaved statistical tests. This result generalizes work by other authors, who consider only tests of calbration. ...
computer science
40,721
Craniofacial reconstruction as a prediction problem using a Latent Root Regression model
cs.LG
In this paper, we present a computer-assisted method for facial reconstruction. This method provides an estimation of the facial shape associated with unidentified skeletal remains. Current computer-assisted methods using a statistical framework rely on a common set of extracted points located on the bone and soft-tiss...
computer science
40,722
Near-optimal Coresets For Least-Squares Regression
cs.DS
We study (constrained) least-squares regression as well as multiple response least-squares regression and ask the question of whether a subset of the data, a coreset, suffices to compute a good approximate solution to the regression. We give deterministic, low order polynomial-time algorithms to construct such coresets...
computer science
40,723
Finding a most biased coin with fewest flips
cs.DS
We study the problem of learning a most biased coin among a set of coins by tossing the coins adaptively. The goal is to minimize the number of tosses until we identify a coin i* whose posterior probability of being most biased is at least 1-delta for a given delta. Under a particular probabilistic model, we give an op...
computer science
40,724
Guaranteed clustering and biclustering via semidefinite programming
math.OC
Identifying clusters of similar objects in data plays a significant role in a wide range of applications. As a model problem for clustering, we consider the densest k-disjoint-clique problem, whose goal is to identify the collection of k disjoint cliques of a given weighted complete graph maximizing the sum of the dens...
computer science
40,725
The best of both worlds: stochastic and adversarial bandits
cs.LG
We present a new bandit algorithm, SAO (Stochastic and Adversarial Optimal), whose regret is, essentially, optimal both for adversarial rewards and for stochastic rewards. Specifically, SAO combines the square-root worst-case regret of Exp3 (Auer et al., SIAM J. on Computing 2002) and the (poly)logarithmic regret of UC...
computer science
40,726
Min Max Generalization for Two-stage Deterministic Batch Mode Reinforcement Learning: Relaxation Schemes
cs.SY
We study the minmax optimization problem introduced in [22] for computing policies for batch mode reinforcement learning in a deterministic setting. First, we show that this problem is NP-hard. In the two-stage case, we provide two relaxation schemes. The first relaxation scheme works by dropping some constraints in or...
computer science
40,727
Nonlinear Laplacian spectral analysis: Capturing intermittent and low-frequency spatiotemporal patterns in high-dimensional data
cs.LG
We present a technique for spatiotemporal data analysis called nonlinear Laplacian spectral analysis (NLSA), which generalizes singular spectrum analysis (SSA) to take into account the nonlinear manifold structure of complex data sets. The key principle underlying NLSA is that the functions used to represent temporal p...
computer science
40,728
A Stochastic Gradient Method with an Exponential Convergence Rate for Finite Training Sets
math.OC
We propose a new stochastic gradient method for optimizing the sum of a finite set of smooth functions, where the sum is strongly convex. While standard stochastic gradient methods converge at sublinear rates for this problem, the proposed method incorporates a memory of previous gradient values in order to achieve a l...
computer science
40,729
A Route Confidence Evaluation Method for Reliable Hierarchical Text Categorization
cs.IR
Hierarchical Text Categorization (HTC) is becoming increasingly important with the rapidly growing amount of text data available in the World Wide Web. Among the different strategies proposed to cope with HTC, the Local Classifier per Node (LCN) approach attains good performance by mirroring the underlying class hierar...
computer science
40,730
A Machine Learning Approach For Opinion Holder Extraction In Arabic Language
cs.IR
Opinion mining aims at extracting useful subjective information from reliable amounts of text. Opinion mining holder recognition is a task that has not been considered yet in Arabic Language. This task essentially requires deep understanding of clauses structures. Unfortunately, the lack of a robust, publicly available...
computer science
40,731
Memory-Efficient Topic Modeling
cs.LG
As one of the simplest probabilistic topic modeling techniques, latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) has found many important applications in text mining, computer vision and computational biology. Recent training algorithms for LDA can be interpreted within a unified message passing framework. However, message passing re...
computer science
40,732
PRISMA: PRoximal Iterative SMoothing Algorithm
math.OC
Motivated by learning problems including max-norm regularized matrix completion and clustering, robust PCA and sparse inverse covariance selection, we propose a novel optimization algorithm for minimizing a convex objective which decomposes into three parts: a smooth part, a simple non-smooth Lipschitz part, and a simp...
computer science
40,733
Sparse Distributed Learning Based on Diffusion Adaptation
cs.LG
This article proposes diffusion LMS strategies for distributed estimation over adaptive networks that are able to exploit sparsity in the underlying system model. The approach relies on convex regularization, common in compressive sensing, to enhance the detection of sparsity via a diffusive process over the network. T...
computer science
40,734
Improved Spectral-Norm Bounds for Clustering
cs.LG
Aiming to unify known results about clustering mixtures of distributions under separation conditions, Kumar and Kannan[2010] introduced a deterministic condition for clustering datasets. They showed that this single deterministic condition encompasses many previously studied clustering assumptions. More specifically, t...
computer science
40,735
A Novel Approach for Protein Structure Prediction
cs.LG
The idea of this project is to study the protein structure and sequence relationship using the hidden markov model and artificial neural network. In this context we have assumed two hidden markov models. In first model we have taken protein secondary structures as hidden and protein sequences as observed. In second mod...
computer science
40,736
Unsupervised adaptation of brain machine interface decoders
cs.LG
The performance of neural decoders can degrade over time due to nonstationarities in the relationship between neuronal activity and behavior. In this case, brain-machine interfaces (BMI) require adaptation of their decoders to maintain high performance across time. One way to achieve this is by use of periodical calibr...
computer science
40,737
ConeRANK: Ranking as Learning Generalized Inequalities
cs.LG
We propose a new data mining approach in ranking documents based on the concept of cone-based generalized inequalities between vectors. A partial ordering between two vectors is made with respect to a proper cone and thus learning the preferences is formulated as learning proper cones. A pairwise learning-to-rank algor...
computer science
40,738
Parsimonious Mahalanobis Kernel for the Classification of High Dimensional Data
cs.NA
The classification of high dimensional data with kernel methods is considered in this article. Exploit- ing the emptiness property of high dimensional spaces, a kernel based on the Mahalanobis distance is proposed. The computation of the Mahalanobis distance requires the inversion of a covariance matrix. In high dimens...
computer science
40,739
Projection-free Online Learning
cs.LG
The computational bottleneck in applying online learning to massive data sets is usually the projection step. We present efficient online learning algorithms that eschew projections in favor of much more efficient linear optimization steps using the Frank-Wolfe technique. We obtain a range of regret bounds for online c...
computer science
40,740
Provable ICA with Unknown Gaussian Noise, and Implications for Gaussian Mixtures and Autoencoders
cs.LG
We present a new algorithm for Independent Component Analysis (ICA) which has provable performance guarantees. In particular, suppose we are given samples of the form $y = Ax + \eta$ where $A$ is an unknown $n \times n$ matrix and $x$ is a random variable whose components are independent and have a fourth moment strict...
computer science
40,741
Discrete Elastic Inner Vector Spaces with Application in Time Series and Sequence Mining
cs.LG
This paper proposes a framework dedicated to the construction of what we call discrete elastic inner product allowing one to embed sets of non-uniformly sampled multivariate time series or sequences of varying lengths into inner product space structures. This framework is based on a recursive definition that covers the...
computer science
40,742
Sequential Document Representations and Simplicial Curves
cs.IR
The popular bag of words assumption represents a document as a histogram of word occurrences. While computationally efficient, such a representation is unable to maintain any sequential information. We present a continuous and differentiable sequential document representation that goes beyond the bag of words assumptio...
computer science
40,743
Distributed Adaptive Networks: A Graphical Evolutionary Game-Theoretic View
cs.GT
Distributed adaptive filtering has been considered as an effective approach for data processing and estimation over distributed networks. Most existing distributed adaptive filtering algorithms focus on designing different information diffusion rules, regardless of the nature evolutionary characteristic of a distribute...
computer science
40,744
Learning Mixtures of Arbitrary Distributions over Large Discrete Domains
cs.LG
We give an algorithm for learning a mixture of {\em unstructured} distributions. This problem arises in various unsupervised learning scenarios, for example in learning {\em topic models} from a corpus of documents spanning several topics. We show how to learn the constituents of a mixture of $k$ arbitrary distribution...
computer science
40,745
Mining Techniques in Network Security to Enhance Intrusion Detection Systems
cs.CR
In intrusion detection systems, classifiers still suffer from several drawbacks such as data dimensionality and dominance, different network feature types, and data impact on the classification. In this paper two significant enhancements are presented to solve these drawbacks. The first enhancement is an improved featu...
computer science
40,746
Efficient Gradient Estimation for Motor Control Learning
cs.LG
The task of estimating the gradient of a function in the presence of noise is central to several forms of reinforcement learning, including policy search methods. We present two techniques for reducing gradient estimation errors in the presence of observable input noise applied to the control signal. The first method e...
computer science
40,747
Know Your Personalization: Learning Topic level Personalization in Online Services
cs.LG
Online service platforms (OSPs), such as search engines, news-websites, ad-providers, etc., serve highly pe rsonalized content to the user, based on the profile extracted from his history with the OSP. Although personalization (generally) leads to a better user experience, it also raises privacy concerns for the user--...
computer science
40,748
A metric for software vulnerabilities classification
cs.SE
Vulnerability discovery and exploits detection are two wide areas of study in software engineering. This preliminary work tries to combine existing methods with machine learning techniques to define a metric classification of vulnerable computer programs. First a feature set has been defined and later two models have b...
computer science
40,749
Maximally Informative Observables and Categorical Perception
cs.LG
We formulate the problem of perception in the framework of information theory, and prove that categorical perception is equivalent to the existence of an observable that has the maximum possible information on the target of perception. We call such an observable maximally informative. Regardless whether categorical per...
computer science
40,750
Fuzzy soft rough K-Means clustering approach for gene expression data
cs.LG
Clustering is one of the widely used data mining techniques for medical diagnosis. Clustering can be considered as the most important unsupervised learning technique. Most of the clustering methods group data based on distance and few methods cluster data based on similarity. The clustering algorithms classify gene exp...
computer science
40,751
Soft Set Based Feature Selection Approach for Lung Cancer Images
cs.LG
Lung cancer is the deadliest type of cancer for both men and women. Feature selection plays a vital role in cancer classification. This paper investigates the feature selection process in Computed Tomographic (CT) lung cancer images using soft set theory. We propose a new soft set based unsupervised feature selection a...
computer science
40,752
Reinforcement learning for port-Hamiltonian systems
cs.SY
Passivity-based control (PBC) for port-Hamiltonian systems provides an intuitive way of achieving stabilization by rendering a system passive with respect to a desired storage function. However, in most instances the control law is obtained without any performance considerations and it has to be calculated by solving a...
computer science
40,753
Transfer Learning Using Logistic Regression in Credit Scoring
cs.LG
The credit scoring risk management is a fast growing field due to consumer's credit requests. Credit requests, of new and existing customers, are often evaluated by classical discrimination rules based on customers information. However, these kinds of strategies have serious limits and don't take into account the chara...
computer science
40,754
Fast Solutions to Projective Monotone Linear Complementarity Problems
cs.LG
We present a new interior-point potential-reduction algorithm for solving monotone linear complementarity problems (LCPs) that have a particular special structure: their matrix $M\in{\mathbb R}^{n\times n}$ can be decomposed as $M=\Phi U + \Pi_0$, where the rank of $\Phi$ is $k<n$, and $\Pi_0$ denotes Euclidean project...
computer science
40,755
A Polynomial Time Algorithm for Lossy Population Recovery
cs.DS
We give a polynomial time algorithm for the lossy population recovery problem. In this problem, the goal is to approximately learn an unknown distribution on binary strings of length $n$ from lossy samples: for some parameter $\mu$ each coordinate of the sample is preserved with probability $\mu$ and otherwise is repla...
computer science
40,756
Prediction and Clustering in Signed Networks: A Local to Global Perspective
cs.SI
The study of social networks is a burgeoning research area. However, most existing work deals with networks that simply encode whether relationships exist or not. In contrast, relationships in signed networks can be positive ("like", "trust") or negative ("dislike", "distrust"). The theory of social balance shows that ...
computer science
40,757
The adaptive Gril estimator with a diverging number of parameters
stat.ME
We consider the problem of variables selection and estimation in linear regression model in situations where the number of parameters diverges with the sample size. We propose the adaptive Generalized Ridge-Lasso (\mbox{AdaGril}) which is an extension of the the adaptive Elastic Net. AdaGril incorporates information re...
computer science
40,758
ML4PG in Computer Algebra verification
cs.LO
ML4PG is a machine-learning extension that provides statistical proof hints during the process of Coq/SSReflect proof development. In this paper, we use ML4PG to find proof patterns in the CoqEAL library -- a library that was devised to verify the correctness of Computer Algebra algorithms. In particular, we use ML4PG ...
computer science
40,759
Source Separation using Regularized NMF with MMSE Estimates under GMM Priors with Online Learning for The Uncertainties
cs.LG
We propose a new method to enforce priors on the solution of the nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). The proposed algorithm can be used for denoising or single-channel source separation (SCSS) applications. The NMF solution is guided to follow the Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) estimates under Gaussian mixture pr...
computer science
40,760
Fast Feature Reduction in intrusion detection datasets
cs.CR
In the most intrusion detection systems (IDS), a system tries to learn characteristics of different type of attacks by analyzing packets that sent or received in network. These packets have a lot of features. But not all of them is required to be analyzed to detect that specific type of attack. Detection speed and comp...
computer science
40,761
Bandits with Knapsacks
cs.DS
Multi-armed bandit problems are the predominant theoretical model of exploration-exploitation tradeoffs in learning, and they have countless applications ranging from medical trials, to communication networks, to Web search and advertising. In many of these application domains the learner may be constrained by one or m...
computer science
40,762
HRF estimation improves sensitivity of fMRI encoding and decoding models
cs.LG
Extracting activation patterns from functional Magnetic Resonance Images (fMRI) datasets remains challenging in rapid-event designs due to the inherent delay of blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signal. The general linear model (GLM) allows to estimate the activation from a design matrix and a fixed hemodynamic respo...
computer science
40,763
Real Time Bid Optimization with Smooth Budget Delivery in Online Advertising
cs.GT
Today, billions of display ad impressions are purchased on a daily basis through a public auction hosted by real time bidding (RTB) exchanges. A decision has to be made for advertisers to submit a bid for each selected RTB ad request in milliseconds. Restricted by the budget, the goal is to buy a set of ad impressions ...
computer science
40,764
Scalable Audience Reach Estimation in Real-time Online Advertising
cs.LG
Online advertising has been introduced as one of the most efficient methods of advertising throughout the recent years. Yet, advertisers are concerned about the efficiency of their online advertising campaigns and consequently, would like to restrict their ad impressions to certain websites and/or certain groups of aud...
computer science
40,765
Qualitative detection of oil adulteration with machine learning approaches
cs.CE
The study focused on the machine learning analysis approaches to identify the adulteration of 9 kinds of edible oil qualitatively and answered the following three questions: Is the oil sample adulterant? How does it constitute? What is the main ingredient of the adulteration oil? After extracting the high-performance l...
computer science
40,766
Transfer Learning for Content-Based Recommender Systems using Tree Matching
cs.LG
In this paper we present a new approach to content-based transfer learning for solving the data sparsity problem in cases when the users' preferences in the target domain are either scarce or unavailable, but the necessary information on the preferences exists in another domain. We show that training a system to use su...
computer science
40,767
Multi-View Learning for Web Spam Detection
cs.IR
Spam pages are designed to maliciously appear among the top search results by excessive usage of popular terms. Therefore, spam pages should be removed using an effective and efficient spam detection system. Previous methods for web spam classification used several features from various information sources (page conten...
computer science
40,768
Generalized Centroid Estimators in Bioinformatics
cs.LG
In a number of estimation problems in bioinformatics, accuracy measures of the target problem are usually given, and it is important to design estimators that are suitable to those accuracy measures. However, there is often a discrepancy between an employed estimator and a given accuracy measure of the problem. In this...
computer science
40,769
Robustness of Random Forest-based gene selection methods
cs.LG
Gene selection is an important part of microarray data analysis because it provides information that can lead to a better mechanistic understanding of an investigated phenomenon. At the same time, gene selection is very difficult because of the noisy nature of microarray data. As a consequence, gene selection is often ...
computer science
40,770
Power to the Points: Validating Data Memberships in Clusterings
cs.LG
A clustering is an implicit assignment of labels of points, based on proximity to other points. It is these labels that are then used for downstream analysis (either focusing on individual clusters, or identifying representatives of clusters and so on). Thus, in order to trust a clustering as a first step in explorator...
computer science
40,771
Zero-sum repeated games: Counterexamples to the existence of the asymptotic value and the conjecture $\operatorname{maxmin}=\operatorname{lim}v_n$
math.OC
Mertens [In Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians (Berkeley, Calif., 1986) (1987) 1528-1577 Amer. Math. Soc.] proposed two general conjectures about repeated games: the first one is that, in any two-person zero-sum repeated game, the asymptotic value exists, and the second one is that, when Player...
computer science
40,772
Supervised Feature Selection for Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease Based on Genetic Algorithm
cs.LG
Feature Selection (FS) has become the focus of much research on decision support systems areas for which data sets with tremendous number of variables are analyzed. In this paper we present a new method for the diagnosis of Coronary Artery Diseases (CAD) founded on Genetic Algorithm (GA) wrapped Bayes Naive (BN) based ...
computer science
40,773
Speeding-Up Convergence via Sequential Subspace Optimization: Current State and Future Directions
cs.NA
This is an overview paper written in style of research proposal. In recent years we introduced a general framework for large-scale unconstrained optimization -- Sequential Subspace Optimization (SESOP) and demonstrated its usefulness for sparsity-based signal/image denoising, deconvolution, compressive sensing, compute...
computer science
40,774
Robust Hierarchical Clustering
cs.LG
One of the most widely used techniques for data clustering is agglomerative clustering. Such algorithms have been long used across many different fields ranging from computational biology to social sciences to computer vision in part because their output is easy to interpret. Unfortunately, it is well known, however, t...
computer science
40,775
Modeling Attractiveness and Multiple Clicks in Sponsored Search Results
cs.IR
Click models are an important tool for leveraging user feedback, and are used by commercial search engines for surfacing relevant search results. However, existing click models are lacking in two aspects. First, they do not share information across search results when computing attractiveness. Second, they assume that ...
computer science
40,776
Least Squares Policy Iteration with Instrumental Variables vs. Direct Policy Search: Comparison Against Optimal Benchmarks Using Energy Storage
math.OC
This paper studies approximate policy iteration (API) methods which use least-squares Bellman error minimization for policy evaluation. We address several of its enhancements, namely, Bellman error minimization using instrumental variables, least-squares projected Bellman error minimization, and projected Bellman error...
computer science
40,777
PSMACA: An Automated Protein Structure Prediction Using MACA (Multiple Attractor Cellular Automata)
cs.CE
Protein Structure Predication from sequences of amino acid has gained a remarkable attention in recent years. Even though there are some prediction techniques addressing this problem, the approximate accuracy in predicting the protein structure is closely 75%. An automated procedure was evolved with MACA (Multiple Attr...
computer science
40,778
Use Case Point Approach Based Software Effort Estimation using Various Support Vector Regression Kernel Methods
cs.SE
The job of software effort estimation is a critical one in the early stages of the software development life cycle when the details of requirements are usually not clearly identified. Various optimization techniques help in improving the accuracy of effort estimation. The Support Vector Regression (SVR) is one of sever...
computer science
40,779
Infinite Mixed Membership Matrix Factorization
cs.LG
Rating and recommendation systems have become a popular application area for applying a suite of machine learning techniques. Current approaches rely primarily on probabilistic interpretations and extensions of matrix factorization, which factorizes a user-item ratings matrix into latent user and item vectors. Most of ...
computer science
40,780
A Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Algorithm with Non-linear Dynamics
cs.LG
Several multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms have been proposed to optimize agents decisions. Due to the complexity of the problem, the majority of the previously developed MARL algorithms assumed agents either had some knowledge of the underlying game (such as Nash equilibria) and/or observed other agen...
computer science
40,781
RoxyBot-06: Stochastic Prediction and Optimization in TAC Travel
cs.GT
In this paper, we describe our autonomous bidding agent, RoxyBot, who emerged victorious in the travel division of the 2006 Trading Agent Competition in a photo finish. At a high level, the design of many successful trading agents can be summarized as follows: (i) price prediction: build a model of market prices; and (...
computer science
40,782
An Active Learning Approach for Jointly Estimating Worker Performance and Annotation Reliability with Crowdsourced Data
cs.LG
Crowdsourcing platforms offer a practical solution to the problem of affordably annotating large datasets for training supervised classifiers. Unfortunately, poor worker performance frequently threatens to compromise annotation reliability, and requesting multiple labels for every instance can lead to large cost increa...
computer science
40,783
Policy Invariance under Reward Transformations for General-Sum Stochastic Games
cs.GT
We extend the potential-based shaping method from Markov decision processes to multi-player general-sum stochastic games. We prove that the Nash equilibria in a stochastic game remains unchanged after potential-based shaping is applied to the environment. The property of policy invariance provides a possible way of spe...
computer science
40,784
Towards the selection of patients requiring ICD implantation by automatic classification from Holter monitoring indices
cs.LG
The purpose of this study is to optimize the selection of prophylactic cardioverter defibrillator implantation candidates. Currently, the main criterion for implantation is a low Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction (LVEF) whose specificity is relatively poor. We designed two classifiers aimed to predict, from long term ...
computer science
40,785
General factorization framework for context-aware recommendations
cs.IR
Context-aware recommendation algorithms focus on refining recommendations by considering additional information, available to the system. This topic has gained a lot of attention recently. Among others, several factorization methods were proposed to solve the problem, although most of them assume explicit feedback whic...
computer science
40,786
miRNA and Gene Expression based Cancer Classification using Self- Learning and Co-Training Approaches
cs.CE
miRNA and gene expression profiles have been proved useful for classifying cancer samples. Efficient classifiers have been recently sought and developed. A number of attempts to classify cancer samples using miRNA/gene expression profiles are known in literature. However, the use of semi-supervised learning models have...
computer science
40,787
HMACA: Towards Proposing a Cellular Automata Based Tool for Protein Coding, Promoter Region Identification and Protein Structure Prediction
cs.CE
Human body consists of lot of cells, each cell consist of DeOxaRibo Nucleic Acid (DNA). Identifying the genes from the DNA sequences is a very difficult task. But identifying the coding regions is more complex task compared to the former. Identifying the protein which occupy little place in genes is a really challengin...
computer science
40,788
Numerical weather prediction or stochastic modeling: an objective criterion of choice for the global radiation forecasting
stat.AP
Numerous methods exist and were developed for global radiation forecasting. The two most popular types are the numerical weather predictions (NWP) and the predictions using stochastic approaches. We propose to compute a parameter noted constructed in part from the mutual information which is a quantity that measures th...
computer science
40,789
Iterative Universal Hash Function Generator for Minhashing
cs.LG
Minhashing is a technique used to estimate the Jaccard Index between two sets by exploiting the probability of collision in a random permutation. In order to speed up the computation, a random permutation can be approximated by using an universal hash function such as the $h_{a,b}$ function proposed by Carter and Wegma...
computer science
40,790
Identification of Protein Coding Regions in Genomic DNA Using Unsupervised FMACA Based Pattern Classifier
cs.CE
Genes carry the instructions for making proteins that are found in a cell as a specific sequence of nucleotides that are found in DNA molecules. But, the regions of these genes that code for proteins may occupy only a small region of the sequence. Identifying the coding regions play a vital role in understanding these ...
computer science
40,791
Security Evaluation of Support Vector Machines in Adversarial Environments
cs.LG
Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are among the most popular classification techniques adopted in security applications like malware detection, intrusion detection, and spam filtering. However, if SVMs are to be incorporated in real-world security systems, they must be able to cope with attack patterns that can either mis...
computer science
40,792
Empirically Evaluating Multiagent Learning Algorithms
cs.GT
There exist many algorithms for learning how to play repeated bimatrix games. Most of these algorithms are justified in terms of some sort of theoretical guarantee. On the other hand, little is known about the empirical performance of these algorithms. Most such claims in the literature are based on small experiments, ...
computer science
40,793
Local Gaussian Regression
cs.LG
Locally weighted regression was created as a nonparametric learning method that is computationally efficient, can learn from very large amounts of data and add data incrementally. An interesting feature of locally weighted regression is that it can work with spatially varying length scales, a beneficial property, for i...
computer science
40,794
Localized epidemic detection in networks with overwhelming noise
cs.SI
We consider the problem of detecting an epidemic in a population where individual diagnoses are extremely noisy. The motivation for this problem is the plethora of examples (influenza strains in humans, or computer viruses in smartphones, etc.) where reliable diagnoses are scarce, but noisy data plentiful. In flu/phone...
computer science
40,795
Dictionary Learning over Distributed Models
cs.LG
In this paper, we consider learning dictionary models over a network of agents, where each agent is only in charge of a portion of the dictionary elements. This formulation is relevant in Big Data scenarios where large dictionary models may be spread over different spatial locations and it is not feasible to aggregate ...
computer science
40,796
Characterizing the Sample Complexity of Private Learners
cs.CR
In 2008, Kasiviswanathan et al. defined private learning as a combination of PAC learning and differential privacy. Informally, a private learner is applied to a collection of labeled individual information and outputs a hypothesis while preserving the privacy of each individual. Kasiviswanathan et al. gave a generic c...
computer science
40,797
Computational Limits for Matrix Completion
cs.CC
Matrix Completion is the problem of recovering an unknown real-valued low-rank matrix from a subsample of its entries. Important recent results show that the problem can be solved efficiently under the assumption that the unknown matrix is incoherent and the subsample is drawn uniformly at random. Are these assumptions...
computer science
40,798
Discretization of Temporal Data: A Survey
cs.DB
In real world, the huge amount of temporal data is to be processed in many application areas such as scientific, financial, network monitoring, sensor data analysis. Data mining techniques are primarily oriented to handle discrete features. In the case of temporal data the time plays an important role on the characteri...
computer science
40,799
Diffusion Least Mean Square: Simulations
cs.LG
In this technical report we analyse the performance of diffusion strategies applied to the Least-Mean-Square adaptive filter. We configure a network of cooperative agents running adaptive filters and discuss their behaviour when compared with a non-cooperative agent which represents the average of the network. The anal...
computer science
40,800
Open science in machine learning
cs.LG
We present OpenML and mldata, open science platforms that provides easy access to machine learning data, software and results to encourage further study and application. They go beyond the more traditional repositories for data sets and software packages in that they allow researchers to also easily share the results t...
computer science
40,801
Oracle-Based Robust Optimization via Online Learning
math.OC
Robust optimization is a common framework in optimization under uncertainty when the problem parameters are not known, but it is rather known that the parameters belong to some given uncertainty set. In the robust optimization framework the problem solved is a min-max problem where a solution is judged according to its...
computer science
40,802
Outlier Detection using Improved Genetic K-means
cs.LG
The outlier detection problem in some cases is similar to the classification problem. For example, the main concern of clustering-based outlier detection algorithms is to find clusters and outliers, which are often regarded as noise that should be removed in order to make more reliable clustering. In this article, we p...
computer science
40,803
Data-driven HRF estimation for encoding and decoding models
cs.CE
Despite the common usage of a canonical, data-independent, hemodynamic response function (HRF), it is known that the shape of the HRF varies across brain regions and subjects. This suggests that a data-driven estimation of this function could lead to more statistical power when modeling BOLD fMRI data. However, unconst...
computer science
40,804
Real-time Topic-aware Influence Maximization Using Preprocessing
cs.SI
Influence maximization is the task of finding a set of seed nodes in a social network such that the influence spread of these seed nodes based on certain influence diffusion model is maximized. Topic-aware influence diffusion models have been recently proposed to address the issue that influence between a pair of users...
computer science
40,805
Network Traffic Decomposition for Anomaly Detection
cs.LG
In this paper we focus on the detection of network anomalies like Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and port scans in a unified manner. While there has been an extensive amount of research in network anomaly detection, current state of the art methods are only able to detect one class of anomalies at the cost of others. ...
computer science
40,806
An Extensive Repot on the Efficiency of AIS-INMACA (A Novel Integrated MACA based Clonal Classifier for Protein Coding and Promoter Region Prediction)
cs.CE
This paper exclusively reports the efficiency of AIS-INMACA. AIS-INMACA has created good impact on solving major problems in bioinformatics like protein region identification and promoter region prediction with less time (Pokkuluri Kiran Sree, 2014). This AIS-INMACA is now came with several variations (Pokkuluri Kiran ...
computer science
40,807
Statistical Structure Learning, Towards a Robust Smart Grid
cs.LG
Robust control and maintenance of the grid relies on accurate data. Both PMUs and state estimators are prone to false data injection attacks. Thus, it is crucial to have a mechanism for fast and accurate detection of an agent maliciously tampering with the data---for both preventing attacks that may lead to blackouts, ...
computer science
40,808
Combination of PCA with SMOTE Resampling to Boost the Prediction Rate in Lung Cancer Dataset
cs.LG
Classification algorithms are unable to make reliable models on the datasets with huge sizes. These datasets contain many irrelevant and redundant features that mislead the classifiers. Furthermore, many huge datasets have imbalanced class distribution which leads to bias over majority class in the classification proce...
computer science
40,809
Transfer Learning across Networks for Collective Classification
cs.LG
This paper addresses the problem of transferring useful knowledge from a source network to predict node labels in a newly formed target network. While existing transfer learning research has primarily focused on vector-based data, in which the instances are assumed to be independent and identically distributed, how to ...
computer science