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Flying Insect Classification with Inexpensive Sensors
cs.LG
The ability to use inexpensive, noninvasive sensors to accurately classify flying insects would have significant implications for entomological research, and allow for the development of many useful applications in vector control for both medical and agricultural entomology. Given this, the last sixty years have seen m...
computer science
40,811
Balancing Sparsity and Rank Constraints in Quadratic Basis Pursuit
cs.NA
We investigate the methods that simultaneously enforce sparsity and low-rank structure in a matrix as often employed for sparse phase retrieval problems or phase calibration problems in compressive sensing. We propose a new approach for analyzing the trade off between the sparsity and low rank constraints in these appr...
computer science
40,812
Simultaneous Perturbation Algorithms for Batch Off-Policy Search
math.OC
We propose novel policy search algorithms in the context of off-policy, batch mode reinforcement learning (RL) with continuous state and action spaces. Given a batch collection of trajectories, we perform off-line policy evaluation using an algorithm similar to that by [Fonteneau et al., 2010]. Using this Monte-Carlo l...
computer science
40,813
Forecasting Popularity of Videos using Social Media
cs.LG
This paper presents a systematic online prediction method (Social-Forecast) that is capable to accurately forecast the popularity of videos promoted by social media. Social-Forecast explicitly considers the dynamically changing and evolving propagation patterns of videos in social media when making popularity forecasts...
computer science
40,814
AIS-INMACA: A Novel Integrated MACA Based Clonal Classifier for Protein Coding and Promoter Region Prediction
cs.CE
Most of the problems in bioinformatics are now the challenges in computing. This paper aims at building a classifier based on Multiple Attractor Cellular Automata (MACA) which uses fuzzy logic. It is strengthened with an artificial Immune System Technique (AIS), Clonal algorithm for identifying a protein coding and pro...
computer science
40,815
DeepWalk: Online Learning of Social Representations
cs.SI
We present DeepWalk, a novel approach for learning latent representations of vertices in a network. These latent representations encode social relations in a continuous vector space, which is easily exploited by statistical models. DeepWalk generalizes recent advancements in language modeling and unsupervised feature l...
computer science
40,816
Comparison of Multi-agent and Single-agent Inverse Learning on a Simulated Soccer Example
cs.LG
We compare the performance of Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) with the relative new model of Multi-agent Inverse Reinforcement Learning (MIRL). Before comparing the methods, we extend a published Bayesian IRL approach that is only applicable to the case where the reward is only state dependent to a general one cap...
computer science
40,817
Relevant Feature Selection Model Using Data Mining for Intrusion Detection System
cs.CR
Network intrusions have become a significant threat in recent years as a result of the increased demand of computer networks for critical systems. Intrusion detection system (IDS) has been widely deployed as a defense measure for computer networks. Features extracted from network traffic can be used as sign to detect a...
computer science
40,818
Multi-label Ferns for Efficient Recognition of Musical Instruments in Recordings
cs.LG
In this paper we introduce multi-label ferns, and apply this technique for automatic classification of musical instruments in audio recordings. We compare the performance of our proposed method to a set of binary random ferns, using jazz recordings as input data. Our main result is obtaining much faster classification ...
computer science
40,819
Privacy Tradeoffs in Predictive Analytics
cs.CR
Online services routinely mine user data to predict user preferences, make recommendations, and place targeted ads. Recent research has demonstrated that several private user attributes (such as political affiliation, sexual orientation, and gender) can be inferred from such data. Can a privacy-conscious user benefit f...
computer science
40,820
Complexity of Equivalence and Learning for Multiplicity Tree Automata
cs.LG
We consider the complexity of equivalence and learning for multiplicity tree automata, i.e., weighted tree automata over a field. We first show that the equivalence problem is logspace equivalent to polynomial identity testing, the complexity of which is a longstanding open problem. Secondly, we derive lower bounds on ...
computer science
40,821
Application of Machine Learning Techniques in Aquaculture
cs.CE
In this paper we present applications of different machine learning algorithms in aquaculture. Machine learning algorithms learn models from historical data. In aquaculture historical data are obtained from farm practices, yields, and environmental data sources. Associations between these different variables can be obt...
computer science
40,822
Learning with many experts: model selection and sparsity
stat.ME
Experts classifying data are often imprecise. Recently, several models have been proposed to train classifiers using the noisy labels generated by these experts. How to choose between these models? In such situations, the true labels are unavailable. Thus, one cannot perform model selection using the standard versions ...
computer science
40,823
Efficient classification using parallel and scalable compressed model and Its application on intrusion detection
cs.LG
In order to achieve high efficiency of classification in intrusion detection, a compressed model is proposed in this paper which combines horizontal compression with vertical compression. OneR is utilized as horizontal com-pression for attribute reduction, and affinity propagation is employed as vertical compression to...
computer science
40,824
Machine Learning in Wireless Sensor Networks: Algorithms, Strategies, and Applications
cs.NI
Wireless sensor networks monitor dynamic environments that change rapidly over time. This dynamic behavior is either caused by external factors or initiated by the system designers themselves. To adapt to such conditions, sensor networks often adopt machine learning techniques to eliminate the need for unnecessary rede...
computer science
40,825
Predicting Online Video Engagement Using Clickstreams
cs.LG
In the nascent days of e-content delivery, having a superior product was enough to give companies an edge against the competition. With today's fiercely competitive market, one needs to be multiple steps ahead, especially when it comes to understanding consumers. Focusing on a large set of web portals owned and managed...
computer science
40,826
Fast Distributed Coordinate Descent for Non-Strongly Convex Losses
math.OC
We propose an efficient distributed randomized coordinate descent method for minimizing regularized non-strongly convex loss functions. The method attains the optimal $O(1/k^2)$ convergence rate, where $k$ is the iteration counter. The core of the work is the theoretical study of stepsize parameters. We have implemente...
computer science
40,827
Node Classification in Uncertain Graphs
cs.DB
In many real applications that use and analyze networked data, the links in the network graph may be erroneous, or derived from probabilistic techniques. In such cases, the node classification problem can be challenging, since the unreliability of the links may affect the final results of the classification process. If...
computer science
40,828
Coupled Item-based Matrix Factorization
cs.LG
The essence of the challenges cold start and sparsity in Recommender Systems (RS) is that the extant techniques, such as Collaborative Filtering (CF) and Matrix Factorization (MF), mainly rely on the user-item rating matrix, which sometimes is not informative enough for predicting recommendations. To solve these challe...
computer science
40,829
Automatic large-scale classification of bird sounds is strongly improved by unsupervised feature learning
cs.SD
Automatic species classification of birds from their sound is a computational tool of increasing importance in ecology, conservation monitoring and vocal communication studies. To make classification useful in practice, it is crucial to improve its accuracy while ensuring that it can run at big data scales. Many approa...
computer science
40,830
Learning Nash Equilibria in Congestion Games
cs.LG
We study the repeated congestion game, in which multiple populations of players share resources, and make, at each iteration, a decentralized decision on which resources to utilize. We investigate the following question: given a model of how individual players update their strategies, does the resulting dynamics of str...
computer science
40,831
A RobustICA Based Algorithm for Blind Separation of Convolutive Mixtures
cs.LG
We propose a frequency domain method based on robust independent component analysis (RICA) to address the multichannel Blind Source Separation (BSS) problem of convolutive speech mixtures in highly reverberant environments. We impose regularization processes to tackle the ill-conditioning problem of the covariance matr...
computer science
40,832
GraphLab: A New Framework For Parallel Machine Learning
cs.LG
Designing and implementing efficient, provably correct parallel machine learning (ML) algorithms is challenging. Existing high-level parallel abstractions like MapReduce are insufficiently expressive while low-level tools like MPI and Pthreads leave ML experts repeatedly solving the same design challenges. By targeting...
computer science
40,833
R-UCB: a Contextual Bandit Algorithm for Risk-Aware Recommender Systems
cs.IR
Mobile Context-Aware Recommender Systems can be naturally modelled as an exploration/exploitation trade-off (exr/exp) problem, where the system has to choose between maximizing its expected rewards dealing with its current knowledge (exploitation) and learning more about the unknown user's preferences to improve its kn...
computer science
40,834
Likely to stop? Predicting Stopout in Massive Open Online Courses
cs.CY
Understanding why students stopout will help in understanding how students learn in MOOCs. In this report, part of a 3 unit compendium, we describe how we build accurate predictive models of MOOC student stopout. We document a scalable, stopout prediction methodology, end to end, from raw source data to model analysis....
computer science
40,835
Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Multi-Relational Chains for Robot-Centered Smart Home
cs.RO
In a robot-centered smart home, the robot observes the home states with its own sensors, and then it can change certain object states according to an operator's commands for remote operations, or imitate the operator's behaviors in the house for autonomous operations. To model the robot's imitation of the operator's be...
computer science
40,836
Down-Sampling coupled to Elastic Kernel Machines for Efficient Recognition of Isolated Gestures
cs.LG
In the field of gestural action recognition, many studies have focused on dimensionality reduction along the spatial axis, to reduce both the variability of gestural sequences expressed in the reduced space, and the computational complexity of their processing. It is noticeable that very few of these methods have expli...
computer science
40,837
Computing Multi-Relational Sufficient Statistics for Large Databases
cs.LG
Databases contain information about which relationships do and do not hold among entities. To make this information accessible for statistical analysis requires computing sufficient statistics that combine information from different database tables. Such statistics may involve any number of {\em positive and negative} ...
computer science
40,838
Recursive Total Least-Squares Algorithm Based on Inverse Power Method and Dichotomous Coordinate-Descent Iterations
cs.SY
We develop a recursive total least-squares (RTLS) algorithm for errors-in-variables system identification utilizing the inverse power method and the dichotomous coordinate-descent (DCD) iterations. The proposed algorithm, called DCD-RTLS, outperforms the previously-proposed RTLS algorithms, which are based on the line-...
computer science
40,839
A Random Matrix Theoretical Approach to Early Event Detection in Smart Grid
stat.ME
Power systems are developing very fast nowadays, both in size and in complexity; this situation is a challenge for Early Event Detection (EED). This paper proposes a data- driven unsupervised learning method to handle this challenge. Specifically, the random matrix theories (RMTs) are introduced as the statistical foun...
computer science
40,840
Twitter Hash Tag Recommendation
cs.IR
The rise in popularity of microblogging services like Twitter has led to increased use of content annotation strategies like the hashtag. Hashtags provide users with a tagging mechanism to help organize, group, and create visibility for their posts. This is a simple idea but can be challenging for the user in practice ...
computer science
40,841
Personalized Web Search
cs.IR
Personalization is important for search engines to improve user experience. Most of the existing work do pure feature engineering and extract a lot of session-style features and then train a ranking model. Here we proposed a novel way to model both long term and short term user behavior using Multi-armed bandit algorit...
computer science
40,842
A Simple Expression for Mill's Ratio of the Student's $t$-Distribution
cs.LG
I show a simple expression of the Mill's ratio of the Student's t-Distribution. I use it to prove Conjecture 1 in P. Auer, N. Cesa-Bianchi, and P. Fischer. Finite-time analysis of the multiarmed bandit problem. Mach. Learn., 47(2-3):235--256, May 2002.
computer science
40,843
Arrhythmia Detection using Mutual Information-Based Integration Method
cs.CE
The aim of this paper is to propose an application of mutual information-based ensemble methods to the analysis and classification of heart beats associated with different types of Arrhythmia. Models of multilayer perceptrons, support vector machines, and radial basis function neural networks were trained and tested us...
computer science
40,844
Equilibrated adaptive learning rates for non-convex optimization
cs.LG
Parameter-specific adaptive learning rate methods are computationally efficient ways to reduce the ill-conditioning problems encountered when training large deep networks. Following recent work that strongly suggests that most of the critical points encountered when training such networks are saddle points, we find how...
computer science
40,845
On Sex, Evolution, and the Multiplicative Weights Update Algorithm
cs.LG
We consider a recent innovative theory by Chastain et al. on the role of sex in evolution [PNAS'14]. In short, the theory suggests that the evolutionary process of gene recombination implements the celebrated multiplicative weights updates algorithm (MWUA). They prove that the population dynamics induced by sexual repr...
computer science
40,846
Dengue disease prediction using weka data mining tool
cs.CY
Dengue is a life threatening disease prevalent in several developed as well as developing countries like India.In this paper we discuss various algorithm approaches of data mining that have been utilized for dengue disease prediction. Data mining is a well known technique used by health organizations for classification...
computer science
40,847
Optimizing Text Quantifiers for Multivariate Loss Functions
cs.LG
We address the problem of \emph{quantification}, a supervised learning task whose goal is, given a class, to estimate the relative frequency (or \emph{prevalence}) of the class in a dataset of unlabelled items. Quantification has several applications in data and text mining, such as estimating the prevalence of positiv...
computer science
40,848
NeuroSVM: A Graphical User Interface for Identification of Liver Patients
cs.LG
Diagnosis of liver infection at preliminary stage is important for better treatment. In todays scenario devices like sensors are used for detection of infections. Accurate classification techniques are required for automatic identification of disease samples. In this context, this study utilizes data mining approaches ...
computer science
40,849
Adaptive system optimization using random directions stochastic approximation
math.OC
We present novel algorithms for simulation optimization using random directions stochastic approximation (RDSA). These include first-order (gradient) as well as second-order (Newton) schemes. We incorporate both continuous-valued as well as discrete-valued perturbations into both our algorithms. The former are chosen t...
computer science
40,850
Scale-Free Algorithms for Online Linear Optimization
cs.LG
We design algorithms for online linear optimization that have optimal regret and at the same time do not need to know any upper or lower bounds on the norm of the loss vectors. We achieve adaptiveness to norms of loss vectors by scale invariance, i.e., our algorithms make exactly the same decisions if the sequence of l...
computer science
40,852
A provably convergent alternating minimization method for mean field inference
cs.LG
Mean-Field is an efficient way to approximate a posterior distribution in complex graphical models and constitutes the most popular class of Bayesian variational approximation methods. In most applications, the mean field distribution parameters are computed using an alternate coordinate minimization. However, the conv...
computer science
40,853
A Data Mining framework to model Consumer Indebtedness with Psychological Factors
cs.LG
Modelling Consumer Indebtedness has proven to be a problem of complex nature. In this work we utilise Data Mining techniques and methods to explore the multifaceted aspect of Consumer Indebtedness by examining the contribution of Psychological Factors, like Impulsivity to the analysis of Consumer Debt. Our results conf...
computer science
40,854
The fundamental nature of the log loss function
cs.LG
The standard loss functions used in the literature on probabilistic prediction are the log loss function, the Brier loss function, and the spherical loss function; however, any computable proper loss function can be used for comparison of prediction algorithms. This note shows that the log loss function is most selecti...
computer science
40,855
Bandit Convex Optimization: sqrt{T} Regret in One Dimension
cs.LG
We analyze the minimax regret of the adversarial bandit convex optimization problem. Focusing on the one-dimensional case, we prove that the minimax regret is $\widetilde\Theta(\sqrt{T})$ and partially resolve a decade-old open problem. Our analysis is non-constructive, as we do not present a concrete algorithm that at...
computer science
40,856
Efficient Geometric-based Computation of the String Subsequence Kernel
cs.LG
Kernel methods are powerful tools in machine learning. They have to be computationally efficient. In this paper, we present a novel Geometric-based approach to compute efficiently the string subsequence kernel (SSK). Our main idea is that the SSK computation reduces to range query problem. We started by the constructio...
computer science
40,857
An Online Convex Optimization Approach to Blackwell's Approachability
cs.GT
The notion of approachability in repeated games with vector payoffs was introduced by Blackwell in the 1950s, along with geometric conditions for approachability and corresponding strategies that rely on computing {\em steering directions} as projections from the current average payoff vector to the (convex) target set...
computer science
40,858
Personalising Mobile Advertising Based on Users Installed Apps
cs.CY
Mobile advertising is a billion pound industry that is rapidly expanding. The success of an advert is measured based on how users interact with it. In this paper we investigate whether the application of unsupervised learning and association rule mining could be used to enable personalised targeting of mobile adverts w...
computer science
40,859
Normalization based K means Clustering Algorithm
cs.LG
K-means is an effective clustering technique used to separate similar data into groups based on initial centroids of clusters. In this paper, Normalization based K-means clustering algorithm(N-K means) is proposed. Proposed N-K means clustering algorithm applies normalization prior to clustering on the available data a...
computer science
40,860
Scalable Iterative Algorithm for Robust Subspace Clustering
cs.DS
Subspace clustering (SC) is a popular method for dimensionality reduction of high-dimensional data, where it generalizes Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Recently, several methods have been proposed to enhance the robustness of PCA and SC, while most of them are computationally very expensive, in particular, for hig...
computer science
40,861
Financial Market Prediction
cs.CE
Given financial data from popular sites like Yahoo and the London Exchange, the presented paper attempts to model and predict stocks that can be considered "good investments". Stocks are characterized by 125 features ranging from gross domestic product to EDIBTA, and are labeled by discrepancies between stock and marke...
computer science
40,862
Scalable Nuclear-norm Minimization by Subspace Pursuit Proximal Riemannian Gradient
cs.LG
Nuclear-norm regularization plays a vital role in many learning tasks, such as low-rank matrix recovery (MR), and low-rank representation (LRR). Solving this problem directly can be computationally expensive due to the unknown rank of variables or large-rank singular value decompositions (SVDs). To address this, we pro...
computer science
40,863
Efficient Learning of Linear Separators under Bounded Noise
cs.LG
We study the learnability of linear separators in $\Re^d$ in the presence of bounded (a.k.a Massart) noise. This is a realistic generalization of the random classification noise model, where the adversary can flip each example $x$ with probability $\eta(x) \leq \eta$. We provide the first polynomial time algorithm that...
computer science
40,864
On Graduated Optimization for Stochastic Non-Convex Problems
cs.LG
The graduated optimization approach, also known as the continuation method, is a popular heuristic to solving non-convex problems that has received renewed interest over the last decade. Despite its popularity, very little is known in terms of theoretical convergence analysis. In this paper we describe a new first-orde...
computer science
40,865
More General Queries and Less Generalization Error in Adaptive Data Analysis
cs.LG
Adaptivity is an important feature of data analysis---typically the choice of questions asked about a dataset depends on previous interactions with the same dataset. However, generalization error is typically bounded in a non-adaptive model, where all questions are specified before the dataset is drawn. Recent work by ...
computer science
40,866
Energy Sharing for Multiple Sensor Nodes with Finite Buffers
cs.NI
We consider the problem of finding optimal energy sharing policies that maximize the network performance of a system comprising of multiple sensor nodes and a single energy harvesting (EH) source. Sensor nodes periodically sense the random field and generate data, which is stored in the corresponding data queues. The E...
computer science
40,867
Rank Subspace Learning for Compact Hash Codes
cs.LG
The era of Big Data has spawned unprecedented interests in developing hashing algorithms for efficient storage and fast nearest neighbor search. Most existing work learn hash functions that are numeric quantizations of feature values in projected feature space. In this work, we propose a novel hash learning framework t...
computer science
40,868
Costing Generated Runtime Execution Plans for Large-Scale Machine Learning Programs
cs.DC
Declarative large-scale machine learning (ML) aims at the specification of ML algorithms in a high-level language and automatic generation of hybrid runtime execution plans ranging from single node, in-memory computations to distributed computations on MapReduce (MR) or similar frameworks like Spark. The compilation of...
computer science
40,869
On Lower and Upper Bounds for Smooth and Strongly Convex Optimization Problems
math.OC
We develop a novel framework to study smooth and strongly convex optimization algorithms, both deterministic and stochastic. Focusing on quadratic functions we are able to examine optimization algorithms as a recursive application of linear operators. This, in turn, reveals a powerful connection between a class of opti...
computer science
40,870
Analysis of Spectrum Occupancy Using Machine Learning Algorithms
cs.NI
In this paper, we analyze the spectrum occupancy using different machine learning techniques. Both supervised techniques (naive Bayesian classifier (NBC), decision trees (DT), support vector machine (SVM), linear regression (LR)) and unsupervised algorithm (hidden markov model (HMM)) are studied to find the best techni...
computer science
40,871
RankMap: A Platform-Aware Framework for Distributed Learning from Dense Datasets
cs.DC
This paper introduces RankMap, a platform-aware end-to-end framework for efficient execution of a broad class of iterative learning algorithms for massive and dense datasets. Our framework exploits data structure to factorize it into an ensemble of lower rank subspaces. The factorization creates sparse low-dimensional ...
computer science
40,872
Average Distance Queries through Weighted Samples in Graphs and Metric Spaces: High Scalability with Tight Statistical Guarantees
cs.SI
The average distance from a node to all other nodes in a graph, or from a query point in a metric space to a set of points, is a fundamental quantity in data analysis. The inverse of the average distance, known as the (classic) closeness centrality of a node, is a popular importance measure in the study of social netwo...
computer science
40,873
Sparse plus low-rank autoregressive identification in neuroimaging time series
cs.LG
This paper considers the problem of identifying multivariate autoregressive (AR) sparse plus low-rank graphical models. Based on the corresponding problem formulation recently presented, we use the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to efficiently solve it and scale it to sizes encountered in neuroimagi...
computer science
40,874
Comparison of Bayesian predictive methods for model selection
stat.ME
The goal of this paper is to compare several widely used Bayesian model selection methods in practical model selection problems, highlight their differences and give recommendations about the preferred approaches. We focus on the variable subset selection for regression and classification and perform several numerical ...
computer science
40,875
Founding Digital Currency on Imprecise Commodity
cs.CY
Current digital currency schemes provide instantaneous exchange on precise commodity, in which "precise" means a buyer can possibly verify the function of the commodity without error. However, imprecise commodities, e.g. statistical data, with error existing are abundant in digital world. Existing digital currency sche...
computer science
40,876
Learning Definite Horn Formulas from Closure Queries
cs.LG
A definite Horn theory is a set of n-dimensional Boolean vectors whose characteristic function is expressible as a definite Horn formula, that is, as conjunction of definite Horn clauses. The class of definite Horn theories is known to be learnable under different query learning settings, such as learning from membersh...
computer science
40,877
Extracting Implicit Social Relation for Social Recommendation Techniques in User Rating Prediction
cs.SI
Recommendation plays an increasingly important role in our daily lives. Recommender systems automatically suggest items to users that might be interesting for them. Recent studies illustrate that incorporating social trust in Matrix Factorization methods demonstrably improves accuracy of rating prediction. Such approac...
computer science
40,878
Understanding and Optimizing the Performance of Distributed Machine Learning Applications on Apache Spark
cs.DC
In this paper we explore the performance limits of Apache Spark for machine learning applications. We begin by analyzing the characteristics of a state-of-the-art distributed machine learning algorithm implemented in Spark and compare it to an equivalent reference implementation using the high performance computing fra...
computer science
40,879
Bridging Medical Data Inference to Achilles Tendon Rupture Rehabilitation
cs.LG
Imputing incomplete medical tests and predicting patient outcomes are crucial for guiding the decision making for therapy, such as after an Achilles Tendon Rupture (ATR). We formulate the problem of data imputation and prediction for ATR relevant medical measurements into a recommender system framework. By applying Mat...
computer science
40,880
Interactive Prior Elicitation of Feature Similarities for Small Sample Size Prediction
cs.LG
Regression under the "small $n$, large $p$" conditions, of small sample size $n$ and large number of features $p$ in the learning data set, is a recurring setting in which learning from data is difficult. With prior knowledge about relationships of the features, $p$ can effectively be reduced, but explicating such prio...
computer science
40,881
Clipper: A Low-Latency Online Prediction Serving System
cs.DC
Machine learning is being deployed in a growing number of applications which demand real-time, accurate, and robust predictions under heavy query load. However, most machine learning frameworks and systems only address model training and not deployment. In this paper, we introduce Clipper, a general-purpose low-laten...
computer science
40,882
An Empirical Study of ADMM for Nonconvex Problems
math.OC
The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a common optimization tool for solving constrained and non-differentiable problems. We provide an empirical study of the practical performance of ADMM on several nonconvex applications, including l0 regularized linear regression, l0 regularized image denoising, ...
computer science
40,883
Joint Bayesian Gaussian discriminant analysis for speaker verification
cs.SD
State-of-the-art i-vector based speaker verification relies on variants of Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis (PLDA) for discriminant analysis. We are mainly motivated by the recent work of the joint Bayesian (JB) method, which is originally proposed for discriminant analysis in face verification. We apply JB t...
computer science
40,884
Corporate Disruption in the Science of Machine Learning
cs.CY
This MSc dissertation considers the effects of the current corporate interest on researchers in the field of machine learning. Situated within the field's cyclical history of academic, public and corporate interest, this dissertation investigates how current researchers view recent developments and negotiate their own ...
computer science
40,885
TF.Learn: TensorFlow's High-level Module for Distributed Machine Learning
cs.DC
TF.Learn is a high-level Python module for distributed machine learning inside TensorFlow. It provides an easy-to-use Scikit-learn style interface to simplify the process of creating, configuring, training, evaluating, and experimenting a machine learning model. TF.Learn integrates a wide range of state-of-art machine ...
computer science
40,886
Identification of Cancer Patient Subgroups via Smoothed Shortest Path Graph Kernel
cs.CE
Characterizing patient somatic mutations through next-generation sequencing technologies opens up possibilities for refining cancer subtypes. However, catalogues of mutations reveal that only a small fraction of the genes are altered frequently in patients. On the other hand different genomic alterations may perturb th...
computer science
40,887
Feature Learning for Chord Recognition: The Deep Chroma Extractor
cs.SD
We explore frame-level audio feature learning for chord recognition using artificial neural networks. We present the argument that chroma vectors potentially hold enough information to model harmonic content of audio for chord recognition, but that standard chroma extractors compute too noisy features. This leads us to...
computer science
40,888
A Fully Convolutional Deep Auditory Model for Musical Chord Recognition
cs.LG
Chord recognition systems depend on robust feature extraction pipelines. While these pipelines are traditionally hand-crafted, recent advances in end-to-end machine learning have begun to inspire researchers to explore data-driven methods for such tasks. In this paper, we present a chord recognition system that uses a ...
computer science
40,889
On the Potential of Simple Framewise Approaches to Piano Transcription
cs.SD
In an attempt at exploring the limitations of simple approaches to the task of piano transcription (as usually defined in MIR), we conduct an in-depth analysis of neural network-based framewise transcription. We systematically compare different popular input representations for transcription systems to determine the on...
computer science
40,890
Neural networks based EEG-Speech Models
cs.SD
In this paper, we propose an end-to-end neural network (NN) based EEG-speech (NES) modeling framework, in which three network structures are developed to map imagined EEG signals to phonemes. The proposed NES models incorporate a language model based EEG feature extraction layer, an acoustic feature mapping layer, and ...
computer science
40,891
VAST : The Virtual Acoustic Space Traveler Dataset
cs.SD
This paper introduces a new paradigm for sound source lo-calization referred to as virtual acoustic space traveling (VAST) and presents a first dataset designed for this purpose. Existing sound source localization methods are either based on an approximate physical model (physics-driven) or on a specific-purpose calibr...
computer science
40,892
Challenging Personalized Video Recommendation
cs.IR
The online videos are generated at an unprecedented speed in recent years. As a result, how to generate personalized recommendation from the large volume of videos becomes more and more challenging. In this paper, we propose to extract the non-textual contents from the videos themselves to enhance the personalized vide...
computer science
40,893
Classification and Learning-to-rank Approaches for Cross-Device Matching at CIKM Cup 2016
cs.IR
In this paper, we propose two methods for tackling the problem of cross-device matching for online advertising at CIKM Cup 2016. The first method considers the matching problem as a binary classification task and solve it by utilizing ensemble learning techniques. The second method defines the matching problem as a ran...
computer science
40,894
Distributed Dictionary Learning
math.OC
The paper studies distributed Dictionary Learning (DL) problems where the learning task is distributed over a multi-agent network with time-varying (nonsymmetric) connectivity. This formulation is relevant, for instance, in big-data scenarios where massive amounts of data are collected/stored in different spatial locat...
computer science
40,895
On Coreset Constructions for the Fuzzy $K$-Means Problem
cs.LG
The fuzzy $K$-means problem is a generalization of the $K$-means problem to soft clusterings. Although popular in practice, the first $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithms for this problem have been proposed only recently. In this paper, we pursue the analysis of the fuzzy $K$-means problem further by making use of c...
computer science
40,896
Logic-based Clustering and Learning for Time-Series Data
cs.LG
To effectively analyze and design cyberphysical systems (CPS), designers today have to combat the data deluge problem, i.e., the burden of processing intractably large amounts of data produced by complex models and experiments. In this work, we utilize monotonic Parametric Signal Temporal Logic (PSTL) to design feature...
computer science
40,897
ASAP: Asynchronous Approximate Data-Parallel Computation
cs.DC
Emerging workloads, such as graph processing and machine learning are approximate because of the scale of data involved and the stochastic nature of the underlying algorithms. These algorithms are often distributed over multiple machines using bulk-synchronous processing (BSP) or other synchronous processing paradigms ...
computer science
40,898
Sequence-to-point learning with neural networks for nonintrusive load monitoring
stat.AP
Energy disaggregation (a.k.a nonintrusive load monitoring, NILM), a single-channel blind source separation problem, aims to decompose the mains which records the whole house electricity consumption into appliance-wise readings. This problem is difficult because it is inherently unidentifiable. Recent approaches have sh...
computer science
40,899
The on-line shortest path problem under partial monitoring
cs.LG
The on-line shortest path problem is considered under various models of partial monitoring. Given a weighted directed acyclic graph whose edge weights can change in an arbitrary (adversarial) way, a decision maker has to choose in each round of a game a path between two distinguished vertices such that the loss of the ...
computer science
40,900
A Note on the Inapproximability of Correlation Clustering
cs.LG
We consider inapproximability of the correlation clustering problem defined as follows: Given a graph $G = (V,E)$ where each edge is labeled either "+" (similar) or "-" (dissimilar), correlation clustering seeks to partition the vertices into clusters so that the number of pairs correctly (resp. incorrectly) classified...
computer science
40,901
A Tutorial on Spectral Clustering
cs.DS
In recent years, spectral clustering has become one of the most popular modern clustering algorithms. It is simple to implement, can be solved efficiently by standard linear algebra software, and very often outperforms traditional clustering algorithms such as the k-means algorithm. On the first glance spectral cluster...
computer science
40,902
Faster Rates for training Max-Margin Markov Networks
cs.LG
Structured output prediction is an important machine learning problem both in theory and practice, and the max-margin Markov network (\mcn) is an effective approach. All state-of-the-art algorithms for optimizing \mcn\ objectives take at least $O(1/\epsilon)$ number of iterations to find an $\epsilon$ accurate solution...
computer science
40,903
Evaluation of E-Learners Behaviour using Different Fuzzy Clustering Models: A Comparative Study
cs.CY
This paper introduces an evaluation methodologies for the e-learners' behaviour that will be a feedback to the decision makers in e-learning system. Learner's profile plays a crucial role in the evaluation process to improve the e-learning process performance. The work focuses on the clustering of the e-learners based ...
computer science
40,904
A Survey of Naïve Bayes Machine Learning approach in Text Document Classification
cs.LG
Text Document classification aims in associating one or more predefined categories based on the likelihood suggested by the training set of labeled documents. Many machine learning algorithms play a vital role in training the system with predefined categories among which Na\"ive Bayes has some intriguing facts that it ...
computer science
40,905
Near-Optimal Evasion of Convex-Inducing Classifiers
cs.LG
Classifiers are often used to detect miscreant activities. We study how an adversary can efficiently query a classifier to elicit information that allows the adversary to evade detection at near-minimal cost. We generalize results of Lowd and Meek (2005) to convex-inducing classifiers. We present algorithms that constr...
computer science
40,906
Unbeatable Imitation
cs.GT
We show that for many classes of symmetric two-player games, the simple decision rule "imitate-the-best" can hardly be beaten by any other decision rule. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for imitation to be unbeatable and show that it can only be beaten by much in games that are of the rock-scissors-paper...
computer science
40,907
Spoken Language Identification Using Hybrid Feature Extraction Methods
cs.SD
This paper introduces and motivates the use of hybrid robust feature extraction technique for spoken language identification (LID) system. The speech recognizers use a parametric form of a signal to get the most important distinguishable features of speech signal for recognition task. In this paper Mel-frequency cepstr...
computer science
40,908
Wavelet-Based Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients for Speaker Identification using Hidden Markov Models
cs.SD
To improve the performance of speaker identification systems, an effective and robust method is proposed to extract speech features, capable of operating in noisy environment. Based on the time-frequency multi-resolution property of wavelet transform, the input speech signal is decomposed into various frequency channel...
computer science
40,909
Additive Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Missing Data
cs.NA
Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) has previously been shown to be a useful decomposition for multivariate data. We interpret the factorization in a new way and use it to generate missing attributes from test data. We provide a joint optimization scheme for the missing attributes as well as the NMF factors. We pro...
computer science
40,910
Online Algorithms for the Multi-Armed Bandit Problem with Markovian Rewards
math.OC
We consider the classical multi-armed bandit problem with Markovian rewards. When played an arm changes its state in a Markovian fashion while it remains frozen when not played. The player receives a state-dependent reward each time it plays an arm. The number of states and the state transition probabilities of an arm ...
computer science