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40,911
An Architecture of Active Learning SVMs with Relevance Feedback for Classifying E-mail
cs.IR
In this paper, we have proposed an architecture of active learning SVMs with relevance feedback (RF)for classifying e-mail. This architecture combines both active learning strategies where instead of using a randomly selected training set, the learner has access to a pool of unlabeled instances and can request the labe...
computer science
40,912
Indexability, concentration, and VC theory
cs.DS
Degrading performance of indexing schemes for exact similarity search in high dimensions has long since been linked to histograms of distributions of distances and other 1-Lipschitz functions getting concentrated. We discuss this observation in the framework of the phenomenon of concentration of measure on the structur...
computer science
40,913
A Smoothing Stochastic Gradient Method for Composite Optimization
math.OC
We consider the unconstrained optimization problem whose objective function is composed of a smooth and a non-smooth conponents where the smooth component is the expectation a random function. This type of problem arises in some interesting applications in machine learning. We propose a stochastic gradient descent algo...
computer science
40,914
Clustering under Perturbation Resilience
cs.LG
Motivated by the fact that distances between data points in many real-world clustering instances are often based on heuristic measures, Bilu and Linial~\cite{BL} proposed analyzing objective based clustering problems under the assumption that the optimum clustering to the objective is preserved under small multiplicati...
computer science
40,915
Multi-timescale Nexting in a Reinforcement Learning Robot
cs.LG
The term "nexting" has been used by psychologists to refer to the propensity of people and many other animals to continually predict what will happen next in an immediate, local, and personal sense. The ability to "next" constitutes a basic kind of awareness and knowledge of one's environment. In this paper we present ...
computer science
40,916
SLA Establishment with Guaranteed QoS in the Interdomain Network: A Stock Model
cs.NI
The new model that we present in this paper is introduced in the context of guaranteed QoS and resources management in the inter-domain routing framework. This model, called the stock model, is based on a reverse cascade approach and is applied in a distributed context. So transit providers have to learn the right capa...
computer science
40,917
Using Taxonomies to Facilitate the Analysis of the Association Rules
cs.DB
The Data Mining process enables the end users to analyze, understand and use the extracted knowledge in an intelligent system or to support in the decision-making processes. However, many algorithms used in the process encounter large quantities of patterns, complicating the analysis of the patterns. This fact occurs w...
computer science
40,918
Chinese Restaurant Game - Part II: Applications to Wireless Networking, Cloud Computing, and Online Social Networking
cs.SI
In Part I of this two-part paper [1], we proposed a new game, called Chinese restaurant game, to analyze the social learning problem with negative network externality. The best responses of agents in the Chinese restaurant game with imperfect signals are constructed through a recursive method, and the influence of both...
computer science
40,919
Chinese Restaurant Game - Part I: Theory of Learning with Negative Network Externality
cs.SI
In a social network, agents are intelligent and have the capability to make decisions to maximize their utilities. They can either make wise decisions by taking advantages of other agents' experiences through learning, or make decisions earlier to avoid competitions from huge crowds. Both these two effects, social lear...
computer science
40,920
Low-rank optimization with trace norm penalty
math.OC
The paper addresses the problem of low-rank trace norm minimization. We propose an algorithm that alternates between fixed-rank optimization and rank-one updates. The fixed-rank optimization is characterized by an efficient factorization that makes the trace norm differentiable in the search space and the computation o...
computer science
40,921
A new order theory of set systems and better quasi-orderings
math.CO
By reformulating a learning process of a set system L as a game between Teacher (presenter of data) and Learner (updater of the abstract independent set), we define the order type dim L of L to be the order type of the game tree. The theory of this new order type and continuous, monotone function between set systems co...
computer science
40,922
Online Learning for Classification of Low-rank Representation Features and Its Applications in Audio Segment Classification
cs.LG
In this paper, a novel framework based on trace norm minimization for audio segment is proposed. In this framework, both the feature extraction and classification are obtained by solving corresponding convex optimization problem with trace norm regularization. For feature extraction, robust principle component analysis...
computer science
40,923
A Scalable Multiclass Algorithm for Node Classification
cs.LG
We introduce a scalable algorithm, MUCCA, for multiclass node classification in weighted graphs. Unlike previously proposed methods for the same task, MUCCA works in time linear in the number of nodes. Our approach is based on a game-theoretic formulation of the problem in which the test labels are expressed as a Nash ...
computer science
40,924
Ordinal Rating of Network Performance and Inference by Matrix Completion
cs.NI
This paper addresses the large-scale acquisition of end-to-end network performance. We made two distinct contributions: ordinal rating of network performance and inference by matrix completion. The former reduces measurement costs and unifies various metrics which eases their processing in applications. The latter enab...
computer science
40,925
The complexity of learning halfspaces using generalized linear methods
cs.LG
Many popular learning algorithms (E.g. Regression, Fourier-Transform based algorithms, Kernel SVM and Kernel ridge regression) operate by reducing the problem to a convex optimization problem over a vector space of functions. These methods offer the currently best approach to several central problems such as learning h...
computer science
40,926
Explosion prediction of oil gas using SVM and Logistic Regression
cs.CE
The prevention of dangerous chemical accidents is a primary problem of industrial manufacturing. In the accidents of dangerous chemicals, the oil gas explosion plays an important role. The essential task of the explosion prevention is to estimate the better explosion limit of a given oil gas. In this paper, Support Vec...
computer science
40,927
On Calibrated Predictions for Auction Selection Mechanisms
cs.GT
Calibration is a basic property for prediction systems, and algorithms for achieving it are well-studied in both statistics and machine learning. In many applications, however, the predictions are used to make decisions that select which observations are made. This makes calibration difficult, as adjusting predictions ...
computer science
40,929
Online Stochastic Optimization with Multiple Objectives
cs.LG
In this paper we propose a general framework to characterize and solve the stochastic optimization problems with multiple objectives underlying many real world learning applications. We first propose a projection based algorithm which attains an $O(T^{-1/3})$ convergence rate. Then, by leveraging on the theory of Lagra...
computer science
40,930
Quantum support vector machine for big data classification
cs.LG
Supervised machine learning is the classification of new data based on already classified training examples. In this work, we show that the support vector machine, an optimized binary classifier, can be implemented on a quantum computer, with complexity logarithmic in the size of the vectors and the number of training ...
computer science
40,931
Investigating the Detection of Adverse Drug Events in a UK General Practice Electronic Health-Care Database
cs.CE
Data-mining techniques have frequently been developed for Spontaneous reporting databases. These techniques aim to find adverse drug events accurately and efficiently. Spontaneous reporting databases are prone to missing information, under reporting and incorrect entries. This often results in a detection lag or preven...
computer science
40,932
Application of a clustering framework to UK domestic electricity data
cs.CE
This paper takes an approach to clustering domestic electricity load profiles that has been successfully used with data from Portugal and applies it to UK data. Clustering techniques are applied and it is found that the preferred technique in the Portuguese work (a two stage process combining Self Organised Maps and Km...
computer science
40,933
Creating Personalised Energy Plans. From Groups to Individuals using Fuzzy C Means Clustering
cs.CE
Changes in the UK electricity market mean that domestic users will be required to modify their usage behaviour in order that supplies can be maintained. Clustering allows usage profiles collected at the household level to be clustered into groups and assigned a stereotypical profile which can be used to target marketin...
computer science
40,934
Examining the Classification Accuracy of TSVMs with ?Feature Selection in Comparison with the GLAD Algorithm
cs.LG
Gene expression data sets are used to classify and predict patient diagnostic categories. As we know, it is extremely difficult and expensive to obtain gene expression labelled examples. Moreover, conventional supervised approaches cannot function properly when labelled data (training examples) are insufficient using S...
computer science
40,935
Quiet in Class: Classification, Noise and the Dendritic Cell Algorithm
cs.LG
Theoretical analyses of the Dendritic Cell Algorithm (DCA) have yielded several criticisms about its underlying structure and operation. As a result, several alterations and fixes have been suggested in the literature to correct for these findings. A contribution of this work is to investigate the effects of replacing ...
computer science
40,936
Detect adverse drug reactions for drug Alendronate
cs.CE
Adverse drug reaction (ADR) is widely concerned for public health issue. In this study we propose an original approach to detect the ADRs using feature matrix and feature selection. The experiments are carried out on the drug Simvastatin. Major side effects for the drug are detected and better performance is achieved c...
computer science
40,937
Biomarker Clustering of Colorectal Cancer Data to Complement Clinical Classification
cs.LG
In this paper, we describe a dataset relating to cellular and physical conditions of patients who are operated upon to remove colorectal tumours. This data provides a unique insight into immunological status at the point of tumour removal, tumour classification and post-operative survival. Attempts are made to cluster ...
computer science
40,938
Approximate dynamic programming using fluid and diffusion approximations with applications to power management
cs.LG
Neuro-dynamic programming is a class of powerful techniques for approximating the solution to dynamic programming equations. In their most computationally attractive formulations, these techniques provide the approximate solution only within a prescribed finite-dimensional function class. Thus, the question that always...
computer science
40,939
Using Clustering to extract Personality Information from socio economic data
cs.LG
It has become apparent that models that have been applied widely in economics, including Machine Learning techniques and Data Mining methods, should take into consideration principles that derive from the theories of Personality Psychology in order to discover more comprehensive knowledge regarding complicated economic...
computer science
40,940
Finding the creatures of habit; Clustering households based on their flexibility in using electricity
cs.LG
Changes in the UK electricity market, particularly with the roll out of smart meters, will provide greatly increased opportunities for initiatives intended to change households' electricity usage patterns for the benefit of the overall system. Users show differences in their regular behaviours and clustering households...
computer science
40,941
Unsupervised Gene Expression Data using Enhanced Clustering Method
cs.CE
Microarrays are made it possible to simultaneously monitor the expression profiles of thousands of genes under various experimental conditions. Identification of co-expressed genes and coherent patterns is the central goal in microarray or gene expression data analysis and is an important task in bioinformatics researc...
computer science
40,942
Performance Analysis of Clustering Algorithms for Gene Expression Data
cs.CE
Microarray technology is a process that allows thousands of genes simultaneously monitor to various experimental conditions. It is used to identify the co-expressed genes in specific cells or tissues that are actively used to make proteins, This method is used to analysis the gene expression, an important task in bioin...
computer science
40,943
A Data Management Approach for Dataset Selection Using Human Computation
cs.LG
As the number of applications that use machine learning algorithms increases, the need for labeled data useful for training such algorithms intensifies. Getting labels typically involves employing humans to do the annotation, which directly translates to training and working costs. Crowdsourcing platforms have made l...
computer science
40,944
On Analyzing Estimation Errors due to Constrained Connections in Online Review Systems
cs.SI
Constrained connection is the phenomenon that a reviewer can only review a subset of products/services due to narrow range of interests or limited attention capacity. In this work, we study how constrained connections can affect estimation performance in online review systems (ORS). We find that reviewers' constrained ...
computer science
40,945
A Comprehensive Evaluation of Machine Learning Techniques for Cancer Class Prediction Based on Microarray Data
cs.LG
Prostate cancer is among the most common cancer in males and its heterogeneity is well known. Its early detection helps making therapeutic decision. There is no standard technique or procedure yet which is full-proof in predicting cancer class. The genomic level changes can be detected in gene expression data and those...
computer science
40,946
MixedGrad: An O(1/T) Convergence Rate Algorithm for Stochastic Smooth Optimization
cs.LG
It is well known that the optimal convergence rate for stochastic optimization of smooth functions is $O(1/\sqrt{T})$, which is same as stochastic optimization of Lipschitz continuous convex functions. This is in contrast to optimizing smooth functions using full gradients, which yields a convergence rate of $O(1/T^2)$...
computer science
40,947
A Review of Machine Learning based Anomaly Detection Techniques
cs.LG
Intrusion detection is so much popular since the last two decades where intrusion is attempted to break into or misuse the system. It is mainly of two types based on the intrusions, first is Misuse or signature based detection and the other is Anomaly detection. In this paper Machine learning based methods which are on...
computer science
40,948
Participation anticipating in elections using data mining methods
cs.CY
Anticipating the political behavior of people will be considerable help for election candidates to assess the possibility of their success and to be acknowledged about the public motivations to select them. In this paper, we provide a general schematic of the architecture of participation anticipating system in preside...
computer science
40,949
Data mining application for cyber space users tendency in blog writing: a case study
cs.CY
Blogs are the recent emerging media which relies on information technology and technological advance. Since the mass media in some less-developed and developing countries are in government service and their policies are developed based on governmental interests, so blogs are provided for ideas and exchanging opinions. ...
computer science
40,950
A Study on Classification in Imbalanced and Partially-Labelled Data Streams
cs.LG
The domain of radio astronomy is currently facing significant computational challenges, foremost amongst which are those posed by the development of the world's largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Preliminary specifications for this instrument suggest that the final design will incorporate betwee...
computer science
40,951
Multiple Kernel Learning in the Primal for Multi-modal Alzheimer's Disease Classification
cs.LG
To achieve effective and efficient detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD), many machine learning methods have been introduced into this realm. However, the general case of limited training samples, as well as different feature representations typically makes this problem challenging. In this work, we propose a novel mul...
computer science
40,952
MINT: Mutual Information based Transductive Feature Selection for Genetic Trait Prediction
cs.LG
Whole genome prediction of complex phenotypic traits using high-density genotyping arrays has attracted a great deal of attention, as it is relevant to the fields of plant and animal breeding and genetic epidemiology. As the number of genotypes is generally much bigger than the number of samples, predictive models suff...
computer science
40,953
Predicting Students' Performance Using ID3 And C4.5 Classification Algorithms
cs.CY
An educational institution needs to have an approximate prior knowledge of enrolled students to predict their performance in future academics. This helps them to identify promising students and also provides them an opportunity to pay attention to and improve those who would probably get lower grades. As a solution, we...
computer science
40,954
Bandits with Switching Costs: T^{2/3} Regret
cs.LG
We study the adversarial multi-armed bandit problem in a setting where the player incurs a unit cost each time he switches actions. We prove that the player's $T$-round minimax regret in this setting is $\widetilde{\Theta}(T^{2/3})$, thereby closing a fundamental gap in our understanding of learning with bandit feedbac...
computer science
40,955
Joint Indoor Localization and Radio Map Construction with Limited Deployment Load
cs.NI
One major bottleneck in the practical implementation of received signal strength (RSS) based indoor localization systems is the extensive deployment efforts required to construct the radio maps through fingerprinting. In this paper, we aim to design an indoor localization scheme that can be directly employed without bu...
computer science
40,956
An Extreme Learning Machine Approach to Predicting Near Chaotic HCCI Combustion Phasing in Real-Time
cs.LG
Fuel efficient Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) engine combustion timing predictions must contend with non-linear chemistry, non-linear physics, period doubling bifurcation(s), turbulent mixing, model parameters that can drift day-to-day, and air-fuel mixture state information that cannot typically be res...
computer science
40,957
Predicting college basketball match outcomes using machine learning techniques: some results and lessons learned
cs.LG
Most existing work on predicting NCAAB matches has been developed in a statistical context. Trusting the capabilities of ML techniques, particularly classification learners, to uncover the importance of features and learn their relationships, we evaluated a number of different paradigms on this task. In this paper, we ...
computer science
40,958
Exact Learning of RNA Energy Parameters From Structure
cs.LG
We consider the problem of exact learning of parameters of a linear RNA energy model from secondary structure data. A necessary and sufficient condition for learnability of parameters is derived, which is based on computing the convex hull of union of translated Newton polytopes of input sequences. The set of learned e...
computer science
40,959
On Measure Concentration of Random Maximum A-Posteriori Perturbations
cs.LG
The maximum a-posteriori (MAP) perturbation framework has emerged as a useful approach for inference and learning in high dimensional complex models. By maximizing a randomly perturbed potential function, MAP perturbations generate unbiased samples from the Gibbs distribution. Unfortunately, the computational cost of g...
computer science
40,960
The BeiHang Keystroke Dynamics Authentication System
cs.CR
Keystroke Dynamics is an important biometric solution for person authentication. Based upon keystroke dynamics, this paper designs an embedded password protection device, develops an online system, collects two public databases for promoting the research on keystroke authentication, exploits the Gabor filter bank to ch...
computer science
40,961
Multiple Attractor Cellular Automata (MACA) for Addressing Major Problems in Bioinformatics
cs.CE
CA has grown as potential classifier for addressing major problems in bioinformatics. Lot of bioinformatics problems like predicting the protein coding region, finding the promoter region, predicting the structure of protein and many other problems in bioinformatics can be addressed through Cellular Automata. Even thou...
computer science
40,962
Reinforcement Learning Framework for Opportunistic Routing in WSNs
cs.NI
Routing packets opportunistically is an essential part of multihop ad hoc wireless sensor networks. The existing routing techniques are not adaptive opportunistic. In this paper we have proposed an adaptive opportunistic routing scheme that routes packets opportunistically in order to ensure that packet loss is avoided...
computer science
40,963
A Parallel SGD method with Strong Convergence
cs.LG
This paper proposes a novel parallel stochastic gradient descent (SGD) method that is obtained by applying parallel sets of SGD iterations (each set operating on one node using the data residing in it) for finding the direction in each iteration of a batch descent method. The method has strong convergence properties. E...
computer science
40,964
Optimization, Learning, and Games with Predictable Sequences
cs.LG
We provide several applications of Optimistic Mirror Descent, an online learning algorithm based on the idea of predictable sequences. First, we recover the Mirror Prox algorithm for offline optimization, prove an extension to Holder-smooth functions, and apply the results to saddle-point type problems. Next, we prove ...
computer science
40,965
From average case complexity to improper learning complexity
cs.LG
The basic problem in the PAC model of computational learning theory is to determine which hypothesis classes are efficiently learnable. There is presently a dearth of results showing hardness of learning problems. Moreover, the existing lower bounds fall short of the best known algorithms. The biggest challenge in pr...
computer science
40,966
The Noisy Power Method: A Meta Algorithm with Applications
cs.DS
We provide a new robust convergence analysis of the well-known power method for computing the dominant singular vectors of a matrix that we call the noisy power method. Our result characterizes the convergence behavior of the algorithm when a significant amount noise is introduced after each matrix-vector multiplicatio...
computer science
40,967
Spectral Clustering via the Power Method -- Provably
cs.LG
Spectral clustering is one of the most important algorithms in data mining and machine intelligence; however, its computational complexity limits its application to truly large scale data analysis. The computational bottleneck in spectral clustering is computing a few of the top eigenvectors of the (normalized) Laplaci...
computer science
40,968
Scalable Influence Estimation in Continuous-Time Diffusion Networks
cs.SI
If a piece of information is released from a media site, can it spread, in 1 month, to a million web pages? This influence estimation problem is very challenging since both the time-sensitive nature of the problem and the issue of scalability need to be addressed simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a randomized a...
computer science
40,969
Extended Formulations for Online Linear Bandit Optimization
cs.LG
On-line linear optimization on combinatorial action sets (d-dimensional actions) with bandit feedback, is known to have complexity in the order of the dimension of the problem. The exponential weighted strategy achieves the best known regret bound that is of the order of $d^{2}\sqrt{n}$ (where $d$ is the dimension of t...
computer science
40,970
Recommending with an Agenda: Active Learning of Private Attributes using Matrix Factorization
cs.LG
Recommender systems leverage user demographic information, such as age, gender, etc., to personalize recommendations and better place their targeted ads. Oftentimes, users do not volunteer this information due to privacy concerns, or due to a lack of initiative in filling out their online profiles. We illustrate a new ...
computer science
40,971
Learning Prices for Repeated Auctions with Strategic Buyers
cs.LG
Inspired by real-time ad exchanges for online display advertising, we consider the problem of inferring a buyer's value distribution for a good when the buyer is repeatedly interacting with a seller through a posted-price mechanism. We model the buyer as a strategic agent, whose goal is to maximize her long-term surplu...
computer science
40,972
Analysis of Distributed Stochastic Dual Coordinate Ascent
cs.DC
In \citep{Yangnips13}, the author presented distributed stochastic dual coordinate ascent (DisDCA) algorithms for solving large-scale regularized loss minimization. Extraordinary performances have been observed and reported for the well-motivated updates, as referred to the practical updates, compared to the naive upda...
computer science
40,973
Bandits and Experts 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
40,974
A MapReduce based distributed SVM algorithm for binary classification
cs.LG
Although Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm has a high generalization property to classify for unseen examples after training phase and it has small loss value, the algorithm is not suitable for real-life classification and regression problems. SVMs cannot solve hundreds of thousands examples in training dataset. I...
computer science
40,975
Distributed k-means algorithm
cs.LG
In this paper we provide a fully distributed implementation of the k-means clustering algorithm, intended for wireless sensor networks where each agent is endowed with a possibly high-dimensional observation (e.g., position, humidity, temperature, etc.) The proposed algorithm, by means of one-hop communication, partiti...
computer science
40,976
Classification of Human Ventricular Arrhythmia in High Dimensional Representation Spaces
cs.CE
We studied classification of human ECGs labelled as normal sinus rhythm, ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia by means of support vector machines in different representation spaces, using different observation lengths. ECG waveform segments of duration 0.5-4 s, their Fourier magnitude spectra, and lower...
computer science
40,977
Manifold regularized kernel logistic regression for web image annotation
cs.LG
With the rapid advance of Internet technology and smart devices, users often need to manage large amounts of multimedia information using smart devices, such as personal image and video accessing and browsing. These requirements heavily rely on the success of image (video) annotation, and thus large scale image annotat...
computer science
40,978
Co-Multistage of Multiple Classifiers for Imbalanced Multiclass Learning
cs.LG
In this work, we propose two stochastic architectural models (CMC and CMC-M) with two layers of classifiers applicable to datasets with one and multiple skewed classes. This distinction becomes important when the datasets have a large number of classes. Therefore, we present a novel solution to imbalanced multiclass le...
computer science
40,979
Local algorithms for interactive clustering
cs.DS
We study the design of interactive clustering algorithms for data sets satisfying natural stability assumptions. Our algorithms start with any initial clustering and only make local changes in each step; both are desirable features in many applications. We show that in this constrained setting one can still design prov...
computer science
40,980
Greedy Column Subset Selection for Large-scale Data Sets
cs.DS
In today's information systems, the availability of massive amounts of data necessitates the development of fast and accurate algorithms to summarize these data and represent them in a succinct format. One crucial problem in big data analytics is the selection of representative instances from large and massively-distri...
computer science
40,981
Matrix recovery using Split Bregman
cs.NA
In this paper we address the problem of recovering a matrix, with inherent low rank structure, from its lower dimensional projections. This problem is frequently encountered in wide range of areas including pattern recognition, wireless sensor networks, control systems, recommender systems, image/video reconstruction e...
computer science
40,982
Two Timescale Convergent Q-learning for Sleep--Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks
cs.SY
In this paper, we consider an intrusion detection application for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). We study the problem of scheduling the sleep times of the individual sensors to maximize the network lifetime while keeping the tracking error to a minimum. We formulate this problem as a partially-observable Markov decis...
computer science
40,983
Nonparametric Inference For Density Modes
stat.ME
We derive nonparametric confidence intervals for the eigenvalues of the Hessian at modes of a density estimate. This provides information about the strength and shape of modes and can also be used as a significance test. We use a data-splitting approach in which potential modes are identified using the first half of th...
computer science
40,984
Response-Based Approachability and its Application to Generalized No-Regret Algorithms
cs.LG
Approachability theory, introduced by Blackwell (1956), provides fundamental results on repeated games with vector-valued payoffs, and has been usefully applied since in the theory of learning in games and to learning algorithms in the online adversarial setup. Given a repeated game with vector payoffs, a target set $S...
computer science
40,985
Household Electricity Demand Forecasting -- Benchmarking State-of-the-Art Methods
cs.LG
The increasing use of renewable energy sources with variable output, such as solar photovoltaic and wind power generation, calls for Smart Grids that effectively manage flexible loads and energy storage. The ability to forecast consumption at different locations in distribution systems will be a key capability of Smart...
computer science
40,986
Learning Two-input Linear and Nonlinear Analog Functions with a Simple Chemical System
cs.LG
The current biochemical information processing systems behave in a predetermined manner because all features are defined during the design phase. To make such unconventional computing systems reusable and programmable for biomedical applications, adaptation, learning, and self-modification based on external stimuli wou...
computer science
40,987
Cellular Automata and Its Applications in Bioinformatics: A Review
cs.CE
This paper aims at providing a survey on the problems that can be easily addressed by cellular automata in bioinformatics. Some of the authors have proposed algorithms for addressing some problems in bioinformatics but the application of cellular automata in bioinformatics is a virgin field in research. None of the res...
computer science
40,988
piCholesky: Polynomial Interpolation of Multiple Cholesky Factors for Efficient Approximate Cross-Validation
cs.LG
The dominant cost in solving least-square problems using Newton's method is often that of factorizing the Hessian matrix over multiple values of the regularization parameter ($\lambda$). We propose an efficient way to interpolate the Cholesky factors of the Hessian matrix computed over a small set of $\lambda$ values. ...
computer science
40,989
AIS-MACA- Z: MACA based Clonal Classifier for Splicing Site, Protein Coding and Promoter Region Identification in Eukaryotes
cs.CE
Bioinformatics incorporates information regarding biological data storage, accessing mechanisms and presentation of characteristics within this data. Most of the problems in bioinformatics and be addressed efficiently by computer techniques. This paper aims at building a classifier based on Multiple Attractor Cellular ...
computer science
40,990
Optimistic Risk Perception in the Temporal Difference error Explains the Relation between Risk-taking, Gambling, Sensation-seeking and Low Fear
cs.LG
Understanding the affective, cognitive and behavioural processes involved in risk taking is essential for treatment and for setting environmental conditions to limit damage. Using Temporal Difference Reinforcement Learning (TDRL) we computationally investigated the effect of optimism in risk perception in a variety of ...
computer science
40,991
Towards the Safety of Human-in-the-Loop Robotics: Challenges and Opportunities for Safety Assurance of Robotic Co-Workers
cs.RO
The success of the human-robot co-worker team in a flexible manufacturing environment where robots learn from demonstration heavily relies on the correct and safe operation of the robot. How this can be achieved is a challenge that requires addressing both technical as well as human-centric research questions. In this ...
computer science
40,992
Near-optimal sample compression for nearest neighbors
cs.LG
We present the first sample compression algorithm for nearest neighbors with non-trivial performance guarantees. We complement these guarantees by demonstrating almost matching hardness lower bounds, which show that our bound is nearly optimal. Our result yields new insight into margin-based nearest neighbor classifica...
computer science
40,993
Complexity theoretic limitations on learning DNF's
cs.LG
Using the recently developed framework of [Daniely et al, 2014], we show that under a natural assumption on the complexity of refuting random K-SAT formulas, learning DNF formulas is hard. Furthermore, the same assumption implies the hardness of learning intersections of $\omega(\log(n))$ halfspaces, agnostically learn...
computer science
40,994
Methods for Ordinal Peer Grading
cs.LG
MOOCs have the potential to revolutionize higher education with their wide outreach and accessibility, but they require instructors to come up with scalable alternates to traditional student evaluation. Peer grading -- having students assess each other -- is a promising approach to tackling the problem of evaluation at...
computer science
40,995
Nearly Tight Bounds on $\ell_1$ Approximation of Self-Bounding Functions
cs.LG
We study the complexity of learning and approximation of self-bounding functions over the uniform distribution on the Boolean hypercube ${0,1}^n$. Informally, a function $f:{0,1}^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is self-bounding if for every $x \in {0,1}^n$, $f(x)$ upper bounds the sum of all the $n$ marginal decreases in the...
computer science
40,996
Concurrent bandits and cognitive radio networks
cs.LG
We consider the problem of multiple users targeting the arms of a single multi-armed stochastic bandit. The motivation for this problem comes from cognitive radio networks, where selfish users need to coexist without any side communication between them, implicit cooperation or common control. Even the number of users m...
computer science
40,997
A Comparison of Clustering and Missing Data Methods for Health Sciences
math.NA
In this paper, we compare and analyze clustering methods with missing data in health behavior research. In particular, we propose and analyze the use of compressive sensing's matrix completion along with spectral clustering to cluster health related data. The empirical tests and real data results show that these method...
computer science
40,999
A Multi Level Data Fusion Approach for Speaker Identification on Telephone Speech
cs.SD
Several speaker identification systems are giving good performance with clean speech but are affected by the degradations introduced by noisy audio conditions. To deal with this problem, we investigate the use of complementary information at different levels for computing a combined match score for the unknown speaker....
computer science