The development of real-time affect detection models often depends upon obtaining annotated data for supervised learning by employing human experts to label the student data. One open question in annotating affective data for affect detection is whether the labelers (i.e., human experts) need to be socio-culturally sim…
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Turing test relevance questioned in age of AI.
problem Relevance of Turing test in AI age.
method Examining cultural and technological context.
result Turing test may not fully capture AI capabilities.
Town hall discusses AI's impact on statistics, culture, and training.
problem Adapting statistics to AI advancements and infrastructure.
method Open panel discussion and audience Q&A.
result Candid perspectives on evolving statistical practices.
Enhances content moderation with culturally-aware models.
problem Global content moderation policies miss local cultural nuances.
method Fine-tuning encoder-decoder models on media-diet data.
result Improved accuracy in local violation detection and cultural alignment.
Cultural activity is an inherent aspect of urban life and the success of a modern city is largely determined by its capacity to offer generous cultural entertainment to its citizens. To this end, the optimal allocation of cultural establishments and related resources across urban regions becomes of vital importance, as…
Breiman's two cultures reconciled through blending statistical thinking.
problem Tension between parametric statistical and machine learning approaches.
method Establishing a link between parametric statistical and machine learning frameworks.
result Integrated statistical thinking can bridge the gap between two cultures.
Examines algorithmic modeling across three cultures.
problem Tackles algorithmic modeling in different cultural contexts.
method Uses parametric regressions, interpretable algorithms, and complex algorithms.
result Extension of Leo Breiman's thesis to include cultural differences.
Study shows how national culture influences investors' tendency to hold or sell stocks.
problem Investors' tendency to hold or sell stocks varies internationally.
method Examined brokerage data from 83 countries, analyzed cultural dimensions and age/gender.
result National culture, specifically long-term orientation and indulgence, influences the disposition effect.
The study finds solar terms significantly impact China's stock market returns and volatility.
problem Investigating the effect of solar terms on China's stock market.
method Regression framework, analyzing multiple solar terms and their impact on return and volatility.
result Solar terms 1, 3, and 4 cause significant positive returns, while 8, 11, and 14 bring high volatility.
The paper argues for a social-economic approach to AI development.
problem The current AI development overlooks social and cultural aspects of intelligence.
method A blend of economic and social concepts with computational and inferential concepts in algorithm design.
result A social-economic approach is necessary for proper AI development.
A Cultural Market Modelq-fin.GN
Social interactions and personal tastes shape our consumption behavior of cultural products. In this study, we present a computational model of a cultural market and we aim to analyze the behavior of the consumer population as an emergent phenomena. Our results suggest that the final market shares of cultural products …
Breiman discusses two statistical cultures, advocating for more research on 'before' and 'after' the black box.
problem Statistical modeling lacks exploration of processes before and after the 'black box'.
method Analyzes Breiman's visual metaphor of two statistical cultures.
result Promotes the importance of studying the 'before' and 'after' of data transformations.
Breiman (2001) proposed to statisticians awareness of two cultures: 1. Parametric modeling culture, pioneered by R.A.Fisher and Jerzy Neyman; 2. Algorithmic predictive culture, pioneered by machine learning research. Parzen (2001), as a part of discussing Breiman (2001), proposed that researchers be aware of many cultu…
Digital Twin Calibration for Biological System-of-Systems: Cell Culture Manufacturing Processq-bio.QM
Optimizes biomanufacturing processes with a new digital twin calibration method.
problem Lack of interpretability and sample efficiency in traditional DoE methods.
method Developed a computational approach to calibrate Bio-SoS digital twin model.
result Guides sample-efficient and interpretable DoEs by quantifying sub-model parameter estimation errors.
Barcelona in the face of globalization, how to think of the city through the organization and evaluation of major events?physics.soc-ph
Barcelona evaluates major events for economic and social impact.
problem Evaluating the economic and social impact of major events in Barcelona.
method Analyzes the economic and social dimensions of Barcelona's major events from 1888 to 2004.
result Develops a rational argument for communicating the economic benefits of major events.
Commentary on Rashomon Effect complicating model selection.
problem Many models equally predict data; hard to draw conclusions.
method Connections to recent ML literature exploring implications.
result Grasping Rashomon Effect can foster collaboration.
One of the fundamental questions of cultural evolutionary research is how individual-level processes scale up to generate population-level patterns. Previous studies in music have revealed that frequency-based bias (e.g. conformity and novelty) drives large-scale cultural diversity in different ways across domains and …
AI recovers lost art from x-rays.
problem Reconstructing lost artwork under layers of x-ray imaging.
method Neural style transfer applied to x-radiographs.
result Reconstructed lost artwork visible through x-rays.
Recent work has studied the emergence of language among deep reinforcement learning agents that must collaborate to solve a task. Of particular interest are the factors that cause language to be compositional -- i.e., express meaning by combining words which themselves have meaning. Evolutionary linguists have found th…
Weak supervision challenges black-box models, suggesting fusion of modeling cultures.
problem Challenges of strong supervision in achieving accurate predictions.
method Integrating data modeling into algorithmic modeling for weak supervision.
result Integration of data modeling culture improves model stability and accuracy.
Study introduces KorFinMTEB for Korean financial texts, revealing model limitations.
problem Limited evaluation benchmarks for low-resource domains, especially Korean.
method Developed KorFinMTEB, a tailored benchmark for Korean financial texts.
result Models perform better on translated benchmarks than on domain-specific ones.
The Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2019) "State-of-Mind, Detecting Depression with AI, and Cross-cultural Affect Recognition" is the ninth competition event aimed at the comparison of multimedia processing and machine learning methods for automatic audiovisual health and emotion analysis, with all pa…
Modelo de maturidade em gerenciamento de riscos em projetos (Project Risk Management Model Maturity)q-fin.RM
The globalization feeded by the technology explosion that begans in the end of the last century, started the world to change faster every day. The only today's certain is the tomorrow's uncertain. Risk is defined as uncertain where one or many causes composed of ocurrence probality can generate an impact or consequence…
Breiman's paper sparked debate on the future of statistics and machine learning.
problem The tension between traditional statistical modeling and model-free machine learning approaches.
method Discussion of the implications of machine learning's success and the need for new inferential approaches.
result The importance of understanding 'why' and 'if' questions in machine learning is now recognized.
Deep CNN model predicts neuronal cell health from images.
problem Predicting the biological activity of chemical compounds on neuronal cells.
method Deep convolutional neural network (CNN) with residual connections.
result Achieved 99.6% accuracy in distinguishing treated from untreated cells.
The surfaces of many cultural heritage objects were embellished with various patterns, especially curve patterns. In practice, most of the unearthed cultural heritage objects are highly fragmented, e.g., sherds of potteries or vessels, and each of them only shows a very small portion of the underlying full design, with…
The presence of bacteria or fungi in the bloodstream of patients is abnormal and can lead to life-threatening conditions. A computational model based on a bidirectional long short-term memory artificial neural network, is explored to assist doctors in the intensive care unit to predict whether examination of blood cult…
Economic returns of research: the Pareto law and its implicationscond-mat.stat-mech
At what level should government or companies support research? This complex multi-faceted question encompasses such qualitative bonus as satisfying natural human curiosity, the quest for knowledge and the impact on education and culture, but one of its most scrutinized component reduces to the assessment of economic pe…
We introduce MosAIc, an interactive web app that allows users to find pairs of semantically related artworks that span different cultures, media, and millennia. To create this application, we introduce Conditional Image Retrieval (CIR) which combines visual similarity search with user supplied filters or "conditions". …
Recently, mobile operators in many developing economies have launched "Mobile Money" platforms that deliver basic financial services over the mobile phone network. While many believe that these services can improve the lives of the poor, a consistent difficulty has been identifying individuals most likely to benefit fr…
Paper improves deep point cloud compression techniques.
problem Efficiently compressing 3D point cloud data for various applications.
method Integrates scale hyperprior model, deeper transforms, focal loss, and optimal thresholding.
result Achieves significant BD-PSNR gains over existing methods.
Optimized biopharmaceutical seed train design reduces variability and saves time.
problem Designing robust biotechnological processes with cell cultures.
method Coupling uncertainty-based upstream simulation and Bayes optimization using Gaussian processes.
result Optimized seed train design results in lower cell density variability and reduced process duration.
Encouraging sustainable mobility patterns is at the forefront of policymaking at all scales of governance as the collective consciousness surrounding climate change continues to expand. Not every community, however, possesses the necessary economic or socio-cultural capital to encourage modal shifts away from private m…
Introduces MPR to measure and optimize representation across intersectional groups in retrieval.
problem Harmful stereotypes, cultural erasure, and social disparities in image search and retrieval.
method Develops MPR metric, practical estimation methods, theoretical guarantees, and optimization algorithms.
result Optimizing MPR yields more proportional representation across multiple intersectional groups, often with minimal retrieval accuracy compromise.
Meta-analysis finds people value insurance for low-probability risks more than expected.
problem Low-probability risks insurance demand is lower than expected.
method Conducted a meta-analysis of contingent valuation studies.
result Average stated willingness to pay (WTP) for insurance is 87% of expected losses.
Study proposes a multi-agent framework to mitigate bias in sentiment analysis.
problem Bias in sentiment analysis models.
method Integrates multiple LLMs, incorporates dialogue sessions, and uses probabilistic prediction.
result KCS+IBC reduces entropy and increases variance, suggesting improved balance between aggregation and diversity.
KaoKore dataset extracts faces from pre-modern Japanese art for machine learning.
problem Lack of relevant datasets for historical Japanese artworks in machine learning.
method Extracted faces from pre-modern Japanese artwork to create a new dataset.
result Demonstrated the dataset's value for image classification and creative applications.
Spin networks are at the core of quantum gravity. Our aim is to plug the mathematical community at large into the procedures turn to create a finite quantum theory of general relativity. For this, because of the different cultural backgraund, we would like to change the tack: to relate discrete (combinatorial) objects …
While the costs of human violence have attracted a great deal of attention from the research community, the effects of the network-on-network (NoN) violence popularised by Generative Adversarial Networks have yet to be addressed. In this work, we quantify the financial, social, spiritual, cultural, grammatical and derm…
Breiman's data analysis dichotomy is outdated, offering a third approach: mechanistic models.
problem Data analysis dichotomy between data modelers and algorithmic modelers.
method Interpolating between simple interpretable models and flexible function approximations using mechanistic models.
result Flexible, interpretable, and scientifically-informed hybrids can provide accurate and robust predictions.
CLARITY compares dissimilar datasets, identifying structural and relationship inconsistencies.
problem Integrating qualitatively different datasets from various disciplines.
method Non-parametric approach decomposing similarities into structural and relationship components.
result Identifies and interprets inconsistencies between datasets.
Leo Breiman's Rashomon Effect and Occam Dilemma are re-evaluated in the context of modern machine learning.
problem The tradeoff between model complexity and accuracy in machine learning.
method Modern perspective on Breiman's arguments using current computational capabilities.
result Algorithmic models can be accurate without being complex, nullifying the Occam Dilemma.
A Quantifiable Information-Processing Hierarchy Provides a Necessary Condition for Detecting Agencyq-bio.NC
A new hierarchy quantifies agency in systems based on information processing.
problem Lack of a measurable, universal definition for agency in intelligent systems.
method Developed a bottom-up framework based on information processing hierarchy.
result Identified three orders of information processing (I, II, III) as necessary for agency.
Efron et al. (2001) proposed empirical Bayes formulation of the frequentist Benjamini and Hochbergs False Discovery Rate method (Benjamini and Hochberg,1995). This article attempts to unify the `two cultures' using concepts of comparison density and distribution function. We have also shown how almost all of the existi…
Knowing and modelling the migration phenomena and especially the social and economic consequences have a theoretical and practical importance, being related to their consequences for development, economic progress (or as appropriate, regression), environmental influences etc. One of the causes of migration, especially …
Rapid identification of bacteria is essential to prevent the spread of infectious disease, help combat antimicrobial resistance, and improve patient outcomes. Raman optical spectroscopy promises to combine bacterial detection, identification, and antibiotic susceptibility testing in a single step. However, achieving cl…
When society maintains a competitive system to promote an abstract goal, competition by necessity relies on imperfect proxy measures. For instance profit is used to measure value to consumers, patient volumes to measure hospital performance, or the Journal Impact Factor to measure scientific value. Here we note that \t…
How do we assign value to economic transactions? To answer this question, we must consider whether the value of objects is inherent, is a product of social interaction, or involves other mechanisms. Economic theory predicts that there is an optimal price for any market transaction, and can be observed during auctions o…