Deep learning model tackles illegal comments with promising results.
problem Lack of labeled data in legal domain.
method Multi-task deep learning model for classification.
result Promising results in classifying illegal comments.
The study evaluates 62 classifiers for detecting online toxic comments.
problem Identifying and classifying toxic online commentary.
method Systematic evaluation of 62 classifiers representing 19 algorithmic families on the Jigsaw dataset.
result Simple bad word lists are most predictive of offensive commentary.
Paper tackles toxic comment detection using deep learning.
problem Automatic detection of toxic comments on the internet.
method Designs binary classification and regression-based approaches using DNN.
result BERT fine-tuning outperforms other methods.
CondMTL improves toxicity detection by learning group-specific representations.
problem Algorithmic bias in toxic language detection across demographic groups.
method Conditional Multi-Task Learning (CondMTL) for demographic-specific tasks.
result CondMTL improves predictive recall for minority demographic groups.
New framework controls statistical dispersion for high-stakes applications.
problem Understanding and controlling the dispersion of loss distributions in high-stakes applications.
method Simple yet flexible framework for distribution-free control of statistical dispersion measures.
result Proposed methods control statistical dispersion measures with societal implications.
Kaggle chronicles 15 years of competitions, innovation, and data science.
problem Exploring 15 years of data science competitions and innovations.
method Longitudinal trend analysis and exploratory data analysis of millions of kernels and discussion threads.
result Kaggle is a growing platform with diverse use cases and adaptable Kagglers.
Kaggle competitions offer valuable insights for business forecasting.
problem Lack of attention to Kaggle competitions in academic forecasting studies.
method Review of results from six Kaggle competitions featuring real-life business forecasting tasks.
result Global ensemble models outperform local single models in Kaggle competitions.
Paper develops a fast Bayesian method to predict toxic trades in financial transactions.
problem Predicting and managing toxic trades in financial transactions.
method PULSE: an online learning Bayesian procedure for neural networks.
result Neural networks trained with PULSE outperform traditional methods in predicting toxic trades.
Timely assessment of compound toxicity is one of the biggest challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry today. A significant proportion of compounds identified as potential leads are ultimately discarded due to the toxicity they induce. In this paper, we propose a novel machine learning approach for the prediction o…
Removing spurious features can hurt model accuracy and disproportionately affect different groups.
problem Interference from spurious features in robust model performance across different groups.
method Characterization and analysis of spurious feature removal in noiseless overparameterized linear regression.
result Removal of spurious features can decrease accuracy and disproportionately affect different groups, even in balanced datasets.
The paper proposes a method to evaluate ML models for subjective inference, focusing on sentence toxicity.
problem Bias in ML models for subjective inference, especially in real-life applications.
method Proposes a list of specifications to evaluate ML models for subjective inference, illustrated with a sentence toxicity example.
result Demonstrates the importance of considering subjectivity and bias in evaluating ML models.
SEEDA optimizes dose allocation in clinical trials to balance efficacy and safety.
problem Complex relationships between efficacy and toxicity in new drug trials.
method Adaptive clinical trial methodology that maximizes cumulative efficacy while ensuring safety constraints.
result SEEDA outperforms existing methods in finding optimal doses with higher success rates and fewer patients.
This paper compares feature selection methods for biomarker discovery in toxicant-treated fish.
problem Choosing the most suitable method for biomarker discovery in toxicant exposure studies.
method Three feature selection methods: SAM, mRMR, and GeoDE are compared.
result Different methods perform better in different cases, requiring dataset-specific decisions.
Study compares various optimization algorithms for deep learning.
problem Challenges in optimizing deep neural networks as they grow deeper and datasets increase.
method Implemented and compared adaptive gradient methods for supervised and unsupervised tasks on four image datasets.
result Differences in behavior and performance of optimization algorithms during training.
Multimodal deep learning improves toxicity prediction accuracy.
problem Improving prediction accuracy of chemical compound toxicity.
method Combining multiple neural network types and data representations.
result Significantly better accuracy on a toxicity benchmark.
New deep learning techniques improve HEP model performance and speed.
problem Improving classification model performance and training speed in HEP.
method Advanced deep learning techniques including data augmentation, learning rate scheduling, ensembling, and new architectures.
result Achieved equal performance to Kaggle winners with faster training and hardware compatibility.
System accurately detects lung cancer from CT images.
problem Early and accurate detection of lung cancer.
method Developed algorithms using a dataset of CT images.
result Accuracy of 72.2% on test dataset.
Everyday we are exposed to various chemicals via food additives, cleaning and cosmetic products and medicines -- and some of them might be toxic. However testing the toxicity of all existing compounds by biological experiments is neither financially nor logistically feasible. Therefore the government agencies NIH, EPA …
We refine toxicity bounds for dynamic liquidation incentives in CP-AMM systems.
problem Ensuring stability in dynamic liquidation incentives in automated market makers.
method Derived state-dependent toxicity bounds for dynamic liquidation incentives, reconciling them with CP-AMM price dynamics.
result State-dependent bounds and liquidity-depth-only condition for dynamic liquidation incentives.
The study explains YouTube commenters' behavior using rational inattention models.
problem Understanding and predicting YouTube commenters' behavior.
method Deep embedded clustering for user grouping, Bayesian revealed preferences for rationality testing, and behavioral economics constraints for attention span modeling.
result Most YouTube user groups optimize a Bayesian utility with rationally inattentive constraints.
Simple machine learning models achieve high accuracy in toxicity prediction.
problem Toxicity prediction of chemical compounds using complex models.
method Using shallow neural networks and decision trees with 2D features.
result Achieves similar or better performance than deep neural networks with less computing time.
New language models improve essay scoring accuracy.
problem Improving essay scoring accuracy using AI.
method Used BERT and XLNet language models to compare with traditional methods.
result Achieved above human-level accuracy on AES dataset.
Model optimizes trading strategy with unobservable toxicity.
problem Maximizing daily trading profit with unobservable toxicity.
method Formulated as a partially observable stochastic control problem, solved in two steps.
result P&L performance gap is negligible (0.01%) in all scenarios.
Paper predicts future sales using machine learning techniques.
problem Predict future sales of retail products using past data.
method Used eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) for forecasting.
result XGBoost performed better than LSTM in predicting sales.
New method designs antimicrobial peptides with high potency and low toxicity.
problem Designing potent antimicrobial drugs with low toxicity.
method CLaSS method using deep generative autoencoder and atomistic simulations.
result Design and synthesis of two novel AMPs with high potency and low toxicity.
This paper describes Task 2 of the DCASE 2018 Challenge, titled "General-purpose audio tagging of Freesound content with AudioSet labels". This task was hosted on the Kaggle platform as "Freesound General-Purpose Audio Tagging Challenge". The goal of the task is to build an audio tagging system that can recognize the c…
We conduct an empirical study of machine learning functionalities provided by major cloud service providers, which we call machine learning clouds. Machine learning clouds hold the promise of hiding all the sophistication of running large-scale machine learning: Instead of specifying how to run a machine learning task,…
In this paper, we explore ordinal classification (in the context of deep neural networks) through a simple modification of the squared error loss which not only allows it to not only be sensitive to class ordering, but also allows the possibility of having a discrete probability distribution over the classes. Our formu…
This research secures deployed sentiment analysis models by identifying and defending against attack vectors.
problem Securing deployed machine learning models, particularly sentiment analysis systems, from adversarial attacks.
method BAD (Build, Attack, Defend) Architecture, evaluating two implementations.
result Demonstrated a viable methodology for securing machine learning models in production.
Researchers develop method to protect against 'weight poisoning' attacks on pre-trained models.
problem The security threat of downloading untrusted pre-trained weights that can be manipulated after fine-tuning.
method RIPPLe regularization method and Embedding Surgery initialization procedure.
result Demonstrated that weight poisoning attacks are possible even with limited knowledge of the dataset and fine-tuning procedure.
AutoGluon-Tabular automates tabular data ML with single line Python.
problem Training accurate ML models on unprocessed tabular data.
method Ensembling multiple models in multiple layers.
result Outperforms competitors in accuracy and robustness.
MALCOM generates fake comments to fool fake news detectors.
problem Adversaries can manipulate fake news detection models with malicious comments.
method Proposes a novel threat model and develops an adversarial comment generation framework (MALCOM).
result MALCOM can fool fake news detectors 90-94% of the time, depending on the model and dataset.
This paper introduces the YouTube-8M Video Understanding Challenge hosted as a Kaggle competition and also describes my approach to experimenting with various models. For each of my experiments, I provide the score result as well as possible improvements to be made. Towards the end of the paper, I discuss the various e…
Many modern data sets are sampled with error from complex high-dimensional surfaces. Methods such as tensor product splines or Gaussian processes are effective/well suited for characterizing a surface in two or three dimensions but may suffer from difficulties when representing higher dimensional surfaces. Motivated by…
A dataset for detecting online hate speech from YouTube and Reddit comments.
problem Detecting and preventing hate speech on social media platforms.
method Created a dataset with two variants: binary and multi-label, based on YouTube and Reddit comments, using Figure-Eight crowdsourcing platform.
result Demonstrated that even a small amount of labelled data can help detect hate speech occurrences.
The paper introduces metrics and methods to improve fairness in text classification models.
problem Counterfactual fairness issues in text classifiers, like predicting toxicity based on sensitive attributes.
method Developed a metric (CTF) and three approaches (blindness, counterfactual augmentation, CLP) to optimize counterfactual fairness during training.
result Blindness and CLP methods improve counterfactual fairness without harming classifier performance.
Comment classification on cookery channels using BERT and traditional models.
problem Volume of multilingual comments, variable lengths, slang, symbols, and abbreviations make comment classification challenging.
method Evaluated traditional machine learning models (Naive Bayes, KNN, SVM, Random Forest, Decision Trees) and BERT-based models (BERT, DISTILBERT, XLM) for multilingual comment classification.
result XLM was the top-performing BERT model with an accuracy of 67.31, while Random Forest with Term Frequency Vectorizer was the best traditional model with 63.59 accuracy.
Toxicity analysis and prediction are of paramount importance to human health and environmental protection. Existing computational methods are built from a wide variety of descriptors and regressors, which makes their performance analysis difficult. For example, deep neural network (DNN), a successful approach in many o…
Proposes semi-supervised feature ranking for handling high-dimensional, unlabeled data.
problem Handling high-dimensional, unlabeled data in machine learning.
method Tree ensembles and Relief family algorithms for semi-supervised feature ranking.
result Semi-supervised feature ranking outperforms supervised methods across most datasets.
Large dataset of e-retailer images for improving visual search and product classification.
problem Improving the relevancy of visual search and product recommendation systems.
method Sharing a large dataset of 12M images from an online store classified into 5K categories.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of deep learning in image classification.
HRL improves open-domain dialog models by optimizing long-term conversational goals.
problem Challenges in open-domain dialog generation, including repetitive outputs, difficulty tracking conversational goals, and inappropriate text.
method Proposes VHRL, a hierarchical reinforcement learning approach using policy gradients to tune utterance-level embeddings of a variational sequence model.
result Significant improvements in human evaluation and automatic metrics over state-of-the-art dialog models.
Graph Neural Networks improve machine learning on relational databases.
problem Training machine learning models on relational databases requires costly data extraction and feature engineering.
method Uses Graph Neural Networks to extract features from relational databases.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art automatic feature engineering methods.
We propose the development of a prediction market for forecasting prices for "toxic assets" to be transferred from Irish banks to the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA). Such a market allows market participants to assume a stake in a security whose value is tied to a future event. We propose that securities are cr…
Enhances price sentiment index using survey comments.
problem Improving accuracy in price sentiment analysis.
method Classified comments from Economy Watchers Survey using LLMs.
result Higher correlation with existing indices.
This paper improves bond market making by adjusting hit-ratios for client flow quality.
problem Economic misleading of raw hit-ratios in corporate bond market making.
method Stochastic-control framework with residual-quality-adjusted hit-ratio.
result Optimal quotes decompose into various components, improving service/economics frontier.
Bayesian framework improves minority class performance in class-imbalanced data.
problem Class imbalance in predictive toxicology models.
method Weighted likelihood approach modifying likelihood function weights inversely proportional to class proportions.
result Improves balanced accuracy and sensitivity for minority class (toxic compounds).
Improves comparison of F-measures for imbalanced datasets.
problem Comparing F-measures for classification algorithms on imbalanced data.
method Two improvements to existing F-measure comparison methods.
result Enhanced accuracy in comparing F-measures for classification.
CogMol designs novel drug-like molecules for SARS-CoV-2 targets.
problem Designing efficient drugs for novel viral proteins.
method End-to-end framework combining VAE, controlled sampling, and predictors.
result Highly selective and affinity molecules for SARS-CoV-2 targets.