We implement a method for re-ranking top-10 results of a state-of-the-art question answering (QA) system. The goal of our re-ranking approach is to improve the answer selection given the user question and the top-10 candidates. We focus on improving deployed QA systems that do not allow re-training or re-training comes…
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The grid integration of intermittent Renewable Energy Sources (RES) causes costs for grid operators due to forecast uncertainty and the resulting production schedule mismatches. These so-called profile service costs are marginal cost components and can be understood as an insurance fee against RES production schedule u…
A new system combines vision and language for person re-identification.
problem Real-world surveillance lacks visual data for person re-identification.
method Two-stream CNN framework with shared logits, CCA for modalities, multi-modal testing protocol.
result 22% improvement in re-identification performance with multi-modal queries.
This paper improves fairness in recommendation systems by learning individual preferences across multiple dimensions.
problem Fairness in recommender systems, especially in areas with social impact.
method Opportunistic multi-aspect re-ranking approach that learns individual preferences and enhances provider fairness.
result Achieves a better trade-off between accuracy and fairness across multiple fairness dimensions.
We show that the coefficients of the re-normalized link invariants of the paper "Multivariable link invariants arising from Lie superalgebras of type I" are Vassiliev invariants which give rise to a canonical family of weight systems.
Feed in tariff (FiT) is one of the most efficient ways that many governments throughout the world use to stimulate investment in renewable energies (REs) technology. For governments, financial management of the policy is very challenging as that it needs a considerable amount of budget to support RE producers during th…
We consider the problem of efficient "on the fly" tuning of existing, or {\it legacy}, Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. The legacy AI systems are allowed to be of arbitrary class, albeit the data they are using for computing interim or final decision responses should posses an underlying structure of a high-dimens…
RE enhances DL by learning model behavior, enabling iterative self-improvement.
problem Static data representations limit DL's potential for evolving models.
method RE uses multiple mappings of data through identical deep architectures, analyzing internal representations and performance signals.
result Models can gain insight from predecessors, leading to iterative self-improvement.
For a compact connected 3-submanifold with connected boundary in the 3-sphere, we relate the existence of a Seifert surface system for a surface with a Dehn surgery along a null-homologous link. As its corollary, we obtain a refinement of the Fox's re-embedding theorem.
DeepBark improves tree bark re-identification accuracy.
problem Challenging illuminations make tree bark hard to re-identify.
method Used a large dataset of 2,400 bark images to train DeepBark and SqueezeBark.
result DeepBark achieves 87.2% mAP in retrieving relevant bark images.
In addition to constraining bilateral exposures of financial institutions, there are essentially two options for future financial regulation of systemic risk (SR): First, financial regulation could attempt to reduce the financial fragility of global or domestic systemically important financial institutions (G-SIBs or D…
Paper proposes a method for weather-informed probabilistic forecasting and scenario generation in power systems.
problem Challenges of integrating renewable energy sources into power grids due to their stochasticity and uncertainty.
method Combines probabilistic forecasting and Gaussian copula for day-ahead prediction and scenario generation of load, wind, and solar power.
result Demonstrates superior performance of the proposed weather-informed Temporal Fusion Transformer (WI-TFT) model.
About Some Applications of Kolmogorov Equations to the Simulation of Financial Institutions Activityq-fin.GN
The goal of this article is to describe the concepts of system dynamics and its applications to the simulation modeling of financial institutions daily activity. The hybrid method of the re-engineering of banking business processes based upon combination of system dynamics, queuing theory and tools of ordinary differen…
Federated Learning is a distributed learning paradigm with two key challenges that differentiate it from traditional distributed optimization: (1) significant variability in terms of the systems characteristics on each device in the network (systems heterogeneity), and (2) non-identically distributed data across the ne…
We propose a neural information processing system which is obtained by re-purposing the function of a biological neural circuit model, to govern simulated and real-world control tasks. Inspired by the structure of the nervous system of the soil-worm, C. elegans, we introduce Neuronal Circuit Policies (NCPs), defined as…
The goal of this research was to find a way to extend the capabilities of computers through the processing of language in a more human way, and present applications which demonstrate the power of this method. This research presents a novel approach, Rhetorical Analysis, to solving problems in Natural Language Processin…
Study reveals geometric context of second-order superintegrable systems.
problem Understanding second-order superintegrable systems and their Weylian geometry.
method Re-examined second-order maximally conformally superintegrable Hamiltonian systems, revealing their Weyl structure.
result Extended conformal superintegrability to Weyl structures, interpreting systems as semi-Weyl structures.
Adaptive ML learns complex time-varying systems without new data.
problem Applying ML to time-varying systems with shifting distributions.
method Mapping high-dimensional inputs to low-dimensional latent space, actively tuning latent space based on feedback.
result Learning correlations and tracking system evolution in real-time without new data.
This paper addresses detection of a reverse engineering (RE) attack targeting a deep neural network (DNN) image classifier; by querying, RE's aim is to discover the classifier's decision rule. RE can enable test-time evasion attacks, which require knowledge of the classifier. Recently, we proposed a quite effective app…
Beta-SOD detects and corrects noisy object re-identification using cosine similarity and Beta mixtures.
problem Noisy object re-identification in image datasets.
method Reframed Re-ID as a similarity task, using Siamese networks and Beta mixture models.
result Superior performance in noisy conditions compared to state-of-the-art methods.
We re-examine classical mechanics with both commuting and anticommuting degrees of freedom. We do this by defining the phase dynamics of a general Lagrangian system as an implicit differential equation in the spirit of Tulczyjew. Rather than parametrising our basic degrees of freedom by a specified Grassmann algebra, w…
We compare the isoperimetric profiles of $S^2 \times \re^3$ and of $S^3 \times \re^2$ with that of a round 5-sphere (of appropriate radius). Then we use this comparison to obtain lower bounds for the Yamabe constants of $S^2 \times \re^3$ and $S^3 \times \re^2$. Explicitly we show that $Y(S^3 \times \re^2, [g_0^3 +dx^2…
MLtuner automatically tunes settings for training tunables (such as the learning rate, the momentum, the mini-batch size, and the data staleness bound) that have a significant impact on large-scale machine learning (ML) performance. Traditionally, these tunables are set manually, which is unsurprisingly error-prone and…
Type system captures CI relationships for probabilistic models.
problem Challenges in inference for models with mixed discrete and continuous parameters.
method Information flow type system for probabilistic programming.
result Well-typed programs guarantee certain CI relationships.
Re-initializing neural networks improves generalization but not as much as other techniques.
problem Understanding when and how re-initialization improves neural network performance.
method Empirical comparison of re-initialization with standard training and various regularization techniques.
result Re-initialization is beneficial for generalization but not as much as other techniques, especially when combined with careful tuning of hyperparameters.
Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) is the bread and butter of system inference for stochastic systems. In some generality, MLE will converge to the correct model in the infinite data limit. In the context of physical approaches to system inference, such as Boltzmann machines, MLE requires the arduous computation of pa…
Model predicts wound and episode-level readmission risk and time to re-admit.
problem Identify patients at high risk of re-admission to prevent wound recurrences and reduce healthcare costs.
method Data-driven analysis of wound care and episode-level patient data.
result Model achieves high recall and precision for predicting re-admission risk and time.
Person Re-identification (re-id) faces two major challenges: the lack of cross-view paired training data and learning discriminative identity-sensitive and view-invariant features in the presence of large pose variations. In this work, we address both problems by proposing a novel deep person image generation model for…
Many retailers today employ inventory management systems based on Re-Order Point Policies, most of which rely on the assumption that all decreases in product inventory levels result from product sales. Unfortunately, it usually happens that small but random quantities of the product get lost, stolen or broken without r…
Early Prediction of 30-day ICU Re-admissions Using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learningcs.LG
ICU readmission is associated with longer hospitalization, mortality and adverse outcomes. An early recognition of ICU re-admission can help prevent patients from worse situation and lower treatment cost. As the abundance of Electronics Health Records (EHR), it is popular to design clinical decision tools with machine …
Researchers dissect Neural ODEs to understand their dynamics.
problem Understanding the inner workings of Neural ODEs.
method Developing continuous-depth formulation to clarify design choices.
result Clarified the influence of design choices on Neural ODE dynamics.
Mathematical modeling with Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) has proven to be extremely successful in a variety of fields, including biology. However, these models are completely deterministic given a certain set of initial conditions. We convert mathematical ODE models of three benchmark biological systems to Dyn…
In this paper we study the effect of network structure between agents and objects on measures for systemic risk. We model the influence of sharing large exogeneous losses to the financial or (re)insuance market by a bipartite graph. Using Pareto-tailed losses and multivariate regular variation we obtain asymptotic resu…
We consider the problem of reconstructing the dynamic state matrix of transmission power grids from time-stamped PMU measurements in the regime of ambient fluctuations. Using a maximum likelihood based approach, we construct a family of convex estimators that adapt to the structure of the problem depending on the avail…
Paper proves Reshetikhin-Turaev link invariants appear in higher order terms of re-normalized link invariants for plumbed links.
problem Proving relations between Reshetikhin-Turaev and re-normalized link invariants for links.
method Analyzing higher order terms of re-normalized link invariants for plumbed links.
result Reshetikhin-Turaev link invariants appear in higher order terms of re-normalized link invariants for plumbed links.
In this paper, we propose a dynamical systems perspective of the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm. More precisely, we can analyze the EM algorithm as a nonlinear state-space dynamical system. The EM algorithm is widely adopted for data clustering and density estimation in statistics, control systems, and machine…
It is natural to ask: what kinds of matrices satisfy the Restricted Eigenvalue (RE) condition? In this paper, we associate the RE condition (Bickel-Ritov-Tsybakov 09) with the complexity of a subset of the sphere in , where is the dimensionality of the data, and show that a class of random matrices with indep…
Active learning method estimates nonlinear systems efficiently.
problem Identifying nonlinear dynamical systems with continuous states and actions.
method Repeating three steps: trajectory planning, tracking, and re-estimation.
result Estimates nonlinear dynamical systems at a parametric rate.
Surrogate models speed up RL training in dynamic systems.
problem High computational cost of high-fidelity simulations.
method Developed and tested surrogate models for RL training.
result Surrogate models can significantly accelerate RL training.
On certain manifolds, the phase which appears in the scalar product of two coherent state vectors is twice the symplectic area of the geodesic triangle determined by the corresponding points on the manifold and the origin of the system of coordinates. This result is proved for compact Hermitian symmetric spaces using t…
Develops RES metrics for stable rare-event forecasting evaluation.
problem Challenges in evaluating forecasts of rare events.
method Rare-event-stable (RES) metrics designed to maintain stable thresholds under extreme rarity.
result RES metrics maintain stable thresholds, consistent model rankings, and near-complete prevalence invariance.
High-Dimensional Kernel Methods under Covariate Shift: Data-Dependent Implicit Regularizationstat.ML
The paper analyzes how re-weighting helps in reducing variance in high-dimensional kernel methods under covariate shifts.
problem The challenge of high-dimensional kernel methods under covariate shifts and the role of re-weighting.
method Derives asymptotic expansion of high-dimensional kernels under covariate shifts, analyzes bias-variance decomposition, and characterizes the regularized kernel.
result Re-weighting helps in decreasing variance and can be seen as a data-dependent regularization.
By the Fox's re-embedding theorem, any compact submanifold of the 3-sphere can be re-embedded in the 3-sphere so that it is unknotted. It is unknown whether the Fox's re-embedding can be replaced with twistings. In this paper, we will show that any closed 2-manifold embedded in the 3-sphere can be unknotted by twisting…
Examines climate financing for renewable energy projects using structured funds.
problem Valuation of structured climate financing on diverse renewable energy asset pools.
method Bottom-up Gaussian copula framework with LH++ model for diversification analysis.
result Shows how the mix of indirect and direct RE investments affects the sensitivity of the senior tranche.
Meta-AAD uses deep reinforcement learning to improve anomaly detection by selecting the most informative instances.
problem High false-positive rate in anomaly detection, especially in high-stake applications.
method Meta-AAD leverages deep reinforcement learning to train a meta-policy for query selection, optimizing the number of discovered anomalies.
result Meta-AAD significantly outperforms state-of-the-art re-ranking strategies and unsupervised baselines on 24 benchmark datasets.
The increasing complexity of the power grid, due to higher penetration of distributed resources and the growing availability of interconnected, distributed metering devices re- quires novel tools for providing a unified and consistent view of the system. A computational framework for power systems data fusion, based on…
Comparison and Adaptation of Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Quality Assessment of Re-Speakingcs.CL
Re-speaking is a mechanism for obtaining high quality subtitles for use in live broadcast and other public events. Because it relies on humans performing the actual re-speaking, the task of estimating the quality of the results is non-trivial. Most organisations rely on humans to perform the actual quality assessment, …
We present our solution to the job recommendation task for RecSys Challenge 2016. The main contribution of our work is to combine temporal learning with sequence modeling to capture complex user-item activity patterns to improve job recommendations. First, we propose a time-based ranking model applied to historical obs…