New PCA method detects faults using occupation kernels.
problem Fault detection in dynamical systems.
method Occupation kernel PCA for irregularly sampled data.
result Validation of reconstruction error approach for fault detection.
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The Stochastic Occupation Kernel (SOCK) Method for Learning Stochastic Differential Equationsstat.ML
A new method estimates SDEs using occupation kernels.
problem Learning multivariate stochastic differential equations (SDEs).
method Two-step procedure: estimate drift, then diffusion. Occupation kernels used in RKHS.
result Validated on simulated and real-world data.
ROCK: A variational formulation for occupation kernel methods in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spacesstat.ML
ROCK method generalizes MOCK for learning dynamical systems efficiently.
problem Learning dynamical systems from data efficiently.
method Variational formulation in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces.
result ROCK method is more computationally efficient and performs better on benchmarks.
Method learns SDEs from data snapshots.
problem Learning drift and diffusion of SDEs from data.
method Two-step process: learn drift by expected value, learn diffusion by SDP.
result Validated on examples and simulations.
MOCK learns complex systems from trajectories efficiently.
problem Learning nonparametric differential equations from high-dimensional data.
method MOCK uses multivariate occupation kernel functions to learn vector fields linearly.
result MOCK outperforms other methods on various datasets.
We present a new method of learning a continuous occupancy field for use in robot navigation. Occupancy grid maps, or variants of, are possibly the most widely used and accepted method of building a map of a robot's environment. Various methods have been developed to learn continuous occupancy maps and have successfull…
The recent wave of AI and automation has been argued to differ from previous General Purpose Technologies (GPTs), in that it may lead to rapid change in occupations' underlying task requirements and persistent technological unemployment. In this paper, we apply a novel methodology of dynamic task shares to a large data…
In this paper, we introduce the concept of \emph{Poissonian occupation times} below level of spectrally negative Lévy processes. In this case, occupation time is accumulated only when the process is observed to be negative at arrival epochs of an independent Poisson process. Our results extend some well known conti…
NDI learns from expert demonstrations by estimating occupancy measures.
problem Imitation Learning (IL) for complex systems.
method Density estimation of expert's occupancy measure followed by RL.
result NDI achieves state-of-the-art performance on control tasks.
FORE evaluates occupancy ratios without requiring Bellman completeness.
problem Offline reinforcement learning occupancy ratio estimation.
method Fitted occupancy-ratio evaluation (FORE) using adjoint Bellman recursion.
result FORE achieves convergence in KL without Bellman completeness.
We consider a special family of occupation-time derivatives, namely proportional step options introduced by Linetsky in [Math. Finance, 9, 55--96 (1999)]. We develop new closed-form spectral expansions for pricing such options under a class of nonlinear volatility diffusion processes which includes the constant-elastic…
In this short paper, in order to price occupation-time options, such as (double-barrier) step options and quantile options, we derive various joint distributions of a mixed-exponential jump-diffusion process and its occupation times of intervals.
Paper develops multilingual job classification for ISCO and KZiS.
problem Classifying job advertisements for accurate occupation coding.
method Transformer architecture for hierarchical multi-class classification.
result Hierarchical structure improves prediction accuracy by 1-2 percentage points.
How to Measure Gender Bias in Machine Translation: Optimal Translators, Multiple Reference Pointsstat.ML
Study measures gender bias in machine translation using multiple reference points.
problem Measuring and identifying gender bias in machine translation.
method Used an optimal non-biased translator, reference points from occupational statistics and survey.
result Found bias against both genders, but more against women, and found occupations have a greater effect than adjectives.
In this paper, we obtain analytical expression for the distribution of the occupation time in the red (below level ) up to an (independent) exponential horizon for spectrally negative Lévy risk processes and refracted spectrally negative Lévy risk processes. This result improves the existing literature in which only…
Digital tools in occupational health, brakes or levers for building multidisciplinary dynamics?stat.ML
Digital tools may hinder or facilitate multidisciplinary collaboration in occupational health.
problem Challenges in multidisciplinary collaboration in occupational health.
method Study of a precursor SPSTI's digital tools and their impacts.
result Digital tools can act as both brakes and levers for multidisciplinary dynamics.
Spacematch: Using environmental preferences to match occupants to suitable activity-based workspacescs.CY
Spacematch matches office workers with suitable workspaces based on their preferences.
problem Matching workers with suitable workspaces in ABW environments.
method Developed a web-based mobile app to collect occupant preferences and IoT sensors for real-time environmental feedback.
result Occupant preferences can be segmented and matched to build a recommendation platform.
Study predicts room occupancy using machine learning, achieving high accuracy.
problem Efficient room occupancy management for energy conservation.
method Leveraged diverse machine learning models, focusing on Random Forest.
result Random Forest model achieved highest predictive accuracy.
We find the optimal investment strategy to minimize the expected time that an individual's wealth stays below zero, the so-called {\it occupation time}. The individual consumes at a constant rate and invests in a Black-Scholes financial market consisting of one riskless and one risky asset, with the risky asset's price…
We introduce cylindrical projections to simulate infinite-dimensional occupation flows of diffusions.
problem Computational intractability of infinite-dimensional occupation flows of diffusions.
method Introduce cylindrical projections to approximate the occupation flow via a finite-dimensional system.
result Strong convergence of cylindrical projections to the initial process with derived rates.
A generalized gamification framework is introduced as a form of smart infrastructure with potential to improve sustainability and energy efficiency by leveraging humans-in-the-loop strategy. The proposed framework enables a Human-Centric Cyber-Physical System using an interface to allow building managers to interact wi…
Building performance discrepancies between building design and operation are one of the causes that lead many new designs fail to achieve their goals and objectives. One of main factors contributing to the discrepancy is occupant behaviors. Occupants responding to a new design are influenced by several factors. Existin…
Develops a new calculus for stochastic processes with occupation flows.
problem Analyzing the behavior of stochastic processes with occupation flows.
method Itô calculus for occupied processes, Feynman-Kac approach.
result Unified Markovian lifts for pricing financial derivatives.
Investment strategies in occupational pension plans are optimized for non-tradable income risk.
problem Optimizing investment strategies for occupational pension plans in the presence of non-tradable income risk.
method Formulated as a stochastic optimization problem, analyzed in both constant and stochastic volatility environments.
result Random contributions induce the optimal glide path structure, influenced by initial wealth, contributions, and risk aversion.
Learning Personalized Thermal Preferences via Bayesian Active Learning with Unimodality Constraintscs.LG
Thermal preferences vary from person to person and may change over time. The main objective of this paper is to sequentially pose intelligent queries to occupants in order to optimally learn the indoor air temperature values which maximize their satisfaction. Our central hypothesis is that an occupant's preference rela…
We present a large-scale study of gender bias in occupation classification, a task where the use of machine learning may lead to negative outcomes on peoples' lives. We analyze the potential allocation harms that can result from semantic representation bias. To do so, we study the impact on occupation classification of…
D2SRM solves complex PDEs using deep learning.
problem High-dimensional, Hessian-dependent fully nonlinear parabolic PDEs.
method Single scalar space-time network generating derivative-consistent approximations trained through residuals and penalties.
result Well-posedness and convergence theory established for globally Lipschitz equations.
PIML uses physics equations in machine learning for better forecasting.
problem Forecasting time series data with physical constraints.
method Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) and kernel methods.
result PIML improves forecasting accuracy with physical constraints.
Occupant behavior (OB) and in particular window openings need to be considered in building performance simulation (BPS), in order to realistically model the indoor climate and energy consumption for heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC). However, the proposed OB window opening models are often biased towards …
In this paper, we propose a gamification approach as a novel framework for smart building infrastructure with the goal of motivating human occupants to reconsider personal energy usage and to have positive effects on their environment. Human interaction in the context of cyber-physical systems is a core component and c…
Paper uses Sinkhorn distances to improve imitation learning effectiveness.
problem Improving imitation learning algorithms by comparing occupancy measures.
method Formulates imitation learning as Sinkhorn distance minimization, combining optimal transport and cosine distances.
result Proposes a new critic network and transport plan that guide imitation learning.
Sufficient conditions for the absence of relaxation gaps in state-constrained optimal controlmath.OC
New conditions prevent gaps in optimal control problems.
problem Preventing gaps in optimal control problems with state constraints.
method Developed new sufficient conditions not relying on convexity.
result Derived bounds for the size of the relaxation gap.
This work explores efficient reinforcement learning with density features in low-rank MDPs.
problem Efficient reinforcement learning with density features in low-rank MDPs.
method Proposes algorithms for off-policy estimation and online construction of exploratory data distributions.
result Demonstrates sample-efficient learning with density features in low-rank MDPs, overcoming technical challenges.
Study shows visual feedback and monetary incentives reduce plugload energy consumption in commercial buildings.
problem Mitigating energy consumption in commercial buildings through occupant plugload control.
method Field experiments with visual feedback and monetary incentives in government and university buildings.
result Mean energy reduction of ~9.52% in office environments and ~21.61% in university environments with visual feedback.
We present a test platform for visual in-cabin scene analysis and occupant monitoring functions. The test platform is based on a driving simulator developed at the DFKI, consisting of a realistic in-cabin mock-up and a wide-angle projection system for a realistic driving experience. The platform has been equipped with …
A deep learning model is applied for predicting block-level parking occupancy in real time. The model leverages Graph-Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNN) to extract the spatial relations of traffic flow in large-scale networks, and utilizes Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) with Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) to capture …
New algorithm reduces dynamic regret for MDPs with unknown transition and adversarial rewards.
problem Episodic linear mixture MDPs with unknown transition and adversarial rewards.
method Combines occupancy-measure-based global optimization and policy-based variance-aware value-targeted regression.
result Achieves near-optimal dynamic regret of .
A conservative drifting method improves generative modeling by using KDE gradients, proving convergence rates.
problem Improving generative modeling by addressing non-conservatism issues.
method Proposes a conservative drifting method using kernel density estimator gradients to address non-conservatism.
result Proves finite-particle convergence rates for the conservative method, providing explicit quadrature constants.
Paper tackles dynamic pricing in a geometrically decaying environment, achieving better occupancy with lower rates.
problem Minimizing expected loss in a dynamically changing environment with decisions dependent on the data distribution.
method Introduces algorithms for information and loss function settings, using repeated decision deployment to allow mixing of the environment.
result Iteration complexity matches first and zero order stochastic gradient methods up to logarithmic factors.
Challenge forecasts EV charging station usage accurately.
problem Better understanding of EV charging behaviors needed.
method Hierarchical forecasting of EV charging station occupancy.
result Hierarchical forecasting improves EV charging station occupancy predictions.
CAST predicts distribution-valued time series by stabilizing and transporting simplex-supported successors.
problem Forecasting distribution-valued time series with structural failure modes.
method CAST (Causal Anchored Simplex Transport) uses successors retrieved from causal context, stabilized with a persistence anchor, and locally transported on ordered supports.
result CAST outperforms baselines on eleven public and simulated benchmarks, achieving best average rank on both one-step KL and autoregressive rollout JSD.
Energy consumption for hot water production is a major draw in high efficiency buildings. Optimizing this has typically been approached from a thermodynamics perspective, decoupled from occupant influence. Furthermore, optimization usually presupposes existence of a detailed dynamics model for the hot water system. The…
The role of industry, occupation, and location specific knowledge in the survival of new firmsq-fin.GN
How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of workers among firms and industries contribute to the diffusion of that knowledge? Here we measure the industry, occupation, and location-specific knowledge carried by workers from one establishment to the ne…
Many modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems make use of data embeddings, particularly in the domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP). These embeddings are learnt from data that has been gathered "from the wild" and have been found to contain unwanted biases. In this paper we make three contributions towards me…
DSAC improves cooperative MARL with general utilities, converging faster than existing methods.
problem Improving cooperation in multi-agent reinforcement learning with nonlinear utilities.
method Decentralized Shadow Reward Actor-Critic (DSAC) that estimates local occupancy measures and derivatives.
result DSAC converges to ε-stationarity in O(1/ε^2.5) steps with high probability, finding globally optimal policies.
We consider the role of unobservables, such as differences in search frictions, reservation wages, and productivities for the explanation of wage differentials between migrants and natives. We disentangle these by estimating an empirical general equilibrium search model with on-the-job search due to Bontemps, Robin, an…
We investigate the multi-step prediction of the drivable space, represented by Occupancy Grid Maps (OGMs), for autonomous vehicles. Our motivation is that accurate multi-step prediction of the drivable space can efficiently improve path planning and navigation resulting in safe, comfortable and optimum paths in autonom…
Short Term Prediction of Parking Area states Using Real Time Data and Machine Learning Techniquescs.LG
Public road authorities and private mobility service providers need information derived from the current and predicted traffic states to act upon the daily urban system and its spatial and temporal dynamics. In this research, a real-time parking area state (occupancy, in- and outflux) prediction model (up to 60 minutes…