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Task focuses on fact checking in Q&A forums, improving over baseline systems.

problem Fact checking in community Q&A forums to distinguish factual from opinion.
method Two subtasks: distinguishing factual vs. opinion/advice/socializing, predicting answer truthfulness.
result Improved over baseline systems for both subtasks, but not for Subtask B.

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), also known as energy disaggregation, is a blind source separation problem where a household's aggregate electricity consumption is broken down into electricity usages of individual appliances. In this way, the cost and trouble of installing many measurement devices over numerous ho…

2018-11-16abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we combine one method for hierarchical reinforcement learning - the options framework - with deep Q-networks (DQNs) through the use of different "option heads" on the policy network, and a supervisory network for choosing between the different options. We utilise our setup to investigate the effects of ar…

2016-04-27abs ↗pdf ↗

HAL learns hierarchical affordances to prune impossible subtasks, improving reinforcement learning efficiency.

problem Reinforcement learning struggles with complex hierarchical dependency structures.
method HAL learns a model of hierarchical affordances to prune impossible subtasks.
result HAL agents are better at learning complex tasks, navigating stochastic environments, and acquiring diverse skills.

PALM learns abstract models for efficient planning and task transfer.

problem Efficiently learning and transferring hierarchical models for planning.
method PALM uses a new formal structure (L-AMDP) to learn independent, modular models at multiple levels of abstraction.
result PALM integrates planning and execution, facilitating rapid learning of abstract models.

Many similarity-based clustering methods work in two separate steps including similarity matrix computation and subsequent spectral clustering. However, similarity measurement is challenging because it is usually impacted by many factors, e.g., the choice of similarity metric, neighborhood size, scale of data, noise an…

2017-05-01abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm trains neural nets on simple skills to learn complex tasks faster.

problem Learning complex tasks through simple imitation.
method Train neural networks on simple, easy-to-learn skills to accelerate learning of complex, hard-to-learn tasks.
result Consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baseline in training speed and performance.

Unified pair trading approach using hierarchical reinforcement learning.

problem Decoupling pair selection and trading leads to limited performance.
method Hierarchical reinforcement learning framework for joint pair selection and trading.
result Unified approach outperforms existing methods on real-world stock data.

This paper evaluates how well neural models can solve complex tasks by breaking them into simpler ones.

problem Measuring neural models' ability to solve complex tasks by breaking them into simpler subtasks.
method Characterized axes of compositional generalization, introduced a benchmark suite of tasks, and improved Transformer models' attention mechanisms.
result Modified Transformer models generally perform better than natural baselines in solving complex tasks, but challenges remain.

Spectral clustering has found extensive use in many areas. Most traditional spectral clustering algorithms work in three separate steps: similarity graph construction; continuous labels learning; discretizing the learned labels by k-means clustering. Such common practice has two potential flaws, which may lead to sever…

2017-11-12abs ↗pdf ↗

In the NeurIPS 2018 Artificial Intelligence for Prosthetics challenge, participants were tasked with building a controller for a musculoskeletal model with a goal of matching a given time-varying velocity vector. Top participants were invited to describe their algorithms. In this work, we describe the challenge and pre…

2019-02-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural networks learn more efficiently with hidden factorial structures.

problem Challenges in high-dimensional statistical learning.
method Controlled experimental framework to test neural networks' ability to exploit hidden factorial structures.
result Neural networks can leverage hidden factorial structures to learn discrete distributions more efficiently.

Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) is a popular rhythm-based video game. Players perform steps on a dance platform in synchronization with music as directed by on-screen step charts. While many step charts are available in standardized packs, players may grow tired of existing charts, or wish to dance to a song for which no …

2017-03-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes LMSSC for multi-view semi-supervised classification.

problem Leveraging multiple complementary views for improved classification.
method Semi-supervised classification with latent multi-view representation learning.
result Unified framework for latent representation learning, graph construction, and label propagation.

AxCell automates results extraction from machine learning papers.

problem Difficulty in tracking progress in machine learning due to many papers.
method AxCell uses table segmentation and learns structural knowledge to extract results.
result AxCell significantly improves results extraction compared to existing methods.

MGHRL learns to generate high-level meta strategies for new tasks.

problem Efficiency and generalization in meta-RL for wide task distributions.
method Generates high-level meta strategies over subgoals, leaving subtask learning independent.
result More efficient and generalized meta-learning from past experience.

We consider the problem of learning multi-stage vision-based tasks on a real robot from a single video of a human performing the task, while leveraging demonstration data of subtasks with other objects. This problem presents a number of major challenges. Video demonstrations without teleoperation are easy for humans to…

2018-10-25abs ↗pdf ↗

A new model improves recurrent neural networks' ability to memorize long sequences.

problem Improving recurrent neural networks' ability to memorize long sequences and extract task-relevant features.
method Proposes a Linear Memory Network with an encoding-based memorization component and a specialized training algorithm.
result Improves the final performance of recurrent neural networks when memorizing long sequences is necessary.

In many cases an intelligent agent may want to learn how to mimic a single observed demonstrated trajectory. In this work we consider how to perform such procedural learning from observation, which could help to enable agents to better use the enormous set of video data on observation sequences. Our approach exploits t…

2019-04-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Transformers can generalize to a large task family with only a few demonstrations.

problem Can learning from a small set of tasks generalize to a large task family?
method Investigating autoregressive compositional structure where each task is a composition of TT operations, each from a finite family of DD subtasks.
result Transformers can generalize to DTD^T tasks with only O~(D)\widetilde{O}(D) demonstrations.

TIM framework uses LLMs and domain experts to infer DeFi user transaction intents.

problem Challenges in understanding user intent in DeFi transactions due to complex interactions and opaque logs.
method TIM framework leverages a DeFi intent taxonomy, multi-agent LLM system, and a Meta-Level Planner.
result TIM significantly outperforms existing methods in inferring user transaction intents.

Generative models learn from unlabeled videos via object segmentation and scene modeling.

problem Learning generative models from unlabelled videos.
method Decomposed into three subtasks: motion segmentation, background and foreground modeling, and scene sampling.
result Approach allows learning models that generalize beyond occlusions and represent scenes in a modular fashion.

The paper proposes methods to estimate positive examples and learn classifiers from mixed data.

problem Estimating the proportion of positive examples and learning classifiers from a mixture of positive and unlabeled data.
method Best Bin Estimation (BBE) for Mixture Proportion Estimation and Conditional Value Ignoring Risk (CVIR) for PU-learning.
result The proposed methods significantly improve both mixture proportion estimation and classifier learning.

A new training method improves stability and generalization of DeepONets.

problem Training deep operator networks (DeepONets) is challenging due to nonconvex and nonlinear nature.
method Two-step training method: first train trunk network, then branch network. Introduced Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization.
result Generalization error estimate and numerical examples demonstrating effectiveness.

Purpose: In the present work we describe the correction of diffusion-weighted MRI for site and scanner biases using a novel method based on invariant representation. Theory and Methods: Pooled imaging data from multiple sources are subject to variation between the sources. Correcting for these biases has become very im…

2019-04-10abs ↗pdf ↗