Paper proposes TPathMine model for more accurate user attribute prediction.
problem Predicting user attributes from click data in heterogeneous networks.
method HetPathMine model with meta-path weights optimized for user emotional preferences.
result TPathMine model achieves higher accuracy in user attribute prediction.
In recommender systems, cold-start issues are situations where no previous events, e.g. ratings, are known for certain users or items. In this paper, we focus on the item cold-start problem. Both content information (e.g. item attributes) and initial user ratings are valuable for seizing users' preferences on a new ite…
Users in various web and mobile applications are vulnerable to attribute inference attacks, in which an attacker leverages a machine learning classifier to infer a target user's private attributes (e.g., location, sexual orientation, political view) from its public data (e.g., rating scores, page likes). Existing defen…
This paper surveys and classifies attribute-aware CF models.
problem Rating prediction with user and item attributes.
method Mathematical classification of attribute-aware CF models into four categories.
result Comprehensive comparison of effectiveness among different categories.
Unified approach for conversational recommendation by integrating attributes and items.
problem Cold-start users' real-time personalization in online recommendation.
method Seamlessly unifies attributes and items in Thompson Sampling framework for interactive decision-making.
result Conversational Thompson Sampling (ConTS) outperforms existing methods in success rate and conversation turns.
Infer-AVAE infers missing user attributes from incomplete data using a novel adversarial approach.
problem Incomplete user attributes in social networks.
method Infer-AVAE combines MLP and GNNs with adversarial training to infer missing attributes.
result Infer-AVAE outperforms baselines by 7.0% in accuracy on real-world datasets.
System helps scientists visualize deep learning model of x-ray images.
problem Understanding complex x-ray scattering images with multiple attributes.
method Interactive visualization system in feature space and classification output.
result Users can explore and compare images and attributes flexibly.
Hotel2vec learns hotel embeddings from multiple data sources.
problem Cold-start problem for hotels with insufficient click data.
method Self-supervised neural network architecture combining user clicks, hotel attributes, and geographic info.
result Improved downstream task predictions with structured hotel attributes.
Automates UI implementation from designer images.
problem Automating UI implementation from designer images.
method Generative model training and imitation learning.
result 92.5% accuracy on Android Button attribute inference.
CDA framework infers channel influence from aggregated data without user identifiers.
problem Lack of user-level path data due to privacy regulations and platform restrictions.
method CDA integrates PCMCI for causal discovery and Structural Causal Model for effect estimation.
result CDA achieves strong accuracy in estimating channel influence, even under structural uncertainty.
A system for attributing ad effects using a neural network and Shapley values.
problem Attributing ad effects to individual ads in a complex, sequential environment.
method A two-step approach: response modeling with RNN and credit allocation with Shapley values.
result The system accurately allocates incremental ad effects to individual ads, handling sequence dependence.
Concept Relation Discovery and Innovation Enabling Technology (CORDIET), is a toolbox for gaining new knowledge from unstructured text data. At the core of CORDIET is the C-K theory which captures the essential elements of innovation. The tool uses Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), Emergent Self Organizing Maps (ESOM) and…
New findings show local attributions can't be both robust and provide recourse.
problem Ensuring machine learning systems are accountable and provide actionable recourse options.
method Formal definition of recourse sensitivity and counterexamples for popular attribution methods.
result It is impossible for any single attribution method to be both robust and provide recourse.
Paper tackles embedding attributed sequences in unsupervised learning.
problem Mining tasks over attributed sequences with dependencies between sequences and attributes.
method Proposes a deep multimodal learning framework, NAS, for unsupervised learning of attributed sequences.
result NAS produces task-independent embeddings for various mining tasks on real-world datasets.
SWAG combines screening and wrapper methods for interpretable sparse learning.
problem Need for interpretable and replicable machine learning results in sparse settings.
method Greedy exploration of attribute space to find sparse learners.
result Library of equivalent learners for attribute availability.
SAIN integrates user-item feedback with content attributes for better recommendation.
problem Cold start problems in recommendation models due to sparse user-item interactions.
method SAIN uses a self-attention mechanism to capture feature interactions and an information integration layer to combine feedback and content information.
result SAIN outperforms state-of-the-art models by 2.13% on public datasets.
New attack recovers user-level information from large batch images.
problem Recovering private information from user-level gradients in distributed learning.
method Proposes a gradient inversion attack using a denoising diffusion model as a prior.
result Demonstrates recovery of realistic facial images and private attributes.
This article presents GuideR, a user-guided rule induction algorithm, which overcomes the largest limitation of the existing methods-the lack of the possibility to introduce user's preferences or domain knowledge to the rule learning process. Automatic selection of attributes and attribute ranges often leads to the sit…
Develops a method for constructing KBs with tunable precision for subjective and factual attributes.
problem Complexity in measuring subjective attributes complicates precision estimation in KBs.
method Probabilistically models user consensus with respect to each entity-attribute pair, using neural networks to fit the model.
result Learned models can successfully control KB's precision and outperform baselines in attribute prediction.
StylEx trains a GAN to explain classifier decisions in StyleSpace.
problem Creating meaningful image-specific explanations for classifier decisions.
method Training a StyleGAN to learn a classifier-specific StyleSpace, incorporating the classifier model.
result StylEx finds attributes that align with semantic ones and generates human-interpretable explanations.
KGCN uses KGs to improve recommender systems by connecting user and item attributes.
problem Collaborative filtering sparsity and cold start issues.
method End-to-end framework that captures inter-item relatedness using KGs and minibatch sampling.
result KGCN outperforms strong recommender baselines on movie, book, and music recommendation datasets.
Recent work has explored how to train machine learning models which do not discriminate against any subgroup of the population as determined by sensitive attributes such as gender or race. To avoid disparate treatment, sensitive attributes should not be considered. On the other hand, in order to avoid disparate impact,…
Scales gradual pattern discovery from imprecise data.
problem Managing large collections of gradual patterns from imprecise data.
method Introduces gradualness thresholds and considers attribute value distribution.
result Eliminates noise patterns, showing a smaller set of meaningful patterns.
Inferring user characteristics such as demographic attributes is of the utmost importance in many user-centric applications. Demographic data is an enabler of personalization, identity security, and other applications. Despite that, this data is sensitive and often hard to obtain. Previous work has shown that purchase …
Calendar graph neural networks model user behavior with location and time data.
problem Modeling user behavior with location and time information for demographic prediction.
method Graph neural networks with a tripartite network of items, sessions, and locations, and a hierarchical calendar network.
result User embeddings preserve spatial and temporal patterns of various periodicity.
Author2Vec generates user embeddings from social media data.
problem Generating useful user embeddings from noisy social media data.
method End-to-end neural network with BERT sentence representations and unsupervised pre-training.
result Author2Vec outperforms traditional methods in user classification tasks.
We are interested in attribute-guided face generation: given a low-res face input image, an attribute vector that can be extracted from a high-res image (attribute image), our new method generates a high-res face image for the low-res input that satisfies the given attributes. To address this problem, we condition the …
A neural network tackles emotion recognition, attribution, and summarization.
problem Sparsity of emotional expressions in videos.
method Bi-stream Emotion Attribution-Classification Network (BEAC-Net) with two networks: attribution and classification.
result Superior performance on emotion attribution, recognition, and summarization tasks.
Predicts gender and age from mobile phone data for marketing.
problem Enhance marketing offers by predicting customer demographics.
method Machine learning algorithms applied to CDRs, CRM, and billing info.
result 85.6% accuracy in gender prediction, 65.5% in age prediction.
Predicting click and conversion probabilities when bidding on ad exchanges is at the core of the programmatic advertising industry. Two separated lines of previous works respectively address i) the prediction of user conversion probability and ii) the attribution of these conversions to advertising events (such as clic…
Customers are usually exposed to online digital advertisement channels, such as email marketing, display advertising, paid search engine marketing, along their way to purchase or subscribe products( aka. conversion). The marketers track all the customer journey data and try to measure the effectiveness of each advertis…
Ideal attribution mechanisms track model interactions for faithful watermarks.
problem Ensuring models provide transparent and fair attribution decisions.
method Introducing ideal attribution mechanisms and a ledger for tracking model interactions.
result A unified framework for evaluating watermarking schemes, clarifying attainable guarantees.
APGE protects graph node representations from inference attacks.
problem Privacy leakage in graph embedding methods.
method Adversarial training framework with disentangling and purging mechanisms.
result APGE preserves structural and utility attributes while concealing private information.
GGDA simplifies DA for large models, speeding up attribution by up to 50x.
problem Computational intensity of existing DA methods limits their applicability to large-scale models.
method Generalized Group Data Attribution (GGDA) framework attributing to groups of training points.
result GGDA achieves up to 50x speedups over standard DA methods while maintaining effectiveness.
WGNN learns graph representations from incomplete attribute data.
problem Missing node attributes in graphs.
method WGNN learns node representations from decomposed attribute matrices and uses Wasserstein space for message passing.
result WGNN outperforms existing methods in node classification tasks with missing attribute data.
Proposes methods for local clustering in attributed graphs.
problem Finding a single cluster concentrated on a specific region in a graph.
method Introduces Graph Unimodality (GU) and Attribute Unimodality (AU) measures, and LOCLU algorithm to optimize Compactness score.
result Local cluster detected by LOCLU concentrates on the region of interest and exhibits unimodal data distribution.
Interpreting predictions from tree ensemble methods such as gradient boosting machines and random forests is important, yet feature attribution for trees is often heuristic and not individualized for each prediction. Here we show that popular feature attribution methods are inconsistent, meaning they can lower a featur…
Local decision boundary approximation improves model explanations for complex models.
problem Challenges in explaining complex, opaque machine learning models.
method Train a variational autoencoder to learn a latent space and map it to meaningful attributes. Use these attributes to approximate the local decision boundary and explain model predictions.
result Can recover latent attributes that determine class decisions in a new benchmark data set.
ZAPs rewards users based on activity, making them less susceptible to bots and sybil attacks.
problem Incentive programs in DeFi are vulnerable to bots and sybil operations.
method ZAPs combines percentile normalization, two-layer weighting, and anomaly detection.
result ZAPs reduces adversarial reward capture by 30-90 percent.
Dual-view mixture models cluster users with features and latent behaviors inferred from actions.
problem Clustering users based on features and latent behavioral functions inferred from indirect observations.
method Dual-view mixture models with non-parametric Dirichlet Process for automatic cluster number inference.
result Dual-view models outperform single-view models when one view lacks information.
Develops a framework to obfuscate sensitive attributes in machine learning models.
problem Minimizing information leakage of sensitive attributes in crowdsourced data.
method Proposes a minimax optimization formulation and proves an information-theoretic lower bound.
result Adversarial learning achieves the best trade-off between attribute obfuscation and accuracy.
TRAK traces model predictions to training data efficiently.
problem Inefficiency in data attribution methods for large-scale models.
method TRAK: a new data attribution method that is both effective and computationally tractable.
result TRAK matches the performance of methods requiring thousands of models with just a handful.
Enhances community detection in correlated networks with node attributes.
problem Community detection in multiple networks with correlated node attributes and edges.
method Introduced the correlated Contextual Stochastic Block Model (CSBM), developed a two-step matching procedure.
result Algorithm recovers exact node correspondence, enabling enhanced community detection.
KGAT uses knowledge graphs to improve recommendation accuracy and explainability.
problem Accurate, diverse, and explainable recommendations require side information and collaborative signals.
method KGAT models high-order relations in a knowledge graph by propagating embeddings and using attention mechanisms.
result KGAT significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on public benchmarks.
PASS protects private attributes by stochastically substituting data.
problem Protecting private attributes in ML services while maintaining data utility.
method PASS uses stochastic data substitution with a novel loss function derived from information theory.
result PASS effectively protects private attributes across various datasets.
XOFM explains attribute effects in ordinal regression using piece-wise linear functions.
problem Lack of detailed attribute contributions in existing ordinal regression models.
method XOFM uses piece-wise linear functions to approximate attribute contributions and introduces ordinal transformation.
result XOFM provides superior explainability and state-of-the-art prediction accuracy.
New method interprets deep neural networks for better recommendation system understanding.
problem Making deep neural networks explainable for better user trust and understanding.
method Proposes a novel formulation of interpretable deep neural networks using masked weights and hidden features.
result Demonstrates models achieving close predictive performance with informative attributions.
SHADOWCAST generates graphs with user-specified attributes.
problem Controlling graph generation with understandable structures.
method Conditional generative adversarial network guided by Markov model.
result Competitive performance in generating desired graphs.