Twitter provides an open and rich source of data for studying human behaviour at scale and is widely used in social and network sciences. However, a major criticism of Twitter data is that demographic information is largely absent. Enhancing Twitter data with user ages would advance our ability to study social network …
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Method converts age labels into distributions to improve speaker age estimation.
problem Label ambiguity in age labels makes precise speaker age estimation challenging.
method Converts age labels into label distributions and uses label distribution learning.
result Our method outperforms baseline methods by reducing MAE by 10% on a real-world dataset.
In the age of data driven solution, the customer demographic attributes, such as gender and age, play a core role that may enable companies to enhance the offers of their services and target the right customer in the right time and place. In the marketing campaign, the companies want to target the real user of the GSM …
The paper uses AI to analyze ECG data, revealing age-related changes and identifying key features.
problem Investigating age-related changes in ECG data to distinguish healthy from disease-related changes.
method Employed deep-learning and tree-based models on raw ECG signals and features from a diverse age group.
result Identified age-related declines in breathing rates and high SDANN values in elderly individuals.
A new FL algorithm reduces communication overhead by selectively updating model parameters.
problem Data heterogeneity and communication overhead in federated learning.
method Uses age of information metric to selectively update model parameters and group clients with similar data.
result Our method can expedite training and surpass other communication-efficient strategies in efficiency.
Machine learning analysis of neuroimaging data can accurately predict chronological age in healthy people and deviations from healthy brain ageing have been associated with cognitive impairment and disease. Here we sought to further establish the credentials of "brain-predicted age" as a biomarker of individual differe…
New method extracts brain age from MRI sequences over time.
problem Lack of ground-truth labels in longitudinal neuroimaging data.
method Combines factor disentanglement with self-supervised learning.
result Extracts brain age information from MRI sequences.
Accurate diagnosis is crucial for preventing the progression of Parkinson's, as well as improving the quality of life with individuals with Parkinson's disease. In this paper, we develop a sex-specific and age-dependent classification method to diagnose the Parkinson's disease using the online handwriting recorded from…
Proposes a new model for mortality forecasting considering age groups and cohort effects.
problem Longevity risk due to ageing population.
method Mixed-effects time-series approach with age groups dependency and random cohort effects.
result Remarkable improvements in forecast accuracy compared to the CBD model.
Study identifies clusters of EU countries with similar young mortality patterns.
problem Identify clusters of EU countries with similar mortality patterns in young population.
method Symbolic data analysis (SDA) with age, gender, and main causes of death dimensions.
result Identified clusters of EU countries with similar mortality patterns in young population.
The paper uses distance correlation for brain connectivity and a novel multi-task learning model for age prediction.
problem Estimating age-related gender differences in brain functional connectivity.
method Estimates functional connectivity using distance correlation and proposes a non-convex multi-task learning model.
result The proposed non-convex multi-task learning model outperforms other models in age prediction and gender-specific connectivity.
Tumblr, as a leading content provider and social media, attracts 371 million monthly visits, 280 million blogs and 53.3 million daily posts. The popularity of Tumblr provides great opportunities for advertisers to promote their products through sponsored posts. However, it is a challenging task to target specific demog…
VNNs transfer well across datasets for brain age prediction using cortical thickness features.
problem Predicting brain age using anatomical features.
method Transferability of coVariance neural networks (VNNs) in brain age prediction.
result VNNs can assign anatomical interpretability to elevated brain age gap in AD.
User-based attribute information, such as age and gender, is usually considered as user privacy information. It is difficult for enterprises to obtain user-based privacy attribute information. However, user-based privacy attribute information has a wide range of applications in personalized services, user behavior anal…
Scheduling the transmission of time-sensitive data to multiple users over error-prone communication channels is studied with the goal of minimizing the long-term average age of information (AoI) at the users under a constraint on the average number of transmissions at the source node. After each transmission, the sourc…
Preterm newborns undergo various stresses that may materialize as learning problems at school-age. Sleep staging of the Electroencephalogram (EEG), followed by prediction of their brain-age from these sleep states can quantify deviations from normal brain development early (when compared to the known age). Current auto…
Graph embedding provides an efficient solution for graph analysis by converting the graph into a low-dimensional space which preserves the structure information. In contrast to the graph structure data, the i.i.d. node embedding can be processed efficiently in terms of both time and space. Current semi-supervised graph…
SFCNeXt estimates brain age from small MRI datasets.
problem Efficiently estimating brain age from limited MRI data.
method Simple fully convolutional network (SFCNeXt) with SPEC and HRL.
result SFCNeXt outperforms complex models in small sample size scenarios.
This paper presents an example of how demographical characteristics of patients influence their susceptibility to certain medical conditions. In this paper, we investigate the association of health conditions to age of patients in a heterogeneous population. We show that besides the symptoms a patients is having, the a…
Paper uses RNN to predict SaaS user lifetime value.
problem Predicting user lifetime value in SaaS applications.
method Recurrent Neural Network with multi-cell architecture, accounting for cohort, age-in-system, and contemporaneous information.
result Significantly improved prediction accuracy compared to existing models.
We solve a lifecycle model in which the consumer's chronological age does not move in lockstep with calendar time. Instead, biological age increases at a stochastic non-linear rate in time like a broken clock that might occasionally move backwards. In other words, biological age could actually decline. Our paper is ins…
Despite the remarkable progress in face recognition related technologies, reliably recognizing faces across ages still remains a big challenge. The appearance of a human face changes substantially over time, resulting in significant intra-class variations. As opposed to current techniques for age-invariant face recogni…
We briefly review selected contributions to immersion-theoretic topology, from S. Smale's immersion theory for spheres to M. Gromov's convex integration theory, during the early "golden" period from about 1959-1973. Historical remarks are included and technical concepts are presented informally.
In many real-world prediction tasks, class labels include information about the relative ordering between labels, which is not captured by commonly-used loss functions such as multi-category cross-entropy. Recently, the deep learning community adopted ordinal regression frameworks to take such ordering information into…
Develops a method to analyze SARS-CoV-2 viral load vs. age, finding a significant increase.
problem Determining if SARS-CoV-2 viral load depends on patient age.
method Flexible, non-parametric, hierarchical, Bayesian, causal model.
result Statistically significant increase in viral load with age, but only for one dataset.
Fetal brain imaging is a cornerstone of prenatal screening and early diagnosis of congenital anomalies. Knowledge of fetal gestational age is the key to the accurate assessment of brain development. This study develops an attention-based deep learning model to predict gestational age of the fetal brain. The proposed mo…
Additionally to the extensive use in clinical medicine, biological age (BA) in legal medicine is used to assess unknown chronological age (CA) in applications where identification documents are not available. Automatic methods for age estimation proposed in the literature are predicting point estimates, which can be mi…
New features from early battery cycles predict lifetime with high accuracy.
problem Accurately predicting battery lifetime under varying conditions is challenging due to manufacturing variability and usage-dependent degradation.
method Extracted features from regularly scheduled reference performance tests and used them to predict battery lifetime using a hierarchical Bayesian regression model.
result Demonstrated a lifetime prediction of in-distribution cells with 15.1% mean absolute percentage error using only the first 15% of data.
Human brain development is rapid during infancy and early childhood. Many disease processes impair this development. Therefore, brain developmental age estimation (BDAE) is essential for all diseases affecting cognitive development. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of infants shows brain growth and morphologic pa…
One of the most prevalent symptoms among the elderly population, dementia, can be detected by classifiers trained on linguistic features extracted from narrative transcripts. However, these linguistic features are impacted in a similar but different fashion by the normal aging process. Aging is therefore a confounding …
New algorithm reduces age of information in wireless networks with unknown channel reliability.
problem Learning optimal source-channel pairs to minimize age of information in wireless networks.
method Introduces AoI regret, novel learning algorithm with bounded AoI regret.
result Developed a learning algorithm with AoI regret, improving upon .
Estimates future ICU demand using age-structured data and logistic modeling.
problem Projecting future ICU demand from low-quality data.
method Age-structured sampling, logistic fit, subnotification factor correction.
result Corrected logistic curve projects future ICU demand.
Novel U-learning method for predicting continuous outcomes from high-dimensional data.
problem Challenges in making valid inferences on predictions from high-dimensional inputs.
method U-learning via combinatory multi-subsampling for ensemble predictions and confidence intervals.
result Valid inferences on predictions from Lasso and neural networks.
Combining Unsupervised and Supervised Learning for Asset Class Failure Prediction in Power Systemsstat.AP
In power systems, an asset class is a group of power equipment that has the same function and shares similar electrical or mechanical characteristics. Predicting failures for different asset classes is critical for electric utilities towards developing cost-effective asset management strategies. Previously, physical ag…
NEON+: Accelerated Gradient Methods for Extracting Negative Curvature for Non-Convex Optimizationmath.OC
Accelerated gradient (AG) methods are breakthroughs in convex optimization, improving the convergence rate of the gradient descent method for optimization with smooth functions. However, the analysis of AG methods for non-convex optimization is still limited. It remains an open question whether AG methods from convex o…
Italy's daily COVID-19 cases stratified by age groups.
problem Analyzing the spread and impact of COVID-19 across different age groups.
method Stratified daily data of COVID-19 cases by age classes.
result Detailed insights into how age affects COVID-19 outcomes.
Bounds derived for contract values in life insurance with financial market interaction.
problem Incompleteness in life tables for modern insurance products.
method Derivation of upper and lower bounds for hybrid functionals of lifetime under different assumptions.
result Characterization of worst- and best-case contract values over compatible mortality processes.
AGE improves graph embedding by smoothing features and iteratively enhancing node embeddings.
problem Challenges in attributed graph embedding, especially in preserving optimal low-pass characteristics and robustness.
method AGE, a novel framework combining Laplacian smoothing and adaptive encoding, addresses these issues.
result AGE consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods on node clustering and link prediction tasks.
Study reveals that cryptocurrency price variations follow power-law distributions, influenced by age and market capitalization.
problem Understanding the statistical properties of cryptocurrencies, especially their price variations.
method Comprehensive investigation of over 7000 digital currencies, analyzing their price returns over time.
result Cryptocurrency price returns follow power-law distributions, with age and market capitalization influencing these distributions.
From a young age humans learn to use grammatical principles to hierarchically combine words into sentences. Action grammars is the parallel idea, that there is an underlying set of rules (a "grammar") that govern how we hierarchically combine actions to form new, more complex actions. We introduce the Action Grammar Re…
Machine learning models predict brain age with systematic bias, corrected in this study.
problem Systematic bias in machine learning regression models for brain age prediction.
method General constrained optimization approach to correct bias.
result Our method effectively eliminates the bias from brain age predictions.
Optimal annuitization strategy depends on age, labor income, and mortality risk.
problem Maximizing utility from consumption and labor income under age-dependent mortality.
method Dynamic programming approach to derive closed-form solutions.
result Post-retirement labor income acts as a substitute for annuitization.
This paper solves the problem of optimal dynamic consumption, investment, and healthcare spending with isoelastic utility, when natural mortality grows exponentially to reflect Gompertz' law and investment opportunities are constant. Healthcare slows the natural growth of mortality, indirectly increasing utility from c…
Recently, deep neural networks have demonstrated excellent performances in recognizing the age and gender on human face images. However, these models were applied in a black-box manner with no information provided about which facial features are actually used for prediction and how these features depend on image prepro…
4-dim intrinsic (material) Riemannian metric of the material 4-D space-time continuum is utilized as the characteristic of the aging processes developing in the material. Manifested through variation of basic material characteristics such as density, moduli of elasticity, yield stress, strength, and toughness.,…
FlowSDR learns a low-dimensional projection preserving the response's conditional distribution.
problem Learning a low-dimensional projection that captures the response's conditional distribution.
method FlowSDR uses conditional log-likelihood maximization with monotone rational-quadratic spline flows to learn the projection and conditional density.
result FlowSDR outperforms existing SDR methods in various simulation settings and a face-age prediction task.
We derive a cut-and-paste surgery formula of Seiberg--Witten invariants for negative definite plumbed rational homology 3-spheres. It is similar to (and motivated by) Okuma's recursion formula [arXiv:math.AG/0610464, 4.5] targeting analytic invariants of splice quotient singularities. The two formulas combined provide …
In order to investigate the breast cancer prediction problem on the aging population with the grades of DCIS, we conduct a tree augmented naive Bayesian network experiment trained and tested on a large clinical dataset including consecutive diagnostic mammography examinations, consequent biopsy outcomes and related can…