Proposes grade-aware course recommendation methods to improve student GPA.
problem Helping students select courses that lead to timely graduation and good grades.
method Two approaches: ranking courses by expected GPA impact and combining grade predictions with course recommendations.
result Grade-aware methods recommend courses leading to better student performance.
A new system recommends specific knowledge concepts in MOOCs based on student interests.
problem MOOCs recommend courses but ignore specific knowledge concepts interests.
method End-to-end graph neural network (ACKRec) that combines content and context information.
result ACKRec effectively recommends knowledge concepts to MOOC students.
This book is a textbook for the basic course of differential geometry. It is recommended as an introductory material for this subject.
Develops NFCF to reduce gender bias in social media recommendation systems.
problem Reduces gender bias in collaborative filtering systems on social media data.
method Pre-training and fine-tuning neural collaborative filtering with bias correction techniques.
result Achieves better performance and fairness in gender de-biased recommendations.
The paper addresses treatment recommendation problems by optimizing distributional characteristics.
problem Optimizing treatment recommendations based on distributional targets.
method Characterizes the problem's difficulty and proposes near-optimal policies.
result Characterizes the difficulty of the problem and proposes near-regret optimal policies.
The Internet has rich and rapidly increasing sources of high quality educational content. Inferring prerequisite relations between educational concepts is required for modern large-scale online educational technology applications such as personalized recommendations and automatic curriculum creation. We present PREREQ,…
This project compares MCMC and VI for Bayesian PMF on MovieLens.
problem Intractable posterior distribution in PMF.
method Employed MCMC and VI for Bayesian inference on MovieLens.
result VI converges faster, MCMC provides more accurate estimates.
When devising a course of treatment for a patient, doctors often have little quantitative evidence on which to base their decisions, beyond their medical education and published clinical trials. Stanford Health Care alone has millions of electronic medical records (EMRs) that are only just recently being leveraged to i…
TrueLearn uses Bayesian algorithms to match learners with educational resources.
problem Matching lifelong learners to open educational resources efficiently and effectively.
method TrueLearn uses a text ontology and Bayesian strategies to match learners with educational resources based on their background knowledge and material novelty.
result TrueLearn algorithms show promise in building an effective educational recommendation system.
The paper presents a machine learning approach to multidimensional item response theory.
problem Modeling and predicting student performance from assessment data.
method Inspired by collaborative filtering, the paper defines a general class of models using penalized joint maximum likelihood (JML) for estimation and cross-validation for model selection.
result The high-dimensional model fit to large and sparse data does not lend itself well to traditional factor interpretation.
Proposes new models to predict student grades more accurately.
problem Accurately predicting future grades considering prior and concurrent courses.
method Context-aware, non-linear, and neural attentive models.
result Models outperform existing methods in predicting student grades.
NAK model predicts student grades by focusing on relevant past courses.
problem Accurately predicting future course grades for students.
method NAK model learns attention weights to focus on relevant past courses.
result NAK model outperforms CKRM and other methods in predicting grades.
New method handles uncertainty in causal effect estimation for better decision-making.
problem Handling uncertainty in causal effect estimation, especially in high-dimensional data and covariate shift.
method Integrates uncertainty estimation into neural network methods for individual-level causal estimates.
result Uncertainty-aware methods improve decision-making by alerting when predictions are not reliable.
Paper improves neural network models for MOOC student course prediction.
problem Improving neural network-based predictive methods for MOOC student course trajectory modeling.
method Enhanced LSTM networks and Transformer architecture applied to MOOC student data.
result Improved accuracy in predicting MOOC student course trajectories.
Study evaluates predictive models for blended courses, analyzing performance across different offerings.
problem Limited success in predicting student performance in blended courses.
method Used data from two offerings of two different undergraduate courses to train and evaluate models.
result Models perform better on the same offering and less well on different offerings of the same course.
Predicts student outcomes in real-time using domain adaptation.
problem Real-time student performance prediction in online courses.
method GritNet architecture with unsupervised domain adaptation.
result GritNet enhances real-time predictions, especially in early weeks.
Advanced mathematical relativity course for math and physics students.
problem Mathematical foundations of general relativity.
method Comprehensive lecture notes covering advanced topics.
result Comprehensive coverage of mathematical relativity for advanced students.
Introduces scale calculus and M-polyfolds for graduate students.
problem No specific problem stated in the abstract.
method Lecture notes on scale calculus and M-polyfolds.
result No specific key result mentioned in the abstract.
Course on arithmetic lattices at EPFL.
problem Understanding arithmetic lattices.
method Introductory course on arithmetic lattices.
result Introduction to arithmetic lattices.
Discusses geometry problems for fun and learning.
problem Geometry problems and their solutions.
method Not original, but related to differential geometry course.
result Relation to differential geometry course.
Increasingly fast development and update cycle of online course contents, and diverse demographics of students in each online classroom, make student performance prediction in real-time (before the course finishes) and/or on curriculum without specific historical performance data available interesting topics for both i…
Modeling student course choices using latent variables.
problem Understanding student enrollment patterns in large universities.
method Probabilistic approach based on multilabel classification and mixture models.
result Demonstrated the model's ability to infer student interests guiding enrollment decisions.
Teaches deep learning to statisticians.
problem Statisticians lack expertise in deep learning.
method Developed a program and taught DL to statistics graduate students.
result Provided tips and resources for teaching DL.
In a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), predictive models of student behavior can support multiple aspects of learning, including instructor feedback and timely intervention. Ongoing courses, when the student outcomes are yet unknown, must rely on models trained from the historical data of previously offered courses. I…
These are lecture notes on Floer and Rabinowitz-Floer homology written for a graduate course at UNICAMP August-December 2016 and a mini-course held at IMPA in August 2017.
Teaches uncertainty in ML through practical examples.
problem Lack of uncertainty teaching in ML curricula.
method Developed a curriculum and use cases.
result Motivates adoption of uncertainty concepts in AI courses.
An introductory course on hyperbolic geometry for advanced students.
problem None explicitly stated; focuses on teaching hyperbolic geometry.
method Textbook format, intended for advanced undergraduate and early graduate students.
result Teaches advanced students about hyperbolic geometry.
Optimization techniques for machine learning explained.
problem Improving machine learning models' performance.
method Course notes and tutorials on optimization methods.
result Comprehensive coverage of optimization techniques.
Notes for a one semester course. The notes contain a description of compact three dimensional Seifert fibered spaces and a classification up to homeomorphism of compact three dimensional Seifert fibered spaces with non-empty boundary.
These are the lecture notes for an advanced Ph.D. level course I taught in Spring'02 at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook. The course primarily focused on an introduction to stochastic calculus and derivative pricing with various stochastic computations recast in the language of path integr…
Course on knots using branched coverings.
problem Determining knots using cyclic branched coverings.
method Cyclic branched coverings of knots.
result New insights into knot classification.
Lecture notes on curves in complex projective plane from a topological viewpoint.
problem Understanding curves in complex projective plane from a topological perspective.
method Topological analysis of curves in complex projective plane.
result Curves in complex projective plane have unique topological properties.
These notes are based on the mini-course given in June 2004 in Cetraro, Italy, in the frame of a C.I.M.E. school. Of course, they contain much more material that I could present in the 6 hours course. The main goal is to give an idea of the general variational and dynamical nature of nice and powerful concepts and resu…
The Web has enabled one of the most visible recent developments in education---the deployment of massive open online courses. With their global reach and often staggering enrollments, MOOCs have the potential to become a major new mechanism for learning. Despite this early promise, however, MOOCs are still relatively u…
New metric MADD assesses fairness of predictive student models.
problem Predictive student models can be biased and unfair, leading to discrimination.
method Proposes MADD metric to analyze model's discriminatory behaviors.
result Fair predictive performance does not guarantee fair behaviors or outcomes.
REP predicts drug response at every stage of treatment using time-course gene expression data.
problem Lack of dynamic drug response prediction from time-course gene expression data.
method REP framework that predicts drug response values at every stage of a long-term treatment using recursive structure and tensor completion.
result REP can estimate drug response at any stage of a given treatment from initial gene expression levels.
These are lecture notes for the course "Analysis and X-ray tomography". The course is a broad overview of various tools in analysis that can be used to study X-ray tomography. The focus is on tools and ideas, not so much on technical details and minimal assumptions. Only very basic functional analysis is assumed as bac…
FIVES generates high-order interactive features efficiently and effectively.
problem Automating the generation of high-order interactive features in tabular data.
method Formulates interactive feature generation as edge search on a feature graph, using a GNN and adjacency tensor.
result FIVES outperforms state-of-the-art methods in various datasets and real-world applications.
PKF improves KF for dynamic uncertainty tracking in time-course data.
problem Dynamic uncertainty tracking in time-course data.
method Pathspace Kalman Filter (PKF) using Bayesian methodology.
result PKF outperforms conventional KF methods, reducing MSE by several orders of magnitude.
These are course notes I wrote for my Fall 2013 graduate topics course on geometric structures, taught at ICERM. The notes rework many of proofs in William P. Thurston's beautiful but hard-to-understand paper, "Shapes of Polyhedra". A number of people, both in and out of the class, found these notes very useful and so …
In massive open online courses (MOOCs), peer grading serves as a critical tool for scaling the grading of complex, open-ended assignments to courses with tens or hundreds of thousands of students. But despite promising initial trials, it does not always deliver accurate results compared to human experts. In this paper,…
Proposes a robust similarity measure for sparse time series data.
problem Sparse time course data in biological settings.
method Gaussian processes (GP) similarity measure based on log-likelihood ratio.
result Enhanced robustness to noise compared to Euclidean distance.
Personalized predictive medicine necessitates the modeling of patient illness and care processes, which inherently have long-term temporal dependencies. Healthcare observations, recorded in electronic medical records, are episodic and irregular in time. We introduce DeepCare, an end-to-end deep dynamic neural network t…
Bayesian model estimates ACT impact on pediatric AML survival.
problem Estimating ACT impact on survival in AML patients with treatment timing issues.
method Generative Bayesian semi-parametric model with Gamma Process priors.
result Posterior inference for ACT efficacy under dynamic rules.
Unified HDP and LDA models for efficient topic clustering of online course queries.
problem Efficiently cluster and answer subject-specific online course queries.
method Use Hierarchical Dirichlet Process (HDP) to optimize topic number for Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model runs.
result Achieve optimal clustering efficiency by recursively applying LDA on effective topics.
Deviation-based learning improves recommender systems by abstaining from recommending choices users might follow.
problem Recommender systems learn from user choices but can stall if users blindly follow recommendations.
method The recommender learns user knowledge by observing choices, abstaining from recommending a choice when multiple alternatives produce similar payoffs.
result Learning rate and social welfare improve when the recommender abstains from recommending certain choices.
These are lecture notes of a course on symmetry group analysis of differential equations, based mainly on P. J. Olver's book 'Applications of Lie Groups to Differential Equations'. The course starts out with an introduction to the theory of local transformation groups, based on the Stefan-Sussman theory on the integrab…
With pressure to increase graduation rates and reduce time to degree in higher education, it is important to identify at-risk students early. Automated early warning systems are therefore highly desirable. In this paper, we use unsupervised clustering techniques to predict the graduation status of declared majors in fi…