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48 results for dynamic team compositions

New approach for open ad hoc teamwork using graph-based policy learning.

problem Designing autonomous agents to collaborate with changing teams without prior coordination.
method Graph-based policy learning to adapt to dynamic team compositions.
result Successfully models the effects of other agents, leading to robust adaptation and superior performance.

The paper offers algorithms for managing freelancers and in-house workers in online labor markets.

problem Managing freelancers and in-house workers in online labor markets efficiently.
method Developed algorithms for team formation with outsourcing in an online setting.
result Efficient online algorithms for minimizing costs in hiring and outsourcing.

Paper studies competitive networks where teams aim to minimize their own objectives, adapting to each other's strategies.

problem Competitive networks where teams have conflicting objectives.
method Proposes diffusion learning algorithms for two classes of network games: zero-sum and non-zero-sum.
result Stability performance of proposed algorithms analyzed and demonstrated through experiments.

Investigates fairness in pipeline models where individuals may drop out.

problem Fairness in pipeline models where individuals may drop out and subsequent stages depend on remaining individuals.
method Rigorous framework for evaluating fairness guarantees, showing that naïve auditing is insufficient and dependence must exist between stages.
result Fairness in pipelines can be arbitrary, even with just two stages, and requires dependence between stages.

Technology offers new ways to measure the locations of the players and of the ball in sports. This translates to the trajectories the ball takes on the field as a result of the tactics the team applies. The challenge professionals in soccer are facing is to take the reverse path: given the trajectories of the ball is i…

2015-08-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes RPG-RT for red-teaming T2I models without internal access.

problem Evaluating T2I models' security through red-teaming is challenging due to their closed-source nature and unknown defense mechanisms.
method Integrates LLM and rule-based preference modeling to dynamically adapt to unknown defense mechanisms.
result Demonstrates superior and practical approach for red-teaming T2I models.

This paper proposes a decentralized reinforcement learning method for multi-agent resource allocation.

problem Allocating heterogeneous resources among multiple agents in a decentralized manner.
method Liquid-Graph-Time Clustering-IPPO, integrating dynamic cluster consensus.
result LGTC-IPPO achieves more stable rewards, better coordination, and robust performance.

In this work we present STEVE - Soccer TEam VEctors, a principled approach for learning real valued vectors for soccer teams where similar teams are close to each other in the resulting vector space. STEVE only relies on freely available information about the matches teams played in the past. These vectors can serve as…

2019-07-30abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper analyzes how diffusion models learn and generalize concepts.

problem Learning and generalizing concepts in compositional data-generating processes.
method Introduced a structured identity mapping (SIM) task to analyze neural network learning dynamics.
result SIM task captures key empirical observations on compositional generalization.

Attackers can significantly reduce team rewards in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning.

problem Robustness of cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning to adversaries.
method Novel attack method involving training a policy network and using targeted adversarial examples.
result Reduces team reward from 20 to 9.4 by attacking a single agent, reducing winning rate from 98.9% to 0%.

The paper explores the dynamics of composite symplectic Dehn twists with nonuniform hyperbolicity.

problem Understanding the dynamics and properties of composite symplectic Dehn twists.
method Analyzing the form of nonuniform hyperbolicity, growth of Floer cohomology, and classification of symplectic mapping classes.
result Composite symplectic Dehn twists exhibit positive topological entropy and exponential growth in Floer cohomology.

An online labor platform faces an online learning problem in matching workers with jobs and using the performance on these jobs to create better future matches. This learning problem is complicated by the rise of complex tasks on these platforms, such as web development and product design, that require a team of worker…

2018-09-18abs ↗pdf ↗

CGAs estimate team performance from data, simplifying SV computation.

problem Predicting and rewarding team performance using game theory.
method Cooperative game abstractions (CGAs) for estimating characteristic functions from data.
result CGAs enable linear-time computation of Shapley Value for team contributions.

Many natural systems, such as neurons firing in the brain or basketball teams traversing a court, give rise to time series data with complex, nonlinear dynamics. We can gain insight into these systems by decomposing the data into segments that are each explained by simpler dynamic units. Building on switching linear dy…

2016-10-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Model learns collective and individual dynamics in time series data.

problem Lack of models capturing system-level collective behavior in individual time series.
method Hierarchical switching-state model with latent system-level and entity-level Markov chains.
result Model improves interpretability and forecasting accuracy compared to larger models.

Annealed Langevin dynamics improves sampling from composite scores in SBI.

problem Irreducible bias in sampling from composite scores of SBI methods.
method Derive Wasserstein bounds and decision rules for hyperparameters.
result Explicit decision rules for hyperparameters guarantee prescribed sampling accuracy.

The study uses unsupervised machine learning to identify top European football teams.

problem Selecting teams for the new European football Super League.
method Used Laplacian eigenmaps clustering on performance data.
result Successfully identified four clusters of teams based on performance metrics.

Dynamic paired comparison models, such as Elo and Glicko, are frequently used for sports prediction and ranking players or teams. We present an alternative dynamic paired comparison model which uses a Gaussian Process (GP) as a prior for the time dynamics rather than the Markovian dynamics usually assumed. In addition,…

2019-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Coordinated defensive escorts can aid a navigating payload by positioning themselves in order to maintain the safety of the payload from obstacles. In this paper, we present a novel, end-to-end solution for coordinating an escort team for protecting high-value payloads. Our solution employs deep reinforcement learning …

2019-10-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a deep learning architecture for rich-item recommendations.

problem Rich data structures with multiple entity types and side-information.
method General formulation, multiple graph-CNN based architecture (AL-GCN), ranking metric pAp@k.
result 5-6% points more accurate than production models in real-world applications.

Study shows how transformers learn to combine simple tasks into complex ones.

problem Understanding how transformers learn to perform complex tasks not seen during training.
method Controlled setting involving variable assignment and modular addition; partitioned training data analysis.
result Small transformers can generalize to unseen combinations of variables and numbers.

Deep neural networks can approximate complex functions through repeated compositions of a fixed-size ReLU network.

problem Understanding the expressive power of deep neural networks through function compositions.
method Demonstrated the surprising expressive power of repeated compositions of a single fixed-size ReLU network.
result Repeated compositions of a single fixed-size ReLU network can approximate 1-Lipschitz continuous functions on [0,1]d[0,1]^d with an error O(r1/d)\mathcal{O}(r^{-1/d}).

Study fair team formation in online labor marketplaces.

problem Design fair algorithms for team formation in online labor marketplaces.
method Define and analyze the Fair Team Formation problem, provide inapproximability results, and develop four algorithms.
result Developed four algorithms for fair team formation in online labor marketplaces.

The study reveals simplicity bias in neural networks leading to better compositional mappings.

problem Understanding when and how to encourage neural networks to learn compositional mappings.
method Examined compositional mappings through coding length and gradient descent dynamics.
result Neural networks tend to learn the simplest bijections, explaining their good generalization.

We study the relationship between social media output and National Football League (NFL) games, using a dataset containing messages from Twitter and NFL game statistics. Specifically, we consider tweets pertaining to specific teams and games in the NFL season and use them alongside statistical game data to build predic…

2013-10-25abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose an original model for inferring team strengths using a Markov Random Field, which can be used to generate historical estimates of the offensive and defensive strengths of a team over time. This model was designed to be applied to sports such as soccer or hockey, in which contest outcomes take value in a limi…

2013-05-09abs ↗pdf ↗

A portfolio of different stocks and a risk-less security whose composition is dynamically maintained stable by trading shares at any time step leads to a growth of the capital with a nonrandom rate. This is the key for the theory of optimal-growth investment formulated by Kelly. In presence of transaction costs, the op…

1998-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper reports the method and evaluation results of MedAusbild team for ISIC challenge task. Since early 2017, our team has worked on melanoma classification [1][6], and has employed deep learning since beginning of 2018 [7]. Deep learning helps researchers absolutely to treat and detect diseases by analyzing medic…

2018-07-24abs ↗pdf ↗