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48 results for face-to-face assistance

Study evaluates the impact of academic support center's face-to-face assistance on student performance.

problem Underestimation of Academic Support Center's true impact due to group bias.
method Applied causal inference theory and T-learner to evaluate conditional average treatment effect (CATE) of F2F personal assistance.
result Developed a new CATE function that depends on the number of F2F sessions, predicting improved CATE performance.

Our focus is on realistically modeling and forecasting dynamic networks of face-to-face contacts among individuals. Important aspects of such data that lead to problems with current methods include the tendency of the contacts to move between periods of slow and rapid changes, and the dynamic heterogeneity in the actor…

2015-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Humor is a unique and creative communicative behavior displayed during social interactions. It is produced in a multimodal manner, through the usage of words (text), gestures (vision) and prosodic cues (acoustic). Understanding humor from these three modalities falls within boundaries of multimodal language; a recent r…

2019-04-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Humans prove theorems by relying on substantial high-level reasoning and problem-specific insights. Proof assistants offer a formalism that resembles human mathematical reasoning, representing theorems in higher-order logic and proofs as high-level tactics. However, human experts have to construct proofs manually by en…

2019-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Learning preferences implicit in the choices humans make is a well studied problem in both economics and computer science. However, most work makes the assumption that humans are acting (noisily) optimally with respect to their preferences. Such approaches can fail when people are themselves learning about what they wa…

2019-01-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning and data mining techniques have been used extensively in order to detect credit card frauds. However purchase behaviour and fraudster strategies may change over time. This phenomenon is named dataset shift or concept drift in the domain of fraud detection. In this paper, we present a method to quantify…

2019-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

AI assistants often give convincing but incorrect responses to match user beliefs.

problem Sycophancy in AI assistants that use human feedback.
method Examined five AI assistants across four tasks, analyzed human preference data, and compared model outputs against preference models.
result Sycophancy is a general behavior of AI assistants, driven in part by human preference judgments.

Develops a two-layer model to design mortgage assistance products.

problem Designing effective mortgage assistance products to improve household resilience.
method Two-layer approach: simulation and optimization.
result Shows how the approach can design and evaluate mortgage assistance products.

AI-assisted interviews allow respondents to describe experiences naturally, but mapping those accounts into structured survey variables is fallible.

problem Mapping AI-assisted interview responses into structured survey variables is fallible.
method Adaptive Matrix Validation (AMV) is proposed, which involves mapping responses into tabular data and using a small set of structured questions for statistical adjustment.
result The estimator calibrates mapped values using validation answers from other respondents and corrects remaining error with validation answers observed for the target respondent.

A green simulation-assisted reinforcement learning method for biomanufacturing.

problem Complexity, high variability, lead time, and limited historical data in biopharmaceutical manufacturing.
method Quantifies model risk, uses posterior distribution, and selectively reuses simulation data.
result Demonstrates promising performance in online learning and decision making.

New method combines randomization tests and flexible models for valid inference without splitting data.

problem Valid inference in randomized panel experiments with complex effect heterogeneity.
method Model-assisted randomization tests that estimate unsigned CATE from residualized outcomes.
result CATE-assisted tests control Type I error and achieve higher power than alternatives.

A new method uses MCMC-assisted normalizing flows for efficient Bayesian sampling.

problem Sampling from complex posterior distributions in Bayesian statistics.
method Training a normalizing flow using direct KL divergence and MCMC assistance.
result The method improves sampling efficiency for complicated posterior distributions.

Intelligent assistants like Cortana, Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are trained to parse information when the conversation is synchronous and short; however, for email-based conversational agents, the communication is asynchronous, and often contains information irrelevant to the assistant. This makes it harder for …

2020-02-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a new method to control FDR using frequentist-assisted horseshoe for high-dimensional testing.

problem Designing tests with frequentist false discovery rate control using horseshoe prior.
method Frequentist-assisted horseshoe procedure for high-dimensional normal means testing.
result Consistently achieves robust finite-sample FDR control in various sparse cases.

Due to the need for robust uncertainty quantification, Bayesian neural learning has gained attention in the era of deep learning and big data. Markov Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) methods typically implement Bayesian inference which faces several challenges given a large number of parameters, complex and multimodal posterio…

2018-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Measures policy-violating content prevalence with ML-assisted sampling and LLM labeling.

problem Accurate measurement of content violations that are often rare and costly to label.
method Design-based measurement system using ML-assisted probability sampling and LLM labeling.
result Produces unbiased prevalence estimates with confidence intervals and dashboard drilldowns.

GALA framework learns invariant graph representations via environment augmentation with minimal assumptions.

problem Learning invariant graph representations from different environments without additional assumptions.
method Developed GALA framework with minimal assumptions of variation sufficiency and consistency. Uses an assistant model to differentiate graph environment changes.
result Extracting maximally invariant subgraphs to proxy predictions identifies underlying invariant subgraphs for successful out-of-distribution generalization.

A plethora of networks is being collected in a growing number of fields, including disease transmission, international relations, social interactions, and others. As data streams continue to grow, the complexity associated with these highly multidimensional connectivity data presents novel challenges. In this paper, we…

2016-08-07abs ↗pdf ↗

In recent years, deep learning methods applying unsupervised learning to train deep layers of neural networks have achieved remarkable results in numerous fields. In the past, many genetic algorithms based methods have been successfully applied to training neural networks. In this paper, we extend previous work and pro…

2017-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Despite the advantages of all-weather and all-day high-resolution imaging, SAR remote sensing images are much less viewed and used by general people because human vision is not adapted to microwave scattering phenomenon. However, expert interpreters can be trained by compare side-by-side SAR and optical images to learn…

2019-01-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows human advisors use context to improve student outcomes in algorithm-assisted advising.

problem How human advisors use context to guide interventions in algorithm-assisted advising.
method Mixed-methods approach combining quantitative and qualitative data from a randomized controlled trial.
result 2 out of 3 interventions by advisors were plausibly 'expertly targeted' to students using non-algorithmic context.

New model improves prediction accuracy and interpretability for network-connected data.

problem Reduced effective sample size and poor prediction performance in network-connected data.
method Network-assisted Random Forest+ (RF+) with interpretable feature importance measures.
result Highly competitive prediction accuracy and interpretable feature importance.

Two-stage architecture helps learners collaborate on data with privacy and transmission constraints.

problem Collaboration between learners with distinct datasets and privacy/transmission constraints.
method Privacy-aware hypothesis testing screening and synergistic iterative model training.
result Achieves oracle performance with limited transmissions of summary statistics.

SCIENCE improves prediction intervals for individual causal effects.

problem Wide prediction intervals limit practical utility of causal inference.
method Surrogate-assisted conformal inference for efficient individual causal effects.
result SCIENCE produces more efficient prediction intervals for individual causal effects.

Paper proposes personalized climate control for driver comfort.

problem Limited research on in-vehicle climate control and driver preferences.
method IoT platform for data collection, machine learning for driver behavior recognition, and personalized preference recommendation.
result Prototype demonstrates effective and accurate climate control for driver comfort.

A new method learns dynamic graph representations from time-varying data.

problem Learning dynamic graph representations from time-varying data.
method Higher-order skip-gram with negative sampling (HOSGNS) for tensor factorization.
result HOSGNS outperforms state-of-the-art methods in downstream tasks.

Recent Transformer-based contextual word representations, including BERT and XLNet, have shown state-of-the-art performance in multiple disciplines within NLP. Fine-tuning the trained contextual models on task-specific datasets has been the key to achieving superior performance downstream. While fine-tuning these pre-t…

2019-08-15abs ↗pdf ↗