Dataset of 50k hotels aids in human trafficking investigations.
problem Identify hotels from low-quality, occluded images.
method Curated dataset of 1M annotated hotel room images, baseline model with data augmentation.
result Demonstrated the feasibility of hotel recognition from challenging images.
Hotel booking chatbot handles daily tens of thousands of searches.
problem Improving hotel booking through conversational AI.
method Frame-based dialogue management system with ML models for intent, entity recognition, and info retrieval.
result Chatbot deployed on a commercial scale, handling hotel searches daily.
The system recommends hotels based on user preferences.
problem Overwhelm of hotel choices during trip planning.
method Used Expedia's hotel dataset to predict user preferences.
result Predicted and recommended hotels with high accuracy.
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.
PriceAggregator optimizes hotel price fetching to increase Agoda's bookings.
problem Limited QPS from suppliers causes many user searches to be ignored.
method Intelligently determines queries to suppliers for price fetching.
result PriceAggregator increases Agoda's bookings significantly.
Study analyzes Hotelling-type tensor deflation for spiked tensors, providing insights into signal and noise.
problem Characterizing singular values and alignments in Hotelling-type tensor deflation.
method Asymptotic study of Hotelling-type tensor deflation in large dimensional regime using random tensor theory.
result Characterization of singular values and alignments at each step of the deflation procedure.
New methods explain NE embeddings by identifying key variables.
problem Lack of interpretability in NE techniques.
method Combining PCA, Q-residuals, Hotelling's T2, and visualization.
result Identifies discriminatory features not seen in standard approaches.
Study suggests variable selection may not significantly reduce power in multivariate tests.
problem The feasibility of parsimonious variable selection in Hotelling's T2-test.
method Investigation of power loss when selecting small subsets of variables from multivariate data.
result Some evidence suggests no significant power loss over a wide range of alternatives.
This paper analyzes how errors accumulate in PCA's deflation method.
problem Error accumulation in PCA's deflation method.
method Mathematical analysis of inexact Hotelling's deflation method in two scenarios.
result Characterization of error propagation in PCA's deflation method.
Proposes RTL model for sentiment classification and key word detection in online reviews.
problem Sentiment classification and key word detection in online reviews for hospitality industry.
method Regularized Text Logistic (RTL) regression model.
result RTL model achieves satisfactory classification performance and identifies key word features.
Researchers solved a model of an exhaustible resource with stochastic discoveries.
problem Optimal exploration of an exhaustible resource with uncertain discoveries.
method Impulse control and Poisson process of new discoveries.
result A frontier of critical levels of proven reserves exists, above which exploration is stopped.
This research uses machine learning to approximate ideal and hotelling observer performance for binary signal detection.
problem Approximating the Ideal and Hotelling Observers for binary signal detection tasks.
method Supervised learning methods, including CNNs and SLNNs, are employed to approximate the IO and HO test statistics.
result The proposed supervised learning methods provide accurate approximations of the IO and HO test statistics.
H. Hotelling proved that in the n-dimensional Euclidean or spherical space, the volume of a tube of small radius about a curve depends only on the length of the curve and the radius. A. Gray and L. Vanhecke extended Hotelling's theorem to rank one symmetric spaces computing the volumes of the tubes explicitly in these …
Many-to-one RNN predicts user hotel clicks from browsing history.
problem Predicting user hotel clicks from browsing history.
method Combines rule-based algorithm with Gated RNN to sort accommodations.
result Promising results but computationally demanding.
The growth of the modern knowledge-based economy is becoming less and less dependent on tangible assets and more on intangible ones. In this context, the role of human capital in the value creation process has become central. Despite the large amount of scientific work on human capital phenomena, little research has re…
Canonical correlation analysis was proposed by Hotelling [6] and it measures linear relationship between two multidimensional variables. In high dimensional setting, the classical canonical correlation analysis breaks down. We propose a sparse canonical correlation analysis by adding l1 constraints on the canonical vec…
Study analyzes accuracy of tensor deflation in noisy conditions.
problem Analyzing accuracy of tensor deflation in noisy conditions.
method Asymptotic study of Hotelling-type tensor deflation in large tensor dimensions.
result Characterization of estimated singular values and singular vector alignments.
New algorithm speeds up fair clustering by 12x.
problem Achieving fair clustering in scalable algorithms.
method s-FairSC algorithm incorporating nullspace projection and Hotelling's deflation.
result s-FairSC is 12x faster and maintains fairness.
When data analysts train a classifier and check if its accuracy is significantly different from chance, they are implicitly performing a two-sample test. We investigate the statistical properties of this flexible approach in the high-dimensional setting. We prove two results that hold for all classifiers in any dimensi…
Our society has been computerised and globalised due to emergence and spread of information and communication technology (ICT). This enables us to investigate our own socio-economic systems based on large amounts of data on human activities. In this article, methods of treating complexity arising from a vast amount of …
SIMPLE method quantifies uncertainty in network membership profiles.
problem Quantifying statistical uncertainty in network membership profiles.
method Degree-corrected mixed membership model, Hotelling-type statistics.
result Established exact limiting distributions of test statistics.
The paper analyzes deflation for estimating a low-rank spike in large tensors with noise.
problem Estimating a low-rank symmetric spike in large tensors with additive Gaussian noise.
method Characterization of deflation performance in terms of vector alignments and weights.
result Understanding deflation mechanism in noisy conditions and designing more efficient methods.
We introduce a semi-supervised discrete choice model to calibrate discrete choice models when relatively few requests have both choice sets and stated preferences but the majority only have the choice sets. Two classic semi-supervised learning algorithms, the expectation maximization algorithm and the cluster-and-label…
A method uses CG to create efficient channels for ideal observers.
problem Computational intractability of ideal observers for high-dimensional image data.
method Conjugate gradient (CG) method for constructing efficient channels.
result CG-based channels approximate IO and HO performance efficiently.
Improved speech recognition using EEG and video.
problem Enhancing continuous speech recognition systems.
method Implemented a CTC-based ASR model using EEG features.
result EEG features improve continuous visual speech recognition.
Study shows emotion affects speaker recognition and vice versa.
problem Dependencies between emotion and speaker recognition.
method Transfer learning and fine-tuning for emotion classification.
result Fine-tuning improves emotion recognition performance by 30.40% on IEMOCAP, 7.99% on MSP-Podcast, and 8.61% on Crema-D.
With the recent renaissance of deep convolution neural networks, encouraging breakthroughs have been achieved on the supervised recognition tasks, where each class has sufficient training data and fully annotated training data. However, to scale the recognition to a large number of classes with few or now training samp…
End-to-end speech recognition using EEG without speech input.
problem Speech recognition without direct speech input.
method Implemented attention model and CTC-based ASR systems for EEG signals; fused EEG with noisy speech features.
result Demonstrated end-to-end speech recognition using EEG signals.
New proof for sphere recognition algorithm.
problem Sphere recognition algorithm proof.
method New proof of a lemma in Abigail Thompson's algorithm.
result New proof of a lemma in Abigail Thompson's proof of the Recognition Algorithm for 3-spheres.
Continuous speech recognition from brain activity without vocalization.
problem Recognizing silent speech from EEG signals.
method Implemented a CTC ASR model using EEG signals.
result Demonstrated feasibility of EEG for continuous silent speech recognition.
VoxCeleb 2019 challenge assesses speaker recognition in uncontrolled settings.
problem Evaluate speaker recognition technology in unconstrained data.
method Public dataset, challenge, and workshop at Interspeech 2019.
result Baseline results and discussions provided.
Paper proposes Roweisposes for 3D action recognition using generalized eigenvalue problem.
problem Need for basic methods in 3D action recognition.
method Roweisposes uses Roweis discriminant analysis for generalized subspace learning.
result Roweisposes is effective for 3D action recognition.
This is a survey article on recognition problem of frontal singularities. We specify geometrically several frontal singularities and then we solve the recognition problem of such singularities, giving explicit normal forms. We combine the recognition results by K. Saji and several arguments on openings, which was perfo…
Recently, an extension of independent component analysis (ICA) from one to multiple datasets, termed independent vector analysis (IVA), has been the subject of significant research interest. IVA has also been shown to be a generalization of Hotelling's canonical correlation analysis. In this paper, we provide the ident…
Paper tackles zero-shot activity recognition using video features and text embeddings.
problem Zero-shot activity recognition with videos.
method Auto-encoder model for multimodal joint embedding, 3D convolutional action recognition for visual features, GloVe word embeddings for textual features.
result Improved zero-shot recognition results with top-n accuracy and mean Nearest Neighbor Overlap.
A new deep neural network improves short-speech recognition.
problem Improving speaker recognition for short-duration speech segments.
method Proposes UtterIdNet, a novel deep neural network architecture.
result Consistent and stable performance for short segments, especially sub-second durations.
Paper explores EEG-based speech recognition using transformers, showing faster training and better performance for smaller vocabularies.
problem Continuous speech recognition using EEG features.
method Transformer-based ASR model compared to RNN-based models.
result Transformer models perform better for smaller vocabularies but RNN models outperform them for larger vocabularies.
The asymptotic distribution of the Markowitz portfolio is derived, for the general case (assuming fourth moments of returns exist), and for the case of multivariate normal returns. The derivation allows for inference which is robust to heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation of moments up to order four. As a side effect…
EmbraceNet fusion model for multi-sensor activity recognition.
problem Human activity recognition using multiple sensors is challenging.
method Independent processing of each sensor, feature fusion with EmbraceNet, post-processing, and additional processes.
result Improved performance in SHL recognition challenge.
We consider the hypothesis testing problem of detecting a shift between the means of two multivariate normal distributions in the high-dimensional setting, allowing for the data dimension p to exceed the sample size n. Specifically, we propose a new test statistic for the two-sample test of means that integrates a rand…
Paper improves EEG-based speech recognition using CTC and beam search.
problem Improving continuous speech recognition from EEG signals.
method Implemented CTC-based ASR system, initialized weights, used external language model, studied articulatory feature prediction.
result Enhanced performance of EEG-based speech recognition systems.
TransFall uses transfer learning to improve activity recognition from mobile sensors.
problem Performance degradation due to platform and user movement differences.
method Two-tier data transformation, label estimation, and model generation layers.
result TransFall enhances activity recognition accuracy for new scenarios.
AV-CPL uses continuous pseudo-labels for AVSR combining labeled and unlabeled data.
problem Improving AVSR performance with labeled and unlabeled data.
method Semi-supervised method using continuous pseudo-labels generated by the same AVSR model.
result Significant improvements in VSR performance on LRS3 dataset.
Neural network framework for language recognition considers sequence information and improves accuracy.
problem Challenging task of automatic language identification in noisy conditions.
method Proposes a neural network framework with bidirectional LSTM and attention modeling for relevance weighting.
result Significant improvements over conventional methods in noisy conditions and multi-speaker speech.
The paper presents a recognition system for Pashto letters using KNN and ANN.
problem Challenging handwritten character recognition, especially for Pashto letters.
method Designed a database of 4488 images, used zoning feature extractor, KNN, and ANN classifiers.
result Achieved overall classification accuracy of 70.05% using KNN and 72% using ANN.
Paper shows EEG can improve ASR in noisy speech.
problem ASR performance drops in noisy conditions.
method Used EEG to train ASR models and improve performance.
result ASR accuracy improved with EEG features and distillation.
Fawkes protects images from unauthorized facial recognition models.
problem Unauthorized training of facial recognition models poses privacy risks.
method Fawkes adds imperceptible pixel-level changes (cloaks) to images before release.
result Fawkes can protect images from misidentification by 95% and 80% even when clean images are leaked.
Paper shows continuous speech recognition with EEG features, no speech input.
problem Continuous speech recognition with limited vocabulary and noisy/no speech input.
method Connectionist temporal classification (CTC) model, EEG features, new deep learning architecture.
result Continuous speech recognition achieved on limited vocabulary with noisy/no speech input.