Study uses wearable sensors to predict infant motor development status.
problem Early detection of infant motor development status in high-risk infants.
method Machine learning classification algorithms using day-long inertial movement data from wearable sensors.
result Machine learning can predict infant motor development status from day-long movement data.
Wearable smart suit tracks infant movements with high accuracy.
problem Early detection of atypical motor development in infants.
method Developed a multi-sensor smart suit for data collection, trained a deep CNN algorithm for automatic posture and movement classification.
result Setup achieves human equivalent accuracy in infant posture and movement classification.
Study predicts infant mortality using birth certificate data.
problem High infant mortality rate in the U.S. and racial/ethnic disparities.
method Classification models trained on birth certificate features.
result Methodology outperforms standard classification methods.
Study improves infant cry-based asphyxia diagnosis using transfer learning.
problem Improving accuracy of diagnosing perinatal asphyxia in newborns.
method Neural transfer learning from adult speech to infant cries.
result Transfer learning models are resilient to noise and signal loss.
Study on mother-infant affect communication using audio recordings.
problem Lack of accurate emotional speech databases for real-life settings.
method Used RAVDESS database and trained a Convolutional Neural Nets model.
result Dominant emotions in mother-infant speech were angry and sad.
Automated GMA using accelerometers detects abnormal infant movements with human-level accuracy.
problem Undetected perinatal stroke leads to lifelong disability.
method Wearable accelerometers and Discriminative Pattern Discovery (DPD) for automated GMA.
result Automated method correctly identifies abnormal movements with human-level accuracy.
Model predicts extubation success in preterm infants.
problem Predicting successful extubation in preterm infants to minimize complications.
method Applied Markov and semi-Markov chain models to analyze respiratory patterns.
result Up to 84% of infants who failed extubation could have been predicted prior to extubation.
Study uses semi-Markov models to analyze respiratory patterns of preterm infants before extubation.
problem Analyzing respiratory patterns of preterm infants before and after extubation.
method Developed semi-Markov models to compare respiratory patterns of infants who succeeded extubation and those who required reintubation.
result Semi-Markov models reveal unique similarities and differences between infants who succeeded extubation and those who required reintubation.
3D CNN accurately classifies infant neurodevelopmental age from MRI scans.
problem Estimating neurodevelopmental age in infants from MRI data.
method 3D Convolutional Neural Network (3D CNN) trained on MRI images of 112 infants.
result 3D CNN achieves 99% sensitivity and 98.3% specificity in age classification.
Model captures sleep patterns in infant data.
problem Infant sleep data analysis with missing values.
method Nonparametric model using low-rank matrix factorization with time-smoothing regularization.
result Extracts meaningful sleep patterns and trends.
Benchmark tests spoken language models for infant language learning.
problem Understanding how infants learn language from speech.
method Developed a language-acquisition-friendly benchmark.
result Benchmarking shows models' strengths and weaknesses.
Graphical physics network learns intuitive physics using deep reinforcement learning with intrinsic motivation.
problem Teaching intuitive physics to AI agents.
method Integrates deep reinforcement learning with intrinsic reward normalization for efficient learning.
result Agent effectively learns object positions and velocities using intrinsic motivation.
Approach predicts extubation readiness with high accuracy.
problem High reintubation rates due to inconsistent extubation readiness prediction.
method Random Forest classifiers trained on undersampled cardiorespiratory variability data.
result 71% of infants who failed extubation were correctly identified.
New model detects crying in real-world settings with improved accuracy.
problem Generalization of cry detection models to real-world environments.
method Evaluated machine learning approaches on a novel dataset of real-world infant crying.
result Improved F1 score of 0.613 for crying event recognition in real-world settings.
Automated method selects eye tracking variables for categorization tasks.
problem Limited duration of infant cooperation and biases in handpicked eye tracking variables.
method Automated selection of eye tracking variables using statistical techniques.
result Same eye tracking variables classify category learners from non-learners in adults and infants with high accuracy.
Infants are experts at playing, with an amazing ability to generate novel structured behaviors in unstructured environments that lack clear extrinsic reward signals. We seek to replicate some of these abilities with a neural network that implements curiosity-driven intrinsic motivation. Using a simple but ecologically …
New method clusters infant vocalizations using topological data.
problem Clustering infant vocalizations for developmental analysis.
method Topologically augmented signal representation with Dirichlet process mixture model.
result 8 clusters of vocalizations identified in the first 12 months of life.
API technique improves multiclass GAM interpretability.
problem Interpretability breakdown in multiclass GAMs.
method Developed two axioms and API technique for multiclass GAMs.
result API technique transforms multiclass GAMs to be visually interpretable.
Every year, 3 million newborns die within the first month of life. Birth asphyxia and other breathing-related conditions are a leading cause of mortality during the neonatal phase. Current diagnostic methods are too sophisticated in terms of equipment, required expertise, and general logistics. Consequently, early dete…
We address the problem of bootstrapping language acquisition for an artificial system similarly to what is observed in experiments with human infants. Our method works by associating meanings to words in manipulation tasks, as a robot interacts with objects and listens to verbal descriptions of the interactions. The mo…
Robot learns tool use from effects, detecting features of tools, objects, and actions.
problem Teaching robots to understand and manipulate objects using tools.
method Deep learning model trained on sensory-motor data from a robot performing a tool-use task.
result Robot can detect features of tools, objects, and actions from effects of object manipulation.
Bayesian Neural Networks show similar developmental stages as human learning.
problem Comparing human and machine learning stages.
method Operationalized developmental stages as data-set size, analyzed on three tasks.
result Bayesian Neural Networks exhibit similar developmental patterns to human learning.
Robots learn actions and language through curiosity-driven self-exploration.
problem Efficient development of actions and language in infants and robots.
method Curiosity-driven self-exploration using Q-learning to amortize active inference.
result Curiosity-driven exploration enables faster learning and compositional generalization.
Proposes a novel anomaly detection method for echocardiogram videos.
problem Anomaly detection in echocardiogram videos.
method Dynamic Variational Trajectory Models (TVAE-C, TVAE-R, TVAE-S) trained on healthy infant echocardiogram videos.
result Superior performance in detecting congenital heart defects and pulmonary hypertension.
While learning the maximum likelihood value of parameters of an undirected graphical model is hard, modelling the posterior distribution over parameters given data is harder. Yet, undirected models are ubiquitous in computer vision and text modelling (e.g. conditional random fields). But where Bayesian approaches for d…
NGRs merge sparse graph recovery with PGMs for efficient probabilistic inference.
problem Efficiently recover sparse graphs and learn distributions over variables.
method Integrates sparse graph recovery methods with PGMs using Graph-constrained path norm.
result NGRs can handle multimodal data and perform sparse graph recovery and probabilistic inference.
Infants are experts at playing, with an amazing ability to generate novel structured behaviors in unstructured environments that lack clear extrinsic reward signals. We seek to mathematically formalize these abilities using a neural network that implements curiosity-driven intrinsic motivation. Using a simple but ecolo…
Paper uses Gaussian processes to handle shared latent confounders in causal inference.
problem Bias in causal effect estimates due to shared latent confounders.
method Hierarchical Bayesian model, Gaussian processes with structured latent confounders (GP-SLC), Monte Carlo inference algorithm.
result GP-SLC provides accurate estimates of individual treatment effects with minimal assumptions.
A new method detects epileptic events in EEG signals by integrating labeler categories.
problem Human oversight of brief epileptic events in EEG signals leads to inaccurate diagnoses.
method Integrates EEG signal features with one-hot encoded labeler categories for improved detection.
result The method outperforms consensus-trained detectors and maintains confidence bounds.
Researchers resolve the compactness problem for helicoidal minimal surfaces in 3-sphere.
problem Determine when helicoidal minimal surfaces are compact.
method Proved compactness conditions using explicit integrals and quotient surfaces.
result Compact members of the family are characterized by rational pitch and/or rational ratio of parameters.
This research tackles information design in multi-agent reinforcement learning.
problem Designing information to influence other adaptive agents in a non-stationary environment.
method Formulated Markov signaling game, introduced signaling gradient and extended obedience constraints.
result Developed efficient algorithm for mixed-motive tasks in multi-agent reinforcement learning.
This paper proposes a nonparametric Bayesian method for exploratory data analysis and feature construction in continuous time series. Our method focuses on understanding shared features in a set of time series that exhibit significant individual variability. Our method builds on the framework of latent Diricihlet alloc…
Bayesian model clusters brain activity time series.
problem Heterogeneous multivariate time series in brain imaging.
method Group-based Bayesian mixture of smoothing splines with covariate effects.
result Distinct brain activity patterns identified.
The paper proposes a test for trading intelligence similar to the Turing Test.
problem Determining if trading programs exhibit intelligent behavior.
method Develops a test based on the Turing Test for financial trading programs.
result Introduces a method to assess trading intelligence in financial markets.
Automated discovery of early visual concepts from raw image data is a major open challenge in AI research. Addressing this problem, we propose an unsupervised approach for learning disentangled representations of the underlying factors of variation. We draw inspiration from neuroscience, and show how this can be achiev…
Flashot visualizes Flash Loan attacks in DeFi systems.
problem Lack of standard tools to study Flash Loan attacks in DeFi.
method Proposes Flashot, a prototype to transparently illustrate asset flows.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of Flashot in studying Flash Loan attacks.
Human infants can discover words directly from unsegmented speech signals without any explicitly labeled data. In this paper, we develop a novel machine learning method called nonparametric Bayesian double articulation analyzer (NPB-DAA) that can directly acquire language and acoustic models from observed continuous sp…
Quantile regression is an increasingly important empirical tool in economics and other sciences for analyzing the impact of a set of regressors on the conditional distribution of an outcome. Extremal quantile regression, or quantile regression applied to the tails, is of interest in many economic and financial applicat…
Preterm births occur at an alarming rate of 10-15%. Preemies have a higher risk of infant mortality, developmental retardation and long-term disabilities. Predicting preterm birth is difficult, even for the most experienced clinicians. The most well-designed clinical study thus far reaches a modest sensitivity of 18.2-…
Neural networks struggle with abstract patterns, new RBP structures improve performance.
problem Neural networks fail to learn abstract patterns based on identity rules.
method Proposed Relation Based Pattern (RBP) extensions to neural network structures.
result Neural networks with RBP structures achieve perfect performance on synthetic and real-world sequence prediction tasks.
Proposes adversarial normalization for multi-domain image segmentation.
problem Current image normalization is per-dataset, limiting multi-domain segmentation.
method Adversarial training to learn common normalizing functions across multiple datasets.
result Optimal normalizer improves segmentation accuracy and realism.
MOCA uses modular attention to estimate causal effects from complex data.
problem Estimating causal effects from observational data with complex, non-linear, and high-dimensional treatment and outcome mechanisms.
method MOCA is a transformer-based framework that separates treatment and outcome modeling through modular design and one-way attention mechanism, with cutting-feedback to prevent outcome influence on treatment representations.
result MOCA outperforms classical estimators and machine learning approaches across various simulated and real-world scenarios.
Non-local U-Net improves biomedical image segmentation with fewer parameters and faster computation.
problem Efficiency and effectiveness in biomedical image segmentation using local operators.
method Proposed non-local U-Nets with flexible global aggregation blocks.
result Top performances achieved with fewer parameters and faster computation.
Controlled interventions provide the most direct source of information for learning causal effects. In particular, a dose-response curve can be learned by varying the treatment level and observing the corresponding outcomes. However, interventions can be expensive and time-consuming. Observational data, where the treat…
New unsupervised learning framework for sound recognition.
problem Learning sound recognition without explicit labels.
method Combines self-supervised and clustering objectives with active learning.
result Achieves state-of-the-art unsupervised audio representation with reduced labels.
Proposes K-Fold Causal BART for improved CATE estimation.
problem Improving estimation of Conditional Average Treatment Effects (CATE).
method K-Fold Causal Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (K-Fold Causal BART).
result K-Fold Causal BART is not state-of-the-art for ATE and CATE estimation in the IHDP dataset, but provides insights into model robustness and evaluation methods.
Paper proposes a deep RL method for hedging variable annuities, outperforming misspecified models.
problem Model miscalibration in variable annuity contracts with GMMB and GMDB riders.
method Two-phase deep reinforcement learning approach: training phase in a controlled environment, online learning phase in real market.
result Trained reinforcement learning agent hedges equally well as correct Delta in training phase and outperforms misspecified Deltas.
Kernel methods identify treatment effects with unobserved confounding using negative controls.
problem Learning causal relationships with unmeasured confounding.
method Kernel ridge regression algorithms for nonparametric treatment effects.
result Uniform consistency and finite sample rates of convergence proved.