Study on information evolution in interactive decision making using multi-armed bandits.
problem Understanding information dynamics in interactive decision making.
method Stochastic multi-armed bandit problem, focusing on optimal arm with a fixed margin.
result Distinct growth phases in mutual information, showing decoupling between success probability and information gain.
Estimates interactions between modalities for multimodal data.
problem Accurately quantifying interactions between different data types.
method Developed Lightweight Sample-wise Multimodal Interaction (LSMI) estimator using pointwise information theory.
result LSMI reveals fine-grained dynamics in multimodal data.
FGN improves Chinese NER by integrating glyph information and interactive context.
problem Chinese named entity recognition is challenging due to the complexity of characters and their glyphs.
method FGN uses a novel CGS-CNN structure to capture glyph and interactive information, and a sliding window method to fuse BERT and glyph representations.
result FGN achieves state-of-the-art performance on four NER datasets, improving over previous methods.
Interactive machine comprehension models learn through seeking relevant information.
problem Existing MRC models struggle with real-world applications due to static datasets.
method Reframe MRC datasets as interactive, partially observable environments.
result Interactive models can seek relevant information through sequential decision making.
New framework for detecting complex interactions in multivariate data.
problem Insufficient pairwise measures fail to capture multivariate data complexities.
method Lattice theory and operator functions to derive higher-order information-theoretic measures.
result Streitberg Information fully characterizes all interactions among d variables. Deep model learns protein interfaces from high-order interactions.
problem Predicting protein interfaces from amino acid pairs.
method Graph neural networks and convolutional neural networks for 2D dense predictions.
result Our method consistently improves interface prediction performance.
MDFS selects important variables considering variable interactions, improving over simple filtering.
problem Discarding variable interactions leads to loss of relevant variables.
method MultiDimensional Feature Selection (MDFS) using information theory and CUDA C.
result Multidimensional analysis provides more reliable rankings of variable importance.
A graph neural network detects beneficial feature interactions for recommender systems.
problem Feature interactions are crucial but not all are beneficial for recommendation accuracy.
method Graph neural network with L0 activation regularization for edge prediction.
result The model outperforms baselines and automatically identifies beneficial feature interactions.
Study quantifies interactions between unlabeled multimodal data.
problem Understanding how modalities combine in semi-supervised settings.
method Information-theoretic definitions and bounds derivation.
result Validated lower and upper bounds accurately track true interactions.
SAIN integrates user-item feedback with content attributes for better recommendation.
problem Cold start problems in recommendation models due to sparse user-item interactions.
method SAIN uses a self-attention mechanism to capture feature interactions and an information integration layer to combine feedback and content information.
result SAIN outperforms state-of-the-art models by 2.13% on public datasets.
New method combines hypergraph structure and node attributes for better community detection.
problem Improving community detection in hypergraphs with node attributes.
method Developed a principled model that learns from data to combine higher-order interactions and node attributes.
result Strong performance in hyperedge prediction and community detection, especially when attributes are informative.
New method quantifies feature interactions in machine learning models.
problem Capturing high-order interactions and feature contributions in predictive models.
method Information-theoretic approach using Conditional Mutual Information (CMI) via k-NN.
result Accurately recovers feature interactions in synthetic and real-world datasets.
Proposes a new model to capture interaction modalities in networks.
problem Limited information in binary network representations of interactions.
method Topic Blockmodel using a count-based topic model.
result Better extraction of information from interaction networks.
ELICA helps analysts extract relevant information during elicitation meetings.
problem Challenges in eliciting requirements due to analyst's lack of domain knowledge.
method ELICA uses a novel information extraction algorithm combining WFSTs and SVMs, presented in an interactive GUI.
result ELICA effectively extracts relevant information in real-time and facilitates interactive and dynamic process.
C-IP improves LLMs' query selection for interactive tasks by estimating uncertainty robustly.
problem Minimizing the number of queries for interactive LLMs.
method Conformal Information Pursuit (C-IP) using conformal prediction sets.
result C-IP achieves better predictive performance and shorter query-answer chains.
With the help of transfer entropy, we analyze information flows between communities of complex networks. We show that the transfer entropy provides a coherent description of interactions between communities, including non-linear interactions. To put some flesh on the bare bones, we analyze transfer entropies between co…
New method selects features using graph-based interactions and elastic net.
problem Loss of feature relationships in vector-based feature selection.
method Graph-based structurally interacting elastic net method.
result Preserves feature relationships and selects informative features.
New model quantifies interactions' role in real-world phenomena.
problem Understanding the role of interactions in real-world phenomena.
method Interactive Mixed Membership Stochastic Block Model (IMMSBM).
result Interactions significantly improve model predictive power.
New method learns cooperation and competition without direct interaction.
problem Learning cooperation and competition without direct interaction.
method Information-theoretic regularizers to encourage intention revelation or hiding.
result Cooperative policies lead to more reward, competitive to less, in asymmetric games.
Modeling interacting objects with latent Gaussian process ODEs.
problem Time uncertainty-aware modeling of continuous-time dynamics of interacting objects.
method A new model using latent Gaussian process ordinary differential equations to infer independent dynamics and interactions.
result Our model improves long-term predictions and successfully encapsulates independent dynamics and interactions.
Paper extends matrix-based Renyi's α-order entropy to multivariate data.
problem Estimating multivariate information quantities like joint entropy and interactive information.
method Define matrix-based Renyi's α-order joint entropy for multiple variables.
result Eases estimation of multivariate information quantities.
Transposable data represents interactions among two sets of entities, and are typically represented as a matrix containing the known interaction values. Additional side information may consist of feature vectors specific to entities corresponding to the rows and/or columns of such a matrix. Further information may also…
Modeling social network activity through user and topic interaction.
problem Understanding complex dynamics of opinion formation in social networks.
method Mixture of Interacting Cascades (MIC) model of marked multidimensional Hawkes processes.
result MIC achieves superior performance in modeling information cascade spread.
Paper proposes FINN for better CTR prediction by modeling feature interactions.
problem Improving CTR prediction in advertising and recommendation systems.
method Proposes Feature Interaction based Neural Network (FINN) to model feature interactions.
result FINN outperforms other deep models in CTR prediction tasks.
Method learns to predict agent interactions from partial observations.
problem Predicting interactions between multiple agents from incomplete data.
method Graph-Structured Variational Recurrent Neural Network (Graph-VRNN) trained end-to-end.
result Graph-VRNN outperforms baselines on sports datasets.
New games model strategic interactions in incomplete information settings.
problem Modeling strategic interactions in incomplete information settings.
method Introduced new games that map input to private player types, aggregate strategies, and converge to near-Nash equilibria.
result Games can recover meaningful strategic interactions from real data.
FI-GNNs learn expressive node representations from sparse features.
problem Sparse and high-dimensional node features limit GNN performance.
method Plug-and-play GNN framework that highlights informative feature interactions.
result FI-GNNs learn highly expressive node representations on feature-sparse graphs.
The ABC algorithm's social interactions are characterized through a novel interaction network.
problem Understanding complex behavior in swarm intelligence systems.
method Definition and analysis of the interaction network for the ABC algorithm.
result ABC exhibits dynamic information flow but lacks continuous coordination.
HiGraphDTI learns drug and target representations from molecular graphs to predict DTIs.
problem Inaccurate drug-target interaction prediction due to insufficient chemical information extraction.
method Hierarchical graph representation learning to extract chemical information from atoms, motifs, and molecules.
result HiGraphDTI outperforms state-of-the-art methods in DTI prediction and interaction interpretation.
Feature selection is a technique to screen out less important features. Many existing supervised feature selection algorithms use redundancy and relevancy as the main criteria to select features. However, feature interaction, potentially a key characteristic in real-world problems, has not received much attention. As a…
XGL uses global explanations to guide human supervision in machine learning.
problem Improving model quality through human-machine interaction.
method XGL employs global explanations to guide human selection of informative examples.
result XGL avoids overselling the model's quality and performs comparably to other strategies.
GEM improves recommendation by capturing complex feature interactions.
problem Capturing complex high-order interaction signals in feature-based recommendation models.
method Integrates graph convolution networks to generate high-order embeddings and combines with FM-based models.
result Significant improvement in recommendation performance over baselines.
A study on the communication complexity of estimating correlations between variables.
problem Estimating the correlation between two sets of correlated random variables with limited communication.
method One-way interactive protocol exchanging k bits, optimizing over interaction protocol and estimator.
result Achieves optimal performance with communication complexity of 1/k, improving over naive schemes.
Paper introduces IC-index to evaluate interaction prediction methods.
problem Evaluate interaction prediction methods using IC-index.
method IC-index measures interaction direction prediction performance.
result IC-index complements existing prediction performance estimators.
New model estimates higher-order interactions in stochastic processes using lower-dimensional projections.
problem Estimating higher-order interaction effects in stochastic processes with limited data.
method Additive Poisson Process (APP) combines information geometry and generalized additive models to model intensity functions in lower dimensions.
result The model can estimate higher-order intensity functions with sparse data.
Finding interactions between variables in large and high-dimensional datasets is often a serious computational challenge. Most approaches build up interaction sets incrementally, adding variables in a greedy fashion. The drawback is that potentially informative high-order interactions may be overlooked. Here, we propos…
Visual reranking is effective to improve the performance of the text-based video search. However, existing reranking algorithms can only achieve limited improvement because of the well-known semantic gap between low level visual features and high level semantic concepts. In this paper, we adopt interactive video search…
For robots to coexist with humans in a social world like ours, it is crucial that they possess human-like social interaction skills. Programming a robot to possess such skills is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a Multimodal Deep Q-Network (MDQN) to enable a robot to learn human-like interaction skills thr…
New method decomposes KL error using refined information and mode interactions.
problem Learning probability distributions over discrete variables with higher-order interactions.
method Using information geometry, refined mode interactions, and a novel Monte-Carlo sampling technique.
result Complete decomposition of KL error and efficient data use.
SINN combines social science and deep learning for predicting opinion dynamics.
problem Predicting opinion dynamics in social networks using traditional models requires extensive calibration with real data.
method SINN integrates theoretical models and social media data using physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) and matrix factorization.
result SINN outperforms six baseline methods in predicting opinion dynamics on real-world and synthetic datasets.
Graph model detects fake news by analyzing sentence interactions.
problem Detecting fake news through online media.
method Graph Neural Network-based model for sentence interactions.
result Our model achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on fake news datasets.
Model shows how traders' interactions can create market patterns.
problem Explaining stylized facts in high-frequency trading markets.
method Agent-based model of limit order book trading with zero-intelligence agents.
result Scale-free connectivity between traders reproduces market patterns, while no interaction does not.
IMMIGRATE selects features with interaction terms using margin-based weights.
problem Unclear differentiation of feature interactions from marginal effects.
method Includes and trains weights for interaction terms, applies large margin principle, considers robustness and local/global information.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results on several tasks.
In order to use the advanced inference techniques available for Ising models, we transform complex data (real vectors) into binary strings, by local averaging and thresholding. This transformation introduces parameters, which must be varied to characterize the behaviour of the system. The approach is illustrated on fin…
RKT model improves knowledge tracing by considering exercise relations and student forget behavior.
problem Traditional KT models fail to consider both exercise relations and student forget behavior.
method RKT model uses relation-aware self-attention to incorporate exercise relations and student forget behavior.
result RKT model outperforms state-of-the-art KT methods on real-world datasets.
Recent work has demonstrated that problems-- particularly imitation learning and structured prediction-- where a learner's predictions influence the input-distribution it is tested on can be naturally addressed by an interactive approach and analyzed using no-regret online learning. These approaches to imitation learni…
This paper shows that Hamiltonians and operators can also be put to good use even in contexts which are not purely physics based. Consider the world of finance. The work presented here {models a two traders system with information exchange with the help of four fundamental operators: cash and share operators; a portfol…
We propose a latent self-exciting point process model that describes geographically distributed interactions between pairs of entities. In contrast to most existing approaches that assume fully observable interactions, here we consider a scenario where certain interaction events lack information about participants. Ins…