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Model learns code representations from comments for data analysis tasks.

problem Lack of descriptive labels for analyzing large code corpora.
method Weakly supervised transformer architecture for joint code and comment representation.
result Model achieves 38% accuracy increase over expert-supplied heuristics.

Neural Tangents is a library designed to enable research into infinite-width neural networks. It provides a high-level API for specifying complex and hierarchical neural network architectures. These networks can then be trained and evaluated either at finite-width as usual or in their infinite-width limit. Infinite-wid…

2019-12-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Today, the prominence of data science within organizations has given rise to teams of data science workers collaborating on extracting insights from data, as opposed to individual data scientists working alone. However, we still lack a deep understanding of how data science workers collaborate in practice. In this work…

2020-01-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine Learning (ML) is one of the most exciting and dynamic areas of modern research and application. The purpose of this review is to provide an introduction to the core concepts and tools of machine learning in a manner easily understood and intuitive to physicists. The review begins by covering fundamental concept…

2018-03-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Accessibility is a major challenge of machine learning (ML). Typical ML models are built by specialists and require specialized hardware/software as well as ML experience to validate. This makes it challenging for non-technical collaborators and endpoint users (e.g. physicians) to easily provide feedback on model devel…

2019-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Conformal prediction provides distribution-free uncertainty quantification for black-box models.

problem Uncertainty quantification for high-risk machine learning applications.
method Conformal prediction creates valid uncertainty sets without distributional assumptions.
result Sets contain the ground truth with a specified probability, e.g., 90%.

We propose a method to visualize class similarity in large-scale classifiers.

problem Analyzing hierarchical structures and relationships in large-scale classification.
method Compute class similarity based on prediction scores and visualize the class similarity matrix.
result Visualizing class similarity matrices reveals hierarchical structures and relationships.

Bayesian Matrix Factorization (BMF) is a powerful technique for recommender systems because it produces good results and is relatively robust against overfitting. Yet BMF is more computationally intensive and thus more challenging to implement for large datasets. In this work we present SMURFF a high-performance featur…

2019-04-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Object detection is a computer vision field that has applications in several contexts ranging from biomedicine and agriculture to security. In the last years, several deep learning techniques have greatly improved object detection models. Among those techniques, we can highlight the YOLO approach, that allows the const…

2018-09-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a method to classify the causal relationship between two discrete variables given only the joint distribution of the variables, acknowledging that the method is subject to an inherent baseline error. We assume that the causal system is acyclicity, but we do allow for hidden common causes. Our algorithm presu…

2016-11-04abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce \texttt{pycobra}, a Python library devoted to ensemble learning (regression and classification) and visualisation. Its main assets are the implementation of several ensemble learning algorithms, a flexible and generic interface to compare and blend any existing machine learning algorithm available in Pytho…

2017-04-25abs ↗pdf ↗

ALICE combines feature selection and inter-rater agreeability for ML model insights.

problem Improving interpretability of black box machine learning models.
method Integrates feature selection and inter-rater agreeability into a user-friendly Python library.
result Initial experiments on customer churn modeling show promising insights.

This tutorial introduces quantum computing for financial portfolio optimization.

problem Combinatorial portfolio optimization in financial markets.
method Application of Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) to portfolio optimization.
result Quality of combinatorial portfolio optimization solutions using QAOA on quantum simulator.

We present apricot, an open source Python package for selecting representative subsets from large data sets using submodular optimization. The package implements an efficient greedy selection algorithm that offers strong theoretical guarantees on the quality of the selected set. Two submodular set functions are impleme…

2019-06-08abs ↗pdf ↗

The challenge of assigning importance to individual neurons in a network is of interest when interpreting deep learning models. In recent work, Dhamdhere et al. proposed Total Conductance, a "natural refinement of Integrated Gradients" for attributing importance to internal neurons. Unfortunately, the authors found tha…

2018-07-26abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper reviews hyperparameter optimization methods and best practices.

problem Finding optimal hyperparameters for machine learning models.
method Various hyperparameter optimization methods are reviewed, including grid search, random search, evolutionary algorithms, Bayesian optimization, Hyperband, and racing.
result Practical recommendations for conducting hyperparameter optimization are provided.

SLEM uses machine learning to improve causal inference from observational data.

problem Improving causal inference from observational data using non-linear relationships.
method Super Learner Equation Modeling integrating machine learning ensembles.
result SLEM provides consistent and unbiased estimates of causal effects.

A longstanding goal in the theory of deep learning is to characterize the conditions under which a given neural network architecture will be trainable, and if so, how well it might generalize to unseen data. In this work, we provide such a characterization in the limit of very wide and very deep networks, for which the…

2019-12-30abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper examines autocorrelation in major crypto markets, finding persistent correlations on short time frames.

problem Assessing the efficiency of major cryptocurrency markets through autocorrelation analysis.
method Pearson's autocorrelation coefficient, Ljung-Box test, rolling window analysis.
result Persistent autocorrelation on 5m and 1H time frames, disagreement on 1D and 1W time frames.

Adversarial Robustness Toolbox (ART) is a Python library supporting developers and researchers in defending Machine Learning models (Deep Neural Networks, Gradient Boosted Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines, Random Forests, Logistic Regression, Gaussian Processes, Decision Trees, Scikit-learn Pipelines, etc.) agai…

2018-07-03abs ↗pdf ↗

The recent success of machine learning (ML) has led to an explosive growth both in terms of new systems and algorithms built in industry and academia, and new applications built by an ever-growing community of data science (DS) practitioners. This quickly shifting panorama of technologies and applications is challengin…

2019-12-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Building and expanding on principles of statistics, machine learning, and scientific inquiry, we propose the predictability, computability, and stability (PCS) framework for veridical data science. Our framework, comprised of both a workflow and documentation, aims to provide responsible, reliable, reproducible, and tr…

2019-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Classification algorithms aim to predict an unknown label (e.g., a quality class) for a new instance (e.g., a product). Therefore, training samples (instances and labels) are used to deduct classification hypotheses. Often, it is relatively easy to capture instances but the acquisition of the corresponding labels remai…

2019-01-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Factorization Machine (FM) is a widely used supervised learning approach by effectively modeling of feature interactions. Despite the successful application of FM and its many deep learning variants, treating every feature interaction fairly may degrade the performance. For example, the interactions of a useless featur…

2019-02-26abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method detects interactions in neural networks using topological analysis.

problem Detecting interactions between input features in neural networks.
method Topological analysis of neural network connectivity to quantify interaction strength.
result The PID algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in interaction detection tasks.

iKF method uncovers complex variable interactions for scientific discovery.

problem Limited interpretability of existing models in decision-making applications.
method Iterative Kings' Forests (iKF) method to uncover multi-order interactions.
result iKF provides strong interpretive power for explainable modeling.

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.

We describe and extract time-ordered multibody interactions from complex systems.

problem Complex systems with temporal and multibody dependencies.
method Decompose multivariate Markov chains into time-ordered multibody interactions. Algorithm to extract interactions from data. Measure complexity of interaction ensembles.
result Robust and efficient algorithm to infer time-ordered multibody interactions from data.

Dropout regularizes against high-order interactions by canceling interaction rates.

problem Overfitting to high-order interactions in neural networks.
method Analyzes Dropout through the lens of interaction effects, showing how it effectively cancels out the probability of surviving interactions of different orders.
result Dropout regularizes against high-order interactions by effectively canceling out the probability of surviving interactions of different orders.

Understanding how features interact with each other is of paramount importance in many scientific discoveries and contemporary applications. Yet interaction identification becomes challenging even for a moderate number of covariates. In this paper, we suggest an efficient and flexible procedure, called the interaction …

2016-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Multitask Gaussian process (MTGP) is powerful for joint learning of multiple tasks with complicated correlation patterns. However, due to the assembling of additive independent latent functions, all current MTGPs including the salient linear model of coregionalization (LMC) and convolution frameworks cannot effectively…

2018-08-03abs ↗pdf ↗

SocialInteractionGAN generates realistic human interactions from low-dimensional data.

problem Generating realistic human interactions from limited data.
method Adversarial architecture with a recurrent encoder-decoder generator and dual-stream discriminator.
result SocialInteractionGAN produces high-quality action sequences of interacting people.

A new method detects interactions in machine learning models.

problem Interpreting non-linear and interaction effects in machine learning models.
method Regional effect plots with implicit interaction detection.
result The method quantifies and interprets feature effects reliably, less confounded by interactions.

xDeepInt learns both vector-wise and bit-wise feature interactions.

problem Learning feature interactions for CTR prediction and recommendation.
method Polynomial Interaction Network (PIN) architecture with subspace-crossing mechanism.
result xDeepInt outperforms state-of-the-art models in CTR prediction and recommendation.