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Study integrates attentional and spacing factors to improve category learning models.

problem Understanding the impact of training sequences on category learning.
method Introduced a novel integration of attentional factors and spacing into logistic knowledge tracing models.
result Enhanced model predicts students' learning outcomes better than existing models.

Paper proposes a new model and methods for robustly de-interleaving HMP mixtures.

problem Lack of robustness to non-ideal situations in existing HMP mixtures de-interleaving methods.
method Designs a generative model, formulates de-interleaving as posterior inference, develops exact and approximate inference methods, derives error probability bounds.
result Proposed methods are highly effective and robust for non-ideal situations, outperforming baseline methods.

The utility of learning a dynamics/world model of the environment in reinforcement learning has been shown in a many ways. When using neural networks, however, these models suffer catastrophic forgetting when learned in a lifelong or continual fashion. Current solutions to the continual learning problem require experie…

2019-03-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Improves text-to-speech speed by interleaving character reading and audio synthesis.

problem Latency in text-to-speech models limits their use in time-sensitive tasks.
method Reinforcement learning to train an agent to choose the order of character reading and audio synthesis.
result The proposed method successfully balances latency and audio quality.

DeepDIVE disentangles input into marginal and conditional distributions for multi-task learning.

problem Challenges in multi-task learning due to conflicting objectives.
method Inspired by probability theory, DeepDIVE uses a variational autoencoder with disentangled features and cross-attention mechanism.
result DeepDIVE disentangles input and improves forecast accuracy compared to baseline models.

The paper tightens bounds on distances between Reeb graphs.

problem Certifying quasi-universality of distances between Reeb graphs.
method Establishes tight bi-Lipschitz bounds for various distances.
result Proves strict universality of the functional contortion distance for contour trees and coincides with interleaving distance for merge trees.

Study exact Lagrangian cobordisms in cotangent bundles, proving bounds on sheaf interleaving distance and shadow distance.

problem Understanding Lagrangian cobordisms and their properties in cotangent bundles.
method Use microlocal theory of sheaves, sheaf quantization, and cone decompositions.
result Interleaving distance of sheaves is bounded by the shadow distance of the cobordism.

In many practical problems, a learning agent may want to learn the best action in hindsight without ever taking a bad action, which is significantly worse than the default production action. In general, this is impossible because the agent has to explore unknown actions, some of which can be bad, to learn better action…

2018-06-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified model integrates text and time series for financial forecasting.

problem Challenges in integrating complementary modalities for improved forecasting.
method Modality-specific experts and cross-modal alignment framework.
result State-of-the-art performance on financial forecasting task.

Stable density-based clustering via multiparameter persistence.

problem Density-based clustering stability to data perturbations.
method Degree-Rips construction, correspondence-interleaving distance, multiparameter stability analysis.
result Persistable pipeline yields stable, consistent density-based clustering.

In this paper, we propose a fully supervised speaker diarization approach, named unbounded interleaved-state recurrent neural networks (UIS-RNN). Given extracted speaker-discriminative embeddings (a.k.a. d-vectors) from input utterances, each individual speaker is modeled by a parameter-sharing RNN, while the RNN state…

2018-10-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Learning linear combinations of multiple kernels is an appealing strategy when the right choice of features is unknown. Previous approaches to multiple kernel learning (MKL) promote sparse kernel combinations to support interpretability and scalability. Unfortunately, this 1-norm MKL is rarely observed to outperform tr…

2010-02-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Payment card fraud causes multibillion dollar losses for banks and merchants worldwide, often fueling complex criminal activities. To address this, many real-time fraud detection systems use tree-based models, demanding complex feature engineering systems to efficiently enrich transactions with historical data while co…

2020-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

We describe computationally efficient methods for learning mixtures in which each component is a directed acyclic graphical model (mixtures of DAGs or MDAGs). We argue that simple search-and-score algorithms are infeasible for a variety of problems, and introduce a feasible approach in which parameter and structure sea…

2013-01-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Stream deinterleaving is an important problem with various applications in the cybersecurity domain. In this paper, we consider the specific problem of deinterleaving DNS data streams using machine-learning techniques, with the objective of automating the extraction of malware domain sequences. We first develop a gener…

2018-07-16abs ↗pdf ↗

A core novelty of Alpha Zero is the interleaving of tree search and deep learning, which has proven very successful in board games like Chess, Shogi and Go. These games have a discrete action space. However, many real-world reinforcement learning domains have continuous action spaces, for example in robotic control, na…

2018-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent sequential pattern mining methods have used the minimum description length (MDL) principle to define an encoding scheme which describes an algorithm for mining the most compressing patterns in a database. We present a novel subsequence interleaving model based on a probabilistic model of the sequence database, w…

2016-02-16abs ↗pdf ↗

A popular approach to selling online advertising is by a waterfall, where a publisher makes sequential price offers to ad networks for an inventory, and chooses the winner in that order. The publisher picks the order and prices to maximize her revenue. A traditional solution is to learn the demand model and then subseq…

2019-04-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Program synthesis of general-purpose source code from natural language specifications is challenging due to the need to reason about high-level patterns in the target program and low-level implementation details at the same time. In this work, we present PATOIS, a system that allows a neural program synthesizer to expl…

2019-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

We investigate a novel cluster-of-bandit algorithm CAB for collaborative recommendation tasks that implements the underlying feedback sharing mechanism by estimating the neighborhood of users in a context-dependent manner. CAB makes sharp departures from the state of the art by incorporating collaborative effects into …

2016-08-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Value aggregation is a general framework for solving imitation learning problems. Based on the idea of data aggregation, it generates a policy sequence by iteratively interleaving policy optimization and evaluation in an online learning setting. While the existence of a good policy in the policy sequence can be guarant…

2018-01-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Recently, the Deep Planning Network (PlaNet) approach was introduced as a model-based reinforcement learning method that learns environment dynamics directly from pixel observations. This architecture is useful for learning tasks in which either the agent does not have access to meaningful states (like position/velocit…

2019-11-09abs ↗pdf ↗

New model-free algorithms learn representations for low-rank MDPs efficiently.

problem Learning representations in reinforcement learning for low-rank MDPs.
method Developed minimax representation learning objective and interleaved with reward-free exploration.
result Proven sample efficiency and scalability to complex environments.

Generative models for source code are an interesting structured prediction problem, requiring to reason about both hard syntactic and semantic constraints as well as about natural, likely programs. We present a novel model for this problem that uses a graph to represent the intermediate state of the generated output. T…

2018-05-22abs ↗pdf ↗

A federated learning framework using superquantile aggregation for robust performance across heterogeneous data.

problem Robust predictive performance across clients with heterogeneous data.
method Superquantile-based learning objective and stochastic training algorithm with differential privacy.
result Proves finite time convergence guarantees and demonstrates competitive performance with tail statistics improvement.

We study the explore-exploit tradeoff in distributed cooperative decision-making using the context of the multiarmed bandit (MAB) problem. For the distributed cooperative MAB problem, we design the cooperative UCB algorithm that comprises two interleaved distributed processes: (i) running consensus algorithms for estim…

2015-12-21abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the setting of Reeb graphs of piecewise linear functions and study distances between them that are stable, meaning that functions which are similar in the supremum norm ought to have similar Reeb graphs. We define an edit distance for Reeb graphs and prove that it is stable and universal, meaning that it pr…

2018-01-05abs ↗pdf ↗

In this work we present ISA, a novel approach for learning and exploiting subgoals in reinforcement learning (RL). Our method relies on inducing an automaton whose transitions are subgoals expressed as propositional formulas over a set of observable events. A state-of-the-art inductive logic programming system is used …

2019-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Simplifies neural regression by combining two sub-networks for predictions and uncertainties.

problem Neural networks underestimate uncertainty, leading to overly confident predictions.
method Extends IRLS to a two-sub-network approach with shared representations and complementary loss functions.
result Proposed network is simpler to implement and more robust to uncertainty variations.

Coordinate descent methods usually minimize a cost function by updating a random decision variable (corresponding to one coordinate) at a time. Ideally, we would update the decision variable that yields the largest decrease in the cost function. However, finding this coordinate would require checking all of them, which…

2017-12-08abs ↗pdf ↗

This is a report of our lessons learned building acoustic models from 1 Million hours of unlabeled speech, while labeled speech is restricted to 7,000 hours. We employ student/teacher training on unlabeled data, helping scale out target generation in comparison to confidence model based methods, which require a decoder…

2019-04-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Probabilistic programming has emerged as a powerful paradigm in statistics, applied science, and machine learning: by decoupling modelling from inference, it promises to allow modellers to directly reason about the processes generating data. However, the performance of inference algorithms can be dramatically affected …

2019-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Sample efficiency is critical in solving real-world reinforcement learning problems, where agent-environment interactions can be costly. Imitation learning from expert advice has proved to be an effective strategy for reducing the number of interactions required to train a policy. Online imitation learning, which inter…

2018-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗