Models predict uncertainty to help identify patients needing second opinions.
problem Disagreements among medical experts, especially in diagnosis.
method Direct Uncertainty Prediction (DUP) training to predict uncertainty scores directly from patient features.
result DUP outperforms Uncertainty Via Classification in identifying cases needing second opinions.
The paper investigates deep neural networks for medical imaging applications, providing interpretable results.
problem Uninterpretable decisions made by deep neural networks in medical imaging applications.
method Investigation of deep neural networks for malaria, diabetic retinopathy, brain tumor, and tuberculosis detection in various imaging modalities. Visualization of class activation mappings provided.
result Visualization of class activation mappings enhances understanding of deep neural networks and aids doctors in decision-making.
The paper develops a method for inferring second opinions from experts using counterfactual inference.
problem Designing efficient decision support systems for second opinions.
method Set invariant Gumbel-Max structural causal model for multiclass classification.
result The proposed model can infer second opinions more accurately than non-causal models.
Deep neural networks justify medical diagnoses with textual explanations.
problem Improving machine learning in medical diagnosis justification.
method Mapping X-Ray images to textual representations, generating explanations, and multi-task training.
result The method significantly outperforms existing justification methods and achieves high accuracy.
A DL model predicts dynamic uncertain opinions in network data.
problem Predicting uncertain opinions in real-world dynamic network data.
method Integrates Graph Convolutional Network (GCN), Gated Recurrent Units (GRU), and robust statistics.
result Outperforms existing methods in predicting dynamic, uncertain opinions.
Study examines complexity of opinions in online discussions.
problem Understanding the complexity and similarity of opinions in online discussions.
method Developed a modeling framework to construct latent representations of opinions, connecting them to voting models and sign-rank of a matrix.
result Found that unidimensional models often fail to accurately represent online discussions, revealing insights into human judgements and opinions.
The paper studies expert opinions in financial markets using diffusion approximations.
problem Estimating hidden drift in financial markets with expert opinions.
method Investigates asymptotic behavior of filter for high-frequency expert opinions, derives diffusion approximations.
result Expert opinions can be approximated by a diffusion process, simplifying utility maximization problems.
The paper introduces a method to incorporate expert opinion on observable quantities into statistical models.
problem Tackling the challenge of integrating expert knowledge on observable quantities into statistical models.
method The approach involves updating a prior belief using a loss function that reflects expert opinion on observable quantities.
result The method allows for a flexible specification of expert opinion and is straightforward to implement.
Analysis of opinion dynamics in social networks plays an important role in today's life. For applications such as predicting users' political preference, it is particularly important to be able to analyze the dynamics of competing opinions. While observing the evolution of polar opinions of a social network's users ove…
Paper uses Twitter data to analyze public opinion on economic issues during elections.
problem Limited, expensive, and time-consuming surveys for economic issues.
method Combines sentiment analysis and topic modeling for Twitter data.
result Effective analysis of economic concerns during the 2012 US presidential election.
Study improves fair opinion aggregation by balancing voter attributes.
problem Aggregation of opinions can be biased by voter attributes.
method Combines majority voting and D&S model with fairness options.
result Effective combination of Soft D&S and fairness options for different data types.
360° Stance Detection aggregates diverse news perspectives for unbiased opinions.
problem Forming unbiased opinions in the age of fake news and filter bubbles.
method Aggregates news with multiple perspectives on a topic and presents them on a spectrum.
result Users can base their opinion on multiple pieces of diverse evidence.
Paper proposes spamGAN to detect and generate opinion spam using limited labeled data.
problem Detecting and preventing opinion spam in online reviews with limited labeled data.
method Generative adversarial network (GAN) trained on semi-supervised data.
result spamGAN outperforms existing techniques in detecting opinion spam with limited labeled data.
Opinions and beliefs determine the evolution of social systems. This is of particular interest in finance, as the increasing complexity of financial systems is coupled with information overload. Opinion formation, therefore, is not always the result of optimal information processing. On the contrary, agents are bounded…
SOLA framework predicts structured outputs with abstention for opinion analysis.
problem Accurate opinion prediction in structured outputs.
method Decomposes problem into structured abstention and prediction, uses asymmetric losses, surrogate regression, and pre-image problem.
result Extends statistical guarantees on excess risk for fine-grained opinion mining.
A new algorithm improves medical image grading accuracy.
problem Improving automatic grading of medical images for disease severity or risk score.
method Sparse range-constrained learning (SRCL) algorithm integrating sparse representation and grading.
result Improves accuracy in cup-to-disc ratio computation and cataract grading.
New ML fairness measure excludes subjective opinions.
problem Lack of adaptation of ML models to specific applications.
method Formalised new notion of unfairness, quantified and visualised.
result Insights into ML systems' functioning to mitigate unfairness.
Optimal investment strategy with expert opinions in uncertain conditions.
problem Optimizing wealth in a model with unobservable drift and costly expert opinions.
method Embedding into a full information problem, using viscosity solutions and stochastic Perron's method.
result Constructing optimal trading and expert opinion strategies under sufficient regularity conditions.
Crowd opinions in microblogs can predict event outcomes, matching with expert opinions.
problem Utilizing crowd wisdom for event outcome prediction in microblogs.
method Multi-label sentiment classification of tweets to gauge crowd opinion and compare with expert predictions.
result Crowd opinions in microblogs often match with expert opinions, especially in non-debate events.
The paper studies how expert opinions improve stock return predictions in a market with a hidden drift.
problem Improving stock return predictions in a market with a hidden Gaussian drift.
method Uses Kalman filter techniques to estimate the hidden drift from noisy expert opinions and stock returns.
result The Kalman filter estimates of the drift converge to the hidden drift as the frequency of expert opinions increases.
A new method combines experts' opinions to train regression models with noisy labels.
problem Training regression models with noisy labels from multiple experts.
method Estimate each labeler's expertise and combine opinions using learned weights.
result Empirically outperforms existing techniques on simulated and real data.
Ranked second in fact-checking task, using DRR NN with embeddings.
problem Fact-checking questions in community forums.
method Deeply Regularized Residual Neural Network (DRR NN) with Universal Sentence Encoder embeddings, ensemble methods.
result Ranked second in fact-checking task.
The paper explains a geometry puzzle from Plato's Meno.
problem An ingenious geometry puzzle in Plato's Meno.
method Analysis from both ancient and modern geometric perspectives.
result Solves a 2,400-year-old geometry puzzle.
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.
Well-defined formal definitions for sentiment and opinion are extended to incorporate the necessary elements to provide a formal quantitative definition of reputation. This definition takes the form of a time-based index, in which each element is a function of a collection of opinions mined during a given time period. …
Few summaries enable automatic summarization of product reviews.
problem Lack of large labeled datasets for training supervised models in opinion summarization.
method Conditional Transformer model trained to generate summaries given other reviews, fine-tuned to predict summary properties.
result Few summaries (5-10) are sufficient to generate fluent, informative, and sentiment-preserving summaries.
Study shows social reinforcement learning can lead to persistent but metastable polarization.
problem Understanding the persistence and dynamics of opinion polarization.
method Simulation and mathematical analysis of a reinforcement learning model of opinion dynamics.
result Polarization observed in the model is metastable and will eventually lead to consensus.
We propose a simple model for the behaviour of longterm investors on a stock market, consisting of three particles, which represent the current price of the stock and the opinion of the buyers, respectively sellers, about the right trading price. As time evolves, both groups of traders update their opinions with respec…
Unsupervised summarization generates novel reviews reflecting consensus opinions.
problem Creating summaries that reflect subjective information in multiple documents.
method Generative model with hierarchical variational autoencoder, pointer-generator mechanism.
result Model produces fluent and coherent summaries reflecting common opinions.
Generative model generates synthetic medical images for data augmentation and anonymization.
problem Imbalanced medical imaging data sets, especially for rare pathologies.
method Generative adversarial network (GAN) trained on two public brain MRI datasets.
result Synthetic images improve tumor segmentation performance and serve as an anonymization tool.
Method infers trader lead-lag networks to reveal market dynamics.
problem Understanding herding and liquidity in financial markets.
method Kinetic Ising model and inference algorithm to reconstruct trader opinions.
result Identifies leading players and links herding to liquidity.
This paper investigates optimal trading strategies in a financial market with multidimensional stock returns where the drift is an unobservable multivariate Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. Information about the drift is obtained by observing stock returns and expert opinions. The latter provide unbiased estimates on the cu…
Study reveals why polls were inaccurate in 2016 US election.
problem Why opinion polls were inaccurate in 2016 US election.
method Proposes clean sensing framework for optimal parameter estimation from heterogeneous data sources.
result Optimal polling strategy allocates resources based on data quality and quantity.
The dynamics of market prices is described as the evolution of opinions in the trading community regarding future market behavior. The price then is a function of the voting process of the market players in favor to raise or reduce the value of a stock. The model presented in this paper is suited for pricing of options…
Modeling financial market dynamics with noise and fundamentalist agents.
problem Understanding opinion formation and market behavior in financial markets.
method Agent-based model with Erdös-Rényi random graph structure, incorporating anxiety parameter.
result Model accurately reproduces key market features like fat-tailed returns and volatility clustering.
Large dataset for medical abstracts classified by sentence role.
problem Efficiently classify long medical abstracts for researchers.
method Labeled dataset of 200k abstracts, each with 2.3M sentences.
result Improved sentence classification for medical literature.
Financial statements contain quantitative information and manager's subjective evaluation of firm's financial status. Using information released in U.S. 10-K filings. Both qualitative and quantitative appraisals are crucial for quality financial decisions. To extract such opinioned statements from the reports, we built…
Eigenrank selects images for deep learning training and predicts segmentation failures.
problem Challenges in automating deep learning for medical image segmentation.
method Eigenrank selects images for training and predicts failures using Von Neumann information.
result U-Net trained on Eigenrank-selected images outperforms one trained on random images.
Deep learning improves automatic image segmentation.
problem Automatic object localization and boundary delineation in images and medical scans.
method Proposed and evaluated novel dilated dense encoder-decoder architectures for salient object segmentation and lesion localization in medical images.
result Proposed architectures outperform state-of-the-art models in accuracy and efficiency.
An increasing number of people are using online social networking services (SNSs), and a significant amount of information related to experiences in consumption is shared in this new media form. Text mining is an emerging technique for mining useful information from the web. We aim at discovering in particular tweets s…
In the spirit of behavioral finance, we study the process of opinion formation among investors using a variant of the 2D Voter Model with a tunable social temperature. Further, a feedback acting on the temperature is introduced, such that social temperature reacts to market imbalances and thus becomes time dependent. I…
Novel framework for medical image segmentation using deep learning.
problem Class imbalance and domain adaptation in medical image segmentation.
method Biophysics-based domain adaptation and automatic segmentation of white, gray, and cerebrospinal fluid.
result Improved segmentation performance, especially with the biophysics-based domain adaptation.
In the recent years, Riemannian shape analysis of curves and surfaces has found several applications in medical image analysis. In this paper we present a numerical discretization of second order Sobolev metrics on the space of regular curves in Euclidean space. This class of metrics has several desirable mathematical …
CycleMorph improves image registration by preserving topology with cycle consistency.
problem Preserving original topology during deformation in image registration.
method Cycle-consistent deformable image registration approach.
result Effective and accurate registration on diverse image pairs within seconds.
We propose a stochastic map model of economic dynamics. In the last decade, an array of observations in economics has been investigated in the econophysics literature, a major example being the universal features of inequality in terms of income and wealth. Another area of inquiry is the formation of opinion in a socie…
This paper improves multi-label classification of user reactions in online news.
problem Classifying user reactions in online news with multi-label classification.
method Problem transformation methods combined with different classification algorithms.
result Classifier Chains method combined with Random Forest achieved the highest correct predictions.
A new platform models how narratives influence financial markets.
problem Explaining irrational market behaviors through narratives.
method Integrated opinion dynamics and agent-based modeling.
result Initial results show how narratives shape financial outcomes.
Research analyzes public opinions on Twitter about diabetes, diet, exercise, and obesity.
problem Understanding public health opinions on social media.
method Developed a multi-component semantic and linguistic framework to collect and analyze Twitter data.
result Strongest correlation found between exercise and obesity; other notable correlations between diabetes and obesity, diet and obesity.