Recently, mobile operators in many developing economies have launched "Mobile Money" platforms that deliver basic financial services over the mobile phone network. While many believe that these services can improve the lives of the poor, a consistent difficulty has been identifying individuals most likely to benefit fr…
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Study examines active travel in Chicago communities, revealing mixed perceptions.
problem Transport disadvantage and lack of active mobility in underserved communities.
method Focus groups, qualitative discourse analysis, quantitative text-mining (topic modeling, sentiment analysis).
result Residents view active travel as both necessity and symbol of privilege, influenced by local culture.
Cultural activity is an inherent aspect of urban life and the success of a modern city is largely determined by its capacity to offer generous cultural entertainment to its citizens. To this end, the optimal allocation of cultural establishments and related resources across urban regions becomes of vital importance, as…
Enhances content moderation with culturally-aware models.
problem Global content moderation policies miss local cultural nuances.
method Fine-tuning encoder-decoder models on media-diet data.
result Improved accuracy in local violation detection and cultural alignment.
Breiman's two cultures reconciled through blending statistical thinking.
problem Tension between parametric statistical and machine learning approaches.
method Establishing a link between parametric statistical and machine learning frameworks.
result Integrated statistical thinking can bridge the gap between two cultures.
Examines algorithmic modeling across three cultures.
problem Tackles algorithmic modeling in different cultural contexts.
method Uses parametric regressions, interpretable algorithms, and complex algorithms.
result Extension of Leo Breiman's thesis to include cultural differences.
Study shows how national culture influences investors' tendency to hold or sell stocks.
problem Investors' tendency to hold or sell stocks varies internationally.
method Examined brokerage data from 83 countries, analyzed cultural dimensions and age/gender.
result National culture, specifically long-term orientation and indulgence, influences the disposition effect.
A Cultural Market Modelq-fin.GN
Social interactions and personal tastes shape our consumption behavior of cultural products. In this study, we present a computational model of a cultural market and we aim to analyze the behavior of the consumer population as an emergent phenomena. Our results suggest that the final market shares of cultural products …
Breiman discusses two statistical cultures, advocating for more research on 'before' and 'after' the black box.
problem Statistical modeling lacks exploration of processes before and after the 'black box'.
method Analyzes Breiman's visual metaphor of two statistical cultures.
result Promotes the importance of studying the 'before' and 'after' of data transformations.
Breiman (2001) proposed to statisticians awareness of two cultures: 1. Parametric modeling culture, pioneered by R.A.Fisher and Jerzy Neyman; 2. Algorithmic predictive culture, pioneered by machine learning research. Parzen (2001), as a part of discussing Breiman (2001), proposed that researchers be aware of many cultu…
New method shows cultural transmission improves language compositionality.
problem How cultural transmission affects language emergence and compositionality.
method Introduced cultural evolutionary dynamics into language emergence by periodically replacing agents in a population.
result Languages emerge with better compositional generalization due to implicit cultural transmission.
Study finds conformity bias drives music sampling traditions.
problem How frequency-based bias drives cultural diversity in music sampling.
method Agent-based simulations in approximate Bayesian computation framework.
result Sampling patterns at population-level consistent with conformity bias.
Commentary on Rashomon Effect complicating model selection.
problem Many models equally predict data; hard to draw conclusions.
method Connections to recent ML literature exploring implications.
result Grasping Rashomon Effect can foster collaboration.
AVEC 2019 challenges AI in detecting depression and cross-cultural emotions.
problem Detecting depression and cross-cultural emotions from audiovisual data.
method Comparison of machine learning methods under standardized conditions.
result Baseline system performance on state-of-mind, depression, and cross-cultural tasks.
Town hall discusses AI's impact on statistics, culture, and training.
problem Adapting statistics to AI advancements and infrastructure.
method Open panel discussion and audience Q&A.
result Candid perspectives on evolving statistical practices.
The development of real-time affect detection models often depends upon obtaining annotated data for supervised learning by employing human experts to label the student data. One open question in annotating affective data for affect detection is whether the labelers (i.e., human experts) need to be socio-culturally sim…
Turing test relevance questioned in age of AI.
problem Relevance of Turing test in AI age.
method Examining cultural and technological context.
result Turing test may not fully capture AI capabilities.
Weak supervision challenges black-box models, suggesting fusion of modeling cultures.
problem Challenges of strong supervision in achieving accurate predictions.
method Integrating data modeling into algorithmic modeling for weak supervision.
result Integration of data modeling culture improves model stability and accuracy.
Study introduces KorFinMTEB for Korean financial texts, revealing model limitations.
problem Limited evaluation benchmarks for low-resource domains, especially Korean.
method Developed KorFinMTEB, a tailored benchmark for Korean financial texts.
result Models perform better on translated benchmarks than on domain-specific ones.
Deep CNN model predicts neuronal cell health from images.
problem Predicting the biological activity of chemical compounds on neuronal cells.
method Deep convolutional neural network (CNN) with residual connections.
result Achieved 99.6% accuracy in distinguishing treated from untreated cells.
The study finds solar terms significantly impact China's stock market returns and volatility.
problem Investigating the effect of solar terms on China's stock market.
method Regression framework, analyzing multiple solar terms and their impact on return and volatility.
result Solar terms 1, 3, and 4 cause significant positive returns, while 8, 11, and 14 bring high volatility.
Mobile sensing is an emerging technology that utilizes agent-participatory data for decision making or state estimation, including multimedia applications. This article investigates the structure of mobile sensing schemes and introduces crowdsourcing methods for mobile sensing. Inspired by social network, one can estab…
The surfaces of many cultural heritage objects were embellished with various patterns, especially curve patterns. In practice, most of the unearthed cultural heritage objects are highly fragmented, e.g., sherds of potteries or vessels, and each of them only shows a very small portion of the underlying full design, with…
This is a brief survey of the research performed by Grandata Labs in collaboration with numerous academic groups around the world on the topic of human mobility. A driving theme in these projects is to use and improve Data Science techniques to understand mobility, as it can be observed through the lens of mobile phone…
Introduces mobility algebra for modeling geodesics on n-spheres.
problem Modeling geodesics on n-spheres using algebraic structures.
method Introduces mobility algebra and mobility spaces, showing connections to modules and affine spaces.
result Shows geodesics on n-spheres as mobility spaces over unit interval mobility algebra.
The presence of bacteria or fungi in the bloodstream of patients is abnormal and can lead to life-threatening conditions. A computational model based on a bidirectional long short-term memory artificial neural network, is explored to assist doctors in the intensive care unit to predict whether examination of blood cult…
The paper presents a probabilistic method to discover daily human mobility patterns from mobile data.
problem Discovering daily human mobility patterns from mobile data.
method A non-parameter Bayesian modeling method, Infinite Gaussian Mixture Model, combined with Kullback-Leibler divergence for automatic clustering.
result The IGMM-based algorithm outperforms the GMM-based algorithm in discovering mobility patterns.
FLAME auto-labels mobile data efficiently on diverse processors.
problem Accurately and efficiently labeling mobile data with unknown labels on heterogeneous processors.
method Self-adaptive auto-labeling system Flame that schedules and executes workloads on mobile processors.
result Flame achieves high labeling accuracy and performance on heterogeneous mobile processors.
We introduce MosAIc, an interactive web app that allows users to find pairs of semantically related artworks that span different cultures, media, and millennia. To create this application, we introduce Conditional Image Retrieval (CIR) which combines visual similarity search with user supplied filters or "conditions". …
Mobile SoCs can improve ML inference by 2x when all components are used concurrently.
problem Power-performance trade-offs in mobile ML inference on heterogeneous SoCs.
method Quantitative evaluation of different ML components on mobile SoCs.
result Mobile SoCs can achieve up to 2x improvement in inference performance by using all components concurrently.
Graphs model human mobility patterns, reducing errors in data matching.
problem Lack of high-quality data and computational resources for graph-based mobility analysis.
method Embedding graphs into a continuous space to address matching, modeling, and visualization challenges.
result Approx 40% decrease in error on average in matched graphs vs unmatched ones.
Model predicts urban population using mobile data traffic.
problem Estimating urban population dynamics from mobile data.
method Data-driven approach combining NetMob 2023 and ENACT datasets.
result NetMob 2023 data can estimate urban population with XGBoost models.
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In this paper, we investigate the economic mobility in some money transfer models which have been applied into the research on wealth distribution. We demonstrate the mobility by recording the time series of agents' ranks and observing their volatility. We also compare the mobility quantitatively by employing an index,…
The paper optimizes neural network inference on mobile GPUs.
problem Limited computing power and thermal constraints on mobile CPUs.
method Leverage mobile GPUs for neural network inference.
result Real-time inference of deep neural networks on Android and iOS devices.
MobILE learns from expert demonstrations without access to actions, achieving strong performance guarantees.
problem Imitation Learning from Observations alone (ILFO) where actions are not observed.
method MobILE integrates optimism in the face of uncertainty into distribution matching IL framework, trading off exploration and imitation.
result MobILE provides strong performance guarantees for certain MDP dynamics and demonstrates efficacy on OpenAI Gym tasks.
Human mobility is well described by closed-form gravity-like models learned automatically from dataphysics.soc-ph
New models predict mobility flows as well as complex machine learning but are simpler and interpretable.
problem Incomplete understanding and modeling of human mobility flows.
method Developed simple machine-learned, closed-form models of mobility.
result These models predict mobility flows more accurately than gravity or complex machine/deep learning models.
Proposes E-MIIM for better mobile phone interruptions management.
problem Improper phone interruptions in daily life activities.
method Ensemble learning based on context-aware mobile telephony model.
result E-MIIM outperforms existing MIIM models in prediction accuracy.
This paper analyzes mobile device training of deep learning models.
problem Performance characterization of training deep learning models on mobile devices.
method Experiments on NVIDIA TX2, benchmark suite, and tools for performance analysis.
result Interesting performance problems and opportunities revealed.
The paper argues for a social-economic approach to AI development.
problem The current AI development overlooks social and cultural aspects of intelligence.
method A blend of economic and social concepts with computational and inferential concepts in algorithm design.
result A social-economic approach is necessary for proper AI development.
Mobile big data contains vast statistical features in various dimensions, including spatial, temporal, and the underlying social domain. Understanding and exploiting the features of mobile data from a social network perspective will be extremely beneficial to wireless networks, from planning, operation, and maintenance…
TraLFM models human mobility patterns from traffic trajectories.
problem Understanding human mobility patterns from traffic data.
method Latent factor modeling of sequential, personal, and temporal factors.
result TraLFM significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in latent factor analysis and next location prediction.
Optimized biopharmaceutical seed train design reduces variability and saves time.
problem Designing robust biotechnological processes with cell cultures.
method Coupling uncertainty-based upstream simulation and Bayes optimization using Gaussian processes.
result Optimized seed train design results in lower cell density variability and reduced process duration.
Study predicts traffic congestion based on population mobility data.
problem Predicting traffic congestion in multimodal transport networks.
method Machine learning methods applied to population mobility data.
result Likely prediction of congestion based on population movements.
Proposes a method to predict content preferences for mobile users in decentralized caching networks.
problem Determining caching schemes for decentralized caching networks with mobile traffic.
method Formulates content preference learning as a DRMTL problem, integrates mobility prediction, and uses ADMM for optimization.
result Mobility-aware content preference learning provides more accurate predictions and improved hit ratios.
Paper proposes a new classifier for gender detection in mobile telematics.
problem Detecting gender through mobile telematics data.
method Choquet fuzzy integral vertical bagging classifier combining random forest and rough set theory.
result Choquet fuzzy integral vertical bagging classifier outperforms other classifiers.
In this work, we analyze the problem of adoption of mobile money in Pakistan by using the call detail records of a major telecom company as our input. Our results highlight the fact that different sections of the society have different patterns of adoption of digital financial services but user mobility related feature…
This papers presents a deep learning-based framework to predict crowdsourced service availability spatially and temporally. A novel two-stage prediction model is introduced based on historical spatio-temporal traces of mobile crowdsourced services. The prediction model first clusters mobile crowdsourced services into r…
Introduces MPR to measure and optimize representation across intersectional groups in retrieval.
problem Harmful stereotypes, cultural erasure, and social disparities in image search and retrieval.
method Develops MPR metric, practical estimation methods, theoretical guarantees, and optimization algorithms.
result Optimizing MPR yields more proportional representation across multiple intersectional groups, often with minimal retrieval accuracy compromise.