Gaussian processes are a class of flexible nonparametric Bayesian tools that are widely used across the sciences, and in industry, to model complex data sources. Key to applying Gaussian process models is the availability of well-developed open source software, which is available in many programming languages. In this …
Anomaly detection aids in labeling fast-running processes for machine learning.
problem Manual labeling of fast-running processes for machine learning models.
method Anomaly detection to assist in labeling data, specific metrics for model validation.
result Possibility to manually classify data for training machine learning models.
Gradient boosting decision trees (GBDTs) have seen widespread adoption in academia, industry and competitive data science due to their state-of-the-art performance in many machine learning tasks. One relative downside to these models is the large number of hyper-parameters that they expose to the end-user. To maximize …
Optimizes marketing strategies with practical constraints.
problem Adjusting marketing activities with minimum and maximum changes.
method Formulated as a mixed integer nonlinear program (MINLP), reformulated for computational efficiency.
result Significant improvements in solution process for realistic problems.
LLMs outperform strong tabular baselines on industrial car retrofit prediction.
problem Industrial retrofit planning on structured operational data
method Embedding features, direct prompted classification, and ML+LLM stacking
result LLMs outperform strong tabular baselines on industrial car retrofit prediction
theft package simplifies feature extraction for time series analysis in R.
problem Lack of a unified access point and methodological pipelines for feature-based time series analysis.
method theft package provides a unified framework for computing features from six open-source time series feature sets.
result theft enables comprehensive quantification and interpretation of time series structure.
LexNLP is an open source Python package focused on natural language processing and machine learning for legal and regulatory text. The package includes functionality to (i) segment documents, (ii) identify key text such as titles and section headings, (iii) extract over eighteen types of structured information like dis…
Paper proposes transparent reporting of algorithmic energy usage to promote environmental sustainability.
problem Need for transparent reporting of algorithmic energy usage for environmental sustainability.
method Developed a Python package to make analyses of energy usage accessible to individual researchers, localized to specific power grids, and compared with global benchmarks.
result Demonstrated the use of automatically-generated Energy Usage Reports in model-choice for machine learning.
BoFire optimizes chemistry experiments using Bayesian Optimization.
problem Effective deployment of Bayesian Optimization in the chemical industry.
method Combines Bayesian Optimization with DoE strategies, providing a rich feature-set.
result BoFire enables seamless integration into RESTful APIs for real-world use.
Pymc-learn is a Python package providing a variety of state-of-the-art probabilistic models for supervised and unsupervised machine learning. It is inspired by scikit-learn and focuses on bringing probabilistic machine learning to non-specialists. It uses a general-purpose high-level language that…
In the current context of data explosion, online techniques that do not require storing all data in memory are indispensable to routinely perform tasks like principal component analysis (PCA). Recursive algorithms that update the PCA with each new observation have been studied in various fields of research and found wi…
combo library simplifies model combination for various machine learning tasks.
problem Facilitating model combination in machine learning.
method Easy-to-use Python toolkit for aggregating models and scores.
result Unified and consistent way to combine models from multiple libraries.
R package innsight interprets deep neural networks predictions.
problem Interpreting predictions of deep neural networks.
method Unified and user-friendly framework implementing feature attribution methods for neural networks, independent of deep learning library.
result Offers a variety of visualization tools for tabular, signal, image data or a combination.
Graphical models provide powerful tools to uncover complicated patterns in multivariate data and are commonly used in Bayesian statistics and machine learning. In this paper, we introduce the R package BDgraph which performs Bayesian structure learning for general undirected graphical models (decomposable and non-decom…
R package psvmSDR simplifies SDR computation for machine learning.
problem Sufficient dimension reduction in machine learning.
method Principal machine (PM) generalized from PSVM.
result Efficient computation of SDR estimators in various scenarios.
Optimizes package types for e-commerce to reduce damage and costs.
problem Sub-optimal package types lead to damaged shipments and high costs.
method Multi-stage approach that balances shipment and damage costs using a scalable algorithm.
result Significant cost savings of tens of millions of dollars achieved.
The public package registry npm is one of the biggest software registry. With its 216 911 software packages, it forms a big network of software dependencies. In this paper we evaluate various methods for finding similar packages in the npm network, using only the structure of the graph. Namely, we want to find a way of…
Paper benchmarks and customizes energy forecasting methods.
problem Energy forecasting challenges and differences from traditional time series.
method Collected large-scale load datasets and renewable energy datasets. Developed feature engineering and customized loss functions.
result Comprehensive evaluation of 21 forecasting methods in energy datasets.
FSinR is a comprehensive R package for feature selection.
problem Feature selection in machine learning.
method Filter and wrapper methods, search algorithms.
result Provides a variety of feature selection methods and search algorithms.
grangersearch tests causal relationships in time series data.
problem Testing causal relationships between multiple time series.
method Exhaustive pairwise search, automatic lag order optimization, tidyverse integration.
result Automated Granger causality testing simplifies causal analysis.
R package sentometrics analyzes text sentiment for predictions.
problem Unlocking value from textual data using sentiment analysis.
method Optimized textual sentiment indexation with R package sentometrics.
result Forecasted CBOE Volatility Index using text sentiment data.
R package stagedtrees learns staged tree structures from data.
problem Learning the structure of staged trees from data.
method Score-based and clustering-based algorithms implemented.
result Illustrated capabilities using two datasets.
R package huge simplifies graph estimation for high-dimensional data.
problem Estimating high-dimensional undirected graphs from data.
method Uses recent results in literature, including recent graph estimation methods.
result Improves on existing package glasso by providing more features and better efficiency.
Random Forests [Breiman:2001] (RF) are a fully non-parametric statistical method requiring no distributional assumptions on covariate relation to the response. RF are a robust, nonlinear technique that optimizes predictive accuracy by fitting an ensemble of trees to stabilize model estimates. The randomForestSRC packag…
Python package for SPD matrix distances, reproducible and extensible.
problem Computing distances between SPD matrices for various applications.
method Unified, extensible framework supporting multiple SPD metrics.
result Reproducible and accessible SPD matrix comparison tool.
New R package for NMF evaluated on real-world data.
problem Limited comprehensive evaluations of NMF packages under real-world conditions.
method Systematic performance comparison of three NMF packages using real-world data.
result New package outperforms existing ones in computational efficiency and reconstruction accuracy.
Efficient packages solve SLOPE problem in multiple languages.
problem Efficiently solving SLOPE problem for various data types.
method Hybrid coordinate descent algorithm for GLMs with multiple loss functions.
result Packages outperform existing SLOPE implementations in speed.
This paper conducts an empirically study on the trade package composed of a sequence of consecutive purchases or sales of 23 stocks in Chinese stock market. We investigate the probability distributions of the execution time, the number of trades and the total trading volume of trade packages, and analyze the possible s…
Develops rMultiNet R package for multilayer network analysis.
problem Analyzing multilayer network data.
method Two frameworks: MMSBM and MMLSM for generating multilayer networks; methods for node and layer embedding; clustering.
result Provides tools for multilayer network analysis.
Witten deformation connects manifold spectra to Morse functions.
problem Understanding spectral properties of Riemannian manifolds.
method Rellich-Kato theorem applied to Witten deformation.
result Relates spectral package to Morse complex and harmonic oscillators.
The conformalClassification package implements Transductive Conformal Prediction (TCP) and Inductive Conformal Prediction (ICP) for classification problems. Conformal Prediction (CP) is a framework that complements the predictions of machine learning algorithms with reliable measures of confidence. TCP gives results wi…
bnlearn is an R package which includes several algorithms for learning the structure of Bayesian networks with either discrete or continuous variables. Both constraint-based and score-based algorithms are implemented, and can use the functionality provided by the snow package to improve their performance via parallel c…
The book "Handbook of Finsler geometry" has been included with a CD containing an elegant Maple package, FINSLER, for calculations in Finsler geometry. Using this package, an example concerning a Finsler generalization of Einstein's vacuum field equations was treated. In this example, the calculation of the components …
L0Learn solves sparse learning problems with millions of features.
problem Sparse learning problems with millions of features.
method Approximate algorithms based on coordinate descent and local combinatorial optimization.
result Achieves competitive run times and statistical performance.
Learning graphical models from data is an important problem with wide applications, ranging from genomics to the social sciences. Nowadays datasets often have upwards of thousands---sometimes tens or hundreds of thousands---of variables and far fewer samples. To meet this challenge, we have developed a new R package ca…
BKP R package models spatially varying binomial probabilities efficiently.
problem Modeling spatially varying binomial probabilities efficiently.
method Beta Kernel Process (BKP) combining localized kernel-weighted likelihoods with conjugate beta priors.
result Closed-form posterior inference without requiring latent variables or intensive MCMC sampling.
fmeffects package interprets non-linear models in plain language.
problem Interpreting complex non-linear models.
method Forward marginal effects for model-agnostic explanations.
result First software implementation of forward marginal effects.
DriveML automates machine learning tasks in R.
problem Manual machine learning tasks are time-consuming and error-prone.
method Automated data preparation, feature engineering, model building, and model explanation.
result DriveML performs best across different parameters compared to other packages.
KnotMosaics package simplifies knot theory computations in SageMath.
problem Efficiently computing knot mosaic diagrams and their properties.
method Developed a SageMath package for knot mosaic diagrams, implementing validation, strand tracing, and computation algorithms.
result Enabled easy computation of knot mosaic diagrams and their properties.
ctsfeatures R package analyzes categorical time series data.
problem Lack of tools for analyzing categorical time series data.
method Provides functions for extracting statistical features and constructing graphs.
result Package enables traditional machine learning tasks on categorical time series.
Package {mlr3spatiotempcv} simplifies spatiotemporal resampling methods in R.
problem Assessing and tuning spatial and spatiotemporal machine learning models.
method Integrates various spatiotemporal resampling methods into the {mlr3} framework.
result Provides a consistent interface for spatiotemporal resampling methods.
ODTLearn learns optimal decision trees for predictive and prescriptive tasks.
problem Learning optimal decision trees for high-stakes predictive and prescriptive tasks.
method Mixed-integer optimization framework and object-oriented design.
result Implementation of optimal decision trees for various tasks.
stCEG models spatial events using Chain Event Graphs in R.
problem Modeling events over spatial areas.
method Full specification of CEG models from data, interactive plots, web GUI.
result First software for CEGs with full model customisation.
R package for counterfactual explanation methods.
problem Lack of unified interfaces for counterfactual explanation methods.
method Developed a modular R6-based interface for three existing counterfactual methods and proposed extensions.
result Comparison of implemented methods' quality and runtime behavior.
neuralGAM package interprets neural networks by fitting them to feature contributions.
problem difficulty understanding neural network decisions
method Generalized Additive Neural Networks (GAM)
result interpretable Deep Learning model with accurate feature contributions
HiPart offers an efficient, interactive tool for hierarchical clustering.
problem Efficient and interpretable hierarchical clustering for Big Data.
method Divisive hierarchical clustering algorithms with interactive visualizations.
result High computational efficiency and interpretability in Big Data applications.
Although neural networks can achieve very high predictive performance on various different tasks such as image recognition or natural language processing, they are often considered as opaque "black boxes". The difficulty of interpreting the predictions of a neural network often prevents its use in fields where explaina…
Python package ajdmom simplifies moment formula derivation for jump diffusions.
problem Deriving moment formulae for complex jump diffusion processes.
method Automatically generates closed-form expressions and derivatives for any order of moments.
result Enhances usability and usability of affine jump diffusion models.