AirRL uses RL to infer urban air quality from selected stations.
problem Inferring fine-grained urban air quality from limited monitoring stations.
method Reinforcement learning model with a dynamic station selector and air quality regressor.
result AirRL achieves highest performance in air quality inference experiments.
Study on sparse recovery with mixed-quality data, establishing sample-size conditions.
problem Sparse recovery with heterogeneous noise from high- and low-quality sources.
method Establishes linear trade-off for sufficient conditions, analyzes LASSO algorithm.
result Linear trade-off for sufficient conditions, robustness of LASSO to data heterogeneity.
Protein structure prediction has been a grand challenge problem in the structure biology over the last few decades. Protein quality assessment plays a very important role in protein structure prediction. In the paper, we propose a new protein quality assessment method which can predict both local and global quality of …
Measures DNA quality degradation effects.
problem Identifying degraded DNA sequence data.
method Novel quality quantification based on intentional degradation effects.
result Quantified measures of degradation can be used for multiple purposes.
Framework improves ML performance by identifying high-quality data.
problem Poor data quality hampers ML performance.
method Intelligent data-centric evaluation framework combining quality measurements and unsupervised learning.
result Framework improves ML system performance in real-world use case.
Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging offers a wide variety of imaging techniques. A large amount of data is created per examination which needs to be checked for sufficient quality in order to derive a meaningful diagnosis. This is a manual process and therefore time- and cost-intensive. Any imaging artifacts originating fr…
This note investigates the causes of the quality anomaly, which is one of the strongest and most scalable anomalies in equity markets. We explore two potential explanations. The "risk view", whereby investing in high quality firms is somehow riskier, so that the higher returns of a quality portfolio are a compensation …
Do-AIQ framework evaluates AI algorithms' quality using DOE.
problem Quality evaluation of AI mislabel detection algorithms.
method Design-of-experiment approach with high-dimensional constraint space design and surrogate modeling.
result Established framework for evaluating AI algorithm quality robustly.
Framework evaluates quality of synthetic data generated with differential privacy.
problem Ensuring synthetic data retains statistical quality after applying differential privacy.
method Developed a framework to evaluate synthetic data quality from a practical researcher's viewpoint.
result Synthetic data can be evaluated against training data or underlying populations, and for specific tasks like inference or prediction.
MRI image quality affects statistical and predictive analysis of brain morphology.
problem Impact of MRI image quality on statistical and predictive analysis of brain morphology.
method Systematic testing of image quality on univariate statistics and machine learning classification using three large datasets.
result Low-quality MRI data significantly affects detecting significant sex/gender differences in smaller samples, but not in larger ones.
The paper assesses quality measures for machine learning models using cross-validation.
problem Evaluating the accuracy and robustness of quality measures for machine learning models.
method Cross-validation approach to estimate prediction error and quantify explained variation. Confidence bounds and local quality measures derived from residuals.
result The reliability and robustness of quality measures are assessed through numerical examples and confidence bounds.
Automatically assesses the quality of online health articles.
problem Lack of automated tools to evaluate the quality of online health information.
method Data mining approach using 10 quality criteria and feature selection.
result Classifier achieved 84%-90% accuracy on 10 criteria.
Generative models predict page quality without training, useful for low-resource settings.
problem Detecting low-quality content in web articles.
method Human evaluation and analysis of 500 million web articles.
result Generative models can predict page quality without training, useful for low-resource settings.
Paper explores how text generation quality and diversity metrics relate to distribution fitting.
problem Unclear relation between text generation quality and diversity metrics and distribution fitting.
method Theoretical approach to prove a linear combination of quality and diversity metrics can be a divergence metric.
result CR/NRR proposed as a better substitute for BLEU/Self-BLEU metrics.
This paper uses Monte Carlo simulation to value quality options in agricultural futures contracts.
problem Valuation of quality options in agricultural futures to prevent manipulation and improve hedging performance.
method Monte Carlo simulation with antithetic variables for efficiency.
result Demonstrates a method to estimate the value of quality options in agricultural futures contracts.
Federated learning leaks participant dataset quality even with secure aggregation.
problem Leakage of participant dataset quality in federated learning with secure aggregation.
method Image recognition experiments to infer and attribute dataset quality.
result Relative quality ordering of participants can be inferred and used for various purposes.
Paper proposes data quality measures for large-scale high-dimensional data.
problem Lack of practical data quality measures for large-scale high-dimensional data.
method Proposes two data quality measures: class separability and in-class variability. Efficient algorithms based on random projections and bootstrapping are provided.
result Efficient algorithms for computing data quality measures on large-scale high-dimensional data.
The paper improves experimental design by weighting diversity metrics with quality, leading to more diverse and effective discoveries.
problem Existing experimental design techniques favor exploitation over exploration, leading to local optima and insufficient diversity.
method The paper extends Vendi scores to account for quality and applies them to various experimental design problems.
result Quality-weighted Vendi scores allow for better balance between quality and diversity, resulting in 70%-170% more effective discoveries.
We investigate properties that intuitively ought to be satisfied by graph clustering quality functions, that is, functions that assign a score to a clustering of a graph. Graph clustering, also known as network community detection, is often performed by optimizing such a function. Two axioms tailored for graph clusteri…
Research develops a water quality prediction model using LSTM.
problem Global degradation of water resources and need for optimal water quality monitoring.
method Developed a multivariate water quality prediction model using LSTM and historical data.
result Multiple step LSTM model achieved RMSE of 0.227 mg/L.
A method merges two pretrained diffusion experts to improve image quality and likelihood.
problem Trade-off between image quality and data likelihood in diffusion models.
method Combining two pretrained diffusion experts by switching between them along the denoising trajectory.
result The merged model consistently matches or outperforms its base components, improving or preserving both likelihood and sample quality.
Study improves data quality assessment for structural monitoring data.
problem Ensuring reliability of structural health monitoring data.
method Probabilistic data quality assessment using a conditional diffusion model.
result Significantly improves accuracy of data quality assessment.
Paper proposes a method to protect DCNNs from adversarial attacks and poor quality images.
problem DCNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples and perceptual quality issues.
method Combines image quality assessment with knowledge distillation.
result Detector effectively identifies poor quality and adversarial images.
Deep CNN monitors AM quality with high accuracy.
problem Quality control in AM processes.
method Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model trained and tested online.
result 94% accuracy and 96% specificity in classifying AM quality.
The quality of an induced model by a learning algorithm is dependent on the quality of the training data and the hyper-parameters supplied to the learning algorithm. Prior work has shown that improving the quality of the training data (i.e., by removing low quality instances) or tuning the learning algorithm hyper-para…
Pre-training text representations have led to significant improvements in many areas of natural language processing. The quality of these models benefits greatly from the size of the pretraining corpora as long as its quality is preserved. In this paper, we describe an automatic pipeline to extract massive high-quality…
Quality-Diversity algorithms explore multiple high-performing solutions in a search space.
problem Finding multiple high-performing solutions in complex optimization problems.
method Evolutionary computation approach focusing on behavioral space and holistic solution distribution.
result Quality-Diversity algorithms provide a comprehensive view of high-performing solutions in a search space.
Online crowdsourcing provides a scalable and inexpensive means to collect knowledge (e.g. labels) about various types of data items (e.g. text, audio, video). However, it is also known to result in large variance in the quality of recorded responses which often cannot be directly used for training machine learning syst…
A framework assesses the quality of crowdsourced weather data.
problem Quality control and assessment of crowdsourced weather data from third-party stations.
method Proposes a simple, scalable, and interpretable AI/Stats/ML framework to assess TPAWS data.
result Demonstrates the performance of the framework using synthetic and real data.
Paper proposes a method to enhance low-quality retinal images using optimal transport.
problem Artifacts and imperfections in retinal images lead to diagnostic inaccuracies.
method Leveraging optimal transport theory, an unpaired image-to-image translation scheme is proposed.
result The method improves perceptually and quantitatively the quality of low-quality retinal images.
DeepSubQE estimates translation quality for subtitles, improving on existing methods.
problem Hard quality estimation for subtitle translations due to language variations.
method Proposes DeepSubQE, a hybrid network combining semantic and syntactic features.
result DeepSubQE outperforms existing methods by significant margin.
This paper advances theory on the process of collaboration between entities and its implications on the quality of services, information, and/or products (SIPs) that the collaborating entities provide to each other. It investigates the scenario of outsourced IS projects (such as custom software development) where the e…
Optimizes treatment duration to maximize quality-adjusted lifetime.
problem Balancing risks and benefits in clinical decision making.
method Proposes a weighted estimating equation to adjust for confounding and informative censoring, and a nonparametric estimator for mean counterfactual quality-adjusted lifetime.
result Shows the optimal time for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy insertion in ALS patients.
Research predicts rice prices in Banda Aceh post-COVID using ARIMA models.
problem Forecasting rice prices in Banda Aceh post-COVID-19.
method Used LOCF imputation for missing data and auto-ARIMA for forecasting.
result ARIMA model (0,0,5) best for all rice qualities, showing price decline and then stability.
The study maps ML quality dimensions to fairness, enhancing the QF4SA framework.
problem Ensuring fairness in ML applications at NSOs to avoid social impacts.
method Employing the QF4SA framework, the study maps quality dimensions to fairness and investigates their interactions.
result Fairness is identified as a new quality dimension in the QF4SA framework.
DGPs improve air quality inference from sparse data.
problem Accurate air quality monitoring in unmonitored areas.
method Deep Gaussian Processes with Doubly Stochastic Variational Inference.
result DGPs outperform state-of-the-art models in AQ inference.
Study finds strict collection policies improve portfolio quality of microfinance banks.
problem Improving portfolio quality of microfinance banks through better credit collection policies.
method Multi-stage sampling, regression analysis, descriptive statistics.
result Collection policy has a higher effect on portfolio quality.
How can we measure whether a natural language generation system produces both high quality and diverse outputs? Human evaluation captures quality but not diversity, as it does not catch models that simply plagiarize from the training set. On the other hand, statistical evaluation (i.e., perplexity) captures diversity b…
Two parallel samplers enhance image quality in limited denoising steps.
problem Limited denoising steps in diffusion models reduce image quality.
method Two parallel samplers denoise at successive times, integrating their information.
result Two parallel samplers improve image quality compared to a single sampler.
Study shows online learning algorithms incentivize low-quality content, proposing new algorithms to improve quality.
problem Online learning algorithms in content recommender systems incentivize producers to create low-quality content.
method Analyzed the game between producers and content quality, designed new learning algorithms to incentivize high effort and quality.
result New algorithms incentivize producers to invest high effort and achieve high user welfare, improving content quality.
Paper proposes a faster, higher-quality RL method for text-to-image models.
problem Improving image quality and prompt alignment in RL post-training of text-to-image models.
method Online RL variant that reduces variance by sampling paired trajectories and optimizing flow velocity.
result Method converges faster and yields higher output quality and prompt alignment.
Air quality forecasting has been regarded as the key problem of air pollution early warning and control management. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning model for air quality (mainly PM2.5) forecasting, which learns the spatial-temporal correlation features and interdependence of multivariate air quality rel…
Improves sample quality of generative models using energy-based methods.
problem Low sample quality in generative models.
method Constructs an energy function on latent space, trains an energy-based model, and generates improved samples.
result Significant improvement in sample quality with minimal computational overhead.
Engine forecasts NO2, O3, PM2.5, PM10 with high accuracy.
problem Accurate long-term air quality forecasting.
method Convolutional LSTM network trained on grid data.
result 4-day forecasts significantly outperform simple benchmarks.
Data is one of the most important assets of the information age, and its societal impact is undisputed. Yet, rigorous methods of assessing the quality of data are lacking. In this paper, we propose a formal definition for the quality of a given dataset. We assess a dataset's quality by a quantity we call the expected d…
PaDGAN generates diverse, high-quality designs with improved performance.
problem Lack of diversity and performance improvement in generated designs.
method Integrates Determinantal Point Processes for diversity and quality, using GAN framework.
result PaDGAN generates higher quality designs with better diversity and without mode collapse.
New model clusters mixed-type data with missing values, improving air quality analysis.
problem Clustering mixed-type data with missing values and regime persistence.
method Statistical jump model incorporating regime persistence and handling missing data.
result Superior performance in inferring persistent air quality regimes compared to traditional methods.
Low-cost sensors improve air quality prediction accuracy significantly.
problem Improving air quality monitoring networks with affordable sensors.
method Developed a high-resolution air quality prediction engine using low-cost sensors and official data.
result The use of low-cost sensors improves prediction accuracy by 25% and 15% for PM2.5 and PM10 respectively in densely monitored areas.