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A minimalist approach generates synthetic tabular data with sparse PCA and XGBoost.

problem Generating robust synthetic tabular data for model testing.
method Minimalistic unsupervised SparsePCA encoder with XGBoost decoder.
result The method provides an alternative to raw and quantile perturbation for model robustness testing.

The Markov decision process (MDP) formulation used to model many real-world sequential decision making problems does not efficiently capture the setting where the set of available decisions (actions) at each time step is stochastic. Recently, the stochastic action set Markov decision process (SAS-MDP) formulation has b…

2019-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

In this work we explore the use of metric index structures, which accelerate nearest neighbor queries, in the scenario where we need to interleave insertions and queries during deployment. This use-case is inspired by a real-life need in malware analysis triage, and is surprisingly understudied. Existing literature ten…

2018-01-12abs ↗pdf ↗

BoTier optimizes experiments by balancing multiple objectives hierarchically.

problem Balancing multiple competing objectives in scientific experiments.
method Composite objective that flexibly represents a hierarchy of preferences over outcomes and parameters.
result Demonstrates robust applicability across various use cases and seamless integration.

Datasets with missing values are very common on industry applications, and they can have a negative impact on machine learning models. Recent studies introduced solutions to the problem of imputing missing values based on deep generative models. Previous experiments with Generative Adversarial Networks and Variational …

2019-02-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Early time series classification (eTSC) is the problem of classifying a time series after as few measurements as possible with the highest possible accuracy. The most critical issue of any eTSC method is to decide when enough data of a time series has been seen to take a decision: Waiting for more data points usually m…

2019-08-09abs ↗pdf ↗

AI helps assess nature-related financial risks for financial institutions.

problem Challenges in evaluating nature-related risks due to large data volume and complexity.
method Uses AI to address data gaps, uncertainty, and complex systems.
result Potential AI solutions for two use cases: beef supply and water utility.

End-to-end deep learning detects emotions in real-life emergency calls.

problem Recognizing emotions in real-life emergency call center recordings.
method Used an end-to-end deep learning architecture trained on IEMOCAP and CEMO datasets.
result Obtained 45.6% Unweighted Accuracy Recall on CEMO with 4 classes, 76.9% on 2 classes (Anger, Neutral).

Paper presents a new method to detect process differences at the trace level using mutual fingerprints.

problem Low-level granularity in process variant analysis leads to many false differences.
method Develops a mutual fingerprint technique to encode entire process traces for comparison.
result Mutual fingerprint method reveals significant differences not detected by existing techniques.

Proposes integrating random effects into deep neural networks for better predictive performance.

problem Correlated data in real-life applications are not handled well by traditional deep neural networks.
method Uses mixed models with random effects to handle correlations in deep neural networks, minimizing Gaussian negative log-likelihood with SGD.
result Improves predictive performance over natural competitors in various correlation scenarios.

The paper shows how ignoring temporal context in recommender systems evaluation leads to false confidence, proposing a method to embed temporal context.

problem The discrepancy between offline and online recommender system performance evaluation.
method Proposes a training procedure to embed temporal context into recommender systems and validates its advantage using multi-objective optimization.
result Including temporal context in recommender systems evaluation can improve recall@20 by up to 20%.

We analyze empirical data for 4,000 real-life trading portfolios (U.S. equities) with holding periods of about 0.7-19 trading days. We find a simple scaling C ~ 1/T, where C is cents-per-share, and T is the portfolio turnover. Thus, the portfolio return R has no statistically significant dependence on the turnover T. W…

2015-09-27abs ↗pdf ↗

New formula classifies product reviews into higher and lower ratings based on sentiment analysis.

problem Lack of research on using sentiment analysis for classifying text into ratings.
method Redefined sentiment proportions as a triangle structure to derive variables for classifying text into higher and lower ratings.
result Proved a dependence exists between sentiments and ratings.

A new model predicts spatio-temporal data using adaptive decision trees and point processes.

problem Predicting spatio-temporal data with real-life applications.
method Hawkes process, adaptive decision tree, joint optimization algorithm.
result Significant improvement in predictions compared to standard methods.

Was it fair that Harry was hired but not Barry? Was it fair that Pam was fired instead of Sam? How can one ensure fairness when an intelligent algorithm takes these decisions instead of a human? How can one ensure that the decisions were taken based on merit and not on protected attributes like race or sex? These are t…

2019-05-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Quantum computing offers financial industry new optimization and risk management tools.

problem Traditional computing limits financial industry's problem-solving capabilities.
method Structured review of quantum computing platforms, algorithms, and use cases.
result Quantum computing can enhance financial industry applications like optimization and risk management.

This paper evaluates various representations for robotics tasks, improving performance in lifting, stacking, and pushing.

problem Improving data-efficiency in reinforcement learning for robotics with limited data.
method Systematic evaluation of common representations in three robotics tasks: lifting, stacking, and pushing.
result Some representations can perform as well as simulator states as agent inputs, challenging common intuitions.

K-nearest neighbors (KNN) method is used in many supervised learning classification problems. Potential Energy (PE) method is also developed for classification problems based on its physical metaphor. The energy potential used in the experiments are Yukawa potential and Gaussian Potential. In this paper, I use both app…

2012-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Quantum tech speeds up financial risk assessment.

problem Improving credit valuation adjustments using quantum mechanics.
method Developed a quantum algorithm using Bayesian quantum amplitude estimation and engineered likelihood functions.
result Significant speedup in quantum computations for CVA over classical methods.

In this survey, we describe the fundamental differential-geometric structures of information manifolds, state the fundamental theorem of information geometry, and illustrate some use cases of these information manifolds in information sciences. The exposition is self-contained by concisely introducing the necessary con…

2018-08-17abs ↗pdf ↗

We develop extensions to auction theory results that are useful in real life scenarios. 1. Since valuations are generally positive we first develop approximations using the log-normal distribution. This would be useful for many finance related auction settings since asset prices are usually non-negative. 2. We formulat…

2018-09-25abs ↗pdf ↗

New method detects communities in hypergraphs by embedding them into a vector space.

problem Detecting communities in hypergraphs with multi-way interactions.
method Augmenting non-uniform hypergraphs, embedding into a vector space, using an alternative updating scheme.
result Asymptotic consistencies in community detection and hypergraph estimation established.

Physics-informed denoising improves sensor data accuracy without needing clean data.

problem Noise in real-life sensor data affects system performance and reliability.
method Physics-informed denoising model that uses algebraic relationships between sensor measurements governed by physical laws.
result Achieved state-of-the-art performance in various real-world applications.

Machine learning has seen tremendous advances in the past few years, which has lead to deep learning models being deployed in varied applications of day-to-day life. Attacks on such models using perturbations, particularly in real-life scenarios, pose a severe challenge to their applicability, pushing research into the…

2019-12-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Classification with Costly Features (CwCF) is a classification problem that includes the cost of features in the optimization criteria. Individually for each sample, its features are sequentially acquired to maximize accuracy while minimizing the acquired features' cost. However, existing approaches can only process da…

2019-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper describes the Speech Technology Center (STC) antispoofing systems submitted to the ASVspoof 2019 challenge. The ASVspoof2019 is the extended version of the previous challenges and includes 2 evaluation conditions: logical access use-case scenario with speech synthesis and voice conversion attack types and ph…

2019-04-11abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we show how simple logistic growth that was studied intensively during the last 200 years in many domains of science could be extended in a rather simple way and with these extensions is capable to produce a collection of behaviors widely observed in an enormous number of real-life systems in Economics, …

2008-02-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural architecture search methods are able to find high performance deep learning architectures with minimal effort from an expert. However, current systems focus on specific use-cases (e.g. convolutional image classifiers and recurrent language models), making them unsuitable for general use-cases that an expert migh…

2019-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

In medical risk modeling, typical data are "scarce": they have relatively small number of training instances (N), censoring, and high dimensionality (M). We show that the problem may be effectively simplified by reducing it to bipartite ranking, and introduce new bipartite ranking algorithm, Smooth Rank, for robust lea…

2011-08-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Simple tabular event prediction model outperforms existing methods.

problem Predicting events from tabular data with historic events.
method Standard autoregressive LLM-style transformers with elementary positional embeddings and causal language modeling.
result Simple model outperforms existing approaches across various datasets and use-cases.

We propose three new robust aggregation rules for distributed synchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent~(SGD) under a general Byzantine failure model. The attackers can arbitrarily manipulate the data transferred between the servers and the workers in the parameter server~(PS) architecture. We prove the Byzantine resilie…

2018-02-27abs ↗pdf ↗