Reinforcement learning (RL) has proven its worth in a series of artificial domains, and is beginning to show some successes in real-world scenarios. However, much of the research advances in RL are often hard to leverage in real-world systems due to a series of assumptions that are rarely satisfied in practice. We pres…
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Recent advances in contextual bandit optimization and reinforcement learning have garnered interest in applying these methods to real-world sequential decision making problems. Real-world applications frequently have constraints with respect to a currently deployed policy. Many of the existing constraint-aware algorith…
Paper tackles AI driving competition challenges with mixed simulation and real-world data.
problem AI algorithms perform poorly in real-world environments compared to simulated ones and vice versa.
method Employed imitation learning on a mixed dataset to train algorithms equally well in all environments.
result Trained algorithms performed well in both simulated and real-world environments.
Research on deep learning generalization in real-world applications.
problem Understanding and improving deep learning generalization in non-i.i.d. real-world data.
method Analyzing deep net generalization, identifying and addressing assumptions and problem settings failures.
result Proposes methods to address failures in deep net generalization for real-world applications.
L2O uses ML to optimize traditional optimization techniques.
problem Real-world optimization problems with shared structures.
method Exploiting shared structures to enhance optimization techniques.
result Better or faster solutions through machine learning integration.
Mobile network that millions of people use every day is one of the most complex systems in the world. Optimization of mobile network to meet exploding customer demand and reduce capital/operation expenditures poses great challenges. Despite recent progress, application of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to complex re…
Paper addresses challenges in benchmarking stream learning algorithms with real-world data.
problem Lack of publicly available non-stationary real-world datasets for evaluating stream algorithms.
method Proposes a new public data repository for benchmarking stream algorithms with real-world data.
result Mitigates problems related to dataset choice in experimental evaluation of stream classifiers and drift detectors.
In many real-world sequential decision making problems, the number of available actions (decisions) can vary over time. While problems like catastrophic forgetting, changing transition dynamics, changing rewards functions, etc. have been well-studied in the lifelong learning literature, the setting where the action set…
We consider the problem of matrix completion with side information (\textit{inductive matrix completion}). In real-world applications many side-channel features are typically non-informative making feature selection an important part of the problem. We incorporate feature selection into inductive matrix completion by p…
Study reveals how spectral bias affects learnability on real-world data.
problem Understanding how well complex datasets can be learned using kernel methods.
method Use eigenvalues and eigenfunctions from idealized data to reveal spectral bias on real-world data.
result Bound learnability on real-world data using symmetries of realistic kernels.
The Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem is the canonical NP-complete problem and is fundamental to computer science, with a wide array of applications in planning, verification, and theorem proving. Developing and evaluating practical SAT solvers relies on extensive empirical testing on a set of real-world benchmark f…
Many real-world large-scale regression problems can be formulated as Multi-task Learning (MTL) problems with a massive number of tasks, as in retail and transportation domains. However, existing MTL methods still fail to offer both the generalization performance and the scalability for such problems. Scaling up MTL met…
Paper proposes hybrid modeling to improve surrogate accuracy using multiple data sources.
problem Improving surrogate model accuracy by integrating simulation and real-world data.
method Two novel probabilistic approaches: separate and combined surrogates with weighting strategy.
result Hybrid models improve predictive accuracy and coverage compared to single-source surrogates.
Myriad offers a testbed for integrating machine learning and trajectory optimization.
problem Real-world trajectory optimization challenges.
method JAX-based testbed with machine learning and trajectory optimization integration.
result End-to-end learning and planning with neural ODEs.
In many real-world network datasets such as co-authorship, co-citation, email communication, etc., relationships are complex and go beyond pairwise. Hypergraphs provide a flexible and natural modeling tool to model such complex relationships. The obvious existence of such complex relationships in many real-world networ…
A hybrid scheme uses GAs and DL for tile panel reconstruction.
problem Reconstructing Portuguese tile panels with real-world effects.
method Enhanced GA-based puzzle solver with novel DLCM.
result 82% accuracy for tile reconstruction compared to 3.5% for best known method.
Optimizes control interventions in real-world networks using deep-learning and network science.
problem Optimizing control over socioeconomic networks subject to constraints.
method Integrates optimization tools from deep-learning with network science.
result Characterizes vulnerability of corporate networks to takeovers.
In general it is not clear which kind of information is supposed to be used for calculating the fair value of a contingent claim. Even if the information is specified, it is not guaranteed that the fair value is uniquely determined by the given information. A further problem is that asset prices are typically expressed…
Extends trading framework to incorporate real-world constraints.
problem Trading strategies in multi-player non-cooperative games with constraints.
method Re-framed as quadratic programming problem, constraints readily incorporated.
result Two-trader equilibria calculated dynamically.
Equivariant networks improve geometric prediction without scalar approximations.
problem Efficiently predicting geometric tensors in real-world scenarios.
method Equivariant networks for geometric prediction.
result Equivariant networks can generalize to unseen systems for geometric prediction.
Deep reinforcement learning provides a promising approach for vision-based control of real-world robots. However, the generalization of such models depends critically on the quantity and variety of data available for training. This data can be difficult to obtain for some types of robotic systems, such as fragile, smal…
The paper identifies network bottlenecks using minimax paths in stochastic networks.
problem Identifying bottlenecks in networks with stochastic weights.
method Modeling as combinatorial semi-bandit problem, applying combinatorial Thompson Sampling, and approximating the original objective due to computational intractability.
result Established an upper bound on Bayesian regret and evaluated Thompson Sampling performance on real-world networks.
Paper proposes a risk-aware decision-making framework for real-world sequential decisions.
problem Real-world sequential decision-making problems often have critical constraints that learning solutions often neglect.
method Actor multi-critic architecture with risk characterization.
result Our approach consistently satisfies system constraints with minimal performance toll.
Combines TSP and SC to solve real-world vaccine distribution.
problem Combining TSP and SC for efficient vaccine distribution.
method Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) and machine learning.
result Machine learning approach improves solution efficiency.
Paper proposes CCVAE for generalized zero-shot domain adaptation.
problem Adapting to unseen classes in target domain with limited labeled data.
method Coupled Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CCVAE).
result CCVAE generates synthetic target domain features for unseen classes.
For autonomous agents to successfully operate in the real world, anticipation of future events and states of their environment is a key competence. This problem has been formalized as a sequence extrapolation problem, where a number of observations are used to predict the sequence into the future. Real-world scenarios …
GANs can learn hierarchical distributions in real-world images efficiently.
problem Understanding and efficiently learning complex, real-world distributions with GANs.
method Formally studying how GANs can learn hierarchically generated distributions close to real-life image distributions using SGDA.
result Training GANs via SGDA can efficiently learn distributions with a 'forward super-resolution' structure, both in sample and time complexities.
This work focuses on a specific classification problem, where the information about a sample is not readily available, but has to be acquired for a cost, and there is a per-sample budget. Inspired by real-world use-cases, we analyze average and hard variations of a directly specified budget. We postulate the problem in…
The paper explores how to make machine learning models robust to domain shifts.
problem Machine learning models are unreliable in domains different from training.
method Introducing a broad formal notion of invariance and causal structures.
result The true underlying causal structure of the data plays a critical role in robustness.
In retailer management, the Newsvendor problem has widely attracted attention as one of basic inventory models. In the traditional approach to solving this problem, it relies on the probability distribution of the demand. In theory, if the probability distribution is known, the problem can be considered as fully solved…
Framework for applying GPs to real-world data with scalability guidelines.
problem Deployment of Gaussian Processes (GPs) is hindered by computational costs and lack of guidelines.
method Proposed a framework for identifying GP suitability and setting up robust models, formalizing decisions of experienced practitioners.
result More accurate results at test time for glacier elevation change case study.
The Analysis from Nonlinear Distance Metric to Kernel-based Drug Prescription Prediction Systemcs.LG
The study compares Euclidean and cosine distances in medical drug prescription prediction.
problem Comparing Euclidean and cosine distances in medical drug prescription prediction.
method Established geometric properties and compared distances in real-world medical data.
result Different distances lead to different optimizing nonlinear kernel embedding frameworks.
Bayesian optimisation's mean function choice affects convergence speed.
problem The choice of mean function in Bayesian optimisation impacts convergence speed.
method Empirical investigation of 8 mean functions on 10 synthetic and 2 real-world problems.
result Using a constant mean function equal to the worst observed quality value promotes faster convergence.
Kernel and linear regression have been recently explored in the prediction of graph signals as the output, given arbitrary input signals that are agnostic to the graph. In many real-world problems, the graph expands over time as new nodes get introduced. Keeping this premise in mind, we propose a method to recursively …
In this letter, we address sparse signal recovery using spike and slab priors. In particular, we focus on a Bayesian framework where sparsity is enforced on reconstruction coefficients via probabilistic priors. The optimization resulting from spike and slab prior maximization is known to be a hard non-convex problem, a…
Survey on offline RL methods for real-world applications.
problem Inaccessible domains due to high cost and danger of interacting with the environment.
method Unifying taxonomy and review of offline RL algorithms.
result Wide range of applications for offline RL, including education, healthcare, and robotics.
Solves dual imbalance in detecting sparse anomalies in MIL.
problem Detecting scarce and sparse anomalous samples in MIL.
method Reformulates MIL as a fine-grained PU learning problem, addressing imbalance at both macro and micro levels.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of BFGPU framework on synthetic and real-world datasets.
A new method for multi-objective Bayesian optimization.
problem Finding optimal compromises between competing objectives.
method Joint Entropy Search (JES) acquisition function for multi-objective Bayesian optimization.
result JES outperforms existing methods in terms of hypervolume and its variants.
In many practical problems, a learning agent may want to learn the best action in hindsight without ever taking a bad action, which is significantly worse than the default production action. In general, this is impossible because the agent has to explore unknown actions, some of which can be bad, to learn better action…
Neural model accelerates SDDP for stochastic optimization.
problem Exponential complexity of SDDP limits its applicability to low-dimensional problems.
method Trainable neural model maps problem instances to a low-dimensional piecewise linear value function.
result ν-SDDP significantly reduces problem solving cost without sacrificing solution quality.
Study bandit problem on smooth graph functions for recommender systems.
problem Online learning problems involving graphs, like content-based recommendation.
method Introduced spectral bandit problem and two algorithms that scale linearly in effective dimension.
result Learned user preferences for thousands of items from just tens nodes evaluations.
We present the use of the fitted Q iteration in algorithmic trading. We show that the fitted Q iteration helps alleviate the dimension problem that the basic Q-learning algorithm faces in application to trading. Furthermore, we introduce a procedure including model fitting and data simulation to enrich training data as…
RoPE framework calibrates misspecified simulators for reliable inference.
problem Misspecification compromises reliability of simulation-based inference.
method Data-driven calibration using optimal transport and a small calibration set.
result RoPE framework improves inference accuracy and uncertainty calibration.
Many real-world networks are complex dynamical systems, where both local (e.g., changing node attributes) and global (e.g., changing network topology) processes unfold over time. Local dynamics may provoke global changes in the network, and the ability to detect such effects could have profound implications for a numbe…
Most deep learning classification studies assume clean data. However, when dealing with the real world data, we encounter three problems such as 1) missing data, 2) class imbalance, and 3) missing label problems. These problems undermine the performance of a classifier. Various preprocessing techniques have been propos…
We propose the supervised hierarchical Dirichlet process (sHDP), a nonparametric generative model for the joint distribution of a group of observations and a response variable directly associated with that whole group. We compare the sHDP with another leading method for regression on grouped data, the supervised latent…
Safe Bayesian Optimization algorithms are improved to ensure safety in real-world applications.
problem Ensuring safety in Bayesian Optimization algorithms for real-world applications.
method Investigated and improved three safety-related issues of SafeOpt-type algorithms: frequentist uncertainty bounds, RKHS norm assumptions, and discrete search spaces.
result Introduced Real-{eta}-SafeOpt, Lipschitz-only Safe Bayesian Optimization (LoSBO), and Lipschitz-only GP-UCB (LoS-GP-UCB) algorithms that retain safety guarantees and superior performance.
Proposes a new loss function for better handling mislabeling costs.
problem Handling mislabeling costs in machine learning models.
method Introduces Real-World-Weight Crossentropy loss function.
result Demonstrates improved performance in scenarios of mislabeling.