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New algorithm guarantees optimal convergence rate for stochastic optimization.

problem Optimal convergence rate for stochastic optimization algorithms.
method Regularized versions of Minimization by Incremental Surrogate Optimization (MISO) with arbitrary recurrent data sampling.
result Expected optimality gap converges at O(n1/2)O(n^{-1/2}) under general recurrent sampling schemes.

Despite recent successes in Reinforcement Learning, value-based methods often suffer from high variance hindering performance. In this paper, we illustrate this in a continuous control setting where state of the art methods perform poorly whenever sensor noise is introduced. To overcome this issue, we introduce Recurre…

2019-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Study automates detection of visitation disruptions in ICU patients.

problem Difficulty in detecting frequent visitation disruptions in ICU patients.
method Used DensePose R-CNN model to count people in video frames, analyzed disruptions and patient outcomes.
result Automated method detects visitation disruptions, impacts on pain and length of stay examined.

AdaptiveNet tackles disease progression prediction in rheumatoid arthritis using deep neural networks.

problem Predicting disease progression in rheumatoid arthritis using clinical data.
method AdaptiveNet, a novel recurrent neural network architecture, that handles multiple lists of different events and missing data.
result AdaptiveNet outperforms classical baselines in disease progression prediction.

Computational models that forecast the progression of Alzheimer's disease at the patient level are extremely useful tools for identifying high risk cohorts for early intervention and treatment planning. The state-of-the-art work in this area proposes models that forecast by using latent representations extracted from t…

2019-04-17abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper introduces a new intrinsic reward method for exploration in reinforcement learning.

problem Improving exploration in reinforcement learning agents.
method Intrinsic rewards proportional to the entropy of future state-action features.
result The new objective leads to improved visitation of features within individual trajectories.

Real-Time Bidding is nowadays one of the most promising systems in the online advertising ecosystem. In the presented study, the performance of RTB campaigns is improved by optimising the parameters of the users' profiles and the publishers' websites. Most studies about optimising RTB campaigns are focused on the biddi…

2019-10-29abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes how SGD visits different regions of a non-convex problem's state space.

problem Understanding the long-run distribution of stochastic gradient descent in non-convex problems.
method Large deviations theory and randomly perturbed dynamical systems.
result The long-run distribution of SGD resembles the Boltzmann-Gibbs distribution with temperature equal to the step-size.

VisitHGNN predicts visit probabilities between neighborhoods and POIs using graph neural networks.

problem Estimating visit probabilities between neighborhoods and POIs for urban planning.
method Heterogeneous, relation-specific graph neural network (VisitHGNN) trained on mobility data.
result Strong predictive performance with high fidelity to observed travel behavior.

New RL approach uses future state and action visitation measures for better exploration.

problem Improving exploration in reinforcement learning.
method Intrinsic reward based on future state and action visitation measures, using contraction operators.
result Policies achieve good state-action space coverage and high performance.

A3T-GCN improves traffic forecasting by capturing spatial and temporal dependencies.

problem Accurate real-time traffic forecasting in complex road networks.
method Attention Temporal Graph Convolutional Network (A3T-GCN) integrating recurrent units and graph convolutional network.
result Improved prediction accuracy through attention mechanism and global temporal information.

Paper proposes machine learning model for early Alzheimer's diagnosis.

problem Early and accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease.
method Machine learning models, demographic, biomarker, and cognitive test data.
result 90% accuracy and 87% accuracy in predicting Alzheimer's development.

The paper develops personalized DAG models for web user behavior.

problem Understanding user behavior transitions between websites with user heterogeneity and network dependency.
method Personalized Binomial DAG models with network-structured covariates, embedding network structure into a dimension-reduced covariate, learning node neighborhoods, and exploring variance-mean relation.
result The proposed algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art competitors in heterogeneous data.

25% of people who received a liver transplant will go on to develop diabetes within the next 5 years. These thousands of individuals are at 2-fold higher risk of cardiovascular events, graft loss, infections, as well as lower long-term survival. This is partly due to the medication used during and/or after transplant t…

2018-12-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhances early risk assessments for pediatric outcomes using contrastive learning.

problem Improving risk assessments in early stages of pediatric development.
method Contrastive multi-modal framework that treats each time window as a distinct modality, training on all available data.
result Consistent improvements in early-stage risk assessments validated on real-world tasks.

We show how to learn low-dimensional representations (embeddings) of patient visits from the corresponding electronic health record (EHR) where International Classification of Diseases (ICD) diagnosis codes are removed. We expect that these embeddings will be useful for the construction of predictive statistical models…

2018-03-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Modeling infection hotspots to quantify effects of contact tracing and testing.

problem Capturing the role of infection hotspots in disease transmission.
method Temporal point process modeling framework to represent visits and disease transmission.
result Estimation of transmission rates at sites and households using Bayesian optimization.

Study online RL with mismatched dynamics, achieving sublinear regret.

problem Exploration challenges in online RL with mismatched training and deployment dynamics.
method Introduce supremal visitation ratio, propose efficient algorithm with ff-divergence.
result Achieves sublinear regret in online RMDPs with optimal dependence on supremal visitation ratio and interaction episodes.

The paper introduces return parity for fairness in MDPs, addressing delayed and adverse effects.

problem Fairness in MDPs for dynamic domains with delayed and adverse effects.
method Proposes return parity, decomposes return disparity, and develops algorithms for state visitation distributional alignment.
result The proposed algorithms can successfully close the disparity gap while maintaining policy performance.

In batch reinforcement learning (RL), one often constrains a learned policy to be close to the behavior (data-generating) policy, e.g., by constraining the learned action distribution to differ from the behavior policy by some maximum degree that is the same at each state. This can cause batch RL to be overly conservat…

2020-02-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Algorithm optimizes constrained reinforcement learning with dual variables.

problem Minimizing convex functional subject to convex constraint in large state spaces.
method VPDPO algorithm using Lagrangian and Fenchel duality.
result Achieves sublinear regret and constraint violation, globally optimal policy.

Study how untrained policies explore in RL environments.

problem Challenges in reinforcement learning, especially sparse or adversarial reward structures.
method Theoretical and empirical analysis of untrained deep neural policies in a toy model.
result Untrained policies generate correlated actions and non-trivial state-visitation distributions.

We present here a general framework and a specific algorithm for predicting the destination, route, or more generally a pattern, of an ongoing journey, building on the recent work of [Y. Lassoued, J. Monteil, Y. Gu, G. Russo, R. Shorten, and M. Mevissen, "Hidden Markov model for route and destination prediction," in IE…

2018-08-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Estimating statistical uncertainties allows autonomous agents to communicate their confidence during task execution and is important for applications in safety-critical domains such as autonomous driving. In this work, we present the uncertainty-aware imitation learning (UAIL) algorithm for improving end-to-end control…

2019-05-07abs ↗pdf ↗

The pullback approach to global Finsler geometry is adopted. Three classes of recurrence in Finsler geometry are introduced and investigated: simple recurrence, Ricci recurrence and concircular recurrence. Each of these classes consists of four types of recurrence. The interrelationships between the different types of …

2016-07-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Given a huge set of applicants, how should a firm allocate sequential resume screenings, phone interviews, and in-person site visits? In a tiered interview process, later stages (e.g., in-person visits) are more informative, but also more expensive than earlier stages (e.g., resume screenings). Using accepted hiring mo…

2019-06-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on biharmonic hypersurfaces with specific recurrent operators in Euclidean space.

problem Characterizing biharmonic hypersurfaces with recurrent operators.
method Analysis of various recurrent operators and their impact on biharmonic hypersurfaces.
result Some well-known recurrent operators play a significant role in making biharmonic hypersurfaces minimal.

The aim of the present paper is to investigate new types of recurrence in Finsler geometry, namely, hyper-generalized recurrence and generalized conharmonic recurrence. The properties of such recurrences and their relations to other Finsler recurrences are studied.

2017-07-15abs ↗pdf ↗