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Diversifies reply suggestions for IM systems using M-CVAE.

problem Improving diversity of automated reply suggestions in instant messaging systems.
method Formulated a generative latent variable model with Conditional Variational Auto-Encoder (M-CVAE) to diversify responses.
result Increased diversity by ~30-40% without significant impact on relevance.

OCC system speeds up in-app communications for Uber drivers and riders.

problem Improving efficiency in in-app messaging between drivers and riders.
method Intents are detected using unsupervised embedding and nearest-neighbor classifier. Replies are retrieved based on popularity in historical data.
result System achieves 76% accuracy in intent detection and 71% adoption rate of smart replies.

AI agents on social networks rarely engage in extended conversations.

problem Understanding the persistence of interactions in AI-agent social networks.
method Analysis of Moltbook, a social network of AI agents, using interaction half-life and spectral tests.
result Most comments on Moltbook receive a direct reply within seconds, indicating a ``fast response or silence'' regime.

In this paper we study iterative procedures for stationary equilibria in games with large number of players. Most of learning algorithms for games with continuous action spaces are limited to strict contraction best reply maps in which the Banach-Picard iteration converges with geometrical convergence rate. When the be…

2012-10-17abs ↗pdf ↗

PINNs solve neuronal parameter and state estimation problems with limited data.

problem Estimating parameters and hidden state variables from noisy partial data in multiscale neuronal models.
method Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) for joint state and parameter estimation.
result PINNs deliver robust and accurate parameter inference and state reconstruction, even with limited data.

Used to investigate the presence of distinctive recurrent behaviours in natural processes, the recurrence plots can be applied to the analysis of economic data, and, in particular, to the characterization of exchange rates of currencies too. In this paper, we will show that these plots are able to characterize the peri…

2014-07-27abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we propose a deep, globally normalized topic model that incorporates structural relationships connecting documents in socially generated corpora, such as online forums. Our model (1) captures discursive interactions along observed reply links in addition to traditional topic information, and (2) incorpor…

2018-09-19abs ↗pdf ↗

New concept of proper-calibeating extends classic calibrated forecasts to proper scoring rules.

problem Defining and extending calibrated forecasts to proper scoring rules.
method Extending the concepts of calibrated and calibeating forecasts to proper scoring rules and proving their properties.
result Proper-calibration always implies calibration, but proper-calibeating does not necessarily imply calibeating.

A new framework promotes trustworthy user-generated datasets by ensuring no user benefits from misreporting.

problem Incentivizing data misreporting in user-generated datasets.
method Proposes Licchavi, a global and personalized learning framework with provable strategyproofness guarantees.
result Proves that no user can gain much by replying to Licchavi's queries with deviated answers.

Silent abandonment reduces contact center efficiency by 5%-15%.

problem Measuring customer abandonment and patience in text-based contact centers is challenging due to uncertainty.
method Developed methodologies to identify silent-abandonment customers and estimate customer patience using text analysis and queueing models.
result Silent abandonment accounts for 30%-67% of customer abandonments and reduces system efficiency by 5%-15%.

In a recent comment (Johansen A 2003 An alternative view, Quant. Finance 3: C6-C7, cond-mat/0302141), Anders Johansen has criticized our methodology and has questioned several of our results published in [Sornette D and Zhou W-X 2002 The US 2000-2002 market descent: how much longer and deeper? Quant. Finance 2: 468-81,…

2003-04-30abs ↗pdf ↗

This is an expository article on the theory of Kuranishi structure and is based on a series of pdf files we uploaded for the discussion of the google group named `Kuranishi' (with its administrator H. Hofer). There we replied to several questions concerning Kuranishi structure raised by K. Wehrheim. At this stage we su…

2012-09-20abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method automatically and dynamically sets learning rates in deep learning.

problem Determining the appropriate learning rate in deep learning tasks is challenging and often subjective.
method Local Quadratic Approximation (LQA) to automatically and dynamically set learning rates.
result The proposed method leads to nearly optimal learning rates in a computationally efficient way.

User engagement in online social networking depends critically on the level of social activity in the corresponding platform--the number of online actions, such as posts, shares or replies, taken by their users. Can we design data-driven algorithms to increase social activity? At a user level, such algorithms may incre…

2018-02-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Study predicts email triage actions using content-based approach.

problem Predicting user triage actions on incoming emails.
method Formulated as a recommendation problem, uses content-based approach with additional similarity features.
result Proposed framework achieves better performance than state-of-the-art deep recommendation methods.

LiuBei is a resilient ML algorithm that tolerates Byzantine workers and servers without trusting any component.

problem Byzantine failures in distributed ML solutions.
method Byzantine-resilient ML algorithm that aggregates gradients and replicates parameter servers, using a filtering mechanism and scatter/gather protocol.
result LiuBei achieves Byzantine resilience to both servers and workers and guarantees convergence, with an accuracy loss of around 5% and a 24% convergence overhead.

BOFiP optimizes high-dimensional functions by distributing them into sub-spaces and using game theory.

problem Optimizing high-dimensional black box functions with computational complexity.
method BOFiP decomposes high-dimensional space into sub-spaces, searches within sub-spaces, and updates beliefs using game theory.
result BOFiP outperforms competitors in high-dimensional optimization problems.

Deep reinforcement learning improves medical test suggestions.

problem Improving accuracy of disease diagnosis through better medical test recommendations.
method Formulated as a stage-wise Markov decision process, trained using reinforcement learning with a new action policy representation and exploration scheme.
result Significant improvement in disease diagnosis accuracy with better medical test suggestions.

SessionPath improves category suggestions in type-ahead search.

problem Improving precision and recall in eCommerce type-ahead suggestions.
method SessionPath uses session embeddings and a probability distribution model to predict facets.
result SessionPath outperforms count-based and neural models in eCommerce shops.

We describe a set of Gaussian Process based approaches that can be used to solve non-linear Ordinary Differential Equations. We suggest an explicit probabilistic solver and two implicit methods, one analogous to Picard iteration and the other to gradient matching. All methods have greater accuracy than previously sugge…

2014-08-17abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper proposes the use of wavelet methods to estimate U.S. core inflation. It explains wavelet methods and suggests they are ideally suited to this task. Comparisons are made with traditional CPI-based and regression-based measures for their performance in following trend inflation and predicting future inflation.…

2011-03-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Efficient algorithm for mobile health provides timely physical activity suggestions.

problem Inefficient reinforcement learning for mobile health settings.
method Contextual bandit algorithm with linear mixed effects model and hyper-parameter updating.
result Improves speed and accuracy by up to 99% and 56%.

We suggest using the max-norm as a convex surrogate constraint for clustering. We show how this yields a better exact cluster recovery guarantee than previously suggested nuclear-norm relaxation, and study the effectiveness of our method, and other related convex relaxations, compared to other clustering approaches.

2012-02-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Experiment shows cognitive biases impact human-AI collaboration, highlighting the need for diverse evaluator samples.

problem Cognitive biases affect human-AI collaboration, leading to suboptimal outcomes.
method Randomized experiment with 2,784 participants, manipulating AI suggestion quality, task burden, and financial incentives.
result Individual attitudes toward AI are the strongest predictor of performance, influencing accuracy and overcorrection.

Uncovering the heterogeneity of causal effects of policies and business decisions at various levels of granularity provides substantial value to decision makers. This paper develops new estimation and inference procedures for multiple treatment models in a selection-on-observables framework by modifying the Causal Fore…

2018-12-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a new query autocompletion method that maximizes retrieval performance.

problem Users often select suboptimal queries due to unknown best retrieval performance.
method Formulates query autocompletion as ranking item rankings, uses counterfactual learning.
result Empirical results show improved query suggestions for better retrieval performance.

We suggest an empirical model of investment strategy returns which elucidates the importance of non-Gaussian features, such as time-varying volatility, asymmetry and fat tails, in explaining the level of expected returns. Estimating the model on the (former) Lehman Brothers Hedge Fund Index data, we demonstrate that th…

2011-12-05abs ↗pdf ↗

The self-similar analysis of time series, suggested earlier by the authors, is applied to the description of market crises. The main attention is payed to the October 1929, 1987 and 1997 stock market crises, which can be successfully treated by the suggested approach. The analogy between market crashes and critical phe…

1997-10-30abs ↗pdf ↗

We extend the well-known Borromean and Brunnian rings to new higher order versions. Then we suggest an extension of the connection between Efimov states in cold gases and Borromean and Brunnian rings to these new higher order links. This gives rise to a whole new hierarchy of possible states with Efimov states at the b…

2010-12-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Comment on recent paper suggesting adversarially trained BNNs are more robust, finds no strong evidence.

problem Evaluating the robustness of adversarially trained Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) against adversarial attacks.
method Developed a new type of adversarial attack to incorporate the stochastic nature of BNNs, used to evaluate robustness.
result No strong evidence of higher robustness of adversarially trained BNNs.

It has been suggested in 1999 that a certain volume growth condition for geodesically complete Riemannian manifolds might imply that the manifold is stochastically complete. This is motivated by a large class of examples and by a known analogous criterion for recurrence of Brownian motion. We show that the suggested im…

2009-08-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Automated suggestions help train technicians diagnose incidents faster.

problem Manual and time-consuming incident diagnosis by train maintenance technicians.
method Developed and deployed a learning machine to suggest diagnostics to technicians.
result The model refines its accuracy through feedback from experts and uses feature engineering.

Develops a method for generating understandable and attainable counterfactual explanations for tabular data.

problem Ensuring counterfactual explanations are both interpretable and attainable for individuals.
method Combines quality measures with manifold learning techniques to generate counterfactuals that are both proximate and connected to regions of high data density.
result Proposes a framework (C-CHVAE) for generating attainable counterfactuals that are also interpretable.

Numerical computations suggest that each point on a certain optimized shape called the ideal trefoil is in contact with two other points. We consider sequences of such contact points, such that each point is in contact with its predecessor and call it a billiard. Our numerics suggest that a particular billiard on the i…

2011-03-18abs ↗pdf ↗

The study of the relation between the Weierstrass inducing formulae for constant mean curvature surfaces and the completely integrable euclidean nonlinear sigma-model suggests a connection among integrable sigma -models in a background and other type of surfaces. We show how a generalization of the Weierstrass represen…

2002-07-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent years have seen a boom in interest in machine learning systems that can provide a human-understandable rationale for their predictions or decisions. However, exactly what kinds of explanation are truly human-interpretable remains poorly understood. This work advances our understanding of what makes explanations …

2019-01-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Study suggests using information flow measures to target interventions in neural networks.

problem Identifying neural network edges that can be pruned to reduce bias.
method Used MM-information flow framework to measure and compare information flows about true labels and protected attributes, and evaluated pruning effects on bias reduction.
result Pruning edges with larger information flows about protected attributes reduces bias at the output.