FedRule uses graph neural networks to recommend rules for smart homes without centralizing data.
problem Manual rule setup for smart devices is inefficient and privacy-compromising.
method FedRule constructs user-specific graphs for rule recommendation, using federated learning to protect privacy.
result FedRule achieves comparable performance to centralized methods and outperforms others.
Explainability and effectiveness are two key aspects for building recommender systems. Prior efforts mostly focus on incorporating side information to achieve better recommendation performance. However, these methods have some weaknesses: (1) prediction of neural network-based embedding methods are hard to explain and …
Meta decision trees explain user ratings in recommendation systems.
problem Building explainable recommendation systems with clear user explanations.
method Learned regression functions and sparse decision rules based on user embeddings.
result The method provides accurate and interpretable ratings.
The paper uses machine learning to find causal rules from business process logs.
problem Discovering causal relationships in business process logs.
method Action rule mining followed by causal machine learning (uplift trees).
result Identifies treatments with high causal effect on outcomes.
The problem of detecting terms that can be interesting to the advertiser is considered. If a company has already bought some advertising terms which describe certain services, it is reasonable to find out the terms bought by competing companies. A part of them can be recommended as future advertising terms to the compa…
A new method for decision tree selection in recommendation systems.
problem Feature-based selection of a single tree from an ensemble for dynamic interpretation.
method A multi-armed contextual bandit recommendation framework that trains a system on top of Random Forests to identify the most relevant tree.
result The dynamic method outperforms an independent CART tree and is comparable to Random Forest in predictive performance.
Fuses ITRs for primary and secondary outcomes to minimize harm.
problem Learn an ITR maximizing primary outcome while minimizing harm to secondary outcomes.
method Introduces fusion penalty to encourage similar recommendations for different outcomes. Two algorithms estimate the ITR using surrogate loss functions.
result Agreement rate between primary and secondary optimal ITRs converges faster than ignoring secondary outcomes.
We quantify content availability and user discovery opportunities in recommender systems.
problem Determining the maximum probability of recommending content to users.
method Stochastic reachability to compute upper bounds on recommendation likelihood.
result Reachability metrics can detect biases and diagnose user discovery limitations.
Symmetric CNNs improve sequential recommendation and protein structure prediction.
problem Improving prediction accuracy in sequential recommendation and protein structure inference.
method Developed a CNN architecture that preserves symmetry in convolutional layers, using parameterized convolutional kernels.
result Symmetric structured CNNs achieve better performance with fewer parameters.
User and item features of side information are crucial for accurate recommendation. However, the large number of feature dimensions, e.g., usually larger than 10^7, results in expensive storage and computational cost. This prohibits fast recommendation especially on mobile applications where the computational resource …
SOAR generates rules for both positive and negative classes in binary classification.
problem Lack of interpretability in machine learning models for binary classification.
method Extends or-of-and classification technique to both positive and negative classes.
result Competitive classification performance with simulated-annealing optimization.
SupRB learns rules for continuous decision problems from examples.
problem Learning from continuous choices and explaining decisions to operators.
method SupRB is a supervised rule-based learning system for multi-dimensional continuous problems.
result SupRB provides human-understandable rules for optimal choices and quality predictions.
RL algorithms with medical integration improve personalized treatment recommendations.
problem Developing effective personalized treatment strategies for chronic diseases.
method Integrating medical knowledge into RL algorithms for DTR.
result Enhanced treatment recommendations with increased confidence.
It is crucial to provide compatible treatment schemes for a disease according to various symptoms at different stages. However, most classification methods might be ineffective in accurately classifying a disease that holds the characteristics of multiple treatment stages, various symptoms, and multi-pathogenesis. More…
Recommender system is an important component of many web services to help users locate items that match their interests. Several studies showed that recommender systems are vulnerable to poisoning attacks, in which an attacker injects fake data to a given system such that the system makes recommendations as the attacke…
Neural Logic Reasoning integrates deep learning and symbolic logic for better prediction tasks.
problem Lack of cognitive reasoning in deep neural networks limits their ability to solve complex prediction tasks.
method Proposes Logic-Integrated Neural Network (LINN) that learns logical operations and conducts propositional logical reasoning.
result LINN significantly outperforms state-of-the-art recommendation models in Top-K recommendation.
There are three quite distinct ways to train a machine learning model on recommender system logs. The first method is to model the reward prediction for each possible recommendation to the user, at the scoring time the best recommendation is found by computing an argmax over the personalized recommendations. This metho…
Study optimal and equitable encouragement policies for treatment adherence.
problem Optimal treatment adherence policies in the presence of human non-adherence.
method Covariate-conditional no-direct-effect model of encouragement; tractable policy characterizations under constraints.
result Induced treatment take-up is the fairness target, not recommendation rates.
CASP selects reliable policies for two-stage recommender systems by considering both value and support.
problem The selection of a generator in two-stage recommender systems affects both the policy value and the data support used to estimate it.
method CASP combines doubly robust value estimation with a support-burden penalty.
result CASP selects lower-burden policies when estimated value and support credibility are in tension.
Improves pre-trial risk assessments by making them safer without changing existing rules.
problem Improving pre-trial risk assessments while maintaining deterministic rules.
method Developed a maximin robust optimization approach to find a safer policy.
result Can safely improve certain components of the risk assessment instrument.
Optimal Volt/VAR control rules designed using deep learning.
problem Designing optimal Volt/VAR control rules for DERs to regulate voltage fluctuations.
method Formulated as a deep learning problem, where a DNN emulates Volt/VAR dynamics and optimizes rule parameters.
result DNN-based optimization outperforms MINLP in efficiency and accuracy.
This paper presents a case study of a recommender system that can be used to save energy in smart homes without lowering the comfort of the inhabitants. We present an algorithm that uses consumer behavior data only and uses machine learning to suggest actions for inhabitants to reduce the energy consumption of their ho…
Kernel method optimizes personalized dose rules for patients.
problem Finding optimal individualized dose rules for patients.
method Kernel assisted learning method for estimating optimal dose rules.
result The method identifies the optimal individualized dose rule and produces favorable outcomes.
From doctors diagnosing patients to judges setting bail, experts often base their decisions on experience and intuition rather than on statistical models. While understandable, relying on intuition over models has often been found to result in inferior outcomes. Here we present a new method, select-regress-and-round, f…
Study optimizes best-arm identification with minimax and Bayes strategies.
problem Efficiently identifying the best arm in fixed-budget scenarios.
method Adaptive procedure with two stages: pilot phase and minimax game.
result Single strategy is asymptotically minimax and Bayes optimal.
Paper compares AutoML methods for recommending classification algorithms.
problem Finding the best classification algorithm for a dataset.
method Four AutoML methods using Evolutionary Algorithms and CASH approach.
result EA-based methods, especially decision-tree induction, produce interpretable models.
Enhanced recommender system using ensemble learning and graph embedding.
problem Challenges in selecting relevant data for users from large datasets.
method Group classification, ensemble learning, fuzzy rules, decision tree, graph embedding.
result High efficiency of the presented method on MovieLens datasets.
We learn hierarchical slate representations for collaborative filtering.
problem Building models for recommendation systems with hierarchical slates.
method Learning low-dimensional embeddings of hierarchical slates using recursive composition rules.
result Improved recommendation system performance on a real-world dataset.
Decision makers, such as doctors and judges, make crucial decisions such as recommending treatments to patients, and granting bails to defendants on a daily basis. Such decisions typically involve weighting the potential benefits of taking an action against the costs involved. In this work, we aim to automate this task…
Optimal strategy found for identifying best arm in bandits with small gap.
problem Best arm identification in two-armed bandits with a fixed budget and small gap.
method Neyman allocation rule augmented with inverse probability weighting.
result Proposed strategy is asymptotically optimal when gap is small.
Dynamic treatment regimes are of growing interest across the clinical sciences as these regimes provide one way to operationalize and thus inform sequential personalized clinical decision making. A dynamic treatment regime is a sequence of decision rules, with a decision rule per stage of clinical intervention; each de…
New job recommendation system improves job seekers' welfare through field experiments.
problem Current job recommendation systems focus on clicks and applications, not job seekers' welfare.
method Developed a job-search model with two dimensions: utility and success probability. Conducted field experiments to validate model predictions.
result Welfare-optimal job recommendation algorithms outperform existing approaches and perform close to the benchmark.
An online decision-making algorithm using stochastic gradient descent for big data.
problem Efficiently updating decision rules in online decision making with big data.
method Stochastic gradient descent for online updates, asymptotic normality of estimators.
result Asymptotic normality of parameter and value estimators, enabling statistical inference.
The paper learns personalized treatment rules from observational data.
problem Developing effective treatment policies for individual patients.
method Contextual bandit approach to minimize expected risk of treatment policies.
result The proposed method outperforms physicians and baseline approaches in IV and VP administration.
Proposes a new decision rule for continuous treatments.
problem Developing personalized treatment recommendations for continuous treatments.
method Jump interval-learning method to estimate conditional mean of outcomes.
result Optimal interval-valued decision rule (I2DR) for continuous treatments.
Representation learning has recently been successfully used to create vector representations of entities in language learning, recommender systems and in similarity learning. Graph embeddings exploit the locality structure of a graph and generate embeddings for nodes which could be words in a language, products of a re…
Proposes a method to create fair ITRs that balance value and fairness.
problem Fairness issues in ITRs that can lead to unfair advantages or disadvantages.
method Optimal transport theory to transform optimal ITRs into fair ITRs.
result Established a theoretical upper bound on value loss for improved trade-off ITRs.
Decision makers, such as doctors and judges, make crucial decisions such as recommending treatments to patients, and granting bails to defendants on a daily basis. Such decisions typically involve weighting the potential benefits of taking an action against the costs involved. In this work, we aim to automate this task…
There is tremendous interest in precision medicine as a means to improve patient outcomes by tailoring treatment to individual characteristics. An individualized treatment rule formalizes precision medicine as a map from patient information to a recommended treatment. A treatment rule is defined to be optimal if it max…
Expands statistical background for knee osteoarthritis treatment models.
problem Developing optimal exercise and weight loss treatments for knee osteoarthritis.
method Precision medicine models and jackknife cross-validation method.
result Jackknife estimator provides consistent value function estimation.
Many-to-one RNN predicts user hotel clicks from browsing history.
problem Predicting user hotel clicks from browsing history.
method Combines rule-based algorithm with Gated RNN to sort accommodations.
result Promising results but computationally demanding.
Study uses supercomputers to improve financial predictions.
problem Improving financial predictions through better exploration of data.
method Refactored and ran algorithm on Fugaku supercomputer, exploring more rules.
result Increasing the number of explored rules improves predictive performance.
Ancillaries have become a major source of revenue and profitability in the travel industry. Yet, conventional pricing strategies are based on business rules that are poorly optimized and do not respond to changing market conditions. This paper describes the dynamic pricing model developed by Deepair solutions, an AI te…
Time series forecasting models fail to consistently select the best model across different datasets.
problem Inconsistency in model selection for time series forecasting across varying data regimes.
method Characterized time series using descriptors like trend strength, seasonality, noise level, and temporal dependence. Developed a rule-based selection mechanism to map data regimes to candidate models.
result Rule-based model selection achieves low accuracy, with correct model identification occurring in only a small fraction of cases.
TS-UCB improves Thompson Sampling with minimal extra computation.
problem Online decision problems with bandit feedback.
method TS-UCB uses posterior samples and upper confidence bounds to select arms.
result TS-UCB achieves lower regret on various datasets.
Deviation-based learning improves recommender systems by abstaining from recommending choices users might follow.
problem Recommender systems learn from user choices but can stall if users blindly follow recommendations.
method The recommender learns user knowledge by observing choices, abstaining from recommending a choice when multiple alternatives produce similar payoffs.
result Learning rate and social welfare improve when the recommender abstains from recommending certain choices.
Recent studies in the literature have paid much attention to the sparsity in linear classification tasks. One motivation of imposing sparsity assumption on the linear discriminant direction is to rule out the noninformative features, making hardly contribution to the classification problem. Most of those work were focu…
In machine learning we often try to optimise a decision rule that would have worked well over a historical dataset; this is the so called empirical risk minimisation principle. In the context of learning from recommender system logs, applying this principle becomes a problem because we do not have available the reward …