Framework tracks evolving news stories across multiple sources.
problem Tracking evolving news stories across diverse sources and formats.
method Cross-domain story tracking approach using entity graphs and learning-to-rank.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art methods for real-time story tracking.
Contagions such as the spread of popular news stories, or infectious diseases, propagate in cascades over dynamic networks with unobservable topologies. However, "social signals" such as product purchase time, or blog entry timestamps are measurable, and implicitly depend on the underlying topology, making it possible …
Proposes models to generate more interesting story endings.
problem Generating diverse and interesting story endings for a given context.
method Trains models to focus on keyphrases and promotes non-generic words.
result Models generate more diverse and interesting story endings.
This work recommends personalized search stories to users based on their interests.
problem Personalized search story recommendation within search engines.
method Deep reinforcement learning architecture trained by imitation learning and reinforcement learning.
result Empirically demonstrated effectiveness on real-world data sets.
Neural story generation gains common sense through targeted training.
problem Lack of common sense reasoning in neural-generated stories.
method Multi-task learning with auxiliary datasets for common sense grounding.
result Improved common sense reasoning and state-of-the-art perplexity.
Modeling true and false news diffusion in social networks using homogeneity.
problem Difficulties in distinguishing true from false news in social networks.
method Proposes a Bayesian nonparametric model that incorporates homogeneity of news stories to predict their genuineness.
result Homogeneity values of news stories strongly correlate with their genuineness and content.
Although there has been substantial research in software analytics for effort estimation in traditional software projects, little work has been done for estimation in agile projects, especially estimating user stories or issues. Story points are the most common unit of measure used for estimating the effort involved in…
The paper tackles entity induction and reference in visual storytelling.
problem Coherence in visual storytelling through proper entity introduction and reference.
method Building an entity skeleton, using an encoder-decoder framework, and proposing a glocal hierarchical attention model.
result The proposed models outperform the baseline in automatic evaluation metrics and human preference.
Paper proposes a deep learning architecture for generating long stories from images.
problem Maintaining context in long event sequences for visual storytelling.
method Hierarchical deep learning architecture with encoder-decoder networks and natural language descriptions.
result Our method outperforms state-of-the-art techniques on automatic evaluation metrics.
By specifying model free preferences towards simple nested classes of lottery pairs, we develop the dual story to stand on equal footing with that of (primal) risk apportionment. The dual story provides an intuitive interpretation, and full characterization, of dual counterparts of such concepts as prudence and tempera…
Online social networking sites are experimenting with the following crowd-powered procedure to reduce the spread of fake news and misinformation: whenever a user is exposed to a story through her feed, she can flag the story as misinformation and, if the story receives enough flags, it is sent to a trusted third party …
Bitcoin fails to prove safe haven status during pandemic.
problem Determining if Bitcoin is a reliable safe haven asset during crises.
method Quantile correlations of Bitcoin with S&P500, VIX, and gold.
result Gold is a better safe haven during crises, not Bitcoin.
Generates coherent storybooks from plain text using diffusion models.
problem Ensuring coherency in a sequence of images for storytelling applications.
method Combines pre-trained LLM and text-guided Latent Diffusion Model for zero-shot generation.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art image editing baselines in generating coherent storybooks.
Models of bags of words typically assume topic mixing so that the words in a single bag come from a limited number of topics. We show here that many sets of bag of words exhibit a very different pattern of variation than the patterns that are efficiently captured by topic mixing. In many cases, from one bag of words to…
Users can anticipate follower preferences by balancing feedback exploitation and exploration.
problem How users can anticipate their followers' preferences based on feedback.
method Theoretical analysis and practical algorithms for sequential decision making and utility maximization.
result Users need to balance exploitation and exploration to succeed in anticipating follower preferences.
A textbook on machine learning explaining patterns, predictions, and actions.
problem Understanding patterns in data for predictions and actions.
method Explains foundations of decision making, representation, optimization, and generalization.
result Equips readers with tools to reason about actions and their consequences.
This paper explores using neural networks to improve Airbnb search performance.
problem Plateaued gains from gradient boosted decision tree model in search ranking.
method Applied neural networks to improve search performance.
result Shows elements useful in applying neural networks to a real-life product.
Storytelling algorithms aim to 'connect the dots' between disparate documents by linking starting and ending documents through a series of intermediate documents. Existing storytelling algorithms are based on notions of coherence and connectivity, and thus the primary way by which users can steer the story construction…
Study shows stock prices influence news more than the other way around.
problem Understanding the interdependency between stock market and financial news.
method Time series analysis using five classification models.
result Stock prices have a greater impact on news contents than the other way around.
Surveying isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres, focusing on Élie Cartan's techniques.
problem Classifying isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres.
method Historical survey and focus on Élie Cartan's techniques.
result Attention to Élie Cartan's techniques in the case of four principal curvatures.
We give a different perspective on the (by now) classic Basmajian identity, and point out some related results, both in the setting of hyperbolic manifolds, and in the polyhedral setting \emph{without} any group acting. In the new version we give more geometric and combinatorial applications of the main ideas.
This paper and its sequel prove a generalization of the usual gluing theorem for two index 1 pseudoholomorphic curves u_+ and u_- in the symplectization of a contact 3-manifold. We assume that for each embedded Reeb orbit gamma, the total multiplicity of the negative ends of u_+ at covers of gamma agrees with the total…
New mSpinh-manifolds studied for their properties.
problem Understanding new manifold classifications.
method Exploring mSpinh-manifolds as a new category. result Highlights of mSpinh-manifolds discussed. A 4-manifold is constructed with some curious metric properties; or maybe it is many 4-manifolds masquerading as one, which would explain why it looks curious. Anyway, knots in the 3-sphere with complete finite volume hyperbolic metrics on their complements play a role in this story.
This paper is an expansion of my lecture for David Epstein's birthday, which traced a logical progression from ideas of Euclid on subdividing polygons to some recent research on invariants of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. This `logical progression' makes a good story but distorts history a bit: the ultimate aims of the chara…
There are multiple sides to every story, and while statistical topic models have been highly successful at topically summarizing the stories in corpora of text documents, they do not explicitly address the issue of learning the different sides, the viewpoints, expressed in the documents. In this paper, we show how thes…
RL approach for target tracking with unknown dynamics and sensor control.
problem Tracking an unknown target with sensor control.
method Track-MDP formulation for RL, compared with POMDP.
result Optimal RL policy tracks all target paths with certainty.
This work uses SVM to identify track component failures in AC Track Circuits.
problem Detecting and identifying specific track component failures in AC Track Circuits.
method Applied SVM classifier to STDS track circuit data.
result Successfully classified 15 different track component failures.
Tangle machines are a topologically inspired diagrammatic formalism to describe information flow in networks. This paper begins with an expository account of tangle machines motivated by the problem of describing `covariance intersection' fusion of Gaussian estimators in networks. It then gives two examples in which ta…
New train tracks for complex homeomorphisms found.
problem Existence of irreducible train tracks for pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms.
method Starting from a veering triangulation, identify and modify branches to bypass obstructions.
result Construction of invariant train tracks with irreducible transition matrix.
New method uses cluster shapes to improve track finding in particle collisions.
problem Combining timing and additional detector information for efficient track finding.
method Neural networks to analyze cluster shapes for track seeding.
result Cluster shapes reduce fake combinatorial backgrounds while maintaining high track efficiency.
Replication study shows Deep-SE still not as effective as previously thought for agile effort estimation.
problem Improving accuracy in estimating agile software development effort.
method Close replication of Deep-SE using additional data and comparison with multiple baselines.
result Deep-SE outperforms only a few cases, suggesting more work is needed.
Value-tracking in financial markets breaks down when non-valuation-based traders dominate.
problem Understanding the threshold for value-tracking in financial markets.
method Simple discrete-time model to show how non-valuation-based traders can cause tracking errors.
result A threshold above which value-tracking breaks down without changes in asset value.
New algorithms tackle multi-agent problems with hybrid action spaces.
problem Applying deep reinforcement learning to multi-agent problems with discrete-continuous hybrid action spaces.
method Proposed two novel algorithms: Deep MAPQN and Deep MAHHQN, using centralized training and decentralized execution.
result Empirical results show both algorithms significantly outperform existing methods.
This paper optimizes object tracking on edge devices with small matrices.
problem Efficiently tracking objects in video sequences on edge devices with small matrices.
method Parallelized a Simple Online and Real-time Tracking (SORT) application on shared-memory multicores.
result Throughput-based parallelization technique outperforms multi-threading for small matrices.
A DRL-based strategy improves vehicle tracking accuracy while saving energy.
problem Enhancing vehicle tracking accuracy in WSNs without increasing energy consumption.
method Decentralized strategy with dynamic reinforcement learning to adjust sensing areas.
result Simulation results demonstrate superior performance of DRL-aided design.
Paper introduces TAP-Vid, a benchmark for tracking any point in videos.
problem Tackles the problem of tracking arbitrary physical points on surfaces over longer video clips.
method Formalizes the problem as TAP, introduces TAP-Vid benchmark, uses crowdsourced pipeline with optical flow estimates, proposes TAP-Net model.
result TAP-Net outperforms all prior methods on TAP-Vid benchmark when trained on synthetic data.
Study on VIX futures portfolios to track VIX index, finding dynamic strategy superior.
problem Tracking VIX index with VIX futures lagging.
method Optimization methods for static portfolios, dynamic trading strategy for VIX futures.
result Dynamic trading strategy outperforms static portfolios and VXX in tracking VIX.
We show that the subsurface projection of a train track splitting sequence is an unparameterized quasi-geodesic in the curve complex of the subsurface. For the proof we introduce induced tracks, efficient position, and wide curves. This result is an important step in the proof that the disk complex is Gromov hyperbolic…
A novel tracking method for dense honeybee colonies using pixel personality.
problem Tracking large numbers of densely-arranged, interacting objects in a 2D environment.
method Segmentation-based object detection followed by adaptive object recognition through visual appearance.
result Reconstructed ~46% of trajectories in 5 minutes and 71% of tracks for at least 2 minutes.
Train track automata for fully irreducible elements in Out(F_r).
problem Understanding fully irreducible elements in Out(F_r).
method Describing train track automata and geodesics in Outer Space.
result Geodesics in Culler-Vogtmann Outer Space for fully irreducible elements.
Dynamic tracking error framework shows similar performance but varying volatility across different constraints.
problem Differences in governance parameters between Total Portfolio Approach and Strategic Asset Allocation.
method Portfolio simulations using U.S. equity and bond data from 2000 to 2026, spanning 2004 to 2026.
result Realized tracking error volatility varies 12-fold across different constraints, with costs highest during crises.
A new neural network approach reduces tracking error in index replication.
problem Efficiently replicating an index with cardinality constraints.
method Reparametrisation and stochastic neural networks for optimisation.
result Our model achieves the lowest tracking error compared to benchmarks.
Modeling self-tracking data identifies subtypes of endometriosis.
problem No known biomarkers for endometriosis, highly enigmatic condition.
method Mixed-membership models on self-tracking data.
result Identifies potential subtypes robust to tracking variations.
Paper improves Lasso for S&P500 index tracking with post-selection inference.
problem Index tracking for S&P500 with many applications.
method Used Lasso for dimension reduction and post-selection inference.
result Lasso method for S&P500 index tracking shows high performance.
Bayesian approach for constructing and rebalancing sparse index-tracking portfolios.
problem Sparse tracking of a reference index with uncertainty quantification.
method Sparse linear regression with Laplace prior, empirical-Bayes calibration, Langevin-type MCMC, threshold-based rules.
result Posterior uncertainty on tracking error, portfolio composition, and rebalancing moves.
Automated method selects eye tracking variables for categorization tasks.
problem Limited duration of infant cooperation and biases in handpicked eye tracking variables.
method Automated selection of eye tracking variables using statistical techniques.
result Same eye tracking variables classify category learners from non-learners in adults and infants with high accuracy.
We propose a new Bayesian tracking and parameter learning algorithm for non-linear non-Gaussian multiple target tracking (MTT) models. We design a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm to sample from the posterior distribution of the target states, birth and death times, and association of observations to targets, …