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48 results for structured event representation

We present the Infinite Latent Events Model, a nonparametric hierarchical Bayesian distribution over infinite dimensional Dynamic Bayesian Networks with binary state representations and noisy-OR-like transitions. The distribution can be used to learn structure in discrete timeseries data by simultaneously inferring a s…

2012-05-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Sequential modelling with self-attention has achieved cutting edge performances in natural language processing. With advantages in model flexibility, computation complexity and interpretability, self-attention is gradually becoming a key component in event sequence models. However, like most other sequence models, self…

2019-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Clinical notes are a rich source of information about patient state. However, using them to predict clinical events with machine learning models is challenging. They are very high dimensional, sparse and have complex structure. Furthermore, training data is often scarce because it is expensive to obtain reliable labels…

2017-05-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Induction of common sense knowledge about prototypical sequences of events has recently received much attention. Instead of inducing this knowledge in the form of graphs, as in much of the previous work, in our method, distributed representations of event realizations are computed based on distributed representations o…

2013-12-18abs ↗pdf ↗

TransformerLSR models longitudinal, recurrent, and survival data jointly.

problem Joint modeling of longitudinal measurements, recurrent events, and survival data with dependencies.
method Transformer-based deep learning framework integrating deep temporal point processes and latent structure representation.
result TransformerLSR effectively models all three components simultaneously, demonstrating necessity and effectiveness through simulations and real-world data.

Shapelet transform improves time series classification for earthquake, wind, and wave events.

problem Autonomous detection of specific events from large time series datasets in civil engineering.
method Shapelet transform for local similarity in time series subsequences, combined with machine learning.
result Shapelet transform yields a new feature representation for time series signals in civil engineering.

Novel method uses information theory to measure causal influences during transient neural events.

problem Characterizing network interactions during transient neural events.
method Structural Causal Models, Information Theory, Transfer Entropy, Dynamic Causal Strength, Relative Dynamic Causal Strength.
result Introduced a novel measure, relative Dynamic Causal Strength, with theoretical and empirical support.

RED detects sleep EEG events using deep neural networks, outperforming previous methods.

problem Manual detection of sleep EEG events is time-consuming and variable.
method Deep Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) with convolutional and recurrent components.
result RED outperforms state-of-the-art methods in sleep spindle and K-complex detection.

Method detects critical events in complex systems by learning latent causal structure.

problem Detecting onset of epileptic seizures, customer churn, or pandemics from hidden causal interactions.
method A machine learning method that learns an optimal feature representation from powers of the empirical covariance or precision matrix.
result Proves structural consistency and demonstrates competitive results in seizure and churn prediction.

TradeFM learns market microstructure from trade events, improving financial model accuracy.

problem Lack of generalizable models for market microstructure.
method Generative Transformer model trained on billions of trade events, using scale-invariant features and universal tokenization.
result TradeFM generates rollouts that match key stylized facts of financial returns and outperforms existing models.

We provide foundations for decisions in face of unlikely events by extending the standard framework of Savage to include preferences indexed by a family of events. We derive a subjective lexicographic expected utility representation which allows for infinitely many lexicographically ordered levels of events and for eve…

2016-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Event-based cameras are bio-inspired novel sensors that asynchronously record changes in illumination in the form of events, thus resulting in significant advantages over conventional cameras in terms of low power utilization, high dynamic range, and no motion blur. Moreover, such cameras, by design, encode only the re…

2019-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper develops efficient estimator for Hawkes processes using representer theorem.

problem Estimating latent triggering kernels for Hawkes processes from event sequences.
method Penalized least squares minimization in RKHS framework.
result Efficient estimator with competitive accuracy and improved computational efficiency.

From social networks to Internet applications, a wide variety of electronic communication tools are producing streams of graph data; where the nodes represent users and the edges represent the contacts between them over time. This has led to an increased interest in mechanisms to model the dynamic structure of time-var…

2014-03-14abs ↗pdf ↗

The accurate and interpretable prediction of future events in time-series data often requires the capturing of representative patterns (or referred to as states) underpinning the observed data. To this end, most existing studies focus on the representation and recognition of states, but ignore the changing transitional…

2019-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

A key question for machine learning approaches in particle physics is how to best represent and learn from collider events. As an event is intrinsically a variable-length unordered set of particles, we build upon recent machine learning efforts to learn directly from sets of features or "point clouds". Adapting and spe…

2018-10-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops platforms to analyze social media data for human behavior and emotions.

problem Understanding human behavior and emotions from social media data.
method Self-structuring incremental machine learning, event detection, natural language processing.
result Captured salient topics and events from social media data, validated against news.

Paper improves VaR risk allocation by avoiding zero probability events.

problem Computing VaR contributions for zero probability events.
method Reformulates Euler contributions to a ratio of conditional expectations with strictly positive probability events.
result Proposed estimator outperforms standard Monte Carlo methods in bias and variance.

The study uses financial events to predict stock market movements.

problem Predicting stock market movements using financial events.
method Combined event extraction method, BERT/ALBERT enhanced event representation, and extended hierarchical attention network.
result Significantly better accuracies and higher simulated returns compared to state-of-the-art models.

UNHaP removes noise from physiological events using Hawkes processes.

problem Challenges in identifying true events from spurious ones in physiological signal analysis.
method UNHaP uses marked Hawkes processes to distinguish and unmix true events from noise.
result UNHaP significantly reduces false detection rates and enhances event understanding.

New method uses active importance sampling for rare event optimization in high-dimensional problems.

problem Optimizing complex, high-dimensional functions with rare events.
method Combines rare events sampling with neural network optimization.
result Importance sampling reduces asymptotic variance, improving generalization.

Paper proposes a new trading strategy using corporate event detection from news articles.

problem Predicting stock movements based on corporate events from news articles.
method Bi-level event detection model: low-level for token-level event identification, high-level for article-level event identification.
result The proposed strategy outperforms existing models in stock prediction metrics.

Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) is a challenging task, as a single scene may involve multiple events that contain complex sound patterns. For example, a cooking scene may contain several sound sources including silverware clinking, chopping, frying, etc. What complicates ASC more is that classes of different activi…

2019-09-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Considering event structure information has proven helpful in text-based stock movement prediction. However, existing works mainly adopt the coarse-grained events, which loses the specific semantic information of diverse event types. In this work, we propose to incorporate the fine-grained events in stock movement pred…

2019-10-11abs ↗pdf ↗

VAIOM models financial returns using continuous input and categorical output.

problem Modeling continuous, noisy, and heterogeneous financial data.
method VAIOM is a decoder-only Transformer that separates input representation from output likelihood.
result VAIOM models outperform fixed single-bar LightGBM baseline in both Test halves.

Even in the absence of any explicit semantic annotation, vast collections of audio recordings provide valuable information for learning the categorical structure of sounds. We consider several class-agnostic semantic constraints that apply to unlabeled nonspeech audio: (i) noise and translations in time do not change t…

2017-11-06abs ↗pdf ↗

A new model predicts discrete events with flexible, nonparametric baseline and excitation.

problem Limited flexibility in discrete Hawkes models for event prediction.
method Gaussian Process Discrete Hawkes Process (GP-DHP) with collapsed latent representation.
result Improves predictive log-likelihood for diverse event patterns.

A new neural network model for predicting event times without distributional assumptions.

problem Predicting event times from censored data with complex assumptions.
method Deep AFT Rank-regression model (DART) using Gehan's rank statistic.
result DART significantly improves performance on various benchmark datasets.