Deep User Perception Network learns universal user representations from multiple e-commerce tasks.
problem Lack of shared user information across diverse e-commerce tasks.
method Model user behavior sequences using LSTM and attention mechanism, sharing user representations across multiple tasks.
result Our approach consistently achieves better results in personalization across multiple e-commerce tasks.
Study on electronic banking satisfaction in Nigeria.
problem Limited research on factors enhancing end users' satisfaction in electronic banking.
method Empirical analysis of factors influencing electronic banking user satisfaction.
result Factors influencing electronic banking user satisfaction and their relationship with satisfaction.
Study reveals how people perceive their carbon footprint.
problem Understanding people's perception of their carbon footprint.
method Statistical model and active-learning approach to pairwise comparisons.
result Early results show promising directions for climate communication and mitigation.
Algorithmic recommendation systems can homogenize user behavior, reducing utility.
problem Algorithmic feedback loops homogenize user behavior in recommendation systems.
method Simulations of recommendation systems using confounded data.
result Using confounded data decreases utility without increasing diversity.
Study examines perceptions and attitudes about breast cancer on Twitter.
problem Understanding public perceptions and attitudes towards breast cancer on social media.
method Identified and collected tweets, used topic modeling and sentiment analysis.
result Identified themes and quantified users' perceptions and emotions about breast cancer.
The study estimates how changing words in sentences affects audience perception.
problem Estimating the causal effect of lexical choice on audience perception.
method Two classes of methods: quasi-experimental designs and classification problems.
result Algorithmic estimates align with randomized-control trials and can be transferred across domains.
Helps visually impaired users make better decisions by adjusting their observations.
problem Systematic biases in users' perception and processing of visual information.
method Synthesizes new observations based on true observations to correct user biases.
result Significant improvement in task performance for users with various biases.
Recommender system improves with temporal representations.
problem Improving interpretability and performance in recommender systems.
method Incorporates temporal representations via recurrent point process in continuous time.
result Characterizes effects of perception, interest, and seasonal changes on reviews.
Analyzes Twitter users' opinions on self-driving cars.
problem Understanding public perception of self-driving cars.
method Annotated Twitter dataset, topic modeling, sentiment classification using Twitter features.
result People are generally optimistic but also concerned about self-driving cars.
New technique hides adversarial attacks in complex images, making them imperceptible.
problem Lack of interpretability in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and vulnerability to adversarial attacks.
method Developed a technique that hides adversarial attacks in regions of high complexity, making them imperceptible to human observers.
result Significant evidence of concealment of adversarial attacks in images, making them imperceptible to human observers.
An algorithm detects anomalies based on human perception principles.
problem Anomaly detection in data.
method Inspired by Gestalt psychology and Helmholtz principle, the algorithm models anomalies as unexpected elements in random distributions.
result The algorithm efficiently detects anomalies with minimal user intervention and promising results on multivariate data.
Model combines user preferences and side information for better recommendation.
problem Addressing data sparsity and improving user intent representation.
method Tensor-based model that fuses user preferences with side information.
result Demonstrates effectiveness on standard benchmark datasets.
Model-based collaborative filtering analyzes user-item interactions to infer latent factors that represent user preferences and item characteristics in order to predict future interactions. Most collaborative filtering algorithms assume that these latent factors are static, although it has been shown that user preferen…
Mixed likelihood GPs improve model performance in human-in-the-loop experiments.
problem Lack of auxiliary information in traditional GPs for human responses.
method Propose mixed likelihood variational GPs to leverage auxiliary information.
result Modeling performance improvements across diverse applications.
This work aims to separate buying preferences from merchandise commercials in fashion e-retail.
problem Difficult to infer customer preference from sales data due to implicit signals.
method Extends earlier work on explicit signals to implicit signals from user behavior.
result Derives a metric to separate buying preferences from merchandise commercials.
We use a control framework to analyze the digital vendor's profit maximization problem. The vendor captures market share by focusing costly effort on post-launch product maintenance, which influences user perception of the product and drives a revenue stream associated with product use. Our theoretical results show nec…
Detects backdoors in trained models without poisoned training data.
problem Detecting backdoors in DNNs trained without access to the poisoned training set.
method Proposes a novel detector using the maximum achievable misclassification fraction (MAMF) statistic.
result Detects backdoors and infers source and target classes.
PCI combines perception and control using Bayesian inference with object-based representations.
problem Separate perception and control in reinforcement learning.
method Joint Perception and Control as Inference (PCI) framework with Object-based Perception Control (OPC).
result OPC achieves good perceptual grouping quality and outperforms baselines in accumulated rewards.
Study the tradeoff between signal distortion and human perception over finite channels.
problem Characterize the distortion-perception tradeoff for finite channels with arbitrary metrics.
method Solve linear programming problems to compute the distortion-perception function and optimal reconstructions.
result DP function is piecewise linear in the perception index.
Study examines how people perceive fairness in criminal risk prediction algorithms.
problem Concerns about fairness in algorithmic decision making, especially in criminal risk prediction.
method Survey of 576 people to understand perceptions of fairness in algorithmic decision making.
result People's fairness judgments are influenced by eight latent properties of features in algorithms.
A framework isolates VQA reasoning from perception for better model evaluation.
problem Improper separation of visual perception and reasoning in VQA models.
method Introducing a framework and a top-down calibration technique to decouple reasoning from perception.
result Improved evaluation of VQA models by separating reasoning from perception.
Information systems experience an ever-growing volume of unstructured data, particularly in the form of textual materials. This represents a rich source of information from which one can create value for people, organizations and businesses. For instance, recommender systems can benefit from automatically understanding…
End-to-end autonomous driving perception learns latent features for better performance.
problem Current autonomous driving systems are complex and require human engineering.
method Sequential latent representation learning for end-to-end perception.
result End-to-end perception model solves detection, tracking, localization, and mapping problems.
A similarity metric for icon sets simplifies design selection.
problem Designing optimal icon sets is challenging and requires expert knowledge.
method Proposed a Siamese Neural Network trained on human-rated data.
result The model effectively captures style and visual identity similarities.
Geometric model explains music perception combining neuroscience and acoustics.
problem Rationalize and predict psycho-acoustic phenomena in music perception.
method Combining neuroscientific theories with acoustic observations, a geometric model of the space of all chords is created.
result The geometric model allows for rigorous studies of psychoacoustic quantities like roughness and harmonicity.
Safe control for vehicles using learned perception from images.
problem Controlling autonomous vehicles with partial state information from images.
method Learned perception map and safe set design for a closed loop system.
result Generalization properties of the perception-control loop are favorable.
RETR improves indoor radar perception with a novel transformer model.
problem Indoor radar perception lacks models tailored for multi-view radar settings.
method RETR extends DETR architecture with depth-prioritized feature similarity, tri-plane loss, and radar-to-camera transformation.
result RETR outperforms state-of-the-art methods by 15.38+ AP for object detection and 11.91+ IoU for instance segmentation.
Researchers study how teachers' advising relationships influence their perceptions of satisfaction and students, not policy influence.
problem Understanding the relationship between teachers' advising relationships and their perceptions of satisfaction and students.
method Proposed a novel joint model of network and item responses (JNIRM) with correlated latent variables.
result Teachers' advising relationships contribute more to satisfaction and students than to influence over educational policies.
Study how actions affect perception in embodied agents using group theory.
problem Understanding how actions influence perception in autonomous agents.
method Mathematical formalism of group theory applied to sensory commutativity of action sequences.
result Introduced Sensory Commutativity Probability (SCP) to measure action effects on perception.
Reconstruction-based learning produces uninformative features for perception tasks.
problem Misalignment between reconstruction-based learning and perception tasks.
method Investigated the impact of input space reconstruction on feature learning for perception tasks.
result Reconstruction-based learning allocates model capacity to a subspace with uninformative features for perception tasks.
The paper reviews machine learning safety techniques for autonomous vehicles.
problem Challenges in machine learning safety for autonomous vehicles.
method Organizes practical safety techniques to complement engineering safety.
result Enhances dependability and safety of machine learning algorithms in autonomous vehicles.
Framework analyzes RL agents' behavior to explain their strengths and weaknesses.
problem Understanding and explaining RL agents' capabilities and limitations.
method Data analysis and visualization of interaction history to extract interestingness elements.
result Visual summaries help humans correctly perceive agents' strengths and weaknesses.
Study uses deep learning to predict gender and analyze HPV vaccine perceptions on Twitter.
problem Analyzing gender differences in public perceptions on HPV vaccine using social media data.
method Convolutional neural network model trained on Twitter text for gender prediction, then applied to HPV vaccine related tweets.
result Identified gender differences in public perceptions on HPV vaccine, consistent with previous studies.
Mathematical models link perception and memory formation.
problem Linking perception and memory formation.
method Tensor decompositions and latent representations.
result Active semantic decoding process in perception.
LLM sandbox and persona dynamics create unethical reality gaps that shift risk to users.
problem Ethical issues arise from LLMs generating reality gaps that shift risk to uninformed users.
method Analyzes the ethical implications of LLM sandbox and persona dynamics, comparing them to financial regulation and compliance.
result Active generation of reality gaps is unethical as it shifts epistemic risk to users.
Tensor models decode human perception and memory using SPO triples.
problem Understanding implicit and explicit perception and memory in the brain.
method Tensor models with SPO triples, dual representations, and four layers.
result Semantic memory is crucial for explicit perception and declarative memories.
Approach to develop visual perception in robots through sensorimotor interactions.
problem Developing autonomous perception in robots.
method Sensorimotor contingencies theory applied to robot exploration and learning.
result Captured sensorimotor regularities in a predictive model for visual field discovery.
New term ADS describes how machine learning can change user behavior.
problem Machine learning systems can unintentionally change user behavior, affecting performance.
method Introduced `unit tests` and mitigation strategy for hidden incentives in auto-induced distributional shift.
result Meta-learning and Q-learning sometimes fail unit tests but pass with mitigation strategy.
PeL separates sensory interface optimization from decision learning.
problem Optimizing sensory interfaces without task-specific information.
method Formal separation of perception and decision learning, using metrics for stability, informativeness, and geometry.
result Updates preserving invariants are orthogonal to decision gradients.
Logical scaffolds enhance AI software quality.
problem Improving AI component quality in software.
method Logical scaffolds as a method to improve AI components.
result Logical scaffolds can improve AI beyond perception systems.
PERCEPT detects changes in high-dimensional data streams using topological data analysis.
problem Detecting changes in high-dimensional data streams, especially when embedded in a low-dimensional space.
method Leverages topological data analysis to learn embedded topology as a point cloud via persistence diagrams, then applies non-parametric monitoring for detecting changes.
result Demonstrates efficient detection of online changes from high-dimensional data streams.
While perception tasks such as visual object recognition and text understanding play an important role in human intelligence, the subsequent tasks that involve inference, reasoning and planning require an even higher level of intelligence. The past few years have seen major advances in many perception tasks using deep …
Default-ERM shortcut learning persists even without additional information.
problem Default-ERM shortcut learning in perception tasks despite stable feature sufficiency.
method Studied linear perception task; developed margin control (MARG-CTRL) loss functions.
result Margin control mitigates shortcut learning on various tasks.
DGP learns speech recognition by modeling complex relationships between utterances.
problem Modeling complex relationships in speech recognition without relational data.
method Bayesian nonparametric deep learning method (DGP) that generates infinite probabilistic graphs.
result DGP successfully infers relationships among utterances without relational data during training.
Model shows neural nets can learn categorical perception.
problem Understanding how categorical perception arises in neural networks.
method Developed a neural network model to simulate learning-induced categorical perception.
result Neural nets can learn to perceive categories in a way similar to human perception.
The study improves deep learning models for safer autonomous vehicles.
problem Robustness of deep neural network models in autonomous driving.
method Analyzes and proposes solutions for deep learning model robustness.
result Enhanced deep learning models for safer autonomous vehicles.
Paper tackles robust spatial perception by handling outliers efficiently.
problem Robust spatial perception is challenged by incorrect data association (outliers).
method Proposes adaptive trimming algorithm to remove outliers efficiently.
result Adaptive trimming algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art methods across applications.
New method allows a robot to perceive space dimensions without prior knowledge.
problem Limitation of previous methods in perceiving space dimensions with small movements.
method Non-linear dimension estimation method.
result Robots can now perceive space dimensions with larger movements.