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48 results for virtual assistants

The paper enhances a virtual assistant's humor to improve user satisfaction.

problem Improving a virtual assistant's ability to deliver humorous responses.
method Combines traditional NLP techniques with self-attentional networks and multi-task learning, using implicit feedback for labeling.
result Deep-learning models outperform heuristic methods in real-world user satisfaction.

Bayesian framework infers personalized embeddings for diverse human demonstrations.

problem Lack of personalized models for diverse human behaviors.
method Bayesian LfD framework inferring human-specific embeddings.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art techniques on synthetic and real-world data.

Model improves email-based conversational agents' ability to extract relevant information.

problem Asynchronous email communication makes it hard for agents to detect intents and extract relevant entities.
method Neural model for scoping relevant information from large queries.
result Improves performance of intent detection and entity extraction tasks by 35% in precision.

Efficiently allocate budgets for LLM-assisted virtual screening to reduce costs.

problem Reducing the cost of evaluating alternatives in large-scale screening tasks.
method Propose a top-mm greedy evaluation mechanism and the EFG-mm algorithm for efficient budget allocation.
result Prove that EFG-mm is both sample-optimal and consistent in large-scale virtual screening.

Paper uses user engagement signals to automatically label training data for AI assistants.

problem Lack of annotated training data for AI assistants.
method Leverages user engagement signals for unsupervised entity labeling and data augmentation.
result Significant accuracy gains in sequence labeling tasks and user-facing results.

This research improves EEG-based MI-BCI systems to be more resilient to emotional arousal.

problem Lack of robustness in EEG-based MI-BCI systems due to emotional arousal.
method Subjects were exposed to VR environments to induce high and low arousal states. Machine learning models were trained on proxy subjects instead of arousal states. MI models were trained for each subject.
result MI-BCI systems are made more resilient to emotional perturbations.

A novel controller for wheeled robots handles joystick inputs for smooth steering.

problem Steering control for differential-drive wheeled robots from indirect joystick inputs.
method Developed a geometric controller based on Darboux frame kinematics.
result Smooth trajectories achieved with safety constraints and no desired states.

Future autonomous systems need reliable world models and complex action sequences.

problem Current automated systems lack reliable world models and complex action sequences.
method Introduce energy-based and latent variable models combined in a hierarchical joint embedding predictive architecture (H-JEPA).
result Combining energy-based and latent variable models in H-JEPA can lead to reliable world models and complex action sequences.

This paper improves route choice models by incorporating contextual factors.

problem Existing route choice models lack consideration of dynamic contextual conditions.
method Knowledge distillation from Stated Choice Experiments in Immersive Virtual Environment.
result High-fidelity route choice models with increased predictive power.

A robot assists a human in a bandit task to learn and improve performance.

problem Learning preferences in humans when they are also learning.
method Introduces assistive multi-armed bandit, where a robot helps a human maximize cumulative reward.
result Human performance can be better when effectively communicating observed rewards to the robot, not just by learning optimally.

Improved accuracy in a commercial assistant by smartly selecting new training data.

problem Expensive and time-consuming to annotate new data for ML systems.
method Automatically identifies new helpful examples suitable for human annotation.
result The proposed method leads to higher accuracy improvements with a fixed annotation budget.

Refines virtual link equality criterion for diagrams with one virtual crossing.

problem Determining when a virtual link diagram represents a properly virtual link.
method Refines the Kauffman-Murasugi-Thislethwaite type inequality for virtual links.
result Criterion for virtual link diagrams with exactly one virtual crossing to represent a properly virtual link.

The virtual unknotting number of a virtual knot is the minimal number of crossing changes that makes the virtual knot to be the unknot, which is defined only for virtual knots virtually homotopic to the unknot. We focus on the virtual knot obtained from the standard (p,q)-torus knot diagram by replacing all crossings o…

2017-01-15abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper connects virtual biquandles to biquandles for virtual link colorings.

problem Extending invariants from biquandles to virtual biquandles.
method Establishing equivalence between two representations of virtual braid groups and introducing new labeling rules.
result The number of colorings of a virtual link by virtual biquandles can be recovered from colorings by biquandles.

This paper evaluates ASR models on various co-processors, showing hardware acceleration benefits.

problem Lack of detailed training efficiency analysis for modern ASR systems.
method Developed a deep neural network ASR model and evaluated it on three co-processor platforms.
result Hardware acceleration yields good results even with less expensive equipment.

A virtual string can be defined as an equivalence class of planar diagrams under certain kinds of diagrammatic moves. Virtual strings are related to virtual knots in that a simple operation on a virtual knot diagram produces a diagram for a virtual string. In this paper we consider three operations on a virtual string …

2008-08-04abs ↗pdf ↗

A virtual nn-string is a chord diagram with nn core circles and a collection of arrows between core circles. We consider virtual nn-strings up to virtual homotopy, compositions of flat virtual Reidemeister moves on chord diagrams. Given a virtual 1-string αα, Turaev associated a based matrix that encodes invariants…

2017-09-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Given a virtual knot KK, we construct a group VGKVG_K called the virtual knot group, and we use the elementary ideals of VGKVG_K to define invariants of KK called the virtual Alexander invariants. For instance, associated to the k=0k=0 ideal is a polynomial HK(s,t,q)H_K(s,t,q) in three variables which we call the virtual Alexa…

2014-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

A virtual link diagram is called normal if the associated abstract link diagram is checkerboard colorable, and a virtual link is normal if it has a normal diagram as a representative. Normal virtual links have some properties similar to classical links.In this paper, we introduce a method of converting a virtual link d…

2017-12-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Improves Bayesian neural learning efficiency with surrogate-assisted parallel tempering.

problem Challenges in Bayesian neural learning due to large models and data.
method Combines parallel tempering MCMC with surrogate-assisted optimization for computationally expensive models.
result Significantly lowers computational cost while maintaining quality in decision making.

Virtual singular braids are generalizations of singular braids and virtual braids. We define the virtual singular braid monoid via generators and relations, and prove Alexander- and Markov-type theorems for virtual singular links. We also show that the virtual singular braid monoid has another presentation with fewer g…

2015-04-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Virtual knot theory, introduced by Kauffman, is a generalization of classical knot theory of interest because its finite-type invariant theory is potentially a topological interpretation of Etingof and Kazhdan's theory of quantization of Lie bi-algebras. Classical knots inject into virtual knots, and flat virtual knots…

2012-09-20abs ↗pdf ↗