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Conditional Linear Regression for Heterogeneous Covariances

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Linear regression is a technique frequently used in statistical and data analysis. The task for standard linear regression is to fit a linear relationship among variables in a data set. Often, the goal is to find the most parsimonious model that can describe the majority of the data. In this work, we consider the situation where only a small portion of the data can be accurately modeled using linear regression. More generally, in many kinds of real-world data, portions of the data of significant size can be predicted significantly more accurately than by the best linear model for the overall data distribution: Rosenfeld et al. (2015) showed that there are attributes that are significant risk factors for gastrointestinal cancer in certain subpopulations, but not in the overall population. Hainline et al. (2019) demonstrated that a variety of standard (real-world) regression benchmarks have portions that are fit significantly better by a different linear model than the best model for the overall data set; Calderon et al. (2020) presented further, similar findings. We will consider cases where linear regression fits well when the data set is conditioned on a simple condition, which is unknown to us. We study the task of finding such a linear model, together with a formula on the data attributes describing the condition, i.e., the portion of the data for which the linear model is accurate. This problem was introduced by Juba (2017), who gave an algorithm for conditional sparse linear regression, using the maximum residual as the objective.


Can Graph Neural Networks Learn to Solve MaxSAT Problem?

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

With the rapid development of deep learning techniques, various recent work has tried to apply graph neural networks (GNNs) to solve NP-hard problems such as Boolean Satisfiability (SAT), which shows the potential in bridging the gap between machine learning and symbolic reasoning. However, the quality of solutions predicted by GNNs has not been well investigated in the literature. In this paper, we study the capability of GNNs in learning to solve Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) problem, both from theoretical and practical perspectives. We build two kinds of GNN models to learn the solution of MaxSAT instances from benchmarks, and show that GNNs have attractive potential to solve MaxSAT problem through experimental evaluation. We also present a theoretical explanation of the effect that GNNs can learn to solve MaxSAT problem to some extent for the first time, based on the algorithmic alignment theory.


Hybrid BYOL-ViT: Efficient approach to deal with small datasets

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Supervised learning can learn large representational spaces, which are crucial for handling difficult learning tasks. However, due to the design of the model, classical image classification approaches struggle to generalize to new problems and new situations when dealing with small datasets. In fact, supervised learning can lose the location of image features which leads to supervision collapse in very deep architectures. In this paper, we investigate how self-supervision with strong and sufficient augmentation of unlabeled data can train effectively the first layers of a neural network even better than supervised learning, with no need for millions of labeled data. The main goal is to disconnect pixel data from annotation by getting generic task-agnostic low-level features. Furthermore, we look into Vision Transformers (ViT) and show that the low-level features derived from a self-supervised architecture can improve the robustness and the overall performance of this emergent architecture. We evaluated our method on one of the smallest open-source datasets STL-10 and we obtained a significant boost of performance from 41.66% to 83.25% when inputting low-level features from a self-supervised learning architecture to the ViT instead of the raw images.


Global Machine Learning in Medicine Market Top Manufacturers Analysis by 2026: Google, Bio Beats, Jvion, Lumiata, DreaMed etc. – LSMedia

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Introduction: This report is created for the benefit of strategic planners who seek in-depth study of the Global Machine Learning in Medicine Market . It is compiled for the sake of organizations considering Machine Learning in Medicine industry and those who want to boost their market value from their existing investments. With the advent of globalization of the Machine Learning in Medicine industry, market insights about the continents, countries, regions, as well as cities become the most important criteria while prioritizing markets. The consumption patterns, customer and supplier bargaining power and the structural analysis of the application fields is given in the study. This report covers top 200 countries and other entities operating in the market.


Military Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market Top Players Analysis: General Dynamics, SparkCognition, BAE system, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman Corporation, IBM, Charles River Analytics, Thales Group – LSMedia

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Introduction: This report is created for the benefit of strategic planners who seek in-depth study of the Global Military Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market . It is compiled for the sake of organizations considering Military Artificial Intelligence (AI) industry and those who want to boost their market value from their existing investments. With the advent of globalization of the Military Artificial Intelligence (AI) industry, market insights about the continents, countries, regions, as well as cities become the most important criteria while prioritizing markets. The consumption patterns, customer and supplier bargaining power and the structural analysis of the application fields is given in the study. This report covers top 200 countries and other entities operating in the market.


Machine learning in earth sciences - Wikipedia

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Application of machine learning in earth sciences is the use of computer systems to classify, cluster, identify and analyze vast and complex data in earth science study, for example, geological mapping, gas leakage detection and geological features identification. Machine learning (ML) is a type of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that allows computer systems to interpret data while eliminating the need for explicit instructions and programming. The Earth system can be subdivided into four major components including the solid earth, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere[3]. A variety of algorithms may be applied depending on the nature of the earth science exploration. Some algorithms may perform significantly better than others for particular objectives. For example, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are good at interpreting images, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) performs well in soil classification[4] but more computationally expensive to train than Support Vector Machine (SVM) learning.


$p$-Laplacian Based Graph Neural Networks

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated superior performance for semisupervised node classification on graphs, as a result of their ability to exploit node features and topological information simultaneously. However, most GNNs implicitly assume that the labels of nodes and their neighbors in a graph are the same or consistent, which does not hold in heterophilic graphs, where the labels of linked nodes are likely to differ. Hence, when the topology is non-informative for label prediction, ordinary GNNs may work significantly worse than simply applying multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) on each node. GNN, whose message passing mechanism is derived from a discrete regularization framework and could be theoretically explained as an approximation of a polynomial graph filter defined on the spectral domain of p-Laplacians. GNNs significantly outperform several state-of-the-art GNN architectures on heterophilic benchmarks while achieving competitive performance on homophilic benchmarks. GNNs can adaptively learn aggregation weights and are robust to noisy edges. In this paper, we explore the usage of graph neural networks (GNNs) for semi-supervised node classification on graphs, especially when the graphs admit strong heterophily or noisy edges. Semisupervised learning problems on graphs are ubiquitous in a lot of real-world scenarios, such as user classification in social media (Kipf & Welling, 2017), protein classification in biology (Velickovic et al., 2018), molecular property prediction in chemistry (Duvenaud et al., 2015), and many others (Marcheggiani & Titov, 2017; Satorras & Estrach, 2018). Recently, GNNs are becoming the de facto choice for processing graph structured data.


Public Policymaking for International Agricultural Trade using Association Rules and Ensemble Machine Learning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

International economics has a long history of improving our understanding of factors causing trade, and the consequences of free flow of goods and services across countries. The recent shocks to the free trade regime, especially trade disputes among major economies, as well as black swan events, such as trade wars and pandemics, raise the need for improved predictions to inform policy decisions. AI methods are allowing economists to solve such prediction problems in new ways. In this manuscript, we present novel methods that predict and associate food and agricultural commodities traded internationally. Association Rules (AR) analysis has been deployed successfully for economic scenarios at the consumer or store level, such as for market basket analysis. In our work however, we present analysis of imports and exports associations and their effects on commodity trade flows. Moreover, Ensemble Machine Learning methods are developed to provide improved agricultural trade predictions, outlier events' implications, and quantitative pointers to policy makers.


A Survey on AI Assurance

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms are increasingly providing decision making and operational support across multiple domains. AI includes a wide library of algorithms for different problems. One important notion for the adoption of AI algorithms into operational decision process is the concept of assurance. The literature on assurance, unfortunately, conceals its outcomes within a tangled landscape of conflicting approaches, driven by contradicting motivations, assumptions, and intuitions. Accordingly, albeit a rising and novel area, this manuscript provides a systematic review of research works that are relevant to AI assurance, between years 1985 - 2021, and aims to provide a structured alternative to the landscape. A new AI assurance definition is adopted and presented and assurance methods are contrasted and tabulated. Additionally, a ten-metric scoring system is developed and introduced to evaluate and compare existing methods. Lastly, in this manuscript, we provide foundational insights, discussions, future directions, a roadmap, and applicable recommendations for the development and deployment of AI assurance.


Measuring Outcomes in Healthcare Economics using Artificial Intelligence: with Application to Resource Management

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The quality of service in healthcare is constantly challenged by outlier events such as pandemics (i.e. Covid-19) and natural disasters (such as hurricanes and earthquakes). In most cases, such events lead to critical uncertainties in decision making, as well as in multiple medical and economic aspects at a hospital. External (geographic) or internal factors (medical and managerial), lead to shifts in planning and budgeting, but most importantly, reduces confidence in conventional processes. In some cases, support from other hospitals proves necessary, which exacerbates the planning aspect. This manuscript presents three data-driven methods that provide data-driven indicators to help healthcare managers organize their economics and identify the most optimum plan for resources allocation and sharing. Conventional decision-making methods fall short in recommending validated policies for managers. Using reinforcement learning, genetic algorithms, traveling salesman, and clustering, we experimented with different healthcare variables and presented tools and outcomes that could be applied at health institutes. Experiments are performed; the results are recorded, evaluated, and presented.