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Giving the AI definition a form suitable for the engineer
Artificial Intelligence - what is this? That is the question! In earlier papers we already gave a formal definition for AI, but if one desires to build an actual AI implementation, the following issues require attention and are treated here: the data format to be used, the idea of Undef and Nothing symbols, various ways for defining the "meaning of life", and finally, a new notion of "incorrect move". These questions are of minor importance in the theoretical discussion, but we already know the answer of the question "Does AI exist?" Now we want to make the next step and to create this program.
Decentralized learning for wireless communications and networking
Giannakis, Georgios B., Ling, Qing, Mateos, Gonzalo, Schizas, Ioannis D., Zhu, Hao
This chapter deals with decentralized learning algorithms for in-network processing of graph-valued data. A generic learning problem is formulated and recast into a separable form, which is iteratively minimized using the alternating-direction method of multipliers (ADMM) so as to gain the desired degree of parallelization. Without exchanging elements from the distributed training sets and keeping inter-node communications at affordable levels, the local (per-node) learners consent to the desired quantity inferred globally, meaning the one obtained if the entire training data set were centrally available. Impact of the decentralized learning framework to contemporary wireless communications and networking tasks is illustrated through case studies including target tracking using wireless sensor networks, unveiling Internet traffic anomalies, power system state estimation, as well as spectrum cartography for wireless cognitive radio networks.
Sparse graphs using exchangeable random measures
Caron, Franรงois, Fox, Emily B.
Statistical network modeling has focused on representing the graph as a discrete structure, namely the adjacency matrix, and considering the exchangeability of this array. In such cases, the Aldous-Hoover representation theorem (Aldous, 1981;Hoover, 1979} applies and informs us that the graph is necessarily either dense or empty. In this paper, we instead consider representing the graph as a measure on $\mathbb{R}_+^2$. For the associated definition of exchangeability in this continuous space, we rely on the Kallenberg representation theorem (Kallenberg, 2005). We show that for certain choices of such exchangeable random measures underlying our graph construction, our network process is sparse with power-law degree distribution. In particular, we build on the framework of completely random measures (CRMs) and use the theory associated with such processes to derive important network properties, such as an urn representation for our analysis and network simulation. Our theoretical results are explored empirically and compared to common network models. We then present a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm for efficient exploration of the posterior distribution and demonstrate that we are able to recover graphs ranging from dense to sparse--and perform associated tests--based on our flexible CRM-based formulation. We explore network properties in a range of real datasets, including Facebook social circles, a political blogosphere, protein networks, citation networks, and world wide web networks, including networks with hundreds of thousands of nodes and millions of edges.
Rotation-invariant convolutional neural networks for galaxy morphology prediction
Dieleman, Sander, Willett, Kyle W., Dambre, Joni
Measuring the morphological parameters of galaxies is a key requirement for studying their formation and evolution. Surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have resulted in the availability of very large collections of images, which have permitted population-wide analyses of galaxy morphology. Morphological analysis has traditionally been carried out mostly via visual inspection by trained experts, which is time-consuming and does not scale to large ($\gtrsim10^4$) numbers of images. Although attempts have been made to build automated classification systems, these have not been able to achieve the desired level of accuracy. The Galaxy Zoo project successfully applied a crowdsourcing strategy, inviting online users to classify images by answering a series of questions. Unfortunately, even this approach does not scale well enough to keep up with the increasing availability of galaxy images. We present a deep neural network model for galaxy morphology classification which exploits translational and rotational symmetry. It was developed in the context of the Galaxy Challenge, an international competition to build the best model for morphology classification based on annotated images from the Galaxy Zoo project. For images with high agreement among the Galaxy Zoo participants, our model is able to reproduce their consensus with near-perfect accuracy ($> 99\%$) for most questions. Confident model predictions are highly accurate, which makes the model suitable for filtering large collections of images and forwarding challenging images to experts for manual annotation. This approach greatly reduces the experts' workload without affecting accuracy. The application of these algorithms to larger sets of training data will be critical for analysing results from future surveys such as the LSST.
Reports of the Workshops Held at the Tenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment
Barnes, Tiffany (North Carolina State University) | Bown, Oliver (University of Sydney) | Buro, Michael (University of Alberta) | Cook, Michael (Goldsmiths College, University of London) | Eigenfeldt, Arne (Simon Fraser University) | Muรฑoz-Avila, Hรฉctor (Lehigh University) | Ontaรฑรณn, Santiago (Drexel University) | Pasquier, Philippe (Simon Fraser University) | Tomuro, Noriko (DePaul University) | Young, R. Michael (North Carolina State University) | Zook, Alexander (Georgia Institute of Technology)
The AIIDE-14 Workshop program was held Friday and Saturday, October 3โ4, 2014 at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. The workshop program included five workshops covering a wide range of topics. The titles of the workshops held Friday were Games and Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence in Adversarial Real-Time Games. The titles of the workshops held Saturday were Diversity in Games Research, Experimental Artificial Intelligence in Games, and Musical Metacreation. This article presents short summaries of those events.
Exploiting Semantics for Big Data Integration
Knoblock, Craig A. (University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute) | Szekely, Pedro (University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute)
There is a great deal of interest in big data, focusing mostly on data set size. The use of semantics in this integration descriptions and then integrating the data within process is key to building an approach that scales this unified framework. Finally, we conclude by to large numbers of heterogeneous sources. For example, in and (4) integrate the data across sources using this our museum use case, we received data in spreadsheets model. Karma has been used on a variety of types of (figure 1), comma-separated values (CSV), data, including biological data, mobile phone data, JSON (figure 3), XML, and relational databases (figure geospatial data, and cultural heritage data. In order to illustrate the approach to integrating One challenge in integrating diverse data sources is data in Karma, we will use an example from the cultural the ability to import different data formats into a heritage domain.
Reports of the AAAI 2014 Conference Workshops
Albrecht, Stefano V. (University of Edinburgh) | Barreto, Andrรฉ M. S. (Brazilian National Laboratory for Scientific Computing) | Braziunas, Darius (Kobo Inc.) | Buckeridge, David L. (McGill University) | Cuayรกhuitl, Heriberto (Heriot-Watt University) | Dethlefs, Nina (Heriot-Watt University) | Endres, Markus (University of Augsburg) | Farahmand, Amir-massoud (Carnegie Mellon University) | Fox, Mark (University of Toronto) | Frommberger, Lutz (University of Bremen) | Ganzfried, Sam (Carnegie Mellon University) | Gil, Yolanda (University of Southern California) | Guillet, Sรฉbastien (Universitรฉ du Quรฉbec ร Chicoutimi) | Hunter, Lawrence E. (University of Colorado School of Medicine) | Jhala, Arnav (University of California Santa Cruz) | Kersting, Kristian (Technical University of Dortmund) | Konidaris, George (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | Lecue, Freddy (IBM Research) | McIlraith, Sheila (University of Toronto) | Natarajan, Sriraam (Indiana University) | Noorian, Zeinab (University of Saskatchewan) | Poole, David (University of British Columbia) | Ronfard, Rรฉmi (University of Grenoble) | Saffiotti, Alessandro (Orebro University) | Shaban-Nejad, Arash (McGill University) | Srivastava, Biplav (IBM Research) | Tesauro, Gerald (IBM Research) | Uceda-Sosa, Rosario (IBM Research) | Broeck, Guy Van den (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) | Otterlo, Martijn van (Radboud University Nijmegen) | Wallace, Byron C. (University of Texas) | Weng, Paul (Pierre and Marie Curie University) | Wiens, Jenna (University of Michigan) | Zhang, Jie (Nanyang Technological University)
The AAAI-14 Workshop program was held Sunday and Monday, July 27โ28, 2012, at the Quรฉbec City Convention Centre in Quรฉbec, Canada. Canada. The AAAI-14 workshop program included fifteen workshops covering a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence. The titles of the workshops were AI and Robotics; Artificial Intelligence Applied to Assistive Technologies and Smart Environments; Cognitive Computing for Augmented Human Intelligence; Computer Poker and Imperfect Information; Discovery Informatics; Incentives and Trust in Electronic Communities; Intelligent Cinematography and Editing; Machine Learning for Interactive Systems: Bridging the Gap between Perception, Action and Communication; Modern Artificial Intelligence for Health Analytics; Multiagent Interaction without Prior Coordination; Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling; Semantic Cities โ Beyond Open Data to Models, Standards and Reasoning; Sequential Decision Making with Big Data; Statistical Relational AI; and The World Wide Web and Public Health Intelligence. This article presents short summaries of those events.
Entity Type Recognition for Heterogeneous Semantic Graphs
Sleeman, Jennifer (University of Maryland Baltimore County.) | Finin, Tim (University of Maryland Baltimore County.) | Joshi, Anupam (University of Maryland Baltimore County.)
We describe an approach for identifying fine-grained entity types in heterogeneous data graphs that is effective for unstructured data or when the underlying ontologies or semantic schemas are unknown. Identifying fine-grained entity types, rather than a few high-level types, supports coreference resolution in heterogeneous graphs by reducing the number of possible coreference relations that must be considered. Big data problems that involve integrating data from multiple sources can benefit from our approach when the datas ontologies are unknown, inaccessible or semantically trivial. For such cases, we use supervised machine learning to map entity attributes and relations to a known set of attributes and relations from appropriate background knowledge bases to predict instance entity types. We evaluated this approach in experiments on data from DBpedia, Freebase, and Arnetminer using DBpedia as the background knowledge base.