Oceania
ECG for high-throughput screening of multiple diseases: Proof-of-concept using multi-diagnosis deep learning from population-based datasets
Sun, Weijie, Kalmady, Sunil Vasu, Salimi, Amir, Sepehrvand, Nariman, Ly, Eric, Hindle, Abram, Greiner, Russell, Kaul, Padma
Electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities are linked to cardiovascular diseases, but may also occur in other non-cardiovascular conditions such as mental, neurological, metabolic and infectious conditions. However, most of the recent success of deep learning (DL) based diagnostic predictions in selected patient cohorts have been limited to a small set of cardiac diseases. In this study, we use a population-based dataset of >250,000 patients with >1000 medical conditions and >2 million ECGs to identify a wide range of diseases that could be accurately diagnosed from the patient's first in-hospital ECG. Our DL models uncovered 128 diseases and 68 disease categories with strong discriminative performance.
From Intelligent Agents to Trustworthy Human-Centred Multiagent Systems
Soorati, Mohammad Divband, Gerding, Enrico H., Marchioni, Enrico, Naumov, Pavel, Norman, Timothy J., Ramchurn, Sarvapali D., Rastegari, Bahar, Sobey, Adam, Stein, Sebastian, Tarpore, Danesh, Yazdanpanah, Vahid, Zhang, Jie
The Agents, Interaction and Complexity research group at the University of Southampton has a long track record of research in multiagent systems (MAS). We have made substantial scientific contributions across learning in MAS, game-theoretic techniques for coordinating agent systems, and formal methods for representation and reasoning. We highlight key results achieved by the group and elaborate on recent work and open research challenges in developing trustworthy autonomous systems and deploying human-centred AI systems that aim to support societal good.
Learning Across Domains and Devices: Style-Driven Source-Free Domain Adaptation in Clustered Federated Learning
Shenaj, Donald, Fanì, Eros, Toldo, Marco, Caldarola, Debora, Tavera, Antonio, Michieli, Umberto, Ciccone, Marco, Zanuttigh, Pietro, Caputo, Barbara
Federated Learning (FL) has recently emerged as a possible way to tackle the domain shift in real-world Semantic Segmentation (SS) without compromising the private nature of the collected data. However, most of the existing works on FL unrealistically assume labeled data in the remote clients. Here we propose a novel task (FFREEDA) in which the clients' data is unlabeled and the server accesses a source labeled dataset for pre-training only. To solve FFREEDA, we propose LADD, which leverages the knowledge of the pre-trained model by employing self-supervision with ad-hoc regularization techniques for local training and introducing a novel federated clustered aggregation scheme based on the clients' style. Our experiments show that our algorithm is able to efficiently tackle the new task outperforming existing approaches. The code is available at https://github.com/Erosinho13/LADD.
Equalizing Credit Opportunity in Algorithms: Aligning Algorithmic Fairness Research with U.S. Fair Lending Regulation
Kumar, I. Elizabeth, Hines, Keegan E., Dickerson, John P.
Credit is an essential component of financial wellbeing in America, and unequal access to it is a large factor in the economic disparities between demographic groups that exist today. Today, machine learning algorithms, sometimes trained on alternative data, are increasingly being used to determine access to credit, yet research has shown that machine learning can encode many different versions of "unfairness," thus raising the concern that banks and other financial institutions could -- potentially unwittingly -- engage in illegal discrimination through the use of this technology. In the US, there are laws in place to make sure discrimination does not happen in lending and agencies charged with enforcing them. However, conversations around fair credit models in computer science and in policy are often misaligned: fair machine learning research often lacks legal and practical considerations specific to existing fair lending policy, and regulators have yet to issue new guidance on how, if at all, credit risk models should be utilizing practices and techniques from the research community. This paper aims to better align these sides of the conversation. We describe the current state of credit discrimination regulation in the United States, contextualize results from fair ML research to identify the specific fairness concerns raised by the use of machine learning in lending, and discuss regulatory opportunities to address these concerns.
Real-Time Detection of Anomalies in Large-Scale Transient Surveys
Muthukrishna, Daniel, Mandel, Kaisey S., Lochner, Michelle, Webb, Sara, Narayan, Gautham
New time-domain surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will observe millions of transient alerts each night, making standard approaches of visually identifying new and interesting transients infeasible. We present two novel methods of automatically detecting anomalous transient light curves in real-time. Both methods are based on the simple idea that if the light curves from a known population of transients can be accurately modelled, any deviations from model predictions are likely anomalies. The first modelling approach is a probabilistic neural network built using Temporal Convolutional Networks (TCNs) and the second is an interpretable Bayesian parametric model of a transient. We demonstrate our methods' ability to provide anomaly scores as a function of time on light curves from the Zwicky Transient Facility. We show that the flexibility of neural networks, the attribute that makes them such a powerful tool for many regression tasks, is what makes them less suitable for anomaly detection when compared with our parametric model. The parametric model is able to identify anomalies with respect to common supernova classes with high precision and recall scores, achieving area under the precision-recall curves (AUCPR) above 0.79 for most rare classes such as kilonovae, tidal disruption events, intermediate luminosity transients, and pair-instability supernovae. Our ability to identify anomalies improves over the lifetime of the light curves. Our framework, used in conjunction with transient classifiers, will enable fast and prioritised followup of unusual transients from new large-scale surveys.
Continual Meta-Reinforcement Learning for UAV-Aided Vehicular Wireless Networks
Marini, Riccardo, Park, Sangwoo, Simeone, Osvaldo, Buratti, Chiara
An important use case is offered by vehicular ground users are static and have known locations. The same wireless networks, in which UABSs serve as relays authors in [28] extended their previous work by considering between vehicular users and the network, enabling the users multiple UABSs. Unlike these previous works, in this paper, to upload data collected by on-board sensors [5]-[11]. Such we consider traffic conditions characterized by vehicular users user-generated data are collected by the network, and then with a priori unknown locations and we move beyond conventional forwarded to other vehicles by means of BSs or road side meta-RL by accounting for the constraint that simulators units (RSUs). Being able to offer stronger, possibly line-ofsight for previous traffic configurations cannot be revisited. The (LoS), links to vehicles as compared to (static) ground rest of the paper is organized as follows. The system model BSs, UABSs can support demanding vehicle-to-everything and the problem formulation are described in Section II.
Controllable Data Generation by Deep Learning: A Review
Wang, Shiyu, Du, Yuanqi, Guo, Xiaojie, Pan, Bo, Qin, Zhaohui, Zhao, Liang
Designing and generating new data under targeted properties has been attracting various critical applications such as molecule design, image editing and speech synthesis. Traditional hand-crafted approaches heavily rely on expertise experience and intensive human efforts, yet still suffer from the insufficiency of scientific knowledge and low throughput to support effective and efficient data generation. Recently, the advancement of deep learning induces expressive methods that can learn the underlying representation and properties of data. Such capability provides new opportunities in figuring out the mutual relationship between the structural patterns and functional properties of the data and leveraging such relationship to generate structural data given the desired properties. This article provides a systematic review of this promising research area, commonly known as controllable deep data generation. Firstly, the potential challenges are raised and preliminaries are provided. Then the controllable deep data generation is formally defined, a taxonomy on various techniques is proposed and the evaluation metrics in this specific domain are summarized. After that, exciting applications of controllable deep data generation are introduced and existing works are experimentally analyzed and compared. Finally, the promising future directions of controllable deep data generation are highlighted and five potential challenges are identified.
Remote C Developer openings near you -Updated October 04, 2022 - Remote Tech Jobs
Role requiring'No experience data provided' months of experience in Memphis Pay if you succeed in getting hired and start work at a high-paying job first. Get Paid to Read Emails, Play Games, Search the Web, $5 Signup Bonus. Voca has an immediate contract FOR HIRE position opening (contract term approximately 12 months) for an IT Software Developer resource for our insurance industry client, located in Memphis, TN. This resource can work remotely, with a slight preference for candidates residing in MEMPHIS, TN or COLUMBUS, OH! To develop, maintain, test and debug software to meet generally defined requirements in a Windows client/server environment utilizing software development languages/environments such as PL/SQL, Oracle, Progress 4 GL Application Development Environment (ADE), .Net, Microsoft SQL, or other platforms; to formulate and define system scope and objectives through research and fact-finding for the purpose of developing or modifying moderately complex information systems; to prepare detailed specification from which programs will be written; and to design, code, test, debug, document and maintain programs. Becomes familiar with most aspects of the application including reports, parameters, claims management, intake services, carrier/client interfaces and vendor/business partner interfaces.
Hyperbolic Deep Reinforcement Learning
Cetin, Edoardo, Chamberlain, Benjamin, Bronstein, Michael, Hunt, Jonathan J
We propose a new class of deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms that model latent representations in hyperbolic space. Sequential decision-making requires reasoning about the possible future consequences of current behavior. Consequently, capturing the relationship between key evolving features for a given task is conducive to recovering effective policies. To this end, hyperbolic geometry provides deep RL models with a natural basis to precisely encode this inherently hierarchical information. However, applying existing methodologies from the hyperbolic deep learning literature leads to fatal optimization instabilities due to the non-stationarity and variance characterizing RL gradient estimators. Hence, we design a new general method that counteracts such optimization challenges and enables stable end-to-end learning with deep hyperbolic representations. We empirically validate our framework by applying it to popular on-policy and off-policy RL algorithms on the Procgen and Atari 100K benchmarks, attaining near universal performance and generalization benefits. Given its natural fit, we hope future RL research will consider hyperbolic representations as a standard tool.
Double Attention-based Lightweight Network for Plant Pest Recognition
Janarthan, Sivasubramaniam, Thuseethan, Selvarajah, Rajasegarar, Sutharshan, Yearwood, John
Timely recognition of plant pests from field images is significant to avoid potential losses of crop yields. Traditional convolutional neural network-based deep learning models demand high computational capability and require large labelled samples for each pest type for training. On the other hand, the existing lightweight network-based approaches suffer in correctly classifying the pests because of common characteristics and high similarity between multiple plant pests. In this work, a novel double attention-based lightweight deep learning architecture is proposed to automatically recognize different plant pests. The lightweight network facilitates faster and small data training while the double attention module increases performance by focusing on the most pertinent information. The proposed approach achieves 96.61%, 99.08% and 91.60% on three variants of two publicly available datasets with 5869, 545 and 500 samples, respectively. Moreover, the comparison results reveal that the proposed approach outperforms existing approaches on both small and large datasets consistently.