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A New Approach for Tactical Decision Making in Lane Changing: Sample Efficient Deep Q Learning with a Safety Feedback Reward
Yavas, M. Ugur, Ure, N. Kemal, Kumbasar, Tufan
The efficient design and implementation of DRL agents There has been a growing interest in self-driving cars involves many steps which are starting with state-action by the industry since Darpa Urban Challenge [1]. Despite representations, balancing multi-objective reward function, the great achievements in this competition, the deployment tuning the hyper-parameters of the optimization algorithm, of self-driving cars into production is a quite complicated deciding the network architecture, generating rich data out problem due to reasons such as long tail of edge cases, of realistic scenarios and finally broad evaluation against a safety verification and the need of intelligent algorithms that proper baseline methods with different seeds. Considering are capable of negotiating with human drivers. There are the aforementioned steps, [7] lacks the comparison with a already level-2 capable cars in production that autonomously fair baseline and uses a very naive simulation environment control the vehicle at both the longitudinal and lateral levels.
Machine Knowledge: Creation and Curation of Comprehensive Knowledge Bases
Weikum, Gerhard, Dong, Luna, Razniewski, Simon, Suchanek, Fabian
Equipping machines with comprehensive knowledge of the world's entities and their relationships has been a long-standing goal of AI. Over the last decade, large-scale knowledge bases, also known as knowledge graphs, have been automatically constructed from web contents and text sources, and have become a key asset for search engines. This machine knowledge can be harnessed to semantically interpret textual phrases in news, social media and web tables, and contributes to question answering, natural language processing and data analytics. This article surveys fundamental concepts and practical methods for creating and curating large knowledge bases. It covers models and methods for discovering and canonicalizing entities and their semantic types and organizing them into clean taxonomies. On top of this, the article discusses the automatic extraction of entity-centric properties. To support the long-term life-cycle and the quality assurance of machine knowledge, the article presents methods for constructing open schemas and for knowledge curation. Case studies on academic projects and industrial knowledge graphs complement the survey of concepts and methods.
CogniFNN: A Fuzzy Neural Network Framework for Cognitive Word Embedding Evaluation
Liu, Xinping, Cao, Zehong, Tran, Son
Word embeddings can reflect the semantic representations, and the embedding qualities can be comprehensively evaluated with human natural reading-related cognitive data sources. In this paper, we proposed the CogniFNN framework, which is the first attempt at using fuzzy neural networks to extract non-linear and non-stationary characteristics for evaluations of English word embeddings against the corresponding cognitive datasets. In our experiment, we used 15 human cognitive datasets across three modalities: EEG, fMRI, and eye-tracking, and selected the mean square error and multiple hypotheses testing as metrics to evaluate our proposed CogniFNN framework. Compared to the recent pioneer framework, our proposed CogniFNN showed smaller prediction errors of both context-independent (GloVe) and context-sensitive (BERT) word embeddings, and achieved higher significant ratios with randomly generated word embeddings. Our findings suggested that the CogniFNN framework could provide a more accurate and comprehensive evaluation of cognitive word embeddings. It will potentially be beneficial to the further word embeddings evaluation on extrinsic natural language processing tasks.
How ensembles can reduce machine learning's carbon footprint - Dataconomy
Commercial and industrial applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning are unlocking economic opportunities, transforming the way we do business, and even helping to solve complex social and environmental problems. In fact, generative applications of this technology have become tools for environmental sustainability. With machine learning's capability to analyze and make predictions using massive pools of data, these applications are now able to accurately model climate change and fluctuations, so that energy infrastructures and energy consumption can be re-engineered accordingly. Ironically, training large-scale models via deep neural networks requires vast computational power. It also produces a great deal of thermal energy from each of the associated graphics processing units (GPUs) or tensor processing units (TPUs) used.
YouTube AI to automatically block videos that violate age restrictions
YouTube is the world's biggest source of online video, with more than 2 billion visitors monthly. YouTube will use machine learning to automatically apply age restrictions on videos, the Google-owned video site said Tuesday, widening its use of artificial intelligence to automate blocking some videos from viewers who either aren't signed into a YouTube account or are signed in as a viewer under the age of 18. Creators who believe their videos were blocked unfairly can appeal. YouTube said these automated age restrictions and some tweaks to what it categorizes as inappropriate for people under 18 will all "roll out over the coming months." Currently, YouTube has a human team that applies the age restrictions when it reviews a video that isn't appropriate for younger viewers. "Going forward, we will build on our approach of using machine learning to detect content for review, by developing and adapting our technology to help us automatically apply age restrictions," YouTube said.
Deep Learning for Community Detection: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities
Liu, Fanzhen, Xue, Shan, Wu, Jia, Zhou, Chuan, Hu, Wenbin, Paris, Cecile, Nepal, Surya, Yang, Jian, Yu, Philip S.
As communities represent similar opinions, similar functions, similar purposes, etc., community detection is an important and extremely useful tool in both scientific inquiry and data analytics. However, the classic methods of community detection, such as spectral clustering and statistical inference, are falling by the wayside as deep learning techniques demonstrate an increasing capacity to handle high-dimensional graph data with impressive performance. Thus, a survey of current progress in community detection through deep learning is timely. Structured into three broad research streams in this domain - deep neural networks, deep graph embedding, and graph neural networks, this article summarizes the contributions of the various frameworks, models, and algorithms in each stream along with the current challenges that remain unsolved and the future research opportunities yet to be explored.
ISA: An Intelligent Shopping Assistant
Lai, Tuan Manh, Bui, Trung, Lipka, Nedim
Despite the growth of e-commerce, brick-and-mortar stores are still the preferred destinations for many people. In this paper, we present ISA, a mobile-based intelligent shopping assistant that is designed to improve shopping experience in physical stores. ISA assists users by leveraging advanced techniques in computer vision, speech processing, and natural language processing. An in-store user only needs to take a picture or scan the barcode of the product of interest, and then the user can talk to the assistant about the product. The assistant can also guide the user through the purchase process or recommend other similar products to the user. We take a data-driven approach in building the engines of ISA's natural language processing component, and the engines achieve good performance.
Annotator Rationales for Labeling Tasks in Crowdsourcing
Kutlu, Mucahid (TOBB University of Economics and Technology) | McDonnell, Tyler | Elsayed, Tamer (Qatar University) | Lease, Matthew (University of Texas at Austin)
When collecting item ratings from human judges, it can be difficult to measure and enforce data quality due to task subjectivity and lack of transparency into how judges make each rating decision. To address this, we investigate asking judges to provide a specific form of rationale supporting each rating decision. We evaluate this approach on an information retrieval task in which human judges rate the relevance of Web pages for different search topics. Cost-benefit analysis over 10,000 judgments collected on Amazon's Mechanical Turk suggests a win-win. Firstly, rationales yield a multitude of benefits: more reliable judgments, greater transparency for evaluating both human raters and their judgments, reduced need for expert gold, the opportunity for dual-supervision from ratings and rationales, and added value from the rationales themselves. Secondly, once experienced in the task, crowd workers provide rationales with almost no increase in task completion time. Consequently, we can realize the above benefits with minimal additional cost.
Learning Mixtures of Low-Rank Models
Chen, Yanxi, Ma, Cong, Poor, H. Vincent, Chen, Yuxin
We study the problem of learning mixtures of low-rank models, i.e. reconstructing multiple low-rank matrices from unlabelled linear measurements of each. This problem enriches two widely studied settings -- low-rank matrix sensing and mixed linear regression -- by bringing latent variables (i.e. unknown labels) and structural priors (i.e. low-rank structures) into consideration. To cope with the non-convexity issues arising from unlabelled heterogeneous data and low-complexity structure, we develop a three-stage meta-algorithm that is guaranteed to recover the unknown matrices with near-optimal sample and computational complexities under Gaussian designs. In addition, the proposed algorithm is provably stable against random noise. We complement the theoretical studies with empirical evidence that confirms the efficacy of our algorithm.
BiteNet: Bidirectional Temporal Encoder Network to Predict Medical Outcomes
Peng, Xueping, Long, Guodong, Shen, Tao, Wang, Sen, Jiang, Jing, Zhang, Chengqi
Electronic health records (EHRs) are longitudinal records of a patient's interactions with healthcare systems. A patient's EHR data is organized as a three-level hierarchy from top to bottom: patient journey - all the experiences of diagnoses and treatments over a period of time; individual visit - a set of medical codes in a particular visit; and medical code - a specific record in the form of medical codes. As EHRs begin to amass in millions, the potential benefits, which these data might hold for medical research and medical outcome prediction, are staggering - including, for example, predicting future admissions to hospitals, diagnosing illnesses or determining the efficacy of medical treatments. Each of these analytics tasks requires a domain knowledge extraction method to transform the hierarchical patient journey into a vector representation for further prediction procedure. The representations should embed a sequence of visits and a set of medical codes with a specific timestamp, which are crucial to any downstream prediction tasks. Hence, expressively powerful representations are appealing to boost learning performance. To this end, we propose a novel self-attention mechanism that captures the contextual dependency and temporal relationships within a patient's healthcare journey. An end-to-end bidirectional temporal encoder network (BiteNet) then learns representations of the patient's journeys, based solely on the proposed attention mechanism. We have evaluated the effectiveness of our methods on two supervised prediction and two unsupervised clustering tasks with a real-world EHR dataset. The empirical results demonstrate the proposed BiteNet model produces higher-quality representations than state-of-the-art baseline methods.