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Balancing AI ethics and bias
With great power, the saying goes, comes great responsibility. As artificial intelligence (AI) technology becomes more powerful, many groups are taking an interest in ensuring its responsible use. The questions that surround AI ethics can be difficult, and the operational aspects of addressing AI ethics are complex. Fortunately, these questions are already driving debate and action in the public and commercial sectors. Organizations using AI-based applications should take note.
A new tool translates 4000-year old stories using machine learning
Ancient Egyptians used hieroglyphs over four millennia ago to engrave and record their stories. Today, only a select group of people know how to read or interpret those inscriptions. To read and decipher the ancient hieroglyphic writing, researchers and scholars have been using the Rosetta Stone, an irregularly shaped black granite stone. In 2017, game developer Ubisoft launched an initiative to use AI and machine learning to understand the written language of the Pharoahs. The initiative brought researchers from Australia's Macquarie University and Google's Art and Culture division togther.
Operationalising AI: What's your strategy?
Many Australian enterprises have spent years trying to justify their investments in data analytics models. On average, only half of the analytic models built by organisations will ever make it to production. Clearly, organisations that operationalise and monetise their artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics capabilities are more likely to succeed with their customer engagements. Tech execs gathered at a virtual roundtable recently to discuss the challenges they face when moving their AI and data analytics programs from an experiment inside their business to one that is a key part of their core operations. The conversation was sponsored by SAS.
Conservative AI and social inequality: Conceptualizing alternatives to bias through social theory
In response to calls for greater interdisciplinary involvement from the social sciences and humanities in the development, governance, and study of artificial intelligence systems, this paper presents one sociologist's view on the problem of algorithmic bias and the reproduction of societal bias. Discussions of bias in AI cover much of the same conceptual terrain that sociologists studying inequality have long understood using more specific terms and theories. Concerns over reproducing societal bias should be informed by an understanding of the ways that inequality is continually reproduced in society -- processes that AI systems are either complicit in, or can be designed to disrupt and counter. The contrast presented here is between conservative and radical approaches to AI, with conservatism referring to dominant tendencies that reproduce and strengthen the status quo, while radical approaches work to disrupt systemic forms of inequality. The limitations of conservative approaches to class, gender, and racial bias are discussed as specific examples, along with the social structures and processes that biases in these areas are linked to. Societal issues can no longer be out of scope for AI and machine learning, given the impact of these systems on human lives. This requires engagement with a growing body of critical AI scholarship that goes beyond biased data to analyze structured ways of perpetuating inequality, opening up the possibility for radical alternatives.
Collision Avoidance Robotics Via Meta-Learning (CARML)
Iyer, Abhiram, Mahadevan, Aravind
Inspired by the work done by Andrychowicz et al. in [7], they modeled an I. INTRODUCTION LSTM as a meta-learner, which helped to train another neural Today, most deep reinforcement learning techniques require network "learner" classifier using a few-shot framework. Unlike models to be trained on a large number of training samples. In common deep learning optimizers such as Momentum, contrast, Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) proposed ADAM, and Adagrad, this method is able to train a model by Finn et.
Tiny noise, big mistakes: Adversarial perturbations induce errors in Brain-Computer Interface spellers
Zhang, Xiao, Wu, Dongrui, Ding, Lieyun, Luo, Hanbin, Lin, Chin-Teng, Jung, Tzyy-Ping, Chavarriaga, Ricardo
An electroencephalogram (EEG) based brain-computer interface (BCI) speller allows a user to input text to a computer by thought. It is particularly useful to severely disabled individuals, e.g., amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients, who have no other effective means of communication with another person or a computer. Most studies so far focused on making EEG-based BCI spellers faster and more reliable; however, few have considered their security. This study, for the first time, shows that P300 and steady-state visual evoked potential BCI spellers are very vulnerable, i.e., they can be severely attacked by adversarial perturbations, which are too tiny to be noticed when added to EEG signals, but can mislead the spellers to spell anything the attacker wants. The consequence could range from merely user frustration to severe misdiagnosis in clinical applications. We hope our research can attract more attention to the security of EEG-based BCI spellers, and more broadly, EEG-based BCIs, which has received little attention before.
Data Stream Clustering: A Review
Zubaroฤlu, Alaettin, Atalay, Volkan
Number of connected devices is steadily increasing and these devices continuously generate data streams. Real-time processing of data streams is arousing interest despite many challenges. Clustering is one of the most suitable methods for real-time data stream processing, because it can be applied with less prior information about the data and it does not need labeled instances. However, data stream clustering differs from traditional clustering in many aspects and it has several challenging issues. Here, we provide information regarding the concepts and common characteristics of data streams, such as concept drift, data structures for data streams, time window models and outlier detection. We comprehensively review recent data stream clustering algorithms and analyze them in terms of the base clustering technique, computational complexity and clustering accuracy. A comparison of these algorithms is given along with still open problems. We indicate popular data stream repositories and datasets, stream processing tools and platforms. Open problems about data stream clustering are also discussed.
Defeasible RDFS via Rational Closure
Casini, Giovanni, Straccia, Umberto
In the field of non-monotonic logics, the notion of Rational Closure (RC) is acknowledged as a prominent approach. In recent years, RC has gained even more popularity in the context of Description Logics (DLs), the logic underpinning the semantic web standard ontology language OWL 2, whose main ingredients are classes and roles. In this work, we show how to integrate RC within the triple language RDFS, which together with OWL2 are the two major standard semantic web ontology languages. To do so, we start from $\rho df$, which is the logic behind RDFS, and then extend it to $\rho df_\bot$, allowing to state that two entities are incompatible. Eventually, we propose defeasible $\rho df_\bot$ via a typical RC construction. The main features of our approach are: (i) unlike most other approaches that add an extra non-monotone rule layer on top of monotone RDFS, defeasible $\rho df_\bot$ remains syntactically a triple language and is a simple extension of $\rho df_\bot$ by introducing some new predicate symbols with specific semantics. In particular, any RDFS reasoner/store may handle them as ordinary terms if it does not want to take account for the extra semantics of the new predicate symbols; (ii) the defeasible $\rho df_\bot$ entailment decision procedure is build on top of the $\rho df_\bot$ entailment decision procedure, which in turn is an extension of the one for $\rho df$ via some additional inference rules favouring an potential implementation; and (iii) defeasible $\rho df_\bot$ entailment can be decided in polynomial time.
Presentation of a Recommender System with Ensemble Learning and Graph Embedding: A Case on MovieLens
Forouzandeh, Saman, Rostami, Mehrdad, Berahmand, Kamal
Information technology has spread widely, and extraordinarily large amounts of data have been made accessible to users, which has made it challenging to select data that are in accordance with user needs. For the resolution of the above issue, recommender systems have emerged, which much help users go through the process of decision-making and selecting relevant data. A recommender system predicts users behavior to be capable of detecting their interests and needs, and it often uses the classification technique for this purpose. It may not be sufficiently accurate to employ individual classification, where not all cases can be examined, which makes the method inappropriate to specific problems. In this research, group classification and the ensemble learning technique were used for increasing prediction accuracy in recommender systems. Another issue that is raised here concerns user analysis. Given the large size of the data and a large number of users, the process of user needs analysis and prediction (using a graph in most cases, representing the relations between users and their selected items) is complicated and cumbersome in recommender systems. Graph embedding was also proposed for resolution of this issue, where all or part of user behavior can be simulated through the generation of several vectors, resolving the problem of user behavior analysis to a large extent while maintaining high efficiency. In this research, individuals most similar to the target user were classified using ensemble learning, fuzzy rules, and the decision tree, and relevant recommendations were then made to each user with a heterogeneous knowledge graph and embedding vectors. This study was performed on the MovieLens datasets, and the obtained results indicated the high efficiency of the presented method.
Inductive Link Prediction for Nodes Having Only Attribute Information
Hao, Yu, Cao, Xin, Fang, Yixiang, Xie, Xike, Wang, Sibo
Predicting the link between two nodes is a fundamental problem for graph data analytics. In attributed graphs, both the structure and attribute information can be utilized for link prediction. Most existing studies focus on transductive link prediction where both nodes are already in the graph. However, many real-world applications require inductive prediction for new nodes having only attribute information. It is more challenging since the new nodes do not have structure information and cannot be seen during the model training. To solve this problem, we propose a model called DEAL, which consists of three components: two node embedding encoders and one alignment mechanism. The two encoders aim to output the attribute-oriented node embedding and the structure-oriented node embedding, and the alignment mechanism aligns the two types of embeddings to build the connections between the attributes and links. Our model DEAL is versatile in the sense that it works for both inductive and transductive link prediction. Extensive experiments on several benchmark datasets show that our proposed model significantly outperforms existing inductive link prediction methods, and also outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on transductive link prediction.