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Global Machine Learning Operationalization Software Market 2020 Outlook By Top Players
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On Interpretability of Deep Learning based Skin Lesion Classifiers using Concept Activation Vectors
Lucieri, Adriano, Bajwa, Muhammad Naseer, Braun, Stephan Alexander, Malik, Muhammad Imran, Dengel, Andreas, Ahmed, Sheraz
Deep learning based medical image classifiers have shown remarkable prowess in various application areas like ophthalmology, dermatology, pathology, and radiology. However, the acceptance of these Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems in real clinical setups is severely limited primarily because their decision-making process remains largely obscure. This work aims at elucidating a deep learning based medical image classifier by verifying that the model learns and utilizes similar disease-related concepts as described and employed by dermatologists. We used a well-trained and high performing neural network developed by REasoning for COmplex Data (RECOD) Lab for classification of three skin tumours, i.e. Melanocytic Naevi, Melanoma and Seborrheic Keratosis and performed a detailed analysis on its latent space. Two well established and publicly available skin disease datasets, PH2 and derm7pt, are used for experimentation. Human understandable concepts are mapped to RECOD image classification model with the help of Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs), introducing a novel training and significance testing paradigm for CAVs. Our results on an independent evaluation set clearly shows that the classifier learns and encodes human understandable concepts in its latent representation. Additionally, TCAV scores (Testing with CAVs) suggest that the neural network indeed makes use of disease-related concepts in the correct way when making predictions. We anticipate that this work can not only increase confidence of medical practitioners on CAD but also serve as a stepping stone for further development of CAV-based neural network interpretation methods.
Classification-Based Anomaly Detection for General Data
Anomaly detection, finding patterns that substantially deviate from those seen previously, is one of the fundamental problems of artificial intelligence. Recently, classification-based methods were shown to achieve superior results on this task. In this work, we present a unifying view and propose an open-set method, GOAD, to relax current generalization assumptions. Furthermore, we extend the applicability of transformation-based methods to non-image data using random affine transformations. Our method is shown to obtain state-of-the-art accuracy and is applicable to broad data types. The strong performance of our method is extensively validated on multiple datasets from different domains. Detecting anomalies in perceived data is a key ability for humans and for artificial intelligence. Humans often detect anomalies to give early indications of danger or to discover unique opportunities. Anomaly detection systems are being used by artificial intelligence to discover credit card fraud, for detecting cyber intrusion, alert predictive maintenance of industrial equipment and for discovering attractive stock market opportunities. The typical anomaly detection setting is a one class classification task, where the objective is to classify data as normal or anomalous. The importance of the task stems from being able to raise an alarm when detecting a different pattern from those seen in the past, therefore triggering further inspection.
Learning programs by learning from failures
We introduce learning programs by learning from failures. In this approach, an inductive logic programming (ILP) system (the learner) decomposes the learning problem into three separate stages: generate, test, and constrain. In the generate stage, the learner generates a hypothesis (a logic program) that satisfies a set of hypothesis constraints (constraints on the syntactic form of hypotheses). In the test stage, the learner tests the hypothesis against training examples. A hypothesis fails when it does not entail all the positive examples or entails a negative example. If a hypothesis fails, then, in the constrain stage, the learner learns constraints from the failed hypothesis to prune the hypothesis space, i.e. to constrain subsequent hypothesis generation. For instance, if a hypothesis is too general (entails a negative example), the constraints prune generalisations of the hypothesis. If a hypothesis is too specific (does not entail all the positive examples), the constraints prune specialisations of the hypothesis. This loop repeats until (1) the learner finds a hypothesis that entails all the positive and none of the negative examples, or (2) there are no more hypotheses to test. We implement our idea in Popper, an ILP system which combines answer set programming and Prolog. Popper supports infinite domains, reasoning about lists and numbers, learning optimal (textually minimal) programs, and learning recursive programs. Our experimental results on three diverse domains (number theory problems, robot strategies, and list transformations) show that (1) constraints drastically improve learning performance, and (2) Popper can substantially outperform state-of-the-art ILP systems, both in terms of predictive accuracies and learning times.
Neural-Symbolic Relational Reasoning on Graph Models: Effective Link Inference and Computation from Knowledge Bases
Lemos, Henrique, Avelar, Pedro, Prates, Marcelo, Lamb, Luís, Garcez, Artur
The recent developments and growing interest in neuralsymbolic models has shown that hybrid approaches can offer richer models for Artificial Intelligence. The integration of effective relational learning and reasoning methods is one of the key challenges in this direction, as neural learning and symbolic reasoning offer complementary characteristics that can benefit the development of AI systems. Relational labelling or link prediction on knowledge graphs has become one of the main problems in deep learning-based natural language processing research. Moreover, other fields which make use of neural-symbolic techniques may also benefit from such research endeavours. There have been several efforts towards the identification of missing facts from existing ones in knowledge graphs. Two lines of research try and predict knowledge relations between two entities by considering all known facts connecting them or several paths of facts connecting them. We propose a neural-symbolic graph neural network which applies learning over all the paths by feeding the model with the embedding of the minimal subset of the knowledge graph containing such paths. By learning to produce representations for entities and facts corresponding to word embeddings, we show how the model can be trained end-to-end to decode these representations and infer relations between entities in a multitask approach. Our contribution is twofold: a neural-symbolic methodology leverages the resolution of relational inference in large graphs, and we also demonstrate that such neural-symbolic model is shown more effective than path-based approaches.
Espoo trials multilingual 'smartbot' for Coronavirus advice - Cities Today - Connecting the world's urban leaders
The City of Espoo in Finland is trialling a'smartbot' to provide information for citizens about Coronavirus (COVID-19). The city says the tool is smarter than a chatbot as it also understands free-form written language. "Questions to the smartbot do not need to be carefully formulated – if the smartbot cannot answer right away, it will soon learn," a statement explained. The application collects information from City of Espoo websites and other official online sources to answer the questions and will adapt responses accordingly as resources are updated. Citizens can interact anonymously and IP addresses are not stored.
Smart To-Do : Automatic Generation of To-Do Items from Emails
Mukherjee, Sudipto, Mukherjee, Subhabrata, Hasegawa, Marcello, Awadallah, Ahmed Hassan, White, Ryen
Intelligent features in email service applications aim to increase productivity by helping people organize their folders, compose their emails and respond to pending tasks. In this work, we explore a new application, Smart-To-Do, that helps users with task management over emails. We introduce a new task and dataset for automatically generating To-Do items from emails where the sender has promised to perform an action. We design a two-stage process leveraging recent advances in neural text generation and sequence-to-sequence learning, obtaining BLEU and ROUGE scores of 0:23 and 0:63 for this task. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to address the problem of composing To-Do items from emails.
A learning problem whose consistency is equivalent to the non-existence of real-valued measurable cardinals
We show that the $k$-nearest neighbour learning rule is universally consistent in a metric space $X$ if and only if it is universally consistent in every separable subspace of $X$ and the density of $X$ is less than every real-measurable cardinal. In particular, the $k$-NN classifier is universally consistent in every metric space whose separable subspaces are sigma-finite dimensional in the sense of Nagata and Preiss if and only if there are no real-valued measurable cardinals. The latter assumption is relatively consistent with ZFC, however the consistency of the existence of such cardinals cannot be proved within ZFC. Our results were inspired by an example sketched by C\'erou and Guyader in 2006 at an intuitive level of rigour.
Vocabulary Alignment in Openly Specified Interactions
Chocron, Paula Daniela (Hutoma) | Schorlemmer, Marco
The problem of achieving common understanding between agents that use different vocabularies has been mainly addressed by techniques that assume the existence of shared external elements, such as a meta-language or a physical environment. In this article, we consider agents that use different vocabularies and only share knowledge of how to perform a task, given by the specification of an interaction protocol. We present a framework that lets agents learn a vocabulary alignment from the experience of interacting. Unlike previous work in this direction, we use open protocols that constrain possible actions instead of defining procedures, making our approach more general. We present two techniques that can be used either to learn an alignment from scratch or to repair an existent one, and we evaluate their performance experimentally.
Learning to Forecast and Forecasting to Learn from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Srivastava, Ajitesh, Prasanna, Viktor K.
Accurate forecasts of COVID-19 is central to resource management and building strategies to deal with the epidemic. We propose a heterogeneous infection rate model with human mobility for epidemic modeling, a preliminary version of which we have successfully used during DARPA Grand Challenge 2014. By linearizing the model and using weighted least squares, our model is able to quickly adapt to changing trends and provide extremely accurate predictions of confirmed cases at the level of countries and states of the United States. We show that during the earlier part of the epidemic, using travel data increases the predictions. Training the model to forecast also enables learning characteristics of the epidemic. In particular, we show that changes in model parameters over time can help us quantify how well a state or a country has responded to the epidemic. The variations in parameters also allow us to forecast different scenarios such as what would happen if we were to disregard social distancing suggestions.