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LiftingWeakSupervisionToStructuredPrediction

Neural Information Processing Systems

For labels taking values in a finite metric space, we introduce techniques new to weak supervision based on pseudo-Euclidean embeddings andtensor decompositions, providing anearly-consistent noise rate estimator.




A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web

WIRED

From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China. For a brief moment in October, Alejandro Quintero thought he had made it big in China . The Bogotá-based data analyst owns and manages a website that publishes articles about paranormal activities, like ghosts and aliens. The content is written in "Spanglish," he says, and was never intended for an Asian audience. But last fall, Quintero's site suddenly began receiving a large volume of visits from China and Singapore.



Policy Improvement using Language Feedback Models

Neural Information Processing Systems

First, by using LFMs to identify desirable behaviour to imitate, we improve in task-completion rate over strong behavioural cloning baselines on three distinct language grounding environments (Touchdown, ScienceWorld, and ALFWorld). Second, imitation learning using LFMs outperform using LLMs as experts to directly predict actions, when controlling for the number of LLM output tokens.




Statistical Analysis of Nearest Neighbor Methods for Anomaly Detection

Neural Information Processing Systems

In this paper we are concerned with investigating theperformance ofNN-based methods foranomaly detection. We firstshowthrough extensivesimulations thatNNmethods compare favorably to some of the other state-of-the-art algorithms for anomaly detection based on a setofbenchmark syntheticdatasets.