An integral part of seamless human-human communication is engagement, the process by which two or more participants establish, maintain, and end their perceived connection. Therefore, to develop successful human-centered human-machine interaction applications, automatic engagement inference is one of the tasks required to achieve engaging interactions between humans and machines, and to make machines attuned to their users, hence enhancing user satisfaction and technology acceptance. Several factors contribute to engagement state inference, which include the interaction context and interactants' behaviours and identity. Indeed, engagement is a multi-faceted and multi-modal construct that requires high accuracy in the analysis and interpretation of contextual, verbal and non-verbal cues. Thus, the development of an automated and intelligent system that accomplishes this task has been proven to be challenging so far. This paper presents a comprehensive survey on previous work in engagement inference for human-machine interaction, entailing interdisciplinary definition, engagement components and factors, publicly available datasets, ground truth assessment, and most commonly used features and methods, serving as a guide for the development of future human-machine interaction interfaces with reliable context-aware engagement inference capability. An in-depth review across embodied and disembodied interaction modes, and an emphasis on the interaction context of which engagement perception modules are integrated sets apart the presented survey from existing surveys.

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This course is all about A/B testing. A/B testing is used everywhere. A/B testing is all about comparing things. If you're a data scientist, and you want to tell the rest of the company, "logo A is better than logo B", well you can't just say that without proving it using numbers and statistics. Traditional A/B testing has been around for a long time, and it's full of approximations and confusing definitions. In this course, while we will do traditional A/B testing in order to appreciate its complexity, what we will eventually get to is the Bayesian machine learning way of doing things.

In the process of developing and applying AI technology, it is necessary to be pragmatic and organized; AI education intensifies the driving force for the development of related technology and industry, and is also the basic guarantee for the development of high-quality AI talent and the sustainable development of related technology and industry. Artificial intelligence education in China RP initially constituted a system for teaching subjects, and curricula and courses were offered at different levels in universities such as computer science, smart science and technology, electronic information and automation. The current problems of AI development in China's public relations and AI infrastructure construction cannot be separated from the education of AI experts. Only by cultivating a sufficient number of high-quality AI talents can the smooth development of RP in China be ensured, so that it ascends to the top of international AI. Not so long ago, AI-related gaming activities promoted a wave of AI technology to enhance economic and social intelligence in the People's Republic of China.

Colleagues, coming in at #7 on our Top 10 Countdown is Data Structures, Algorithms, and Machine Learning Optimization. Learn to use "Big O" notation to characterize the time efficiency and space efficiency of a given algorithm, enabling you to select or devise the most sensible approach for tackling a particular machine learning problem with the hardware resources available to you, get acquainted with the entire range of the most widely-used Python data structures, including list-, dictionary-, tree-, and graph-based structures, develop a working understanding of all of the essential algorithms for working with data, including those for searching, sorting, hashing, and traversing, discover how the statistical and machine learning approaches to optimization differ, and why you would select one or the other for a given problem you're solving, understand exactly how the extremely versatile (stochastic) gradient descent optimization algorithm works and how to apply it and learn "fancy" optimizers that are available for advanced machine learning approaches (e.g., deep learning) and when you should consider using them. Training modules include: 1) Data Structures and Algorithms, 2) "Big O" Notation, 3) List-Based Data Structures, 4) Searching and Sorting, 5) Sets and Hashing, 6) Trees, 7) Graphs, 8) Machine Learning Optimization, and 9) Fancy Deep Learning Optimizers. Much career success, Lawrence E. Wilson -- Artificial Intelligence Academy (share & subscribe)

To discover new drugs is to seek and to prove causality. As an emerging approach leveraging human knowledge and creativity, data, and machine intelligence, causal inference holds the promise of reducing cognitive bias and improving decision making in drug discovery. While it has been applied across the value chain, the concepts and practice of causal inference remain obscure to many practitioners. This article offers a non-technical introduction to causal inference, reviews its recent applications, and discusses opportunities and challenges of adopting the causal language in drug discovery and development.

Reinforcement learning is a promising paradigm for learning robot control, allowing complex control policies to be learned without requiring a dynamics model. However, even state of the art algorithms can be difficult to tune for optimum performance. We propose employing an ensemble of multiple reinforcement learning agents, each with a different set of hyperparameters, along with a mechanism for choosing the best performing set(s) on-line. In the literature, the ensemble technique is used to improve performance in general, but the current work specifically addresses decreasing the hyperparameter tuning effort. Furthermore, our approach targets on-line learning on a single robotic system, and does not require running multiple simulators in parallel. Although the idea is generic, the Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient was the model chosen, being a representative deep learning actor-critic method with good performance in continuous action settings but known high variance. We compare our online weighted q-ensemble approach to q-average ensemble strategies addressed in literature using alternate policy training, as well as online training, demonstrating the advantage of the new approach in eliminating hyperparameter tuning. The applicability to real-world systems was validated in common robotic benchmark environments: the bipedal robot half cheetah and the swimmer. Online Weighted Q-Ensemble presented overall lower variance and superior results when compared with q-average ensembles using randomized parameterizations.

In this paper we present a world model, which learns causal features using the invariance principle. In particular, we use contrastive unsupervised learning to learn the invariant causal features, which enforces invariance across augmentations of irrelevant parts or styles of the observation. The world-model-based reinforcement learning methods independently optimize representation learning and the policy. Thus naive contrastive loss implementation collapses due to a lack of supervisory signals to the representation learning module. We propose an intervention invariant auxiliary task to mitigate this issue. Specifically, we utilize depth prediction to explicitly enforce the invariance and use data augmentation as style intervention on the RGB observation space. Our design leverages unsupervised representation learning to learn the world model with invariant causal features. Our proposed method significantly outperforms current state-of-the-art model-based and model-free reinforcement learning methods on out-of-distribution point navigation tasks on the iGibson dataset. Moreover, our proposed model excels at the sim-to-real transfer of our perception learning module. Finally, we evaluate our approach on the DeepMind control suite and enforce invariance only implicitly since depth is not available. Nevertheless, our proposed model performs on par with the state-of-the-art counterpart.

We introduce ASPiRe (Adaptive Skill Prior for RL), a new approach that leverages prior experience to accelerate reinforcement learning. Unlike existing methods that learn a single skill prior from a large and diverse dataset, our framework learns a library of different distinction skill priors (i.e., behavior priors) from a collection of specialized datasets, and learns how to combine them to solve a new task. This formulation allows the algorithm to acquire a set of specialized skill priors that are more reusable for downstream tasks; however, it also brings up additional challenges of how to effectively combine these unstructured sets of skill priors to form a new prior for new tasks. Specifically, it requires the agent not only to identify which skill prior(s) to use but also how to combine them (either sequentially or concurrently) to form a new prior. To achieve this goal, ASPiRe includes Adaptive Weight Module (AWM) that learns to infer an adaptive weight assignment between different skill priors and uses them to guide policy learning for downstream tasks via weighted Kullback-Leibler divergences. Our experiments demonstrate that ASPiRe can significantly accelerate the learning of new downstream tasks in the presence of multiple priors and show improvement on competitive baselines.

The development of deep learning techniques has allowed Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models to become extremely powerful, given sufficient training data and training time. However, systems struggle when translating text from a new domain with a distinct style or vocabulary. Fine-tuning on in-domain data allows good domain adaptation, but requires sufficient relevant bilingual data. Even if this is available, simple fine-tuning can cause overfitting to new data and catastrophic forgetting of previously learned behaviour. We survey approaches to domain adaptation for NMT, particularly where a system may need to translate across multiple domains. We divide techniques into those revolving around data selection or generation, model architecture, parameter adaptation procedure, and inference procedure. We finally highlight the benefits of domain adaptation and multidomain adaptation techniques to other lines of NMT research.