It will soon become easy for self-driving cars to hide in plain sight. The rooftop lidar sensors that currently mark many of them out are likely to become smaller. Mercedes vehicles with the new, partially automated Drive Pilot system, which carries its lidar sensors behind the car's front grille, are already indistinguishable to the naked eye from ordinary human-operated vehicles. Is this a good thing? As part of our Driverless Futures project at University College London, my colleagues and I recently concluded the largest and most comprehensive survey of citizens' attitudes to self-driving vehicles and the rules of the road.

In this thesis, we focus on the design of an automatic algorithms that provide personalized ranking by adapting to the current conditions. To demonstrate the empirical efficiency of the proposed approaches we investigate their applications for decision making in recommender systems and energy systems domains. For the former, we propose novel algorithm called SAROS that take into account both kinds of feedback for learning over the sequence of interactions. The proposed approach consists in minimizing pairwise ranking loss over blocks constituted by a sequence of non-clicked items followed by the clicked one for each user. We also explore the influence of long memory on the accurateness of predictions. SAROS shows highly competitive and promising results based on quality metrics and also it turn out faster in terms of loss convergence than stochastic gradient descent and batch classical approaches. Regarding power systems, we propose an algorithm for faulted lines detection based on focusing of misclassifications in lines close to the true event location. The proposed idea of taking into account the neighbour lines shows statistically significant results in comparison with the initial approach based on convolutional neural networks for faults detection in power grid.

We are a group of researchers from Sweden, Netherlands, and Germany and kindly invite you to our survey on "Machine Learning Experiment Management Tools." Such tools support practitioners performing machine learning (ML) or deep learning (DL) experiments, systematically managing all involved artifacts (scripts, datasets, hyperparameters, models, …). As a machine learning practitioner, we kindly invite you to participate. We also invite you to forward this invitation to other colleagues who might be interested in this survey as well. Our survey elicits information on the management tools practitioners adopt, their perceived benefits, challenges, and limitations.

There are two general does not satisfactorily capture the merits sub-problems in the MAB literature, namely, regret of a drug or a portfolio. In such applications, minimization and best-arm identification (also risk plays a crucial role, and a riskaware called pure exploration). In the former, in which performance measure is preferable, the exploration-exploitation trade-off manifests, the so as to capture losses in the case of adverse player wants to maximize his reward over a fixed events. This survey aims to consolidate time period. In the latter, the player simply wants and summarise the existing research to learn which arm is the best in either the quickest on risk measures, specifically in the context time possible with a given probability of success(the of multi-armed bandits. We review fixed-confidence setting) or he wants to do so with various risk measures of interest, and comment the highest probability of success given a fixed playing on their properties. Next, we review horizon (the fixed budget setting). In most of existing concentration inequalities for various the MAB literature (see Lattimore and Szepesvári risk measures. Then, we proceed to (2020) for an up-to-date survey), the metric of interest defining risk-aware bandit problems, We is defined simply as the mean of the reward consider algorithms for the regret minimization distribution associated with the arm pulled.

Computer science tools offer powerful solutions to problems that physical scientists encounter. However, their potential remains untapped due to limited channels for knowledge sharing and a lack of visibility into the state of the art applications. The "Machine Learning for Polar Regions" workshop will serve as an opportunity to close the existing gaps between machine learning (ML) experts and polar scientists by identifying current obstacles and opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration. The ultimate goal of the workshop is to educate polar scientists and machine learning experts on each respective field and create a strategic roadmap to accelerate research through a coordinated, cross-disciplinary effort. The Workshop will start with presentations from climate and machine learning experts on current trends in each field, together and separately.

A senior director at Apple has quit his job in protest at the company demanding staff return to the office three days a week. Ian Goodfellow, the director of machine learning, is believed to be the most senior employee to resign so far as a result of the plan. On April 11, the company began mandating one day a week in the office - a requirement that rose to two days on May 2. By May 23, all staff had to be at their desks three days a week. A survey of Apple workers from April 13-19 found 67 percent saying they were dissatisfied with the return-to-office policy, Fortune reported. And Goodfellow, in his resignation note, said he would not do it.

Are you searching for the newest Artificial Intelligence Trends? In 2022, artificial intelligence will have progressed far enough to become the most revolutionary technology ever created by man. According to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, its impact on our evolution as a species will be comparable to fire and electricity. The mere fact that we are already utilizing it to assist us in addressing climate change, exploring space, and developing cancer therapies is enough to show the potential. Don't be scared of AI jargon; we've created a detailed AI glossary for the most commonly used Artificial Intelligence terms. To properly capitalize on AI and machine learning trends, IT and business executives must establish an approach for matching AI with worker interests and company goals.

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used platforms to carry data capturing sensors for various applications. The reason for this success can be found in many aspects: the high maneuverability of the UAVs, the capability of performing autonomous data acquisition, flying at different heights, and the possibility to reach almost any vantage point. The selection of appropriate viewpoints and planning the optimum trajectories of UAVs is an emerging topic that aims at increasing the automation, efficiency and reliability of the data capturing process to achieve a dataset with desired quality. On the other hand, 3D reconstruction using the data captured by UAVs is also attracting attention in research and industry. This review paper investigates a wide range of model-free and model-based algorithms for viewpoint and path planning for 3D reconstruction of large-scale objects. The analyzed approaches are limited to those that employ a single-UAV as a data capturing platform for outdoor 3D reconstruction purposes. In addition to discussing the evaluation strategies, this paper also highlights the innovations and limitations of the investigated approaches. It concludes with a critical analysis of the existing challenges and future research perspectives.

This thesis tackles the subject of spatio-temporal forecasting with deep learning. The motivating application at Electricity de France (EDF) is short-term solar energy forecasting with fisheye images. We explore two main research directions for improving deep forecasting methods by injecting external physical knowledge. The first direction concerns the role of the training loss function. We show that differentiable shape and temporal criteria can be leveraged to improve the performances of existing models. We address both the deterministic context with the proposed DILATE loss function and the probabilistic context with the STRIPE model. Our second direction is to augment incomplete physical models with deep data-driven networks for accurate forecasting. For video prediction, we introduce the PhyDNet model that disentangles physical dynamics from residual information necessary for prediction, such as texture or details. We further propose a learning framework (APHYNITY) that ensures a principled and unique linear decomposition between physical and data-driven components under mild assumptions, leading to better forecasting performances and parameter identification.

This survey article assesses and compares existing critiques of current fairness-enhancing technical interventions in machine learning (ML) that draw from a range of non-computing disciplines, including philosophy, feminist studies, critical race and ethnic studies, legal studies, anthropology, and science and technology studies. It bridges epistemic divides in order to offer an interdisciplinary understanding of the possibilities and limits of hegemonic computational approaches to ML fairness for producing just outcomes for society's most marginalized. The article is organized according to nine major themes of critique wherein these different fields intersect: 1) how "fairness" in AI fairness research gets defined; 2) how problems for AI systems to address get formulated; 3) the impacts of abstraction on how AI tools function and its propensity to lead to technological solutionism; 4) how racial classification operates within AI fairness research; 5) the use of AI fairness measures to avoid regulation and engage in ethics washing; 6) an absence of participatory design and democratic deliberation in AI fairness considerations; 7) data collection practices that entrench "bias," are non-consensual, and lack transparency; 8) the predatory inclusion of marginalized groups into AI systems; and 9) a lack of engagement with AI's long-term social and ethical outcomes. Drawing from these critiques, the article concludes by imagining future ML fairness research directions that actively disrupt entrenched power dynamics and structural injustices in society.