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Link Prediction on N-ary Relational Data Based on Relatedness Evaluation

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

With the overwhelming popularity of Knowledge Graphs (KGs), researchers have poured attention to link prediction to fill in missing facts for a long time. However, they mainly focus on link prediction on binary relational data, where facts are usually represented as triples in the form of (head entity, relation, tail entity). In practice, n-ary relational facts are also ubiquitous. When encountering such facts, existing studies usually decompose them into triples by introducing a multitude of auxiliary virtual entities and additional triples. These conversions result in the complexity of carrying out link prediction on n-ary relational data. It has even proven that they may cause loss of structure information. To overcome these problems, in this paper, we represent each n-ary relational fact as a set of its role and role-value pairs. We then propose a method called NaLP to conduct link prediction on n-ary relational data, which explicitly models the relatedness of all the role and role-value pairs in an n-ary relational fact. We further extend NaLP by introducing type constraints of roles and role-values without any external type-specific supervision, and proposing a more reasonable negative sampling mechanism. Experimental results validate the effectiveness and merits of the proposed methods.


Orderly Dual-Teacher Knowledge Distillation for Lightweight Human Pose Estimation

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Although deep convolution neural networks (DCNN) have achieved excellent performance in human pose estimation, these networks often have a large number of parameters and computations, leading to the slow inference speed. For this issue, an effective solution is knowledge distillation, which transfers knowledge from a large pre-trained network (teacher) to a small network (student). However, there are some defects in the existing approaches: (I) Only a single teacher is adopted, neglecting the potential that a student can learn from multiple teachers. (II) The human segmentation mask can be regarded as additional prior information to restrict the location of keypoints, which is never utilized. (III) A student with a small number of parameters cannot fully imitate heatmaps provided by datasets and teachers. (IV) There exists noise in heatmaps generated by teachers, which causes model degradation. To overcome these defects, we propose an orderly dual-teacher knowledge distillation (ODKD) framework, which consists of two teachers with different capabilities. Specifically, the weaker one (primary teacher, PT) is used to teach keypoints information, the stronger one (senior teacher, ST) is utilized to transfer segmentation and keypoints information by adding the human segmentation mask. Taking dual-teacher together, an orderly learning strategy is proposed to promote knowledge absorbability. Moreover, we employ a binarization operation which further improves the learning ability of the student and reduces noise in heatmaps. Experimental results on COCO and OCHuman keypoints datasets show that our proposed ODKD can improve the performance of different lightweight models by a large margin, and HRNet-W16 equipped with ODKD achieves state-of-the-art performance for lightweight human pose estimation.


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Responsible AI at Accenture: In Conversation with Marisa Tricarico

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Accenture's partnership with AI4ALL gives emerging leaders exposure to Responsible AI in practice. The field of AI is changing rapidly, making the need for responsible AI greater than ever. While only 18% of data science students reported learning about ethics in a recent industry survey, examples of AI products with unintended negative consequences continue to grow. Marisa Tricarico, the North America Practice Lead for Responsible AI at Accenture, has a unique perspective on the rapid expansion of this field, as she works with a growing roster of Accenture clients as they develop and deploy AI. Marisa and Accenture's work intersects with AI4ALL's work to train the next generation of responsible AI leaders as well.


MyNorthwest.com - Seattle news, sports, weather, traffic, talk

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Seattle's financial future is brighter than originally predicted, having taken a positive turn over the last five months according to a new budget forecast. Rantz: Sword, meth, trash remain as School Board refuses to sweep tents 44 minutes ago Sound Transit's dilemma: What to delay, cut, or scale with $11.5 billion hole 23 minutes ago Wyman: New voting law would'force us to make changes' in Washington 40 minutes ago Ross: Artificial intelligence is coming, like it or not 12 minutes ago Over 19,000 complaints against SPD from 2020 COVID updates: King County launches in-home vaccination program 25 minutes ago Sound Transit's dilemma: What to delay, cut, or scale with $11.5 billion hole 23 minutes ago Wyman: New voting law would'force us to make changes' in Washington 40 minutes ago What Aldon Smith's charge could mean for his Seahawks future Auburn considers tightening rules for homeless camping Six Seattle mayoral candidates lead the fundraising race What Aldon Smith's charge could mean for his Seahawks future What Aldon Smith's charge could mean for his Seahawks future Dave Ross Ross: Artificial intelligence is coming for cars, like it or not Artificial intelligence is coming, like it or not. Cornell philosophy professor Shaun Nichols even predicts you'll be able to select your driving algorithm. Chokepoints Sound Transit's dilemma: What to delay, cut, or scale with $11.5 billion hole With an $11.5 billion budget hole, the Sound Transit board has to make tough choices of cutting projects, delaying projects, and ways to make up the gap. Jason Rantz Rantz: Sword, meth, and trash remain as School Board refuses to sweep encampment A growing encampment that threatens student and staff safety at Seattle's Broadview-Thompson K-8 remains in place.


LANA: Towards Personalized Deep Knowledge Tracing Through Distinguishable Interactive Sequences

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In educational applications, Knowledge Tracing (KT), the problem of accurately predicting students' responses to future questions by summarizing their knowledge states, has been widely studied for decades as it is considered a fundamental task towards adaptive online learning. Among all the proposed KT methods, Deep Knowledge Tracing (DKT) and its variants are by far the most effective ones due to the high flexibility of the neural network. However, DKT often ignores the inherent differences between students (e.g. memory skills, reasoning skills, ...), averaging the performances of all students, leading to the lack of personalization, and therefore was considered insufficient for adaptive learning. To alleviate this problem, in this paper, we proposed Leveled Attentive KNowledge TrAcing (LANA), which firstly uses a novel student-related features extractor (SRFE) to distill students' unique inherent properties from their respective interactive sequences. Secondly, the pivot module was utilized to dynamically reconstruct the decoder of the neural network on attention of the extracted features, successfully distinguishing the performance between students over time. Moreover, inspired by Item Response Theory (IRT), the interpretable Rasch model was used to cluster students by their ability levels, and thereby utilizing leveled learning to assign different encoders to different groups of students. With pivot module reconstructed the decoder for individual students and leveled learning specialized encoders for groups, personalized DKT was achieved. Extensive experiments conducted on two real-world large-scale datasets demonstrated that our proposed LANA improves the AUC score by at least 1.00% (i.e. EdNet 1.46% and RAIEd2020 1.00%), substantially surpassing the other State-Of-The-Art KT methods.


Bayesian subset selection and variable importance for interpretable prediction and classification

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Subset selection is a valuable tool for interpretable learning, scientific discovery, and data compression. However, classical subset selection is often eschewed due to selection instability, computational bottlenecks, and lack of post-selection inference. We address these challenges from a Bayesian perspective. Given any Bayesian predictive model $\mathcal{M}$, we elicit predictively-competitive subsets using linear decision analysis. The approach is customizable for (local) prediction or classification and provides interpretable summaries of $\mathcal{M}$. A key quantity is the acceptable family of subsets, which leverages the predictive distribution from $\mathcal{M}$ to identify subsets that offer nearly-optimal prediction. The acceptable family spawns new (co-) variable importance metrics based on whether variables (co-) appear in all, some, or no acceptable subsets. Crucially, the linear coefficients for any subset inherit regularization and predictive uncertainty quantification via $\mathcal{M}$. The proposed approach exhibits excellent prediction, interval estimation, and variable selection for simulated data, including $p=400 > n$. These tools are applied to a large education dataset with highly correlated covariates, where the acceptable family is especially useful. Our analysis provides unique insights into the combination of environmental, socioeconomic, and demographic factors that predict educational outcomes, and features highly competitive prediction with remarkable stability.


Quasi-Newton Quasi-Monte Carlo for variational Bayes

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Many machine learning problems optimize an objective that must be measured with noise. The primary method is a first order stochastic gradient descent using one or more Monte Carlo (MC) samples at each step. There are settings where ill-conditioning makes second order methods such as L-BFGS more effective. We study the use of randomized quasi-Monte Carlo (RQMC) sampling for such problems. When MC sampling has a root mean squared error (RMSE) of $O(n^{-1/2})$ then RQMC has an RMSE of $o(n^{-1/2})$ that can be close to $O(n^{-3/2})$ in favorable settings. We prove that improved sampling accuracy translates directly to improved optimization. In our empirical investigations for variational Bayes, using RQMC with stochastic L-BFGS greatly speeds up the optimization, and sometimes finds a better parameter value than MC does.


MBRL-Lib: A Modular Library for Model-based Reinforcement Learning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Model-based reinforcement learning is a compelling framework for data-efficient learning of agents that interact with the world. This family of algorithms has many subcomponents that need to be carefully selected and tuned. As a result the entry-bar for researchers to approach the field and to deploy it in real-world tasks can be daunting. In this paper, we present MBRL-Lib -- a machine learning library for model-based reinforcement learning in continuous state-action spaces based on PyTorch. MBRL-Lib is designed as a platform for both researchers, to easily develop, debug and compare new algorithms, and non-expert user, to lower the entry-bar of deploying state-of-the-art algorithms. MBRL-Lib is open-source at https://github.com/facebookresearch/mbrl-lib.


Deep learning with transfer functions: new applications in system identification

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This paper presents a linear dynamical operator described in terms of a rational transfer function, endowed with a well-defined and efficient back-propagation behavior for automatic derivatives computation. The operator enables end-to-end training of structured networks containing linear transfer functions and other differentiable units {by} exploiting standard deep learning software. Two relevant applications of the operator in system identification are presented. The first one consists in the integration of {prediction error methods} in deep learning. The dynamical operator is included as {the} last layer of a neural network in order to obtain the optimal one-step-ahead prediction error. The second one considers identification of general block-oriented models from quantized data. These block-oriented models are constructed by combining linear dynamical operators with static nonlinearities described as standard feed-forward neural networks. A custom loss function corresponding to the log-likelihood of quantized output observations is defined. For gradient-based optimization, the derivatives of the log-likelihood are computed by applying the back-propagation algorithm through the whole network. Two system identification benchmarks are used to show the effectiveness of the proposed methodologies.