Education
Exploring Common and Individual Characteristics of Students via Matrix Recovering
Wang, Zhen, Teng, Ben, Zhou, Yun, Tong, Hanshuang, Liu, Guangtong
Balancing group teaching and individual mentoring is an important issue in education area. The nature behind this issue is to explore common characteristics shared by multiple students and individual characteristics for each student. Biclustering methods have been proved successful for detecting meaningful patterns with the goal of driving group instructions based on students' characteristics. However, these methods ignore the individual characteristics of students as they only focus on common characteristics of students. In this article, we propose a framework to detect both group characteristics and individual characteristics of students simultaneously. We assume that the characteristics matrix of students' is composed of two parts: one is a low-rank matrix representing the common characteristics of students; the other is a sparse matrix representing individual characteristics of students. Thus, we treat the balancing issue as a matrix recovering problem. The experiment results show the effectiveness of our method. Firstly, it can detect meaningful biclusters that are comparable with the state-of-the-art biclutering algorithms. Secondly, it can identify individual characteristics for each student simultaneously. Both the source code of our algorithm and the real datasets are available upon request.
Out-of-Sample Representation Learning for Multi-Relational Graphs
Albooyeh, Marjan, Goel, Rishab, Kazemi, Seyed Mehran
Many important problems can be formulated as reasoning in knowledge graphs. Representation learning has proved extremely effective for transductive reasoning, in which one needs to make new predictions for already observed entities. This is true for both attributed graphs(where each entity has an initial feature vector) and non-attributed graphs (where the only initial information derives from known relations with other entities). For out-of-sample reasoning, where one needs to make predictions for entities that were unseen at training time, much prior work considers attributed graph. However, this problem is surprisingly under-explored for non-attributed graphs. In this paper, we study the out-of-sample representation learning problem for non-attributed knowledge graphs, create benchmark datasets for this task, develop several models and baselines, and provide empirical analyses and comparisons of the proposed models and baselines.
AI is trained to 'predict' academic performance based on test scores and social posts
It may be difficult to predict how well a student will perform academically, but a new innovation can do so just by looking at their tweets - and with more than 93 percent accuracy. A computer model trained on thousands of test scores and one million social media posts to distinguishing between high academic achievers and lower ones based on textual features shared in posts. The technology, powered by artificial intelligence, determined that students who discuss scientific and cultural topics, along with writing lengthy posts and words are likely to perform well. However, those who use an abundance of emojis, words or entire phrases written in in capital letters and vocabulary related to horoscopes, driving and military service tend to receive lower grades in school. The team notes that by'predict' they do not mean the system creates a future forecast, but rather a correlation between posts and real test scores students earned.
Algorithms Are Making Economic Inequality Worse
The risks of algorithmic discrimination and bias have received much attention and scrutiny, and rightly so. Yet there is another more insidious side-effect of our increasingly AI-powered society -- the systematic inequality created by the changing nature of work itself. We fear a future where robots take our jobs, but what happens when a significant portion of the workforce ends up in algorithmically managed jobs with little future and few possibilities for advancement? One of the classic tropes of self-made success is the leader who comes from humble beginnings, working their way up from the mailroom, the cash register, or the factory floor. And while doing that is considerably tougher than Hollywood might suggest, bottom-up mobility was at least possible in traditional organizations.
Facebook's AI team expands post-grad courses for Black and Latinx students
Facebook says that it will expand an online course in deep learning to more students to help improve the diversity of its AI division. After a successful pilot program at Georgia Tech, the company will roll out this graduate-level course in deep learning to more colleges across 2021. The focus will be on offering the system to universities that serve large numbers of Black and Latinx students. It's hoped that, by improving the diversity of the people building these systems, some of the more odious biases will be weeded out. This is part of a broader program to encourage people to enter the computer science field even if their undergraduate training is in another area.
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How to Apply Machine Learning to Your Digital Marketing Strategy
One of the major innovations in the digital marketing industry is the introduction of artificial intelligence tools to help streamline marketing processes and make businesses more effective. According to QuanticMind, 97% of leaders believe that the future of marketing lies in the ways that digital marketers work alongside machine-learning based tools. As machine learning and artificial intelligence become more commonplace in the digital marketing landscape, it's imperative that best-in-class digital marketers learn how to apply machine learning to their digital marketing strategies. Machine learning and artificial intelligence are two separate entities that just so happen to complement each other. While artificial intelligence (AI) aims to harness certain aspects of the "thinking" mind, machine learning (ML) is helping humans solve problems in a more efficient way. As a subset of AI, ML uses data to tech itself how to complete a process with the help of AI capabilities.