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Inferring Team Task Plans from Human Meetings: A Generative Modeling Approach with Logic-Based Prior
Kim, Been, Chacha, Caleb M., Shah, Julie A.
We aim to reduce the burden of programming and deploying autonomous systems to work in concert with people in time-critical domains such as military field operations and disaster response. Deployment plans for these operations are frequently negotiated on-the-fly by teams of human planners. A human operator then translates the agreed-upon plan into machine instructions for the robots. We present an algorithm that reduces this translation burden by inferring the final plan from a processed form of the human team's planning conversation. Our hybrid approach combines probabilistic generative modeling with logical plan validation used to compute a highly structured prior over possible plans, enabling us to overcome the challenge of performing inference over a large solution space with only a small amount of noisy data from the team planning session. We validate the algorithm through human subject experimentations and show that it is able to infer a human team's final plan with 86% accuracy on average. We also describe a robot demonstration in which two people plan and execute a first-response collaborative task with a PR2 robot. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to integrate a logical planning technique within a generative model to perform plan inference.
Sparse graphs using exchangeable random measures
Caron, Franรงois, Fox, Emily B.
Statistical network modeling has focused on representing the graph as a discrete structure, namely the adjacency matrix, and considering the exchangeability of this array. In such cases, the Aldous-Hoover representation theorem (Aldous, 1981;Hoover, 1979} applies and informs us that the graph is necessarily either dense or empty. In this paper, we instead consider representing the graph as a measure on $\mathbb{R}_+^2$. For the associated definition of exchangeability in this continuous space, we rely on the Kallenberg representation theorem (Kallenberg, 2005). We show that for certain choices of such exchangeable random measures underlying our graph construction, our network process is sparse with power-law degree distribution. In particular, we build on the framework of completely random measures (CRMs) and use the theory associated with such processes to derive important network properties, such as an urn representation for our analysis and network simulation. Our theoretical results are explored empirically and compared to common network models. We then present a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm for efficient exploration of the posterior distribution and demonstrate that we are able to recover graphs ranging from dense to sparse--and perform associated tests--based on our flexible CRM-based formulation. We explore network properties in a range of real datasets, including Facebook social circles, a political blogosphere, protein networks, citation networks, and world wide web networks, including networks with hundreds of thousands of nodes and millions of edges.
Exploiting Semantics for Big Data Integration
Knoblock, Craig A. (University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute) | Szekely, Pedro (University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute)
There is a great deal of interest in big data, focusing mostly on data set size. The use of semantics in this integration descriptions and then integrating the data within process is key to building an approach that scales this unified framework. Finally, we conclude by to large numbers of heterogeneous sources. For example, in and (4) integrate the data across sources using this our museum use case, we received data in spreadsheets model. Karma has been used on a variety of types of (figure 1), comma-separated values (CSV), data, including biological data, mobile phone data, JSON (figure 3), XML, and relational databases (figure geospatial data, and cultural heritage data. In order to illustrate the approach to integrating One challenge in integrating diverse data sources is data in Karma, we will use an example from the cultural the ability to import different data formats into a heritage domain.
Reports of the AAAI 2014 Conference Workshops
Albrecht, Stefano V. (University of Edinburgh) | Barreto, Andrรฉ M. S. (Brazilian National Laboratory for Scientific Computing) | Braziunas, Darius (Kobo Inc.) | Buckeridge, David L. (McGill University) | Cuayรกhuitl, Heriberto (Heriot-Watt University) | Dethlefs, Nina (Heriot-Watt University) | Endres, Markus (University of Augsburg) | Farahmand, Amir-massoud (Carnegie Mellon University) | Fox, Mark (University of Toronto) | Frommberger, Lutz (University of Bremen) | Ganzfried, Sam (Carnegie Mellon University) | Gil, Yolanda (University of Southern California) | Guillet, Sรฉbastien (Universitรฉ du Quรฉbec ร Chicoutimi) | Hunter, Lawrence E. (University of Colorado School of Medicine) | Jhala, Arnav (University of California Santa Cruz) | Kersting, Kristian (Technical University of Dortmund) | Konidaris, George (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | Lecue, Freddy (IBM Research) | McIlraith, Sheila (University of Toronto) | Natarajan, Sriraam (Indiana University) | Noorian, Zeinab (University of Saskatchewan) | Poole, David (University of British Columbia) | Ronfard, Rรฉmi (University of Grenoble) | Saffiotti, Alessandro (Orebro University) | Shaban-Nejad, Arash (McGill University) | Srivastava, Biplav (IBM Research) | Tesauro, Gerald (IBM Research) | Uceda-Sosa, Rosario (IBM Research) | Broeck, Guy Van den (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) | Otterlo, Martijn van (Radboud University Nijmegen) | Wallace, Byron C. (University of Texas) | Weng, Paul (Pierre and Marie Curie University) | Wiens, Jenna (University of Michigan) | Zhang, Jie (Nanyang Technological University)
The AAAI-14 Workshop program was held Sunday and Monday, July 27โ28, 2012, at the Quรฉbec City Convention Centre in Quรฉbec, Canada. Canada. The AAAI-14 workshop program included fifteen workshops covering a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence. The titles of the workshops were AI and Robotics; Artificial Intelligence Applied to Assistive Technologies and Smart Environments; Cognitive Computing for Augmented Human Intelligence; Computer Poker and Imperfect Information; Discovery Informatics; Incentives and Trust in Electronic Communities; Intelligent Cinematography and Editing; Machine Learning for Interactive Systems: Bridging the Gap between Perception, Action and Communication; Modern Artificial Intelligence for Health Analytics; Multiagent Interaction without Prior Coordination; Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling; Semantic Cities โ Beyond Open Data to Models, Standards and Reasoning; Sequential Decision Making with Big Data; Statistical Relational AI; and The World Wide Web and Public Health Intelligence. This article presents short summaries of those events.
Entity Type Recognition for Heterogeneous Semantic Graphs
Sleeman, Jennifer (University of Maryland Baltimore County.) | Finin, Tim (University of Maryland Baltimore County.) | Joshi, Anupam (University of Maryland Baltimore County.)
We describe an approach for identifying fine-grained entity types in heterogeneous data graphs that is effective for unstructured data or when the underlying ontologies or semantic schemas are unknown. Identifying fine-grained entity types, rather than a few high-level types, supports coreference resolution in heterogeneous graphs by reducing the number of possible coreference relations that must be considered. Big data problems that involve integrating data from multiple sources can benefit from our approach when the datas ontologies are unknown, inaccessible or semantically trivial. For such cases, we use supervised machine learning to map entity attributes and relations to a known set of attributes and relations from appropriate background knowledge bases to predict instance entity types. We evaluated this approach in experiments on data from DBpedia, Freebase, and Arnetminer using DBpedia as the background knowledge base.
Semantics-Empowered Big Data Processing with Applications
Thirunarayan, Krishnaprasad (Kno.e.sis: Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled Computing) | Sheth, Amit (Kno.e.sis: Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled Computing)
We discuss the nature of big data and address the role of semantics in analyzing and processing big data that arises in the context of physical-cyber-social systems. To handle volume, we advocate semantic perception that can convert low-level observational data to higher-level abstractions more suitable for decision-making. To handle variety, we resort to semantic models and annotations of data so that intelligent processing can be done independent of heterogeneity of data formats and media. To handle velocity, we seek to use continuous semantics capability to dynamically create event or situation specific models and recognize relevant new concepts, entities and facts. To handle veracity, we explore trust models and approaches to glean trustworthiness. These four v's of big data are harnessed by the semantics-empowered analytics to derive value to support applications transcending physical-cyber-social continuum.
Why the Data Train Needs Semantic Rails
Janowicz, Krzysztof (University of California, Santa Barbara) | Harmelen, Frank van (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) | Hendler, James A. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) | Hitzler, Pascal (Wright State University)
While catchphrases such as big data, smart data, data-intensive science, or smart dust highlight different aspects, they share a common theme: Namely, a shift towards a data-centric perspective in which the synthesis and analysis of data at an ever-increasing spatial, temporal, and thematic resolution promises new insights, while, at the same time, reducing the need for strong domain theories as starting points. In terms of the envisioned methodologies, those catchphrases tend to emphasize the role of predictive analytics, that is, statistical techniques including data mining and machine learning, as well as supercomputing. Interestingly, however, while this perspective takes the availability of data as a given, it does not answer the question how one would discover the required data in todayโs chaotic information universe, how one would understand which datasets can be meaningfully integrated, and how to communicate the results to humans and machines alike. The semantic web addresses these questions. In the following, we argue why the data train needs semantic rails. We point out that making sense of data and gaining new insights works best if inductive and deductive techniques go hand-in-hand instead of competing over the prerogative of interpretation.
Construction of FuzzyFind Dictionary using Golay Coding Transformation for Searching Applications
Kowsari, Kamran, Yammahi, Maryam, Bari, Nima, Vichr, Roman, Alsaby, Faisal, Berkovich, Simon Y.
Searching through a large volume of data is very critical for companies, scientists, and searching engines applications due to time complexity and memory complexity. In this paper, a new technique of generating FuzzyFind Dictionary for text mining was introduced. We simply mapped the 23 bits of the English alphabet into a FuzzyFind Dictionary or more than 23 bits by using more FuzzyFind Dictionary, and reflecting the presence or absence of particular letters. This representation preserves closeness of word distortions in terms of closeness of the created binary vectors within Hamming distance of 2 deviations. This paper talks about the Golay Coding Transformation Hash Table and how it can be used on a FuzzyFind Dictionary as a new technology for using in searching through big data. This method is introduced by linear time complexity for generating the dictionary and constant time complexity to access the data and update by new data sets, also updating for new data sets is linear time depends on new data points. This technique is based on searching only for letters of English that each segment has 23 bits, and also we have more than 23-bit and also it could work with more segments as reference table.
Scalable Latent Tree Model and its Application to Health Analytics
Huang, Furong, N., Niranjan U., Perros, Ioakeim, Chen, Robert, Sun, Jimeng, Anandkumar, Anima
Latent tree graphical models are a popular class of latent variable models, where a probability distribution involving observed and hidden variables are Markovian on a tree. Due to the fact that structure of (observable and hidden) variable interactions are approximated as a tree, inference on latent trees can be carried out exactly through a simple belief propagation [Pea88]. Therefore, latent tree graphical models present a good tradeoff between model accuracy and computational complexity. They are applicable in many domains, where it is natural to expect hierarchical or sequential relationships among the variables (through a hidden-Markov model). For instance, latent tree models have been employed for phylogenetic reconstruction [DEKM99], object recognition [CTW12a, CTW12b] and human pose estimation [WL13]. In this paper, we use latent tree model for discovering a hierarchy among diseases based on comorbidities exhibited in patients' health records, i.e. co-occurrences of diseases in patients. In particular, two large healthcare datasets of 30K and 1.6M patients are used to build the latent disease trees, where clinically meaningful disease clusters are identified as shown in fig 3 and 4. The task of learning a latent tree models consists of two parts: learning the tree structure, and learning the parameters of the tree. There exist many challenges which prohibit efficient or guaranteed learning of the latent tree graphical model, which will be addressed in this paper: 1. The location and the number of latent variables are hidden and the marginalized graph over the observable variables no longer conforms to a tree structure.