Bayesian Learning
Spam-T5: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Few-Shot Email Spam Detection
This paper investigates the effectiveness of large language models (LLMs) in email spam detection by comparing prominent models from three distinct families: BERT-like, Sentence Transformers, and Seq2Seq. Additionally, we examine well-established machine learning techniques for spam detection, such as Na\"ive Bayes and LightGBM, as baseline methods. We assess the performance of these models across four public datasets, utilizing different numbers of training samples (full training set and few-shot settings). Our findings reveal that, in the majority of cases, LLMs surpass the performance of the popular baseline techniques, particularly in few-shot scenarios. This adaptability renders LLMs uniquely suited to spam detection tasks, where labeled samples are limited in number and models require frequent updates. Additionally, we introduce Spam-T5, a Flan-T5 model that has been specifically adapted and fine-tuned for the purpose of detecting email spam. Our results demonstrate that Spam-T5 surpasses baseline models and other LLMs in the majority of scenarios, particularly when there are a limited number of training samples available. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/jpmorganchase/emailspamdetection.
A Comprehensive Survey on Enterprise Financial Risk Analysis from Big Data Perspective
Zhao, Yu, Du, Huaming, Li, Qing, Zhuang, Fuzhen, Liu, Ji, Kou, Gang
Enterprise financial risk analysis aims at predicting the future financial risk of enterprises. Due to its wide and significant application, enterprise financial risk analysis has always been the core research topic in the fields of Finance and Management. Based on advanced computer science and artificial intelligence technologies, enterprise risk analysis research is experiencing rapid developments and making significant progress. Therefore, it is both necessary and challenging to comprehensively review the relevant studies. Although there are already some valuable and impressive surveys on enterprise risk analysis from the perspective of Finance and Management, these surveys introduce approaches in a relatively isolated way and lack recent advances in enterprise financial risk analysis. In contrast, this paper attempts to provide a systematic literature survey of enterprise risk analysis approaches from Big Data perspective, which reviews more than 250 representative articles in the past almost 50 years (from 1968 to 2023). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first and only survey work on enterprise financial risk from Big Data perspective. Specifically, this survey connects and systematizes the existing enterprise financial risk studies, i.e. to summarize and interpret the problems, methods, and spotlights in a comprehensive way. In particular, we first introduce the issues of enterprise financial risks in terms of their types,granularity, intelligence, and evaluation metrics, and summarize the corresponding representative works. Then, we compare the analysis methods used to learn enterprise financial risk, and finally summarize the spotlights of the most representative works. Our goal is to clarify current cutting-edge research and its possible future directions to model enterprise risk, aiming to fully understand the mechanisms of enterprise risk generation and contagion.
Materials Informatics: An Algorithmic Design Rule
We have researched the organic semiconductor's enigmas through the material informatics approach. By applying diverse neural network topologies, logical axiom, and inferencing information science, we have developed data-driven procedures for novel organic semiconductor discovery for the semiconductor industry and knowledge extraction for the material science community. We have reviewed and corresponded with various algorithms for the neural network design topology for the material informatics dataset, as shown in Figure 1, a generalized neural network topology. We have used four chemical compound space databases for model training and validation in this research notebook. The first one is the general quantum chemistry structures and properties of 134-kilo molecules (QM9) of computed geometric, energetic, electronic, and thermodynamic properties for 134-kilo stable small organic molecules made up of C, H, O, N, F for the novel design of new drugs and materials.
Causal Discovery with Stage Variables for Health Time Series
Srikishan, Bharat, Kleinberg, Samantha
Using observational data to learn causal relationships is essential when randomized experiments are not possible, such as in healthcare. Discovering causal relationships in time-series health data is even more challenging when relationships change over the course of a disease, such as medications that are most effective early on or for individuals with severe disease. Stage variables such as weeks of pregnancy, disease stages, or biomarkers like HbA1c, can influence what causal relationships are true for a patient. However, causal inference within each stage is often not possible due to limited amounts of data, and combining all data risks incorrect or missed inferences. To address this, we propose Causal Discovery with Stage Variables (CDSV), which uses stage variables to reweight data from multiple time-series while accounting for different causal relationships in each stage. In simulated data, CDSV discovers more causes with fewer false discoveries compared to baselines, in eICU it has a lower FDR than baselines, and in MIMIC-III it discovers more clinically relevant causes of high blood pressure.
Advances on the classification of radio image cubes
Ndung'u, Steven, Grobler, Trienko, Wijnholds, Stefan J., Karastoyanova, Dimka, Azzopardi, George
Modern radio telescopes will daily generate data sets on the scale of exabytes for systems like the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Massive data sets are a source of unknown and rare astrophysical phenomena that lead to discoveries. Nonetheless, this is only plausible with the exploitation of intensive machine intelligence to complement human-aided and traditional statistical techniques. Recently, there has been a surge in scientific publications focusing on the use of artificial intelligence in radio astronomy, addressing challenges such as source extraction, morphological classification, and anomaly detection. This study presents a succinct, but comprehensive review of the application of machine intelligence techniques on radio images with emphasis on the morphological classification of radio galaxies. It aims to present a detailed synthesis of the relevant papers summarizing the literature based on data complexity, data pre-processing, and methodological novelty in radio astronomy. The rapid advancement and application of computer intelligence in radio astronomy has resulted in a revolution and a new paradigm shift in the automation of daunting data processes. However, the optimal exploitation of artificial intelligence in radio astronomy, calls for continued collaborative efforts in the creation of annotated data sets. Additionally, in order to quickly locate radio galaxies with similar or dissimilar physical characteristics, it is necessary to index the identified radio sources. Nonetheless, this issue has not been adequately addressed in the literature, making it an open area for further study.
Sparsifying Bayesian neural networks with latent binary variables and normalizing flows
Skaaret-Lund, Lars, Storvik, Geir, Hubin, Aliaksandr
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are powerful machine learning methods used in many modern applications such as facial recognition, machine translation, and cancer diagnostics. A common issue with ANNs is that they usually have millions or billions of trainable parameters, and therefore tend to overfit to the training data. This is especially problematic in applications where it is important to have reliable uncertainty estimates. Bayesian neural networks (BNN) can improve on this, since they incorporate parameter uncertainty. In addition, latent binary Bayesian neural networks (LBBNN) also take into account structural uncertainty by allowing the weights to be turned on or off, enabling inference in the joint space of weights and structures. In this paper, we will consider two extensions to the LBBNN method: Firstly, by using the local reparametrization trick (LRT) to sample the hidden units directly, we get a more computationally efficient algorithm. More importantly, by using normalizing flows on the variational posterior distribution of the LBBNN parameters, the network learns a more flexible variational posterior distribution than the mean field Gaussian. Experimental results show that this improves predictive power compared to the LBBNN method, while also obtaining more sparse networks. We perform two simulation studies. In the first study, we consider variable selection in a logistic regression setting, where the more flexible variational distribution leads to improved results. In the second study, we compare predictive uncertainty based on data generated from two-dimensional Gaussian distributions. Here, we argue that our Bayesian methods lead to more realistic estimates of predictive uncertainty.
Enhancing Pashto Text Classification using Language Processing Techniques for Single And Multi-Label Analysis
Dawodi, Mursal, Baktash, Jawid Ahmad
Text classification has become a crucial task in various fields, leading to a significant amount of research on developing automated text classification systems for national and international languages. However, there is a growing need for automated text classification systems that can handle local languages. This study aims to establish an automated classification system for Pashto text. We also evaluated two different feature extraction methods, bag of words and Term Frequency Inverse Document Frequency. The study achieved an average testing accuracy rate of 94% using the MLP classification algorithm and TFIDF feature extraction method in single-label multiclass classification. Similarly, MLP+TFIDF yielded the best results, with an F1-measure of 0.81. Furthermore, the use of pre-trained language representation models, such as DistilBERT, showed promising results for Pashto text classification; however, the study highlights the importance of developing a specific tokenizer for a particular language to achieve reasonable results. NTRODUCTION The evolution of technology instigated the existence of an overwhelming number of electronic documents therefore text mining becomes a crucial task. Many businesses and individuals use machine learning techniques to classify documents accurately and quickly. On the other hand, more than 80% of organization information is in electronic format including news, email, data about users, reports, etc. (Raghavan, 2004). Text mining attracted the attention of researchers to automatically figure out the patterns of millions of electronic texts.
Machine Learning Benchmarks for the Classification of Equivalent Circuit Models from Electrochemical Impedance Spectra
Schaeffer, Joachim, Gasper, Paul, Garcia-Tamayo, Esteban, Gasper, Raymond, Adachi, Masaki, Gaviria-Cardona, Juan Pablo, Montoya-Bedoya, Simon, Bhutani, Anoushka, Schiek, Andrew, Goodall, Rhys, Findeisen, Rolf, Braatz, Richard D., Engelke, Simon
Analysis of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) data for electrochemical systems often consists of defining an Equivalent Circuit Model (ECM) using expert knowledge and then optimizing the model parameters to deconvolute various resistance, capacitive, inductive, or diffusion responses. For small data sets, this procedure can be conducted manually; however, it is not feasible to manually define a proper ECM for extensive data sets with a wide range of EIS responses. Automatic identification of an ECM would substantially accelerate the analysis of large sets of EIS data. We showcase machine learning methods to classify the ECMs of 9,300 impedance spectra provided by QuantumScape for the BatteryDEV hackathon. The best-performing approach is a gradient-boosted tree model utilizing a library to automatically generate features, followed by a random forest model using the raw spectral data. A convolutional neural network using boolean images of Nyquist representations is presented as an alternative, although it achieves a lower accuracy. We publish the data and open source the associated code. The approaches described in this article can serve as benchmarks for further studies. A key remaining challenge is the identifiability of the labels, underlined by the model performances and the comparison of misclassified spectra.
Fuzzy Gene Selection and Cancer Classification Based on Deep Learning Model
Khalsan, Mahmood, Mu, Mu, Al-Shamery, Eman Salih, Machado, Lee, Ajit, Suraj, Agyeman, Michael Opoku
Machine learning (ML) approaches have been used to develop highly accurate and efficient applications in many fields including bio-medical science. However, even with advanced ML techniques, cancer classification using gene expression data is still complicated because of the high dimensionality of the datasets employed. We developed a new fuzzy gene selection technique (FGS) to identify informative genes to facilitate cancer classification and reduce the dimensionality of the available gene expression data. Three feature selection methods (Mutual Information, F-ClassIf, and Chi-squared) were evaluated and employed to obtain the score and rank for each gene. Then, using Fuzzification and Defuzzification methods to obtain the best single score for each gene, which aids in the identification of significant genes. Our study applied the fuzzy measures to six gene expression datasets including four Microarray and two RNA-seq datasets for evaluating the proposed algorithm. With our FGS-enhanced method, the cancer classification model achieved 96.5%,96.2%,96%, and 95.9% for accuracy, precision, recall, and f1-score respectively, which is significantly higher than 69.2% accuracy, 57.8% precision, 66% recall, and 58.2% f1-score when the standard MLP method was used. In examining the six datasets that were used, the proposed model demonstrates it's capacity to classify cancer effectively.
Bayesian Reinforcement Learning with Limited Cognitive Load
Arumugam, Dilip, Ho, Mark K., Goodman, Noah D., Van Roy, Benjamin
Cognitive science aims to identify the principles and mechanisms that underlie adaptive behavior. An important part of this endeavor is the development of unifying, normative theories that specify "design principles" that guide or constrain how intelligent systems respond to their environment [Marr, 1982, Anderson, 1990, Lewis et al., 2014, Griffiths et al., 2015, Gershman et al., 2015]. For example, accounts of learning, cognition, and decision-making often posit a function that an organism is optimizing--e.g., maximizing long-term reward or minimizing prediction error--and test plausible algorithms that achieve this--e.g., a particular learning rule or inference process. Historically, normative theories in cognitive science have been developed in tandem with new formal approaches in computer science and statistics. This partnership has been fruitful even given differences in scientific goals (e.g., engineering artificial intelligence versus reverse-engineering biological intelligence). Normative theories play a key role in facilitating cross-talk between different disciplines by providing a shared set of mathematical, analytical, and conceptual tools for describing computational problems and how to solve them [Ho and Griffiths, 2022]. This paper is written in the spirit of such cross-disciplinary fertilization. Here, we review recent work in computer science [Arumugam and Van Roy, 2021a, 2022] that develops a novel approach for unifying three distinct mathematical frameworks that will be familiar to many cognitive scientists (Figure 1).