Deep Learning
Hard Encoding of Physics for Learning Spatiotemporal Dynamics
Rao, Chengping, Sun, Hao, Liu, Yang
Modeling nonlinear spatiotemporal dynamical systems has primarily relied on partial differential equations (PDEs). However, the explicit formulation of PDEs for many underexplored processes, such as climate systems, biochemical reaction and epidemiology, remains uncertain or partially unknown, where very limited measurement data is yet available. To tackle this challenge, we propose a novel deep learning architecture that forcibly encodes known physics knowledge to facilitate learning in a data-driven manner. The coercive encoding mechanism of physics, which is fundamentally different from the penalty-based physics-informed learning, ensures the network to rigorously obey given physics. Instead of using nonlinear activation functions, we propose a novel elementwise product operation to achieve the nonlinearity of the model. Numerical experiment demonstrates that the resulting physics-encoded learning paradigm possesses remarkable robustness against data noise/scarcity and generalizability compared with some state-of-the-art models for data-driven modeling.
Augmenting Sequential Recommendation with Pseudo-Prior Items via Reversely Pre-training Transformer
Liu, Zhiwei, Fan, Ziwei, Wang, Yu, Yu, Philip S.
Sequential Recommendation characterizes the evolving patterns by modeling item sequences chronologically. The essential target of it is to capture the item transition correlations. The recent developments of transformer inspire the community to design effective sequence encoders, \textit{e.g.,} SASRec and BERT4Rec. However, we observe that these transformer-based models suffer from the cold-start issue, \textit{i.e.,} performing poorly for short sequences. Therefore, we propose to augment short sequences while still preserving original sequential correlations. We introduce a new framework for \textbf{A}ugmenting \textbf{S}equential \textbf{Re}commendation with \textbf{P}seudo-prior items~(ASReP). We firstly pre-train a transformer with sequences in a reverse direction to predict prior items. Then, we use this transformer to generate fabricated historical items at the beginning of short sequences. Finally, we fine-tune the transformer using these augmented sequences from the time order to predict the next item. Experiments on two real-world datasets verify the effectiveness of ASReP. The code is available on \url{https://github.com/DyGRec/ASReP}.
On Feature Decorrelation in Self-Supervised Learning
Hua, Tianyu, Wang, Wenxiao, Xue, Zihui, Wang, Yue, Ren, Sucheng, Zhao, Hang
In self-supervised representation learning, a common idea behind most of the state-of-the-art approaches is to enforce the robustness of the representations to predefined augmentations. A potential issue of this idea is the existence of completely collapsed solutions (i.e., constant features), which are typically avoided implicitly by carefully chosen implementation details. In this work, we study a relatively concise framework containing the most common components from recent approaches. We verify the existence of complete collapse and discover another reachable collapse pattern that is usually overlooked, namely dimensional collapse. We connect dimensional collapse with strong correlations between axes and consider such connection as a strong motivation for feature decorrelation (i.e., standardizing the covariance matrix). The capability of correlation as an unsupervised metric and the gains from feature decorrelation are verified empirically to highlight the importance and the potential of this insight.
BI-REC: Guided Data Analysis for Conversational Business Intelligence
Meduri, Venkata Vamsikrishna, Quamar, Abdul, Lei, Chuan, Efthymiou, Vasilis, Ozcan, Fatma
Conversational interfaces to Business Intelligence (BI) applications enable data analysis using a natural language dialog in small incremental steps. To truly unleash the power of conversational BI to democratize access to data, a system needs to provide effective and continuous support for data analysis. In this paper, we propose BI-REC, a conversational recommendation system for BI applications to help users accomplish their data analysis tasks. We define the space of data analysis in terms of BI patterns, augmented with rich semantic information extracted from the OLAP cube definition, and use graph embeddings learned using GraphSAGE to create a compact representation of the analysis state. We propose a two-step approach to explore the search space for useful BI pattern recommendations. In the first step, we train a multi-class classifier using prior query logs to predict the next high-level actions in terms of a BI operation (e.g., {\em Drill-Down} or {\em Roll-up}) and a measure that the user is interested in. In the second step, the high-level actions are further refined into actual BI pattern recommendations using collaborative filtering. This two-step approach allows us to not only divide and conquer the huge search space, but also requires less training data. Our experimental evaluation shows that BI-REC achieves an accuracy of 83% for BI pattern recommendations and up to 2X speedup in latency of prediction compared to a state-of-the-art baseline. Our user study further shows that BI-REC provides recommendations with a precision@3 of 91.90% across several different analysis tasks.
Geometric Deep Learning: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges
Bronstein, Michael M., Bruna, Joan, Cohen, Taco, Veličković, Petar
The last decade has witnessed an experimental revolution in data science and machine learning, epitomised by deep learning methods. Indeed, many high-dimensional learning tasks previously thought to be beyond reach -- such as computer vision, playing Go, or protein folding -- are in fact feasible with appropriate computational scale. Remarkably, the essence of deep learning is built from two simple algorithmic principles: first, the notion of representation or feature learning, whereby adapted, often hierarchical, features capture the appropriate notion of regularity for each task, and second, learning by local gradient-descent type methods, typically implemented as backpropagation. While learning generic functions in high dimensions is a cursed estimation problem, most tasks of interest are not generic, and come with essential pre-defined regularities arising from the underlying low-dimensionality and structure of the physical world. This text is concerned with exposing these regularities through unified geometric principles that can be applied throughout a wide spectrum of applications. Such a 'geometric unification' endeavour, in the spirit of Felix Klein's Erlangen Program, serves a dual purpose: on one hand, it provides a common mathematical framework to study the most successful neural network architectures, such as CNNs, RNNs, GNNs, and Transformers. On the other hand, it gives a constructive procedure to incorporate prior physical knowledge into neural architectures and provide principled way to build future architectures yet to be invented.
Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) with Keras in Python and R
You're looking for a complete Course on Deep Learning using Keras and Tensorflow that teaches you everything you need to create a Neural Network model in Python and R, right? You've found the right Neural Networks course! Identify the business problem which can be solved using Neural network Models. Have a clear understanding of Advanced Neural network concepts such as Gradient Descent, forward and Backward Propagation etc. Create Neural network models in Python and R using Keras and Tensorflow libraries and analyze their results. How this course will help you?
The Sequence Scope: The Race to Improve Reinforcement Learning
The Sequence Scope is a summary of the most important published research papers, released technology and startup news in the AI ecosystem in the last week. This compendium is part of TheSequence newsletter. Data scientists, scholars, and developers from Microsoft Research, Intel Corporation, Linux Foundation AI, Google, Lockheed Martin, Cardiff University, Mellon College of Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Universitat Politècnica de València and other companies and universities are already subscribed to TheSequence. Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been at the center of some of the most important milestones of the last decade of deep learning. DeepMind's RL-based AlphaGo is considered by many the "Sputnik moment" in artificial intelligence (AI), responsible for sparking an innovation race between the top AI labs in the world.
Tensorflow 2 & Keras:Deep Learning & Artificial Intelligence
Description Welcome to Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence with Tensorflow 2 and Keras API Course. This course includes how to work with tensorflow 2 and creates Deep Learning applications with tensorflow 2 and Keras. This course guide you how to work with google colab, all the hands on work done in google colab. Many Projects included in this course like MNIST Digits Classification, MNIST Fashion data classification, Cat and Dog images Classification, Facial Expression Recognition, Leaf disease recognition, Generate Images with DCGANs(Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks) with Keras, Denoising autoencoders with Keras, TensorFlow, and Deep Learning etc. For every lecture reference notes and code file is attached in this course.
Artificial Intelligence and the COVID-19 Pandemic - Future of Privacy Forum
Machine learning-based technologies are playing a substantial role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Experts are using machine learning to study the virus, test potential treatments, diagnose individuals, analyze the public health impacts, and more. Below, we describe some of the leading efforts and identify data protection and ethical issues related to machine learning and COVID-19, with a particular focus on apps directed to health care professionals that leverage audio-visual data, text analysis, chatbots, and sensors. "Machine Intelligence (MI) is rapidly becoming an important approach across biomedical discovery, clinical research, medical diagnostics/devices, and precision medicine. Such tools can uncover new possibilities for researchers, physicians, and patients, allowing them to make more informed decisions and achieve better outcomes. When deployed in healthcare settings, these approaches have the potential to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of the health research and care ecosystem, and ultimately improve quality of patient care." Now – with the development of the pandemic resulting from the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), medical providers, institutions, and commercial developers are all considering whether and how to apply machine learning to confront the threat of this current crisis.