Natural language processing often involves computations with semantic or syntactic graphs to facilitate sophisticated reasoning based on structural relationships. While convolution kernels provide a powerful tool for comparing graph structure based on node (word) level relationships, they are difficult to customize and can be computationally expensive. We propose a generalization of convolution kernels, with a nonstationary model, for better expressibility of natural languages in supervised settings. For a scalable learning of the parameters introduced with our model, we propose a novel algorithm that leverages stochastic sampling on k-nearest neighbor graphs, along with approximations based on locality-sensitive hashing. We demonstrate the advantages of our approach on a challenging real-world (structured inference) problem of automatically extracting biological models from the text of scientific papers.

As an applied ML company that seeks to make some sense out of financial data, we at BBVA Data & Analytics enjoy sharing articles, blogs and news about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Two years ago we created a G community to share the latest on Machine Learning technologies that we find interesting and stimulating. This experiment has continued to grow into a thriving site for knowledge sharing and debate around the discipline and its latest developments. As we enter 2018, we'd like to share the most popular and discussed posts from our blog in 2017. It reflects what we believe are valuable insights for the company.

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We also need to choose the number of frequency bands, i.e. the resolution of the frequency axis. The number of frequency bands has a physical meaning – we cannot increase the number of frequency bands arbitrarily. For example, if we choose a small number of bands, say 10, when calculating the spectrogram, the spectral resolution will only be 10 units and the spectrogram will lose a lot of information (see the image at the left in Figure 3 – it has a very coarse representation of the original audio signal). On the other hand, if we choose too many bands, such as 1000 (the figure on the right), we will have a high-resolution image, but there will be many empty bands since we under-sample the signal within each band (not enough data samples per frequency band given the fixed bitrate of our audio) – this is shown by the empty black regions in the spectrogram. Choosing the number of bands is somewhat empirical too, and in this case, we choose 150 bands – a widely used number in many papers.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning technology continue to be hot topics in healthcare. The topics dominated RSNA 2017, generating plenty of interest as they become an integral part of health imaging. However, while many in healthcare are excited about its potential to change every workflow and improve accuracy, others remain skeptical. As the first month of 2018 slowly comes to an end, Health Imaging spoke with enterprise imaging and health informatics expert Paul Chang, MD, from the University of Chicago, about what practitioners and healthcare technology leaders should keep in mind regarding AI and deep learning in the coming year. It will take longer to incorporate and consume AI and deep learning than to adopt them.

The release of two machine learning (ML) model builders have made it easier for software engineers to create and run ML models, even without specialized training. Microsoft and Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Gluon is an open source project that eliminates some of the difficult work required to develop artificial intelligence (AI) systems. It provides training algorithms and neural network models, two important components of a deep learning system, that developers can use to develop their own ML systems. Google's ML engine is part of its cloud platform and is offered as a managed service for developers to build ML models that work on any type of data, of any size. Similar to Gluon, Google's service provides pre-trained models for developers to generate their own tailored ML models.

As deep-learning algorithms begin to set our life insurance rates and predict when we'll die, many AI experts are calling for more accountability around why those algorithms make the decisions they do. After all, if a self-driving car kills someone, we'd want to know what happened. But not everyone is sold on opening the "black box" of artificial intelligence. In a Medium post for Harvard's Berkman Klein Center, author and senior researcher David Weinberger writes that simplifying the processes deep-learning systems use to decide--a necessary step for humans to understand those processes--would actually undermine the reason we use algorithms in the first place: their complexity and nuance. "Human-constructed models aim at reducing the variables to a set small enough for our intellects to understand," Weinberger writes. "Machine learning models can construct models that work -- for example, they accurately predict the probability of medical conditions -- but that cannot be reduced enough for humans to understand or to explain them."

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