We outline emerging opportunities and challenges to enhance the utility of AI for scientific discovery. The distinct goals of AI for industry versus the goals of AI for science create tension between identifying patterns in data versus discovering patterns in the world from data. If we address the fundamental challenges associated with "bridging the gap" between domain-driven scientific models and data-driven AI learning machines, then we expect that these AI models can transform hypothesis generation, scientific discovery, and the scientific process itself.

The world is structured in countless ways. It may be prudent to enforce corresponding structural properties to a learning algorithm's solution, such as incorporating prior beliefs, natural constraints, or causal structures. Doing so may translate to faster, more accurate, and more flexible models, which may directly relate to real-world impact. In this dissertation, we consider two different research areas that concern structuring a learning algorithm's solution: when the structure is known and when it has to be discovered.

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Unsupervised learning uses algorithms to analyze and cluster unlabeled datasets. These algorithms discover hidden patterns and data groupings without the need of human intenvention. Generally it's used for expolarity data analysis, customer segmentation, recommender systems, big data visualization, feature elicitation etc. Roughly, there are three types of unsupervised learning approach. Clustering is a data mining techinuqe which groups unlabeled data based on similarities and differences. Clustering algorithms are used to process raw, unclassified data objects into groups represented by structures and patterns in the information.

How it works: This algorithm consist of a target / outcome variable (or dependent variable) which is to be predicted from a given set of predictors (independent variables). Using these set of variables, we generate a function that map inputs to desired outputs. The training process continues until the model achieves a desired level of accuracy on the training data. How it works: In this algorithm, we do not have any target or outcome variable to predict / estimate. It is used for clustering population in different groups, which is widely used for segmenting customers in different groups for specific intervention.

If you've ever read anything related to data science, machine learning or data mining, there is a high probability of you coming across clustering. Clustering is a process of classifying data in clusters based on how similar the data is. There are many clustering algorithms. One of the most known is the K-means algorithm. K-means clusters the data into a determined number of clusters.

In recent years, we've seen a resurgence in AI, or artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Machine learning has led to some amazing results, like being able to analyze medical images and predict diseases on-par with human experts. Google's AlphaGo program was able to beat a world champion in the strategy game go using deep reinforcement learning. Machine learning is even being used to program self driving cars, which is going to change the automotive industry forever. Imagine a world with drastically reduced car accidents, simply by removing the element of human error.

Collision avoidance is a vital capability of any marine vessel navigating in public waterways; this is particularly true for autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs), which cannot benefit by the real-time guidance of a human operator. Safe maritime navigation remains a challenge due to the fact that it requires the seamless coordination of multiple complex subsystems. First, vessels must be able to perceive their surroundings under a wide range of environmental conditions. This is typically accomplished using one or more line-of-sight sensors, which emit electromagnetic or acoustic signals, and detect the reflections produced by nearby obstacles (Robinette et al., 2019). However, in the marine environment, vessels can also utilize the Automatic Information System (AIS) protocol to track nearby vessels. The merits and drawbacks of these sensing modalities will be discussed in Section 1.1. Once an obstacle is detected, the ASV must react quickly and intelligently to avoid it, in accordance with the "rules of the road" set forth by the 1972 International Regulations for Prevention of Collisions at Sea (COLREGs) (International Maritime Organization, 2003). Many ASVs remain unable to perform one or more of these crucial tasks, limiting their adoption beyond the oceanographic research community. B. Cole is with the Laboratory for Autonomous Marine Sensing Systems, Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Randomized clinical trials eliminate confounding but impose strict exclusion criteria that limit recruitment to a subset of the population. Observational datasets are more inclusive but suffer from confounding -- often providing overly optimistic estimates of treatment effect in practice. We therefore assume that the true treatment effect lies somewhere in between no treatment effect and the observational estimate, or in their convex hull. This assumption allows us to extrapolate results from exclusive trials to the broader population by analyzing observational and trial data simultaneously using an algorithm called Optimal Convex Hulls (OCH). OCH represents the treatment effect either in terms of convex hulls of conditional expectations or convex hulls (also known as mixtures) of conditional densities. The algorithm first learns the component expectations or densities using the observational data and then learns the linear mixing coefficients using trial data in order to approximate the true treatment effect; theory importantly explains why this linear combination should hold. OCH estimates the treatment effect in terms both expectations and densities with state of the art accuracy.

Statistical models are central to machine learning with broad applicability across a range of downstream tasks. The models are typically controlled by free parameters that are estimated from data by maximum-likelihood estimation. However, when faced with real-world datasets many of the models run into a critical issue: they are formulated in terms of fully-observed data, whereas in practice the datasets are plagued with missing data. The theory of statistical model estimation from incomplete data is conceptually similar to the estimation of latent-variable models, where powerful tools such as variational inference (VI) exist. However, in contrast to standard latent-variable models, parameter estimation with incomplete data often requires estimating exponentially-many conditional distributions of the missing variables, hence making standard VI methods intractable. We address this gap by introducing variational Gibbs inference (VGI), a new general-purpose method to estimate the parameters of statistical models from incomplete data. We validate VGI on a set of synthetic and real-world estimation tasks, estimating important machine learning models, VAEs and normalising flows, from incomplete data. The proposed method, whilst general-purpose, achieves competitive or better performance than existing model-specific estimation methods.