The growing penetration of electric vehicles (EVs) significantly changes typical load curves in smart grids. With the development of fast charging technology, the volatility of EV charging demand is increasing, which requires additional flexibility for real-time power balance. The forecasting of EV charging demand involves probabilistic modeling of high dimensional time series dynamics across diverse electric vehicle charging stations (EVCSs). This paper studies the forecasting problem of multiple EVCS in a hierarchical probabilistic manner. For each charging station, a deep learning model based on a partial input convex neural network (PICNN) is trained to predict the day-ahead charging demand's conditional distribution, preventing the common quantile crossing problem in traditional quantile regression models. Then, differentiable convex optimization layers (DCLs) are used to reconcile the scenarios sampled from the distributions to yield coherent scenarios that satisfy the hierarchical constraint. It learns a better weight matrix for adjusting the forecasting results of different targets in a machine-learning approach compared to traditional optimization-based hierarchical reconciling methods. Numerical experiments based on real-world EV charging data are conducted to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method.

Graph machine learning (GML) is effective in many business applications. However, making GML easy to use and applicable to industry applications with massive datasets remain challenging. We developed GraphStorm, which provides an end-to-end solution for scalable graph construction, graph model training and inference. GraphStorm has the following desirable properties: (a) Easy to use: it can perform graph construction and model training and inference with just a single command; (b) Expert-friendly: GraphStorm contains many advanced GML modeling techniques to handle complex graph data and improve model performance; (c) Scalable: every component in GraphStorm can operate on graphs with billions of nodes and can scale model training and inference to different hardware without changing any code. GraphStorm has been used and deployed for over a dozen billion-scale industry applications after its release in May 2023.

This paper proposes a navigation method considering blind spots based on the robot operating system (ROS) navigation stack and blind spots layer (BSL) for a wheeled mobile robot. In this paper, environmental information is recognized using a laser range finder (LRF) and RGB-D cameras. Blind spots occur when corners or obstacles are present in the environment, and may lead to collisions if a human or object moves toward the robot from these blind spots. To prevent such collisions, this paper proposes a navigation method considering blind spots based on the local cost map layer of the BSL for the wheeled mobile robot. Blind spots are estimated by utilizing environmental data collected through RGB-D cameras. The navigation method that takes these blind spots into account is achieved through the implementation of the BSL and a local path planning method that employs an enhanced cost function of dynamic window approach. The effectiveness of the proposed method was further demonstrated through simulations and experiments.

It is important to reveal the inverse dynamics of manipulators to improve control performance of model-based control. Neural networks (NNs) are promising techniques to represent complicated inverse dynamics while they require a large amount of motion data. However, motion data in dead zones of actuators is not suitable for training models decreasing the number of useful training data. In this study, based on the fact that the manipulator joint does not work irrespective of input torque in dead zones, we propose a new loss function that considers only errors of joints not in dead zones. The proposed method enables to increase in the amount of motion data available for training and the accuracy of the inverse dynamics computation. Experiments on actual equipment using a three-degree-of-freedom (DOF) manipulator showed higher accuracy than conventional methods. We also confirmed and discussed the behavior of the model of the proposed method in dead zones.

In industry NLP application, our manually labeled data has a certain number of noisy data. We present a simple method to find the noisy data and relabel them manually, meanwhile we collect the correction information. Then we present novel method to incorporate the human correction information into deep learning model. Human know how to correct noisy data. So the correction information can be inject into deep learning model. We do the experiment on our own text classification dataset, which is manually labeled, because we need to relabel the noisy data in our dataset for our industry application. The experiment result shows that our learn-on-correction method improve the classification accuracy from 91.7% to 92.5% in test dataset. The 91.7% accuracy is trained on the corrected dataset, which improve the baseline from 83.3% to 91.7% in test dataset. The accuracy under human evaluation achieves more than 97%.

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Regulations introduced by General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU or California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in the US have included provisions on the \textit{right to be forgotten} that mandates industry applications to remove data related to an individual from their systems. In several real world industry applications that use Machine Learning to build models on user data, such mandates require significant effort both in terms of data cleansing as well as model retraining while ensuring the models do not deteriorate in prediction quality due to removal of data. As a result, continuous removal of data and model retraining steps do not scale if these applications receive such requests at a very high frequency. Recently, a few researchers proposed the idea of \textit{Machine Unlearning} to tackle this challenge. Despite the significant importance of this task, the area of Machine Unlearning is under-explored in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. In this paper, we explore the Unlearning framework on various GLUE tasks \cite{Wang:18}, such as, QQP, SST and MNLI. We propose computationally efficient approaches (SISA-FC and SISA-A) to perform \textit{guaranteed} Unlearning that provides significant reduction in terms of both memory (90-95\%), time (100x) and space consumption (99\%) in comparison to the baselines while keeping model performance constant.

AI is a boon to the medical and healthcare industry. Right from diagnostics to surgeries and medical equipment, artificial intelligence is supporting the healing processes of many human lives. The medical device sector is a part of the US$3 trillion healthcare industry in the United States, where researchers and manufacturers are incorporating automation through AI. There are several use cases for AI and automation in the medical device industry. Companies are using machine learning to monitor patients using sensors and automating medicine delivery via connected apps, integrating AI-driven platforms in medical scanning devices to improve the clarity of images and screening, and utilizing IoT to improve patient monitoring and clinical outcomes.

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