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Bandit Convex Optimization: Towards Tight Bounds Kfir Y. Levy Technion--Israel Institute of Technology Technion--Israel Institute of Technology Haifa 32000, Israel

Neural Information Processing Systems

Bandit Convex Optimization (BCO) is a fundamental framework for decision making under uncertainty, which generalizes many problems from the realm of online and statistical learning. While the special case of linear cost functions is well understood, a gap on the attainable regret for BCO with nonlinear losses remains an important open question. In this paper we take a step towards understanding the best attainable regret bounds for BCO: we give an efficient and near-optimal regret algorithm for BCO with strongly-convex and smooth loss functions. In contrast to previous works on BCO that use time invariant exploration schemes, our method employs an exploration scheme that shrinks with time.


Putting clear bounds on uncertainty

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In science and technology, there has been a long and steady drive toward improving the accuracy of measurements of all kinds, along with parallel efforts to enhance the resolution of images. An accompanying goal is to reduce the uncertainty in the estimates that can be made, and the inferences drawn, from the data (visual or otherwise) that have been collected. Yet uncertainty can never be wholly eliminated. And since we have to live with it, at least to some extent, there is much to be gained by quantifying the uncertainty as precisely as possible. Expressed in other terms, we'd like to know just how uncertain our uncertainty is.


Building Trust: Lessons from the Technion-Rambam Machine Learning in Healthcare Datathon Event

Sobel, Jonathan A., Almog, Ronit, Celi, Leo Anthony, Gaziel-Yablowitz, Michal, Eytan, Danny, Behar, Joachim A.

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

A datathon is a time-constrained competition involving data science applied to a specific problem. In the past decade, datathons have been shown to be a valuable bridge between fields and expertise . Biomedical data analysis represents a challenging area requiring collaboration between engineers, biologists and physicians to gain a better understanding of patient physiology and of guide decision processes for diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic interventions to improve care practice. Here, we reflect on the outcomes of an event that we organized in Israel at the end of March 2022 between the MIT Critical Data group, Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) in Haifa. Participants were asked to complete a survey about their skills and interests, which enabled us to identify current needs in machine learning training for medical problem applications. This work describes opportunities and limitations in medical data science in the Israeli context.


Weave Your Personal Apollo-Period Reminiscence - Channel969

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The world of magic had Houdini, who pioneered tips which can be nonetheless carried out as we speak. And knowledge compression has Jacob Ziv. In 1977, Ziv, working with Abraham Lempel, printed the equal of Houdini on Magic: a paper within the IEEE Transactions on Info Principle titled "A Common Algorithm for Sequential Knowledge Compression." The algorithm described within the paper got here to be referred to as LZ77--from the authors' names, in alphabetical order, and the 12 months. LZ77 wasn't the primary lossless compression algorithm, however it was the primary that might work its magic in a single step. The next 12 months, the 2 researchers issued a refinement, LZ78.


The Digital Health Revolution - Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

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The Technion and Rambam Hospital are setting up a new joint Technion-Rambam Center for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (CAIH) that will signal a revolution in medical decision-making. The CAIH, the first joint academic-hospital AI center in Israel and one of the first in the world, will develop advanced artificial intelligence systems to analyze a patient's condition. The center will focus on developing tools that will help physicians select, in real time, the most appropriate and accurate medical treatment for a patient. These tools will be based on a complex and rapid analysis of all the relevant medical information that has accumulated in big medical databases over the years. In the words of Assistant Professor Joachim Behar, co-director of the center, the aim of the CAIH is to "create the leading Israeli academic center for medical AI committed to advanced medical and clinical research, resulting in significant and actionable benefit to patient care."


Global Big Data Conference

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"We have an AI-driven algorithm that automatically designs AI algorithms to be more accurate and run faster in a production environment," said Yonatan Geifman, Deci AI co-founder and CEO. "Our technology automatically designs new structures of neural networks, optimizing them for the data and machine learning problems we are trying to solve and to run faster on the production hardware." "Deci is a company that was founded a little more than two years ago with a goal of making AI more accessible and scalable, with a technology that improves the way people develop, build, optimize and deploy AI," Geifman asserted. "So basically, we help data scientists to solve their problems faster with automated tools." Geifman founded the company in 2019 along with its chief scientist, Prof. Ran El-Yaniv, who was Geifman's professor at the Technion, and COO Jonathan Eliel, who served with Geifman in a top air force intelligence unit.


BioSig Technologies (BSGM) Announces Artificial Intelligence Development Program with Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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BioSig Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: BSGM), a medical technology company commercializing an innovative biomedical signal processing platform designed to improve signal fidelity and uncover the full range of ECG and intra-cardiac signals, today announced that the Company entered into a feasibility study with The Technion Research & Development Foundation Ltd. Based in Haifa, Israel, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is a public research university offering degrees in science, engineering, and related fields, such as medicine, industrial management, and education. Over the years, the Technion established itself as a leading academic institution in Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is currently ranked as number one in AI in Europe and 15th in the world, with 100 faculty members engaged in areas across the AI spectrum. The feasibility program with BioSig will be led by Asst.


Technion rated top in artificial intelligence in Europe

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Israel's leading tech institution, the Technion, has been rated the number one institute leading machine-learning research in Europe in a rating by CSRankings. The rating is based on data gathered between 2016 and 2021. The Technion also placed 15th globally in artificial intelligence research and 11th in machine learning. Some 46 people are researching AI at the Technion and over 100 are conducting research in the fields of industrial robotics, cybersecurity and smart vehicles. Some 42 of these researchers have done work that was published up to 30 times at computer science conferences, according to the rankings.

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Gil Elbaz, Co-founder & CTO of Datagen – Interview Series

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Gil's thesis research was focused on 3D Computer Vision and has been published at CVPR, the top computer vision research conference in the world. Datagen is a pioneer in the new field of Simulated Data, a subset of synthetic data, which concentrates on photo-realistically recreating the world around us. The company launched from stealth with over $18M in funding in March 2021 and is now working with a number of Fortune 100 companies in augmented/virtual reality, robotics, and automotive, including the majority of the top U.S. tech giants. What initially attracted you to robotics and machine learning? Sci-Fi books, like Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series and iRobot always got me thinking about a future in which robots were an integral part of our day-to-day lives.