AI and the Web
High-Performance Distributed ML at Scale through Parameter Server Consistency Models | |
Wei Dai, Abhimanu Kumar, Jinliang Wei, Qirong Ho, Garth Gibson, Eric P. Xing |
Trust Models for RDF Data: Semantics and Complexity | |
Valeria Fionda, Gianluigi Greco |
Lower and Upper Bounds for SPARQL Queries over OWL Ontologies | |
Birte Glimm, Yevgeny Kazakov, Ilianna Kollia, Giorgos Stamou |
FACES: Diversity-Aware Entity Summarization Using Incremental Hierarchical Conceptual Clustering | |
Kalpa Gunaratna, Krishnaparasad Thirunarayan, Amit Sheth |
TrustSVD: Collaborative Filtering with Both the Explicit and Implicit Influence of User Trust and of Item Ratings | |
Guibing Guo, Jie Zhang, Neil Yorke-Smith |
Effectively Predicting Whether and When a Topic Will Become Prevalent in a Social Network | |
Weiwei Liu, Zhi-Hong Deng, Xiuwen Gong, Frank Jiang, Ivor W. Tsang |
A Probabilistic Model for Bursty Topic Discovery in Microblogs | |
Xiaohui Yan, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, Xueqi Cheng |
Retweet Behavior Prediction Using Hierarchical Dirichlet Process | |
Qi Zhang, Yeyun Gong, Ya Guo, Xuanjing Huang |
Applications
A Multivariate Timeseries Modeling Approach to Severity of Illness Assessment and Forecasting in ICU with Sparse, Heterogeneous Clinical Data | |
Marzyeh Ghassemi, Marco A.F. Pimentel, Tristan Naumann, Thomas Brennan, David A. Clifton, Peter Szolovits, Mengling Feng |
Cognitive Systems
Dialogue Understanding in a Logic of Action and Belief | |
Alfredo Gabaldon, Pat Langley |
Computational Sustainability and AI
Pattern Decomposition with Complex Combinatorial Constraints: Application to Materials Discovery | |
Stefano Ermon, Ronan Le Bras, Santosh K. Suram, John M. Gregoire, Carla P. Gomes, Bart Selman, Robert B. van Dover |
Learning Large-Scale Dynamic Discrete Choice Models of Spatio-Temporal Preferences with Application to Migratory Pastoralism in East Africa | |
Stefano Ermon, Yexiang Xue, Russell Toth, Bistra Dilkina, Richard Bernstein, Theodoros Damoulas, Patrick Clark, Steve DeGloria, Andrew Mude, Christopher Barrett, Carla P. Gomes |
A Nonparametric Online Model for Air Quality Prediction | |
Vitor Campanholo Guizilini, Fabio Tozeto Ramos |
Game Playing and Interactive Entertainment
Automatic Generation of Alternative Starting Positions for Simple Traditional Board Games | |
Umair Z. Ahmed, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Sumit Gulwani |
Continuity Editing for 3D Animation | |
Quentin Galvane, Rémi Ronfard, Christophe Lino, Marc Christie |
Game Theory and Economic Paradigms
Do Capacity Constraints Constrain Coalitions? | |
Michal Feldman, Ofir Geri |
Security Games with Protection Externalities | |
Jiarui Gan, Bo An, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik |
Controlled School Choice with Soft Bounds and Overlapping Types | |
Ryoji Kurata, Masahiro Goto, Atsushi Iwasaki, Makoto Yokoo |
Balanced Trade Reduction for Dual-Role Exchange Markets | |
Dengji Zhao, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Enrico H. Gerding, Nicholas R. Jennings |
Heuristic Search and Optimization
Improved Local Search for Binary Matrix Factorization | |
Seyed Hamid Mirisaee, Eric Gaussier, Alexandre Termier |
Integrated Systems
Bayesian Active Learning-Based Robot Tutor for Children's Word-Reading Skills | |
Goren Gordon, Cynthia Breazeal |
RANSAC versus CS-RANSAC | |
Geun Sik Jo, Kee-Sung Lee, Devy Chandra, Chol-Hee Jang, Myung-Hyun Ga |
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Exploiting Parallelism for Hard Problems in Abstract Argumentation | |
Federico Cerutti, Ilias Tachmazidis, Mauro Vallati, Sotirios Batsakis, Massimiliano Giacomin, Grigoris Antoniou |
Exploring the KD45 Property of a Kripke Model After the Execution of an Action Sequence | |
Tran Cao Son, Enrico Pontelli, Chitta Baral, Gregory Gelfond |
Machine Learning Applications
Content-Aware Point of Interest Recommendation on Location-Based Social Networks | |
Huiji Gao, Jiliang Tang, Xia Hu, Huan Liu |
Constructing Models of User and Task Characteristics from Eye Gaze Data for User-Adaptive Information Highlighting | |
Matthew Junghyun Gingerich, Cristina Conati |
Automatic Assessment of OCR Quality in Historical Documents | |
Anshul Gupta, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, Matthew Christy, Boris Capitanu, Loretta Auvil, Liz Grumbach, Richard Furuta, Laura Mandell |
Stable Feature Selection from Brain sMRI | |
Bo Xin, Lingjing Hu, Yizhou Wang, Wen Gao |
On Machine Learning towards Predictive Sales Pipeline Analytics | |
Junchi Yan, Chao Zhang, Hongyuan Zha, Min Gong, Changhua Sun, Jin Huang, Stephen Chu, Xiaokang Yang |
Multiagent Systems
Automated Analysis of Commitment Protocols Using Probabilistic Model Checking | |
Akın Günay, Song Songzheng, Yang Liu, Jie Zhang |
Multi-Robot Auctions for Allocation of Tasks with Temporal Constraints | |
Ernesto Nunes, Maria Gini |
NLP and Knowledge Representation
Sense-Aaware Semantic Analysis: A Multi-Prototype Word Representation Model Using Wikipedia | |
Zhaohui Wu, C. Lee Giles |
NLP and Machine Learning
Weakly-Supervised Grammar-Informed Bayesian CCG Parser Learning | |
Dan Garrette, Chris Dyer, Jason Baldridge, Noah A. Smith |
Unsupervised Phrasal Near-Synonym Generation from Text Corpora | |
Dishan Gupta, Jaime Carbonell, Anatole Gershman, Steve Klein, David Miller |
Never-Ending Learning | |
Tom M. Mitchell, William Cohen, Estevam Hruschka, Partha Talukdar, Justin Betteridge, Andrew Carlson, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Matthew Gardner, Bryan Kisiel, Jayant Krishnamurthy, Ni Lao, Kathryn Mazaitis, Thahir Mohamed, Ndapa Nakashole, Emmanouil Antonios Platanios, Alan Ritter, Mehdi Samadi, Burr Settles, Richard Wang, Derry Wijaya, Abhinav Gupta, Xinlei Chen, Abulhair Saparov, Malcolm Greaves, Joel Welling |
NLP and Text Mining
A Neural Probabilistic Model for Context Based Citation Recommendation | |
Wenyi Huang, Zhaohui Wu, Chen Liang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles |
Towards Knowledge-Driven Annotation | |
Yassine Mrabet, Claire Gardent, Muriel Foulonneau, Elena Simperl, Eric Ras |
Semantic Lexicon Induction from Twitter with Pattern Relatedness and Flexible Term Length | |
Ashequl Qadir, Pablo N. Mendes, Daniel Gruhl, Neal Lewis |
Extracting Adverse Drug Reactions from Social Media | |
Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder |
Novel Machine Learning Algorithms
Efficient Active Learning of Halfspaces via Query Synthesis | |
Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin, Xin Gao, Xiangliang Zhang |
Collaborative Filtering with Localised Ranking | |
Charanpal Dhanjal, Romaric Gaudel, Stéphan Clémençon |
Learning Sparse Representations from Datasets with Uncertain Group Structures: Model, Algorithm and Applications | |
Longwen Gao, Shuigeng Zhou |
Spectral Clustering Using Multilinear SVD: Analysis, Approximations and Applications | |
Debarghya Ghoshdastidar, Ambedkar Dukkipati |
Pathway Graphical Lasso | |
Maxim Grechkin, Maryam Fazel, Daniela Witten, Su-In Lee |
Concurrent PAC RL | |
Zhaohan Guo, Emma Brunskill |
Multi-tensor Completion with Common Structures | |
Chao Li, Qibin Zhao, Junhua Li, Andrzej Cichocki, Lili Guo |
Noise-Robust Semi-Supervised Learning by Large-Scale Sparse Coding | |
Zhiwu Lu, Xin Gao, Liwei Wang, Ji-Rong Wen, Songfang Huang |
Optimizing the CVaR via Sampling | |
Aviv Tamar, Yonatan Glassner, Shie Mannor |
High-Confidence Off-Policy Evaluation | |
Philip S. Thomas, Georgios Theocharous, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh |
Multi-Source Domain Adaptation: A Causal View | |
Kun Zhang, Mingming Gong, Bernhard Schoelkopf |
A Reduction of the Elastic Net to Support Vector Machines with an Application to GPU Computing | |
Quan Zhou, Wenlin Chen, Shiji Song, Jacob R. Gardner, Kilian Q. Weinberger, Yixin Chen |
Planning and Scheduling
Robustness in Probabilistic Temporal Planning | |
Jeb Brooks, Emilia Reed, Alexander Gruver, James C. Boerkoel |
SMT-Based Nonlinear PDDL+ Planning | |
Daniel Bryce, Sicun Gao, David Musliner, Robert Goldman |
Transition Constraints for Parallel Planning | |
Nina Ghanbari Ghooshchi, Majid Namazi, M A Hakim Newton, Abdul Sattar |
Measuring Plan Diversity: Pathologies in Existing Approaches and A New Plan Distance Metric | |
Robert P. Goldman, Ugur Kuter |
Goal Recognition Design for Non-Optimal Agents | |
Sarah Keren, Avigdor Gal, Erez Karpas |
Approximate Linear Programming for Constrained Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes | |
Pascal Poupart, Aarti Malhotra, Pei Pei, Kee-Eung Kim, Bongseok Goh, Michael Bowling |
Tractability of Planning with Loops | |
Siddharth Srivastava, Shlomo Zilberstein, Abhishek Gupta, Pieter Abbeel, Stuart Russell |
An Efficient Forest-Based Tabu Search Algorithm for the Split-delivery Vehicle Routing Problem | |
Zizhen Zhang, Huang He, Zhixing Luo, Hu Qin, Songshan Guo |
Reasoning under Uncertainty
Optimal Cost Almost-Sure Reachability in POMDPs | |
Krishnendu Chatterjee, Martin Chmelik, Raghav Gupta, Ayush Kanodia |
Better Be Lucky than Good: Exceeding Expectations in MDP Evaluation | |
Thomas Keller, Florian Geißer |
Just Count the Satisfied Groundings: Scalable Local-Search and Sampling Based Inference in MLNs | |
Deepak Venugopal, Somdeb Sarkhel, Vibhav Gogate |
Search and Constraint Satisfaction
On Computing Maximal Subsets of Clauses that Must Be Satisfiable with Possibly Mutually-Contradictory Assumptive Contexts | |
Philippe Besnard, Eric Grégoire, Jean-Marie JM Lagniez |
SMT-Based Validation of Timed Failure Propagation Graphs | |
Marco Bozzano, Alessandro Cimatti, Marco Gario, Andrea Micheli |
Vision
Exploring Semantic Inter-Class Relationships (SIR) for Zero-Shot Action Recognition | |
Chuang Gan, Ming Lin, Yi Yang, Yueting Zhuang, Alexander G.Hauptmann |
Building Effective Representations for Sketch Recognition | |
Jun Guo, Changhu Wang, Hongyang Chao |
Learning Predictable and Discriminative Attributes for Visual Recognition | |
Yuchen Guo, Guiguang Ding, Xiaoming Jin, Jianmin Wang |
Compute Less to Get More: Using ORC to Improve Sparse Filtering | |
Johannes Lederer, Sergio Guadarrama |
Senior Member Papers
Speech Adaptation in Extended Ambient Intelligence Environments | |
Bonnie J. Dorr, Lucian Galescu, Ian Perera, Kristy Hollingshead-Seitz, David Atkinson, Micah Clark, William Clancey, Yorick Wilks, Eric Fosler-Lussier |
Blended Planning and Acting: Preliminary Approach, Research Challenges | |
Dana S. Nau, Malik Ghallab, Paolo Traverso |
Student Abstracts
Leveraging Common Structure to Improve Prediction across Related Datasets | |
Matt Barnes, Nick Gisolfi, Madalina Fiterau, Artur Dubrawski |
Predicting the Quality of User Experiences to Improve Productivity and Wellness | |
Priya Lekha Donti, Jacob Rosenbloom, Alex Gruver, James Jr C. Boerkoel |
Placing Influencing Agents in a Flock | |
Katie Genter, Peter Stone |
Characterizing Performance of Consistency Algorithms by Algorithm Configuration of Random CSP Generators | |
Daniel J. Geschwender, Robert J. Woodward, Berthe Y. Choueiry |
Finding Meaningful Gaps to Guide Data Acquisition for a Radiation Adjudication System | |
Nick Gisolfi, Madalina Fiterau, Artur Dubrawski |
Improving Cross-Domain Recommendation through Probabilistic Cluster-Level Latent Factor Model | |
Siting Ren, Sheng Gao, Jianxin Liao, Jun Guo |
Accelerating SAT Solving by Common Subclause Elimination | |
Yaowei Yan, Chris E. Gutierrez, Jeriah Jn-Charles, Forrest Sheng Bao, Yuanlin Zhang |
Demonstrations
A Planning-Based Assistance System for Setting Up a Home Theater | |
Pascal Bercher, Felix Richter, Thilo Hörnle, Thomas Geier, Daniel Höller, Gregor Behnke, Florian Nothdurft, Frank Honold, Wolfgang Minker, Michael Weber, Susanne Biundo |
Tartanian7: A Champion Two-Player No-Limit Texas Hold'em Poker-Playing Program | |
Noam Brown, Sam Ganzfried, Tuomas Sandholm |
VecLP: A Realtime Video Recommendation System for Live TV Programs | |
Sheng Gao, Dai Zhang, Honggang Zhang, Chao Huang, Yongsheng Zhang, Jianxin Liao, Jun Guo |
Multi-Agent Dynamic Coupling for Cooperative Vehicles Modeling | |
Maxime Guériau, Romain Billot, Nour-Eddin El Faouzi, Salima Hassas, Frédéric Armetta |
Virtual Agent Demonstrations
SimSensei Demonstration: A Perceptive Virtual Human Interviewer for Healthcare Applications | |
Louis-Philippe Morency, Giota Stratou, David DeVault, Arno Hartholt, Margo Lhommet, Gale Lucas, Fabrizio Morbini, Kallirroi Georgila, Stefan Scherer, Jonathan Gratch, Stacy Marsella, David Traum, Albert Rizzo |
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