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cs.AI2017★ 80 cited

HoME: a Household Multimodal Environment

Simon Brodeur, Ethan Perez, Ankesh Anand +6

We introduce HoME: a Household Multimodal Environment for artificial agents to learn from vision, audio, semantics, physics, and interaction with objects and other agents, all with…

cs.LG2017

Positive semi-definite embedding for dimensionality reduction and out-of-sample extensions

Michaël Fanuel, Antoine Aspeel, Jean-Charles Delvenne +1

In machine learning or statistics, it is often desirable to reduce the dimensionality of a sample of data points in a high dimensional space . This paper introduces a…

cs.DS2017

A generative model for sparse, evolving digraphs

Georgios Papoudakis, Philippe Preux, Martin Monperrus

Generating graphs that are similar to real ones is an open problem, while the similarity notion is quite elusive and hard to formalize. In this paper, we focus on sparse digraphs a…

stat.ML2017★ 5 cited

Bayesian nonparametric Principal Component Analysis

Clément Elvira, Pierre Chainais, Nicolas Dobigeon

Principal component analysis (PCA) is very popular to perform dimension reduction. The selection of the number of significant components is essential but often based on some practi…

cs.CV2017★ 192 cited

FiLM: Visual Reasoning with a General Conditioning Layer

Ethan Perez, Florian Strub, Harm de Vries +2

We introduce a general-purpose conditioning method for neural networks called FiLM: Feature-wise Linear Modulation. FiLM layers influence neural network computation via a simple, f…

cs.PL2017★ 1 cited

Scoped Extension Methods in Dynamically-Typed Languages

Guillermo Polito, Camille Teruel, Stéphane Ducasse +1

Context. An extension method is a method declared in a package other than the package of its host class. Thanks to extension methods, developers can adapt to their needs classes th…

cs.LG2017★ 19 cited

Corrupt Bandits for Preserving Local Privacy

Pratik Gajane, Tanguy Urvoy, Emilie Kaufmann

We study a variant of the stochastic multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem in which the rewards are corrupted. In this framework, motivated by privacy preservation in online recommender…

cs.CV2017★ 2 cited

Emotion Recognition by Body Movement Representation on the Manifold of Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices

Mohamed Daoudi, Stefano Berretti, Pietro Pala +2

Emotion recognition is attracting great interest for its potential application in a multitude of real-life situations. Much of the Computer Vision research in this field has focuse…

cs.CL2017★ 1 cited

LIG-CRIStAL System for the WMT17 Automatic Post-Editing Task

Alexandre Berard, Olivier Pietquin, Laurent Besacier

This paper presents the LIG-CRIStAL submission to the shared Automatic Post- Editing task of WMT 2017. We propose two neural post-editing models: a monosource model with a task-spe…

cs.CV2017★ 298 cited

Modulating early visual processing by language

Harm de Vries, Florian Strub, Jérémie Mary +3

It is commonly assumed that language refers to high-level visual concepts while leaving low-level visual processing unaffected. This view dominates the current literature in comput…

stat.AP2017

Multi-scale streaming anomalies detection for time series

B Ravi Kiran

In the class of streaming anomaly detection algorithms for univariate time series, the size of the sliding window over which various statistics are calculated is an important param…

stat.ML2017★ 6 cited

Zonotope hit-and-run for efficient sampling from projection DPPs

Guillaume Gautier, Rémi Bardenet, Michal Valko

Determinantal point processes (DPPs) are distributions over sets of items that model diversity using kernels. Their applications in machine learning include summary extraction and…

stat.ML2017★ 11 cited

Monte-Carlo Tree Search by Best Arm Identification

Emilie Kaufmann, Wouter Koolen

Recent advances in bandit tools and techniques for sequential learning are steadily enabling new applications and are promising the resolution of a range of challenging related pro…

cs.LO2017★ 2 cited

Definability and Interpolation within Decidable Fixpoint Logics

Michael Benedikt, Pierre Bourhis, Michael Vanden Boom

We look at characterizing which formulas are expressible in rich decidable logics such as guarded fixpoint logic, unary negation fixpoint logic, and guarded negation fixpoint logic…

cs.LG2017★ 16 cited

Exploration--Exploitation in MDPs with Options

Ronan Fruit, Alessandro Lazaric

While a large body of empirical results show that temporally-extended actions and options may significantly affect the learning performance of an agent, the theoretical understandi…

stat.ME2017★ 24 cited

Metropolis Sampling

Luca Martino, Victor Elvira

Monte Carlo (MC) sampling methods are widely applied in Bayesian inference, system simulation and optimization problems. The Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms are a well-k…

stat.CO2017★ 66 cited

Group Importance Sampling for Particle Filtering and MCMC

L. Martino, V. Elvira, G. Camps-Valls

Bayesian methods and their implementations by means of sophisticated Monte Carlo techniques have become very popular in signal processing over the last years. Importance Sampling (…

stat.ML2017★ 30 cited

Thompson Sampling for Linear-Quadratic Control Problems

Marc Abeille, Alessandro Lazaric

We consider the exploration-exploitation tradeoff in linear quadratic (LQ) control problems, where the state dynamics is linear and the cost function is quadratic in states and con…

stat.ME2017★ 26 cited

Spectral analysis of stationary random bivariate signals

Julien Flamant, Nicolas Le Bihan, Pierre Chainais

A novel approach towards the spectral analysis of stationary random bivariate signals is proposed. Using the Quaternion Fourier Transform, we introduce a quaternion-valued spectral…

eess.SY2017

Comparing global input-output behavior of frozen-equivalent LPV state-space models

Ziad Alkhoury, Mihály Petreczky, Guillaume Mercère

It is known that in general, \emph{frozen equivalent} (Linear Parameter-Varying) LPV models, \emph{i.e.}, LPV models which have the same input-output behavior for each constant sch…

eess.SY2017★ 1 cited

Model Reduction for Aperiodically Sampled Data Systems

Mert Bastug, Laurentiu Hetel, Mihaly Petreczky

Two approaches to moment matching based model reduction of aperiodically sampled data systems are given. The term "aperiodic sampling" is used in the paper to indicate that the tim…

cs.SC2017★ 4 cited

Laderman matrix multiplication algorithm can be constructed using Strassen algorithm and related tensor's isotropies

Alexandre Sedoglavic

In 1969, V. Strassen improves the classical~2x2 matrix multiplication algorithm. The current upper bound for 3x3 matrix multiplication was reached by J.B. Laderman in 1976. This no…

cs.ET2017★ 4 cited

Memristor nanodevice for unconventional computing:review and applications

Mahyar Shahsavari, Pierre Boulet

A memristor is a two-terminal nanodevice that its properties attract a wide community of researchers from various domains such as physics, chemistry, electronics, computer and neur…

cs.IT2017★ 32 cited

Bayesian Compressive Sensing Approaches for Direction of Arrival Estimation with Mutual Coupling Effects

Matthew Hawes, Lyudmila Mihaylova, François Septier +1

The problem of estimating the dynamic direction of arrival of far field signals impinging on a uniform linear array, with mutual coupling effects, is addressed. This work proposes…