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The Implicit Delta Method
Nathan Kallus, James McInerney
Epistemic uncertainty quantification is a crucial part of drawing credible conclusions from predictive models, whether concerned about the prediction at a given point or any downst…
Residual Overfit Method of Exploration
James McInerney, Nathan Kallus
Exploration is a crucial aspect of bandit and reinforcement learning algorithms. The uncertainty quantification necessary for exploration often comes from either closed-form expres…
Counterfactual Evaluation of Slate Recommendations with Sequential Reward Interactions
James McInerney, Brian Brost, Praveen Chandar +2
Users of music streaming, video streaming, news recommendation, and e-commerce services often engage with content in a sequential manner. Providing and evaluating good sequences of…
Modeling User Exposure in Recommendation
Dawen Liang, Laurent Charlin, James McInerney +1
Collaborative filtering analyzes user preferences for items (e.g., books, movies, restaurants, academic papers) by exploiting the similarity patterns across users. In implicit feed…
Dynamic Poisson Factorization
Laurent Charlin, Rajesh Ranganath, James McInerney +1
Models for recommender systems use latent factors to explain the preferences and behaviors of users with respect to a set of items (e.g., movies, books, academic papers). Typically…
The Population Posterior and Bayesian Inference on Streams
James McInerney, Rajesh Ranganath, David M. Blei
Many modern data analysis problems involve inferences from streaming data. However, streaming data is not easily amenable to the standard probabilistic modeling approaches, which a…
Variational Tempering
Stephan Mandt, James McInerney, Farhan Abrol +2
Variational inference (VI) combined with data subsampling enables approximate posterior inference over large data sets, but suffers from poor local optima. We first formulate a det…
Learning Periodic Human Behaviour Models from Sparse Data for Crowdsourcing Aid Delivery in Developing Countries
James McInerney, Alex Rogers, Nicholas R. Jennings
In many developing countries, half the population lives in rural locations, where access to essentials such as school materials, mosquito nets, and medical supplies is restricted.…
Targeted Social Mobilisation in a Global Manhunt
Alex Rutherford, Manuel Cebrian, Iyad Rahwan +8
Social mobilization, the ability to mobilize large numbers of people via social networks to achieve highly distributed tasks, has received significant attention in recent times. Th…