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20142023
most cited'Beating the news' with EMBERS: Forecasting Civil Unrest using Open Source Indicators

47 citations · 85 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.MA2023

Learning to Coordinate with Anyone

Lei Yuan, Lihe Li, Ziqian Zhang +5

In open multi-agent environments, the agents may encounter unexpected teammates. Classical multi-agent learning approaches train agents that can only coordinate with seen teammates…

cs.MA2023

Robust multi-agent coordination via evolutionary generation of auxiliary adversarial attackers

Lei Yuan, Zi-Qian Zhang, Ke Xue +6

Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (CMARL) has shown to be promising for many real-world applications. Previous works mainly focus on improving coordination ability via…

cs.LG2023

Communication-Robust Multi-Agent Learning by Adaptable Auxiliary Multi-Agent Adversary Generation

Lei Yuan, Feng Chen, Zhongzhang Zhang +1

Communication can promote coordination in cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). Nowadays, existing works mainly focus on improving the communication efficiency of…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Efficient Communication via Self-supervised Information Aggregation for Online and Offline Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

Cong Guan, Feng Chen, Lei Yuan +2

Utilizing messages from teammates can improve coordination in cooperative Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). Previous works typically combine raw messages of teammates with…

cs.LG2022★ 18 cited

Learning to branch with Tree MDPs

Lara Scavuzzo, Feng Yang Chen, Didier Chételat +4

State-of-the-art Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP) solvers combine systematic tree search with a plethora of hard-coded heuristics, such as the branching rule. The idea of learni…

cs.AI2022★ 4 cited

Multi-Agent Policy Transfer via Task Relationship Modeling

Rongjun Qin, Feng Chen, Tonghan Wang +5

Team adaptation to new cooperative tasks is a hallmark of human intelligence, which has yet to be fully realized in learning agents. Previous work on multi-agent transfer learning…

q-bio.QM2021★ 4 cited

Rapid and Accurate Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Mutations using a Cas12a-based Sensing Platform

C He, C Lin, G Mo +14

The increasing prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with spike mutations has raised concerns owing to higher transmission rates, disease severity, and escape from neutralizing antibod…

cs.LG2018★ 4 cited

Rational Neural Networks for Approximating Jump Discontinuities of Graph Convolution Operator

Zhiqian Chen, Feng Chen, Rongjie Lai +2

For node level graph encoding, a recent important state-of-art method is the graph convolutional networks (GCN), which nicely integrate local vertex features and graph topology in…

cs.LG2018★ 3 cited

Water Disaggregation via Shape Features based Bayesian Discriminative Sparse Coding

Bingsheng Wang, Xuchao Zhang, Chang-Tien Lu +1

As the issue of freshwater shortage is increasing daily, it is critical to take effective measures for water conservation. According to previous studies, device level consumption c…

cs.LG2017

A Generic Framework for Interesting Subspace Cluster Detection in Multi-attributed Networks

Feng Chen, Baojian Zhou, Adil Alim +1

Detection of interesting (e.g., coherent or anomalous) clusters has been studied extensively on plain or univariate networks, with various applications. Recently, algorithms have b…

cs.LG2016★ 1 cited

Technical Report: A Generalized Matching Pursuit Approach for Graph-Structured Sparsity

Feng Chen, Baojian Zhou

Sparsity-constrained optimization is an important and challenging problem that has wide applicability in data mining, machine learning, and statistics. In this paper, we focus on s…

cs.SI2016

Can Self-Censorship in News Media be Detected Algorithmically? A Case Study in Latin America

Rongrong Tao, Baojian Zhou, Feng Chen +4

Censorship in social media has been well studied and provides insight into how governments stifle freedom of expression online. Comparatively less (or no) attention has been paid t…

cs.AI2016★ 3 cited

Technical Report: Graph-Structured Sparse Optimization for Connected Subgraph Detection

Baojian Zhou, Feng Chen

Structured sparse optimization is an important and challenging problem for analyzing high-dimensional data in a variety of applications such as bioinformatics, medical imaging, soc…

cs.SI2014★ 47 cited

'Beating the news' with EMBERS: Forecasting Civil Unrest using Open Source Indicators

Naren Ramakrishnan, Patrick Butler, Sathappan Muthiah +27

We describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of EMBERS, an automated, 24x7 continuous system for forecasting civil unrest across 10 countries of Latin America using open…