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20142020
most citedLAReQA: Language-agnostic answer retrieval from a multilingual pool

9 citations · 18 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CL2020★ 9 cited

LAReQA: Language-agnostic answer retrieval from a multilingual pool

Uma Roy, Noah Constant, Rami Al-Rfou +3

We present LAReQA, a challenging new benchmark for language-agnostic answer retrieval from a multilingual candidate pool. Unlike previous cross-lingual tasks, LAReQA tests for "str…

stat.AP2019★ 1 cited

Covariance Matrix Estimation under Total Positivity for Portfolio Selection

Raj Agrawal, Uma Roy, Caroline Uhler

Selecting the optimal Markowitz porfolio depends on estimating the covariance matrix of the returns of assets from periods of historical data. Problematically, is typic…

stat.ME2019★ 8 cited

Learning High-dimensional Gaussian Graphical Models under Total Positivity without Adjustment of Tuning Parameters

Yuhao Wang, Uma Roy, Caroline Uhler

We consider the problem of estimating an undirected Gaussian graphical model when the underlying distribution is multivariate totally positive of order 2 (MTP2), a strong form of p…

cs.AI2017

Online Multi-Armed Bandit

Uma Roy, Ashwath Thirmulai, Joe Zurier

We introduce a novel variant of the multi-armed bandit problem, in which bandits are streamed one at a time to the player, and at each point, the player can either choose to pull t…

math.RT2015

An Explicit Description of the B(\infty) Crystal For Generalized Quantum Groups of a Family of Comet Quivers

Uma Roy, Seth Shelley-Abrahamson

Tristan Bozec gave a definition of generalized quantum groups that extends the usual definition of quantum groups to finite quivers with loops at vertices, and he introduced a theo…

math.GR2015

Diagrammatic Calculus of Coxeter and Braid Groups

Niket Gowravaram, Uma Roy

We investigate a novel diagrammatic approach to examining strict actions of a Coxeter group or a braid group on a category. This diagrammatic language, which was developed in a ser…