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20172023
most citedStudent Success Prediction in MOOCs

146 citations · 287 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.CV2023★ 71 cited

OpenFlamingo: An Open-Source Framework for Training Large Autoregressive Vision-Language Models

Anas Awadalla, Irena Gao, Josh Gardner +13

We introduce OpenFlamingo, a family of autoregressive vision-language models ranging from 3B to 9B parameters. OpenFlamingo is an ongoing effort to produce an open-source replicati…

cs.CL2023★ 11 cited

VisIT-Bench: A Benchmark for Vision-Language Instruction Following Inspired by Real-World Use

Yonatan Bitton, Hritik Bansal, Jack Hessel +6

We introduce VisIT-Bench (Visual InsTruction Benchmark), a benchmark for evaluation of instruction-following vision-language models for real-world use. Our starting point is curati…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

Subgroup Robustness Grows On Trees: An Empirical Baseline Investigation

Josh Gardner, Zoran Popović, Ludwig Schmidt

Researchers have proposed many methods for fair and robust machine learning, but comprehensive empirical evaluation of their subgroup robustness is lacking. In this work, we addres…

cs.SD2022★ 8 cited

The Chamber Ensemble Generator: Limitless High-Quality MIR Data via Generative Modeling

Yusong Wu, Josh Gardner, Ethan Manilow +3

Data is the lifeblood of modern machine learning systems, including for those in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). However, MIR has long been mired by small datasets and unreliabl…

cs.SD2022★ 15 cited

Multi-instrument Music Synthesis with Spectrogram Diffusion

Curtis Hawthorne, Ian Simon, Adam Roberts +4

An ideal music synthesizer should be both interactive and expressive, generating high-fidelity audio in realtime for arbitrary combinations of instruments and notes. Recent neural…

cs.SD2021★ 4 cited

MT3: Multi-Task Multitrack Music Transcription

Josh Gardner, Ian Simon, Ethan Manilow +2

Automatic Music Transcription (AMT), inferring musical notes from raw audio, is a challenging task at the core of music understanding. Unlike Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), wh…

cs.CY2020★ 3 cited

Driving with Data in the Motor City: Mining and Modeling Vehicle Fleet Maintenance Data

Josh Gardner, Jawad Mroueh, Natalia Jenuwine +4

The City of Detroit maintains an active fleet of over 2500 vehicles, spending an annual average of over $5 million on purchases and over $7.7 million on maintenance. Modeling pat…

cs.LG2019

Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning

Peter Kairouz, H. Brendan McMahan, Brendan Avent +56

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning setting where many clients (e.g. mobile devices or whole organizations) collaboratively train a model under the orchestration of a cen…

stat.AP2018★ 7 cited

Beyond A/B Testing: Sequential Randomization for Developing Interventions in Scaled Digital Learning Environments

Timothy NeCamp, Josh Gardner, Christopher Brooks

Randomized experiments ensure robust causal inference that are critical to effective learning analytics research and practice. However, traditional randomized experiments, like A/B…

cs.CY2018★ 9 cited

Enabling End-To-End Machine Learning Replicability: A Case Study in Educational Data Mining

Josh Gardner, Yuming Yang, Ryan Baker +1

The use of machine learning techniques has expanded in education research, driven by the rich data from digital learning environments and institutional data warehouses. However, re…

stat.AP2018★ 2 cited

Dropout Model Evaluation in MOOCs

Josh Gardner, Christopher Brooks

The field of learning analytics needs to adopt a more rigorous approach for predictive model evaluation that matches the complex practice of model-building. In this work, we presen…

stat.AP2018

Evaluating Predictive Models of Student Success: Closing the Methodological Gap

Josh Gardner, Christopher Brooks

Model evaluation -- the process of making inferences about the performance of predictive models -- is a critical component of predictive modeling research in learning analytics. We…

cs.SE2018

MORF: A Framework for Predictive Modeling and Replication At Scale With Privacy-Restricted MOOC Data

Josh Gardner, Christopher Brooks, Juan Miguel L. Andres +1

Big data repositories from online learning platforms such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) represent an unprecedented opportunity to advance research on education at scale an…

cs.CY2017★ 146 cited

Student Success Prediction in MOOCs

Josh Gardner, Christopher Brooks

Predictive models of student success in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a critical component of effective content personalization and adaptive interventions. In this articl…

cs.CY2017★ 6 cited

Driving with Data: Modeling and Forecasting Vehicle Fleet Maintenance in Detroit

Josh Gardner, Danai Koutra, Jawad Mroueh +4

The City of Detroit maintains an active fleet of over 2500 vehicles, spending an annual average of over $5 million on new vehicle purchases and over $7.7 million on maintaining t…