Publications

Neurobiological Correlates of Change in Adaptive Behavior in Autism.
Charlotte M. Pretzsch
Tim Schäfer
Michael V. Lombardo
Varun Warrier
Caroline Mann
Anke Bletsch
Chris H. Chatham
Dorothea L. Floris
Julian Tillmann
Afsheen Yousaf
Emily J. H. Jones
Tony Charman
Sara Ambrosino
Thomas Bourgeron
Guillaume Dumas
Eva Loth
Beth Oakley
Jan K. Buitelaar
Freddy Cliquet
Claire Leblond … (see 7 more)
Simon Baron-Cohen
Christian Beckmann
Tobias Banaschewski
Sarah Durston
Christine M. Freitag
Declan Murphy
Christine Ecker
2022-04-30
American Journal of Psychiatry (published)
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P397. Genomic Deletions and Duplications Show Mirror Effects on Cognitive Ability According to Spatial Patterns of Gene Expression in the Human Brain
Kuldeep Kumar
Sayeh Kazem
Guillaume Huguet
Élise Douard
Zohra Saci
Laura Almasy
David Glahn
Guillaume Dumas
Sébastien Jacquemont
2022-04-30
Biological Psychiatry (published)
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Performance-gated deliberation: A context-adapted strategy in which urgency is opportunity cost
Maximilian Puelma Touzel
Paul Cisek
Guillaume Lajoie
Finding the right amount of deliberation, between insufficient and excessive, is a hard decision making problem that depends on the value we… (see more) place on our time. Average-reward, putatively encoded by tonic dopamine, serves in existing reinforcement learning theory as the opportunity cost of time, including deliberation time. Importantly, this cost can itself vary with the environmental context and is not trivial to estimate. Here, we propose how the opportunity cost of deliberation can be estimated adaptively on multiple timescales to account for non-stationary contextual factors. We use it in a simple decision-making heuristic based on average-reward reinforcement learning (AR-RL) that we call Performance-Gated Deliberation (PGD). We propose PGD as a strategy used by animals wherein deliberation cost is implemented directly as urgency, a previously characterized neural signal effectively controlling the speed of the decision-making process. We show PGD outperforms AR-RL solutions in explaining behaviour and urgency of non-human primates in a context-varying random walk prediction task and is consistent with relative performance and urgency in a context-varying random dot motion task. We make readily testable predictions for both neural activity and behaviour.
2022-04-30
PLoS Comput. Biol. (published)
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Predicting the probability distribution of bus travel time to measure the reliability of public transport services
Léa Ricard
Guy Desaulniers
Andrea Lodi
Louis-Martin Rousseau
2022-04-30
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies (published)
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Subgraph Retrieval Enhanced Model for Multi-hop Knowledge Base Question Answering
Jing Zhang
Xiaokang Zhang
Jifan Yu
Jian Tang
Jie Tang
Cuiping Li
Hong Chen
Recent works on knowledge base question answering (KBQA) retrieve subgraphs for easier reasoning. A desired subgraph is crucial as a small o… (see more)ne may exclude the answer but a large one might introduce more noises. However, the existing retrieval is either heuristic or interwoven with the reasoning, causing reasoning on the partial subgraphs, which increases the reasoning bias when the intermediate supervision is missing. This paper proposes a trainable subgraph retriever (SR) decoupled from the subsequent reasoning process, which enables a plug-and-play framework to enhance any subgraph-oriented KBQA model. Extensive experiments demonstrate SR achieves significantly better retrieval and QA performance than existing retrieval methods. Via weakly supervised pre-training as well as the end-to-end fine-tuning, SRl achieves new state-of-the-art performance when combined with NSM, a subgraph-oriented reasoner, for embedding-based KBQA methods.
2022-04-30
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (published)
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On the estimation of discrete choice models to capture irrational customer behaviors
Sanjay Dominik Jena
Andrea Lodi
Claudio Sole
The random utility maximization model is by far the most adopted framework to estimate consumer choice behavior. However, behavioral economi… (see more)cs has provided strong empirical evidence of irrational choice behaviors, such as halo effects, that are incompatible with this framework. Models belonging to the random utility maximization family may therefore not accurately capture such irrational behavior. Hence, more general choice models, overcoming such limitations, have been proposed. However, the flexibility of such models comes at the price of increased risk of overfitting. As such, estimating such models remains a challenge. In this work, we propose an estimation method for the recently proposed generalized stochastic preference choice model, which subsumes the family of random utility maximization models and is capable of capturing halo effects. In particular, we propose a column-generation method to gradually refine the discrete choice model based on partially ranked preference sequences. Extensive computational experiments indicate that our model, explicitly accounting for irrational preferences, can significantly boost the predictive accuracy on both synthetic and real-world data instances. Summary of Contribution: In this work, we propose an estimation method for the recently proposed generalized stochastic preference choice model, which subsumes the family of random utility maximization models and is capable of capturing halo effects. Specifically, we show how to use partially ranked preferences to efficiently model rational and irrational customer types from transaction data. Our estimation procedure is based on column generation, where relevant customer types are efficiently extracted by expanding a treelike data structure containing the customer behaviors. Furthermore, we propose a new dominance rule among customer types whose effect is to prioritize low orders of interactions among products. An extensive set of experiments assesses the predictive accuracy of the proposed approach by comparing it against rank-based methods with only rational preferences and with more general benchmarks from the literature. Our results show that accounting for irrational preferences can boost predictive accuracy by 12.5% on average when tested on a real-world data set from a large chain of grocery and drug stores.
2022-04-30
INFORMS Journal on Computing (published)
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The generalizability of pre-processing techniques on the accuracy and fairness of data-driven building models: a case study
Ying Sun
Benjamin C. M. Fung
Fariborz Haghighat
2022-04-30
Energy and Buildings (published)
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The Power of Prompt Tuning for Low-Resource Semantic Parsing
Nathan Schucher
Siva Reddy
Harm de Vries
Prompt tuning has recently emerged as an effective method for adapting pre-trained language models to a number of language understanding and… (see more) generation tasks. In this paper, we investigate prompt tuning for semantic parsing—the task of mapping natural language utterances onto formal meaning representations. On the low-resource splits of Overnight and TOPv2, we find that a prompt tuned T5-xl significantly outperforms its fine-tuned counterpart, as well as strong GPT-3 and BART baselines. We also conduct ablation studies across different model scales and target representations, finding that, with increasing model scale, prompt tuned T5 models improve at generating target representations that are far from the pre-training distribution.
2022-04-30
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) (published)
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Unsupervised Dependency Graph Network
Yikang Shen
Shawn Tan
Alessandro Sordoni
Peng Li
Jie Zhou
Aaron Courville
2022-04-30
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (published)
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Using Interactive Feedback to Improve the Accuracy and Explainability of Question Answering Systems Post-Deployment
Zichao Li
Prakhar Sharma
Xing Han Lu
Jackie CK Cheung
Siva Reddy
2022-04-30
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022 (published)
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Using Population Datasets to Identify the Brain Basis of Social Isolation
Danilo Bzdok
2022-04-30
Biological Psychiatry (published)
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Vision-Language Pretraining: Current Trends and the Future
Aishwarya Agrawal
Damien Teney
Aida Nematzadeh
In the last few years, there has been an increased interest in building multimodal (vision-language) models that are pretrained on larger bu… (see more)t noisier datasets where the two modalities (e.g., image and text) loosely correspond to each other (e.g., Lu et al., 2019; Radford et al., 2021). Given a task (such as visual question answering), these models are then often fine-tuned on task-specific supervised datasets. (e.g., Lu et al., 2019; Chen et al.,2020; Tan and Bansal, 2019; Li et al., 2020a,b). In addition to the larger pretraining datasets, the transformer architecture (Vaswani et al., 2017) and in particular self-attention applied to two modalities are responsible for the impressive performance of the recent pretrained models on downstream tasks (Hendricks et al., 2021). In this tutorial, we focus on recent vision-language pretraining paradigms. Our goal is to first provide the background on image–language datasets, benchmarks, and modeling innovations before the multimodal pretraining area. Next we discuss the different family of models used for vision-language pretraining, highlighting their strengths and shortcomings. Finally, we discuss the limits of vision-language pretraining through statistical learning, and the need for alternative approaches such as causal representation learning.
2022-04-30
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts (published)
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