Publications

AICOM-MP: an AI-based Monkeypox Detector for Resource-Constrained Environments
Tianyi Yang
Tianze Yang
Andrew Liu
Jie Tang
Na An
Shaoshan Liu
Xue (Steve) Liu
2024-02-06
Connection Science (published)
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Computing Approximate Nash Equilibria for Integer Programming Games
Aloïs Duguet
Margarida Carvalho
Gabriele Dragotto
Sandra-ulrich Ngueveu
2024-02-06
ArXiv (preprint)
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arxiv.org
Effective Protein-Protein Interaction Exploration with PPIretrieval
Chenqing Hua
Connor Coley
Guy Wolf
Doina Precup
Shuangjia Zheng
2024-02-06
ArXiv (preprint)
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PQMass: Probabilistic Assessment of the Quality of Generative Models using Probability Mass Estimation
Pablo Lemos
Sammy N. Sharief
Nikolay Malkin
Laurence Perreault-Levasseur
Yashar Hezaveh
2024-02-06
ArXiv (preprint)
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Polynomial Lawvere Logic
Giorgio Bacci
Radu Mardare
Prakash Panangaden
Gordon D. Plotkin
2024-02-05
ArXiv (preprint)
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Toward Human-AI Alignment in Large-Scale Multi-Player Games
Sugandha Sharma
Guy Davidson
Khimya Khetarpal
Anssi Kanervisto
Udit Arora
Katja Hofmann
Ida Momennejad
Achieving human-AI alignment in complex multi-agent games is crucial for creating trustworthy AI agents that enhance gameplay. We propose a … (see more)method to evaluate this alignment using an interpretable task-sets framework, focusing on high-level behavioral tasks instead of low-level policies. Our approach has three components. First, we analyze extensive human gameplay data from Xbox's Bleeding Edge (100K+ games), uncovering behavioral patterns in a complex task space. This task space serves as a basis set for a behavior manifold capturing interpretable axes: fight-flight, explore-exploit, and solo-multi-agent. Second, we train an AI agent to play Bleeding Edge using a Generative Pretrained Causal Transformer and measure its behavior. Third, we project human and AI gameplay to the proposed behavior manifold to compare and contrast. This allows us to interpret differences in policy as higher-level behavioral concepts, e.g., we find that while human players exhibit variability in fight-flight and explore-exploit behavior, AI players tend towards uniformity. Furthermore, AI agents predominantly engage in solo play, while humans often engage in cooperative and competitive multi-agent patterns. These stark differences underscore the need for interpretable evaluation, design, and integration of AI in human-aligned applications. Our study advances the alignment discussion in AI and especially generative AI research, offering a measurable framework for interpretable human-agent alignment in multiplayer gaming.
2024-02-05
ArXiv (preprint)
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Bayesian Deep Learning for Remaining Useful Life Estimation via Stein Variational Gradient Descent
Luca Della Libera
Jacopo Andreoli
Davide Dalle Pezze
Mirco Ravanelli
Gian Antonio Susto
A crucial task in predictive maintenance is estimating the remaining useful life of physical systems. In the last decade, deep learning has … (see more)improved considerably upon traditional model-based and statistical approaches in terms of predictive performance. However, in order to optimally plan maintenance operations, it is also important to quantify the uncertainty inherent to the predictions. This issue can be addressed by turning standard frequentist neural networks into Bayesian neural networks, which are naturally capable of providing confidence intervals around the estimates. Several methods exist for training those models. Researchers have focused mostly on parametric variational inference and sampling-based techniques, which notoriously suffer from limited approximation power and large computational burden, respectively. In this work, we use Stein variational gradient descent, a recently proposed algorithm for approximating intractable distributions that overcomes the drawbacks of the aforementioned techniques. In particular, we show through experimental studies on simulated run-to-failure turbofan engine degradation data that Bayesian deep learning models trained via Stein variational gradient descent consistently outperform with respect to convergence speed and predictive performance both the same models trained via parametric variational inference and their frequentist counterparts trained via backpropagation. Furthermore, we propose a method to enhance performance based on the uncertainty information provided by the Bayesian models. We release the source code at https://github.com/lucadellalib/bdl-rul-svgd.
2024-02-02
ArXiv (preprint)
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Carthago Delenda Est: Co-opetitive Indirect Information Diffusion Model for Influence Operations on Online Social Media
Jwen Fai Low
Benjamin Fung
Farkhund Iqbal
Claude Fachkha
2024-02-02
ArXiv (preprint)
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A database of the healthy human spinal cord morphometry in the PAM50 template space
Jan Valošek
Sandrine Bédard
Miloš Keřkovský
Tomáš Rohan
Julien Cohen-Adad
Abstract Measures of spinal cord morphometry computed from magnetic resonance images serve as relevant prognostic biomarkers for a range of … (see more)spinal cord pathologies, including traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord injury and neurodegenerative diseases. However, interpreting these imaging biomarkers is difficult due to considerable intra- and inter-subject variability. Yet, there is no clear consensus on a normalization method that would help reduce this variability and more insights into the distribution of these morphometrics are needed. In this study, we computed a database of normative values for six commonly used measures of spinal cord morphometry: cross-sectional area, anteroposterior diameter, transverse diameter, compression ratio, eccentricity, and solidity. Normative values were computed from a large open-access dataset of healthy adult volunteers (N = 203) and were brought to the common space of the PAM50 spinal cord template using a newly proposed normalization method based on linear interpolation. Compared to traditional image-based registration, the proposed normalization approach does not involve image transformations and, therefore, does not introduce distortions of spinal cord anatomy. This is a crucial consideration in preserving the integrity of the spinal cord anatomy in conditions such as spinal cord injury. This new morphometric database allows researchers to normalize based on sex and age, thereby minimizing inter-subject variability associated with demographic and biological factors. The proposed methodology is open-source and accessible through the Spinal Cord Toolbox (SCT) v6.0 and higher.
2024-02-02
Imaging Neuroscience (published)
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LitLLM: A Toolkit for Scientific Literature Review
Shubham Agarwal
Issam Hadj Laradji
Laurent Charlin
Chris Pal
Conducting literature reviews for scientific papers is essential for understanding research, its limitations, and building on existing work.… (see more) It is a tedious task which makes an automatic literature review generator appealing. Unfortunately, many existing works that generate such reviews using Large Language Models (LLMs) have significant limitations. They tend to hallucinate-generate non-actual information-and ignore the latest research they have not been trained on. To address these limitations, we propose a toolkit that operates on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) principles, specialized prompting and instructing techniques with the help of LLMs. Our system first initiates a web search to retrieve relevant papers by summarizing user-provided abstracts into keywords using an off-the-shelf LLM. Authors can enhance the search by supplementing it with relevant papers or keywords, contributing to a tailored retrieval process. Second, the system re-ranks the retrieved papers based on the user-provided abstract. Finally, the related work section is generated based on the re-ranked results and the abstract. There is a substantial reduction in time and effort for literature review compared to traditional methods, establishing our toolkit as an efficient alternative. Our open-source toolkit is accessible at https://github.com/shubhamagarwal92/LitLLM and Huggingface space (https://huggingface.co/spaces/shubhamagarwal92/LitLLM) with the video demo at https://youtu.be/E2ggOZBAFw0.
2024-02-02
ArXiv (preprint)
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Mindfulness meditation styles differently modulate source-level MEG microstate dynamics and complexity
Antea D’Andrea
Pierpaolo Croce
Jordan O’Byrne
Karim Jerbi
Annalisa Pascarella
Antonino Raffone
Vittorio Pizzella
Laura Marzetti
2024-02-02
Frontiers in Neuroscience (published)
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Adaptation, Translation, and Validation of a Patient-Reported Experience Measure for Children and Young People for the Canadian Context
Zanib Nafees
Julia Ferreira
Elena Guadagno
Jo Wray
Agneta Anderzén-Carlsson
Dan Poenaru
2024-02-01
Journal of Pediatric Surgery (published)
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