Publications

Shared and unique brain network features predict cognition, personality and mental health in childhood
Jianzhong Chen
Angela Tam
Valeria Kebets
Csaba Orbán
Leon Qi Rong Ooi
Scott Marek
Nico U.F. Dosenbach
Simon B. Eickhoff
Avram J. Holmes
B.T. Thomas Yeo
The manner through which individual differences in brain network organization track population-level behavioral variability is a fundamental… (voir plus) question in systems neuroscience. Recent work suggests that resting-state and task-state functional connectivity can predict specific traits at the individual level. However, the focus of most studies on single behavioral traits has come at the expense of capturing broader relationships across behaviors. Here, we utilized a large-scale dataset of 1858 typically developing children to estimate whole-brain functional network organization that is predictive of individual differences in cognition, impulsivity-related personality, and mental health during rest and task states. Predictive network features were distinct across the broad behavioral domains: cognition, personality and mental health. On the other hand, traits within each behavioral domain were predicted by highly similar network features. This is surprising given decades of research emphasizing that distinct brain networks support different mental processes. Although tasks are known to modulate the functional connectome, we found that predictive network features were similar between resting and task states. Overall, our findings reveal shared brain network features that account for individual variation within broad domains of behavior in childhood, yet are unique to different behavioral domains.
Image-to-image Mapping with Many Domains by Sparse Attribute Transfer
Rethinking Distributional Matching Based Domain Adaptation
Bin Li
Yezhen Wang
Tong Che
Shanghang Zhang
Sicheng Zhao
Pengfei Xu
Wenzhen Zhou
Kurt W. Keutzer
Domain adaptation (DA) is a technique that transfers predictive models trained on a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain, wit… (voir plus)h the core difficulty of resolving distributional shift between domains. Currently, most popular DA algorithms are based on distributional matching (DM). However in practice, realistic domain shifts (RDS) may violate their basic assumptions and as a result these methods will fail. In this paper, in order to devise robust DA algorithms, we first systematically analyze the limitations of DM based methods, and then build new benchmarks with more realistic domain shifts to evaluate the well-accepted DM methods. We further propose InstaPBM, a novel Instance-based Predictive Behavior Matching method for robust DA. Extensive experiments on both conventional and RDS benchmarks demonstrate both the limitations of DM methods and the efficacy of InstaPBM: Compared with the best baselines, InstaPBM improves the classification accuracy respectively by
HNHN: Hypergraph Networks with Hyperedge Neurons
Yihe Dong
W. Sawin
Learning to Prove from Synthetic Theorems
Eser Aygün
Vlad Firoiu
Laurent Orseau
Shibl Mourad
A major challenge in applying machine learning to automated theorem proving is the scarcity of training data, which is a key ingredient in t… (voir plus)raining successful deep learning models. To tackle this problem, we propose an approach that relies on training with synthetic theorems, generated from a set of axioms. We show that such theorems can be used to train an automated prover and that the learned prover transfers successfully to human-generated theorems. We demonstrate that a prover trained exclusively on synthetic theorems can solve a substantial fraction of problems in TPTP, a benchmark dataset that is used to compare state-of-the-art heuristic provers. Our approach outperforms a model trained on human-generated problems in most axiom sets, thereby showing the promise of using synthetic data for this task.
Individual differences in interpersonal coordination
Julia Ayache
A. Sumich
D. Kuss
Darren Rhodes
Nadja Heym
Special Issue on Novel Informatics Approaches to COVID-19 Research
Huanan Xu
David L Buckeridge
Fei Wang Guest Editors
Quantized Guided Pruning for Efficient Hardware Implementations of Deep Neural Networks
Matthieu Arzel
Nicolas Farrugia
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in general and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in particular are state-of-the-art in numerous computer visi… (voir plus)on tasks such as object classification and detection. However, the large amount of parameters they contain leads to a high computational complexity and strongly limits their usability in budget-constrained devices such as embedded devices. In this paper, we propose a combination of a pruning technique and a quantization scheme that effectively reduce the complexity and memory usage of convolutional layers of CNNs, by replacing the complex convolutional operation by a low-cost multiplexer. We perform experiments on CIFAR10, CIFAR100 and SVHN datasets and show that the proposed method achieves almost state-of-the-art accuracy, while drastically reducing the computational and memory footprints compared to the baselines. We also propose an efficient hardware architecture, implemented on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), to accelerate inference, which works as a pipeline and accommodates multiple layers working at the same time to speed up the inference process. In contrast with most proposed approaches which have used external memory or software defined memory controllers, our work is based on algorithmic optimization and full-hardware design, enabling a direct, on-chip memory implementation of a DNN while keeping close to state of the art accuracy.
Untangling tradeoffs between recurrence and self-attention in neural networks
User-Centered Design for Promoting Patient Engagement in Chronic Diseases Management: The Development of CONCERTO+
Marie-Pierre Gagnon
Mame Ndiaye
Alain Larouche
Guylaine Chabot
Christian Chabot
Ronald Buyl
Jean-Paul Fortin
Anik Giguère
Annie LeBlanc
France Légaré
Aude Motulsky
Claude Sicotte
Holly O Witteman
Eric Kavanagh
Frédéric Lépinay
Jacynthe Roberge
Hina Hakim
Myriam Brunet-Gauthier
Carole Délétroz
S. A. Rahimi … (voir 2 de plus)
Jack Tchuente
Maxime Sasseville
Multimorbidity increases care needs among people with chronic diseases. In order to support communication between patients, their informal c… (voir plus)aregivers and their healthcare teams, we developed CONCERTO+, a patient portal for chronic disease management in primary care. A user-centered design comprising 3 iterations with patients and informal caregivers was performed. Clinicians were also invited to provide feedback on the feasibility of the solution. Several improvements were brought to CONCERTO+, and it is now ready to be implemented in real-life setting.
Learning Causal Models Online
To Each Optimizer a Norm, To Each Norm its Generalization
Jose Gallego
Aaron Mishkin
Nicolas Roux
We study the implicit regularization of optimization methods for linear models interpolating the training data in the under-parametrized and… (voir plus) over-parametrized regimes. Since it is difficult to determine whether an optimizer converges to solutions that minimize a known norm, we flip the problem and investigate what is the corresponding norm minimized by an interpolating solution. Using this reasoning, we prove that for over-parameterized linear regression, projections onto linear spans can be used to move between different interpolating solutions. For under-parameterized linear classification, we prove that for any linear classifier separating the data, there exists a family of quadratic norms ||.||_P such that the classifier's direction is the same as that of the maximum P-margin solution. For linear classification, we argue that analyzing convergence to the standard maximum l2-margin is arbitrary and show that minimizing the norm induced by the data results in better generalization. Furthermore, for over-parameterized linear classification, projections onto the data-span enable us to use techniques from the under-parameterized setting. On the empirical side, we propose techniques to bias optimizers towards better generalizing solutions, improving their test performance. We validate our theoretical results via synthetic experiments, and use the neural tangent kernel to handle non-linear models.