Publications

Genetic landscape of an in vivo protein interactome
Savandara Besse
Tatsuya Sakaguchi
Louis Gauthier
Zahra Sahaf
Olivier Péloquin
Lidice Gonzalez
Xavier Castellanos-Girouard
Nazli Koçatug
Chloé Matta
Stephen W. Michnick
Adrian W.R. Serohijos
Temporal encoding in deep reinforcement learning agents
Dongyan Lin
Ann Zixiang Huang
Cone-Traced Supersampling with Subpixel Edge Reconstruction.
Andrei Chubarau
Yangyang Zhao
Ruby Rao
Paul Kry
While signed distance fields (SDFs) in theory offer infinite level of detail, they are typically rendered using the sphere tracing algorithm… (voir plus) at finite resolutions, which causes the common rasterized image synthesis problem of aliasing. Most existing optimized antialiasing solutions rely on polygon mesh representations; SDF-based geometry can only be directly antialiased with the computationally expensive supersampling or with post-processing filters that may produce undesirable blurriness and ghosting. In this work, we present cone-traced supersampling (CTSS), an efficient and robust spatial antialiasing solution that naturally complements the sphere tracing algorithm, does not require casting additional rays per pixel or offline prefiltering, and can be easily implemented in existing real-time SDF renderers. CTSS performs supersampling along the traced ray near surfaces with partial visibility – object contours – identified by evaluating cone intersections within a pixel's view frustum. We further introduce subpixel edge reconstruction (SER), a technique that extends CTSS to locate and resolve complex pixels with geometric edges in relatively flat regions, which are otherwise undetected by cone intersections. Our combined solution relies on a specialized sampling strategy to minimize the number of shading computations and correlates sample visibility to aggregate the samples. With comparable antialiasing quality at significantly lower computational cost, CTSS is a reliable practical alternative to conventional supersampling.
Feasibility of cognitive neuroscience data collection during a speleological expedition
Anita Paas
Hugo R. Jourde
Arnaud Brignol
Marie-Anick Savard
Zseyvfin Eyqvelle
Samuel Bassetto
Emily B.J. Coffey
Global Rewards in Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Mobility on Demand Systems
Heiko Hoppe
Tobias Enders
Maximilian Schiffer
A Picture is Worth More Than 77 Text Tokens: Evaluating CLIP-Style Models on Dense Captions
Jack Urbanek
Florian Bordes
Pietro Astolfi
Mary Williamson
Vasu Sharma
Asymmetric Actor-Critic with Approximate Information State
Amit Sinha
Reinforcement learning (RL) for partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) is a challenging problem because decisions need to b… (voir plus)e made based on the entire history of observations and actions. However, in several scenarios, state information is available during the training phase. We are interested in exploiting the availability of this state information during the training phase to efficiently learn a history-based policy using RL. Specifically, we consider actor-critic algorithms, where the actor uses only the history information but the critic uses both history and state. Such algorithms are called asymmetric actor-critic, to highlight the fact that the actor and critic have asymmetric information. Motivated by the recent success of using representation losses in RL for POMDPs [1], we derive similar theoretical results for the asymmetric actor-critic case and evaluate the effectiveness of adding such auxiliary losses in experiments. In particular, we learn a history representation-called an approximate information state (AIS)-and bound the performance loss when acting using AIS.
Current Practices in Voice Data Collection and Limitations to Voice AI Research: A National Survey.
Emily Evangelista
Rohan Kale
Desiree McCutcheon
Anais Rameau
Alexander Gelbard
Maria Powell
Michael Johns
Anthony Law
Phillip Song
Matthew Naunheim
Stephanie Watts
Paul C. Bryson
Matthew G. Crowson
Jeremy Pinto
Yael Bensoussan
INTRODUCTION Accuracy and validity of voice AI algorithms rely on substantial quality voice data. Although commensurable amounts of voice da… (voir plus)ta are captured daily in voice centers across North America, there is no standardized protocol for acoustic data management, which limits the usability of these datasets for voice artificial intelligence (AI) research. OBJECTIVE The aim was to capture current practices of voice data collection, storage, analysis, and perceived limitations to collaborative voice research. METHODS A 30-question online survey was developed with expert guidance from the voicecollab.ai members, an international collaborative of voice AI researchers. The survey was disseminated via REDCap to an estimated 200 practitioners at North American voice centers. Survey questions assessed respondents' current practices in terms of acoustic data collection, storage, and retrieval as well as limitations to collaborative voice research. RESULTS Seventy-two respondents completed the survey of which 81.7% were laryngologists and 18.3% were speech language pathologists (SLPs). Eighteen percent of respondents reported seeing 40%-60% and 55% reported seeing >60 patients with voice disorders weekly (conservative estimate of over 4000 patients/week). Only 28% of respondents reported utilizing standardized protocols for collection and storage of acoustic data. Although, 87% of respondents conduct voice research, only 38% of respondents report doing so on a multi-institutional level. Perceived limitations to conducting collaborative voice research include lack of standardized methodology for collection (30%) and lack of human resources to prepare and label voice data adequately (55%). CONCLUSION To conduct large-scale multi-institutional voice research with AI, there is a pertinent need for standardization of acoustic data management, as well as an infrastructure for secure and efficient data sharing. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE Level 5 Laryngoscope, 2023.
Current Practices in Voice Data Collection and Limitations to Voice AI Research: A National Survey.
Emily Evangelista
Rohan Kale
Desiree McCutcheon
Anais Rameau
Alexander H. Gelbard
Maria Powell
Michael Johns
Anthony Law
Phillip C Song
M. Naunheim
Stephanie Watts
Paul C. Bryson
Matthew G. Crowson
Jeremy M. Pinto
Yael Bensoussan
INTRODUCTION Accuracy and validity of voice AI algorithms rely on substantial quality voice data. Although commensurable amounts of voice da… (voir plus)ta are captured daily in voice centers across North America, there is no standardized protocol for acoustic data management, which limits the usability of these datasets for voice artificial intelligence (AI) research. OBJECTIVE The aim was to capture current practices of voice data collection, storage, analysis, and perceived limitations to collaborative voice research. METHODS A 30-question online survey was developed with expert guidance from the voicecollab.ai members, an international collaborative of voice AI researchers. The survey was disseminated via REDCap to an estimated 200 practitioners at North American voice centers. Survey questions assessed respondents' current practices in terms of acoustic data collection, storage, and retrieval as well as limitations to collaborative voice research. RESULTS Seventy-two respondents completed the survey of which 81.7% were laryngologists and 18.3% were speech language pathologists (SLPs). Eighteen percent of respondents reported seeing 40%-60% and 55% reported seeing >60 patients with voice disorders weekly (conservative estimate of over 4000 patients/week). Only 28% of respondents reported utilizing standardized protocols for collection and storage of acoustic data. Although, 87% of respondents conduct voice research, only 38% of respondents report doing so on a multi-institutional level. Perceived limitations to conducting collaborative voice research include lack of standardized methodology for collection (30%) and lack of human resources to prepare and label voice data adequately (55%). CONCLUSION To conduct large-scale multi-institutional voice research with AI, there is a pertinent need for standardization of acoustic data management, as well as an infrastructure for secure and efficient data sharing. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE Level 5 Laryngoscope, 2023.
A deep learning benchmark for first break detection from hardrock seismic reflection data
Pierre-Luc St-Charles
Bruno Rousseau
Joumana Ghosn
Gilles Bellefleur
Ernst Schetselaar
Privacy-preserving analysis of time-to-event data under nested case-control sampling
Lamin Juwara
Ana M Velly
Paramita Saha-Chaudhuri
Q-learners Can Provably Collude in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
Quentin Bertrand
Juan Duque
Emilio Calvano
The deployment of machine learning systems in the market economy has triggered academic and institutional fears over potential tacit collusi… (voir plus)on between fully automated agents. Multiple recent economics studies have empirically shown the emergence of collusive strategies from agents guided by machine learning algorithms. In this work, we prove that multi-agent Q-learners playing the iterated prisoner's dilemma can learn to collude. The complexity of the cooperative multi-agent setting yields multiple fixed-point policies for