Search

Showing total 13 results
Start Over Search Limiters Full Text Topic machine learning
13 results

1. Adaptive Request Scheduling for the I/O Forwarding Layer using Reinforcement Learning

Author

Philippe O. A. Navaux, Jean Luca Bez, Toni Cortes, Francieli Zanon Boito, Alberto Miranda, Ramon Nou, Instituto de Informática da UFRGS (UFRGS), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul [Porto Alegre] (UFRGS), Topology-Aware System-Scale Data Management for High-Performance Computing (TADAAM), Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB)-Inria Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria), Data Aware Large Scale Computing (DATAMOVE ), Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion (BSC - CNS), This study was financed in part by the Coordenac¸ao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nıvel Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001. It has also received support from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientıfico e Tecnologico (CNPq), Brazil, the LICIA International Laboratory, NCSA-Inria-ANL-BSC-JSC-Riken Joint-Laboratory on Extreme Scale Computing (JLESC), the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under the TIN2015–65316 grant, and the Generalitat de Catalunya under contract 2014– SGR–1051. This research received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 800144. Experiments presented in this paper were carried out using the Grid’5000 testbed, supported by a scientific interest group hosted by Inria and including CNRS, RENATER and several Universities as well as other organizations (see https://www. grid5000.fr). The authors acknowledge the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC/MCTI, Brazil) for providing HPC resources of the SDumont supercomputer, which have contributed to the research results reported within this paper., Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. CAP - Grup de Computació d'Altes Prestacions, and Université de Bordeaux (UB)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Inria Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest

Subjects
I/O forwarding, Parallel I/O, I/O scheduling, Computer Networks and Communications, Computer science, Distributed computing, Auto-tuning, 02 engineering and technology, Scheduling (computing), I/O Scheduling, I/O Forwarding, Machine learning, Reinforcement learning, Aprenentatge automàtic, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadors [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Input/output, High performance I/O, 020206 networking & telecommunications, Workload, Reinforcement Learning, Hardware and Architecture, Superordinadors, 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing, High performance computing, [INFO.INFO-DC]Computer Science [cs]/Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing [cs.DC], Software
Abstract

In this paper, we propose an approach to adapt the I/O forwarding layer of HPC systems to applications’ access patterns. I/O optimization techniques can improve performance for the access patterns they were designed to target, but they often decrease performance for others. Furthermore, these techniques usually depend on the precise tune of their parameters, which commonly falls back to the users. Instead, we propose to do it dynamically at runtime based on the I/O workload observed by the system. Our approach uses a reinforcement learning technique – contextual bandits – to make the system capable of learning the best parameter value to each observed access pattern during its execution. That eliminates the need of a complicated and time-consuming previous training phase. Our case study is the TWINS scheduling algorithm, where performance improvements depend on the time window parameter, which in turn depends on the workload. We evaluate our proposal and demonstrate it can reach a precision of 88% on the parameter selection in the first hundreds of observations of an access pattern, achieving 99% of the optimal performance. We demonstrate that the system – which is expected to live for years – will be able to adapt to changes and optimize its performance after having observed an access pattern for a few (not necessarily contiguous) minutes. This study was financed in part by the Coordenaçao de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001. It has also received support from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnologico (CNPq), Brazil; the LICIA International Laboratory; NCSA-Inria-ANL-BSC-JSC-Riken Joint-Laboratory on Extreme Scale Computing (JLESC); the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under the TIN2015–65316 grant; and the Generalitat de Catalunya under contract 2014– SGR–1051. This research received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 800144.

Published
2020

2. Reconstructing Phylogenetic Networks via Cherry Picking and Machine Learning

Author

Bernardini, Giulia, van Iersel, Leo, Julien, Esther, Stougie, Leen, Boucher, Christina, Rahmann, Sven, Operations Analytics, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam Business Research Institute, Boucher, Christina, Rahmann, Sven, Università degli studi di Trieste = University of Trieste, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (VU), Equipe de recherche européenne en algorithmique et biologie formelle et expérimentale (ERABLE), Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive - UMR 5558 (LBBE), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Inria Lyon, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria), This paper received funding from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) under project OCENW.GROOT.2019.015 'Optimization for and with Machine Learning (OPTIMAL)'. Giulia Bernardini: MUR-FSE REACT EU – PON R&I 2014-2020 Leen Stougie: The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) under Gravitation-grant NETWORKS-024.002.003, Bernardini, Giulia, van Iersel, Leo, Julien, Esther, Stougie, Leen, and Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam (CWI), The Netherlands

Subjects
Machine Learning, Phylogenetics, Phylogenetic, Cherry Picking, Machine Learning, Heuristic, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Heuristic, Hybridization, Applied computing → Computational biology, [INFO.INFO-BI]Computer Science [cs]/Bioinformatics [q-bio.QM], Cherry Picking
Abstract

Combining a set of phylogenetic trees into a single phylogenetic network that explains all of them is a fundamental challenge in evolutionary studies. In this paper, we apply the recently-introduced theoretical framework of cherry picking to design a class of heuristics that are guaranteed to produce a network containing each of the input trees, for practical-size datasets. The main contribution of this paper is the design and training of a machine learning model that captures essential information on the structure of the input trees and guides the algorithms towards better solutions. This is one of the first applications of machine learning to phylogenetic studies, and we show its promise with a proof-of-concept experimental study conducted on both simulated and real data consisting of binary trees with no missing taxa., LIPIcs, Vol. 242, 22nd International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI 2022), pages 16:1-16:22

Published
2022

3. Mixture modeling for identifying subtypes in disease course mapping

Author

Stanley Durrleman, Pierre-Emmanuel Poulet, Algorithms, models and methods for images and signals of the human brain (ARAMIS), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Inria de Paris, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle Epinière = Brain and Spine Institute (ICM), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Sorbonne Université-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Sorbonne Université-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), This research has received funding from the program 'Investissements d’avenir' ANR-10-IAIHU-06. This work was also funded in part by the French government under management of Agence Nationale de la Recherche as part of the 'Investissements d’avenir' program, reference ANR-19-P3IA-0001 (PRAIRIE 3IA Institute)., Aasa Feragen, Stefan Sommer, Julia Schnabel, Mads Nielsen, ANR-19-P3IA-0001,PRAIRIE,PaRis Artificial Intelligence Research InstitutE(2019), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle Epinière = Brain and Spine Institute (ICM), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut du Cerveau = Paris Brain Institute (ICM), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut du Cerveau = Paris Brain Institute (ICM), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), This paper is funded in part by grant number 678304 (ERC), 826421 (TVB-Cloud) from H2020 programme, and ANR-10-IAIHU-06 (IHU ICM), ANR-19-P3IA-0001 (PRAIRIE) and ANR-19-JPW2-000 (E-DADS) from ANR., Poulet, Pierre-Emmanuel, PaRis Artificial Intelligence Research InstitutE - - PRAIRIE2019 - ANR-19-P3IA-0001 - P3IA - VALID, Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Computer science, Population, Stochastic approximation, Machine learning, computer.software_genre, 01 natural sciences, Synthetic data, 010104 statistics & probability, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, [STAT.ML]Statistics [stat]/Machine Learning [stat.ML], Alzheimer's disease subtypes, mixed-effect models, 0101 mathematics, Cognitive decline, mixture models, education, Cluster analysis, Non-linear mixed-effect model, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Mixture model, Ground truth, education.field_of_study, MCMC-SAEM, business.industry, Contrast (statistics), Disease course mapping, Disease progression modelling, [STAT.ML] Statistics [stat]/Machine Learning [stat.ML], Artificial intelligence, business, computer, [STAT.ME]Statistics [stat]/Methodology [stat.ME], 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract

International audience; Disease modeling techniques summarize the possible trajectories of progression from multimodal and longitudinal data. These techniques often assume that individuals form a homogeneous cluster, thus ignoring possible disease subtypes within the population. We extend a non-linear mixed-effect model used for disease course mapping with a mixture framework. We jointly estimate model parameters and subtypes with a tempered version of a stochastic approximation of the Expectation Maximisation algorithm. We show that our model recovers the ground truth parameters from synthetic data, in contrast to the naive solution consisting in post hoc clustering of individual parameters from a one-class model. Applications to Alzheimer's disease data allows the unsupervised identification of disease subtypes associated with distinct relationship between cognitive decline and progression of imaging and biological biomarkers.

Published
2021

4. Optimizing Motor Intention Detection With Deep Learning: Towards Management of Intraoperative Awareness

Author

Laurent Bougrain, Oleksii Avilov, Anton Popov, Sébastien Rimbert, National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute' [Kiev], Analysis and modeling of neural systems by a system neuroscience approach (NEUROSYS), Inria Nancy - Grand Est, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Department of Complex Systems, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (LORIA - AIS), Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL), Oleksii Avilov was supported by scholarship from the French Embassy to Ukraine while working on this topic at the NEUROSYS team at LORIA (Université de Lorraine/CNRS/Inria), Nancy, France. Experiments presented in this paper were carried out using the Grid’5000 testbed, supported by a scientific interest group hosted by Inria and including CNRS, RENATER and several Universities as well as other organizations (https://www.grid5000.fr)., Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA), and Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
0209 industrial biotechnology, Computer science, Biomedical Engineering, motor imagery AAGA: accidental awareness during general anesthesia, 02 engineering and technology, Intention, Electroencephalography, [INFO.INFO-NE]Computer Science [cs]/Neural and Evolutionary Computing [cs.NE], Intraoperative Awareness, 020901 industrial engineering & automation, Motor imagery, median nerve stimulation, Deep Learning, [INFO.INFO-LG]Computer Science [cs]/Machine Learning [cs.LG], intraoperative awareness during general anesthesia, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, medicine, [INFO.INFO-IM]Computer Science [cs]/Medical Imaging, Functional electrical stimulation, Humans, Brain-computer interface (BCI), Artificial neural network, medicine.diagnostic_test, Median nerve stimulation, business.industry, electroencephalogram (EEG), Deep learning, [SCCO.NEUR]Cognitive science/Neuroscience, Pattern recognition, Linear discriminant analysis, Median nerve, medicine.anatomical_structure, machine learning, Frontal lobe, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Imagination, 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing, Artificial intelligence, business, [SPI.SIGNAL]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Signal and Image processing, Algorithms, Motor cortex
Abstract

International audience; Objective: This article shows the interest in deep learning techniques to detect motor imagery (MI) from raw electroencephalographic (EEG) signals when a functional electrical stimulation is added or not. Impacts of electrode montages and bandwidth are also reported. The perspective of this work is to improve the detection of intraoperative awareness during general anesthesia. Methods: Various architectures of EEGNet were investigated to optimize MI detection. They have been compared to the state-of-the-art classifiers in Brain-Computer Interfaces (based on Riemannian geometry, linear discriminant analysis), and other deep learning architectures (deep convolution network, shallow convolutional network). EEG data were measured from 22 participants performing motor imagery with and without median nerve stimulation. Results: The proposed architecture of EEGNet reaches the best classification accuracy (83.2%) and false-positive rate (FPR 19.0%) for a setup with only six electrodes over the motor cortex and frontal lobe and for an extended 4-38 Hz EEG frequency range while the subject is being stimulated via a median nerve. Configurations with a larger number of electrodes result in higher accuracy (94.5%) and FPR (6.1%) for 128 electrodes (and respectively 88.0% and 12.9% for 13 electrodes).Conclusion: The present work demonstrates that using an extended EEG frequency band and a modified EEGNet deep neural network increases the accuracy of MI detection when used with as few as 6 electrodes which include frontal channels. Significance: The proposed method contributes to the development of Brain-Computer Interface systems based on MI detection from EEG.

Published
2021

5. Compiler and optimization level recognition using graph neural networks

Author

Bardin, Sébastien, Benoit, Tristan, Marion, Jean-Yves, CEA- Saclay (CEA), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Carbone (CARBONE), Department of Formal Methods (LORIA - FM), Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), This work is supported by a public grant overseen by the French National Research Agency (ANR) as part of the 'Investissements d’Avenir' French PIA project 'Lorraine Université d’Excellence', reference ANR-15-IDEX-04-LUE. Experiments presented in this paper were carried out using the Grid’5000 testbed, supported by a scientific interest group hosted by Inria and including CNRS, RENATER and several Universities as well as other organizations (see https://www.grid5000.fr)., GRID5000, IMPACT-DIGITRUST, ANR-15-IDEX-0004,LUE,Isite LUE(2015), Benoit, Tristan, and ISITE - Isite LUE - - LUE2015 - ANR-15-IDEX-0004 - IDEX - VALID

Subjects
reverse engineering, [INFO.INFO-CR]Computer Science [cs]/Cryptography and Security [cs.CR], machine learning, [INFO.INFO-LG]Computer Science [cs]/Machine Learning [cs.LG], ACM: D.: Software/D.2: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING/D.2.7: Distribution, Maintenance, and Enhancement/D.2.7.5: Restructuring, reverse engineering, and reengineering, ACM: D.: Software/D.2: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING/D.2.5: Testing and Debugging/D.2.5.2: Diagnostics, [INFO.INFO-LG] Computer Science [cs]/Machine Learning [cs.LG], toolchain provenance, ACM: I.: Computing Methodologies/I.2: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE/I.2.6: Learning, [INFO.INFO-CR] Computer Science [cs]/Cryptography and Security [cs.CR]
Abstract

The main objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers in the machine learning and program analysis communities and to serve as a platform for identifying cross-disciplinary problems of mutual interest.; International audience; We consider the problem of recovering the compiling chain used to generate a given bare binary code. We present a first attempt to devise a Graph Neural Network framework to solve this problem, in order to take into account the shallow semantics provided by the binary code's structured control flow graph (CFG). We introduce a Graph Neural Network, called Site Neural Network (SNN), dedicated to this problem. Feature extraction is simplified by forgetting almost everything in a CFG except transfer control instructions. While at an early stage, our experiments show that our method already recovers the compiler and the optimization level provenance with very high accuracy. We believe these are promising results that may offer new, more robust leads for compiling tool chain identification.

Published
2021

6. Does Infant-Directed Speech Help Phonetic Learning? A Machine Learning Investigation

Author

Reiko Mazuka, Emmanuel Dupoux, Bogdan Ludusan, RIKEN Center for Brain Science [Wako] (RIKEN CBS), RIKEN - Institute of Physical and Chemical Research [Japon] (RIKEN), Universität Bielefeld = Bielefeld University, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University [Durham], Apprentissage machine et développement cognitif (CoML), Inria de Paris, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Laboratoire de sciences cognitives et psycholinguistique (LSCP), Département d'Etudes Cognitives - ENS Paris (DEC), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département d'Etudes Cognitives - ENS Paris (DEC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de sciences cognitives et psycholinguistique (LSCP), CIFAR program in Learning in Machines & Brains CIFAR LMB program, The research reported in this paper was partly funded by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (16H06319, 20H05617) and MEXT Grant-in-Aid on Innovative Areas #4903 (Co-creative Language Evolution), 17H06382 to R. Mazuka. The work of E. Dupoux in his EHESS role was supported by the European Research Council (ERC-2011-AdG-295810 BOOTPHON) the Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR-10-LABX-0087 IEC, ANR-10-IDEX0001-02 PSL*, ANR-19-P3IA-0001 PRAIRIE 3IA Institute), and CIFAR (Learning in Machines and Brain). Part of the work was conducted while E. Dupoux was a visiting scientist at DeepMind and Facebook. B. Ludusan was also supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 799022., ANR-19-P3IA-0001,PRAIRIE,PaRis Artificial Intelligence Research InstitutE(2019), ANR-17-EURE-0017,FrontCog,Frontières en cognition(2017), ANR-10-IDEX-0001,PSL,Paris Sciences et Lettres(2010), European Project: 295810,EC:FP7:ERC,ERC-2011-ADG_20110406,BOOTPHON(2012), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Inria de Paris, and Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)

Subjects
Functional role, Adult, Computer science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Machine learning, computer.software_genre, Infant-directed speech, 050105 experimental psychology, Read speech, Machine Learning, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, [INFO.INFO-LG]Computer Science [cs]/Machine Learning [cs.LG], [STAT.ML]Statistics [stat]/Machine Learning [stat.ML], Artificial Intelligence, Robustness (computer science), Phonetics, Concept learning, Vowel, Humans, Speech, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Speech variability, Hyperarticulation, business.industry, 05 social sciences, Phonetic learning, Infant, Reading, Speech Perception, Artificial intelligence, business, computer, Adult-directed speech, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract

A prominent hypothesis holds that by speaking to infants in infant-directed speech (IDS) as opposed to adult-directed speech (ADS), parents help them learn phonetic categories. Specifically, two characteristics of IDS have been claimed to facilitate learning: hyperarticulation, which makes the categories more separable, and variability, which makes the generalization more robust. Here, we test the separability and robustness of vowel category learning on acoustic representations of speech uttered by Japanese adults in ADS, IDS (addressed to 18- to 24-month olds), or read speech (RS). Separability is determined by means of a distance measure computed between the five short vowel categories of Japanese, while robustness is assessed by testing the ability of six different machine learning algorithms trained to classify vowels to generalize on stimuli spoken by a novel speaker in ADS. Using two different speech representations, we find that hyperarticulated speech, in the case of RS, can yield better separability, and that increased between-speaker variability in ADS can yield, for some algorithms, more robust categories. However, these conclusions do not apply to IDS, which turned out to yield neither more separable nor more robust categories compared to ADS inputs. We discuss the usefulness of machine learning algorithms run on real data to test hypotheses about the functional role of IDS. © 2021 The Authors. Cognitive Science published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Cognitive Science Society (CSS).

Published
2020

7. Parallel Surrogate-assisted Optimization: Batched Bayesian Neural Network-assisted GA versus q-EGO

Author

Guillaume Briffoteaux, Romain Ragonnet, Jan Gmys, Nouredine Melab, Mohand Mezmaz, Maxime Gobert, Daniel Tuyttens, Optimisation de grande taille et calcul large échelle (BONUS), Inria Lille - Nord Europe, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 (CRIStAL), Centrale Lille-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centrale Lille-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Mons [Belgium] (UMONS), Monash University [Melbourne], Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 (CRIStAL), Centrale Lille-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Mathématiques [Mons], Université de Mons (UMons), Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille (LIFL), Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Université de Lille, Sciences Humaines et Sociales-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Experiments presented in this paper were carried out using the Grid’5000 testbed, supported by a scientific interest group hosted by Inria and including CNRS, RENATER and several Universities as well as other organizations (see https://www.grid5000.fr).

Subjects
General Computer Science, Computer science, General Mathematics, Evolutionary algorithm, 02 engineering and technology, [INFO.INFO-NE]Computer Science [cs]/Neural and Evolutionary Computing [cs.NE], Machine learning, computer.software_genre, Surrogate model, Genetic algorithm, Surrogate-assisted Optimization, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Massively parallel, Global optimization, Artificial neural network, Bayesian Optimization, business.industry, 05 social sciences, Bayesian optimization, Evolutionary Algorithm, 050301 education, [INFO.INFO-RO]Computer Science [cs]/Operations Research [cs.RO], Efficient Global Optimization, Benchmark (computing), 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing, Artificial intelligence, Massively Parallel Computing, [INFO.INFO-DC]Computer Science [cs]/Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing [cs.DC], business, 0503 education, computer, Simulation
Abstract

International audience; Surrogate-based optimization is widely used to deal with long-running black-box simulation-based objective functions. Actually, the use of a surrogate model such as Kriging or Artificial Neural Network allows to reduce the number of calls to the CPU time-intensive simulator. Bayesian optimization uses the ability of surrogates to provide useful information to help guiding effectively the optimization process. In this paper, the Efficient Global Optimization (EGO) reference framework is challenged by a Bayesian Neural Network-assisted Genetic Algorithm, namely BNN-GA. The Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) surrogate is chosen for its ability to provide an uncertainty measure of the prediction that allows to compute the Expected Improvement of a candidate solution in order to improve the exploration of the objective space. BNN is also more reliable than Kriging models for high-dimensional problems and faster to set up thanks to its incremental training. In addition, we propose a batch-based approach for the parallelization of BNN-GA that is challenged by a parallel version of EGO, called q-EGO. Parallel computing is a highly important complementary way (to surrogates) to deal with the computational burden of simulation-based optimization. The comparison of the two parallel approaches is experimentally performed through several benchmark functions and two real-world problems within the scope of Tuberculosis Transmission Control (TBTC). The study presented in this paper proves that parallel batched BNN-GA is a viable alternative to q-EGO approaches being more suitable for high-dimensional problems, parallelization impact, bigger databases and moderate search budgets. Moreover, a significant improvement of the solutions is obtained for the two TBTC problems tackled.

Published
2020

8. The trainer, the verifier, the imitator: Three ways in which human platform workers support artificial intelligence

Author

Paola Tubaro, Antonio A. Casilli, Marion Coville, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), TAckling the Underspecified (TAU), Inria Saclay - Ile de France, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI), CentraleSupélec-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CentraleSupélec-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI), CentraleSupélec-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Économie et de la Société (IDHES), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne (UEVE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENS Paris Saclay), Sociologie Information-Communication Design (SID), Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation de Telecom Paris (I3 SES), Télécom ParisTech-Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation (I3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Télécom ParisTech-Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation (I3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département Sciences Economiques et Sociales (SES), Télécom ParisTech, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris), Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Poitiers (IAE Poitiers), Université de Poitiers, CEntre de REcherche en GEstion - EA 1722 (CEREGE), Université de Poitiers-Université de Poitiers-Université de Poitiers-La Rochelle Université (ULR), This paper presents results of a larger study called Digital Platform Labour (DiPLab), co-funded by Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris-Saclay, Force Ouvrière, a workers’ union, as part of a grant from Institut de recherches économiques et sociales (IRES), and France Stratégie, a service of the French Prime Minister’s office. The platform Foule Factory offered logistical support, and Inria provided complementary funding. For more information: http://diplab.eu, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENS Paris Saclay)-Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne (UEVE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1), Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation (I3, une unité mixte de recherche CNRS (UMR 9217)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Télécom ParisTech-MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Télécom ParisTech-MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Université de Poitiers-Université de Poitiers-Université de Poitiers-Université de La Rochelle (ULR), École polytechnique (X)-Télécom ParisTech-Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Télécom ParisTech-Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and École polytechnique (X)-Télécom ParisTech-MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris

Subjects
Information Systems and Management, Computer science, Trainer, Big data, 050801 communication & media studies, lcsh:A, Library and Information Sciences, micro-work, Digital platform labour, [INFO.INFO-AI]Computer Science [cs]/Artificial Intelligence [cs.AI], 0508 media and communications, datafied production processes, 0502 economics and business, 050207 economics, Focus (computing), [SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology, business.industry, Communication, 05 social sciences, artificial intelligence, [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance, Computer Science Applications, machine learning, Artificial intelligence, lcsh:General Works, business, Information Systems
Abstract

International audience; This paper sheds light on the role of digital platform labour in the development of today's artificial intelligence, predicated on data-intensive machine learning algorithms. Focus is on the specific ways in which outsourcing of data tasks to myriad 'micro-workers', recruited and managed through specialized platforms, powers virtual assistants, self-driving vehicles and connected objects. Using qualitative data from multiple sources, we show that micro-work performs a variety of functions, between three poles that we label, respectively, 'artificial intelligence preparation', 'artificial intelligence verification' and 'artificial intelligence impersonation'. Because of the wide scope of application of micro-work, it is a structural component of contemporary artificial intelligence production processes - not an ephemeral form of support that may vanish once the technology reaches maturity stage. Through the lens of micro-work, we prefigure the policy implications of a future in which data technologies do not replace human workforce but imply its marginalization and precariousness.

Published
2020

9. Real-time analysis of the behaviour of groups of mice via a depth-sensing camera and machine learning

Author

Philippe Faure, Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin, Fabrice de Chaumont, Nicolas Torquet, Albane Imbert, Stephane Dallongeville, Anne-Marie Le Sourd, Thomas Bourgeron, Elodie Ey, Thierry Legou, Thibault Lagache, Analyse d'images biologiques - Biological Image Analysis (BIA), Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Génétique humaine et fonctions cognitives - Human Genetics and Cognitive Functions (GHFC (UMR_3571 / U-Pasteur_1)), Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Neurosciences Paris Seine (NPS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut de Biologie Paris Seine (IBPS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Recherche et Innovation Technologique (CITECH), Institut Pasteur [Paris], Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), This work was partially funded by the Institut Pasteur, the Bettencourt-Schueller Foundation, the Cognacq–Jay Foundation, the Conny–Maeva Foundation, the ERANET–NEURON SYNPATHY program, the Agence Nationale de la Recherche through grant number ANR-10-LABX-62-IBEID, France-BioImaging infrastructure through grant number ANR-10-INBS-04 and the INCEPTION program through grant number ANR-16-CONV-0005, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the University Paris Diderot, the BioPsy Labex, the Institut National du Cancer through grant number TABAC-16–022, the Foundation for Medical Research (Equipe DEQ20130326488), the Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking through grant agreement number 115300, resources of which are composed of financial contributions from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007–2013) and EFPIA companies in kind contribution., The authors thank Y. Archambeau and P. Ollivon at the workshop of the Institut Pasteur for building the first 12 setups and advising on hardware, W. Meiniel for the mathematical proof for decisions of head/tail probability, Microsoft France for their technical support, P. Spinicelli for optical engineering and reading of the paper, R. Marée for machine learning support, B. König for advice and reading of biological experiments, J. N. Crawley for reading and providing comments on the manuscript, A. Barmpoutis for providing us with the early Kinect 2 driver and support, N. Chenouard for driving the use of the machine learning solution, P. Dugast for drawing the mice in the different behavioural events, A. Engelberg for checking the English, S. Wagner and R. Accardi for RFID advice, M. Marim for website development, and X. Montagutelli and M. Bérard for animal facility support., Analyse d'images biologiques - BioImage Analysis (AIQ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut Pasteur [Paris], Neuroscience Paris Seine (NPS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Biologie Paris Seine (IBPS), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut de Biologie Paris Seine (IBPS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), ANR-16-CONV-0005,INCEPTION,Institut Convergences pour l'étude de l'Emergence des Pathologies au Travers des Individus et des populatiONs(2016), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pasteur [Paris], Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pasteur [Paris], and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, Male, [SDV.NEU.NB]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering, Video Recording, Medicine (miscellaneous), Bioengineering, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Mouse tracking, Biology, Machine learning, computer.software_genre, Machine Learning, 03 medical and health sciences, Mice, 0302 clinical medicine, [INFO.INFO-TS]Computer Science [cs]/Signal and Image Processing, Animals, Autistic Disorder, Real time analysis, Social Behavior, Mice, Knockout, Behavior, Animal, business.industry, Microfilament Proteins, Computer Science Applications, Disease Models, Animal, 030104 developmental biology, Phenotype, Mutation, Identification (biology), Female, Artificial intelligence, business, computer, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Biotechnology, Behavioral Research
Abstract

Preclinical studies of psychiatric disorders use animal models to investigate the impact of environmental factors or genetic mutations on complex traits such as decision-making and social interactions. Here, we introduce a method for the real-time analysis of the behaviour of mice housed in groups of up to four over several days and in enriched environments. The method combines computer vision through a depth-sensing infrared camera, machine learning for animal and posture identification, and radio-frequency identification to monitor the quality of mouse tracking. It tracks multiple mice accurately, extracts a list of behavioural traits of both individuals and the groups of mice, and provides a phenotypic profile for each animal. We used the method to study the impact of Shank2 and Shank3 gene mutations—mutations that are associated with autism—on mouse behaviour. Characterization and integration of data from the behavioural profiles of Shank2 and Shank3 mutant female mice revealed their distinctive activity levels and involvement in complex social interactions. A method that combines a depth-sensing camera and machine learning can track the movements of up to four mice in real time and for several days, extracting both individual and group behavioural traits.

Published
2019

10. Films based on crosslinked TEMPO-oxidized cellulose and predictive analysis via machine learning

Author

Jouni Paltakari, Merve Özkan, Alp Karakoç, Orlando J. Rojas, Maryam Borghei, Paper Converting and Packaging, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto-yliopisto, and Aalto University

Subjects
Materials science, Oxidized cellulose, lcsh:Medicine, 02 engineering and technology, 010402 general chemistry, Machine learning, computer.software_genre, 01 natural sciences, Polyvinyl alcohol, Article, chemistry.chemical_compound, Transmittance, Surface roughness, Cellulose, lcsh:Science, Multidisciplinary, business.industry, lcsh:R, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Flexible electronics, 0104 chemical sciences, chemistry, Nanofiber, lcsh:Q, Wetting, Artificial intelligence, 0210 nano-technology, business, computer
Abstract

We systematically investigated the effect of film-forming polyvinyl alcohol and crosslinkers, glyoxal and ammonium zirconium carbonate, on the optical and surface properties of films produced from TEMPO-oxidized cellulose nanofibers (TOCNFs). In this regard, UV-light transmittance, surface roughness and wetting behavior of the films were assessed. Optimization was carried out as a function of film composition following the “random forest” machine learning algorithm for regression analysis. As a result, the design of tailor-made TOCNF-based films can be achieved with reduced experimental expenditure. We envision this approach to be useful in facilitating adoption of TOCNF for the design of emerging flexible electronics, and related platforms.

Published
2018

11. Classification Models Via Tabu Search: An Application to Early Stage Venture Classification

Author

Canan Akdemir, Thomas B. Astebro, Samir Elhedhli, Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo [Waterloo], Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, HEC Research Paper Series, Haldemann, Antoine, Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC (GREGH), and Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C5 - Econometric Modeling/C.C5.C53 - Forecasting and Prediction Methods • Simulation Methods, Mixed integer program, Computer science, media_common.quotation_subject, Benders' decomposition, Machine learning, computer.software_genre, decision heuristic, JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C4 - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics/C.C4.C45 - Neural Networks and Related Topics, JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C6 - Mathematical Methods • Programming Models • Mathematical and Simulation Modeling/C.C6.C63 - Computational Techniques • Simulation Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Classification models, tabu search, Quality (business), Decision-making, Selection (genetic algorithm), media_common, Mathematics, business.industry, General Engineering, early stage venture forecast, large-scale mixed integer program, Tabu search, Computer Science Applications, Data set, classification, [SHS.GESTION.STRAT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration/domain_shs.gestion.strat, [SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration, Stage (hydrology), Data mining, Artificial intelligence, [SHS.GESTION] Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration, business, computer, Integer (computer science)
Abstract

We model the decision making process used by Experts at the Canadian Innovation Centre to classify early stage venture proposals based on potential commercial success. The decision is based on thirty-seven attributes that take values in { - 1 , 0 , 1 } . We adopt a conjunctive decision framework due to Astebro and Elhedhli (2005) that selects a subset of attributes and determines two threshold values: one for the maximum allowed negatives (n) and one for minimum required positives (p). A proposal is classified as a success if the number of positives is greater than or equal to p and the number of negatives is less than or equal to n over the selected attributes. Based on a data set of 561 observations, the selection of attributes and the determination of the threshold values is modeled as a large-scale mixed integer program. Two solution approaches are explored: Benders decomposition and Tabu search. The first, was very slow to converge, while the second provided high quality solutions quickly. Tabu search provides excellent classification accuracy for predicting commercial successes as well as replicating Experts’ forecasts, opening the venue for the use of Tabu search in scoring and classification problems.

Published
2015

12. Dislocation detection in field environments: A belief functions contribution

Author

Carl T. Haas, Saiedeh Razavi, Emmanuel Duflos, Philippe Vanheeghe, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering [Waterloo], University of Waterloo [Waterloo], Sequential Learning (SEQUEL), Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille (LIFL), Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Université de Lille, Sciences Humaines et Sociales-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Université de Lille, Sciences Humaines et Sociales-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Laboratoire d'Automatique, Génie Informatique et Signal (LAGIS), Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies-Centrale Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centrale Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Inria Lille - Nord Europe, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria), LAGIS-SI, Laboratoire d'Automatique, Génie Informatique et Signal (LAGIS), Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies-Centrale Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies-Centrale Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), The research work was sponsored by a CNRS International Scientific Collaboration Program (PICS)., This paper results from the collaboration between the Laboratoire d'Automatique Génie Informatique et Signal (UMR CNRS 8219, Lille, France) and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Waterloo (Canada)., Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Université de Lille, Sciences Humaines et Sociales-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Université de Lille, Sciences Humaines et Sociales-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Inria Lille - Nord Europe, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Laboratoire d'Automatique, Génie Informatique et Signal (LAGIS), and Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies-Centrale Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centrale Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
GPS, 0211 other engineering and technologies, Construction materials, 02 engineering and technology, Machine learning, computer.software_genre, Field (computer science), Dislocation detection, [INFO.INFO-TS]Computer Science [cs]/Signal and Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Position (vector), 021105 building & construction, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Radio-frequency identification, Mathematics, RFID, business.industry, Frame (networking), General Engineering, Function (mathematics), belief functions, Sensors network, Computer Science Applications, Discrete time and continuous time, Global Positioning System, 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing, Artificial intelligence, business, Focus (optics), Algorithm, computer, [SPI.SIGNAL]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Signal and Image processing
Abstract

Highlights? The greedy acceptance criterion for the glowworms updating positions is proposed. ? The new formulas for the glowworms movement are proposed. ? Uniform design experiments were investigated the effect of parameters. ? The proposed improvement algorithms were effective than the classical algorithm. Dislocation is defined as the change between discrete sequential locations of critical items in field environments such as large construction projects. Dislocations on large sites of materials and critical items for which discrete time position estimates are available represent critical state changes. The ability to detect dislocations automatically for tens of thousands of items can ultimately improve project performance significantly. Detecting these dislocations in a noisy information environment where low cost radio frequency identification tags are attached to each piece of material, and the material is moved sometimes only a few meters, is the main focus of this study. We propose in this paper a method developed in the frame of belief functions to detect dislocations. The belief function framework is well-suited for such a problem where both uncertainty and imprecision are inherent to the problem. We also show how to deal with the calculations. This method has been implemented in a controlled experimental setting. The results of these experiments show the ability of the proposed method to detect materials dislocation over the site reliably. Broader application of this approach to both animate and inanimate objects is possible.

Published
2012

13. A computational framework for gene regulatory network inference that combines multiple methods and datasets

Author

Philipp Antczak, Anna Stincone, Sarah Durant, Francesco Falciani, Andreas Bikfalvi, Rita Gupta, Roy Bicknell, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham [Birmingham], Institute of Biomedical Research, Mecanismes Moleculaires de l'Angiogenese, Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), The work described in this paper was funded by the CRUK grant C8504/A9488 and partially funded by the BBSRC grant BBC5151041. AS is a recipient of a Darwin Trust PhD fellowship and PA is a recipient of a BBSRC PhD studentship., BMC, Ed., and Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)

Subjects
MESH: Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, Time Factors, Gene regulatory network, Inference, Multiple methods, computer.software_genre, 0302 clinical medicine, Structural Biology, Gene regulatory network inference, Neoplasms, MESH: Gene Silencing, MESH: Neoplasms, Gene Regulatory Networks, MESH: Stress, Physiological, lcsh:QH301-705.5, [INFO.INFO-BI] Computer Science [cs]/Bioinformatics [q-bio.QM], MESH: Gene Regulatory Networks, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, [SDV.BIBS] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Quantitative Methods [q-bio.QM], MESH: Escherichia coli, Applied Mathematics, Systems Biology, Methodology Article, Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, [SDV.BIBS]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Quantitative Methods [q-bio.QM], Computer Science Applications, Modeling and Simulation, MESH: Systems Biology, [SDV.BBM.GTP] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Genomics [q-bio.GN], Reverse engineering, MESH: Cell Line, Tumor, Systems biology, Biology, Machine learning, Models, Biological, 03 medical and health sciences, Stress, Physiological, Modelling and Simulation, [SDV.BBM.GTP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Genomics [q-bio.GN], Cell Line, Tumor, Escherichia coli, Humans, Gene Silencing, Molecular Biology, 030304 developmental biology, MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH: Time Factors, Ode, MESH: Models, Biological, lcsh:Biology (General), Time course, Artificial intelligence, [INFO.INFO-BI]Computer Science [cs]/Bioinformatics [q-bio.QM], business, computer, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract

Background Reverse engineering in systems biology entails inference of gene regulatory networks from observational data. This data typically include gene expression measurements of wild type and mutant cells in response to a given stimulus. It has been shown that when more than one type of experiment is used in the network inference process the accuracy is higher. Therefore the development of generally applicable and effective methodologies that embed multiple sources of information in a single computational framework is a worthwhile objective. Results This paper presents a new method for network inference, which uses multi-objective optimisation (MOO) to integrate multiple inference methods and experiments. We illustrate the potential of the methodology by combining ODE and correlation-based network inference procedures as well as time course and gene inactivation experiments. Here we show that our methodology is effective for a wide spectrum of data sets and method integration strategies. Conclusions The approach we present in this paper is flexible and can be used in any scenario that benefits from integration of multiple sources of information and modelling procedures in the inference process. Moreover, the application of this method to two case studies representative of bacteria and vertebrate systems has shown potential in identifying key regulators of important biological processes.

Published
2011