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  1. Reconstructing Human Body Mesh from Point Clouds by Adversarial GP Network 

    January 1, 2020

    We study the problem of reconstructing the template-aligned mesh for human body estimation from unstructured point cloud data. Recently proposed approaches for shape matching that rely on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) achieve state-of-the-art results with generic pointwise architectures; but in doing so, they exploit much…

  2. Adaptive Learning of Rank-One Models for Efficient Pairwise Sequence Alignment 

    December 31, 2019 | Govinda M. Kamath, Tavor Z. Baharav, and Ilan Shomorony

    Pairwise alignment of DNA sequencing data is a ubiquitous task in bioinformatics and typically represents a heavy computational burden. State-of-the-art approaches to speed up this task use hashing to identify short segments (k-mers) that are shared by pairs of reads, which can then be used…

  3. Regularized Cycle Consistent Generative Adversarial Network for Anomaly Detection. 

    December 31, 2019 | Ziyi Yang, Iman Soltani Bozchalooi, and Eric Darve

    In this paper, we investigate algorithms for anomaly detection. Previous anomaly detection methods focus on modeling the distribution of non-anomalous data provided during training. However, this does not necessarily ensure the correct detection of anomalous data. We propose a new Regularized Cycle Consistent Generative Adversarial…

  4. Multi-task Batch Reinforcement Learning with Metric Learning 

    December 31, 2019

    We tackle the Multi-task Batch Reinforcement Learning problem. Given multiple datasets collected from different tasks, we train a multi-task policy to perform well in unseen tasks sampled from the same distribution. The task identities of the unseen tasks are not provided. To perform well, the…

  5. Personalized Input-Output Hidden Markov Models for Disease Progression Modeling. 

    December 31, 2019

    Disease progression models are important computational tools in healthcare and are used for tasks such as improving disease understanding, informing drug discovery, and aiding in patient management. Although many algorithms for time series modeling exist, healthcare applications face particular challenges such as small datasets, medication…

  6. Regularized Cycle Consistent Generative Adversarial Network for Anomaly Detection. 

    December 31, 2019 | Ziyi Yang, Iman Soltani Bozchalooi, and Eric Darve

    In this paper, we investigate algorithms for anomaly detection. Previous anomaly detection methods focus on modeling the distribution of non-anomalous data provided during training. However, this does not necessarily ensure the correct detection of anomalous data. We propose a new Regularized Cycle Consistent Generative Adversarial…

  7. Data-Anonymous Encoding for Text-to-SQL Generation 

    December 18, 2019

    On text-to-SQL generation, the input utterance usually contains lots of tokens that are related to column names or cells in the table, called table-related tokens. These table-related tokens are troublesome for the downstream neural semantic parser because it brings complex semantics and hinders the sharing…

  8. Corruption Robust Exploration in Episodic Reinforcement Learning 

    November 19, 2019 | Thodoris Lykouris, Max Simchowitz, Aleksandrs Slivkins, and Wen Sun

    We initiate the study of multi-stage episodic reinforcement learning under adversarial corruptions in both the rewards and the transition probabilities of the underlying system extending recent results for the special case of stochastic bandits. We provide a framework which modifies the aggressive exploration enjoyed by…

  9. DIRE: a neural approach to decompiled identifier naming 

    November 10, 2019

    The decompiler is one of the most common tools for examining binaries without corresponding source code. It transforms binaries into high-level code, reversing the compilation process. Decompilers can reconstruct much of the information that is lost during the compilation process (e.g., structure and type information).…

  10. Artistic Glyph Image Synthesis via One-Stage Few-Shot Learning 

    November 8, 2019

    Automatic generation of artistic glyph images is a challenging task that attracts many research interests. Previous methods either are specifically designed for shape synthesis or focus on texture transfer. In this paper, we propose a novel model, AGIS-Net, to transfer both shape and texture styles…