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The success of applications that process data critically depends on the quality of the ingested data. Completeness of a data source is essential in many cases. Yet, most missing value imputation approaches suffer from severe limitations. They are almost exclusively restricted to numerical data, and they either offer only simple imputation methods or are difficult to scale and maintain in production. Here

How do we spot interesting events from e-mail or transportation logs? How can we detect port scan or denial of service attacks from IP-IP communication data? In general, given a sequence of weighted, directed or bipartite graphs, each summarizing a snapshot of activity in a time window, how can we spot anomalous graphs containing the sudden appearance or disappearance of large dense subgraphs (e.g., near

Extraction of missing attribute values is to find values describing an attribute of interest from a free text input. Most past related work on extraction of missing attribute values work with a closed world assumption with the possible set of values known beforehand, or use dictionaries of values and hand-crafted features. How can we discover new attribute values that we have never seen before? Can we do

The web contains countless semi-structured websites, which can be a rich source of information for populating knowledge bases. Existing methods for extracting relations from the DOM trees of semi-structured webpages can achieve high precision and recall only when manual annotations for each website are available. Although there have been efforts to learn extractors from automatically generated labels, these

Modern companies and institutions rely on data to guide every single business process and decision. Missing or incorrect information seriously compromises any decision process downstream. Therefore, a crucial, but tedious task for everyone involved in data processing is to verify the quality of their data. We present a system for automating the verification of data quality at scale, which meets the requirements

With recent advances in network architectures for Neural Machine Translation (NMT) recurrent models have effectively been replaced by either convolutional or self-attentional approaches, such as in the Transformer. While the main innovation of the Transformer architecture is its use of self-attentional layers, there are several other aspects, such as attention with multiple heads and the use of many attention

In this paper we explore the use of Learning Hidden Unit Contribution for the task of neural machine translation. The method was initially proposed in the context of speech recognition for adapting a general system to the specific acoustic characteristics of each speaker. Similar in spirit, in a machine translation framework we want to adapt a general system to a specific domain. We show that the proposed

Retail websites may provide customers with a localized user experience by allowing them to use a secondary language of preference. Automatic translation of user search queries is a crucial component of this experience. Several domain-adapted SMT systems for search query translation were trained, including language pairs for which smaller-than desired parallel resources were available, such as Polish-German

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a well-studied problem in Artificial Intelligence that can be solved quickly in practice when using simplified agent assumptions. However, real-world applications, such as warehouse automation, require physical robots to function over long time horizons without collisions. We present an execution framework that can use existing single-shot MAPF planners and ensures robust execution in the presence of unknown or time-varying higher-order dynamic limits, unforeseen robot slow-downs, and unpredictable obstacle appearances.

Repeat purchasing, i.e., a customer purchasing the same product multiple times, is a common phenomenon in retail. As more customers start purchasing consumable products (e.g., toothpastes, diapers, etc.) online, this phenomenon has also become prevalent in e-commerce. However, in January 2014, when we looked at popular e-commerce websites, we did not find any customer-facing features that recommended products

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a model-based approach for gradient-free black-box function optimization, such as hyperparameter optimization. Typically, BO relies on conventional Gaussian process (GP) regression, whose algorithmic complexity is cubic in the number of evaluations. As a result, GP-based BO cannot leverage large numbers of past function evaluations, for example, to warm-start related BO runs

We consider the teacher-student framework for knowledge transfer, where the goal is to improve learning of a “student” neural network, given a “teacher” neural network pretrained on the same or a similar task. The majority of existing approaches for distilling knowledge from a teacher network to a student network rely on matching either activations or handcrafted features from the teacher network. Instead

Extreme multi-label classification (XMC) aims at assigning to an instance the most relevant subset of labels from a colossal label set. There have been some success in formulating the multi-label problem as sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) learning, where the positive class labels of each input instance are used as the corresponding output sequence. Seq2Seq methods, nonetheless, have not yet been scalable

Continual learning aims to enable machine learning models to learn a general solution space for past and future tasks in a sequential manner. Conventional models tend to forget the knowledge of previous tasks while learning a new task, a phenomenon known as catastrophic forgetting. When using Bayesian models in continual learning, knowledge from previous tasks can be retained in two ways: (i) posterior

In complex transfer learning scenarios new tasks might not be tightly linked to previous tasks. Approaches that transfer information contained only in the final parameters of a source model will therefore struggle. Instead, transfer learning at a higher level of abstraction is needed. We propose Leap, a framework that achieves this by transferring knowledge across learning processes. We associate each task

In this paper, we present a compression approach based on the combination of low-rank matrix factorization and quantization training, to reduce complexity for neural network based acoustic event detection (AED) models. Our experimental results show this combined compression approach is very effective. For a threelayer long short-term memory (LSTM) based AED model, the original model size can be reduced

Training large neural networks requires distributing learning across multiple workers, where the cost of communicating gradients can be a significant bottleneck. SIGNSGD alleviates this problem by transmitting just the sign of each minibatch stochastic gradient. We prove that it can get the best of both worlds: compressed gradients and SGD-level convergence rate. The relative `1/`2 geometry of gradients

We tackle the problem of optimizing a blackbox objective function defined over a highly structured input space. This problem is ubiquitous in machine learning. Inferring the structure of a neural network or the Automatic Statistician (AS), where the kernel combination for a Gaussian process is optimized, are two of many possible examples. We use the AS as a case study to describe our approach, that can

Faced with distribution shift between training and test set, we wish to detect and quantify the shift, and to correct our classifiers without test set labels. Motivated by medical diagnosis, where diseases (targets), cause symptoms (observations), we focus on label shift, where the label marginal p(y) changes but the conditional p(x|y) does not. We propose Black Box Shift Estimation (BBSE) to estimate the

We derive algorithms for producing optimal aggregation schedules for automatically aggregating gradients across di!erent compute units, both CPUs and GPUs, with arbitrary topologies. We show that this can be accomplished by solving a linear program on the spanning tree polytope. We give analytic bounds for the value of the optimal solution for arbitrary graphs. We also propose simple schedules that meet