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Generalized Bradley-Terry Models for Score Estimation from Paired Comparisons

Julien René Fageot, Le Nguyen Hoang, Sadegh Farhadkhani, Oscar Jean Olivier Villemaud

Many applications, e.g. in content recommendation, sports, or recruitment, leverage the comparisons of alternatives to score those alternatives. The classical Bradley-Terry model and its variants have been widely used to do so. The historical model conside ...

AAAI Press2024

Machine Learning Security in Industry: A Quantitative Survey

Kathrin Grosse

Despite the large body of academic work on machine learning security, little is known about the occurrence of attacks on machine learning systems in the wild. In this paper, we report on a quantitative study with 139 industrial practitioners. We analyze at ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Removing Algorithmic Discrimination (With Minimal Individual Error)

Rachid Guerraoui, El Mahdi El Mhamdi, Alexandre David Olivier Maurer, Le Nguyen Hoang

We address for the first time the problem of correcting group discriminations within a score function, while minimizing the individual error. Each group is described by a probability density function on the set of profiles. We first solve the problem analy ...

2022

List Ordered Statistics Decoders for Polar Codes

Andreas Peter Burg, Yifei Shen, Leyu Zhang

The de-facto standard decoding algorithm for polar codes, successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding, is a breadth-first search algorithm. By keeping a list of candidate codewords, SCL decoding improves the performance as the list size L increases. Howeve ...

IEEE2022

Alpha-NML Universal Predictors

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Marco Bondaschi

Inspired by Sibson’s alpha-mutual information, we introduce a new parametric class of universal predictors. This class interpolates two well-known predictors, the mixture estimator, that includes the Laplace and the Krichevsky-Trofimov predictors, and the ...

2022

High-dimensional peaks-over-threshold inference

Anthony Christopher Davison, Raphaël Gérard Théodore Michel Marie de Deloÿe et Fourcade de Fondeville

Max-stable processes are increasingly widely used for modelling complex extreme events, but existing fitting methods are computationally demanding, limiting applications to a few dozen variables. r-Pareto processes are mathematically simpler and have the p ...

2018

SLANG: Fast Structured Covariance Approximations for Bayesian Deep Learning with Natural Gradient

Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

Uncertainty estimation in large deep-learning models is a computationally challenging task, where it is difficult to form even a Gaussian approximation to the posterior distribution. In such situations, existing methods usually resort to a diagonal approxi ...

NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS (NIPS)2018

Cross-pollination of normalisation techniques from speaker to face authentication using Gaussian mixture models

Sébastien Marcel

This paper applies score and feature normalization techniques to parts-based Gaussian mixture model (GMM) face authentication. In particular, we propose to utilize techniques that are well established in state-of-the-art speaker authentication, and apply t ...

2012

A Novel Extraction Method and Compact Model for the Steepness Estimation of FDSOI TFET Lateral Junction

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Arnab Biswas, Wladyslaw Grabinski, Surya Shankar Dan

There are several techniques for junction profiling available in literature, yet none of them are practically suitable for the accurate determination of the lateral junction steepness in TFET devices, which is the most important parameter influencing TFET ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

A Multi-class Classification Strategy for Fisher Scores: Application to Signer Independent Sign Language Recognition

Fisher kernels combine the powers of discriminative and generative classifiers by mapping the variable-length sequences to a new fixed length feature space, called the Fisher score space. The mapping is based on a single generative model and the classifier ...

2010

An Information Theoretic Approach to Speaker Diarization of Meeting Recordings

Deepu Vijayasenan

In this thesis we investigate a non parametric approach to speaker diarization for meeting recordings based on an information theoretic framework. The problem is formulated using the Information Bottleneck (IB) principle. Unlike other approaches where the ...

EPFL2010

Les mathématiques financières robustes, le maritime et les FFA

Powerful mathematical tools have been developed for trading in stocks and bonds, but other markets that are equally important for the globalized world have to some extent been neglected. We decided to study the shipping market as an new area of development ...

EPFL2008

Multi-system biometric authentication : optimal fusion and user-specific information

Norman Hoon Thian Poh

Verifying a person's identity claim by combining multiple biometric systems (fusion) is a promising solution to identity theft and automatic access control. This thesis contributes to the state-of-the-art of multimodal biometric fusion by improving the und ...

EPFL2007

Aural and automatic forensic speaker recognition in mismatched conditions

Andrzej Drygajlo, Anil Alexander

In this article, we compare aural and automatic speaker recognition in the context of forensic analyses, using a Bayesian framework for the interpretation of evidence. We use perceptual tests performed by non-experts and compare their performance with that ...

2005