USC Information Sciences Institute

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The Information Sciences Institute (ISI) is a world leader in research and development of advanced information processing, computer and communications technologies. A unit of the University of Southern California's highly ranked Viterbi School of En...

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Discovery and Separation of Features for Invariant Representation Learning

Supervised machine learning models often associate irrelevant nuisance f...
12/02/2019 ∙ by Ayush Jaiswal, et al. ∙ 47 ∙ share

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Invariant Representations through Adversarial Forgetting

We propose a novel approach to achieving invariance for deep neural netw...
11/11/2019 ∙ by Ayush Jaiswal, et al. ∙ 29 ∙ share

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KGTK: A Toolkit for Large Knowledge Graph Manipulation and Analysis

Knowledge graphs (KGs) have become the preferred technology for represen...
05/29/2020 ∙ by Filip Ilievski, et al. ∙ 21 ∙ share

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Sequential Unsupervised Domain Adaptation through Prototypical Distributions

We develop an algorithm for unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) of a cl...
07/01/2020 ∙ by Mohammad Rostami, et al. ∙ 19 ∙ share

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Tensor Embedding: A Supervised Framework for Human Behavioral Data Mining and Prediction

Today's densely instrumented world offers tremendous opportunities for c...
08/31/2018 ∙ by Homa Hosseinmardi, et al. ∙ 16 ∙ share

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Identifying and Analyzing Cryptocurrency Manipulations in Social Media

Interest surrounding cryptocurrencies, digital or virtual currencies tha...
02/04/2019 ∙ by Mehrnoosh Mirtaheri, et al. ∙ 12 ∙ share

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Learning Behavioral Representations from Wearable Sensors

The ubiquity of mobile devices and wearable sensors offers unprecedented...
11/16/2019 ∙ by Nazgol Tavabi, et al. ∙ 12 ∙ share

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Multi-Modal Fingerprint Presentation Attack Detection: Evaluation On A New Dataset

Fingerprint presentation attack detection is becoming an increasingly ch...
06/12/2020 ∙ by Leonidas Spinoulas, et al. ∙ 12 ∙ share

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Multispectral Biometrics System Framework: Application to Presentation Attack Detection

In this work, we present a general framework for building a biometrics s...
06/12/2020 ∙ by Leonidas Spinoulas, et al. ∙ 11 ∙ share

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DARKMENTION: A Deployed System to Predict Enterprise-Targeted External Cyberattacks

Recent incidents of data breaches call for organizations to proactively ...
10/30/2018 ∙ by Mohammed Almukaynizi, et al. ∙ 10 ∙ share

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Discovering patterns of online popularity from time series

How is popularity gained online? Is being successful strictly related to...
04/10/2019 ∙ by Mert Ozer, et al. ∙ 10 ∙ share

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Towards Learning Representations of Binary Executable Files for Security Tasks

Tackling binary analysis problems has traditionally implied manually def...
02/09/2020 ∙ by Shushan Arakelyan, et al. ∙ 10 ∙ share

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Event Cartography: Latent Point Process Embeddings

Many important phenomena arise naturally as temporal point processes wit...
05/05/2020 ∙ by Myrl G. Marmarelis, et al. ∙ 10 ∙ share

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SemEval-2013 Task 4: Free Paraphrases of Noun Compounds

In this paper, we describe SemEval-2013 Task 4: the definition, the data...
11/23/2019 ∙ by Iris Hendrickx, et al. ∙ 8 ∙ share

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Overview of Scanner Invariant Representations

Pooled imaging data from multiple sources is subject to bias from each s...
05/29/2020 ∙ by Daniel Moyer, et al. ∙ 8 ∙ share

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Challenges in Forecasting Malicious Events from Incomplete Data

The ability to accurately predict cyber-attacks would enable organizatio...
04/06/2020 ∙ by Nazgol Tavabi, et al. ∙ 7 ∙ share

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CaSiNo: A Corpus of Campsite Negotiation Dialogues for Automatic Negotiation Systems

Automated systems that negotiate with humans have broad applications in ...
03/29/2021 ∙ by Kushal Chawla, et al. ∙ 7 ∙ share

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Recurrent Event Network for Reasoning over Temporal Knowledge Graphs

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in learning representation ...
04/11/2019 ∙ by Woojeong Jin, et al. ∙ 6 ∙ share

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Identifying Cultural Differences through Multi-Lingual Wikipedia

Understanding cross-cultural differences is an important application of ...
04/10/2020 ∙ by Yufei Tian, et al. ∙ 6 ∙ share

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R^3: Reverse, Retrieve, and Rank for Sarcasm Generation with Commonsense Knowledge

We propose an unsupervised approach for sarcasm generation based on a no...
04/28/2020 ∙ by Tuhin Chakrabarty, et al. ∙ 6 ∙ share

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Discovering Hidden Structure in High Dimensional Human Behavioral Data via Tensor Factorization

In recent years, the rapid growth in technology has increased the opport...
05/21/2019 ∙ by Homa Hosseinmardi, et al. ∙ 5 ∙ share

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An End-to-End Neural Network for Image Cropping by Learning Composition from Aesthetic Photos

As one of the fundamental techniques for image editing, image cropping d...
07/02/2019 ∙ by Peng Lu, et al. ∙ 5 ∙ share

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Learn How to Cook a New Recipe in a New House: Using Map Familiarization, Curriculum Learning, and Common Sense to Learn Families of Text-Based Adventure Games

We consider the task of learning to play families of text-based computer...
08/13/2019 ∙ by Xusen Yin, et al. ∙ 5 ∙ share

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Connecting the Dots: A Knowledgeable Path Generator for Commonsense Question Answering

Commonsense question answering (QA) requires the modeling of general bac...
05/02/2020 ∙ by Peifeng Wang, et al. ∙ 5 ∙ share

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Unsupervised Adversarial Invariance

Data representations that contain all the information about target varia...
09/26/2018 ∙ by Ayush Jaiswal, et al. ∙ 4 ∙ share

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A Grounded Unsupervised Universal Part-of-Speech Tagger for Low-Resource Languages

Unsupervised part of speech (POS) tagging is often framed as a clusterin...
04/10/2019 ∙ by Ronald Cardenas, et al. ∙ 4 ∙ share

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Efficient Covariance Estimation from Temporal Data

Estimating the covariance structure of multivariate time series is a fun...
05/30/2019 ∙ by Hrayr Harutyunyan, et al. ∙ 3 ∙ share

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Neural Machine Translation with Imbalanced Classes

We cast neural machine translation (NMT) as a classification task in an ...
04/05/2020 ∙ by Thamme Gowda, et al. ∙ 3 ∙ share

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Plot-guided Adversarial Example Construction for Evaluating Open-domain Story Generation

With the recent advances of open-domain story generation, the lack of re...
04/12/2021 ∙ by Sarik Ghazarian, et al. ∙ 3 ∙ share

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FlagIt: A System for Minimally Supervised Human Trafficking Indicator Mining

In this paper, we describe and study the indicator mining problem in the...
12/05/2017 ∙ by Mayank Kejriwal, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Always Lurking: Understanding and Mitigating Bias in Online Human Trafficking Detection

Web-based human trafficking activity has increased in recent years but i...
12/03/2017 ∙ by Kyle Hundman, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Bidirectional Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks

Conditional variants of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), known as...
11/20/2017 ∙ by Ayush Jaiswal, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Efficient Representation for Natural Language Processing via Kernelized Hashcodes

Kernel similarity functions have been successfully applied in classifica...
11/10/2017 ∙ by Sahil Garg, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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WMRB: Learning to Rank in a Scalable Batch Training Approach

We propose a new learning to rank algorithm, named Weighted Margin-Rank ...
11/10/2017 ∙ by Kuan Liu, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Multimedia Semantic Integrity Assessment Using Joint Embedding Of Images And Text

Real world multimedia data is often composed of multiple modalities such...
07/06/2017 ∙ by Ayush Jaiswal, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Modeling Missing Data in Clinical Time Series with RNNs

We demonstrate a simple strategy to cope with missing data in sequential...
06/13/2016 ∙ by Zachary C Lipton, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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FacePoseNet: Making a Case for Landmark-Free Face Alignment

We show how a simple convolutional neural network (CNN) can be trained t...
08/24/2017 ∙ by Fengju Chang, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Using Contexts and Constraints for Improved Geotagging of Human Trafficking Webpages

Extracting geographical tags from webpages is a well-motivated applicati...
04/19/2017 ∙ by Rahul Kapoor, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Unsupervised Learning via Total Correlation Explanation

Learning by children and animals occurs effortlessly and largely without...
06/27/2017 ∙ by Greg Ver Steeg, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Label Propagation on K-partite Graphs with Heterophily

In this paper, for the first time, we study label propagation in heterog...
01/21/2017 ∙ by Dingxiong Deng, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Deep Matching and Validation Network -- An End-to-End Solution to Constrained Image Splicing Localization and Detection

Image splicing is a very common image manipulation technique that is som...
05/27/2017 ∙ by Yue Wu, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Towards the Modeling of Behavioral Trajectories of Users in Online Social Media

In this paper, we introduce a methodology that allows to model behaviora...
11/17/2016 ∙ by Alessandro Bessi, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Building a Fine-Grained Entity Typing System Overnight for a New X (X = Language, Domain, Genre)

Recent research has shown great progress on fine-grained entity typing. ...
03/10/2016 ∙ by Lifu Huang, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Learning the Semantics of Structured Data Sources

Information sources such as relational databases, spreadsheets, XML, JSO...
01/16/2016 ∙ by Mohsen Taheriyan, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Hardware-Driven Nonlinear Activation for Stochastic Computing Based Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Recently, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have made unprecede...
03/12/2017 ∙ by Ji Li, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Extracting Biomolecular Interactions Using Semantic Parsing of Biomedical Text

We advance the state of the art in biomolecular interaction extraction w...
12/04/2015 ∙ by Sahil Garg, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Temporal Learning and Sequence Modeling for a Job Recommender System

We present our solution to the job recommendation task for RecSys Challe...
08/11/2016 ∙ by Kuan Liu, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Using Syntax-Based Machine Translation to Parse English into Abstract Meaning Representation

We present a parser for Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR). We treat ...
04/24/2015 ∙ by Michael Pust, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Toward Interpretable Topic Discovery via Anchored Correlation Explanation

Many predictive tasks, such as diagnosing a patient based on their medic...
06/22/2016 ∙ by Kyle Reing, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Variational Information Maximization for Feature Selection

Feature selection is one of the most fundamental problems in machine lea...
06/09/2016 ∙ by Shuyang Gao, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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