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Imbalanced Ensemble Classifier for learning from imbalanced business school data set
Private business schools in India face a common problem of selecting quality
students for their MBA programs to achieve the desired placement percentage.
Generally, such data sets are biased towards one class, i.e., imbalanced in
nature. And learning from the imbalanced dataset is a difficult proposition.
This paper proposes an imbalanced ensemble classifier which can handle the
imbalanced nature of the dataset and achieves higher accuracy in case of the
feature selection (selection of important characteristics of students) cum
classification problem (prediction of placements based on the students'
characteristics) for Indian business school dataset. The optimal value of an
important model parameter is found. Numerical evidence is also provided using
Indian business school dataset to assess the outstanding performance of the
proposed classifier
DeepInf: Social Influence Prediction with Deep Learning
Social and information networking activities such as on Facebook, Twitter,
WeChat, and Weibo have become an indispensable part of our everyday life, where
we can easily access friends' behaviors and are in turn influenced by them.
Consequently, an effective social influence prediction for each user is
critical for a variety of applications such as online recommendation and
advertising.
Conventional social influence prediction approaches typically design various
hand-crafted rules to extract user- and network-specific features. However,
their effectiveness heavily relies on the knowledge of domain experts. As a
result, it is usually difficult to generalize them into different domains.
Inspired by the recent success of deep neural networks in a wide range of
computing applications, we design an end-to-end framework, DeepInf, to learn
users' latent feature representation for predicting social influence. In
general, DeepInf takes a user's local network as the input to a graph neural
network for learning her latent social representation. We design strategies to
incorporate both network structures and user-specific features into
convolutional neural and attention networks. Extensive experiments on Open
Academic Graph, Twitter, Weibo, and Digg, representing different types of
social and information networks, demonstrate that the proposed end-to-end
model, DeepInf, significantly outperforms traditional feature engineering-based
approaches, suggesting the effectiveness of representation learning for social
applications.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, to appear in KDD 2018 proceeding
Spiking neurons with short-term synaptic plasticity form superior generative networks
Spiking networks that perform probabilistic inference have been proposed both
as models of cortical computation and as candidates for solving problems in
machine learning. However, the evidence for spike-based computation being in
any way superior to non-spiking alternatives remains scarce. We propose that
short-term plasticity can provide spiking networks with distinct computational
advantages compared to their classical counterparts. In this work, we use
networks of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons that are trained to perform both
discriminative and generative tasks in their forward and backward information
processing paths, respectively. During training, the energy landscape
associated with their dynamics becomes highly diverse, with deep attractor
basins separated by high barriers. Classical algorithms solve this problem by
employing various tempering techniques, which are both computationally
demanding and require global state updates. We demonstrate how similar results
can be achieved in spiking networks endowed with local short-term synaptic
plasticity. Additionally, we discuss how these networks can even outperform
tempering-based approaches when the training data is imbalanced. We thereby
show how biologically inspired, local, spike-triggered synaptic dynamics based
simply on a limited pool of synaptic resources can allow spiking networks to
outperform their non-spiking relatives.Comment: corrected typo in abstrac
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