27 research outputs found
Shape-from-intrinsic operator
Shape-from-X is an important class of problems in the fields of geometry
processing, computer graphics, and vision, attempting to recover the structure
of a shape from some observations. In this paper, we formulate the problem of
shape-from-operator (SfO), recovering an embedding of a mesh from intrinsic
differential operators defined on the mesh. Particularly interesting instances
of our SfO problem include synthesis of shape analogies, shape-from-Laplacian
reconstruction, and shape exaggeration. Numerically, we approach the SfO
problem by splitting it into two optimization sub-problems that are applied in
an alternating scheme: metric-from-operator (reconstruction of the discrete
metric from the intrinsic operator) and embedding-from-metric (finding a shape
embedding that would realize a given metric, a setting of the multidimensional
scaling problem)
EvalRS 2023. Well-Rounded Recommender Systems For Real-World Deployments
EvalRS aims to bring together practitioners from industry and academia to
foster a debate on rounded evaluation of recommender systems, with a focus on
real-world impact across a multitude of deployment scenarios. Recommender
systems are often evaluated only through accuracy metrics, which fall short of
fully characterizing their generalization capabilities and miss important
aspects, such as fairness, bias, usefulness, informativeness. This workshop
builds on the success of last year's workshop at CIKM, but with a broader scope
and an interactive format.Comment: EvalRS 2023 will be a workshop hosted at KDD2
E Pluribus Unum: Guidelines on Multi-Objective Evaluation of Recommender Systems
Recommender Systems today are still mostly evaluated in terms of accuracy,
with other aspects beyond the immediate relevance of recommendations, such as
diversity, long-term user retention and fairness, often taking a back seat.
Moreover, reconciling multiple performance perspectives is by definition
indeterminate, presenting a stumbling block to those in the pursuit of rounded
evaluation of Recommender Systems. EvalRS 2022 -- a data challenge designed
around Multi-Objective Evaluation -- was a first practical endeavour, providing
many insights into the requirements and challenges of balancing multiple
objectives in evaluation. In this work, we reflect on EvalRS 2022 and expound
upon crucial learnings to formulate a first-principles approach toward
Multi-Objective model selection, and outline a set of guidelines for carrying
out a Multi-Objective Evaluation challenge, with potential applicability to the
problem of rounded evaluation of competing models in real-world deployments.Comment: 15 pages, under submissio
Minimal Superstrings and Loop Gas Models
We reformulate the matrix models of minimal superstrings as loop gas models
on random surfaces. In the continuum limit, this leads to the identification of
minimal superstrings with certain bosonic string theories, to all orders in the
genus expansion. RR vertex operators arise as operators in a Z_2 twisted sector
of the matter CFT. We show how the loop gas model implements the sum over spin
structures expected from the continuum RNS formulation. Open string boundary
conditions are also more transparent in this language.Comment: 36 pages, 3 figure
Research on collaborative information sharing systems
Collaborative systems are systems designed to help people involved in a common task achieve their goals. They are widely used today, and they’re gaining a great consensus both inside corporations and on the World Wide Web. There are many kinds of collaborative systems, such as Wikis (like Wikipedia), blogs, tag-based systems (like Flickr, del.icio.us and Bibsonomy) and even collaborative maps (as in Google Maps). One of the main reasons of this success is that, as applications are becoming more and more data-driven, spontaneous user participation adds value to a system because it helps in creating a new, unique and hard to recreate source of data [1]. The main objective of this research project is to study collaborative systems and the possibility to enhance them through semantics. The aim of a contamination between these systems and Semantic Web technologies is twofold: on one side, we think that the huge quantity of information created by the participation of many users can be better managed and searched thanks to added semantics; on the other side, Semantic Web community can exploit spontaneou