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Matrix factorization (MF) is a widely used collaborative filtering (CF) algorithm for recommendation systems (RSs), due to its high prediction accuracy, great flexibility and high efficiency in big data processing. However, with the…
Recent efforts in neuroscience research seek to obtain detailed anatomical neuronal wiring maps as well as information on how neurons in these networks engage in dynamic activities. Although the entire connectivity map of the nervous system…
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Matrix factorization from a small number of observed entries has recently garnered much attention as the key ingredient of successful recommendation systems. One unresolved problem in this area is how to adapt current methods to handle…
With the recent success of representation learning methods, which includes deep learning as a special case, there has been considerable interest in developing techniques that incorporate known physical constraints into the learned…
Measurements of neuronal activity across brain areas are important for understanding the neural correlates of cognitive and motor processes like attention, decision-making, and action selection. However, techniques that allow cellular…
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Most of the functions performed by astrocytes in brain information processing are related to calcium waves. Experimental studies involving calcium waves present discrepant results, leading to gaps in the full understanding of the functions…
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The recent explosion in the availability of echosounder data from diverse ocean platforms has created unprecedented opportunities to observe the marine ecosystems at broad scales. However, the critical lack of methods capable of…
The presynaptic free calcium dynamics of neurons due to various stimulation protocols is investigated in a mathematical model. The model includes calcium influx through voltage-dependent calcium channels, calcium buffering by endogenous and…
The Kronecker product is an invaluable tool for data-sparse representations of large networks and matrices with countless applications in machine learning, graph theory and numerical linear algebra. In some instances, the sparsity pattern…
In this paper, we introduce and formalize a rank-one partitioning learning paradigm that unifies partitioning methods that proceed by summarizing a data set using a single vector that is further used to derive the final clustering…
The scale of functional magnetic resonance image data is rapidly increasing as large multi-subject datasets are becoming widely available and high-resolution scanners are adopted. The inherent low-dimensionality of the information in this…
Factor analysis has been extensively used to reveal the dependence structures among multivariate variables, offering valuable insight in various fields. However, it cannot incorporate the spatial heterogeneity that is typically present in…