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Automatic machine learning, or AutoML, holds the promise of truly democratizing the use of machine learning (ML), by substantially automating the work of data scientists. However, the huge combinatorial search space of candidate pipelines…

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Participants in online experiments often enroll over time, which can compromise sample representativeness due to temporal shifts in covariates. This issue is particularly critical in A/B tests, online controlled experiments extensively used…

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A/B tests, also known as randomized controlled experiments (RCTs), are the gold standard for evaluating the impact of new policies, products, or decisions. However, these tests can be costly in terms of time and resources, potentially…

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Successful application of machine learning models to real-world prediction problems, e.g. financial forecasting and personalized medicine, has proved to be challenging, because such settings require limiting and quantifying the uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yao Zhang , William Zame , Mihaela van der Schaar

We develop amortized population Gibbs (APG) samplers, a class of scalable methods that frames structured variational inference as adaptive importance sampling. APG samplers construct high-dimensional proposals by iterating over updates to…

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In order to achieve state-of-the-art performance, modern machine learning techniques require careful data pre-processing and hyperparameter tuning. Moreover, given the ever increasing number of machine learning models being developed, model…

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A/B tests are the gold standard for evaluating digital experiences on the web. However, traditional "fixed-horizon" statistical methods are often incompatible with the needs of modern industry practitioners as they do not permit continuous…

A/B experimentation is a known technique for data-driven product development and has demonstrated its value in web-facing businesses. With the digitalisation of the automotive industry, the focus in the industry is shifting towards…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Yuchu Liu , Jan Bosch , Helena Holmström Olsson , Jonn Lantz

Group testing enables to identify infected individuals in a population using a smaller number of tests than individual testing. To achieve this, group testing algorithms commonly assume knowledge of the number of infected individuals;…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chaorui Yao , Pavlos Nikolopoulos , Christina Fragouli

Automated Essay Scoring (AES) plays a crucial role in education by providing scalable and efficient assessment tools. However, in real-world settings, the extreme scarcity of labeled data severely limits the development and practical…

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It is increasingly common in digital environments to use A/B tests to compare the performance of recommendation algorithms. However, such experiments often violate the stable unit treatment value assumption (SUTVA), particularly SUTVA's "no…

We here propose an automated pipeline for the microscopy image-based characterization of catalytically active inclusion bodies (CatIBs), which includes a fully automatic experimental high-throughput workflow combined with a hybrid approach…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-03 Karina Ruzaeva , Kira Küsters , Wolfgang Wiechert , Benjamin Berkels , Marco Oldiges , Katharina Nöh

Bayesian optimization is efficient even with a small amount of data and is used in engineering and in science, including biology and chemistry. In Bayesian optimization, a parameterized model with an uncertainty is fitted to explain the…

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Test automation involves the automatic execution of test scripts instead of being manually run. This significantly reduces the amount of manual effort needed and thus is of great interest to the software testing industry. There are two key…

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Modern application of A/B tests is challenging due to its large scale in various dimensions, which demands flexibility to deal with multiple testing sequentially. The state-of-the-art practice first reduces the observed data stream to…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-14 Hui Xu , Weinan Wang

Systematic reviews, which entail the extraction of data from large numbers of scientific documents, are an ideal avenue for the application of machine learning. They are vital to many fields of science and philanthropy, but are very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant , Alexander Robertson , Jasmina Lazic , Theodora Tsouloufi , Louise Donnison , Karen Smyth

Autonomous driving has advanced significantly due to sensors, machine learning, and artificial intelligence improvements. However, prevailing methods struggle with intricate scenarios and causal relationships, hindering adaptability and…

With the recent rapid increase in digitization across all major industries, acquiring programming skills has increased the demand for introductory programming courses. This has further resulted in universities integrating programming…

Bayesian A/B testing investigates metric changes using the joint posterior distribution of two (or more) experimentally-derived datasets. The construction of said joint posterior is often a time-consuming process requiring specialized…

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