Authors: Timo Kuosmanen, Sheng Dai
arXiv
Modeling of joint production has proved a vexing problem. This paper develops a radial convex nonparametric least squares (CNLS) approach to estimate the input distance function with multiple outputs....
Authors: Vickie Zhang, Michael Zhao, and Maria Dimakopoulou, Anh Le, Nathan Kallus
arXiv
Surrogate index approaches have recently become a popular method of estimating longer-term impact from shorter-term outcomes. In this paper, we leverage 1098 test arms from 200 A/B tests at Netflix to...
Authors: H M Imran Kays, Khondhaker Al Momin, K. K. "Muralee" Muraleetharan, Arif Mohaimin Sadri
arXiv
Roadway reconfiguration is a crucial aspect of transportation planning, aiming to enhance traffic flow, reduce congestion, and improve overall road network performance with existing infrastructure and...
Authors: Sunayana Rane, Polyphony J. Bruna, Ilia Sucholutsky, Christopher Kello, Thomas L. Griffiths
arXiv
Discussion of AI alignment (alignment between humans and AI systems) has focused on value alignment, broadly referring to creating AI systems that share human values. We argue that before we can even...
Authors: Alessandro Castelnovo
arXiv
In an era characterized by the pervasive integration of artificial intelligence into decision-making processes across diverse industries, the demand for trust has never been more pronounced. This thes...
Authors: Liam J Berrisford, Lucy S Neal, Helen J Buttery, Benjamin R Evans, Ronaldo Menezes
arXiv
Ambient air pollution remains a critical issue in the United Kingdom, where data on air pollution concentrations form the foundation for interventions aimed at improving air quality. However, the curr...
Authors: Yiqun T. Chen, Lucy L. Gao
arXiv
For many applications, it is critical to interpret and validate groups of observations obtained via clustering. A common validation approach involves testing differences in feature means between obser...
Authors: Andreu Comas-García, Arturo Erdely
arXiv
Based on the comprehensive national death registry of Mexico spanning from 1998 to 2022 a point and interval estimation method for the excess mortality in Mexico during the years 2020-2022 is proposed...
Authors: Jason Z. Kim, Bart Larsen, Linden Parkes
arXiv
Dynamics play a critical role in computation. The principled evolution of states over time enables both biological and artificial networks to represent and integrate information to make decisions. In...
Authors: Yefeng Yang, Malgorzata Lagisz, Shinichi Nakagawa
arXiv
We present a framework consisting of three approaches that can enhance meta-analyses: 1) scoping reviews (evidence map), 2) bibliometrics, and 3) alternative impact metrics. These three "enrichment" a...
Authors: Seth Adler, Farzan Vahedifard, Rachel Akers, Christopher Sica, Mehmet Kocak, Edwin Moore, Marc Minkus, Gianna Elias, Nikhil Aggarwal, Sharon Byrd, Mehmoodur Rasheed, Robert S. Katz
arXiv
Fibromyalgia is a complicated and multifaceted disorder marked by widespread chronic pain, fatigue, and muscle tenderness. Current explanations for the pathophysiology of this condition include the Ce...
Authors: Leonardo Novelli, Lionel Barnett, Anil Seth, Adeel Razi
arXiv
Granger Causality (GC) is widely used in neuroimaging to estimate directed statistical dependence among brain regions using time series of brain activity. An important issue is that functional MRI (fM...
Authors: Jungwon Choi, Seongho Keum, EungGu Yun, Byung-Hoon Kim, Juho Lee
arXiv
Deep neural networks trained on Functional Connectivity (FC) networks extracted from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data have gained popularity due to the increasing availability of data...
Authors: Maya Srikanth, Jeremy Irvin, Brian Wesley Hill, Felipe Godoy, Ishan Sabane, Andrew Y. Ng
arXiv
Major advancements in computer vision can primarily be attributed to the use of labeled datasets. However, acquiring labels for datasets often results in errors which can harm model performance. Recen...
Authors: Nadav Amir, Yael Niv, Angela Langdon
arXiv
Our goals fundamentally shape how we experience the world. For example, when we are hungry, we tend to view objects in our environment according to whether or not they are edible (or tasty). Alternati...