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Seer: An Explainable Deep Learning Midi-Based Hybrid Song Recommender System, Khalil Damak, Olfa Nasraoui
Seer: An Explainable Deep Learning Midi-Based Hybrid Song Recommender System, Khalil Damak, Olfa Nasraoui
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State of the art music recommender systems mainly rely on either matrix factorization-based collaborative filtering approaches or deep learning architectures. Deep learning models usually use metadata for content-based filtering or predict the next user interaction by learning from temporal sequences of user actions. Despite advances in deep learning for song recommendation, none has taken advantage of the sequential nature of songs by learning sequence models that are based on content. Aside from the importance of prediction accuracy, other significant aspects are important, such as explainability and solving the cold start problem. In this work, we propose a hybrid deep learning …
Default Parallels: The Science Potential Of Jwst Parallel Observations During Tso Primary Observations, Benne W. Holwerda, Jonathan Fraine, Nelly Mouawad, Joanna S. Bridge
Default Parallels: The Science Potential Of Jwst Parallel Observations During Tso Primary Observations, Benne W. Holwerda, Jonathan Fraine, Nelly Mouawad, Joanna S. Bridge
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will observe several stars for long cumulative durations while pursuing exoplanets as primary science targets for both Guaranteed Time Observations (GTO) and very likely General Observer (GO) programs. Here we argue in favor of an automatic default parallel program to observe, e.g., using the F200W/F277W filters or grism of NIRCAM/NIRISS in order to find high redshift (z (Formula Presented) 10) galaxies, cool red/brown dwarf substellar objects, solar system objects, and observations of serendipitous planetary transits. We argue here the need for automated exploratory astrophysical observations with unused JWST instruments during these long-duration exoplanet observations. …
Effect Of Galaxy Mergers On Star-Formation Rates, W. J. Pearson, L. Wang, M. Alpaslan, I. Baldry, M. Bilicki, M. J.I. Brown, M. W. Grootes, Benne W. Holwerda, T. D. Kitching, S. Kruk, F. F.S. Van Der Tak
Effect Of Galaxy Mergers On Star-Formation Rates, W. J. Pearson, L. Wang, M. Alpaslan, I. Baldry, M. Bilicki, M. J.I. Brown, M. W. Grootes, Benne W. Holwerda, T. D. Kitching, S. Kruk, F. F.S. Van Der Tak
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Context. Galaxy mergers and interactions are an integral part of our basic understanding of how galaxies grow and evolve over time. However, the effect that galaxy mergers have on star-formation rates (SFRs) is contested, with observations of galaxy mergers showing reduced, enhanced, and highly enhanced star formation. Aims. We aim to determine the effect of galaxy mergers on the SFR of galaxies using statistically large samples of galaxies, totalling over 200 000, which is over a large redshift range from 0.0 to 4.0. Methods. We trained and used convolutional neural networks to create binary merger identifications (merger or non-merger) in …
Star-Forming, Rotating Spheroidal Galaxies In The Gama And Sami Surveys, Amanda J. Moffett, Steven Phillipps, Aaron S.G. Robotham, Simon P. Driver, Malcolm N. Bremer, Luca Cortese, O. Ivy Wong, Sarah Brough, Michael J.I. Brown, Julia J. Bryant, Christopher J. Conselice, Scott M. Croom, Koshy George, Greg Goldstein, Michael Goodwin, Benne W. Holwerda, Andrew M. Hopkins, Iraklis S. Konstantopoulos, Jon S. Lawrence, Nuria P.F. Lorente, Anne M. Medling, Matt S. Owers, Kevin A. Pimbblet, Samuel N. Richards, Sarah M. Sweet, Jesse Van De Sande
Star-Forming, Rotating Spheroidal Galaxies In The Gama And Sami Surveys, Amanda J. Moffett, Steven Phillipps, Aaron S.G. Robotham, Simon P. Driver, Malcolm N. Bremer, Luca Cortese, O. Ivy Wong, Sarah Brough, Michael J.I. Brown, Julia J. Bryant, Christopher J. Conselice, Scott M. Croom, Koshy George, Greg Goldstein, Michael Goodwin, Benne W. Holwerda, Andrew M. Hopkins, Iraklis S. Konstantopoulos, Jon S. Lawrence, Nuria P.F. Lorente, Anne M. Medling, Matt S. Owers, Kevin A. Pimbblet, Samuel N. Richards, Sarah M. Sweet, Jesse Van De Sande
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The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey has morphologically identified a class of 'Little Blue Spheroid' (LBS) galaxies whose relationship to other classes of galaxies we now examine in detail. Considering a sample of 868 LBSs, we find that such galaxies display similar but not identical colours, specific star formation rates, stellar population ages, massto- light ratios, and metallicities to Sd-Irr galaxies. We also find that LBSs typically occupy environments of even lower density than those of Sd-Irr galaxies, where ∼65 per cent of LBS galaxies live in isolation. Using deep, high-resolution imaging from VST KiDS and the new Bayesian, …
Extraction Of Information From Crowdsourcing: Experimental Test Employing Bayesian, Maximum Likelihood, And Maximum Entropy Methods, Mark P. Silverman
Extraction Of Information From Crowdsourcing: Experimental Test Employing Bayesian, Maximum Likelihood, And Maximum Entropy Methods, Mark P. Silverman
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A crowdsourcing experiment in which viewers (the “crowd”) of a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) television show submitted estimates of the number of coins in a tumbler was shown in an antecedent paper (Part 1) to follow a log-normal distribution ∧(m,s2). The coin-estimation experiment is an archetype of a broad class of image analysis and object counting problems suitable for solution by crowdsourcing. The objective of the current paper (Part 2) is to determine the location and scale parameters (m,s) of ∧(m,s2) by both Bayesian and maximum …
Model Reconstruction From Temporal Data For Coupled Oscillator Networks, Mark J. Panaggio, Maria Veronica Ciocanel, Lauren Lazarus, Chad M. Topaz, Bin Xu
Model Reconstruction From Temporal Data For Coupled Oscillator Networks, Mark J. Panaggio, Maria Veronica Ciocanel, Lauren Lazarus, Chad M. Topaz, Bin Xu
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© 2019 Author(s). In a complex system, the interactions between individual agents often lead to emergent collective behavior such as spontaneous synchronization, swarming, and pattern formation. Beyond the intrinsic properties of the agents, the topology of the network of interactions can have a dramatic influence over the dynamics. In many studies, researchers start with a specific model for both the intrinsic dynamics of each agent and the interaction network and attempt to learn about the dynamics of the model. Here, we consider the inverse problem: given data from a system, can one learn about the model and the underlying network? …
The Super Eight Galaxies: Properties Of A Sample Of Very Bright Galaxies At 7 < Z < 8, Joanna S. Bridge, Benne W. Holwerda, Mauro Stefanon, Rychard J. Bouwens, Pascal A. Oesch, Michele Trenti, Stephanie R. Bernard, Larry D. Bradley, Garth D. Illingworth, Samir Kusmic, Dan Magee, Takahiro Morishita, Guido W. Roberts-Borsani, Renske Smit, Rebecca L. Steele
The Super Eight Galaxies: Properties Of A Sample Of Very Bright Galaxies At 7 < Z < 8, Joanna S. Bridge, Benne W. Holwerda, Mauro Stefanon, Rychard J. Bouwens, Pascal A. Oesch, Michele Trenti, Stephanie R. Bernard, Larry D. Bradley, Garth D. Illingworth, Samir Kusmic, Dan Magee, Takahiro Morishita, Guido W. Roberts-Borsani, Renske Smit, Rebecca L. Steele
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We present the Super Eight galaxies - a set of very luminous, high-redshift (7.1 < z < 8.0) galaxy candidates found in the Brightest of Reionizing Galaxies (BoRG) Survey fields. The original sample includes eight galaxies that are Y-band dropout objects with H-band magnitudes of m H < 25.5. Four of these objects were originally reported in Calvi et al. Combining new Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFC3/F814W imaging and Spitzer IRAC data with archival imaging from BoRG and other surveys, we explore the properties of these galaxies. Photometric redshift fitting places six of these galaxies in the redshift range of 7.1 < z < 8.0, resulting in three new high-redshift galaxies and confirming three of the four high-redshift galaxy candidates from Calvi et al. We calculate the half-light radii of the Super Eight galaxies using the HST F160W filter and find that the Super Eight sizes are in line with the typical evolution of size with redshift. The Super Eights have a mean mass of log (M ∗/M o) ∼10, which is typical for sources in this luminosity range. Finally, we place our sample on the UV z ∼ 8 luminosity function and find that the Super Eight number density is consistent with other surveys in this magnitude and redshift range.
Crowdsourced Sampling Of A Composite Random Variable: Analysis, Simulation, And Experimental Test, Mark P. Silverman
Crowdsourced Sampling Of A Composite Random Variable: Analysis, Simulation, And Experimental Test, Mark P. Silverman
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A composite random variable is a product (or sum of products) of statistically distributed quantities. Such a variable can represent the solution to a multi-factor quantitative problem submitted to a large, diverse, independent, anonymous group of non-expert respondents (the “crowd”). The objective of this research is to examine the statistical distribution of solutions from a large crowd to a quantitative problem involving image analysis and object counting. Theoretical analysis by the author, covering a range of conditions and types of factor variables, predicts that composite random variables are distributed log-normally to an excellent approximation. If the factors in a problem …
Mining Semantic Knowledge Graphs To Add Explainability To Black Box Recommender Systems, Mohammed Alshammari, Olfa Nasraoui, Scott Sanders
Mining Semantic Knowledge Graphs To Add Explainability To Black Box Recommender Systems, Mohammed Alshammari, Olfa Nasraoui, Scott Sanders
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Recommender systems are being increasingly used to predict the preferences of users on online platforms and recommend relevant options that help them cope with information overload. In particular, modern model-based collaborative filtering algorithms, such as latent factor models, are considered state-of-the-art in recommendation systems. Unfortunately, these black box systems lack transparency, as they provide little information about the reasoning behind their predictions. White box systems, in contrast, can, by nature, easily generate explanations. However, their predictions are less accurate than sophisticated black box models. Recent research has demonstrated that explanations are an essential component in bringing the powerful predictions of …
Galaxy Classification: A Machine Learning Analysis Of Gama Catalogue Data, Aleke Nolte, Lingyu Wang, Maciej Bilicki, Benne W. Holwerda, Michael Biehl
Galaxy Classification: A Machine Learning Analysis Of Gama Catalogue Data, Aleke Nolte, Lingyu Wang, Maciej Bilicki, Benne W. Holwerda, Michael Biehl
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We present a machine learning analysis of five labelled galaxy catalogues from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The SersicCatVIKING and SersicCatUKIDSS catalogues containing morphological features, the GaussFitSimplecatalogue containing spectroscopic features, the MagPhys catalogue including physical parameters for galaxies, and the Lambdar catalogue, which contains photometric measurements. Extending work previously presented at the ESANN 2018 conference – in an analysis based on Generalized Relevance Matrix Learning Vector Quantization and Random Forests – we find that neither the data from the individual catalogues nor a combined dataset based on all 5 catalogues fully supports the visual-inspection-based galaxy classification scheme employed to …
Debiasing The Human-Recommender System Feedback Loop In Collaborative Filtering, Wenlong Sun, Sami Khenissi, Olfa Nasraoui, Patrick Shafto
Debiasing The Human-Recommender System Feedback Loop In Collaborative Filtering, Wenlong Sun, Sami Khenissi, Olfa Nasraoui, Patrick Shafto
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Recommender Systems (RSs) are widely used to help online users discover products, books, news, music, movies, courses, restaurants,etc. Because a traditional recommendation strategy always shows the most relevant items (thus with highest predicted rating), traditional RS’s are expected to make popular items become even more popular and non-popular items become even less popular which in turn further divides the haves (popular) from the have-nots (un-popular). Therefore, a major problem with RSs is that they may introduce biases affecting the exposure of items, thus creating a popularity divide of items during the feedback loop that occurs with users, and this may …
Progressive Randomization Of A Deck Of Playing Cards: Experimental Tests And Statistical Analysis Of The Riffle Shuffle, Mark P. Silverman
Progressive Randomization Of A Deck Of Playing Cards: Experimental Tests And Statistical Analysis Of The Riffle Shuffle, Mark P. Silverman
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The question of how many shuffles are required to randomize an initially ordered deck of cards is a problem that has fascinated mathematicians, scientists, and the general public. The two principal theoretical approaches to the problem, which differed in how each defined randomness, has led to statistically different threshold numbers of shuffles. This paper reports a comprehensive experimental analysis of the card randomization problem for the purposes of determining 1) which of the two theoretical approaches made the more accurate prediction, 2) whether different statistical tests yield different threshold numbers of randomizing shuffles, and 3) whether manual or mechanical shuffling …
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (Gama): Time-Scales For Galaxies Crossing The Green Valley, S. Phillipps, M. N. Bremer, A. M. Hopkins, R. De Propris, E. N. Taylor, P. A. James, L. J.M. Davies, M. E. Cluver, S. P. Driver, S. A. Eales, Benne W. Holwerda, L. S. Kelvin, A. E. Sansom
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (Gama): Time-Scales For Galaxies Crossing The Green Valley, S. Phillipps, M. N. Bremer, A. M. Hopkins, R. De Propris, E. N. Taylor, P. A. James, L. J.M. Davies, M. E. Cluver, S. P. Driver, S. A. Eales, Benne W. Holwerda, L. S. Kelvin, A. E. Sansom
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We explore the constraints that can be placed on the evolutionary time-scales for typical low-redshift galaxies evolving from the blue cloud through the green valley and on to the red sequence. We utilize galaxies from the GAMA survey with 0.1 < z < 0.2 and classify them according to the intrinsic (u∗ - r∗) colours of their stellar populations, as determined by fits to their multiwavelength spectral energy distributions. Using these fits to also determine stellar population ages and star formation time-scales, we argue that our results are consistent with a green valley population dominated by galaxies that are simply decreasing their star formation (running out of gas) over a time-scale of 2-4 Gyr which are seen at a specific epoch in their evolution (approximately 1.6 e-folding times after their peak in star formation). If their fitted star formation histories are extrapolated forward, the green galaxies will further redden over time, until they attain the colours of a passive population. In this picture, no specific quenching event which cuts-off their star formation is required, though it remains possible that the decline in star formation in green galaxies may be expedited by internal or external forces. However, there is no evidence that green galaxies have recently changed their star formation time-scales relative to their previous longer term star formation histories.
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (Gama): Environmental Quenching Of Centrals And Satellites In Groups, L. J.M. Davies, A. S.G. Robotham, C. Del P. Lagos, S. P. Driver, A. R.H. Stevens, Y. M. Bahé, M. Alpaslan, M. N. Bremer, M. J.I. Brown, S. Brough, J. Bland-Hawthorn, L. Cortese, P. Elahi, M. W. Grootes, Benne W. Holwerda, A. D. Ludlow, S. Mcgee, M. Owers, S. Phillipps
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (Gama): Environmental Quenching Of Centrals And Satellites In Groups, L. J.M. Davies, A. S.G. Robotham, C. Del P. Lagos, S. P. Driver, A. R.H. Stevens, Y. M. Bahé, M. Alpaslan, M. N. Bremer, M. J.I. Brown, S. Brough, J. Bland-Hawthorn, L. Cortese, P. Elahi, M. W. Grootes, Benne W. Holwerda, A. D. Ludlow, S. Mcgee, M. Owers, S. Phillipps
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Recently a number of studies have found a similarity between the passive fraction of central and satellite galaxies when controlled for both stellar and halo mass. These results suggest that the quenching processes that affect galaxies are largely agnostic to central/satellite status, which contradicts the traditional picture of increased satellite quenching via environmental processes such as stripping, strangulation, and starvation. Here we explore this further using the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, which extends to ~2 dex lower in stellar mass than SDSS, is more complete for closely separated galaxies (≳395 per cent compared to ≳370 per cent), and …
Collaborative Learning Exercises For Teaching Protein Mass Spectrometry [Post-Print], Michelle Kovarik, Jill K. Robinson
Collaborative Learning Exercises For Teaching Protein Mass Spectrometry [Post-Print], Michelle Kovarik, Jill K. Robinson
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A collaborative learning module for teaching protein mass spectrometry has been developed to overcome common obstacles to incorporating the modern topic of biological mass spectrometry into the undergraduate chemistry curriculum. Protein mass spectrometry data is provided to eliminate the need for expensive instrumentation, and an instructor’s manual gives necessary details for those unfamiliar with the topic. The first section provides background information on proteins and the field of proteomics. The second section describes the use of electrospray ionization to determine the molecular weight of a protein. The third section shows how to identify a protein using peptide mass mapping, and …
Student Engagement Is Key To Broadening Participation In Cs, Beryl Hoffman, Ralph Morelli, Jennifer Rosato
Student Engagement Is Key To Broadening Participation In Cs, Beryl Hoffman, Ralph Morelli, Jennifer Rosato
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© 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM. The Mobile CS Principles (Mobile CSP) course is one of the NSF-supported, College Board-endorsed curricula for the new Computer Science Principles AP course. Since 2013, the Mobile CSP project has trained more than 700 teachers, and the course has been offered to more than 20,000 students throughout the United States. The organizing philosophy behind the Mobile CSP course is that student engagement in the classroom is the key to getting students, especially those traditionally underrepresented in CS, interested in pursuing further study and careers in CS. The main …
The Dependence Of Intrinsic Alignment Of Galaxies On Wavelength Using Kids And Gama, Christos Georgiou, Harry Johnston, Henk Hoekstra, Massimo Viola, Konrad Kuijken, Benjamin Joachimi, Nora Elisa Chisari, Daniel J. Farrow, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Benne W. Holwerda, Arun Kannawadi
The Dependence Of Intrinsic Alignment Of Galaxies On Wavelength Using Kids And Gama, Christos Georgiou, Harry Johnston, Henk Hoekstra, Massimo Viola, Konrad Kuijken, Benjamin Joachimi, Nora Elisa Chisari, Daniel J. Farrow, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Benne W. Holwerda, Arun Kannawadi
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The outer regions of galaxies are more susceptible to the tidal interactions that lead to intrinsic alignments of galaxies. The resulting alignment signal may therefore depend on the passband if the colours of galaxies vary spatially. To quantify this, we measured the shapes of galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts from the GAMA survey using deep gri imaging data from the KiloDegree Survey. The performance of the moment-based shape measurement algorithm DEIMOS was assessed using dedicated image simulations, which showed that the ellipticities could be determined with an accuracy better than 1% in all bands. Additional tests for potential systematic errors did …
Symmetry And Symmetry Breaking In Coupled Oscillator Communities [Post-Print], Per Sebastian Skardal
Symmetry And Symmetry Breaking In Coupled Oscillator Communities [Post-Print], Per Sebastian Skardal
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With the recent development of analytical methods for studying the collective dynamics of coupled oscillator systems, the dynamics of communities of coupled oscillators have received a great deal of attention in the nonlinear dynamics community. However, the majority of these works treat systems with a number of symmetries to simplify the analysis. In this work we study the role of symmetry and symmetry-breaking in the collective dynamics of coupled oscillator communities, allowing for a comparison between the macroscopic dynamics of symmetric and asymmetric systems. We begin by treating the symmetric case, deriving the bifurcation diagram as a function of intra- …
The Frequency Of Dust Lanes In Edge-On Spiral Galaxies Identified By Galaxy Zoo In Kids Imaging Of Gama Targets, Benne W. Holwerda, Lee Kelvin, Ivan Baldry, Chris Lintott, Mehmet Alpaslan, Kevin A. Pimbblet, Jochen Liske, Thomas Kitching, Steven Bamford, Jelte De Jong, Maciej Bilicki, Andrew Hopkins, Joanna Bridge, R. Steele, A. Jacques, S. Goswami, S. Kusmic, W. Roemer, S. Kruk, C. C. Popescu, K. Kuijken, L. Wang, A. Wright
The Frequency Of Dust Lanes In Edge-On Spiral Galaxies Identified By Galaxy Zoo In Kids Imaging Of Gama Targets, Benne W. Holwerda, Lee Kelvin, Ivan Baldry, Chris Lintott, Mehmet Alpaslan, Kevin A. Pimbblet, Jochen Liske, Thomas Kitching, Steven Bamford, Jelte De Jong, Maciej Bilicki, Andrew Hopkins, Joanna Bridge, R. Steele, A. Jacques, S. Goswami, S. Kusmic, W. Roemer, S. Kruk, C. C. Popescu, K. Kuijken, L. Wang, A. Wright
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Dust lanes bisect the plane of a typical edge-on spiral galaxy as a dark optical absorption feature. Their appearance is linked to the gravitational stability of spiral disks; the fraction of edge-on galaxies that displays a dust lane is a direct indicator of the typical vertical balance between gravity and turbulence: a balance struck between the energy input from star formation and the gravitational pull into the plane of the disk. Based on morphological classifications by the Galaxy Zoo project on the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) imaging data in the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) fields, we explore the relation …
Personal Universes: A Solution To The Multi-Agent Value Alignment Problem, Roman V. Yampolskiy
Personal Universes: A Solution To The Multi-Agent Value Alignment Problem, Roman V. Yampolskiy
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AI Safety researchers attempting to align values of highly capable intelligent systems with those of humanity face a number of challenges including personal value extraction, multi-agent value merger and finally in-silico encoding. State-of-the-art research in value alignment shows difficulties in every stage in this process, but merger of incompatible preferences is a particularly difficult challenge to overcome. In this paper we assume that the value extraction problem will be solved and propose a possible way to implement an AI solution which optimally aligns with individual preferences of each user. We conclude by analyzing benefits and limitations of the proposed approach.
An Explainable Autoencoder For Collaborative Filtering Recommendation, Pegah Sagheb Haghighi, Olurotimi Seton, Olfa Nasraoui
An Explainable Autoencoder For Collaborative Filtering Recommendation, Pegah Sagheb Haghighi, Olurotimi Seton, Olfa Nasraoui
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Autoencoders are a common building block of Deep Learning architectures, where they are mainly used for representation learning. They have also been successfully used in Collaborative Filtering (CF) recommender systems to predict missing ratings. Unfortunately, like all black box machine learning models, they are unable to explain their outputs. Hence, while predictions from an Autoencoderbased recommender system might be accurate, it might not be clear to the user why a recommendation was generated. In this work, we design an explainable recommendation system using an Autoencoder model whose predictions can be explained using the neighborhood based explanation style. Our preliminary work …
Reproducible K-Means Clustering In Galaxy Feature Data From The Gama Survey, Sebastian Turner, Lee S. Kelvin, Ivan K. Baldry, Paulo J. Lisboa, Steven N. Longmore, Chris A. Collins, Benne W. Holwerda, Andrew M. Hopkins, Jochen Liske
Reproducible K-Means Clustering In Galaxy Feature Data From The Gama Survey, Sebastian Turner, Lee S. Kelvin, Ivan K. Baldry, Paulo J. Lisboa, Steven N. Longmore, Chris A. Collins, Benne W. Holwerda, Andrew M. Hopkins, Jochen Liske
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A fundamental bimodality of galaxies in the local Universe is apparent in many of the features used to describe them. Multiple sub-populations exist within this framework, each representing galaxies following distinct evolutionary pathways. Accurately identifying and characterizing these sub-populations requires that a large number of galaxy features be analysed simultaneously. Future galaxy surveys such as LSST and Euclid will yield data volumes for which traditional approaches to galaxy classification will become unfeasible. To address this, we apply a robust k-means unsupervized clustering method to feature data derived from a sample of 7338 local-Universe galaxies selected from the Galaxy And Mass …
Askap Commissioning Observations Of The Gama 23 Field, Denis A. Leahy, A. M. Hopkins, R. P. Norris, J. Marvil, J. D. Collier, E. N. Taylor, J. R. Allison, C. Anderson, M. Bell, M. Bilicki, J. Bland-Hawthorn, S. Brough, M. J.I. Brown, S. Driver, G. Gurkan, L. Harvey-Smith, I. Heywood, Benne W. Holwerda, J. Liske, A. R. Lopez-Sanchez, D. Mcconnell, A. Moffett, M. S. Owers, K. A. Pimbblet, W. Raja, N. Seymour, M. A. Voronkov, L. Wang
Askap Commissioning Observations Of The Gama 23 Field, Denis A. Leahy, A. M. Hopkins, R. P. Norris, J. Marvil, J. D. Collier, E. N. Taylor, J. R. Allison, C. Anderson, M. Bell, M. Bilicki, J. Bland-Hawthorn, S. Brough, M. J.I. Brown, S. Driver, G. Gurkan, L. Harvey-Smith, I. Heywood, Benne W. Holwerda, J. Liske, A. R. Lopez-Sanchez, D. Mcconnell, A. Moffett, M. S. Owers, K. A. Pimbblet, W. Raja, N. Seymour, M. A. Voronkov, L. Wang
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We have observed the G23 field of the Galaxy AnMass Assembly (GAMA) survey using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) in its commissioning phase to validate the performance of the telescope and to characterise the detected galaxy populations. This observation covers ∼48 deg2 with synthesised beam of 32.7 arcsec by 17.8 arcsec at 936MHz, and ∼39 deg2 with synthesised beam of 15.8 arcsec by 12.0 arcsec at 1320MHz. At both frequencies, the root-mean-square (r.m.s.) noise is ∼0.1 mJy/beam. We combine these radio observations with the GAMA galaxy data, which includes spectroscopy of galaxies that are i-band selected with a …
Law's Halo And The Moral Machine, Bert I. Huang
Law's Halo And The Moral Machine, Bert I. Huang
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How will we assess the morality of decisions made by artificial intelligence – and will our judgments be swayed by what the law says? Focusing on a moral dilemma in which a driverless car chooses to sacrifice its passenger to save more people, this study offers evidence that our moral intuitions can be influenced by the presence of the law.
Informed Trading And Cybersecurity Breaches, Joshua Mitts, Eric L. Talley
Informed Trading And Cybersecurity Breaches, Joshua Mitts, Eric L. Talley
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Cybersecurity has become a significant concern in corporate and commercial settings, and for good reason: a threatened or realized cybersecurity breach can materially affect firm value for capital investors. This paper explores whether market arbitrageurs appear systematically to exploit advance knowledge of such vulnerabilities. We make use of a novel data set tracking cybersecurity breach announcements among public companies to study trading patterns in the derivatives market preceding the announcement of a breach. Using a matched sample of unaffected control firms, we find significant trading abnormalities for hacked targets, measured in terms of both open interest and volume. Our results …