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Minimax Classification under Concept Drift with Multidimensional Adaptation and Performance Guarantees
(2022-07)The statistical characteristics of instance-label pairs often change with time in practical scenarios of supervised classification. Conventional learning techniques adapt to such concept drift accounting for a scalar rate ... -
An active adaptation strategy for streaming time series classification based on elastic similarity measures
(2022-05-21)In streaming time series classification problems, the goal is to predict the label associated to the most recently received observations over the stream according to a set of categorized reference patterns. In on-line ... -
Variational Bayesian Framework for Advanced Image Generation with Domain-Related Variables
(2022-05-23)Deep generative models (DGMs) and their conditional counterparts provide a powerful ability for general-purpose generative modeling of data distributions. However, it remains challenging for existing methods to address ... -
Deep Generative Model for Simultaneous Range Error Mitigation and Environment Identification
(2021-12-07)Received waveforms contain rich information for both range information and environment semantics. However, its full potential is hard to exploit under multipath and non-line- of-sight conditions. This paper proposes a ... -
Implementing the Cumulative Difference Plot in the IOHanalyzer
(2022-07)The IOHanalyzer is a web-based framework that enables an easy visualization and comparison of the quality of stochastic optimization algorithms. IOHanalyzer offers several graphical and statistical tools analyze the results ... -
A Resource Sharing Game for the Freshness of Status Updates
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Rank aggregation for non-stationary data streams
(2022)The problem of learning over non-stationary ranking streams arises naturally, particularly in recommender systems. The rankings represent the preferences of a population, and the non-stationarity means that the distribution ... -
A Deep Learning Approach for Generating Soft Range Information from RF Data
(2022-01-24)Radio frequency (RF)-based techniques are widely adopted for indoor localization despite the challenges in extracting sufficient information from measurements. Soft range information (SRI) offers a promising alternative ... -
Time Series Classifier Recommendation by a Meta-Learning Approach
(2022-03-26)This work addresses time series classifier recommendation for the first time in the literature by considering several recommendation forms or meta-targets: classifier accuracies, complete ranking, top-M ranking, best set ... -
Analysis of Dominant Classes in Universal Adversarial Perturbations
(2022)The reasons why Deep Neural Networks are susceptible to being fooled by adversarial examples remains an open discussion. Indeed, many differ- ent strategies can be employed to efficiently generate adversarial attacks, some ... -
Generalized Maximum Entropy for Supervised Classification
(2022-04)The maximum entropy principle advocates to evaluate events’ probabilities using a distribution that maximizes entropy among those that satisfy certain expectations’ constraints. Such principle can be generalized for ... -
K-means for Evolving Data Streams
(2021-01-01)Nowadays, streaming data analysis has become a relevant area of research in machine learning. Most of the data streams available are unlabeled, and thus it is necessary to develop specific clustering techniques that take ... -
Derivation of a Cost-Sensitive COVID-19 Mortality Risk Indicator Using a Multistart Framework
(2022-01-14)The overall global death rate for COVID-19 patients has escalated to 2.13% after more than a year of worldwide spread. Despite strong research on the infection pathogenesis, the molecular mechanisms involved in a fatal ... -
A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach for Ranging Error Mitigation Based on UWB Waveform
(2021-12-30)Localization systems based on ultra-wide band (UWB) measurements can have unsatisfactory performance in harsh environments due to the presence of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) errors. Learning-based methods for error ... -
Deep GEM-based network for weakly supervised UWB ranging error mitigation
(2021-12-30)Ultra-wideband (UWB)-based techniques, while becoming mainstream approaches for high-accurate positioning, tend to be challenged by ranging bias in harsh environments. The emerging learning-based methods for error ... -
EDA++: Estimation of Distribution Algorithms with Feasibility Conserving Mechanisms for Constrained Continuous Optimization
(2022-02-25)Handling non-linear constraints in continuous optimization is challenging, and finding a feasible solution is usually a difficult task. In the past few decades, various techniques have been developed to deal with linear ... -
A Multivariate Time Series Streaming Classifier for Predicting Hard Drive Failures [Application Notes]
(2022)Digital data storage systems such as hard drives can suffer breakdowns that cause the loss of stored data. Due to the cost of data and the damage that its loss entails, hard drive failure prediction is vital. In this ... -
Contributions to Time Series Classification: Meta-Learning and Explainability
(2021-11-16)This thesis includes 3 contributions of different types to the area of supervised time series classification, a growing field of research due to the amount of time series collected daily in a wide variety of domains. In ... -
Location Awareness in Beyond 5G Networks
(2021-11-01)Location awareness is essential for enabling contextual services and for improving network management in 5th generation (5G) and beyond 5G (B5G) networks. This paper provides an overview of the expanding opportunities ... -
Alternative Representations for Codifying Solutions in Permutation-Based Problems
(2020-07-01)Since their introduction, Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) have proved to be very competitive algorithms to solve many optimization problems. However, despite recent developments, in the case of permutation-based ...