Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Dale Schuurmans and Michael Wellman, Program Cochairs.

February 12 –17, 2016, Phoenix, Arizona USA. Published by The AAAI Press, Palo Alto, California. This proceedings is also available in book format.

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Contents

Technical Papers: Applications

Inferring Multi-Dimensional Ideal Points for US Supreme Court Justices / 4
Mohammad Raihanul Islam, K. S. M. Tozammel Hossain, Siddharth Krishnan, Naren Ramakrishnan

Little Is Much: Bridging Cross-Platform Behaviors through Overlapped Crowds / 13
Meng Jiang, Peng Cui, Nicholas Jing Yuan, Xing Xie, Shiqiang Yang

Scientific Ranking over Heterogeneous Academic Hypernetwork / 20
Ronghua Liang, Xiaorui Jiang

MUST-CNN: A Multilayer Shift-and-Stitch Deep Convolutional Architecture for Sequence-Based Protein Structure Prediction / 27
Zeming Lin, Jack Lanchantin, Yanjun Qi

Hospital Stockpiling Problems with Inventory Sharing / 35
Eric Lofgren, Anil Vullikanti

Predicting ICU Mortality Risk by Grouping Temporal Trends from a Multivariate Panel of Physiologic Measurements / 42
Yuan Luo, Yu Xin, Rohit Joshi, Leo Celi, Peter Szolovits

Learning to Generate Posters of Scientific Papers / 51
Yuting Qiang, Yanwei Fu, Yanwen Guo, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Leonid Sigal

Face Behind Makeup / 58
Shuyang Wang, Yun Fu

Social Role-Aware Emotion Contagion in Image Social Networks / 65
Yang Yang, Jia Jia, Boya Wu, Jie Tang

Survival Prediction by an Integrated Learning Criterion on Intermittently Varying Healthcare Data / 72
Jianfei Zhang, Lifei Chen, Alain Vanasse, Josiane Courteau, Shengrui Wang

On the Minimum Differentially Resolving Set Problem for Diffusion Source Inference in Networks / 79
Chuan Zhou, Wei-Xue Lu, Peng Zhang, Jia Wu, Yue Hu, Li Guo

Technical Papers: AI and the Web

From Tweets to Wellness: Wellness Event Detection from Twitter Streams / 87
Mohammad Akbari, Xia Hu, Nie Liqiang, Tat-Seng Chua

"8 Amazing Secrets for Getting More Clicks": Detecting Clickbaits in News Streams Using Article Informality / 94
Prakhar Biyani, Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis, John Blackmer

Business-Aware Visual Concept Discovery from Social Media for Multimodal Business Venue Recognition / 101
Bor-Chun Chen, Yan-Ying Chen, Francine Chen, Dhiraj Joshi

Capturing Semantic Correlation for Item Recommendation in Tagging Systems / 108
Chaochao Chen, Xiaolin Zheng, Yan Wang, Fuxing Hong, Deren Chen

Identifying Sentiment Words Using an Optimization Model with L1 Regularization / 115
Zhi-Hong Deng, Hongliang Yu, Yunlun Yang

Community-Based Question Answering via Heterogeneous Social Network Learning / 122
Hanyin Fang, Fei Wu, Zhou Zhao, Xinyu Duan, Yueting Zhuang, Martin Ester

College Towns, Vacation Spots, and Tech Hubs: Using Geo-Social Media to Model and Compare Locations / 129
Hancheng Ge, James Caverlee

Inferring a Personalized Next Point-of-Interest Recommendation Model with Latent Behavior Patterns / 137
Jing He, Xin Li, Lejian Liao, Dandan Song, William K. Cheung

VBPR: Visual Bayesian Personalized Ranking from Implicit Feedback / 144
Ruining He, Julian McAuley

Improved Neural Machine Translation with SMT Features / 151
Wei He, Zhongjun He, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang

A Scalable Framework to Choose Sellers in E-Marketplaces Using POMDPs / 158
Athirai A. Irissappane, Frans A. Oliehoek, Jie Zhang

Fusing Social Networks with Deep Learning for Volunteerism Tendency Prediction / 165
Yongpo Jia, Xuemeng Song, Jingbo Zhou, Li Liu, Liqiang Nie, David S. Rosenblum

Detect Overlapping Communities via Ranking Node Popularities / 172
Di Jin, Hongcui Wang, Jianwu Dang, Dongxiao He, Weixiong Zhang

Top-N Recommender System via Matrix Completion / 179
Zhao Kang, Chong Peng, Qiang Cheng

Robust Text Classification in the Presence of Confounding Bias / 186
Virgile Landeiro, Aron Culotta

Predicting the Next Location: A Recurrent Model with Spatial and Temporal Contexts / 194
Qiang Liu, Shu Wu, Liang Wang, Tieniu Tan

Fortune Teller: Predicting Your Career Path / 201
Ye Liu, Luming Zhang, Liqiang Nie, Yan Yan, David S. Rosenblum

Predicting Online Protest Participation of Social Media Users / 208
Suhas Ranganath, Fred Morstatter, Xia Hu, Jiliang Tang, Suhang Wang, Huan Liu

Context-Sensitive Twitter Sentiment Classification Using Neural Network / 215
Yafeng Ren, Yue Zhang, Meishan Zhang, Donghong Ji

ClaimEval: Integrated and Flexible Framework for Claim Evaluation Using Credibility of Sources / 222
Mehdi Samadi, Partha Talukdar, Manuela Veloso, Manuel Blum

On the Effectiveness of Linear Models for One-Class Collaborative Filtering / 229
Suvash Sedhain, Aditya Krishna Menon, Scott Sanner, Darius Braziunas

Supervised Hashing via Uncorrelated Component Analysis / 236
SungRyull Sohn, Hyunwoo Kim, Junmo Kim

Commonsense in Parts: Mining Part-Whole Relations from the Web and Image Tags / 243
Niket Tandon, Charles Hariman, Jacopo Urbani, Anna Rohrbach, Marcus Rohrbach, Gerhard Weikum

Recommendation with Social Dimensions / 251
Jiliang Tang, Suhang Wang, Xia Hu, Dawei Yin, Yingzhou Bi, Yi Chang, Huan Liu

Column-Oriented Datalog Materialization for Large Knowledge Graphs / 258
Jacopo Urbani, Ceriel Jacobs, Markus Krötzsch

Semantic Community Identification in Large Attribute Networks / 265
Xiao Wang, Di Jin, Xiaochun Cao, Liang Yang, Weixiong Zhang

Unfolding Temporal Dynamics: Predicting Social Media Popularity Using Multi-scale Temporal Decomposition / 272
Bo Wu, Tao Mei, Wen-Huang Cheng, Yongdong Zhang

Modeling Users' Preferences and Social Links in Social Networking Services: A Joint-Evolving Perspective / 279
Le Wu, Yong Ge, Qi Liu, Enhong Chen, Bai Long, Zhenya Huang

Cross-Lingual Taxonomy Alignment with Bilingual Biterm Topic Model / 287
Tianxing Wu, Guilin Qi, Haofen Wang, Kang Xu, Xuan Cui

Online Cross-Modal Hashing for Web Image Retrieval / 294
Liang Xie, Jialie Shen, Lei Zhu

Understanding Emerging Spatial Entities / 301
Jinyoung Yeo, Jin-woo Park, Seung-won Hwang

Building a Large Scale Dataset for Image Emotion Recognition: The Fine Print and The Benchmark / 308
Quanzeng You, Jiebo Luo, Hailin Jin, Jianchao Yang

STELLAR: Spatial-Temporal Latent Ranking for Successive Point-of-Interest Recommendation / 315
Shenglin Zhao, Tong Zhao, Haiqin Yang, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King

Technical Papers: Cognitive Modeling and Cognitive Systems

Learning the Preferences of Ignorant, Inconsistent Agents / 323
Owain Evans, Andreas Stuhlmueller, Noah Goodman

Egocentric Video Search via Physical Interactions / 330
Taiki Miyanishi, Jun-ichiro Hirayama, Quan Kong, Takuya Maekawa, Hiroki Moriya, Takayuki Suyama

Technical Papers: Computational Sustainability and AI

Learning Deep Representation from Big and Heterogeneous Data for Traffic Accident Inference / 338
Quanjun Chen, Xuan Song, Harutoshi Yamada, Ryosuke Shibasaki

Autonomous Electricity Trading Using Time-of-Use Tariffs in a Competitive Market / 345
Daniel Urieli, Peter Stone

Technical Papers: Game Playing and Interactive Entertainment

Reuse of Neural Modules for General Video Game Playing / 353
Alexander Braylan, Mark Hollenbeck, Elliot Meyerson, Risto Miikkulainen

Poker-CNN: A Pattern Learning Strategy for Making Draws and Bets in Poker Games Using Convolutional Networks / 360
Nikolai Yakovenko, Liangliang Cao, Colin Raffel, James Fan

Technical Papers: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms

Computing Possible and Necessary Equilibrium Actions (and Bipartisan Set Winners) / 369
Markus Brill, Rupert Freeman, Vincent Conitzer

From Duels to Battlefields: Computing Equilibria of Blotto and Other Games / 376
AmirMahdi Ahmadinejad, Sina Dehghani, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghay, Brendan Lucier, Hamid Mahini, Saeed Seddighin

Maximizing Revenue with Limited Correlation: The Cost of Ex-Post Incentive Compatibility / 383
Michael Albert, Vincent Conitzer, Giuseppe Lopomo

Blind, Greedy, and Random: Algorithms for Matching and Clustering Using Only Ordinal Information / 390
Elliot Anshelevich, Shreyas Sekar

Strategyproof Peer Selection: Mechanisms, Analyses, and Experiments / 397
Haris Aziz, Omer Lev, Nicholas Mattei, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, Toby Walsh

A Security Game Combining Patrolling and Alarm-Triggered Responses Under Spatial and Detection Uncertainties / 404
Nicola Basilico, Giuseppe De Nittis, Nicola Gatti

Learning Market Parameters Using Aggregate Demand Queries / 411
Xiaohui Bei, Wei Chen, Jugal Garg, Martin Hoefer, Xiaoming Sun

An Algorithmic Framework for Strategic Fair Division / 418
Simina Brânzei, Ioannis Caragiannis, David Kurokawa, Ariel D. Procaccia

One Size Does Not Fit All: A Game-Theoretic Approach for Dynamically and Effectively Screening for Threats / 425
Matthew Brown, Arunesh Sinha, Aaron Schlenker, Milind Tambe

Strategy-Based Warm Starting for Regret Minimization in Games / 432
Noam Brown, Tuomas Sandholm

Using Correlated Strategies for Computing Stackelberg Equilibria in Extensive-Form Games / 439
Jiri Cermak, Branislav Bosansky, Karel Durkota, Viliam Lisy, Christopher Kiekintveld

Assignment and Pricing in Roommate Market / 446
Pak Hay Chan, Xin Huang, Zhengyang Liu, Chihao Zhang, Shengyu Zhang

Incentives for Strategic Behavior in Fisher Market Games / 453
Ning Chen, Xiaotie Deng, Bo Tang, Hongyang Zhang

Rules for Choosing Societal Tradeoffs / 460
Vincent Conitzer, Rupert Freeman, Markus Brill, Yuqian Li

Judgment Aggregation under Issue Dependencies / 468
Marco Costantini, Carla Groenland, Ulle Endriss

Price of Pareto Optimality in Hedonic Games / 475
Edith Elkind, Angelo Fanelli, Michele Flammini

Multiwinner Analogues of the Plurality Rule: Axiomatic and Algorithmic Perspectives / 482
Piotr Faliszewski, Piot Skowron, Arkadii Slinko, Nimrod Talmon

Ad Auctions and Cascade Model: GSP Inefficiency and Algorithms / 489
Gabriele Farina, Nicola Gatti

Variations on the Hotelling-Downs Model / 496
Michal Feldman, Amos Fiat, Svetlana Obraztsova

A Geometric Method to Construct Minimal Peer Prediction Mechanisms / 502
Rafael Frongillo, Jens Witkowski

Sequence-Form and Evolutionary Dynamics: Realization Equivalence to Agent Form and Logit Dynamics / 509
Nicola Gatti, Marcello Restelli

Who Can Win a Single-Elimination Tournament? / 516
Michael P. Kim, Warut Suksompong, Virginia Vassilevska Williams

When Can the Maximin Share Guarantee Be Guaranteed? / 523
David Kurokawa, Ariel D. Procaccia, Junxing Wang

Multi-Attribute Proportional Representation / 530
Jérôme Lang, Piotr Krzysztof Skowron

Multi-Defender Strategic Filtering Against Spear-Phishing Attacks / 537
Aron Laszka, Jian Lou, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Counterfactual Regret Minimization in Sequential Security Games / 544
Viliam Lisy, Trevor Davis, Michael Bowling

Optimizing Trading Assignments in Water Right Markets / 551
Yicheng Liu, Pingzhong Tang, Tingting Xu, Hang Zheng

On the Complexity of mCP-nets / 558
Thomas Lukasiewicz, Enrico Malizia

Reinstating Combinatorial Protections for Manipulation and Bribery in Single-Peaked and Nearly Single-Peaked Electorates / 565
Vijay Menon, Kate Larson

Refining Subgames in Large Imperfect Information Games / 572
Matej Moravcik, Martin Schmid, Karel Ha, Milan Hladik, Stephen J. Gaukrodger

Complexity of Hedonic Games with Dichotomous Preferences / 579
Dominik Peters

Graphical Hedonic Games of Bounded Treewidth / 586
Dominik Peters

Preferences Single-Peaked on Nice Trees / 594
Dominik Peters, Edith Elkind

Fast Optimal Clearing of Capped-Chain Barter Exchanges / 601
Benjamin Plaut, John P. Dickerson, Tuomas Sandholm

Optimal Aggregation of Uncertain Preferences / 608
Ariel D. Procaccia, Nisarg Shah

False-Name-Proof Locations of Two Facilities: Economic and Algorithmic Approaches / 615
Akihisa Sonoda, Taiki Todo, Makoto Yokoo

Closeness Centrality for Networks with Overlapping Community Structure / 622
Mateusz K. Tarkowski, Piotr Szczepański, Talal Rahwan, Tomasz P. Michalak, Michael Wooldridge

Computing Rational Decisions In Extensive Games With Limited Foresight / 630
Paolo Turrini

Computing Optimal Monitoring Strategy for Detecting Terrorist Plots / 637
Zhen Wang, Yue Yin, Bo An

Quantitative Extensions of the Condorcet Jury Theorem with Strategic Agents / 644
Lirong Xia

Lift-Based Bidding in Ad Selection / 651
Jian Xu, Xuhui Shao, Jianjie Ma, Kuang-chih Lee, Hang Qi, Quan Lu

Optimizing Personalized Email Filtering Thresholds to Mitigate Sequential Spear Phishing Attacks / 658
Mengchen Zhao, Bo An, Christopher Kiekintveld

Technical Papers: Heuristic Search and Optimization

Unsupervised Feature Selection by Heuristic Search with Provable Bounds on Suboptimality / 666
Hiromasa Arai, Crystal Maung, Ke Xu, Haim Schweitzer

Tiebreaking Strategies for A* Search: How to Explore the Final Frontier / 673
Masataro Asai, Alex Fukunaga

CAPReS: Context Aware Persona Based Recommendation for Shoppers / 680
Joydeep Banerjee, Gurulingesh Raravi, Manoj Gupta, Sindhu K. Ernala, Shruti Kunde, Koustuv Dasgupta

Nested Monte Carlo Search for Two-Player Games / 687
Tristan Cazenave, Abdallah Saffidine, Michael Schofield, Michael Thielscher

Look-Ahead with Mini-Bucket Heuristics for MPE / 694
Rina Dechter, Kalev Kask, William Lam, Javier Larrosa

Solving the Station Repacking Problem / 702
Alexandre Fréchette, Neil Newman, Kevin Leyton-Brown

The Complexity Landscape of Decompositional Parameters for ILP / 710
Robert Ganian, Sebastian Ordyniak

Abstract Zobrist Hashing: An Efficient Work Distribution Method for Parallel Best-First Search / 717
Yuu Jinnai, Alex Fukunaga

Learning to Branch in Mixed Integer Programming / 724
Elias Boutros Khalil, Pierre Le Bodic, Le Song, George Nemhauser, Bistra Dilkina

Local Search for Hard SAT Formulas: The Strength of the Polynomial Law / 732
Sixue Liu, Periklis A. Papakonstantinou

Fast Proximal Linearized Alternating Direction Method of Multiplier with Parallel Splitting / 739
Canyi Lu, Huan Li, Zhouchen Lin, Shuicheng Yan

Combining Bounding Boxes and JPS to Prune Grid Pathfinding / 746
Steve Rabin, Nathan R. Sturtevant

Fast ADMM Algorithm for Distributed Optimization with Adaptive Penalty / 753
Changkyu Song, Sejong Yoon, Vladimir Pavlovic

Towards Clause-Learning State Space Search: Learning to Recognize Dead-Ends / 760
Marcel Steinmetz, Joerg Hoffmann

Implementing Troubleshooting with Batch Repair / 769
Roni Stern, Meir Kalech, Hilla Shinitzky

A Combinatorial Search Perspective on Diverse Solution Generation / 776
Satya Gautam Vadlamudi, Subbarao Kambhampati

On the Completeness of Best-First Search Variants That Use Random Exploration / 784
Richard Anthony Valenzano, Fan Xie

DRIMUX: Dynamic Rumor Influence Minimization with User Experience in Social Networks / 791
Biao Wang, Ge Chen, Luoyi Fu, Li Song, Xinbing Wang, Xue Liu

Linearized Alternating Direction Method with Penalization for Nonconvex and Nonsmooth Optimization / 798
Yiyang Wang, Risheng Liu, Xiaoliang Song, Zhixun Su

Two Efficient Local Search Algorithms for Maximum Weight Clique Problem / 805
Yiyuan Wang, Shaowei Cai, Minghao Yin

Relaxed Majorization-Minimization for Non-Smooth and Non-Convex Optimization / 812
Chen Xu, Zhouchen Lin, Zhenyu Zhao, Hongbin Zha

Submodular Optimization with Routing Constraints / 819
Haifeng Zhang, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Technical Papers: Human-Computation and Crowd Sourcing

Behavioral Experiments in Email Filter Evasion / 827
Liyiming Ke, Bo Li, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Technical Papers: Humans and AI

An Oral Exam for Measuring a Dialog System's Capabilities / 835
David Cohen, Ian Lane

Intelligent Advice Provisioning for Repeated Interaction / 842
Priel Levy, David Sarne

A Deep Choice Model / 850
Makoto Otsuka, Takayuki Osogami

Personalized Alert Agent for Optimal User Performance / 857
Avraham Shvartzon, Amos Azaria, Sarit Kraus, Claudia V. Goldman, Joachim Meyer, Omer Tsimhoni

Technical Papers: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Minimizing User Involvement for Learning Human Mobility Patterns from Location Traces / 865
Basma Alharbi, Abdulhakim Qahtan, Xiangliang Zhang

Generating CP-Nets Uniformly at Random / 872
Thomas E. Allen, Judy Goldsmith, Hayden Elizabeth Justice, Nicholas Mattei, Kayla Raines

Boolean Functions with Ordered Domains in Answer Set Programming / 879
Mario Alviano, Wolfgang Faber, Hannes Strass

A Semantical Analysis of Second-Order Propositional Modal Logic / 886
Francesco Belardinelli, Wiebe van der Hoek

A First-Order Logic of Probability and Only Knowing in Unbounded Domains / 893
Vaishak Belle, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Hector Levesque

Explaining Inconsistency-Tolerant Query Answering over Description Logic Knowledge Bases / 900
Meghyn Bienvenu, Camille Bourgaux, François Goasdoué

Automated Verification and Tightening of Failure Propagation Models / 907
Benjamin Bittner, Marco Bozzano, Alessandro Cimatti, Gianni Zampedri

A Comparative Study of Ranking-Based Semantics for Abstract Argumentation / 914
Elise Bonzon, Jérôme Delobelle, Sébastien Konieczny, Nicolas Maudet

Beyond OWL 2 QL in OBDA: Rewritings and Approximations / 921
Elena Botoeva, Diego Calvanese, Valerio Santarelli, Domenico Fabio Savo, Alessandro Solimando, Guohui Xiao

SDDs Are Exponentially More Succinct than OBDDs / 929
Simone Bova

On the Containment of SPARQL Queries under Entailment Regimes / 936
Melisachew Wudage Chekol

Logical Foundations of Privacy-Preserving Publishing of Linked Data / 943
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Egor V. Kostylev

Verifying ConGolog Programs on Bounded Situation Calculus Theories / 950
Giuseppe De Giacomo, Yves Lespérance, Fabio Patrizi, Sebastian Sardina

Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Stream Reasoning with Unobservable Intertemporal Spatial Relations Using Landmarks / 957
Daniel de Leng, Fredrik Heintz

Using Decomposition-Parameters for QBF: Mind the Prefix! / 964
Eduart Eiben, Robert Ganian, Sebastian Ordyniak

The Complexity of LTL on Finite Traces: Hard and Easy Fragments / 971
Valeria Fionda, Gianluigi Greco

SAT-to-SAT: Declarative Extension of SAT Solvers with New Propagators / 978
Tomi Janhunen, Shahab Tasharrofi, Eugenia Ternovska

Knowledge Graph Completion with Adaptive Sparse Transfer Matrix / 985
Guoliang Ji, Kang Liu, Shizhu He, Jun Zhao

Locally Adaptive Translation for Knowledge Graph Embedding / 992
Yantao Jia, Yuanzhuo Wang, Hailun Lin, Xiaolong Jin, Xueqi Cheng

Learning Abductive Reasoning Using Random Examples / 999
Brendan Juba

A Model for Learning Description Logic Ontologies Based on Exact Learning / 1008
Boris Konev, Ana Ozaki, Frank Wolter

Agenda Separability in Judgment Aggregation / 1016
Jérôme Lang, Marija Slavkovik, Srdjan Vesic

Basic Probabilistic Ontological Data Exchange with Existential Rules / 1023
Thomas Lukasiewicz, Maria Vanina Martinez, Livia Predoiu, Gerardo I. Simari

Resistance to Corruption of Strategic Argumentation / 1030
Michael J. Maher

Causal Explanation Under Indeterminism: A Sampling Approach / 1037
Christopher A. Merck, Samantha Kleinberg

'Knowing Whether' in Proper Epistemic Knowledge Bases / 1044
Tim Miller, Paolo Felli, Christian Muise, Adrian Pearce, Liz Sonenberg

Ontology-Mediated Queries for NOSQL Databases / 1051
Marie-Laure Mugnier, Marie-Christine Rousset, Federico Ulliana

Zero-Suppressed Sentential Decision Diagrams / 1058
Masaaki Nishino, Norihito Yasuda, Shin-ichi Minato, Masaaki Nagata

Scalable Training of Markov Logic Networks Using Approximate Counting / 1067
Somdeb Sarkhel, Deepak Venugopal, Tuan Anh Pham, Parag Singla, Vibhav Gogate

Metaphysics of Planning Domain Descriptions / 1074
Siddharth Srivastava, Stuart Russell, Alessandro Pinto

Expressive Recommender Systems through Normalized Nonnegative Models / 1081
Cyril J. Stark

Complexity Results and Algorithms for Extension Enforcement in Abstract Argumentation / 1088
Johannes P. Wallner, Andreas Niskanen, Matti Järvisalo

Query Answering with Inconsistent Existential Rules under Stable Model Semantics / 1095
Hai Wan, Heng Zhang, Peng Xiao, Haoran Huang, Yan Zhang

Affinity Preserving Quantization for Hashing: A Vector Quantization Approach to Learning Compact Binary Codes / 1102
Zhe Wang, Ling-Yu Duan, Tiejun Huang, Gao Wen

Decidable Verification of Golog Programs over Non-Local Effect Actions / 1109
Benjamin Zarrieß, Jens Claßen

Mapping Action Language BC to Logic Programs: A Characterization by Postulates / 1116
Haodi Zhang, Fangzhen Lin

Technical Papers: Machine Learning Applications

On the Performance of GoogLeNet and AlexNet Applied to Sketches / 1124
Pedro Ballester, Ricardo Matsumura Araujo

Bayesian Inference of Recursive Sequences of Group Activities from Tracks / 1129
Ernesto Brau, Colin Dawson, Alfredo Carrillo, David Sidi, Clayton T. Morrison

Towards Domain Adaptive Vehicle Detection in Satellite Image by Supervised Super-Resolution Transfer / 1138
Liujuan Cao, Rongrong Ji, Cheng Wang, Jonathan Li

Deep Neural Networks for Learning Graph Representations / 1145
Shaosheng Cao, Wei Lu, Qiongkai Xu

Discriminative Nonparametric Latent Feature Relational Models with Data Augmentation / 1153
Bei Chen, Ning Chen, Jun Zhu, Jiaming Song, Bo Zhang

Mitosis Detection in Breast Cancer Histology Images via Deep Cascaded Networks / 1160
Hao Chen, Qi Dou, Xi Wang, Jing Qin, Pheng Ann Heng

Deep Contextual Networks for Neuronal Structure Segmentation / 1167
Hao Chen, Xiao Juan Qi, Jie Zhi Cheng, Pheng Ann Heng

Seeing the Unseen Network: Inferring Hidden Social Ties from Respondent-Driven Sampling / 1174
Lin Chen, Forrest W. Crawford, Amin Karbasi

Robust Multi-View Subspace Learning through Dual Low-Rank Decompositions / 1181
Zhengming Ding, Yun Fu

Graph-without-cut: An Ideal Graph Learning for Image Segmentation / 1188
Lianli Gao, Jingkuan Song, Feiping Nie, Fuhao Zou, Nicu Sebe, Heng Tao Shen

MOOCs Meet Measurement Theory: A Topic-Modelling Approach / 1195
Jiazhen He, Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein, James Bailey, Rui Zhang, Sandra Milligan, Jeffrey Chan

Creating Images by Learning Image Semantics Using Vector Space Models / 1202
Derrall Heath, Dan Ventura

Efficient Learning of Timeseries Shapelets / 1209
Lu Hou, James T. Kwok, Jacek M. Zurada

Learning to Appreciate the Aesthetic Effects of Clothing / 1216
Jia Jia, Jie Huang, Guangyao Shen, Tao He, Zhiyuan Liu, Huanbo Luan, Chao Yan

Consensus Style Centralizing Auto-Encoder for Weak Style Classification / 1223
Shuhui Jiang, Ming Shao, Chengcheng Jia, Yun Fu

Column Sampling Based Discrete Supervised Hashing / 1230
Wang-Cheng Kang, Wu-Jun Li, Zhi-Hua Zhou

A Framework for Outlier Description Using Constraint Programming / 1237
Chia-Tung Kuo, Ian Davidson

Random Mixed Field Model for Mixed-Attribute Data Restoration / 1244
Qiang Li, Wei Bian, Richard Yi Da Xu, Jane You, Dacheng Tao

Learning with Marginalized Corrupted Features and Labels Together / 1251
Yingming Li, Ming Yang, Zenglin Xu, Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang

Towards Optimal Binary Code Learning via Ordinal Embedding / 1258
Hong Liu, Rongrong Ji, Yongjian Wu, Wei Liu

Recognizing Complex Activities by a Probabilistic Interval-Based Model / 1266
Li Liu, Li Cheng, Ye Liu, Yongpo Jia, David S. Rosenblum

Learning Adaptive Forecasting Models from Irregularly Sampled Multivariate Clinical Data / 1273
Zitao Liu, Milos Hauskrecht

Deep Learning for Algorithm Portfolios / 1280
Andrea Loreggia, Yuri Malitsky, Horst Samulowitz, Vijay Saraswat

Convolutional Neural Networks over Tree Structures for Programming Language Processing / 1287
Lili Mou, Ge Li, Lu Zhang, Tao Wang, Zhi Jin

Learning Tractable Probabilistic Models for Fault Localization / 1294
Aniruddh Nath, Pedro Domingos

Unsupervised Feature Selection with Structured Graph Optimization / 1302
Feiping Nie, Wei Zhu, Xuelong Li

Differential Privacy Preservation for Deep Auto-Encoders: an Application of Human Behavior Prediction / 1309
NhatHai Phan, Yue Wang, Xintao Wu, Dejing Dou

Privacy-CNH: A Framework to Detect Photo Privacy with Convolutional Neural Network using Hierarchical Features / 1317
Lam Tran, Deguang Kong, Hongxia Jin, Ji Liu

Drosophila Gene Expression Pattern Annotations via Multi-Instance Biological Relevance Learning / 1324
Hua Wang, Cheng Deng, Hao Zhang, Xinbo Gao, Heng Huang

Recommending Groups to Users Using User-Group Engagement and Time-Dependent Matrix Factorization / 1331
Xin Wang, Roger Donaldson, Christopher Nell, Peter Gorniak, Martin Ester, Jiajun Bu

Instilling Social to Physical: Co-Regularized Heterogeneous Transfer Learning / 1338
Ying Wei, Yin Zhu, Cane Wing-ki Leung, Yangqiu Song, Qiang Yang

Exploiting an Oracle That Reports AUC Scores in Machine Learning Contests / 1345
Jacob Whitehill

Efficient Nonparametric Subgraph Detection Using Tree Shaped Priors / 1352
Nannan Wu, Feng Chen, Jianxin Li, Baojian Zhou, Naren Ramakrishnan

Factorization Ranking Model for Move Prediction in the Game of Go / 1359
Chenjun Xiao, Martin Müller

Joint Multi-View Representation Learning and Image Tagging / 1366
Zhe Xue, Guorong Li, Qingming Huang

Learning Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for X-Ray Protein Crystallization Image Analysis / 1373
Margot Lisa-Jing Yann, Yichuan Tang

Linear Submodular Bandits with a Knapsack Constraint / 1380
Baosheng Yu, Meng Fang, Dacheng Tao

Submodular Asymmetric Feature Selection in Cascade Object Detection / 1387
Baosheng Yu, Meng Fang, Dacheng Tao, Jie Yin

Semisupervised Autoencoder for Sentiment Analysis / 1394
Shuangfei Zhai, Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang

Simultaneous Feature and Sample Reduction for Image-Set Classification / 1401
Man Zhang, Ran He, Dong Cao, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan

Collective Noise Contrastive Estimation for Policy Transfer Learning / 1408
Weinan Zhang, Ulrich Paquet, Katja Hofmann

Learning a Hybrid Architecture for Sequence Regression and Annotation / 1415
Yizhe Zhang, Ricardo Henao, Lawrence Carin, Jianling Zhong, Alexander Hartemink

Pose-Dependent Low-Rank Embedding for Head Pose Estimation / 1422
Handong Zhao, Zhengming Ding, Yun Fu

Cold-Start Heterogeneous-Device Wireless Localization / 1429
Vincent W. Zheng, Hong Cao, Shenghua Gao, Aditi Adhikari, Miao Lin, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

Tracking Idea Flows between Social Groups / 1436
Yangxin Zhong, Shixia Liu, Xiting Wang, Jiannan Xiao, Yangqiu Song

Fast Hybrid Algorithm for Big Matrix Recovery / 1444
Tengfei Zhou, Hui Qian, Zebang Shen, Congfu Xu

Technical Papers: Machine Learning Methods

Data Poisoning Attacks against Autoregressive Models / 1452
Scott Alfeld, Xiaojin Zhu, Paul Barford

Approximate K-Means++ in Sublinear Time / 1459
Olivier Bachem, Mario Lucic, S. Hamed Hassani, Andreas Krause

Incremental Stochastic Factorization for Online Reinforcement Learning / 1468
Andre M. S. Barreto, Rafael L. Beirigo, Joelle Pineau, Doina Precup

Increasing the Action Gap: New Operators for Reinforcement Learning / 1476
Marc G. Bellemare, Georg Ostrovski, Arthur Guez, Philip S. Thomas, Remi Munos

Decoding Hidden Markov Models Faster Than Viterbi Via Online Matrix-Vector (max, +)-Multiplication / 1484
Massimo Cairo, Gabriele Farina, Romeo Rizzi

Maximum Margin Dirichlet Process Mixtures for Clustering / 1491
Gang Chen, Haiying Zhang, Caiming Xiong

Progressive EM for Latent Tree Models and Hierarchical Topic Detection / 1498
Peixian Chen, Nevin L. Zhang, Leonard K. M. Poon, Zhourong Chen

Knowledge Transfer with Interactive Learning of Semantic Relationships / 1505
Jonghyun Choi, Sung Ju Hwang, Leonid Sigal, Larry S. Davis

Robustness of Bayesian Pool-Based Active Learning Against Prior Misspecification / 1512
Nguyen Viet Cuong, Nan Ye, Wee Sun Lee

Learning Step Size Controllers for Robust Neural Network Training / 1519
Christian Daniel, Jonathan Taylor, Sebastian Nowozin

Reconstructing Hidden Permutations Using the Average-Precision (AP) Correlation Statistic / 1526
Lorenzo De Stefani, Alessandro Epasto, Eli Upfal, Fabio Vandin

Generalised Brown Clustering and Roll-Up Feature Generation / 1533
Leon Derczynski, Sean Chester

Random Composite Forests / 1540
Giulia DeSalvo, Mehryar Mohri

The Ostomachion Process / 1547
Xuhui Fan, Bin Li, Yi Wang, Yang Wang, Fang Chen

Indexable Probabilistic Matrix Factorization for Maximum Inner Product Search / 1554
Marco Fraccaro, Ulrich Paquet, Ole Winther

Fast Lasso Algorithm via Selective Coordinate Descent / 1561
Yasuhiro Fujiwara, Yasutoshi Ida, Hiroaki Shiokawa, Sotetsu Iwamura

Group and Graph Joint Sparsity for Linked Data Classification / 1568
Longwen Gao, Shuigeng Zhou

Risk Minimization in the Presence of Label Noise / 1575
Wei Gao, Lu Wang, Yu-Feng li, Zhi-Hua Zhou

Decentralized Approximate Bayesian Inference for Distributed Sensor Network / 1582
Behnam Gholami, Sejong Yoon, Vladimir Pavlovic

Assumed Density Filtering Methods for Learning Bayesian Neural Networks / 1589
Soumya Ghosh, Francesco Maria Delle Fave, Jonathan Yedidia

Extending the Modelling Capacity of Gaussian Conditional Random Fields while Learning Faster / 1596
Jesse Glass, Mohamed Ghalwash, Milan Vukicevic, Zoran Obradovic

Uncertainty Propagation in Long-Term Structured Regression on Evolving Networks / 1603
Djordje Gligorijevic, Jelena Stojanovic, Zoran Obradovic

Teaching-to-Learn and Learning-to-Teach for Multi-label Propagation / 1610
Chen Gong, Dacheng Tao, Jie Yang, Wei Liu

Discriminative Analysis Dictionary Learning / 1617
Jun Guo, Yanqing Guo, Xiangwei Kong, Man Zhang, Ran He

Active Learning with Cross-Class Knowledge Transfer / 1624
Yuchen Guo, Guiguang Ding, Yuqi Wang, Xiaoming Jin

Generalized Emphatic Temporal Difference Learning: Bias-Variance Analysis / 1631
Assaf Hallak, Aviv Tamar, Remi Munos, Shie Mannor

Multi-Stage Multi-Task Learning with Reduced Rank / 1638
Lei Han, Yu Zhang

Reduction Techniques for Graph-Based Convex Clustering / 1645
Lei Han, Yu Zhang

SAND: Semi-Supervised Adaptive Novel Class Detection and Classification over Data Stream / 1652
Ahsanul Haque, Latifur Khan, Michael Baron

Flattening the Density Gradient for Eliminating Spatial Centrality to Reduce Hubness / 1659
Kazuo Hara, Ikumi Suzuki, Kei Kobayashi, Kenji Fukumizu, Milos Radovanovic

Discriminative Vanishing Component Analysis / 1666
Chenping Hou, Feiping Nie, Dacheng Tao

Common and Discriminative Subspace Kernel-Based Multiblock Tensor Partial Least Squares Regression / 1673
Ming Hou, Qibin Zhao, Brahim Chaib-draa, Andrzej Cichocki

Multi-Label Manifold Learning / 1680
Peng Hou, Xin Geng, Min-Ling Zhang

Optimal Discrete Matrix Completion / 1687
Zhouyuan Huo, Ji Liu, Heng Huang

Conservativeness of Untied Auto-Encoders / 1694
Daniel Jiwoong Im, Mohamed Ishmael Belghazi, Roland Memisevic

Infinite Plaid Models for Infinite Bi-Clustering / 1701
Katsuhiko Ishiguro, Issei Sato, Masahiro Nakano, Akisato Kimura, Naonori Ueda

Improving Predictive State Representations via Gradient Descent / 1709
Nan Jiang, Alex Kulesza, Satinder Singh

A Probabilistic Approach to Knowledge Translation / 1716
Shangpu Jiang, Daniel Lowd, Dejing Dou

The l2, 1-Norm Stacked Robust Autoencoders for Domain Adaptation / 1723
Wenhao Jiang, Hongchang Gao, Fu-lai Chung, Heng Huang

Wishart Mechanism for Differentially Private Principal Components Analysis / 1730
Wuxuan Jiang, Cong Xie, Zhihua Zhang

Deep Learning with S-Shaped Rectified Linear Activation Units / 1737
Xiaojie Jin, Chunyan Xu, Jiashi Feng, Yunchao Wei, Junjun Xiong, Shuicheng Yan

Delay-Tolerant Online Convex Optimization: Unified Analysis and Adaptive-Gradient Algorithms / 1744
Pooria Joulani, Andras Gyorgy, Csaba Szepesvari

Shakeout: A New Regularized Deep Neural Network Training Scheme / 1751
Guoliang Kang, Jun Li, Dacheng Tao

Bounded Optimal Exploration in MDP / 1758
Kenji Kawaguchi

Uncorrelated Group LASSO / 1765
Deguang Kong, Ji Liu, Bo Liu, Xuan Bao

Learning Future Classifiers without Additional Data / 1772
Atsutoshi Kumagai, Tomoharu Iwata

Compressed Conditional Mean Embeddings for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning / 1779
Guy Lever, John Shawe-Taylor, Ronnie Stafford, Csaba Szepesvari

Preconditioned Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics for Deep Neural Networks / 1788
Chunyuan Li, Changyou Chen, David Carlson, Lawrence Carin

High-Order Stochastic Gradient Thermostats for Bayesian Learning of Deep Models / 1795
Chunyuan Li, Changyou Chen, Kai Fan, Lawrence Carin

Multi-Objective Self-Paced Learning / 1802
Hao Li, Maoguo Gong, Deyu Meng, Qiguang Miao

Scalable Sequential Spectral Clustering / 1809
Yeqing Li, Junzhou Huang, Wei Liu

Towards Safe Semi-Supervised Learning for Multivariate Performance Measures / 1816
Yu-Feng Li, James T. Kwok, Zhi-Hua Zhou

Accelerating Random Kaczmarz Algorithm Based on Clustering Information / 1823
Yujun Li, Kaichun Mo, Haishan Ye

Fast and Accurate Refined Nyström-Based Kernel SVM / 1830
Zhe Li, Tianbao Yang, Lijun Zhang, Rong Jin

How Important Is Weight Symmetry in Backpropagation? / 1837
Qianli Liao, Joel Z. Leibo, Tomaso Poggio

Re-Active Learning: Active Learning with Relabeling / 1845
Christopher H. Lin, M Mausam, Daniel S. Weld

Interaction Point Processes via Infinite Branching Model / 1853
Peng Lin, Bang Zhang, Ting Guo, Yang Wang, Fang Chen

Gaussian Process Planning with Lipschitz Continuous Reward Functions: Towards Unifying Bayesian Optimization, Active Learning, and Beyond / 1860
Chun Kai Ling, Kian Hsiang Low, Patrick Jaillet

Online ARIMA Algorithms for Time Series Prediction / 1867
Chenghao Liu, Steven C.H. Hoi, Peilin Zhao, Jianling Sun

Consensus Guided Unsupervised Feature Selection / 1874
Hongfu Liu, Ming Shao, Yun Fu

Sparse Perceptron Decision Tree for Millions of Dimensions / 1881
Weiwei Liu, Ivor W. Tsang

Multiple Kernel k-Means Clustering with Matrix-Induced Regularization / 1888
Xinwang Liu, Yong Dou, Jianping Yin, Lei Wang, En Zhu

Finding One's Best Crowd: Online Learning By Exploiting Source Similarity / 1895
Yang Liu, Mingyan Liu

Learning FRAME Models Using CNN Filters / 1902
Yang Lu, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu

Sparse Latent Space Policy Search / 1911
Kevin Sebastian Luck, Joni Pajarinen, Erik Berger, Ville Kyrki, Heni Ben Amor

Expected Tensor Decomposition with Stochastic Gradient Descent / 1919
Takanori Maehara, Kohei Hayashi, Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi

Offline Evaluation of Online Reinforcement Learning Algorithms / 1926
Travis Mandel, Yun-En Liu, Emma Brunskill, Zoran Popović

Reinforcement Learning with Parameterized Actions / 1934
Warwick Masson, Pravesh Ranchod, George Konidaris

Fixed-Rank Supervised Metric Learning on Riemannian Manifold / 1941
Yadong Mu

All-in Text: Learning Document, Label, and Word Representations Jointly / 1948
Jinseok Nam, Eneldo Loza Mencía, Johannes Fürnkranz

Holographic Embeddings of Knowledge Graphs / 1955
Maximilian Nickel, Lorenzo Rosasco, Tomaso Poggio

New l1-Norm Relaxations and Optimizations for Graph Clustering / 1962
Feiping Nie, Hua Wang, Cheng Deng, Xinbo Gao, Xuelong Li, Heng Huang

The Constrained Laplacian Rank Algorithm for Graph-Based Clustering / 1969
Feiping Nie, Xiaoqian Wang, Michael I. Jordan, Heng Huang

Efficient PAC-Optimal Exploration in Concurrent, Continuous State MDPs with Delayed Updates / 1977
Jason Pazis, Ronald Parr

Viral Clustering: A Robust Method to Extract Structures in Heterogeneous Datasets / 1986
Vahan Petrosyan, Alexandre Proutiere

Inverse Reinforcement Learning through Policy Gradient Minimization / 1993
Matteo Pirotta, Marcello Restelli

Scaling Simultaneous Optimistic Optimization for High-Dimensional Non-Convex Functions with Low Effective Dimensions / 2000
Hong Qian, Yang Yu

Selecting Near-Optimal Learners via Incremental Data Allocation / 2007
Ashish Sabharwal, Horst Samulowitz, Gerald Tesauro

Scalable Algorithms for Tractable Schatten Quasi-Norm Minimization / 2016
Fanhua Shang, Yuanyuan Liu, James Cheng

Spectral Bisection Tree Guided Deep Adaptive Exemplar Autoencoder for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation / 2023
Ming Shao, Zhengming Ding, Handong Zhao, Yun Fu

Metric Learning for Ordinal Data / 2030
Yuan Shi, Wenzhe Li, Fei Sha

Noisy Submodular Maximization via Adaptive Sampling with Applications to Crowdsourced Image Collection Summarization / 2037
Adish Singla, Sebastian Tschiatschek, Andreas Krause

Bayesian Matrix Completion via Adaptive Relaxed Spectral Regularization / 2044
Yang Song, Jun Zhu

Marginalized Continuous Time Bayesian Networks for Network Reconstruction from Incomplete Observations / 2051
Lukas Studer, Loic Paulevé, Christoph Zechner, Matthias Reumann, María Rodríguez Martínez, Heinz Koeppl

Return of Frustratingly Easy Domain Adaptation / 2058
Baochen Sun, Jiashi Feng, Kate Saenko

On the Depth of Deep Neural Networks: A Theoretical View / 2066
Shizhao Sun, Wei Chen, Liwei Wang, Xiaoguang Liu, Tie-Yan Liu

Linear-Time Learning on Distributions with Approximate Kernel Embeddings / 2073
Danica J. Sutherland, Junier B. Oliva, Barnabás Póczos, Jeff Schneider

Learning Sparse Confidence-Weighted Classifier on Very High Dimensional Data / 2080
Mingkui Tan, Yan Yan, Li Wang, Anton Van Den Hengel, Ivor W. Tsang, Qinfeng (Javen) Shi

Algorithms for Differentially Private Multi-Armed Bandits / 2087
Aristide C. Y. Tossou, Christos Dimitrakakis

Deep Reinforcement Learning with Double Q-Learning / 2094
Hado van Hasselt, Arthur Guez, David Silver

Online Instrumental Variable Regression with Applications to Online Linear System Identification / 2101
Arun Venkatraman, Wen Sun, Martial Hebert, J. Andrew Bagnell, Byron Boots

The Hidden Convexity of Spectral Clustering / 2108
James Voss, Mikhail Belkin, Luis Rademacher

Multitask Generalized Eigenvalue Program / 2115
Boyu Wang, Joelle Pineau, Borja Balle

Product Grassmann Manifold Representation and Its LRR Models / 2122
Boyue Wang, Yongli Hu, Junbin Gao, Yanfeng Sun, Baocai Yin

Text Classification with Heterogeneous Information Network Kernels / 2130
Chenguang Wang, Yangqiu Song, Haoran Li, Ming Zhang, Jiawei Han

Semi-Supervised Dictionary Learning via Structural Sparse Preserving / 2137
Di Wang, Xiaoqin Zhang, Mingyu Fan, Xiuzi Ye

Relational Knowledge Transfer for Zero-Shot Learning / 2145
Donghui Wang, Yanan Li, Yuetan Lin, Yueting Zhuang

Optimizing Multivariate Performance Measures from Multi-View Data / 2152
Jim Jing-Yan Wang, Ivor Wai-Hung Tsang, Xin Gao

An Efficient Time Series Subsequence Pattern Mining and Prediction Framework with an Application to Respiratory Motion Prediction / 2159
Shouyi Wang, Kinming Kam, Cao Xiao, Stephen Bowen, Wanpracha Art Chaovalitwongse

Co-Regularized PLSA for Multi-Modal Learning / 2166
Xin Wang, MingChing Chang, Yiming Ying, Siwei Lyu

Toward a Better Understanding of Deep Neural Network Based Acoustic Modelling: An Empirical Investigation / 2173
Xingfu Wang, Lin Wang, Jing Chen, Litao Wu

Noise-Adaptive Margin-Based Active Learning and Lower Bounds under Tsybakov Noise Condition / 2180
Yining Wang, Aarti Singh

Learning by Transferring from Unsupervised Universal Sources / 2187
Yu-Xiong Wang, Martial Hebert

Learning Deep ℓ₀ Encoders / 2194
Zhangyang Wang, Qing Ling, Thomas S. Huang

Adaptive Normalized Risk-Averting Training for Deep Neural Networks / 2201
Zhiguang Wang, Tim Oates, James Lo

Nonlinear Feature Extraction with Max-Margin Data Shifting / 2208
Jianqiao Wangni, Ning Chen

Unsupervised Feature Selection on Networks: A Generative View / 2215
Xiaokai Wei, Bokai Cao, Philip S. Yu

Model-Free Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning / 2222
Christian Wirth, Johannes Fürnkranz, Gerhard Neumann

Constrained Submodular Minimization for Missing Labels and Class Imbalance in Multi-label Learning / 2229
Baoyuan Wu, Siwei Lyu, Bernard Ghanem

Representing Sets of Instances for Visual Recognition / 2237
Jianxin Wu, Bin-Bin Gao, Guoqing Liu

Robust Semi-Supervised Learning through Label Aggregation / 2244
Yan Yan, Zhongwen Xu, Ivor W. Tsang, Guodong Long, Yi Yang

Analysis-Synthesis Dictionary Learning for Universality-Particularity Representation Based Classification / 2251
Meng Yang, Weiyang Liu, Weixin Luo, Linlin Shen

Efficient Average Reward Reinforcement Learning Using Constant Shifting Values / 2258
Shangdong Yang, Yang Gao, Bo An, Hao Wang, Xingguo Chen

Learning Continuous-Time Bayesian Networks in Relational Domains: A Non-Parametric Approach / 2265
Shuo Yang, Tushar Khot, Kristian Kersting, Sriraam Natarajan

Instance Specific Metric Subspace Learning: A Bayesian Approach / 2272
Han-Jia Ye, De-Chuan Zhan, Yuan Jiang

Scalable Completion of Nonnegative Matrix with Separable Structure / 2279
Xiyu Yu, Wei Bian, Dacheng Tao

Derivative-Free Optimization via Classification / 2286
Yang Yu, Hong Qian, Yi-Qi Hu

On Order-Constrained Transitive Distance Clustering / 2293
Zhiding Yu, Weiyang Liu, Wenbo Liu, Yingzhen Yang, Ming Li, B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar

A Proximal Alternating Direction Method for Semi-Definite Rank Minimization / 2300
Ganzhao Yuan, Bernard Ghanem

Learning Expected Hitting Time Distance / 2309
De-Chuan Zhan, Peng Hu, Zui Chu, Zhi-Hua Zhou

Stochastic Optimization for Kernel PCA / 2315
Lijun Zhang, Tianbao Yang, Jinfeng Yi, Rong Jin, Zhi-Hua Zhou

Asynchronous Distributed Semi-Stochastic Gradient Optimization / 2323
Ruiliang Zhang, Shuai Zheng, James T. Kwok

An Alternating Proximal Splitting Method with Global Convergence for Nonconvex Structured Sparsity Optimization / 2330
Shubao Zhang, Hui Qian, Xiaojin Gong

Accelerated Sparse Linear Regression via Random Projection / 2337
Weizhong Zhang, Lijun Zhang, Rong Jin, Deng Cai, Xiaofei He

Large-Scale Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Learning via Tree Laplacian Solver / 2344
Yan-Ming Zhang, Xu-Yao Zhang, Xiao-Tong Yuan, Cheng-Lin Liu

Near-Optimal Active Learning of Multi-Output Gaussian Processes / 2351
Yehong Zhang, Trong Nghia Hoang, Kian Hsiang Low, Mohan Kankanhalli

Multi-Domain Active Learning for Recommendation / 2358
Zihan Zhang, Xiaoming Jin, Lianghao Li, Guiguang Ding, Qiang Yang

On the Differential Privacy of Bayesian Inference / 2365
Zuhe Zhang, Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein, Christos Dimitrakakis

A Scalable and Extensible Framework for Superposition-Structured Models / 2372
Shenjian Zhao, Cong Xie, Zhihua Zhang

Fast Asynchronous Parallel Stochastic Gradient Descent: A Lock-Free Approach with Convergence Guarantee / 2379
Shen-Yi Zhao, Wu-Jun Li

DinTucker: Scaling Up Gaussian Process Models on Large Multidimensional Arrays / 2386
Shandian Zhe, Yuan Qi, Youngja Park, Zenglin Xu, Ian Molloy, Suresh Chari

Fast Nonsmooth Regularized Risk Minimization with Continuation / 2393
Shuai Zheng, Ruiliang Zhang, James T. Kwok

Transfer Learning for Cross-Language Text Categorization through Active Correspondences Construction / 2400
Joey Tianyi Zhou, Sinno Jialin Pan, Ivor W. Tsang, Shen-Shyang Ho

Veto-Consensus Multiple Kernel Learning / 2407
Yuxun Zhou, Ninghang Hu, Costas J. Spanos

Deep Hashing Network for Efficient Similarity Retrieval / 2415
Han Zhu, Mingsheng Long, Jianmin Wang, Yue Cao

Coupled Dictionary Learning for Unsupervised Feature Selection / 2422
Pengfei Zhu, Qinghua Hu, Changqing Zhang, Wangmeng Zuo

Stochastic Parallel Block Coordinate Descent for Large-Scale Saddle Point Problems / 2429
Zhanxing Zhu, Amos J. Storkey

Technical Papers: Multiagent Systems

Temporal Vaccination Games under Resource Constraints / 2438
Abhijin Adiga, Anil Vullikanti

Detection of Plan Deviation in Multi-Agent Systems / 2445
Bikramjit Banerjee, Steven Loscalzo, Daniel Lucas Thompson

Complexity of Shift Bribery in Committee Elections / 2452
Robert Bredereck, Piotr Faliszewski, Rolf Niedermeier, Nimrod Talmon

Global Model Checking on Pushdown Multi-Agent Systems / 2459
Taolue Chen, Fu Song, Zhilin Wu

Frugal Bribery in Voting / 2466
Palash Dey, Neeldhara Misra, Y. Narahari

Target Surveillance in Adversarial Environments Using POMDPs / 2473
Maxim Egorov, Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Jaak J. Uudmae

Multi-Variable Agents Decomposition for DCOPs / 2480
Ferdinando Fioretto, William Yeoh, Enrico Pontelli

Implicit Coordination in Crowded Multi-Agent Navigation / 2487
Julio Erasmo Godoy, Ioannis Karamouzas, Stephen J. Guy, Maria Gini

Emergence of Social Punishment and Cooperation through Prior Commitments / 2494
The Anh Han

Efficient Computation of Emergent Equilibrium in Agent-Based Simulation / 2501
Zehong Hu, Meng Sha, Moath Jarrah, Jie Zhang, Hui Xi

Strengthening Agents Strategic Ability with Communication / 2509
Xiaowei Huang, Qingliang Chen, Kaile Su

Model Checking Probabilistic Knowledge: A PSPACE Case / 2516
Xiaowei Huang, Marta Kwiatkowska

Learning for Decentralized Control of Multiagent Systems in Large, Partially-Observable Stochastic Environments / 2523
Miao Liu, Christopher Amato, Emily P. Anesta, John Daniel Griffith, Jonathan P How

Bayesian Learning of Other Agents' Finite Controllers for Interactive POMDPs / 2530
Alessandro Panella, Piotr Gmytrasiewicz

Exploiting Anonymity in Approximate Linear Programming: Scaling to Large Multiagent MDPs / 2537
Philipp Robbel, Frans A. Oliehoek, Mykel J. Kochenderfer

ConTaCT: Deciding to Communicate during Time-Critical Collaborative Tasks in Unknown, Deterministic Domains / 2544
Vaibhav V. Unhelkar, Julie A. Shah

Is It Harmful When Advisors Only Pretend to Be Honest? / 2551
Dongxia Wang, Tim Muller, Jie Zhang, Yang Liu

Robust Execution of BDI Agent Programs by Exploiting Synergies Between Intentions / 2558
Yuan Yao, Brian Logan, John Thangarajah

Technical Papers: NLP and Knowledge Representation

Short Text Representation for Detecting Churn in Microblogs / 2566
Hadi Amiri, Hal Daume III

Topic Concentration in Query Focused Summarization Datasets / 2573
Tal Baumel, Raphael Cohen, Michael Elhadad

Combining Retrieval, Statistics, and Inference to Answer Elementary Science Questions / 2580
Peter Clark, Oren Etzioni, Tushar Khot, Ashish Sabharwal, Oyvind Tafjord, Peter Turney, Daniel Khashabi

Verb Pattern: A Probabilistic Semantic Representation on Verbs / 2587
Wanyun Cui, Xiyou Zhou, Hangyu Lin, Yanghua Xiao, Haixun Wang, Seung-won Hwang, Wei Wang

ExTaSem! Extending, Taxonomizing and Semantifying Domain Terminologies / 2594
Luis Espinosa-Anke, Horacio Saggion, Francesco Ronzano, Roberto Navigli

A Unified Bayesian Model of Scripts, Frames and Language / 22601
Francis Ferraro, Benjamin Van Durme

Single or Multiple? Combining Word Representations Independently Learned from Text and WordNet / 2608
Josu Goikoetxea, Eneko Agirre, Aitor Soroa

Representing Verbs as Argument Concepts / 2615
Yu Gong, Kaiqi Zhao, Kenny Qili Zhu

A Generative Model of Words and Relationships from Multiple Sources / 2622
Stephanie L. Hyland, Theofanis Karaletsos, Gunnar Rätsch

Agreement on Target-Bidirectional LSTMs for Sequence-to-Sequence Learning / 2630
Lemao Liu, Andrew Finch, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita

Fine-Grained Semantic Conceptualization of FrameNet / 2638
Jin-woo Park, Seung-won Hwang, Haixun Wang

Dependency Tree Representations of Predicate-Argument Structures / 2645
Likun Qiu, Yue Zhang, Meishan Zhang

Complementing Semantic Roles with Temporally Anchored Spatial Knowledge: Crowdsourced Annotations and Experiments / 2652
Alakananda Vempala, Eduardo Blanco

Representation Learning of Knowledge Graphs with Entity Descriptions / 2659
Ruobing Xie, Zhiyuan Liu, Jia Jia, Huanbo Luan, Maosong Sun

Hashtag-Based Sub-Event Discovery Using Mutually Generative LDA in Twitter / 2666
Chen Xing, Yuan Wang, Jie Liu, Yalou Huang, Wei-Ying Ma

PEAK: Pyramid Evaluation via Automated Knowledge Extraction / 2673
Qian Yang, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Gerard de Melo

Technical Papers: NLP and Machine Learning

Instructable Intelligent Personal Agent / 2681
Amos Azaria, Jayant Krishnamurthy, Tom M. Mitchell

Joint Word Representation Learning Using a Corpus and a Semantic Lexicon / 2690
Danushka Bollegala, Mohammed Alsuhaibani, Takanori Maehara, Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi

Ask, and Shall You Receive? Understanding Desire Fulfillment in Natural Language Text / 2697
Snigdha Chaturvedi, Dan Goldwasser, Hal Daume III

Modeling Evolving Relationships Between Characters in Literary Novels / 2704
Snigdha Chaturvedi, Shashank Srivastava, Hal Daume III, Chris Dyer

Jointly Modeling Topics and Intents with Global Order Structure / 2711
Bei Chen, Jun Zhu, Nan Yang, Tian Tian, Ming Zhou, Bo Zhang

Extracting Biomolecular Interactions Using Semantic Parsing of Biomedical Text / 2718
Sahil Garg, Aram Galstyan, Ulf Hermjakob, Daniel Marcu

What Happens Next? Event Prediction Using a Compositional Neural Network Model / 2727
Mark Granroth-Wilding, Stephen Clark

A Representation Learning Framework for Multi-Source Transfer Parsing / 2734
Jiang Guo, Wanxiang Che, David Yarowsky, Haifeng Wang, Ting Liu

Character-Aware Neural Language Models / 2741
Yoon Kim, Yacine Jernite, David Sontag, Alexander M. Rush

Implicit Discourse Relation Classification via Multi-Task Neural Networks / 2750
Yang Liu, Sujian Li, Xiaodong Zhang, Zhifang Sui

Convolution Kernels for Discriminative Learning from Streaming Text / 2757
Michal Lukasik, Trevor Cohn

Numerical Relation Extraction with Minimal Supervision / 2764
Aman Madaan, Ashish Mittal, . Mausam, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Sunita Sarawagi

Listen, Attend, and Walk: Neural Mapping of Navigational Instructions to Action Sequences / 2772
Hongyuan Mei, Mohit Bansal, Matthew R. Walter

Addressing a Question Answering Challenge by Combining Statistical Methods with Inductive Rule Learning and Reasoning / 2779
Arindam Mitra, Chitta Baral

Siamese Recurrent Architectures for Learning Sentence Similarity / 2786
Jonas Mueller, Aditya Thyagarajan

Text Matching as Image Recognition / 2793
Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Jun Xu, Shengxian Wan, Xueqi Cheng

Learning Statistical Scripts with LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks / 2800
Karl Pichotta, Raymond J. Mooney

Inferring Interpersonal Relations in Narrative Summaries / 2807
Shashank Srivastava, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Tom Mitchell

Evaluation of Semantic Dependency Labeling Across Domains / 2814
Svetlana Stoyanchev, Amanda Stent, Srinivas Bangalore

Inside Out: Two Jointly Predictive Models for Word Representations and Phrase Representations / 2821
Fei Sun, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, Xueqi Cheng

Non-Linear Similarity Learning for Compositionality / 2828
Masashi Tsubaki, Kevin Duh, Masashi Shimbo, Yuji Matsumoto

A Deep Architecture for Semantic Matching with Multiple Positional Sentence Representations / 2835
Shengxian Wan, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Jun Xu, Liang Pang, Xueqi Cheng

Morphological Segmentation with Window LSTM Neural Networks / 2842
Linlin Wang, Zhu Cao, Yu Xia, Gerard de Melo

Minimally-Constrained Multilingual Embeddings via Artificial Code-Switching / 2849
Michael Wick, Pallika Kanani, Adam Pocock

Syntactic Skeleton-Based Translation / 2856
Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu, Chunliang Zhang, Tongran Liu

A Morphology-Aware Network for Morphological Disambiguation / 2863
Eray Yildiz, Caglar Tirkaz, H. Bahadır Sahin, Mustafa Tolga Eren, Omer Ozan Sonmez

Building Earth Mover's Distance on Bilingual Word Embeddings for Machine Translation / 2870
Meng Zhang, Yang Liu, Huanbo Luan, Maosong Sun, Tatsuya Izuha, Jie Hao

Semi-Supervised Multinomial Naive Bayes for Text Classification by Leveraging Word-Level Statistical Constraint / 2877
Li Zhao, Minlie Huang, Ziyu Yao, Rongwei Su, Yingying Jiang, Xiaoyan Zhu

Technical Papers: NLP and Text Mining

Labeling the Semantic Roles of Commas / 2885
Naveen Arivazhagan, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Dan Roth

Collective Supervision of Topic Models for Predicting Surveys with Social Media / 2892
Adrian Benton, Michael J. Paul, Braden Hancock, Mark Dredze

Distant IE by Bootstrapping Using Lists and Document Structure / 2899
Lidong Bing, Mingyang Ling, Richard C. Wang, William W. Cohen

TGSum: Build Tweet Guided Multi-Document Summarization Dataset / 2906
Ziqiang Cao, Chengyao Chen, Wenjie Li, Sujian Li, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou

Joint Inference over a Lightly Supervised Information Extraction Pipeline: Towards Event Coreference Resolution for Resource-Scarce Languages / 2913
Chen Chen, Vincent Ng

Discourse Relations Detection via a Mixed Generative-Discriminative Framework / 2921
Jifan Chen, Qi Zhang, Pengfei Liu, Xuanjing Huang

Age of Exposure: A Model of Word Learning / 2928
Mihai Dascalu, Danielle S. McNamara, Scott Crossley, Stefan Trausan-Matu

Acquiring Knowledge of Affective Events from Blogs Using Label Propagation / 2935
Haibo Ding, Ellen Riloff

To Swap or Not to Swap? Exploiting Dependency Word Pairs for Reordering in Statistical Machine Translation / 2943
Christian Hadiwinoto, Yang Liu, Hwee Tou Ng

Global Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction / 2950
Xianpei Han, Le Sun

Extracting Topical Phrases from Clinical Documents / 2957
Yulan He

Topical Analysis of Interactions Between News and Social Media / 2964
Ting Hua, Yue Ning, Feng Chen, Chang-Tien Lu, Naren Ramakrishnan

News Verification by Exploiting Conflicting Social Viewpoints in Microblogs / 2972
Zhiwei Jin, Juan Cao, Yongdong Zhang, Jiebo Luo

Argument Mining from Speech: Detecting Claims in Political Debates / 2979
Marco Lippi, Paolo Torroni

Improving Opinion Aspect Extraction Using Semantic Similarity and Aspect Associations / 2986
Qian Liu, Bing Liu, Yuanlin Zhang, Doo Soon Kim, Zhiqiang Gao

A Probabilistic Soft Logic Based Approach to Exploiting Latent and Global Information in Event Classification / 2993
Shulin Liu, Kang Liu, Shizhu He, Jun Zhao

Reading the Videos: Temporal Labeling for Crowdsourced Time-Sync Videos Based on Semantic Embedding / 3000
Guangyi Lv, Tong Xu, Enhong Chen, Qi Liu, Yi Zheng

Joint Word Segmentation, POS-Tagging and Syntactic Chunking / 3007
Chen Lyu, Yue Zhang, Donghong Ji

Microsummarization of Online Reviews: An Experimental Study / 3015
Rebecca Mason, Benjamin Gaska, Benjamin Van Durme, Pallavi Choudhury, Ted Hart, Bill Dolan, Kristina Toutanova, Margaret Mitchell

A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach to Why-Question Answering / 3022
Jong-Hoon Oh, Kentaro Torisawa, Chikara Hashimoto, Ryu Iida, Masahiro Tanaka, Julien Kloetzer

Discovering User Attribute Stylistic Differences via Paraphrasing / 3030
Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, Wei Xu, Lyle Ungar

Improving Twitter Sentiment Classification Using Topic-Enriched Multi-Prototype Word Embeddings / 3038
Yafeng Ren, Yue Zhang, Meishan Zhang, Donghong Ji

Temporal Topic Analysis with Endogenous and Exogenous Processes / 3045
Baiyang Wang, Diego Klabjan

Identifying Search Keywords for Finding Relevant Social Media Posts / 3052
Shuai Wang, Zhiyuan Chen, Bing Liu, Sherry Emery

Personalized Microblog Sentiment Classification via Multi-Task Learning / 3059
Fangzhao Wu, Yongfeng Huang

Improving Recommendation of Tail Tags for Questions in Community Question Answering / 3066
Yu Wu, Wei Wu, Zhoujun Li, Ming Zhou

Exploring Multiple Feature Spaces for Novel Entity Discovery / 3073
Zhaohui Wu, Yang Song, C. Lee Giles

Tweet Timeline Generation with Determinantal Point Processes / 3080
Jin-ge Yao, Feifan Fan, Wayne Xin Zhao, Xiaojun Wan, Edward Chang, Jianguo Xiao

Gated Neural Networks for Targeted Sentiment Analysis / 3087
Meishan Zhang, Yue Zhang, Duy-Tin Vo

A Joint Model for Question Answering over Multiple Knowledge Bases / 3094
Yuanzhe Zhang, Shizhu He, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao

A Joint Model for Entity Set Expansion and Attribute Extraction from Web Search Queries / 3101
Zhenzhong Zhang, Le Sun, Xianpei Han

Aggregating Inter-Sentence Information to Enhance Relation Extraction / 3108
Hao Zheng, Zhoujun Li, Senzhang Wang, Zhao Yan, Jianshe Zhou

Technical Papers: Planning and Scheduling

Dynamic Controllability of Disjunctive Temporal Networks: Validation and Synthesis of Executable Strategies / 3116
Alessandro Cimatti, Andrea Micheli, Marco Roveri

Truncated Approximate Dynamic Programming with Task-Dependent Terminal Value / 3123
Amir-massoud Farahmand, Daniel N. Nikovski, Yuji Igarashi, Hiroki Konaka

General Error Bounds in Heuristic Search Algorithms for Stochastic Shortest Path Problems / 3130
Eric A. Hansen, Ibrahim Abdoulahi

Solving Risk-Sensitive POMDPs With and Without Cost Observations / 3138
Ping Hou, William Yeoh, Pradeep Varakantham

Randomised Procedures for Initialising and Switching Actions in Policy Iteration / 3145
Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Neeldhara Misra, Aditya Gopalan

Goal Recognition Design with Non-Observable Actions / 3152
Sarah Keren, Avigdor Gal, Erez Karpas

Computing Contingent Plans Using Online Replanning / 3159
Radimir Komarnitsky, Guy Shani

Multi-Agent Path Finding with Payload Transfers and the Package-Exchange Robot-Routing Problem / 3166
Hang Ma, Craig Tovey, Guni Sharon, T. K. Satish Kumar, Sven Koenig

Solving Transition-Independent Multi-Agent MDPs with Sparse Interactions / 3174
Joris Scharpff, Diederik M. Roijers, Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Mathijs M. de Weerdt

Solving Goal Recognition Design Using ASP / 3181
Tran Cao Son, Orkunt Sabuncu, Christian Schulz-Hanke, Torsten Schaub, William Yeoh

Efficient Macroscopic Urban Traffic Models for Reducing Congestion: A PDDL+ Planning Approach / 3188
Mauro Vallati, Daniele Magazzeni, Bart De Schutter, Lukas Chrpa, Thomas Leo McCluskey

A Proactive Sampling Approach to Project Scheduling under Uncertainty / 3195
Pradeep Varakantham, Na Fu, Hoong Chuin Lau

A POMDP Formulation of Proactive Learning / 3202
Kyle Hollins Wray, Shlomo Zilberstein

Approximation Algorithms for Route Planning with Nonlinear Objectives / 3209
Ger Yang, Evdokia Nikolova

Technical Papers: Reasoning under Uncertainty

Approximate Probabilistic Inference via Word-Level Counting / 3218
Supratik Chakraborty, Kuldeep S. Meel, Rakesh Mistry, Moshe Y. Vardi

A Symbolic SAT-Based Algorithm for Almost-Sure Reachability with Small Strategies in POMDPs / 3225
Krishnendu Chatterjee, Martin Chmelík, Jessica Davies

Structured Features in Naive Bayes Classification / 3233
Arthur Choi, Nazgol Tavabi, Adnan Darwiche

On Parameter Tying by Quantization / 3241
Li Chou, Somdeb Sarkhel, Nicholas Ruozzi, Vibhav Gogate

Exact Sampling with Integer Linear Programs and Random Perturbations / 3248
Carolyn Kim, Ashish Sabharwal, Stefano Ermon

From Exact to Anytime Solutions for Marginal MAP / 3255
Junkyu Lee, Radu Marinescu, Rina Dechter, Alexander Ihler

On Learning Causal Models from Relational Data / 3263
Sanghack Lee, Vasant Honavar

Online Spatio-Temporal Matching in Stochastic and Dynamic Domains / 3271
Meghna Lowalekar, Pradeep Varakantham, Patrick Jaillet

Scaling Relational Inference Using Proofs and Refutations / 3278
Ravi Mangal, Xin Zhang, Aditya Kamath, Aditya V. Nori, Mayur Naik

Closed-Form Gibbs Sampling for Graphical Models with Algebraic Constraints / 3287
Hadi Mohasel Afshar, Scott Sanner, Christfried Webers

Learning Bayesian Networks with Bounded Tree-width via Guided Search / 3294
Siqi Nie, Cassio P. de Campos, Qiang Ji

Learning Ensembles of Cutset Networks / 3301
Tahrima Rahman, Vibhav Gogate

RAO*: An Algorithm for Chance-Constrained POMDP's / 3308
Pedro Henrique Rodrigues Quemel e Assis Santana, Sylvie Thiébaux, Brian Williams

Separators and Adjustment Sets in Markov Equivalent DAGs / 3315
Benito van der Zander, Maciej Liskiewicz

Closing the Gap Between Short and Long XORs for Model Counting / 3322
Shengjia Zhao, Sorathan Chaturapruek, Ashish Sabharwal, Stefano Ermon

Technical Papers: Robotics

Distance Minimization for Reward Learning from Scored Trajectories / 3330
Benjamin Burchfiel, Carlo Tomasi, Ronald Parr

Efficient Spatio-Temporal Tactile Object Recognition with Randomized Tiling Convolutional Networks in a Hierarchical Fusion Strategy / 3337
Lele Cao, Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, Fuchun Sun, Hongbo Li, Wenbing Huang, Zay Maung Maung Aye

Continual Planning in Golog / 3346
Till Hofmann, Tim Niemueller, Jens Claßen, Gerhard Lakemeyer

Selectively Reactive Coordination for a Team of Robot Soccer Champions / 3354
Juan Pablo Mendoza, Joydeep Biswas, Philip Cooksey, Richard Wang, Steven Klee, Danny Zhu, Manuela Veloso

Deep Tracking: Seeing Beyond Seeing Using Recurrent Neural Networks / 3361
Peter Ondruska, Ingmar Posner

Technical Papers: Search and Constraint Satisfaction

Component Caching in Hybrid Domains with Piecewise Polynomial Densities / 3369
Vaishak Belle, Guy Van den Broeck, Andrea Passerini

The Meta-Problem for Conservative Mal'tsev Constraints / 3376
Clement Carbonnel

Steiner Tree Problems with Side Constraints Using Constraint Programming / 3383
Diego de Uña, Graeme Gange, Peter Schachte, Peter J. Stuckey

Alternative Filtering for the Weighted Circuit Constraint: Comparing Lower Bounds for the TSP and Solving TSPTW / 3390
Sylvain Ducomman, Hadrien Cambazard, Bernard Penz

Using the Shapley Value to Analyze Algorithm Portfolios / 3397
Alexandre Fréchette, Lars Kotthoff, Tomasz Michalak, Talal Rahwan, Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown

On the Extraction of One Maximal Information Subset That Does Not Conflict with Multiple Contexts / 3404
éric Grégoire, Yacine Izza, Jean-Marie Lagniez

Bidirectional Search That Is Guaranteed to Meet in the Middle / 3411
Robert C. Holte, Ariel Felner, Guni Sharon, Nathan R. Sturtevant

Breaking More Composition Symmetries Using Search Heuristics / 3418
Jimmy H. M. Lee, Zichen Zhu

Increasing Nogoods in Restart-Based Search / 3426
Jimmy H. M. Lee, Christian Schulte, Zichen Zhu

Exponential Recency Weighted Average Branching Heuristic for SAT Solvers / 3434
Jia Hui Liang, Vijay Ganesh, Pascal Poupart, Krzysztof Czarnecki

Counting-Based Search for Constraint Optimization Problems / 3441
Gilles Pesant

Technical Papers: Vision

Are Elephants Bigger than Butterflies? Reasoning about Sizes of Objects / 3449
Hessam Bagherinezhad, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Yejin Choi, Ali Farhadi

Deep Quantization Network for Efficient Image Retrieval / 3457
Yue Cao, Mingsheng Long, Jianmin Wang, Han Zhu, Qingfu Wen

Dynamic Concept Composition for Zero-Example Event Detection / 3464
Xiaojun Chang, Yi Yang, Guodong Long, Chengqi Zhang, Alexander G. Hauptmann

Face Video Retrieval via Deep Learning of Binary Hash Representations / 3471
Zhen Dong, Su Jia, Tianfu Wu, Mingtao Pei

Zero-Shot Event Detection by Multimodal Distributional Semantic Embedding of Videos / 3478
Mohamed Elhoseiny, Jingen Liu, Hui Cheng, Harpreet Sawhney, Ahmed Elgammal

Concepts Not Alone: Exploring Pairwise Relationships for Zero-Shot Video Activity Recognition / 3487
Chuang Gan, Ming Lin, Yi Yang, Gerard de Melo, Alexander G. Hauptmann

Transductive Zero-Shot Recognition via Shared Model Space Learning / 3434
Yuchen Guo, Guiguang Ding, Xiaoming Jin, Jianmin Wang

Reading Scene Text in Deep Convolutional Sequences / 3501
Pan He, Weilin Huang, Yu Qiao, Chen Change Loy, Xiaoou Tang

Structured Output Prediction for Semantic Perception in Autonomous Vehicles / 3509
Rein Houthooft, Cedric De Boom, Stijn Verstichel, Femke Ongenae, Filip De Turck

Robust Complex Behaviour Modeling at 90Hz / 3516
Xiangyu Kong, Yizhou Wang, Tao Xiang

Exploiting View-Specific Appearance Similarities Across Classes for Zero-Shot Pose Prediction: A Metric Learning Approach / 3523
Alina Kuznetsova, Sung Ju Hwang, Bodo Rosenhahn, Leonid Sigal

Labeling the Features Not the Samples: Efficient Video Classification with Minimal Supervision / 3530
Marius Leordeanu, Alexandra Radu, Shumeet Baluja, Rahul Sukthankar

Decentralized Robust Subspace Clustering / 3539
Bo Liu, Xiao-Tong Yuan, Yang Yu, Qingshan Liu, Dimitris N. Metaxas

Articulated Pose Estimation Using Hierarchical Exemplar-Based Models / 3546
Jiongxin Liu, Yinxiao Li, Peter Allen, Peter Belhumeur

Multi-View 3D Human Tracking in Crowded Scenes / 3553
Xiaobai Liu

Face Model Compression by Distilling Knowledge from Neurons / 3560
Ping Luo, Zhenyao Zhu, Ziwei Liu, Xiaogang Wang, Xiaoou Tang

Learning to Answer Questions from Image Using Convolutional Neural Network / 3567
Lin Ma, Zhengdong Lu, Hang Li

SentiCap: Generating Image Descriptions with Sentiments / 3574
Alexander Patrick Mathews, Lexing Xie, Xuming He

Look, Listen and Learn — A Multimodal LSTM for Speaker Identification / 3581
Jimmy Ren, Yongtao Hu, Yu-Wing Tai, Chuan Wang, Li Xu, Wenxiu Sun, Qiong Yan

Toward a Taxonomy and Computational Models of Abnormalities in Images / 3588
Babak Saleh, Ahmed Elgammal, Jacob Feldman, Ali Farhadi

Domain-Constraint Transfer Coding for Imbalanced Unsupervised Domain Adaptation / 3597
Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai, Cheng-An Hou, Wei-Yu Chen, Yi-Ren Yeh, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Recognizing Actions in 3D Using Action-Snippets and Activated Simplices / 3604
Chunyu Wang, John Flynn, Yizhou Wang, Alan Yuille

DARI: Distance Metric and Representation Integration for Person Verification / 3611
Guangrun Wang, Liang Lin, Shengyong Ding, Ya Li, Qing Wang

Video Semantic Clustering with Sparse and Incomplete Tags / 3618
Jingya Wang, Xiatian Zhu, Shaogang Gong

Path Following with Adaptive Path Estimation for Graph Matching / 3625
Tao Wang, Haibin Ling

Pose-Guided Human Parsing by an AND/OR Graph Using Pose-Context Features / 3632
Fangting Xia, Jun Zhu, Peng Wang, Alan L. Yuille

Diversified Dynamical Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model for Video Repair / 3641
Hao Xiong, Tongliang Liu, Dacheng Tao

Metric Embedded Discriminative Vocabulary Learning for High-Level Person Representation / 3648
Yang Yang, Zhen Lei, Shifeng Zhang, Hailin Shi, Stan Z. Li

Large Scale Similarity Learning Using Similar Pairs for Person Verification / 3655
Yang Yang, Shengcai Liao, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li

Unsupervised Co-Activity Detection from Multiple Videos Using Absorbing Markov Chain / 3662
Donghun Yeo, Bohyung Han, Joon Hee Han

Discrete Image Hashing Using Large Weakly Annotated Photo Collections / 3669
Hanwang Zhang, Na Zhao, Xindi Shang, Huanbo Luan, Tat-seng Chua

Group Cost-Sensitive Boosting for Multi-Resolution Pedestrian Detection / 3676
Chao Zhu, Yuxin Peng

Learning Cross-Domain Neural Networks for Sketch-Based 3D Shape Retrieval / 3683
Fan Zhu, Jin Xie, Yi Fang

MC-HOG Correlation Tracking with Saliency Proposal / 3690
Guibo Zhu, Jinqiao Wang, Yi Wu, Xiaoyu Zhang, Hanqing Lu

Co-Occurrence Feature Learning for Skeleton Based Action Recognition Using Regularized Deep LSTM Networks / 3697
Wentao Zhu, Cuiling Lan, Junliang Xing, Wenjun Zeng, Yanghao Li, Li Shen, Xiaohui Xie

Special Track on Cognitive Systems

Using Multiple Representations to Simultaneously Learn Computational Thinking and Middle School Science / 3705
Satabdi Basu, Gautam Biswas, John S. Kinnebrew

MIDCA: A Metacognitive, Integrated Dual-Cycle Architecture for Self-Regulated Autonomy / 3712
Michael T. Cox, Zohreh Alavi, Dustin Dannenhauer, Vahid Eyorokon, Hector Munoz-Avila, Don Perlis

Commonsense Interpretation of Triangle Behavior / 3719
Andrew S. Gordon

Surprise-Triggered Reformulation of Design Goals / 3726
Kazjon Grace, Mary Lou Maher

Visual Learning of Arithmetic Operation / 3733
Yedid Hoshen, Shmuel Peleg

Modeling Human Ad Hoc Coordination / 3740
Peter M. Krafft, Chris L. Baker, Alex "Sandy" Pentland, Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Predicting Readers' Sarcasm Understandability by Modeling Gaze Behavior / 3747
Abhijit Mishra, Diptesh Kanojia, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Modeling Human Understanding of Complex Intentional Action with a Bayesian Nonparametric Subgoal Model / 3754
Ryo Nakahashi, Chris L. Baker, Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Unsupervised Lexical Simplification for Non-Native Speakers / 3761
Gustavo H. Paetzold, Lucia Specia

QA^RT: A System for Real-Time Holistic Quality Assurance for Contact Center Dialogues / 3768
Shourya Roy, Ragunathan Mariappan, Sandipan Dandapat, Saurabh Srivastava, Sainyam Galhotra, Balaji Peddamuthu

Building End-To-End Dialogue Systems Using Generative Hierarchical Neural Network Models / 3776
Iulian V. Serban, Alessandro Sordoni, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville, Joelle Pineau

Special Track on Computational Sustainability

Achieving Stable and Fair Profit Allocation with Minimum Subsidy in Collaborative Logistics / 3785
Lucas Agussurja, Hoong Chuin Lau, Shih-Fen Cheng

Understanding City Traffic Dynamics Utilizing Sensor and Textual Observations / 3793
Pramod Anantharam, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Surendra Marupudi, Amit Sheth, Tanvi Banerjee

An Axiomatic Framework for Ex-Ante Dynamic Pricing Mechanisms in Smart Grid / 3800
Sambaran Bandyopadhyay, Ramasuri Narayanam, Pratyush Kumar, Sarvapali Ramchurn, Vijay Arya, Iskandarbin Petra

Multi-Instance Multi-Label Class Discovery: A Computational Approach for Assessing Bird Biodiversity / 3807
Forrest Briggs, Xiaoli Z. Fern, Raviv Raich, Matthew Betts

Multiagent-Based Route Guidance for Increasing the Chance of Arrival on Time / 3814
Zhiguang Cao, Hongliang Guo, Jie Zhang, Ulrich Fastenrath

Understanding Dominant Factors for Precipitation over the Great Lakes Region / 3821
Soumyadeep Chatterjee, Stefan Liess, Arindam Banerjee, Vipin Kumar

A Unifying Variational Inference Framework for Hierarchical Graph-Coupled HMM with an Application to Influenza Infection / 3828
Kai Fan, Chunyuan Li, Katherine Heller

Topic Models to Infer Socio-Economic Maps / 3835
Lingzi Hong, Enrique Frias-Martinez, Vanessa Frias-Martinez

Energy- and Cost-Efficient Pumping Station Control / 3842
Timon V. Kanters, Frans A. Oliehoek, Michael Kaisers, Stan R. van den Bosch, Joep Grispen, Jeroen Hermans

Shortest Path Based Decision Making Using Probabilistic Inference / 3849
Akshat Kumar

Robust Decision Making for Stochastic Network Design / 3857
Akshat Kumar, Arambam James Singh, Pradeep Varakantham, Daniel Sheldon

Optimizing Infrastructure Enhancements for Evacuation Planning / 3864
Kunal Kumar, Julia Romanski, Pascal Van Hentenryck

Spatially Regularized Streaming Sensor Selection / 3871
Changsheng Li, Fan Wei, Weishan Dong, Xiangfeng Wang, Junchi Yan, Xiaobin Zhu, Qingshan Liu, Xin Zhang

Preventing Illegal Logging: Simultaneous Optimization of Resource Teams and Tactics for Security / 3880
Sara Marie Mc Carthy, Milind Tambe, Christopher Kiekintveld, Meredith L. Gore, Alex Killion

Big-Data Mechanisms and Energy-Policy Design / 3887
Ankit Pat, Kate Larson, Srinivasen Keshav

Benders Decomposition for Large-Scale Prescriptive Evacuations / 3894
Julia Romanski, Pascal Van Hentenryck

Predicting Spatio-Temporal Propagation of Seasonal Influenza Using Variational Gaussian Process Regression / 3901
Ransalu Senanayake, Simon O'Callaghan, Fabio Ramos

Intelligent Habitat Restoration Under Uncertainty / 3908
Tommaso Urli, Jana Brotánková, Philip Kilby, Pascal Van Hentenryck

Adaptable Regression Method for Ensemble Consensus Forecasting / 3915
John K. Williams, Peter P. Neilley, Joseph P. Koval, Jeff McDonald

Optimizing Resilience in Large Scale Networks / 3922
Xiaojian Wu, Daniel Sheldon, Shlomo Zilberstein

Transfer Learning from Deep Features for Remote Sensing and Poverty Mapping / 3929
Michael Xie, Neal Jean, Marshall Burke, David Lobell, Stefano Ermon

An Algorithm to Coordinate Measurements Using Stochastic Human Mobility Patterns in Large-Scale Participatory Sensing Settings / 3936
Alexandros Zenonos, Sebastian Stein, Nicholas R. Jennings

Special Track on Integrated AI Capabilities

Bagging Ensembles for the Diagnosis and Prognostication of Alzheimer's Disease / 3944
Peng Dai, Femida Gwadry-Sridhar, Michael Bauer, Michael Borrie

Affective Personalization of a Social Robot Tutor for Children's Second Language Skills / 3951
Goren Gordon, Samuel Spaulding, Jacqueline Kory Westlund, Jin Joo Lee, Luke Plummer, Marayna Martinez, Madhurima Das, Cynthia Breazeal

A Framework for Resolving Open-World Referential Expressions in Distributed Heterogeneous Knowledge Bases / 3958
Tom Williams, Matthias Scheutz

Innovative Applications Deployed Papers

Deploying PAWS: Field Optimization of the Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security / 3966
Fei Fang, Thanh H. Nguyen, Rob Pickles, Wai Y. Lam, Gopalasamy R. Clements, Bo An, Amandeep Singh, Milind Tambe, Andrew Lemieux

Ontology Re-Engineering: A Case Study from the Automotive Industry / 3974
Nestor Rychtyckyj, Venkatesh Raman, Baskaran Sankaranarayanan, P. Sreenivasa Kumar, Deepak Khemani

Deploying nEmesis: Preventing Foodborne Illness by Data Mining Social Media / 3982
Adam Sadilek, Henry Kautz, Lauren DiPrete, Brian Labus, Eric Portman, Jack Teitel, Vincent Silenzio

Innovative Applications Emerging Application Papers

An Autonomous Override System to Prevent Airborne Loss of Control / 3991
Sweewarman Balachandran, Ella Atkins

Document Type Classification in Online Digital Libraries / 3997
Cornelia Caragea, Jian Wu, Sujatha Das Gollapalli, C. Lee Giles

Data-Augmented Software Diagnosis / 4003
Amir Elmishali, Roni Stern, Meir Kalech

Automated Regression Testing Using Constraint Programming / 4010
Arnaud Gotlieb, Mats Carlsson, Marius Liaeen, Dusica Marijan, Alexandre Petillon

Wikipedia in the Tourism Industry: Forecasting Demand and Modeling Usage Behavior / 4016
Pejman Khadivi, Naren Ramakrishnan

Optimizing Energy Costs in a Zinc and Lead Mine / 4022
Alan Kinsella, Alan F. Smeaton, Barry Hurley, Barry O'Sullivan, Helmut Simonis

Automated Capture and Execution of Manufacturability Rules Using Inductive Logic Programming / 4028
Abha Moitra, Ravi Palla, Arvind Rangarajan

MetaSeer.STEM:Towards Automating Meta-Analyses / 4035
Venkata Kishore Neppalli, Cornelia Caragea, Robin Mayes, Kim Nimon, Fred Oswald

Data Driven Game Theoretic Cyber Threat Mitigation / 4041
John Robertson, Vivin Paliath, Jana Shakarian, Amanda Thart, Paulo Shakarian

Automated Volumetric Intravascular Plaque Classification Using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) / 4047
Ronny Shalev, Daisuke Nakamura, Setsu Nishino, Andrew Rollins, Hiram Bezerra, David Wilson, Soumya Ray

A Hidden Markov Model Approach to Infer Timescales for High-Resolution Climate Archives / 4053
Mai Winstrup

Innovative Applications Challenge Problem Papers

Infusing Human Factors into Algorithmic Crowdsourcing / 4062
Han Yu, Chunyan Miao, Zhiqi Shen, Jun Lin, Cyril Leung, Qiang Yang

EAAI Symposium Full Papers

Using Domain Knowledge to Improve Monte-Carlo Tree Search Performance in Parameterized Poker Squares / 4065
Robert Arrington, Clay Langley, Steven Bogaerts

BeeMo, a Monte Carlo Simulation Agent for Playing Parameterized Poker Squares / 4071
Karo Castro-Wunsch, William Maga, Calin Anton

Conceptualizing Curse of Dimensionality with Parallel Coordinates / 4075
G. Devi, Charu Chauhan, Sutanu Chakraborti

Teaching Big Data Analytics Skills with Intelligent Workflow Systems / 3997
Yolanda Gil

Design of an Online Course on Knowledge-Based AI / 4089
Ashok K. Goel, David A. Joyner

Learning and Using Hand Abstraction Values for Parameterized Poker Squares / 4095
Todd W. Neller, Colin M. Messinger, Zuozhi Yang

Creating Interactive and Visual Educational Resources for AI / 4101
Sameer Singh, Sebastian Riedel

From the Lab to the Classroom and Beyond: Extending a Game-Based Research Platform for Teaching AI to Diverse Audiences / 4107
Nicole Sintov, Debarun Kar, Thanh Nguyen, Fei Fang, Kevin Hoffman, Arnaud Lyet, Milind Tambe

The Turing Test in the Classroom / 4113
Lisa Torrey, Karen Johnson, Sid Sondergard, Pedro Ponce, Laura Desmond

A Survey of Current Practice and Teaching of AI / 4119
Michael Wollowski, Robert Selkowitz, Laura E. Brown, Ashok Goel, George Luger, Jim Marshall, Andrew Neel, Todd Neller, Peter Norvig

EAAI Symposium Poster Papers

IRobot: Teaching the Basics of Artificial Intelligence in High Schools / 4126
Harald Burgsteiner, Martin Kandlhofer, Gerald Steinbauer

A.I. as an Introduction to Research Methods in Computer Science / 4128
Raghuram Ramanujan

An Online Logic Programming Development Environment / 4130
Christian Reotutar, Mbathio Diagne, Evgenii Balai, Edward Wertz, Peter Lee, Shao-Lon Yeh, Yuanlin Zhang

Using Declarative Programming in an Introductory Computer Science Course for High School Students / 4132
Maritza Reyes, Cynthia Perez, Rocky Upchurch, Timothy Yuen, Yuanlin Zhang

Teaching Automated Strategic Reasoning Using Capstone Tournaments / 4134
Oscar Veliz, Marcus Gutierrez, Christopher Kiekintveld

Training Watson — A Cognitive Systems Course / 4136
Michael Wollowski

EAAI Symposium Model AI Assignments

Model AI Assignments 2016 / 4139
Todd W. Neller, Laura E. Brown, James B. Marshall, Lisa Torrey, Nate Derbinsky, Andrew A. Ward, Thomas E. Allen, Judy Goldsmith, Nahom Muluneh

Senior Member Blue Sky Papers

Indefinite Scalability for Living Computation / 4142
David H. Ackley

Embedding Ethical Principles in Collective Decision Support Systems / 4147
Joshua Greene, Francesca Rossi, John Tasioulas, Kristen Brent Venable, Brian Williams

Five Dimensions of Reasoning in the Wild / 4152
Don Perlis

Ethical Dilemmas for Adaptive Persuasion Systems / 4157
Oliviero Stock, Marco Guerini, Fabio Pianesi

Senior Member Summary Talks

Ontology Instance Linking: Towards Interlinked Knowledge Graphs / 4163
Jeff Heflin, Dezhao Song

Natural Language Processing for Enhancing Teaching and Learning / 4170
Diane Litman

Strategic Behaviour When Allocating Indivisible Goods / 4177
Toby Walsh

Rational Verification: From Model Checking to Equilibrium Checking / 4184
Michael Wooldridge, Julian Gutierrez, Paul Harrenstein, Enrico Marchioni, Giuseppe Perelli, Alexis Toumi

Student Abstracts

MIP-Nets: Enabling Information Sharing in Loosely-Coupled Teamwork / 4192
Ofra Amir, Barbara J. Grosz, Krzysztof Z. Gajos

Weighted A* Algorithms for Unsupervised Feature Selection with Provable Bounds on Suboptimality / 4194
Hiromasa Arai, Ke Xu, Crystal Maung, Haim Schweitzer

Abstraction Using Analysis of Subgames / 4196
Anjon Basak

Bayesian Markov Games with Explicit Finite-Level Types / 4198
Muthukumaran Chandrasekaran, Yingke Chen, Prashant Doshi

BRBA: A Blocking-Based Association Rule Hiding Method / 4200
Peng Cheng, Ivan Lee, Li Li, Kuo-Kun Tseng, Jeng-Shyang Pan

A CP-Based Approach for Popular Matching / 4202
Danuta Sorina Chisca, Mohamed Siala, Gilles Simonin, Barry O'Sullivan

Predicting Prices in the Power TAC Wholesale Energy Market / 4204
Moinul Morshed Porag Chowdhury

Robust Execution Strategies for Probabilistic Temporal Planning / 4206
Sam Dietrich, Kyle Lund, James C. Boerkoel

A Comparison of Supervised Learning Algorithms for Telerobotic Control Using Electromyography Signals / 4208
Tyler M. Frasca, Antonio G. Sestito, Craig Versek, Douglas E. Dow, Barry C. Husowitz, Nate Derbinsky

Trust and Distrust Across Coalitions: Shapley Value Based Centrality Measures for Signed Networks (Student Abstract Version) / 4212
Varun Gangal, Abhishek Narwekar, Balaraman Ravindran, Ramasuri Narayanam

Authorship Attribution Using a Neural Network Language Model / 4212
Zhenhao Ge, Yufang Sun, Mark J. T. Smith

Structure Aware L1 Graph for Data Clustering / 4214
Shuchu Han, Hong Qin

Multivariate Conditional Outlier Detection and Its Clinical Application / 4216
Charmgil Hong, Milos Hauskrecht

Learning Complex Stand-Up Motion for Humanoid Robots / 4218
Heejin Jeong, Daniel D. Lee

Connecting the Dots Using Contextual Information Hidden in Text and Images / 4220
Md Abdul Kader, Sheikh Motahar Naim, Arnold P. Boedihardjo, M. Shahriar Hossain

Monte Carlo Tree Search for Multi-Robot Task Allocation / 4222
Bilal Kartal, Ernesto Nunes, Julio Godoy, Maria Gini

Hierarchy Prediction in Online Communities / 4224
Denys Katerenchuk, Andrew Rosenberg

Handling Class Imbalance in Link Prediction Using Learning to Rank Techniques / 4226
Bopeng Li, Sougata Chaudhuri, Ambuj Tewari

Predicting Links and Their Building Time: A Path-Based Approach / 4228
Manling Li, Yantao Jia, Yuanzhuo Wang, Zeya Zhao, Xueqi Cheng

Social Emotion Classification via Reader Perspective Weighted Model / 4230
Xin Li, Yanghui Rao, Yanjia Chen, Xuebo Liu, Huan Huang

Two-Stream Contextualized CNN for Fine-Grained Image Classification / 4232
Jiang Liu, Chenqiang Gao, Deyu Meng, Wangmeng Zuo

Decision Sum-Product-Max Networks / 4234
Mazen Melibari, Pascal Poupart, Prashant Doshi

Iterative Project Quasi-Newton Algorithm for Training RBM / 4236
Shuai Mi, Xiaozhao Zhao, Yuexian Hou, Peng Zhang, Wenjie Li, Dawei Song

Pseudo-Tree Construction Heuristics for DCOPs with Variable Communication Times / 4238
Atena M Tabakhi

A Word Embedding and a Josa Vector for Korean Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction / 4240
Kyeong-Min Nam, Yu-Seop Kim

Conquering Adversary Behavioral Uncertainty in Security Games: An Efficient Modeling Robust Based Algorithm / 4242
Thanh Hong Nguyen, Arunesh Sinha, Milind Tambe

Bayesian AutoEncoder: Generation of Bayesian Networks with Hidden Nodes for Features / 4244
Kaneharu Nishino, Mary Inaba

Human-Robot Trust and Cooperation Through a Game Theoretic Framework / 4246
Erin Paeng, Jane Wu, James C. Boerkoel

Efficient Collaborative Crowdsourcing / 4248
Zhengxiang Pan, Han Yu, Chunyan Miao, Cyril Leung

SPAN: Understanding a Question with Its Support Answers / 4250
Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Jun Xu, Xueqi Cheng

Towards Structural Tractability in Hedonic Games / 4252
Dominik Peters

Heuristic Planning for Hybrid Systems / 4254
Wiktor Mateusz Piotrowski, Maria Fox, Derek Long, Daniele Magazzeni, Fabio Mercorio

Counter-Transitivity in Argument Ranking Semantics / 4256
Fuan Pu, Jian Luo, Guiming Luo

Discriminative Structure Learning of Arithmetic Circuits / 4258
Amirmohammad Rooshenas, Daniel Lowd

Unsupervised Measure of Word Similarity: How to Outperform Co-Occurrence and Vector Cosine in VSMs / 4260
Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci, Tin-Shing Chiu, Qin Lu, Chu-Ren Huang

ROOT13: Spotting Hypernyms, Co-Hyponyms and Randoms / 4262
Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci, Tin-Shing Chiu, Qin Lu, Chu-Ren Huang

Abstracting Complex Domains Using Modular Object-Oriented Markov Decision Processes / 4264
Shawn Squire, Marie desJardins

Image Privacy Prediction Using Deep Features / 4266
Ashwini Kishore Tonge, Cornelia Caragea

Evaluating the Robustness of Game Theoretic Solutions When Using Abstraction / 4268
Oscar Samuel Veliz

Text Simplification Using Neural Machine Translation / 4270
Tong Wang, Ping Chen, John Rochford, Jipeng Qiang

Business Event Curation: Merging Human and Automated Approaches / 4272
Yiqi Wang, Huiying Ma, Nichola Lowe, Maryann Feldman, Charles Schmitt

Direct Discriminative Bag Mapping for Multi-Instance Learning / 4274
Jia Wu, Shirui Pan, Peng Zhang, Xingquan Zhu

Mobility Sequence Extraction and Labeling Using Sparse Cell Phone Data / 4276
Yingxiang Yang, Peter Widhalm, Shounak Athavale, Marta C. Gonzalez

Epitomic Image Super-Resolution / 4278
Yingzhen Yang, Zhangyang Wang, Zhaowen Wang, Shiyu Chang, Ding Liu, Honghui Shi, Thomas S. Huang

MicroScholar: Mining Scholarly Information from Chinese Microblogs / 4280
Yang Yu, Xiaojun Wan

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluations of Word Embeddings / 4282
Michael Zhai, Johnny Tan, Jinho D. Choi

User-Centric Affective Computing of Image Emotion Perceptions / 4284
Sicheng Zhao, Hongxun Yao, Wenlong Xie, Xiaolei Jiang

Learning Structural Features of Nodes in Large-Scale Networks for Link Prediction / 4286
Aakas Zhiyuli, Xun Liang, Xiaoping Zhou

Doctoral Consortium

Interactive Learning and Analogical Chaining for Moral and Commonsense Reasoning / 4289
Joseph A. Blass

Machine Learning for Computational Psychology / 4291
Sarah M. Brown

Robust Learning from Demonstration Techniques and Tools / 4293
William Curran

Integrating Planning and Recognition to Close the Interaction Loop / 4295
Richard G. Freedman

Apprenticeship Scheduling for Human-Robot Teams / 4297
Matthew C. Gombolay

Privacy Management in Agent-Based Social Networks / 4299
Nadin Kokciyan

Multi-Modal Learning over User-Contributed Content from Cross-Domain Social Media / 4301
Wen-Yu Lee

Unsupervised Learning of HTNs in Complex Adversarial Domains / 4303
Michael A. Leece

Estimating Text Intelligibility via Information Packaging Analysis / 4305
Junyi Jessy Li

Robust Classification under Covariate Shift with Application to Active Learning / 4307
Anqi Liu

Analogical Generalization of Linguistic Constructions / 4309
Clifton McFate

Writing Stories with Help from Recurrent Neural Networks / 4311
Melissa Roemmele

Scaling-Up MAP and Marginal MAP Inference in Markov Logic / 4343
Somdeb Sarkhel

Adapting Plans through Communication with Unknown Teammates / 4315
Trevor Sarratt

Pragmatic Querying in Heterogeneous Knowledge Graphs / 4317
Amar Viswanathan

Architectural Mechanisms for Situated Natural Language Understanding in Uncertain and Open Worlds / 4319
Tom Williams

Affective Computing and Applications of Image Emotion Perceptions / 4321
Sicheng Zhao, Hongxun Yao

What's Hot Papers

What's Hot in Human Language Technology: Highlights from NAACL HLT 2015 / 4324
Joyce Y. Chai, Anoop Sarkar, Rada Mihalcea

What's Hot in the Answer Set Programming Competition / 4327
Martin Gebser, Marco Maratea, Francesco Ricca

Inductive Logic Programming: Challenges / 4330
Katsumi Inoue, Hayato Ohwada, Akihiro Yamamoto

What's Hot in Intelligent User Interfaces / 4333
Shimei Pan, Oliver Brdiczka, Giuseppe Carenini, Duen Horng Chau, Per Ola Kristensson

General Video Game AI: Competition, Challenges and Opportunities / 4335
Diego Perez-Liebana, Spyridon Samothrakis, Julian Togelius, Tom Schaul, Simon M. Lucas

Angry Birds as a Challenge for Artificial Intelligence / 4338
Jochen Renz, XiaoYu Ge, Rohan Verma, Peng Zhang

What's Hot in Heuristic Search / 4340
Roni Stern, Levi H. S. Lelis

Competition of Distributed and Multiagent Planners (CoDMAP) / 4343
Michal Štolba, Antonín Komenda, Daniel L. Kovacs

What's Hot at RoboCup / 4346
Peter Stone

Demonstration Papers

Artificial Intelligence for Predictive and Evidence Based Architecture Design / 4349
Mehul Bhatt, Jakob Suchan, Carl Schultz, Vasiliki Kondyli, Saurabh Goyal

co-rank: An Online Tool for Collectively Deciding Efficient Rankings Among Peers / 4351
Ioannis Caragiannis, George A. Krimpas, Marianna Panteli, Alexandros A. Voudouris

SVVAMP: Simulator of Various Voting Algorithms in Manipulating Populations / 4353
François Durand, Fabien Mathieu, Ludovic Noirie

Deploying PAWS to Combat Poaching: Game-Theoretic Patrolling in Areas with Complex Terrain (Demonstration) / 4355
Fei Fang, Thanh H. Nguyen, Rob Pickles, Wai Y. Lam, Gopalasamy R. Clements, Bo An, Amandeep Singh, Milind Tambe

Predicting Gaming Related Properties from Twitter Accounts / 4357
Maria Ivanova Gorinova, Yoad Lewenberg, Yoram Bachrach, Alfredo Kalaitzis, Michael Fagan, Dean Carignan, Nitin Gautam

NLU Framework for Voice Enabling Non-Native Applications on Smart Devices / 4359
Soujanya Lanka, Deepika Pathania, Pooja Kushalappa, Pradeep Varakantham

Modeling and Experimentation Framework for Fuzzy Cognitive Maps / 4361
Maikel Leon Espinosa, Gonzalo Napoles Ruiz

Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Analyze Function Properties from Images / 4363
Yoad Lewenberg, Yoram Bachrach, Ian Kash, Peter Key

Predicting Personal Traits from Facial Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks Augmented with Facial Landmark Information / 4365
Yoad Lewenberg, Yoram Bachrach, Sukrit Shankar, Antonio Criminisi

EKNOT: Event Knowledge from News and Opinions in Twitter / 4367
Min Li, Jingjing Wang, Wenzhu Tong, Hongkun Yu, Xiuli Ma, Yucheng Chen, Haoyan Cai, Jiawei Han

BBookX: Building Online Open Books for Personalized Learning / 4369
Chen Liang, Shuting Wang, Zhaohui Wu, Kyle Williams, Bart Pursel, Benjamin Brautigam, Sherwyn Saul, Hannah Williams, Kyle Bowen, C. Lee Giles

Moodee: An Intelligent Mobile Companion for Sensing Your Stress from Your Social Media Postings / 4371
Huijie Lin, Jia Jia, Jie Huang, Enze Zhou, Jingtian Fu, Yejun Liu, Huanbo Luan

Write-righter: An Academic Writing Assistant System / 4373
Yuanchao Liu, Xin Wang, Ming Liu, Xiaolong Wang

An Image Analysis Environment for Species Identification of Food Contaminating Beetles / 4375
Daniel Martin, Hongjian Ding, Leihong Wu, Howard Semey, Amy Barnes, Darryl Langley, Su Inn Park, Zhichao Liu, Weida Tong, Joshua Xu

Jikan to Kukan: A Hands-On Musical Experience in AI, Games and Art / 4377
Georgia Rossmann Martins, Mário Escarce Junior, Leandro Soriano Marcolino

WWDS APIs: Application Programming Interfaces for Efficient Manipulation of World WordNet Database Structure / 4379
Hanumant Redkar, Sudha Bhingardive, Kevin Patel, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Neha Prabhugaonkar, Apurva Nagvenkar, Ramdas Karmali

Artificial Swarm Intelligence, a Human-in-the-Loop Approach to A.I. / 4381
Louis Rosenberg

Toward Interactive Relational Learning / 4383
Ryan Rossi, Rong Zhou

EDDIE: An Embodied AI System for Research and Intervention for Individuals with ASD / 4385
Robert Selkowitz, Jonathan Rodgers, P. J. Moskal, Jon Mrowczynski, Christine Colson

A Tool to Graphically Edit CP-Nets / 4387
Aidan Shafran, Sam Saarinen, Judy Goldsmith

A Visual Semantic Framework for Innovation Analytics / 4389
Walid Shalaby, Kripa Rajshekhar, Wlodek Zadrozny

Multi-Agent System Development MADE Easy / 4391
Zhiqi Shen, Han Yu, Chunyan Miao, Siyao Li, Yiqiang Chen

A Fraud Resilient Medical Insurance Claim System / 4393
Yuliang Shi, Chenfei Sun, Qingzhong Li, Lizhen Cui, Han Yu, Chunyan Miao

DECT: Distributed Evolving Context Tree for Understanding User Behavior Pattern Evolution / 4395
Xiaokui Shu, Nikolay Laptev, Danfeng (Daphne) Yao

Markov Argumentation Random Fields / 4397
Yuqing Tang, Nir Oren, Katia Sycara

Shoot to Know What: An Application of Deep Networks on Mobile Devices / 4399
Jiaxiang Wu, Qinghao Hu, Cong Leng, Jian Cheng

SAPE: A System for Situation-Aware Public Security Evaluation / 4401
Shu Wu, Qiang Liu, Ping Bai, Liang Wang, Tieniu Tan

Information Credibility Evaluation on Social Media / 4403
Shu Wu, Qiang Liu, Yong Liu, Liang Wang, Tieniu Tan

Productive Aging through Intelligent Personalized Crowdsourcing / 4405
Han Yu, Chunyan Miao, Siyuan Liu, Zhengxiang Pan, Nur Syahidah Bte Khalid, Zhiqi Shen, Cyril Leung

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