本文解决了解释黑框回归模型异常预测的任务。当使用黑框模型（例如从许多传感器测量值中预测能源消耗的一个模型）时，我们通常会有某些观察到的样品可能会显着偏离其预测的情况。这可能是由于亚最佳黑盒模型，或仅仅​​是因为这些样品是异常值。无论哪种情况，理想情况下都希望计算``责任分数''，以指示输入变量负责异常输出的程度。在这项工作中，我们将此任务形式化为一个统计逆问题：给定模型偏离预期值，推断每个输入变量的责任分数。我们提出了一种称为似然补偿（LC）的新方法，该方法基于可能性原理，并计算对每个输入变量的校正。据我们所知，这是第一个计算实际有价值异常模型偏差的责任分数的原则性框架。我们将方法应用于现实世界中的建筑能源预测任务，并根据专家反馈确认其实用性。

我们为时间事件数据提出了一个新的稀疏Granger-Causal学习框架。我们专注于一种称为Hawkes流程的特定点过程。我们首先指出，霍克斯工艺的大多数现有稀疏因果学习算法在最大似然估计中都具有奇异性。结果，它们的稀疏溶液只能显示为数值伪像。在本文中，我们提出了一个基于基于基数规范化的霍克斯过程的数学定义明确的稀疏因果学习框架，该过程可以纠正现有方法的病理问题。我们利用提出的算法来完成实例因果事件分析的任务，其中稀疏性起着至关重要的作用。我们使用两个真实用例验证了所提出的框架，一个来自电网，另一个来自云数据中心管理域。

本文与社交网络上的在线有针对性广告有关。我们解决的主要技术任务是估计用户对的激活概率，这可以量化一个用户对购买决策的影响的影响。这是一项具有挑战性的任务，因为一个营销事件通常涉及多种产品的多种营销活动/策略。在本文中，我们提出了我们认为是第一个基于张量的在线广告上的基于张量的上下文强盗框架。该拟议的框架旨在以多模式张量的形式适应任何数量的特征向量，从而使以统一的方式捕获与用户偏好，产品和广告系列策略可能存在的异质性。为了处理张量模式的相互依赖性，我们引入了具有平均场近似值的在线变分算法。我们从经验上确认，提出的Tensorucb算法在影响基准比基准的影响最大化任务方面取得了重大改进，这归因于其捕获用户产品异质性的能力。

Classification bandits are multi-armed bandit problems whose task is to classify a given set of arms into either positive or negative class depending on whether the rate of the arms with the expected reward of at least h is not less than w for given thresholds h and w. We study a special classification bandit problem in which arms correspond to points x in d-dimensional real space with expected rewards f(x) which are generated according to a Gaussian process prior. We develop a framework algorithm for the problem using various arm selection policies and propose policies called FCB and FTSV. We show a smaller sample complexity upper bound for FCB than that for the existing algorithm of the level set estimation, in which whether f(x) is at least h or not must be decided for every arm's x. Arm selection policies depending on an estimated rate of arms with rewards of at least h are also proposed and shown to improve empirical sample complexity. According to our experimental results, the rate-estimation versions of FCB and FTSV, together with that of the popular active learning policy that selects the point with the maximum variance, outperform other policies for synthetic functions, and the version of FTSV is also the best performer for our real-world dataset.

Esports, a sports competition using video games, has become one of the most important sporting events in recent years. Although the amount of esports data is increasing than ever, only a small fraction of those data accompanies text commentaries for the audience to retrieve and understand the plays. Therefore, in this study, we introduce a task of generating game commentaries from structured data records to address the problem. We first build a large-scale esports data-to-text dataset using structured data and commentaries from a popular esports game, League of Legends. On this dataset, we devise several data preprocessing methods including linearization and data splitting to augment its quality. We then introduce several baseline encoder-decoder models and propose a hierarchical model to generate game commentaries. Considering the characteristics of esports commentaries, we design evaluation metrics including three aspects of the output: correctness, fluency, and strategic depth. Experimental results on our large-scale esports dataset confirmed the advantage of the hierarchical model, and the results revealed several challenges of this novel task.

Learning-from-Observation (LfO) is a robot teaching framework for programming operations through few-shots human demonstration. While most previous LfO systems run with visual demonstration, recent research on robot teaching has shown the effectiveness of verbal instruction in making recognition robust and teaching interactive. To the best of our knowledge, however, few solutions have been proposed for LfO that utilizes verbal instruction, namely multimodal LfO. This paper aims to propose a practical pipeline for multimodal LfO. For input, an user temporally stops hand movements to match the granularity of human instructions with the granularity of robot execution. The pipeline recognizes tasks based on step-by-step verbal instructions accompanied by demonstrations. In addition, the recognition is made robust through interactions with the user. We test the pipeline on a real robot and show that the user can successfully teach multiple operations from multimodal demonstrations. The results suggest the utility of the proposed pipeline for multimodal LfO.

Diagnostic radiologists need artificial intelligence (AI) for medical imaging, but access to medical images required for training in AI has become increasingly restrictive. To release and use medical images, we need an algorithm that can simultaneously protect privacy and preserve pathologies in medical images. To develop such an algorithm, here, we propose DP-GLOW, a hybrid of a local differential privacy (LDP) algorithm and one of the flow-based deep generative models (GLOW). By applying a GLOW model, we disentangle the pixelwise correlation of images, which makes it difficult to protect privacy with straightforward LDP algorithms for images. Specifically, we map images onto the latent vector of the GLOW model, each element of which follows an independent normal distribution, and we apply the Laplace mechanism to the latent vector. Moreover, we applied DP-GLOW to chest X-ray images to generate LDP images while preserving pathologies.

Robot developers develop various types of robots for satisfying users' various demands. Users' demands are related to their backgrounds and robots suitable for users may vary. If a certain developer would offer a robot that is different from the usual to a user, the robot-specific software has to be changed. On the other hand, robot-software developers would like to reuse their developed software as much as possible to reduce their efforts. We propose the system design considering hardware-level reusability. For this purpose, we begin with the learning-from-observation framework. This framework represents a target task in robot-agnostic representation, and thus the represented task description can be shared with various robots. When executing the task, it is necessary to convert the robot-agnostic description into commands of a target robot. To increase the reusability, first, we implement the skill library, robot motion primitives, only considering a robot hand and we regarded that a robot was just a carrier to move the hand on the target trajectory. The skill library is reusable if we would like to the same robot hand. Second, we employ the generic IK solver to quickly swap a robot. We verify the hardware-level reusability by applying two task descriptions to two different robots, Nextage and Fetch.

Human pose estimation, particularly in athletes, can help improve their performance. However, this estimation is difficult using existing methods, such as human annotation, if the subjects wear loose-fitting clothes such as ski/snowboard wears. This study developed a method for obtaining the ground truth data on two-dimensional (2D) poses of a human wearing loose-fitting clothes. This method uses fast-flushing light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The subjects were required to wear loose-fitting clothes and place the LED on the target joints. The LEDs were observed directly using a camera by selecting thin filmy loose-fitting clothes. The proposed method captures the scene at 240 fps by using a high-frame-rate camera and renders two 30 fps image sequences by extracting LED-on and -off frames. The temporal differences between the two video sequences can be ignored, considering the speed of human motion. The LED-on video was used to manually annotate the joints and thus obtain the ground truth data. Additionally, the LED-off video, equivalent to a standard video at 30 fps, confirmed the accuracy of existing machine learning-based methods and manual annotations. Experiments demonstrated that the proposed method can obtain ground truth data for standard RGB videos. Further, it was revealed that neither manual annotation nor the state-of-the-art pose estimator obtains the correct position of target joints.

Transparency of Machine Learning models used for decision support in various industries becomes essential for ensuring their ethical use. To that end, feature attribution methods such as SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) are widely used to explain the predictions of black-box machine learning models to customers and developers. However, a parallel trend has been to train machine learning models in collaboration with other data holders without accessing their data. Such models, trained over horizontally or vertically partitioned data, present a challenge for explainable AI because the explaining party may have a biased view of background data or a partial view of the feature space. As a result, explanations obtained from different participants of distributed machine learning might not be consistent with one another, undermining trust in the product. This paper presents an Explainable Data Collaboration Framework based on a model-agnostic additive feature attribution algorithm (KernelSHAP) and Data Collaboration method of privacy-preserving distributed machine learning. In particular, we present three algorithms for different scenarios of explainability in Data Collaboration and verify their consistency with experiments on open-access datasets. Our results demonstrated a significant (by at least a factor of 1.75) decrease in feature attribution discrepancies among the users of distributed machine learning.