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The ARA program funds projects conducted primarily by PhD students or post docs, under the supervision of the faculty member awarded the funds.
Research topics:
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Recognition: categorization, detection, segmentation
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Visual search
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Deep neural network compression and optimization
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Video understanding: actions, events
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Large-scale data annotation
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Computer vision for apparel
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Human body: detection, tracking, pose
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Motion: segmentation, tracking
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3D modeling: structure-from-motion, slam, stereo and reconstruction
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Computational photography
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Computer vision for robotics
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Faces and gestures
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Image and video captioning
- Fairness in artificial intelligence
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Transparency, explainability, and accountability in AI systems
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Theories of computational/algorithm fairness and factors that affect algorithmic trustworthiness
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Ethical decision-support and decision-making systems
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Detecting and ameliorating adverse biases in data and algorithms, and fairness-aware design of algorithms
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Metrics and methods for designing, piloting, and evaluating systems that mitigate against adverse biases and ensure fairness, including the use of human-machine collaboration and decision support
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Statistical methods for detecting bias in systems as they are operating
- Knowledge management and data quality
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Data cleaning for machine learning
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Graph mining from knowledge graphs and user behaviors
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Knowledge embedding
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Knowledge extraction from unstructured and semi-structured data
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Knowledge verification
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Knowledge-based search
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Large-scale data alignment and integration
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Leveraging structured knowledge in deep learning and recommendation
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Quantitative and logical error detection
- Machine learning algorithms and theory
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Active learning and data cleaning
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Data and resource efficient learning
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Deep learning and representation learning
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Fair, explicable and interpretable learning
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Transfer and meta-learning
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Online and continual learning
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Parallel and distributed Learning
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Robust and privacy preserving learning
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Reinforcement learning
- Natural language processing
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Advances in neural MT for noisy and user-generated content
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Chatbots and dialogue systems
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Detection of inappropriate content
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Efficient training and fast inference for neural MT
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Context-aware MT
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Explainability in neural NLP methods
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Fact extraction, verification and trustworthiness in unstructured data
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Multitask and reinforcement learning for MT
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Named entity translation and transliteration
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NLP applications in search
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Question answering
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Text summarization
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Narrative understanding
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Common sense inference
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AI methods for online advertising
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Algorithmic marketing
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Large scale experimentation and testing
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Learning mechanisms
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Measurement of brand advertising
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Online algorithms for targeting, bidding and pricing
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Optimizing for long term objectives
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Prediction, forecasting and automated decision making in ad systems
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Structure of advertising marketplaces
- Operations research and optimization
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Assortment management
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Management of warehouse operations
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Marketplace design: incentives/policies for increasing efficiency and growth in a multi-agent marketplace
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Strategic supply chain management: network design/topology
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Tactical supply chain management: vendor management (including supplier contract negotiation and procurement), inventory buying, inventory deployment, demand fulfillment
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Transportation: long-haul operations (including airline operations), last-mile operations
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Other supply chain optimization topic
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Approaches to estimate quality of recommenders using abundant implicit and sparse explicit feedback
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Detecting and responding to spam in behavioral data to protect customers in recommendation contexts
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Scalable NLP approaches for search query understanding for non-English
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Scalable approaches to detect incorrect catalog information
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Approaches to identity synonyms in noisy product catalog
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Item-to-item collaborative filtering using deep learning
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Affective and social interactions
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Autonomous navigation and mobility
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Dexterous and reactive manipulation
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Human machine interaction and collaboration
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Machine learning and learning from human preferences
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Motion planning
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Multi-robot systems and multi-agent pathfinding
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Object detection and pose estimation
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Sample-efficient reinforcement learning
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Semantic scene understanding for robotics
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Simulation and sim to real transfer
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SLAM and long-term autonomy
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Theoretical advances as well as practical applications
- Search and information retrieval
- Security, privacy and abuse prevention
Funding: $80,000
Duration: 1 year
Research Authority due date: 26.9.19
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