In this task, you are given a part of an article. Your task is to generate headline (title) for this text. Preferred headlines are under fifteen words.

Input: Consider Input: We present a probabilistic generative model for inferring a description of coordinated, recursively structured group activities at multiple levels of temporal granularity based on observations of individuals’ trajectories. The model accommodates: (1) hierarchically structured groups, (2) activities that are temporally and compositionally recursive, (3) component roles assigning different subactivity dynamics to subgroups of participants, and (4) a nonparametric Gaussian Process model of trajectories. We present an MCMC sampling framework for performing joint inference over recursive activity descriptions and assignment of trajectories to groups, integrating out continuous parameters. We demonstrate the model’s expressive power in several simulated and complex real-world scenarios from the VIRAT and UCLA Aerial Event video data sets.

Output: Bayesian Inference of Recursive Sequences of Group Activities from Tracks


Input: Consider Input: Marginal MAP inference involves making MAP predictions in systems defined<lb>with latent variables or missing information. It is significantly more difficult than<lb>pure marginalization and MAP tasks, for which a large class of efficient and con-<lb>vergent variational algorithms, such as dual decomposition, exist. In this work, we<lb>generalize dual decomposition to a generic power sum inference task, which in-<lb>cludes marginal MAP, along with pure marginalization and MAP, as special cases.<lb>Our method is based on a block coordinate descent algorithm on a new convex<lb>decomposition bound, that is guaranteed to converge monotonically, and can be<lb>parallelized efficiently. We demonstrate our approach on marginal MAP queries<lb>defined on real-world problems from the UAI approximate inference challenge,<lb>showing that our framework is faster and more reliable than previous methods.

Output: Decomposition Bounds for Marginal MAP


Input: Consider Input: Learning effective configurations in computer systems without hand-crafting models for every parameter is a long-standing problem. This paper investigates the use of deep reinforcement learning for runtime parameters of cloud databases under latency constraints. Cloud services serve up to thousands of concurrent requests per second and can adjust critical parameters by leveraging performance metrics. In this work, we use continuous deep reinforcement learning to learn optimal cache expirations for HTTP caching in content delivery networks. To this end, we introduce a technique for asynchronous experience management called delayed experience injection, which facilitates delayed reward and next-state computation in concurrent environments where measurements are not immediately available. Evaluation results show that our approach based on normalized advantage functions and asynchronous CPU-only training outperforms a statistical estimator.


Output: Learning Runtime Parameters in Computer Systems with Delayed Experience Injection