TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: 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.

SOLUTION: Decomposition Bounds for Marginal MAP

PROBLEM: Visual representation is crucial for a visual tracking method's performances. Conventionally, visual representations adopted in visual tracking rely on hand-crafted computer vision descriptors. These descriptors were developed generically without considering tracking-specific information. In this paper, we propose to learn complex-valued invariant representations from tracked sequential image patches, via strong temporal slowness constraint and stacked convolutional autoencoders. The deep slow local representations are learned offline on unlabeled data and transferred to the observational model of our proposed tracker. The proposed observational model retains old training samples to alleviate drift, and collect negative samples which are coherent with target's motion pattern for better discriminative tracking. With the learned representation and online training samples, a logistic regression classifier is adopted to distinguish target from background, and retrained online to adapt to appearance changes. Subsequently, the observational model is integrated into a particle filter framework to peform visual tracking. Experimental results on various challenging benchmark sequences demonstrate that the proposed tracker performs favourably against several state-of-the-art trackers.

SOLUTION: Self-taught learning of a deep invariant representation for visual tracking via temporal slowness principle

PROBLEM: In this era of digitization, knowing the user's sociolect aspects have become essential features to build the user specific recommendation systems. These sociolect aspects could be found by mining the user's language sharing in the form of text in social media and reviews. This paper describes about the experiment that was performed in PAN Author Profiling 2017 shared task. The objective of the task is to find the sociolect aspects of the users from their tweets. The sociolect aspects considered in this experiment are user's gender and native language information. Here user's tweets written in a different language from their native language are represented as Document Term Matrix with document frequency as the constraint. Further classification is done using the Support Vector Machine by taking gender and native language as target classes. This experiment attains the average accuracy of 73.42% in gender prediction and 76.26% in the native language identification task.

SOLUTION:
Vector Space Model as Cognitive Space for Text Classification