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Tristan Villamil
dblp:218/7308
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2018
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Learning theory · 50% Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 25% Representation and self-supervised learning · 25% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning › causal representation learning
identifiability |
0.3 | 1 | 2018 | Learning Mixtures of Random Utility Models · AAAI 2018 |
Machine learning › Learning theory › distribution learning
mixture learning |
0.3 | 1 | 2018 | Learning Mixtures of Random Utility Models · AAAI 2018 |
Machine learning › Learning theory › statistical estimation › identifiability theory
mixture model identifiability |
0.3 | 1 | 2018 | Learning Mixtures of Random Utility Models · AAAI 2018 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › choice modeling
random utility models |
0.3 | 1 | 2018 | Learning Mixtures of Random Utility Models · AAAI 2018 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
generalized method of moments · 0.3EM algorithm · 0.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Learning Mixtures of Random Utility ModelsabstractWe tackle the problem of identifiability and efficient learning of mixtures of Random Utility Models (RUMs). We show that when the PDFs of utility distributions are symmetric, the mixture of k RUMs (denoted by k-RUM) is not identifiable when the number of alternatives m is no more than 2k-1. On the other hand, when m ≥ max{4k-2,6}, any k-RUM is generically identifiable. We then propose three algorithms for learning mixtures of RUMs: an EM-based algorithm, which we call E-GMM, a direct generalized-method-of-moments (GMM) algorithm, and a sandwich (GMM-E-GMM) algorithm that combines the other two. Experiments on synthetic data show that the sandwich algorithm achieves the highest statistical efficiency and GMM is the most computationally efficient. Experiments on real-world data at Preflib show that Gaussian k-RUMs provide better fitness than a single Gaussian RUM, the Plackett-Luce model, and mixtures of Plackett-Luce models w.r.t. commonly-used model fitness criteria. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work on learning mixtures of general RUMs. Zhibing Zhao, Tristan Villamil, Lirong Xia |
AAAI | 2 |