Search Results for author: Javier Del Ser

Found 67 papers, 19 papers with code

Weighted strategies to guide a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for multi-UAV mission planning

no code implementations28 Feb 2024 Cristian Ramirez-Atencia, Javier Del Ser, David Camacho

The main objective of this work is to reduce the convergence rate of the MOEA solver for multi-UAV mission planning using weighted random strategies that focus the search on potentially better regions of the solution space.

Managing the unknown: a survey on Open Set Recognition and tangential areas

no code implementations14 Dec 2023 Marcos Barcina-Blanco, Jesus L. Lobo, Pablo Garcia-Bringas, Javier Del Ser

In real-world scenarios classification models are often required to perform robustly when predicting samples belonging to classes that have not appeared during its training stage.

Continual Learning Novelty Detection +2

Using Curiosity for an Even Representation of Tasks in Continual Offline Reinforcement Learning

1 code implementation5 Dec 2023 Pankayaraj Pathmanathan, Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez, Javier Del Ser

In this work, we investigate the means of using curiosity on replay buffers to improve offline multi-task continual reinforcement learning when tasks, which are defined by the non-stationarity in the environment, are non labeled and not evenly exposed to the learner in time.

Boundary Detection reinforcement-learning

Enhanced Generalization through Prioritization and Diversity in Self-Imitation Reinforcement Learning over Procedural Environments with Sparse Rewards

no code implementations1 Nov 2023 Alain Andres, Daochen Zha, Javier Del Ser

Exploration poses a fundamental challenge in Reinforcement Learning (RL) with sparse rewards, limiting an agent's ability to learn optimal decision-making due to a lack of informative feedback signals.

Imitation Learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

ChatAgri: Exploring Potentials of ChatGPT on Cross-linguistic Agricultural Text Classification

1 code implementation24 May 2023 Biao Zhao, Weiqiang Jin, Javier Del Ser, Guang Yang

In the era of sustainable smart agriculture, a massive amount of agricultural news text is being posted on the Internet, in which massive agricultural knowledge has been accumulated.

text-classification Text Classification

Connecting the Dots in Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence: From AI Principles, Ethics, and Key Requirements to Responsible AI Systems and Regulation

no code implementations2 May 2023 Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez, Javier Del Ser, Mark Coeckelbergh, Marcos López de Prado, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Francisco Herrera

Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) is based on seven technical requirements sustained over three main pillars that should be met throughout the system's entire life cycle: it should be (1) lawful, (2) ethical, and (3) robust, both from a technical and a social perspective.

Ethics Fairness

Using Offline Data to Speed-up Reinforcement Learning in Procedurally Generated Environments

no code implementations18 Apr 2023 Alain Andres, Lukas Schäfer, Esther Villar-Rodriguez, Stefano V. Albrecht, Javier Del Ser

Motivated by the recent success of Offline RL and Imitation Learning (IL), we conduct a study to investigate whether agents can leverage offline data in the form of trajectories to improve the sample-efficiency in procedurally generated environments.

Imitation Learning Offline RL +2

On the Connection between Concept Drift and Uncertainty in Industrial Artificial Intelligence

1 code implementation14 Mar 2023 Jesus L. Lobo, Ibai Laña, Eneko Osaba, Javier Del Ser

AI-based digital twins are at the leading edge of the Industry 4. 0 revolution, which are technologically empowered by the Internet of Things and real-time data analysis.

Multiobjective Evolutionary Pruning of Deep Neural Networks with Transfer Learning for improving their Performance and Robustness

no code implementations20 Feb 2023 Javier Poyatos, Daniel Molina, Aitor Martínez, Javier Del Ser, Francisco Herrera

MO-EvoPruneDeepTL uses Transfer Learning to adapt the last layers of Deep Neural Networks, by replacing them with sparse layers evolved by a genetic algorithm, which guides the evolution based in the performance, complexity and robustness of the network, being the robustness a great quality indicator for the evolved models.

Neural Architecture Search Transfer Learning

Deep Learning for Brain Age Estimation: A Systematic Review

no code implementations7 Dec 2022 M. Tanveer, M. A. Ganaie, Iman Beheshti, Tripti Goel, Nehal Ahmad, Kuan-Ting Lai, Kaizhu Huang, Yu-Dong Zhang, Javier Del Ser, Chin-Teng Lin

In this review, we offer a comprehensive analysis of the literature related to the adoption of deep learning for brain age estimation with neuroimaging data.

Age Estimation

Towards Improving Exploration in Self-Imitation Learning using Intrinsic Motivation

1 code implementation30 Nov 2022 Alain Andres, Esther Villar-Rodriguez, Javier Del Ser

Unfortunately, in a broad range of problems the design of a good reward function is not trivial, so in such cases sparse reward signals are instead adopted.

Imitation Learning

Measuring the Confidence of Traffic Forecasting Models: Techniques, Experimental Comparison and Guidelines towards Their Actionability

no code implementations28 Oct 2022 Ibai Laña, Ignacio, Olabarrieta, Javier Del Ser

The estimation of the amount of uncertainty featured by predictive machine learning models has acquired a great momentum in recent years.

Management

A Novel Explainable Out-of-Distribution Detection Approach for Spiking Neural Networks

1 code implementation30 Sep 2022 Aitor Martinez Seras, Javier Del Ser, Jesus L. Lobo, Pablo Garcia-Bringas, Nikola Kasabov

Specifically, this work presents a novel OoD detector that can identify whether test examples input to a Spiking Neural Network belong to the distribution of the data over which it was trained.

Out-of-Distribution Detection Out of Distribution (OOD) Detection

Accurate Long-term Air Temperature Prediction with a Fusion of Artificial Intelligence and Data Reduction Techniques

no code implementations29 Sep 2022 Dušan Fister, Jorge Pérez-Aracil, César Peláez-Rodríguez, Javier Del Ser, Sancho Salcedo-Sanz

The analysis carried out this work is based on Reanalysis data, which are first processed by a correlation analysis among different prediction variables and the target (average air temperature in August first and second fortnights).

feature selection

Greybox XAI: a Neural-Symbolic learning framework to produce interpretable predictions for image classification

1 code implementation26 Sep 2022 Adrien Bennetot, Gianni Franchi, Javier Del Ser, Raja Chatila, Natalia Diaz-Rodriguez

As a result, there is a widespread agreement on the importance of endowing Deep Learning models with explanatory capabilities so that they can themselves provide an answer to why a particular prediction was made.

Explainable artificial intelligence Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) +1

Deep learning for understanding multilabel imbalanced Chest X-ray datasets

no code implementations28 Jul 2022 Helena Liz, Javier Huertas-Tato, Manuel Sánchez-Montañés, Javier Del Ser, David Camacho

To apply these algorithms in different fields and test how the methodology works, we need to use eXplainable AI techniques.

Large-Kernel Attention for 3D Medical Image Segmentation

no code implementations19 Jul 2022 Hao Li, Yang Nan, Javier Del Ser, Guang Yang

The performance improvement due to the proposed LK attention module was also statistically validated.

Computed Tomography (CT) Image Segmentation +4

Capabilities, Limitations and Challenges of Style Transfer with CycleGANs: A Study on Automatic Ring Design Generation

no code implementations18 Jul 2022 Tomas Cabezon Pedroso, Javier Del Ser, Natalia Diaz-Rodriguez

This work validates the applicability of CycleGANs on style transfer from an initial sketch to a final render in 2D that represents a 3D design, a step that is paramount in every product design process.

Style Transfer

Analysis, Characterization, Prediction and Attribution of Extreme Atmospheric Events with Machine Learning: a Review

no code implementations3 Jun 2022 Sancho Salcedo-Sanz, Jorge Pérez-Aracil, Guido Ascenso, Javier Del Ser, David Casillas-Pérez, Christopher Kadow, Dusan Fister, David Barriopedro, Ricardo García-Herrera, Marcello Restelli, Mateo Giuliani, Andrea Castelletti

The accurate prediction, characterization, and attribution of atmospheric EEs is therefore a key research field, in which many groups are currently working by applying different methodologies and computational tools.

An Evaluation Study of Intrinsic Motivation Techniques applied to Reinforcement Learning over Hard Exploration Environments

1 code implementation23 May 2022 Alain Andres, Esther Villar-Rodriguez, Javier Del Ser

In the last few years, the research activity around reinforcement learning tasks formulated over environments with sparse rewards has been especially notable.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Exploring the Trade-off between Plausibility, Change Intensity and Adversarial Power in Counterfactual Explanations using Multi-objective Optimization

1 code implementation20 May 2022 Javier Del Ser, Alejandro Barredo-Arrieta, Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez, Francisco Herrera, Andreas Holzinger

To this end, we present a novel framework for the generation of counterfactual examples which formulates its goal as a multi-objective optimization problem balancing three different objectives: 1) plausibility, i. e., the likeliness of the counterfactual of being possible as per the distribution of the input data; 2) intensity of the changes to the original input; and 3) adversarial power, namely, the variability of the model's output induced by the counterfactual.

counterfactual Generative Adversarial Network

HDL: Hybrid Deep Learning for the Synthesis of Myocardial Velocity Maps in Digital Twins for Cardiac Analysis

1 code implementation9 Mar 2022 Xiaodan Xing, Javier Del Ser, Yinzhe Wu, Yang Li, Jun Xia, Lei Xu, David Firmin, Peter Gatehouse, Guang Yang

A core part of digital healthcare twins is model-based data synthesis, which permits the generation of realistic medical signals without requiring to cope with the modelling complexity of anatomical and biochemical phenomena producing them in reality.

Decision Making Generative Adversarial Network +1

Explainable COVID-19 Infections Identification and Delineation Using Calibrated Pseudo Labels

1 code implementation11 Feb 2022 Ming Li, Yingying Fang, Zeyu Tang, Chibudom Onuorah, Jun Xia, Javier Del Ser, Simon Walsh, Guang Yang

We demonstrate the effectiveness of our model with the combination of limited labelled data and sufficient unlabelled data or weakly-labelled data.

Computed Tomography (CT) Decision Making +1

EvoPruneDeepTL: An Evolutionary Pruning Model for Transfer Learning based Deep Neural Networks

1 code implementation8 Feb 2022 Javier Poyatos, Daniel Molina, Aritz. D. Martinez, Javier Del Ser, Francisco Herrera

Depending on its solution encoding strategy, our proposed model can either perform optimized pruning or feature selection over the densely connected part of the neural network.

Computational Efficiency feature selection +1

A Graph-based Methodology for the Sensorless Estimation of Road Traffic Profiles

1 code implementation11 Jan 2022 Eric L. Manibardo, Ibai Laña, Esther Villar, Javier Del Ser

Depending on the resemblance of the traffic behavior at the sensed road, the generation method can be fed with data from one road only.

Swin Transformer for Fast MRI

2 code implementations10 Jan 2022 Jiahao Huang, Yingying Fang, Yinzhe Wu, Huanjun Wu, Zhifan Gao, Yang Li, Javier Del Ser, Jun Xia, Guang Yang

The IM and OM were 2D convolutional layers and the FEM was composed of a cascaded of residual Swin transformer blocks (RSTBs) and 2D convolutional layers.

MRI Reconstruction

Evolutionary Multitask Optimization: Fundamental Research Questions, Practices, and Directions for the Future

no code implementations29 Nov 2021 Eneko Osaba, Javier Del Ser, Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan

Transfer Optimization has gained a remarkable attention from the Swarm and Evolutionary Computation community in the recent years.

On the Post-hoc Explainability of Deep Echo State Networks for Time Series Forecasting, Image and Video Classification

no code implementations17 Feb 2021 Alejandro Barredo Arrieta, Sergio Gil-Lopez, Ibai Laña, Miren Nekane Bilbao, Javier Del Ser

Specifically, the study proposes three different techniques capable of eliciting understandable information about the knowledge grasped by these recurrent models, namely, potential memory, temporal patterns and pixel absence effect.

Computational Efficiency Time Series +2

Evolutionary Multitask Optimization: a Methodological Overview, Challenges and Future Research Directions

no code implementations4 Feb 2021 Eneko Osaba, Aritz D. Martinez, Javier Del Ser

In this work we consider multitasking in the context of solving multiple optimization problems simultaneously by conducting a single search process.

Deep Learning for Road Traffic Forecasting: Does it Make a Difference?

1 code implementation2 Dec 2020 Eric L. Manibardo, Ibai Laña, Javier Del Ser

Deep Learning methods have been proven to be flexible to model complex phenomena.

A Coevolutionary Variable Neighborhood Search Algorithm for Discrete Multitasking (CoVNS): Application to Community Detection over Graphs

no code implementations30 Sep 2020 Eneko Osaba, Esther Villar-Rodriguez, Javier Del Ser

The second contribution of this paper is the application field, which is the optimal partitioning of graph instances whose connections among nodes are directed and weighted.

Community Detection

CURIE: A Cellular Automaton for Concept Drift Detection

1 code implementation21 Sep 2020 Jesus L. Lobo, Javier Del Ser, Eneko Osaba, Albert Bifet, Francisco Herrera

Specifically, in CU RIE the distribution of the data stream is represented in the grid of a cellular automata, whose neighborhood rule can then be utilized to detect possible distribution changes over the stream.

Lights and Shadows in Evolutionary Deep Learning: Taxonomy, Critical Methodological Analysis, Cases of Study, Learned Lessons, Recommendations and Challenges

no code implementations9 Aug 2020 Aritz D. Martinez, Javier Del Ser, Esther Villar-Rodriguez, Eneko Osaba, Javier Poyatos, Siham Tabik, Daniel Molina, Francisco Herrera

In summary, three axes - optimization and taxonomy, critical analysis, and challenges - which outline a complete vision of a merger of two technologies drawing up an exciting future for this area of fusion research.

On the Transferability of Knowledge among Vehicle Routing Problems by using Cellular Evolutionary Multitasking

no code implementations11 May 2020 Eneko Osaba, Aritz D. Martinez, Jesus L. Lobo, Ibai Laña, Javier Del Ser

On the other hand, equally interesting is the second contribution, which is focused on the quantitative analysis of the positive genetic transferability among the problem instances.

Transfer Learning and Online Learning for Traffic Forecasting under Different Data Availability Conditions: Alternatives and Pitfalls

no code implementations8 May 2020 Eric L. Manibardo, Ibai Laña, Javier Del Ser

In order to explore this capability, we identify three different levels of data absent scenarios, where TL techniques are applied among Deep Learning (DL) methods for traffic forecasting.

Transfer Learning

Deep Echo State Networks for Short-Term Traffic Forecasting: Performance Comparison and Statistical Assessment

no code implementations17 Apr 2020 Javier Del Ser, Ibai Lana, Eric L. Manibardo, Izaskun Oregi, Eneko Osaba, Jesus L. Lobo, Miren Nekane Bilbao, Eleni I. Vlahogianni

Results from this comparison benchmark and the analysis of the statistical significance of the reported performance gaps are decisive: Deep Echo State Networks achieve more accurate traffic forecasts than the rest of considered modeling counterparts.

dMFEA-II: An Adaptive Multifactorial Evolutionary Algorithm for Permutation-based Discrete Optimization Problems

no code implementations14 Apr 2020 Eneko Osaba, Aritz D. Martinez, Akemi Galvez, Andres Iglesias, Javier Del Ser

Within this specific branch, approaches such as the Multifactorial Evolutionary Algorithm (MFEA) has lately gained a notable momentum when tackling multiple optimization tasks.

New Perspectives on the Use of Online Learning for Congestion Level Prediction over Traffic Data

no code implementations27 Mar 2020 Eric L. Manibardo, Ibai Laña, Jesus L. Lobo, Javier Del Ser

In this manuscript we elaborate on the suitability of online learning methods to predict the road congestion level based on traffic speed time series data.

Incremental Learning Time Series +1

Plausible Counterfactuals: Auditing Deep Learning Classifiers with Realistic Adversarial Examples

no code implementations25 Mar 2020 Alejandro Barredo-Arrieta, Javier Del Ser

The last decade has witnessed the proliferation of Deep Learning models in many applications, achieving unrivaled levels of predictive performance.

counterfactual Generative Adversarial Network

COEBA: A Coevolutionary Bat Algorithm for Discrete Evolutionary Multitasking

no code implementations24 Mar 2020 Eneko Osaba, Javier Del Ser, Xin-She Yang, Andres Iglesias, Akemi Galvez

In this context, Evolutionary Multitasking addresses Transfer Optimization problems by resorting to concepts from Evolutionary Computation for simultaneous solving the tasks at hand.

Traveling Salesman Problem

Multifactorial Cellular Genetic Algorithm (MFCGA): Algorithmic Design, Performance Comparison and Genetic Transferability Analysis

no code implementations24 Mar 2020 Eneko Osaba, Aritz D. Martinez, Jesus L. Lobo, Javier Del Ser, Francisco Herrera

Furthermore, the equally recent concept of Evolutionary Multitasking (EM) refers to multitasking environments adopting concepts from Evolutionary Computation as their inspiration for the simultaneous solving of the problems under consideration.

Benchmarking Transfer Learning +1

Simultaneously Evolving Deep Reinforcement Learning Models using Multifactorial Optimization

no code implementations25 Feb 2020 Aritz D. Martinez, Eneko Osaba, Javier Del Ser, Francisco Herrera

A thorough experimentation is presented and discussed so as to assess the performance of the framework, its comparison to the traditional methodology for Transfer Learning in terms of convergence, speed and policy quality , and the intertask relationships found and exploited over the search process.

Q-Learning reinforcement-learning +2

From Data to Actions in Intelligent Transportation Systems: a Prescription of Functional Requirements for Model Actionability

no code implementations6 Feb 2020 Ibai Lana, Javier J. Sanchez-Medina, Eleni I. Vlahogianni, Javier Del Ser

Advances in Data Science permeate every field of Transportation Science and Engineering, resulting in developments in the transportation sector that {are} data-driven.

Decision Making

LUNAR: Cellular Automata for Drifting Data Streams

no code implementations6 Feb 2020 Jesus L. Lobo, Javier Del Ser, Francisco Herrera

A lack of efficient and scalable solutions is particularly noted in real-time scenarios where computing resources are severely constrained, as it occurs in networks of small, numerous, interconnected processing units (such as the so-called Smart Dust, Utility Fog, or Swarm Robotics paradigms).

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Stream Data with Online Evolving Spiking Neural Networks

no code implementations18 Dec 2019 Piotr S. Maciąg, Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Robert Bembenik, Jesus L. Lobo, Javier Del Ser

The proposed OeSNN-UAD detector was experimentally compared with state-of-the-art unsupervised and semi-supervised detectors of anomalies in stream data from the Numenta Anomaly Benchmark and Yahoo Anomaly Datasets repositories.

Time Series Analysis Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

Rank aggregation for non-stationary data streams

no code implementations19 Oct 2019 Ekhine Irurozki, Jesus Lobo, Aritz Perez, Javier Del Ser

Then, we generalize the whole family of weighted voting rules (the family to which Borda belongs) to situations in which some rankings are more \textit{reliable} than others and show that this generalization can solve the problem of rank aggregation over non-stationary data streams.

Recommendation Systems

Exploiting a Stimuli Encoding Scheme of Spiking Neural Networks for Stream Learning

no code implementations23 Jul 2019 Jesus L. Lobo, Izaskun Oregi, Albert Bifet, Javier Del Ser

Stream data processing has gained progressive momentum with the arriving of new stream applications and big data scenarios.

Spiking Neural Networks and Online Learning: An Overview and Perspectives

no code implementations23 Jul 2019 Jesus L. Lobo, Javier Del Ser, Albert Bifet, Nikola Kasabov

Specially in these non-stationary scenarios, there is a pressing need for new algorithms that adapt to these changes as fast as possible, while maintaining good performance scores.

jMetalPy: a Python Framework for Multi-Objective Optimization with Metaheuristics

1 code implementation7 Mar 2019 Antonio Benitez-Hidalgo, Antonio J. Nebro, Jose Garcia-Nieto, Izaskun Oregi, Javier Del Ser

This paper describes jMetalPy, an object-oriented Python-based framework for multi-objective optimization with metaheuristic techniques.

Data Visualization

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