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- research-articleJanuary 2025
Predicting dose-response curves with deep neural networks
ICML'24: Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine LearningArticle No.: 48, Pages 1144–1154Dose-response curves characterize the relationship between the concentration of drugs and their inhibitory effect on the growth of specific types of cells. The predominant Hill-equation model of an ideal enzymatic inhibition unduly simplifies the ...
- research-articleJuly 2024
Improving cognitive-state analysis from eye gaze with synthetic eye-movement data
AbstractEye movements can be used to analyze a viewer’s cognitive capacities or mental state. Neural networks that process the raw eye-tracking signal can outperform methods that operate on scan paths preprocessed into fixations and saccades. However, ...
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Highlights- Neural embeddings of eye movements can be used as input to any model.
- SP-EyeGAN establishes new state-of-the-art performance on text comprehension.
- Performance of gender classification is effected by the number of training samples.
- research-articleMay 2023
Bridging the Gap: Gaze Events as Interpretable Concepts to Explain Deep Neural Sequence Models
ETRA '23: Proceedings of the 2023 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and ApplicationsArticle No.: 3, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3588015.3588412Recent work in XAI for eye tracking data has evaluated the suitability of feature attribution methods to explain the output of deep neural sequence models for the task of oculomotric biometric identification. These methods provide saliency maps to ...
- research-articleMay 2023
SP-EyeGAN: Generating Synthetic Eye Movement Data with Generative Adversarial Networks
ETRA '23: Proceedings of the 2023 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and ApplicationsArticle No.: 18, Pages 1–9https://doi.org/10.1145/3588015.3588410Neural networks that process the raw eye-tracking signal can outperform traditional methods that operate on scanpaths preprocessed into fixations and saccades. However, the scarcity of such data poses a major challenge. We, therefore, present SP-EyeGAN, ...
- research-articleMay 2023
Eyettention: An Attention-based Dual-Sequence Model for Predicting Human Scanpaths during Reading
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 7, Issue ETRAArticle No.: 162, Pages 1–24https://doi.org/10.1145/3591131Eye movements during reading offer insights into both the reader's cognitive processes and the characteristics of the text that is being read. Hence, the analysis of scanpaths in reading have attracted increasing attention across fields, ranging from ...
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- research-articleMarch 2024
Detection of Alcohol Inebriation from Eye Movements
Procedia Computer Science (PROCS), Volume 225, Issue CPages 2086–2095https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2023.10.199AbstractToday, the most convenient way of estimating an individual's blood-alcohol concentration requires a breathalyzer device and intense user cooperation, which severely limits the scope of potential applications. We develop and study a machine-...
- ArticleMarch 2023
Detection of ADHD Based on Eye Movements During Natural Viewing
- Shuwen Deng,
- Paul Prasse,
- David R. Reich,
- Sabine Dziemian,
- Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz,
- Daniel Krakowczyk,
- Silvia Makowski,
- Nicolas Langer,
- Tobias Scheffer,
- Lena A. Jäger
Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in DatabasesPages 403–418https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26422-1_25AbstractAttention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is highly prevalent and requires clinical specialists to diagnose. It is known that an individual’s viewing behavior, reflected in their eye movements, is ...
- research-articleJune 2022
Fairness in Oculomotoric Biometric Identification
ETRA '22: 2022 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and ApplicationsArticle No.: 22, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3517031.3529633Gaze patterns are known to be highly individual, and therefore eye movements can serve as a biometric characteristic. We explore aspects of the fairness of biometric identification based on gaze patterns. We find that while oculomotoric identification ...
- ArticleMarch 2022
Joint Prediction of Topics in a URL Hierarchy
Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in DatabasesPages 514–529https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44848-9_33AbstractWe study the problem of jointly predicting topics for all web pages within URL hierarchies. We employ a graphical model in which latent variables represent the predominant topic within a subtree of the URL hierarchy. The model is built around a ...
- ArticleSeptember 2021
Learning Explainable Representations of Malware Behavior
Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Applied Data Science TrackPages 53–68https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86514-6_4AbstractWe address the problems of identifying malware in network telemetry logs and providing indicators of compromise—comprehensible explanations of behavioral patterns that identify the threat. In our system, an array of specialized detectors abstracts ...
- research-articleSeptember 2020
Biometric Identification and Presentation-Attack Detection using Micro- and Macro-Movements of the Eyes
2020 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB)Pages 1–10https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCB48548.2020.9304900We study involuntary micro-movements of both eyes, in addition to saccadic macro-movements, as biometric characteristic. We develop a deep convolutional neural network that processes binocular oculomotoric signals and identifies the viewer. In order to be ...
- ArticleSeptember 2019
Deep Eyedentification: Biometric Identification Using Micro-movements of the Eye
Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in DatabasesPages 299–314https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46147-8_18AbstractWe study involuntary micro-movements of the eye for biometric identification. While prior studies extract lower-frequency macro-movements from the output of video-based eye-tracking systems and engineer explicit features of these macro-movements, ...
- research-articleSeptember 2019
Joint detection of malicious domains and infected clients
Machine Language (MALE), Volume 108, Issue 8-9Pages 1353–1368https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-019-05789-zAbstractDetection of malware-infected computers and detection of malicious web domains based on their encrypted HTTPS traffic are challenging problems, because only addresses, timestamps, and data volumes are observable. The detection problems are coupled,...
- ArticleJanuary 2019
A Discriminative Model for Identifying Readers and Assessing Text Comprehension from Eye Movements
Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in DatabasesPages 209–225https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10925-7_13AbstractWe study the problem of inferring readers’ identities and estimating their level of text comprehension from observations of their eye movements during reading. We develop a generative model of individual gaze patterns (scanpaths) that makes use of ...
- ArticleJanuary 2019
Detecting Autism by Analyzing a Simulated Social Interaction
- Hanna Drimalla,
- Niels Landwehr,
- Irina Baskow,
- Behnoush Behnia,
- Stefan Roepke,
- Isabel Dziobek,
- Tobias Scheffer
Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in DatabasesPages 193–208https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10925-7_12AbstractDiagnosing autism spectrum conditions takes several hours by well-trained practitioners; therefore, standardized questionnaires are widely used for first-level screening. Questionnaires as a diagnostic tool, however, rely on self-reflection—which ...
- articleOctober 2017
Varying-coefficient models for geospatial transfer learning
Machine Language (MALE), Volume 106, Issue 9-10Pages 1419–1440https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-017-5639-3We study prediction problems in which the conditional distribution of the output given the input varies as a function of task variables which, in our applications, represent space and time. In varying-coefficient models, the coefficients of this ...
- ArticleSeptember 2016
Huber-Norm Regularization for Linear Prediction Models
ECML PKDD 2016: European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - Volume 9851Pages 714–730https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46128-1_45In order to avoid overfitting, it is common practice to regularize linear prediction models using squared or absolute-value norms of the model parameters. In our article we consider a new method of regularization: Huber-norm regularization imposes a ...
- articleSeptember 2016
Learning to control a structured-prediction decoder for detection of HTTP-layer DDoS attackers
Machine Language (MALE), Volume 104, Issue 2-3Pages 385–410https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-016-5581-9We focus on the problem of detecting clients that attempt to exhaust server resources by flooding a service with protocol-compliant HTTP requests. Attacks are usually coordinated by an entity that controls many clients. Modeling the application as a ...
- ArticleSeptember 2015
Solving prediction games with parallel batch gradient descent
ECMLPKDD'15: Proceedings of the 2015th European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - Volume Part IPages 152–167https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23528-8_10Learning problems in which an adversary can perturb instances at application time can be modeled as games with data-dependent cost functions. In an equilibrium point, the learner's model parameters are the optimal reaction to the data generator's ...
- articleJanuary 2015
Learning to identify concise regular expressions that describe email campaigns
This paper addresses the problem of inferring a regular expression from a given set of strings that resembles, as closely as possible, the regular expression that a human expert would have written to identify the language. This is motivated by our goal ...