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Barry Smyth

5 accepted papers

2023

Keeping People Active and Healthy at Home Using a Reinforcement Learning-based Fitness Recommendation Framework

IJCAI 2023poster

Recent years have seen a rise in smartphone applications promoting health and well being. We argue that there is a large and unexplored ground within the field of recommender systems (RS) for applications that promote good personal health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, with gyms being closed, the de…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2022

NumHTML: Numeric-Oriented Hierarchical Transformer Model for Multi-Task Financial Forecasting

AAAI 2022technical

Financial forecasting has been an important and active area of machine learning research because of the challenges it presents and the potential rewards that even minor improvements in prediction accuracy or forecasting may entail. Traditionally, financial forecasting has heavily relied on quantitat…

Cited by 45SourcePDFScholar
2021

Exploring the Efficacy of Automatically Generated Counterfactuals for Sentiment Analysis

ACL 2021long

While state-of-the-art NLP models have been achieving the excellent performance of a wide range of tasks in recent years, important questions are being raised about their robustness and their underlying sensitivity to systematic biases that may exist in their training and test data. Such issues come…

2021

If Only We Had Better Counterfactual Explanations: Five Key Deficits to Rectify in the Evaluation of Counterfactual XAI Techniques

IJCAI 2021poster

In recent years, there has been an explosion of AI research on counterfactual explanations as a solution to the problem of eXplainable AI (XAI). These explanations seem to offer technical, psychological and legal benefits over other explanation techniques. We survey 100 distinct counterfactual expl…

Cited by 206SourcePDFScholar
2020

Generating Plausible Counterfactual Explanations for Deep Transformers in Financial Text Classification

COLING 2020main

Corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) account for billions of dollars of investment globally every year and offer an interesting and challenging domain for artificial intelligence. However, in these highly sensitive domains, it is crucial to not only have a highly robust/accurate model, but be ab…