4 accepted papers
Although Socially Assistive Robotics have been used in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) interventions, such studies often exclude Special Educators (SEs) and often use expensive humanoid robots. In this paper, we investigate whether non-humanoid toy robots can act as teaching aids in ASD Education, in…
We consider the problem of minimizing a convex function over the intersection of finitely many simple sets which are easy to project onto. This is an important problem arising in various domains such as machine learning. The main difficulty lies in finding the projection of a point in the intersect…
The failure of LASSO to identify groups of correlated predictors in linear regression has sparked significant research interest. Recently, various norms were proposed, which can be best described as instances of ordered weighted $\ell_1$ norms (OWL), as an alternative to $\ell_1$ regularizati…
The Noisy Non-negative Matrix factorization (NMF) is: given a data matrix A (d x n), find non-negative matrices B;C (d x k, k x n respy.) so that A = BC +N, where N is a noise matrix. Existing polynomial time algorithms with proven error guarantees require EACH column N_⋅j to have l1 norm much small…