[Oct 21th 2020] LabMeeting: SAAMBE-SEQ: A Sequence-based Method for Predicting Mutation Effect on Protein-protein Binding Affinity

Anna Visibelli (University of Siena) Oct 21, 2020 – 11:00 – 11:45 AM Conference Meeting Description Vast majority of human genetic disorders are associated with mutations that affect protein-protein interactions by altering wild type binding affinity. Therefore, it is extremely important to assess the effect of mutations on protein-protein binding free energy to assist the […]

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[Oct 7th 2020] LabMeeting: Image-to-Images Translation for Multi-Task Organ Segmentation and Bone Suppression in Chest X-Ray Radiography

Giorgio Ciano (University of Florence) Oct 7, 2020 – 11:00 – 11:45 AM Conference Meeting Description Chest X-ray radiography is one of the earliest medical imaging technologies and remains one of the most widely-used for diagnosis, screening, and treatment follow up of diseases related to lungs and heart. The literature in this field of research […]

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[Sep 30th 2020] LabMeeting: Imitation Learning – predicting goal-directed scanpaths

Lapo Faggi (University of Florence) Sep 30, 2020 – 11:00 AM Conference Meeting Description In this seminar, some recent imitation learning algorithms will be presented. Imitation learning, also known as learning from demonstrations, is a powerful and practical alternative to reinforcement learning for learning sequential decision-making policies without the need of defining any (hand-crafted) reward […]

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[Sep 23rd 2020] LabMeeting: Evaluating the impact of semantic features and domain knowledge on text categorization

Marco Ernandes Sep 23, 2020 – 11:45 – 12:30 AM Conference Meeting Description The text-mining field is currently in the eye of a technological storm: dozens of novel (and effective!) algorithms and architectures have been recently released, mainly by global AI players, such as Google, OpenAI, Microsoft. From a methodological point of view we observe […]

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[Sep 23th 2020] LabMeeting: Spectral Clustering with Graph Neural Networks for Graph Pooling

Niccolò Pancino (University of Florence) Sep 23, 2020 – 11:00 – 11:45 AM Conference Meeting Description Spectral clustering (SC) is a popular clustering technique to find strongly connected communities on a graph. It can be used in Graph Neural Networks to implement pooling operations that aggregate nodes belonging to the same cluster. However, SC is […]

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[Sep 16th 2020] LabMeeting: SAILenv: Learning in Virtual Visual Environments Made Simple

Enrico Meloni (University of Florence) Sep 16, 2020 – 11:00 AM Conference Meeting Description Recently, researchers in Machine Learning algorithms, Computer Vision scientists, engineers, and others, showed a growing interest in 3D simulators as a mean to artificially create experimental settings that are remarkably close to those in the real world. However, most of the […]

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[Jul 22nd 2020] LabMeeting: Partial Distance Correlation for Exploring Dependence Between Similarity Networks

Federica Baccini (University of Florence) Jul 22, 2020 – 11:00 AM Conference Meeting Description Similarity network fusion is a tool that aggregates the information coming from a multiplex network into a unique layer through a cross diffusion process. However, the process itself does not allow to infer which layer has the major impact in the […]

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[Jul 15th 2020] LabMeeting: Can Domain Knowledge Alleviate Adversarial Attacks in Multi-Label Classifiers?

Gabriele Ciravegna (University of Florence) Jul 15, 2020 – 11:00 AM Conference Meeting Description Adversarial attacks on machine learning-based classifiers, along with defence mechanisms, have been widely studied in the context of single-label classification problems. In this paper, we shift the attention to multi-label classification, where the availability of domain knowledge on the relationships among […]

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