The traditional estimation of mixture regression models is based on the normal assumption of component errors and thus is sensitive to outliers or heavy-tailed errors. A robust mixture regression model based on the t−distribution by extending the mixture of t−distributions to the regression setting is proposed. However, this proposed new mixture regression model is still not robust to high leve...

Recommender systems suffer from an extreme data sparsity that results from a large number of items and only a limited capability of users to perceive them. Only a small fraction of items can be rated by a single user. Consequently, there is plenty of unlabelled information that can be leveraged by semi-supervised methods. We propose the first semisupervised framework for stream recommender syst...

The banks’ response to their changes in leverage ratios is examined and evaluated in this paper. This reaction can be interpreted as if the coefficient of total debts to equity (lev1) and total assets to equity (lev2) are positive as anticipated in the banking network of Iran. The paper uses data from 31 Iranian banks’ annual databases during the course of 2006-13 in order to estimate an empiri...

The linkage of ImageNet WordNet synsets to Wikidata items will leverage deep learning algorithm with access to a rich multilingual knowledge graph. Here I will describe our ongoing efforts in linking the two resources and issues faced in matching the Wikidata and WordNet knowledge graphs. I show an example on how the linkage can be used in a deep learning setting with real-time image classifica...

A single ‘odd’ interaction can cause two user interaction sessions to diverge in similarity, and stand in the way of generalization. The sensitivity of session-based recommenders to session similarity motivates us to explicitly identify and remove such ‘similarity blockers’. Specifically, we leverage huge amounts of data, which allow us to identify blockers in the form of non-co-occurring items...

We describe the use of meeting metadata, acquired using a computerized meeting organization and note-taking system, to improve automatic transcription of meetings. By applying a two-step language model adaptation process based on notes and agenda items, we were able to reduce perplexity by 9% and word error rate by 4% relative on a set of ten meetings recorded in-house. This approach can be use...

This study investigates the effect of intra-organizational and macroeconomic factors on banking leverage in selected Iranian banks. For this purpose, after calculation of the Banking Leverage for each bank, by using Random-Coefficients Approach (Swamy model), the impact of explanatory variables during the period of 1999-2016 was examined separately by 10 selected Iranian public and private bank...

The detection of influential observations for the standard least squares regression model is a question that has been extensively studied. LAD regression diagnostics offers alternative approaches whose main feature is the robustness. In this paper a new approach for nonparametric detection of influencial observations in LAD regression models is presented and compared with other classical method...