We study a neuro-inspired model that mimics a discussion (or information dissemination) process in a network of agents. During their interaction, agents redistribute activity and network weights, resulting in emergence of leader(s). The model is able to reproduce the basic scenarios of leadership known in nature and society: laissez-faire (irregular activity, weak leadership, sizable inter-foll...

This paper investigates the behaviour of multiple decision-maker organisations or bodies, operating in a stochastic environment. Behaviour with a delegated decision maker is examined. A crucial decision is when to delegate to another decision maker. The problem may be intrapersonal, as occurs when there are endogenously changing tastes, or interpersonal where delegation is intuitionally necessa...

This paper addresses the "one-to-many" mapping problem in Voice Conversion (VC) by exploring source-to-target mappings in GMM-based spectral transformation. Specifically, we examine differences using source-only versus joint source/target information in the classification stage of transformation, effectively illustrating a "one-to-many effect" in the traditional acoustically-based GMM. We propo...

We consider a multi-armed bandit setting that is inspired by real-world applications in e-commerce. In our setting, there are a few types of users, each with a specific response to the different arms. When a user enters the system, his type is unknown to the decision maker. The decision maker can either treat each user separately ignoring the previously observed users, or can attempt to take ad...

In this paper, we employ simulation-based methods to study the role of a market maker in improving price discovery in a prediction market. In our model, traders receive a lagged signal of a ground truth, which is based on real price data from prediction markets on NBA games in the 2014–2015 season. We employ empirical game-theoretic analysis to identify equilibria under different settings of ma...

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Here we will give full details of model compared in Section 2 of the main paper. In general, all training data were randomly sampled patches from the Berkeley Segmentation training set images, and all test data was sampled from the Berkeley test set images (that is, testing was always done on unseen patches). We removed the DC component of all patches. The test set consists of a 1000 patches fr...

This paper presents adaptive voice-quality control methods based on one-to-many eigenvoice conversion. To intuitively control the converted voice quality by manipulating a small number of control parameters, a multiple regression Gaussian mixture model (MR-GMM) has been proposed. The MR-GMM also allows us to estimate the optimum control parameters if target speech samples are available. However...

Language learners are confused by near-synonyms and often look for answers from the Web. However, there is little to aid them in sorting through the overwhelming load of information that is offered. In this paper, we propose a new research problem: suggesting example sentences for learning word distinctions. We focus on near-synonyms as the first step. Two kinds of one-class classifiers, the GM...