Jiao Yan

John Holler, Risto Vuorio, Zhiwei Qin et al.

Order dispatching and driver repositioning (also known as fleet management) in the face of spatially and temporally varying supply and demand are central to a ride-sharing platform marketplace. Hand-crafting heuristic solutions that account for the dynamics in these resource allocation problems is difficult, and may be better handled by an end-to-end machine learning method. Previous works have explored machine learning methods to the problem from a high-level perspective, where the learning method is responsible for either repositioning the drivers or dispatching orders, and as a further simplification, the drivers are considered independent agents maximizing their own reward functions. In this paper we present a deep reinforcement learning approach for tackling the full fleet management and dispatching problems. In addition to treating the drivers as individual agents, we consider the problem from a system-centric perspective, where a central fleet management agent is responsible for decision-making for all drivers.

Zhou Xing, Eddy Baik, Yan Jiao et al.

While both the data volume and heterogeneity of the digital music content is huge, it has become increasingly important and convenient to build a recommendation or search system to facilitate surfacing these content to the user or consumer community. Most of the recommendation models fall into two primary species, collaborative filtering based and content based approaches. Variants of instantiations of collaborative filtering approach suffer from the common issues of so called "cold start" and "long tail" problems where there is not much user interaction data to reveal user opinions or affinities on the content and also the distortion towards the popular content. Content-based approaches are sometimes limited by the richness of the available content data resulting in a heavily biased and coarse recommendation result. In recent years, the deep neural network has enjoyed a great success in large-scale image and video recognitions. In this paper, we propose and experiment using deep convolutional neural network to imitate how human brain processes hierarchical structures in the auditory signals, such as music, speech, etc., at various timescales. This approach can be used to discover the latent factor models of the music based upon acoustic hyper-images that are extracted from the raw audio waves of music. These latent embeddings can be used either as features to feed to subsequent models, such as collaborative filtering, or to build similarity metrics between songs, or to classify music based on the labels for training such as genre, mood, sentiment, etc.