At Data Science Group, we try to offer computational models for challenging real-world problems.
This talk will introduce two such problems that can benefit from collaboration with mathematicians and theorists. One is customs fraud detection, where the goal is to determine a small set of fraudulent transactions that will maximize the tax revenue when caught. We had previously shown
a state-of-the-art deep learning model in collaboration with the World Customs Organization [KDD2020].
The next challenge is to consider semi-supervised (i.e., using very few labels) and unsupervised (i.e., no label information) settings that better suit developing countries' conditions. Another research problem is poverty mapping, where the goal is to infer economic index from high-dimensional visual features learned from satellite images. Several innovative algorithms have been proposed for this task [Science2016, AAAI2020, KDD2020]. I will introduce how we approach this problem under extreme conditions with little validation data, as in North Korea.
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