Synthetic data generation offers a promising solution to enhance the usefulness of Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) by generating realistic de-identified data. However, the existing literature primarily focuses on the quality of synthetic health data, neglecting the crucial aspect of fairness in downstream predictions. Consequently, models trained on synthetic EHR have faced criticism for producing biased outcomes in target tasks. These biases can arise from either spurious correlations between features or the failure of models to accurately represent sub-groups. To address these concerns, we present Bias-transforming Generative Adversarial Networks (Bt-GAN), a GAN-based synthetic data generator specifically designed for the healthcare domain. In order to tackle spurious correlations (i), we propose an information-constrained Data Generation Process (DGP) that enables the generator to learn a fair deterministic transformation based on a well-defined notion of algorithmic fairness. To overcome the challenge of capturing exact sub-group representations (ii), we incentivize the generator to preserve sub-group densities through score-based weighted sampling. This approach compels the generator to learn from underrepresented regions of the data manifold. To evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed method, we conduct extensive experiments using the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC-III) database. Our results demonstrate that Bt-GAN achieves state-of-the-art accuracy while significantly improving fairness and minimizing bias amplification. Furthermore, we perform an in-depth explainability analysis to provide additional evidence supporting the validity of our study. In conclusion, our research introduces a novel and professional approach to addressing the limitations of synthetic data generation in the healthcare domain. By incorporating fairness considerations and leveraging advanced techniques such as GANs, we pave the way for more reliable and unbiased predictions in healthcare applications.

Imagine placing an online order on your way to the grocery store, then being able to pick the collected basket upon arrival or shortly after. Likewise, imagine placing any online retail order, made ready for pickup in minutes instead of days. In order to realize such a low-latency automatic warehouse logistics system, solvers must be made to be basketaware. That is, it is more important that the full order (the basket) is picked timely and fast, than that any single item  in the order is picked quickly. Current state-of-the-art methods are not basket-aware. Nor are they optimized for a positive customer experience, that is; to prioritize customers based on queue place and the difficulty associated with  picking their order. An example of the latter is that it is preferable to prioritize a customer ordering a pack of diapers over a customer shopping a larger order, but only as long as the second customer has not already been waiting for  too long. In this work we formalize the problem outlined, propose a new method that significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art, and present a new realistic simulated benchmark. The proposed method is demonstrated to work in an on-line and real-time setting, and to solve the on-demand multi-agent basket picking problem for automated shopping stores under realistic conditions.

Lattice-based motion planning is a hybrid planning method where a plan is made up of discrete actions, while simultaneously also being a physically feasible trajectory. The planning takes both discrete and continuous aspects into account, for example action pre-conditions and collision-free action-duration in the configuration space. Safe motion planning rely on well-calibrated safety-margins for collision checking. The trajectory tracking controller must further be able to reliably execute the motions within this safety margin for the execution to be safe. In this work we are concerned with introspective learning and reasoning about controller performance over time. Normal controller execution of the different actions is learned using machine learning techniques with explicit uncertainty quantification, for safe usage in safety-critical applications. By increasing the model accuracy the safety margins can be reduced while maintaining the same safety as before. Reasoning takes place to both verify that the learned models stays safe and to improve collision checking effectiveness in the motion planner using more accurate execution predictions with a smaller safety margin. The presented approach allows for explicit awareness of controller performance under normal circumstances, and detection of incorrect performance in abnormal circumstances. Evaluation is made on the nonlinear dynamics of a quadcopter in 3D using simulation.

This paper presents preliminary work on using deep neural networksto guide general-purpose heuristic algorithms for performing utilitarian combinatorial assignment. In more detail, we use deep learning in an attempt to produce heuristics that can be used together with e.g., search algorithms to generatefeasible solutions of higher quality more quickly. Our results indicate that ourapproach could be a promising future method for constructing such heuristics.

Validation and verification of supervised machine learning models is becoming increasingly important as their complexity and range of applications grows. This paper describes an extension to Bayesian optimization which allows for selecting both training and validation data, in cases where data can be generated or calculated as a function of a spatial location.