Interests and selected publications (more here)

(corresponding author†, student co-author*)

Recent theoretical papers on metrics for machine learning

• S. A. Alvarez. Gaussian centered kernel alignment (CKA) in the large-bandwidth limit, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), vol. 45, issue 5, May 2023 (early access Oct. 2022); https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9926163
  Preprint available here.

Recent papers on physiological data analysis / mining

• P. Putra*, K. Shima, S. A. Alvarez, and K. Shimatani. Identifying autism spectrum disorder symptoms using response and gaze behavior during the Go/NoGo game CatChicken, Scientific Reports, vol. 11, Nov. 2021
  Full paper available at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-01050-7

• S. Paisarnsrisomsuk*, C. Ruiz, and S. A. Alvarez^†. Capturing the development of internal representations in a high-performing deep network for sleep stage classification, SN Computer Science 2, 318 (2021)
  Full paper available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-021-00697-3

• M. Sokolovsky*, F. Guerrero*, S. Paisarnsrisomsuk*, C. Ruiz, and S. A. Alvarez^†. Deep learning for automated feature discovery and classification of sleep stages, IEEE / ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Nov-Dec 2020; 17(6):1835-1845; doi:10.1109/TCBB.2019.2912955 Epub 2020 Dec 8.
  Near-final version available here.

• S. Paisarnsrisomsuk*, M. Sokolovsky*, F. Guerrero*, C. Ruiz, and S. A. Alvarez^†. Deep Sleep: convolutional neural networks for predictive modeling of human sleep time-signals, KDD 2018 Deep Learning Day, 2018 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2018), London, UK, Aug. 2018

• S. A. Alvarez, E. Winner, A. Hawley-Dolan, L. Snapper*.
  What gaze fixation and pupil dilation can tell us about perceived differences between abstract art by artists vs. by children and animals, Perception, 44(11): 1310-1331 (Nov. 2015)
  doi:10.1177/0301006615596899
  Near-final version available here.

Data mining algorithms

• W.-Y. Lin*, S.A. Alvarez^†, and C. Ruiz.
  "Efficient adaptive-support association rule mining for recommender systems", Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 83-105, Jan. 2002

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