Marta Soare - Publications

International journal papers

• Secure Protocols for Best Arm Identification in Federated Stochastic Multi-Armed Bandits
  Radu Ciucanu, Anatole Delabrouille, Pascal Lafourcade, Marta Soare
  Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Volume 20, Issue 2, pages 1378-1389, 2023
• Secure Protocols for Cumulative Reward Maximization in Stochastic Multi-Armed Bandits
  Radu Ciucanu, Pascal Lafourcade, Marius Lombdard-Platet, Marta Soare
  Journal of Computer Security, Volume 31, Issue 1, pages 1-27, 2023
• SAMBA: A Generic Framework for Secure Federated Multi-Armed Bandits
  Radu Ciucanu, Pascal Lafourcade, Gael Marcadet, Marta Soare
  Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 73, pages 737-765, 2022
• Improving genomics-based predictions for precision medicine through active elicitation of expert knowledge
  Iiris Sundin, Tomi Peltola, Luana Micallef, Homayun Afrabandpey, Marta Soare, Muntasir Mamun Majumder, Pedram Daee, Chen He, Baris Serim, Aki Havulinna, Caroline Heckman, Giulio Jacucci, Pekka Marttinen and Samuel Kaski
  Bioinformatics, Volume 34, Issue 13, Special issue dedicated to the proceedings of ISMB 2018
• Knowledge Elicitation via Sequential Probabilistic Inference for High-Dimensional Prediction
  Pedram Daee, Tomi Peltola, Marta Soare, and Samuel Kaski
  Machine Learning, Volume 106 (9-10), Special issue dedicated to the Journal Track of ECML PKDD 2017

Refereed international conference papers

• Multi-Agent Best Arm Identification with Private Communications
  Alexandre Rio, Merwan Barlier, Igor Colin, Marta Soare
  ICML 2023, In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference in Machine Learning (ICML), PMLR 202, pages 29082-29102
• SAMBA: A Generic Framework for Secure Federated Multi-Armed Bandits (Extended Abstract)
  Radu Ciucanu, Pascal Lafourcade, Gael Marcadet, Marta Soare
  IJCAI 2023, In Proceedings of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Journal Track, pages 6863-6867
• FeReD: Federated Reinforcement Learning in the DBMS
  Sotirios Tzamaras, Radu Ciucanu, Marta Soare, Sihem Amer-Yahia
  CIKM 2022, In Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Demo Track, pages 4989-4993 (best paper honorable mention)
• Implementing Linear Bandits in Off-the-Shelf SQLite
  Radu Ciucanu, Marta Soare, Sihem Amer-Yahia
  EDBT 2022, In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Short Paper Track, pages 388-392
• SAMBA: A System for Secure Federated Multi-Armed Bandits
  Gael Marcadet, Radu Ciucanu, Pascal Lafourcade, Marta Soare, Sihem Amer-Yahia
  ICDE 2022, In Proceedings of the 38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Demo Track, pages 3154-3157
• DashBot: An ML-Guided Dashboard Generation System
  Sandrine Da Col, Radu Ciucanu, Marta Soare, Nassim Bouarour, Sihem Amer-Yahia
  CIKM 2021, In Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Demo Track, pages 4696-4700
• Secure Outsourcing of Multi-Armed Bandits
  Radu Ciucanu, Pascal Lafourcade, Marius Lombard-Platet, Marta Soare
  TrustCom 2020, In Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, pages 202-209
• Secure Cumulative Reward Maximization in Linear Stochastic Bandits
  Radu Ciucanu, Anatole Delabrouille, Pascal Lafourcade, Marta Soare
  ProvSec 2020, In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Provable and Practical Security, pages 257-277
• Secure Best Arm Identification in Multi-Armed Bandits
  Radu Ciucanu, Pascal Lafourcade, Marius Lombard-Platet, Marta Soare
  ISPEC 2019, In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, pages 152-171
• Interactive Elicitation of Knowledge on Feature Relevance Improves Predictions in Small Data Sets
  Luana Micallef, Iiris Sundin, Pekka Marttinen, Muhammad Ammad-ud-din, Tomi Peltola, Marta Soare, Giulio Jacucci, Samuel Kaski
  IUI 2017, In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Intelligent User Interfaces Community, pages 547-552
• Regression with n→1 by Expert Knowledge Elicitation
  Marta Soare, Muhammad Ammad-ud-din, and Samuel Kaski
  ICMLA 2016, In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, pages 734-739
• Best-Arm Identification in Linear Bandits
  Marta Soare, Alessandro Lazaric, and Rémi Munos
  NIPS 2014, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 27, pages 828-836

Refereed international workshop papers (selection)

• Ask the doctor - Improving drug sensitivity predictions through active expert knowledge elicitation
  Iiris Sundin, Tomi Peltola, Muntasir Mamun Majumder, Pedram Daee, Marta Soare, Homayun Afrabandpey, Caroline Heckman, Samuel Kaski and Pekka Marttinen
  MLSB 2017, Eleventh International Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology, Special Session at ISMB/ECCB
• Probabilistic Expert Knowledge Elicitation of Feature Relevances in Sparse Linear Regression
  Pedram Daee, Tomi Peltola, Marta Soare, and Samuel Kaski
  FILM 2016, NIPS Workshop on Future of Interactive Learning Machines
• Interactive User Intent Modeling for Eliciting Priors of a Normal Linear Model
  Iiris Sundin, Luana Micallef, Pekka Marttinen, Muhammad Ammad-ud-din, Tomi Peltola, Marta Soare, Giulio Jacucci, Samuel Kaski
  FILM 2016, NIPS Workshop on Future of Interactive Learning Machines
• Multi-task Linear Bandits
  Marta Soare, Ouais Alsharif, Alessandro Lazaric, and Joelle Pineau
  Multi-Task 2014, NIPS Workshop on Transfer and Multi-task Learning
• Active Learning in Linear Stochastic Bandits
  Marta Soare, Alessandro Lazaric, and Rémi Munos
  BayesOpt 2013, NIPS Workshop on Bayesian Optimization in Theory and Practice

Refereed national conference papers

• Expert Knowledge Elicitation for "large p, small n" Regression
  Marta Soare, Muhammad Ammad-ud-din, and Samuel Kaski
  JFPDA 2016
• Transfert séquential d'échantillons dans le modèle des bandits lineaires
  Marta Soare, Ouais Alsharif, Alessandro Lazaric, and Joelle Pineau
  JFPDA 2015
• L'idéntification du meilleur bras dans le modèle des bandits lineaires
  Marta Soare, Alessandro Lazaric, and Rémi Munos
  JFPDA 2015 (best paper award)
  CAP 2015

PhD Thesis

• Sequential Resource Allocation in Linear Stochastic Bandits
  Inria Lille Nord-Europe and Lille 1 University, December 2015