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48 results for Adaptive Budgets

Crowdsourcing platforms provide marketplaces where task requesters can pay to get labels on their data. Such markets have emerged recently as popular venues for collecting annotations that are crucial in training machine learning models in various applications. However, as jobs are tedious and payments are low, errors …

2016-02-10abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithms for model selection in linear bandits adapt to instance complexity.

problem Adapting to the instance-dependent complexity of the true model in linear bandits.
method Design of algorithms in fixed confidence and fixed budget settings, leveraging experimental design and selection-validation procedures.
result Near instance optimal guarantees for model selection in linear bandits.

Paper simplifies DP composition for adaptive privacy budgets, enabling better privacy and accuracy in deep learning.

problem Tension between efficiency and flexibility in DP composition theorems.
method Rényi Differential Privacy (RDP) for adaptive privacy budgets, proving simpler composition theorem with smaller constants.
result Practical DP composition for adaptive privacy budgets, enabling better privacy and accuracy in deep learning.

Paper introduces a privacy-preserving line search method for optimization.

problem Optimization performance depends on step size tuning, which is difficult and privacy-sensitive.
method Introduces a stochastic adaptive line search algorithm that satisfies differential privacy.
result The algorithm efficiently uses privacy budget and outperforms existing private optimizers.

New findings on complexity limits in fixed budget bandit identification.

problem Determining the best possible error rate for fixed budget bandit identification.
method Analyzing the best non-adaptive sampling procedures and showing the existence of complexities.
result No fixed complexity for certain bandit identification tasks.

We present a dual subspace ascent algorithm for support vector machine training that respects a budget constraint limiting the number of support vectors. Budget methods are effective for reducing the training time of kernel SVM while retaining high accuracy. To date, budget training is available only for primal (SGD-ba…

2018-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Study identifies change points in piecewise constant reward functions with fixed exploration budget.

problem Locating abrupt changes in piecewise constant reward functions under bandit feedback.
method Fixed exploration budget, piecewise constant bandit problem, lower bounds, near optimal algorithms.
result Established lower bounds and near matching upper bounds for both small and large budgets.

In real-world machine learning applications, there is a cost associated with sampling of different features. Budgeted learning can be used to select which feature-values to acquire from each instance in a dataset, such that the best model is induced under a given constraint. However, this approach is not possible in th…

2019-03-13abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper proposes a new AED framework for multi-metric experiments with fixed budget.

problem Statistical power challenges in testing multiple metrics simultaneously.
method Two-phase structure: adaptive exploration followed by validation. SHRVar algorithm with relative-variance-based sampling.
result Achieves provable error probability that decreases exponentially.

Clarinet uses complementary labels to train classifiers with less source data.

problem Training classifiers with true-label data from source domain is costly.
method Proposes CLARINET to train classifiers with complementary-label source data and unlabeled target data.
result CLARINET significantly outperforms baselines in unsupervised domain adaptation.

SIREN protocol corrects optimistic winner's scores in LLM evaluation.

problem Optimistic winner's scores in LLM evaluation due to adaptive benchmarking.
method SIREN protocol that freezes post-search shortlist, separates selection and evaluation, and uses bootstrap for uncertainty quantification.
result SIREN provides valid confidence intervals for procedure-performance curves and deployment conclusions.

Improved adaptive algorithms for identifying the best arm in MABs with fixed budget.

problem Identifying the best arm in stochastic Multi-Armed Bandits with a fixed sampling budget.
method Established a connection between Large Deviation Principles and adaptive algorithms, improving error probability bounds and devising new algorithms.
result The \sred algorithm outperforms existing algorithms in identifying the best arm.

Bayesian approach improves AdaLoRA's performance and efficiency.

problem Improving the efficiency and performance of adaptive low-rank adaptation.
method Utilized Bayesian metrics and the Improved Variational Online Newton (IVON) optimizer for adaptive parameter budget allocation.
result Bayesian counterpart outperforms sensitivity-based importance metric and is faster than AdaLoRA.

Adaptive algorithm identifies best arm with abstention, showing phase transition from polynomial to exponential error probability.

problem Bayesian best-arm identification with abstention to reduce undetected error.
method Adaptive algorithm PGWS that optimally uses abstention budget.
result Introducing any positive abstention budget induces an exponential decay in undetected error probability.

New research shows fixed-budget best-arm identification cannot match static oracle performance.

problem Fixed-budget best-arm identification's performance limitations.
method Analysis of various adaptive and static algorithms for best-arm identification.
result For any algorithm, there exists at least one instance where the error decay rate is at most \((1 + \frac{\log(K)}{8})^{-1}\) times that of the static oracle.

LinearAPT optimizes decision-making under resource constraints for a linear threshold problem.

problem Optimizing sequential decisions with a linear threshold under resource limitations.
method LinearAPT, an adaptive algorithm for fixed-budget TLB problem.
result LinearAPT achieves theoretical upper bounds and robust performance on various datasets.

Optimal bidding strategy for multi-platform ad auctions under budget constraints.

problem Optimizing ad placements for budget-constrained advertisers across multiple platforms.
method Developed an optimal bidding strategy for non-incentive-compatible auctions with budget constraints.
result Maximized total utility across auctions while satisfying budget constraints in expectation.

We study a budgeted hyper-parameter tuning problem, where we optimize the tuning result under a hard resource constraint. We propose to solve it as a sequential decision making problem, such that we can use the partial training progress of configurations to dynamically allocate the remaining budget. Our algorithm combi…

2019-02-01abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithms improve best-arm identification with varying rewards.

problem Identifying the best arm with varying reward variances in fixed budget.
method Proposed two algorithms: SHVar for known variances, SHAdaVar for unknown variances; uses non-uniform budget allocation.
result Bounding misidentification probabilities for both algorithms.

UCB exploration improves best arm identification in fixed-budget settings.

problem Best arm identification in fixed-budget scenarios.
method Adaptive allocations based on upper confidence bounds (UCBs) with prior information learning.
result Empirically and theoretically efficient for Bayesian BAI problem with improved performance.

The paper tackles budget allocation for multiple campaigns using a novel combinatorial bandit approach.

problem Maximizing cumulative returns with limited budgets across various ad lines.
method Formulated as a multi-task combinatorial bandit problem, integrates Bayesian hierarchical models, and uses Thompson sampling.
result Demonstrates robustness and adaptability in maximizing overall cumulative returns.

New strategy optimally identifies best arm in unknown variance Gaussian bandits.

problem Identifying the best arm in two-armed Gaussian bandits with unknown variances.
method Proposes a Neyman Allocation (NA)-Augmented Inverse Probability weighting (AIPW) strategy to estimate variances and draw arms adaptively.
result Demonstrates asymptotic optimality of the proposed strategy in the small-gap regime.

Best-of-\infty improves LLM performance by efficiently allocating inference-time computation.

problem Achieving optimal performance in test-time LLM ensembling with infinite budget.
method Adaptive generation scheme and weighted ensembles of LLMs, formulated as mixed-integer linear program.
result Optimal ensemble weighting improves performance over individual models.

EERO optimizes resource usage for efficient classification.

problem Managing computational resources in complex machine learning models.
method EERO uses multiple classifiers with a reject option to adaptively shorten processing paths.
result EERO effectively manages budget allocation and enhances accuracy in complex scenarios.

A new method for tighter privacy loss accounting in adaptive analyses.

problem Ensuring individual privacy in adaptive analyses while staying within a privacy budget.
method A personalized privacy loss estimate and a Rényi differential privacy filter.
result Personalized privacy loss accounting can be practical and tighter than existing methods.

Optimal ability estimation in adaptive testing with binary responses.

problem Estimating a continuous ability parameter from sequential binary responses.
method Adaptive selection of questions to maximize Fisher information, updating estimate using method-of-moments, and deciding accuracy with a test statistic.
result Fisher-tracking strategy achieves optimal performance in fixed-confidence and fixed-budget regimes.

Optimizes budgeted evaluations of LLMs by allocating queries to judges efficiently.

problem Evaluating LLMs with heterogeneous judges and varying costs and reliability.
method Formalizes and analyzes budgeted heteroskedastic multi-judge estimation, proposing EST-IVWE for practical implementation.
result EST-IVWE matches the oracle IVWE rate up to lower-order terms in the budget and is instance-optimal.

StatLoRA uses statistical inference to allocate ranks in LoRA fine-tuning, improving performance.

problem Balancing efficiency, expressiveness, and generalization in LoRA rank allocation.
method Formulates LoRA rank allocation as a statistical hypothesis testing problem, using estimated p-values to determine component retention or pruning.
result StatLoRA achieves comparable or better performance than existing methods under matched rank budgets.

Novel Bayesian optimization framework improves portfolio management stability and efficiency.

problem Stable and sample-efficient optimization for black-box portfolio models under limited observation budgets.
method TPE-AS framework with adaptive scheduling and importance sampling.
result Demonstrated effectiveness across four backtest settings with three distinct models.

An average adult is exposed to hundreds of digital advertisements daily (https://www.mediadynamicsinc.com/uploads/files/PR092214-Note-only-150-Ads-2mk.pdf), making the digital advertisement industry a classic example of a big-data-driven platform. As such, the ad-tech industry relies on historical engagement logs (clic…

2020-02-07abs ↗pdf ↗

CBDA improves active learning for semantic segmentation, especially with imbalanced classes.

problem Class imbalance degrades performance in domain adaptive active learning.
method Class Balanced Dynamic Acquisition (CBDA) selects more balanced labels for active learning.
result CBDA increases minority class performance and outperforms baselines by 0.6-2.4 mIoU.

Most neural networks utilize the same amount of compute for every example independent of the inherent complexity of the input. Further, methods that adapt the amount of computation to the example focus on finding a fixed inference-time computational graph per example, ignoring any external computational budgets or vary…

2020-02-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Online Active Learning (OAL) aims to manage unlabeled datastream by selectively querying the label of data. OAL is applicable to many real-world problems, such as anomaly detection in health-care and finance. In these problems, there are two key challenges: the query budget is often limited; the ratio between classes i…

2019-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved privacy and utility in machine learning with adaptive differential privacy.

problem Enhancing privacy in machine learning models while maintaining utility.
method Adaptive differentially private (ADP) learning method that optimally adapts noise to stepsize.
result ADP method significantly improves utility compared to standard differentially private methods.

We analyze general model selection procedures using penalized empirical loss minimization under computational constraints. While classical model selection approaches do not consider computational aspects of performing model selection, we argue that any practical model selection procedure must not only trade off estimat…

2012-08-01abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of reinforcing federated learning with formal privacy guarantees. We propose to employ Bayesian differential privacy, a relaxation of differential privacy for similarly distributed data, to provide sharper privacy loss bounds. We adapt the Bayesian privacy accounting method to the federated sett…

2019-11-22abs ↗pdf ↗

The Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT) is a popular machine learning model for various tasks in recent years. In this paper, we study how to improve model accuracy of GBDT while preserving the strong guarantee of differential privacy. Sensitivity and privacy budget are two key design aspects for the effectiveness o…

2019-11-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Reinforce-Ada improves RL for language models by adaptively sampling difficult prompts.

problem Signal loss in RL for large language models due to undersampling.
method Adaptive sampling based on a non-linear RL objective, optimizing prompt difficulty weighting.
result Reinforce-Ada significantly outperforms uniform sampling, recovering lost signals and accelerating convergence.