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48 results for Bayesian training

TFB simplifies Bayesian LLM uncertainty estimation without extra training.

problem Estimating uncertainty in LLM responses remains challenging.
method Training-Free Bayesianization (TFB) that transforms low-rank adapters into Bayesian ones without additional training.
result TFB achieves superior uncertainty estimation and generalization compared to existing methods.

Unified Bayesian Optimization framework for model selection balancing effectiveness and training efficiency.

problem Balancing model effectiveness and training efficiency in machine learning model selection.
method Proposes a unified Bayesian Optimization framework to jointly optimize model effectiveness and training efficiency.
result Models selected using the proposed framework significantly improve training efficiency while maintaining strong effectiveness.

Wide stochastic networks show Gaussian behavior and improve training with PAC-Bayesian methods.

problem Analyzing and training over-parameterised neural networks with large width.
method Establishing Gaussian behavior for a stochastic architecture, applying PAC-Bayesian training.
result PAC-Bayesian training on large but finite-width networks outperforms standard methods.

Paper tackles model vulnerabilities by reconstructing training data.

problem Reconstructing training data from model parameters poses a security risk.
method Developed a mathematical framework and score matching method for both Bayesian and non-Bayesian models.
result First score matching framework for reconstructing data in Bayesian models.

OOD-trained Bayesian neural networks perform similarly to frequentist methods in uncertainty quantification.

problem Bayesian neural networks struggle in out-of-distribution (OOD) detection tasks.
method Incorporated out-of-distribution data into Bayesian inference through four different methods.
result OOD-trained Bayesian neural networks are competitive with frequentist baselines.

Comment on recent paper suggesting adversarially trained BNNs are more robust, finds no strong evidence.

problem Evaluating the robustness of adversarially trained Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) against adversarial attacks.
method Developed a new type of adversarial attack to incorporate the stochastic nature of BNNs, used to evaluate robustness.
result No strong evidence of higher robustness of adversarially trained BNNs.

Trained neural networks perform Bayesian reasoning for tasks beyond their initial scope.

problem Performing Bayesian reasoning for tasks outside the trained neural networks' initial scope.
method Used deep generative models as priors and classification/regression networks as constraints. Approximated Bayesian inference through variational or sampling techniques.
result The approach built on top of already trained networks, expanding the addressable questions.

This paper connects masked pre-training to Bayesian model selection.

problem Understanding the success of masked pre-training and its generalization.
method The paper shows masked pre-training corresponds to maximizing the marginal likelihood.
result Masked pre-training with a suitable scoring function maximizes the marginal likelihood.

New method trains partial Bayesian neural networks efficiently.

problem Challenges in approximating multi-modal latent variable distributions in pBNNs.
method Formulates pBNN training as a Feynman--Kac model and uses sequential Monte Carlo samplers.
result Proposed training scheme outperforms state of the art in predictive performance.

UA-SABI uses surrogates to speed up Bayesian inference for expensive models.

problem Inference for computationally expensive models is slow and uncertain.
method Combines surrogate modeling with Amortized Bayesian Inference (ABI) to propagate uncertainties.
result Reliable, fast, and repeated Bayesian inference for expensive models is achieved.

Bayesian optimization improved with variational last layer training.

problem Bayesian optimization performance on complex input correlations.
method Connecting variational Bayesian last layer training to exact conditioning in Gaussian processes, developing an efficient online training algorithm.
result VBLL networks significantly outperform GPs and match well-tuned GPs on benchmark tasks.

We correct for sampling bias in training models to improve real-world performance.

problem Sampling bias causes discrepancies between lab and real-world model performance.
method Bayesian risk minimization and derived bias-corrected loss functions.
result Our approach integrates seamlessly into current learning paradigms and improves model performance.

SSVI efficiently trains sparse Bayesian neural networks with minimal compression and performance loss.

problem Efficiently training Bayesian neural networks with uncertainty quantification.
method SSVI optimizes a sparse subspace basis selection and its parameters alternately, guided by weight distribution statistics.
result SSVI achieves significant compression (10-20x model size reduction) with minimal performance drop (under 3%) and FLOPs reduction (up to 20x) compared to dense Variational Inference.

Bayesian tensor train kernel machine uses Laplace approximation for scalable GP regression.

problem Scalability limitations of Gaussian process regression.
method Bayesian tensor train kernel machine with Laplace approximation and variational inference.
result VI replaces cross-validation and offers up to 65x faster training.

This paper develops efficient federated learning and unlearning methods in Bayesian models.

problem Managing epistemic uncertainty and legal right to be forgotten in decentralized networks.
method Develops federated variational inference solutions based on decentralized local free energy minimization.
result Demonstrates efficient unlearning mechanisms in federated learning and unlearning.

BayesAdapter turns pre-trained NNs into reliable BNNs with minimal overhead.

problem Scalability, accessibility, and reliability of Bayesian neural networks.
method Bayesian fine-tuning of pre-trained deterministic NNs to variational BNNs.
result BayesAdapter produces more reliable posteriors with less training overhead.

New method improves uncertainty estimation in Bayesian deep learning models.

problem Underestimation of predictive uncertainty in Neural Linear Models (NLMs).
method Proposes a novel training method to capture useful predictive uncertainties and incorporate domain knowledge.
result Traditional training procedures for NLMs can drastically underestimate uncertainty in data-scarce regions.

We present a new method to approximate posterior probabilities of Bayesian Network using Deep Neural Network. Experiment results on several public Bayesian Network datasets shows that Deep Neural Network is capable of learning joint probability distri- bution of Bayesian Network by learning from a few observation and p…

2017-12-31abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of learning Bayesian network classifiers that maximize the marginover a set of classification variables. We find that this problem is harder for Bayesian networks than for undirected graphical models like maximum margin Markov networks. The main difficulty is that the parameters in a Bayesian ne…

2012-07-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a method for training Bayesian neural networks using synthetic data from Raman and CARS spectra.

problem Limited real observations in Raman and CARS spectroscopy.
method Log-Gaussian Gamma Processes and Bayesian Neural Networks.
result Trained Bayesian neural networks provide accurate estimates of Raman and CARS spectra with uncertainty quantification.

Bayesian geoacoustic inversion improved using MDN.

problem Efficiently solving Bayesian geoacoustic inversion problems.
method Deriving geoacoustic statistics from multidimensional posterior density using MDN, training the network on the whole parameter space.
result The network provides reliable predictions and good generalization performance, solving problems in seconds.

Bayesian theory explains abrupt emergence of copy subcircuit in attention.

problem Understanding the abrupt emergence of the copy subcircuit in attention during training.
method Deriving a closed-form posterior over the attention matrix and reducing it to a low-dimensional order parameter space.
result Derive a phase transition in the amount of training data.

Automatic Chemical Design is a framework for generating novel molecules with optimized properties. The original scheme, featuring Bayesian optimization over the latent space of a variational autoencoder, suffers from the pathology that it tends to produce invalid molecular structures. First, we demonstrate empirically …

2017-09-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian approach improves sparse PCE for high-dimensional problems.

problem Sparse PCE struggles with high-dimensional uncertainty and underdetermined situations.
method Joint shrinkage priors and MCMC for sparse PCE with uncertainty estimation.
result Bayesian PCE achieves sparse representations with higher polynomial degrees.

Bayesian method improves forecasting of nonseparable Hamiltonian systems with noise.

problem Forecasting nonseparable Hamiltonian systems with multiplicative noise.
method Bayesian approach using deep learning and reduced-order modeling.
result Bayesian method yields up to 724 times improvement in forecasting accuracy.

Bayesian nonparametric models improve OOD detection, especially with complex covariance structures.

problem Improving out-of-distribution detection methods, especially in complex scenarios.
method Proposes Bayesian nonparametric mixture models with hierarchical priors that generalize the Mahalanobis distance score.
result Bayesian nonparametric methods outperform existing OOD methods, especially in complex scenarios.

Bayesian REX learns Atari games from demonstrations efficiently.

problem Bayesian reward learning for complex control problems is computationally intractable.
method Bayesian Reward Extrapolation (Bayesian REX) pre-trains a low-dimensional feature encoding and uses preferences to perform fast Bayesian inference.
result Bayesian REX learns Atari games from demonstrations in 5 minutes, competitive with state-of-the-art methods.

MPHD transfers knowledge across different domains for Bayesian optimization.

problem Optimizing functions with unknown or diverse domains.
method MPHD uses neural nets to map domain-specific contexts to GP specifications, enabling transfer learning across heterogeneous search spaces.
result MPHD improves black-box function optimization performance on diverse domains.

Proposes efficient multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization for deep neural network hyperparameter tuning.

problem Time-consuming validation error evaluation for hyperparameter tuning in deep neural networks.
method Introduces trace-aware knowledge-gradient acquisition function and a provably convergent optimization method.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art alternatives for hyperparameter tuning of deep neural networks.

This paper proposes a method to automatically compress neural networks using Bayesian tensor decomposition.

problem Challenges in directly applying tensor compression in neural network training.
method Bayesian tensorized neural network with automatic rank selection.
result Produces significantly more compact neural networks (7.4x to 137x) directly from training.