Bird sounds possess distinctive spectral structure which may exhibit small shifts in spectrum depending on the bird species and environmental conditions. In this paper, we propose using convolutional recurrent neural networks on the task of automated bird audio detection in real-life environments. In the proposed metho…
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SCN learns and compensates for data bias in citizen science projects.
problem Data bias in citizen science datasets.
method End-to-end learning scheme that learns and compensates for data shift.
result SCN outperforms models that ignore data bias and handles massive high-dimensional data.
System accurately identifies birds in real-world settings.
problem Identifying birds in diverse, realistic environments.
method Trained kNN and SVM classifiers on crowd-sourced audio data.
result Both classifiers perform similarly, with kNN offering flexibility.
Early-bird tickets can be identified early in training, reducing costs.
problem Costly deep network training.
method Low-cost training schemes (early stopping, low-precision) and mask distance.
result Efficient training methods using EB tickets achieve up to 4.7x energy savings.
Bird sound data collected with unattended microphones for automatic surveys, or mobile devices for citizen science, typically contain multiple simultaneously vocalizing birds of different species. However, few works have considered the multi-label structure in birdsong. We propose to use an ensemble of classifier chain…
Biodiversity monitoring using audio recordings is achievable at a truly global scale via large-scale deployment of inexpensive, unattended recording stations or by large-scale crowdsourcing using recording and species recognition on mobile devices. The ability, however, to reliably identify vocalising animal species is…
Understanding how species are distributed across landscapes over time is a fundamental question in biodiversity research. Unfortunately, most species distribution models only target a single species at a time, despite strong ecological evidence that species are not independently distributed. We propose Deep Multi-Speci…
Optimal transport learns Riemannian metrics for evolving probability measures.
problem Learning metrics for evolving probability measures on Riemannian manifolds.
method Neural parametrization of a metric tensor via optimal transport, alternating optimization scheme.
result Improved trajectory inference on scRNA and bird migration data.
Novel algorithm improves poultry welfare by classifying chicken behaviors.
problem Classifying chicken behaviors from sparse and noisy data.
method Time series dictionary learning algorithm.
result Robustly learns from weakly labeled data sources.
First place in ABC 2018: Classify bird gender from GPS trajectories.
problem Predicting the gender of shearwaters from GPS navigation data.
method Ensemble of Gradient Boosting Classifiers (CatBoost, LightGBM, XGBoost) with feature engineering.
result Ranked first among 74 teams in the Animal Behavior Challenge.
Study evaluates self-supervised representations in interactive environments.
problem Unclear which self-supervised methods best capture meaningful features of diverse environments.
method Quantitative evaluation of representations in two visual environments: Flappy Bird and Sonic The Hedgehog.
result Representations' utility depends on the visuals and dynamics of the environment.
Develops counterfactual visual explanations to show how images could change to classify differently.
problem Creating understandable explanations for vision system predictions.
method Selects a distractor image and identifies spatial regions to modify for different classification.
result Users trained with counterfactual explanations perform better in fine-grained bird classification.
Study improves animal audio classification using data augmentation.
problem Improving automated animal audio classification accuracy.
method Exploits different data augmentation techniques for training CNNs.
result Best recognition rates on animal audio classification datasets.
Concept bottleneck models enable concept manipulation for model interpretation.
problem Training models to directly predict labels without intermediate concepts.
method Train models to predict intermediate concepts at training time, then use these concepts to predict labels.
result Concept bottleneck models achieve competitive accuracy with standard models while enabling concept manipulation.
A networked learning method for correlated data outperforms federated learning in precision.
problem Estimating models from correlated data distributed across a network.
method Local linear model estimation with network regularization and information exchange.
result The weighted ensemble average estimate converges faster and more precisely than federated learning.
StatEcoNet models species distribution using neural networks to correct observation errors.
problem Correcting observation errors in wildlife surveys for accurate species distribution modeling.
method StatEcoNet integrates a graphical generative model with neural networks to address SDM challenges.
result StatEcoNet outperforms traditional methods on simulated and real datasets.
Study confirms improved performance of Self-Critique and Adapt method.
problem Improving performance of MAML++ method.
method Self-Critique and Adapt (SCA) method.
result SCA method improves performance of MAML++.
The Collective Graphical Model (CGM) models a population of independent and identically distributed individuals when only collective statistics (i.e., counts of individuals) are observed. Exact inference in CGMs is intractable, and previous work has explored Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and MAP approximations for le…
This text is intended to become in the long run Chapter 3 of our long saga dedicated to Riemann, Ahlfors and Rohlin. Yet, as its contents evolved as mostly independent (due to our inaptitude to interconnect both trends as strongly as we wished), it seemed preferable to publish it separately. More factually, our account…
Reinforcement learning methods require careful design involving a reward function to obtain the desired action policy for a given task. In the absence of hand-crafted reward functions, prior work on the topic has proposed several methods for reward estimation by using expert state trajectories and action pairs. However…
Framework uses probabilistic programming for physics simulation in games.
problem Efficiently simulate physics in games using probabilistic programming.
method Combines model-free and model-based approaches to improve efficiency.
result Model outperforms model-free or model-based approaches alone.
New framework learns interaction rules from animal trajectories.
problem Challenges in extracting interaction rules from animal movement data.
method Augmented behavioral models with neural networks and theory-guided regularization.
result Improved performance over baselines and novel biological insights.
LFlows model fluid densities and velocities using invertible maps that satisfy the continuity equation.
problem Modeling fluid densities and velocities continuously in space and time.
method LFlows are based on invertible maps that satisfy the continuity equation, derived from classical theory of Lagrangian flows for smooth vector fields.
result LFlows show higher predictive accuracy in density modeling tasks compared to competing models in 2D and 3D.
AR-GANs learn depth and DoF from unlabeled images using aperture rendering and focus cues.
problem Learning depth and DoF from unlabeled natural images with diverse viewpoints and shapes.
method Aperture rendering and focus cues to learn depth and DoF from unlabeled images.
result AR-GANs effectively learn depth and DoF from various datasets, including flower, bird, and face images.
In this work, we derive a generic overcomplete frame thresholding scheme based on risk minimization. Overcomplete frames being favored for analysis tasks such as classification, regression or anomaly detection, we provide a way to leverage those optimal representations in real-world applications through the use of thre…
MPVAE learns latent embeddings and label correlations for multi-label classification.
problem Challenging task of predicting multiple targets with label correlations.
method Proposes MPVAE, a novel framework that learns latent embedding spaces and label correlations using a Multivariate Probit model.
result MPVAE outperforms state-of-the-art methods on various application domains and is robust under noisy settings.
Standard economic theory, starting with Adam Smith's invisible hand, holds that those who trade for their own selfish motives of maximizing their private preferences may contribute more to the public wealth than those who claim altruistic motives. Under restrictive conditions, this has been shown to result from a self-…
We propose prototypical networks for the problem of few-shot classification, where a classifier must generalize to new classes not seen in the training set, given only a small number of examples of each new class. Prototypical networks learn a metric space in which classification can be performed by computing distances…
New contest evaluates machine learning robustness against unrestricted adversarial examples.
problem Evaluating machine learning robustness against arbitrary adversarial inputs.
method Two-player contest with a prize pool, focusing on unconstrained adversarial examples.
result Demonstrates the need for comprehensive evaluation of machine learning models' worst-case adversarial risk.
EcoCast predicts biodiversity risks using satellite data and citizen science records.
problem Unprecedented shifts in species distributions due to climate change and habitat loss.
method Spatio-temporal model using sequence-based transformers and continual learning.
result Promising improvements in forecasting bird species distributions compared to Random Forest.
Estimating the number of unseen species is an important problem in many scientific endeavors. Its most popular formulation, introduced by Fisher, uses samples to predict the number of hitherto unseen species that would be observed if new samples were collected. Of considerable interest is the largest…
Learning high quality class representations from few examples is a key problem in metric-learning approaches to few-shot learning. To accomplish this, we introduce a novel architecture where class representations are conditioned for each few-shot trial based on a target image. We also deviate from traditional metric-le…
Evaluation often aims to reduce the correctness or error characteristics of a system down to a single number, but that always involves trade-offs. Another way of dealing with this is to quote two numbers, such as Recall and Precision, or Sensitivity and Specificity. But it can also be useful to see more than this, and …
New tool for summarizing time-varying data shapes.
problem Understanding dynamic data shapes.
method Introducing crocker stacks for time-varying metric spaces.
result Demonstrated utility in parameter identification task.
Multi-Entity Dependence Learning (MEDL) explores conditional correlations among multiple entities. The availability of rich contextual information requires a nimble learning scheme that tightly integrates with deep neural networks and has the ability to capture correlation structures among exponentially many outcomes. …
Labeling data for classification requires significant human effort. To reduce labeling cost, instead of labeling every instance, a group of instances (bag) is labeled by a single bag label. Computer algorithms are then used to infer the label for each instance in a bag, a process referred to as instance annotation. Thi…
It is well known that most of the common clustering objectives are NP-hard to optimize. In practice, however, clustering is being routinely carried out. One approach for providing theoretical understanding of this seeming discrepancy is to come up with notions of clusterability that distinguish realistically interestin…
This paper improves confidence measurement in deep metric learning models.
problem Measuring confidence in deep metric learning models is challenging.
method Approximates class distributions using Gaussian kernel smoothing and calibrates the confidence metric.
result Improves generalization and robustness of deep metric learning models.
BigBird improves transformer performance on NLP tasks with longer sequences.
problem Quadratic dependency on sequence length in transformer models.
method Sparse attention mechanism reducing quadratic dependency to linear.
result Significant improvement in performance on NLP tasks like QA and summarization.
FIGR generates novel images with minimal data using meta-learning.
problem GANs require large datasets for generating realistic images.
method Meta-trained GAN (Reptile) on few images.
result Generates novel images with as few as 4 images per class.
BiPE blends intra-segment and inter-segment encodings for better length extrapolation.
problem Improving length extrapolation in language models.
method Bilevel Positional Encoding (BiPE) that separates intra-segment and inter-segment encodings.
result BiPE enhances length extrapolation across various text modalities.
PointPainting fuses lidar and image data for better 3D object detection.
problem Lidar-only methods outperform fusion methods on 3D object detection benchmarks.
method Sequential fusion by projecting lidar points into image segmentation output and appending class scores.
result Significant improvements on state-of-the-art 3D object detection methods on KITTI and nuScenes datasets.
Improved road segmentation on low-res LIDAR data for autonomous vehicles.
problem Low-resolution LIDAR data affects road segmentation accuracy in autonomous vehicles.
method Subsampled LIDAR data transformation into feature maps, use local normal vector with spherical coordinates.
result Improves road segmentation accuracy on low-resolution LIDAR data.
C4Synth generates images from multiple captions to improve image quality.
problem Generating images from a single caption is limited; multiple captions are needed.
method Two deep generative models that ensure 'Cross-Caption Cycle Consistency'.
result Quantitative and qualitative validation on Caltech-UCSD Birds and Oxford-102 Flowers datasets.
Proposes a new method to describe graph vertex features using characteristic functions.
problem Describing the distribution of vertex features at multiple scales on graphs.
method Introduces FEATHER, a computationally efficient algorithm to calculate characteristic functions based on random walk transition probabilities.
result Demonstrates that the proposed method creates high-quality graph representations and is robust to data corruption.
Estimates task difficulty and transferability without trained models.
problem Estimating the difficulty and transferability of supervised classification tasks.
method Information theoretic approach using conditional entropy between training labels.
result Hardness and transferability estimates correlate with empirical values.
Similarity between objects is multi-faceted and it can be easier for human annotators to measure it when the focus is on a specific aspect. We consider the problem of mapping objects into view-specific embeddings where the distance between them is consistent with the similarity comparisons of the form "from the t-th vi…
Introduces hierarchical uncertainty using U-sequences.
problem Tackles Ellsberg's paradox in multi-layer uncertainty.
method Uses category theory to construct U-sequences and endofunctors.
result Constructs a universal uncertainty space for multi-layer uncertainty.