Disagreement-based approaches generate multiple classifiers and exploit the disagreement among them with unlabeled data to improve learning performance. Co-training is a representative paradigm of them, which trains two classifiers separately on two sufficient and redundant views; while for the applications where there…
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We study the problem of learning sequential decision-making policies in settings with multiple state-action representations. Such settings naturally arise in many domains, such as planning (e.g., multiple integer programming formulations) and various combinatorial optimization problems (e.g., those with both integer pr…
MICO uses mutual information co-training to improve selective search efficiency.
problem Efficiently search and route unseen queries in large-scale search systems.
method Mutual Information Co-training framework for selective search with minimal supervision.
result Significantly improves performance on multiple metrics of selective search.
Sparse routing networks with co-training prevent catastrophic forgetting in continual learning.
problem Catastrophic forgetting in neural networks trained on a sequence of tasks.
method Sparse routing networks with co-training to minimize interference between dissimilar tasks.
result Sparse routing networks with co-training outperform densely connected networks on benchmarks.
This paper proposes a new RV prediction model using neural distributional transformation and co-training.
problem Predicting skewed and fat-tailed realized volatility (RV) is challenging.
method The paper uses a neural distributional transformation and co-training to predict RV. It jointly trains the transformation and prediction model using a maximum-likelihood objective function.
result The proposed method significantly outperforms other methods on a dataset of 100 stocks.
In this paper we propose a strategy for semi-supervised image classification that leverages unsupervised representation learning and co-training. The strategy, that is called CURL from Co-trained Unsupervised Representation Learning, iteratively builds two classifiers on two different views of the data. The two views c…
This paper introduces an information theoretic co-training objective for unsupervised learning. We consider the problem of predicting the future. Rather than predict future sensations (image pixels or sound waves) we predict "hypotheses" to be confirmed by future sensations. More formally, we assume a population distri…
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are incredibly brittle due to adversarial examples. To robustify DNNs, adversarial training was proposed, which requires large-scale but well-labeled data. However, it is quite expensive to annotate large-scale data well. To compensate for this shortage, several seminal works are utilizing l…
Paper tackles robust imitation learning from noisy demonstrations.
problem Learning from noisy demonstrations is challenging.
method Optimizes a classification risk with a symmetric loss, combining pseudo-labeling and co-training.
result Our method is more robust than state-of-the-art methods.
Despite its size and complexity, the human cortex exhibits striking anatomical regularities, suggesting there may simple meta-algorithms underlying cortical learning and computation. We expect such meta-algorithms to be of interest since they need to operate quickly, scalably and effectively with little-to-no specializ…
Proposes a new method to learn distance metrics for semi-supervised learning.
problem Inconsistency between perturbed input sets and lack of pairwise relationship information.
method Metric Learning by Similarity Network (MLSN) co-training with a classification network to learn distance metrics adaptively.
result Performs better than state-of-the-art methods on empirical tasks.
Master-slave architecture tackles combinatorial multi-armed bandits with diversity constraints.
problem Solving top- combinatorial multi-armed bandits with non-linear feedback and diversity constraints.
method Master-slave architecture with six slave models, teacher learning, and policy co-training.
result Significantly outperforms existing algorithms in synthetic and real datasets.
A new algorithmic framework is proposed for learning autoencoders of data distributions. We minimize the discrepancy between the model and target distributions, with a \emph{relational regularization} on the learnable latent prior. This regularization penalizes the fused Gromov-Wasserstein (FGW) distance between the la…
Deep learning algorithms have recently produced state-of-the-art accuracy in many classification tasks, but this success is typically dependent on access to many annotated training examples. For domains without such data, an attractive alternative is to train models with light, or distant supervision. In this paper, we…
DriftMoE adapts to concept drifts in data streams efficiently.
problem Adapting to non-stationary data streams with concept drifts.
method Online Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with co-training framework.
result DriftMoE achieves competitive results with state-of-the-art stream learning adaptive ensembles.
Proposes a framework for defining robustness in neural networks.
problem Lack of a precise foundation for robustness concepts in neural networks.
method Develops a rigorous and flexible framework based on mathematical postulates.
result Proposes new learning approaches for optimizing robustness objectives.
User-generated reviews can be decomposed into fine-grained segments (e.g., sentences, clauses), each evaluating a different aspect of the principal entity (e.g., price, quality, appearance). Automatically detecting these aspects can be useful for both users and downstream opinion mining applications. Current supervised…
This paper describes an approach for automatic construction of dictionaries for Named Entity Recognition (NER) using large amounts of unlabeled data and a few seed examples. We use Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) to obtain lower dimensional embeddings (representations) for candidate phrases and classify these phra…
Co-learning BO improves global optimization with limited samples.
problem Suboptimal solutions in Bayesian optimization due to poor surrogate accuracy.
method Build multiple Gaussian process models to complement each other and reduce prediction errors.
result CLBO achieves more efficient global optimization with fewer samples.
We propose a technique for declaratively specifying strategies for semi-supervised learning (SSL). The proposed method can be used to specify ensembles of semi-supervised learning, as well as agreement constraints and entropic regularization constraints between these learners, and can be used to model both well-known h…
We propose a general approach to modeling semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms. Specifically, we present a declarative language for modeling both traditional supervised classification tasks and many SSL heuristics, including both well-known heuristics such as co-training and novel domain-specific heuristics. In ad…
INFUSER improves reasoning by co-evolving a generator and solver with adaptive curriculum.
problem Improving reasoning in language models with minimal external supervision.
method INFUSER uses a Generator and Solver to co-evolve iteratively, rewarding the Generator with an influence score and the Solver with correctness rewards.
result INFUSER outperforms self-evolution baselines by over 20% on Olympiad and SuperGPQA benchmarks.
INFUSER improves reasoning by self-evolving with a generator and solver that co-learn from unstructured documents.
problem Improving reasoning through self-evolution
method INFUSER uses a generator and solver co-evolving in a document pool to improve reasoning.
result INFUSER outperforms strong self-evolution baselines on Olympiad and SuperGPQA benchmarks.
With advances in information acquisition technologies, multi-view data become ubiquitous. Multi-view learning has thus become more and more popular in machine learning and data mining fields. Multi-view unsupervised or semi-supervised learning, such as co-training, co-regularization has gained considerable attention. A…
Paper improves adversarial training using a learned optimizer.
problem Improving robustness of deep learning models against adversarial attacks.
method Empirically identified PGD attack's limitations and used a learning-to-learn framework to train an adaptive inner optimizer.
result The proposed framework consistently improves model robustness over traditional adversarial training methods.
In this paper, we study a new learning paradigm for Neural Machine Translation (NMT). Instead of maximizing the likelihood of the human translation as in previous works, we minimize the distinction between human translation and the translation given by an NMT model. To achieve this goal, inspired by the recent success …
Unified framework for policy learning using weak supervision.
problem High-quality supervision is often infeasible or expensive in practice.
method Treat weak supervision as imperfect peer information and evaluate policies based on correlated agreement.
result Substantial performance improvements, especially in complex or noisy environments.
ARL improves fairness without protected features, showing AUC improvements for worst-case groups.
problem Training fairness in ML without known protected features.
method Adversarially Reweighted Learning (ARL) using non-protected features and task labels.
result ARL improves Rawlsian Max-Min fairness with notable AUC improvements for worst-case groups.
Regularized Adversarial Sampling and Deep Time-aware Attention for Click-Through Rate Predictioncs.LG
Improving the performance of click-through rate (CTR) prediction remains one of the core tasks in online advertising systems. With the rise of deep learning, CTR prediction models with deep networks remarkably enhance model capacities. In deep CTR models, exploiting users' historical data is essential for learning user…
Few-shot learning has become essential for producing models that generalize from few examples. In this work, we identify that metric scaling and metric task conditioning are important to improve the performance of few-shot algorithms. Our analysis reveals that simple metric scaling completely changes the nature of few-…
Project aims to improve coherence in language generation models.
problem Models often generate inconsistent text that diverges from the prompt.
method Trained a sentence pair coherence classifier and co-trained GPT-2 with this coherence objective.
result Fine-tuned model generates coherent paragraphs without diverging.
Neural approximate computing gains enormous energy-efficiency at the cost of tolerable quality-loss. A neural approximator can map the input data to output while a classifier determines whether the input data are safe to approximate with quality guarantee. However, existing works cannot maximize the invocation of the a…
Large language models predict human sensory judgments across multiple modalities.
problem Determining the extent of perceptual information in language.
method State-of-the-art large language models were used to predict sensory judgments across six psychophysical datasets.
result Large language models can predict human sensory judgments across multiple modalities with significant correlation to human data.
Many interesting problems in machine learning are being revisited with new deep learning tools. For graph-based semisupervised learning, a recent important development is graph convolutional networks (GCNs), which nicely integrate local vertex features and graph topology in the convolutional layers. Although the GCN mo…
Study shows training duration impacts model merging quality, suggesting joint selection of duration and method.
problem Impact of expert training duration on model merging quality for large language models (LLMs).
method Systematically fine-tuned experts on five domains across three model sizes, evaluating five merging methods at each duration.
result Training duration affects merging quality, with simple averaging degrading sharply and sparsification-based methods performing well past the validation optimum.
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known for extracting useful information from large amounts of data. However, the representations learned in DNNs are typically hard to interpret, especially in dense layers. One crucial issue of the classical DNN model such as multilayer perceptron (MLP) is that neurons in the same layer…
Study shows training duration affects model merging quality, suggesting joint selection of duration and method.
problem Impact of expert training duration on model merging quality for large language models (LLMs).
method Systematically fine-tuned experts on five domains across three model sizes, evaluated five merging methods at each duration.
result Training duration and merging method should be chosen jointly, not independently.
CRA improves UL-based CO solvers by dynamically smoothing and enforcing discreteness.
problem Local optima and artificial rounding issues in UL-based CO solvers.
method Continuous Relaxation Annealing (CRA) strategy that dynamically shifts from continuous to discrete solutions.
result Significantly enhances UL-based CO solver performance and eliminates artificial rounding.
New method for fair influence maximization in social networks.
problem Maximizing influence while ensuring fairness across sensitive attributes.
method Co-training an auto-encoder and discriminator to create fair graph embeddings.
result Our method reduces disparity while maintaining competitive influence maximization performance.
Communication-Efficient Federated Risk Difference Estimation for Time-to-Event Clinical Outcomesstat.ML
FedRD improves risk difference estimation in federated learning for clinical outcomes.
problem Privacy-preserving model co-training in medical research is hindered by server-dependent architectures and focus on relative effect measures.
method FedRD is a server-independent, communication-efficient framework for federated risk difference estimation in distributed survival data.
result FedRD provides valid confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, and is asymptotically equivalent to pooled individual-level analysis.
This work improves deep learning from noisy crowdsourced labels.
problem Learning label correction and neural classifier from noisy crowdsourced data.
method Coupled Cross-Entropy Minimization (CCEM) with identifiability and regularization.
result The CCEM criterion correctly identifies annotators' confusion and neural classifier under realistic conditions.
Survey examines challenges and solutions in sim-to-real transfer for robotics.
problem Challenges in transferring robotic systems from simulation to real-world environments.
method Leveraging techniques like domain randomization, real-to-sim transfer, state and action abstractions, and sim-real co-training.
result Promising results in closing the reality gap across various robotic domains.
Curiosity-Critic improves world model training by focusing on cumulative prediction error.
problem Training world models with intrinsic rewards that consider cumulative prediction error.
method Curiosity-Critic uses a surrogate reward based on the difference between current and asymptotic prediction errors, estimated online by a co-trained critic.
result Curiosity-Critic outperforms other methods in training speed and final world model accuracy.
PEHRT harmonizes EHR data for translational research.
problem Barriers in using EHR data for translational research.
method Common pipeline including open-source code, visualization tools, and detailed documentation.
result PEHRT harmonizes EHR data to standardized ontologies and generates robust embeddings.
Ridesourcing platforms like Uber and Didi are getting more and more popular around the world. However, unauthorized ridesourcing activities taking advantages of the sharing economy can greatly impair the healthy development of this emerging industry. As the first step to regulate on-demand ride services and eliminate b…
Paper tackles online allocation problems using adversarial training.
problem Online bipartite matching, especially in AdWords.
method Constructs a framework combining game theory, adversarial training, and GANs.
result Designs robust algorithms that perform well under practical and adversarial conditions.
IterefinE combines KG refinement with embeddings to improve KG quality.
problem Noisy Knowledge Graphs lead to poor performance in downstream tasks.
method Iterative KG refinement using embeddings and inference rules.
result Improved KG refinement leading to higher F1 scores.