We present an approach to model-based hierarchical clustering by formulating an objective function based on a Bayesian analysis. This model organizes the data into a cluster hierarchy while specifying a complex feature-set partitioning that is a key component of our model. Features can have either a unique distribution…
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We characterize convolutional neural networks with respect to the relative amount of features per layer. Using a skew normal distribution as a parametrized framework, we investigate the common assumption of monotonously increasing feature-counts with higher layers of architecture designs. Our evaluation on models with …
This paper presents an original approach for jointly fitting survival times and classifying samples into subgroups. The Coxlogit model is a generalized linear model with a common set of selected features for both tasks. Survival times and class labels are here assumed to be conditioned by a common risk score which depe…
Mixup improves feature learning by mixing common and rare features.
problem Improving generalization in deep learning models.
method Mixup, a data augmentation technique, is applied to feature learning. Theoretical and experimental studies are conducted to understand its benefits.
result Mixup effectively learns rare features from common ones, leading to better generalization.
DNNs generalize object recognition in novel orientations via neurons tuned to common features.
problem Understanding how DNNs generalize to objects in novel orientations.
method Training DNNs with familiar objects from multiple viewpoints and analyzing neuron responses.
result DNNs disseminate orientation-invariance from familiar objects to recognize objects in novel orientations.
Multitask learning (MTL) aims to learn multiple tasks simultaneously through the interdependence between different tasks. The way to measure the relatedness between tasks is always a popular issue. There are mainly two ways to measure relatedness between tasks: common parameters sharing and common features sharing acro…
We simplify information measure computation using learned features.
problem Computing information measures from raw data is computationally expensive.
method Developed a separable design for computing information measures from learned feature representations.
result A variety of information measures can be computed efficiently through learned feature representations.
Fuzzy Forests reduces feature space in high-dimensional survey data.
problem High-dimensional and highly correlated datasets in social science.
method Fuzzy Forests algorithm, a variant of Random Forests.
result Partisan polarization was the strongest factor in the 2020 presidential election.
A framework for federated learning with heterogeneous data.
problem Federated learning with data from clients using different data representations.
method FLIC framework that maps client data into a common feature space via local embedding functions, learned federally using Wasserstein barycenters and trained locally via distribution alignment.
result FLIC outperforms FL benchmarks with heterogeneous input feature spaces.
A novel method for common and individual feature analysis from exceedingly large-scale data is proposed, in order to ensure the tractability of both the computation and storage and thus mitigate the curse of dimensionality, a major bottleneck in modern data science. This is achieved by making use of the inherent redund…
Privacy-preserving distributed deep learning method for multiple classification.
problem Privacy issues in training deep learning models for various fields.
method Split learning into common extractor, cloud model, and local classifier.
result Average performance improvement of 2.63% over existing local training models.
RECol generates error columns to improve outlier detection.
problem Outlier detection in data with complex relationships.
method Generates reconstruction error columns for leave-one-out feature sets.
result Improves ROC-AUC and PR-AUC values of common outlier detection methods.
This work explores how feature decorrelation improves self-supervised learning.
problem Complete and dimensional collapse issues in self-supervised learning.
method Study of a concise framework and connection to feature decorrelation.
result Feature decorrelation improves self-supervised learning.
Accurately predicting customer churn using large scale time-series data is a common problem facing many business domains. The creation of model features across various time windows for training and testing can be particularly challenging due to temporal issues common to time-series data. In this paper, we will explore …
Link prediction requires predicting which new links are likely to appear in a graph. Being able to predict unseen links with good accuracy has important applications in several domains such as social media, security, transportation, and recommendation systems. A common approach is to use features based on the common ne…
Graph learning is often unnecessary for common benchmarks, as node features can suffice.
problem The necessity of graph learning in common graph benchmarks is often assumed.
method We compared graph learning to feature-only models on seven datasets and found that graph structure often adds little to performance.
result Node features can often suffice for common graph benchmarks, challenging the orthodoxy.
Fine-grained pretraining improves neural network's ability to learn rare features.
problem Improving generalization in deep learning models.
method Introducing a hierarchical multi-view structure to confine input data distribution.
result Fine-grained pretraining leads to better accuracy on hard downstream test samples.
New framework learns sufficient invariant features robustly across distribution shifts.
problem Learning robust models under distribution shifts between training and test datasets.
method Sufficient Invariant Learning (SIL) framework and Adaptive Sharpness-aware Group Distributionally Robust Optimization (ASGDRO) algorithm.
result Empirical evaluations confirm ASGDRO's robustness against distribution shifts.
Improved ranking method for scarce data with feature info.
problem Ranking items with limited comparisons and feature data.
method Modified RankCentrality using diffusion methods for feature info.
result Meaningful rankings even with scarce comparisons.
Properties of data are frequently seen to vary depending on the sampled situations, which usually changes along a time evolution or owing to environmental effects. One way to analyze such data is to find invariances, or representative features kept constant over changes. The aim of this paper is to identify one such fe…
NMF and PCC linked, improving data denoising and feature stability.
problem Improving NMF's rank estimation and feature stability.
method Combining NMF and PCC for robust rank estimation and feature stability.
result NMF features are stable against noise and optimization seeds.
N-grams have been a common tool for information retrieval and machine learning applications for decades. In nearly all previous works, only a few values of are tested, with being exceedingly rare. Larger values of are not tested due to computational burden or the fear of overfitting. In this work, we pr…
The paper provides fast, sample-efficient algorithms for learning common features in multi-task linear regression.
problem Learning transferable features from multiple related tasks.
method Provably fast, sample-efficient algorithms for multi-task linear regression.
result Theoretical guarantees on sample complexity for learning common features.
An increasing number of well-trained deep networks have been released online by researchers and developers, enabling the community to reuse them in a plug-and-play way without accessing the training annotations. However, due to the large number of network variants, such public-available trained models are often of diff…
Pattern analysis often requires a pre-processing stage for extracting or selecting features in order to help the classification, prediction, or clustering stage discriminate or represent the data in a better way. The reason for this requirement is that the raw data are complex and difficult to process without extractin…
Paper proposes BSP to find stable bimodules of cross-correlated features.
problem Identify groups of features from two data types with strong cross-correlation.
method Iterative-testing based bimodule search procedure (BSP).
result BSP outperforms existing methods in detecting stable bimodules.
In this work we propose a method for reducing the dimensionality of tensor objects in a binary classification framework. The proposed Common Mode Patterns method takes into consideration the labels' information, and ensures that tensor objects that belong to different classes do not share common features after the redu…
We introduce an unsupervised approach to efficiently discover the underlying features in a data set via crowdsourcing. Our queries ask crowd members to articulate a feature common to two out of three displayed examples. In addition we also ask the crowd to provide binary labels to the remaining examples based on the di…
A nice limaçon-like spiralmath.DG
A limaçon-like curve, allowing 2π-transition with monotone curvature between concentric curvature elements, is presented. The curve is 4th degree algebraic, 4th degree rational, and shares other common features with Pascal's limaçon.
Sparse coding is a common approach to learning local features for object recognition. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in learning features from spatio-temporal, binocular, or other multi-observation data, where the goal is to encode the relationship between images rather than the content of a single ima…
Classical models describe primary visual cortex (V1) as a filter bank of orientation-selective linear-nonlinear (LN) or energy models, but these models fail to predict neural responses to natural stimuli accurately. Recent work shows that models based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) lead to much more accurate p…
We study classification problems where features are corrupted by noise and where the magnitude of the noise in each feature is influenced by the resources allocated to its acquisition. This is the case, for example, when multiple sensors share a common resource (power, bandwidth, attention, etc.). We develop a method f…
We examine some common features of minimal surfaces, nonzero constant mean curvature surfaces and marginally outer trapped surfaces, concerning their stability and rigidity, and consider some applications to Riemannian geometry and general relativity.
Obtaining common representations from different modalities is important in that they are interchangeable with each other in a classification problem. For example, we can train a classifier on image features in the common representations and apply it to the testing of the text features in the representations. Existing m…
A new graph kernel uses LCS and Wasserstein distance for better graph comparisons.
problem Graph learning methods can be limited by information from distant vertices and path length constraints.
method Proposes a Graph Kernel based on LCS similarity and Wasserstein distance in a novel metric space.
result The new kernel emphasizes comparisons between similar paths and reduces information loss.
New method selects features for sequential decision making.
problem Dynamic feature selection for instance-wise decisions.
method Latent variable model trained in a supervised manner; reasoning across stochastic latent space.
result Outperforms existing methods on various datasets.
SepVAE separates patient-specific patterns from healthy ones using contrastive VAE.
problem Separating patient-specific patterns from healthy ones in medical datasets.
method SepVAE uses a contrastive VAE with disentangling and classification losses to differentiate between common and salient features.
result SepVAE outperforms previous methods in three medical applications and a CelebA dataset.
In many real-world scenarios where data is high dimensional, test time acquisition of features is a non-trivial task due to costs associated with feature acquisition and evaluating feature value. The need for highly confident models with an extremely frugal acquisition of features can be addressed by allowing a feature…
In this letter, we present a novel exponentially embedded families (EEF) based classification method, in which the probability density function (PDF) on raw data is estimated from the PDF on features. With the PDF construction, we show that class-specific features can be used in the proposed classification method, inst…
We introduce a new feature map for barcodes that arise in persistent homology computation. The main idea is to first realize each barcode as a path in a convenient vector space, and to then compute its path signature which takes values in the tensor algebra of that vector space. The composition of these two operations …
We propose a new family of optimization criteria for variational auto-encoding models, generalizing the standard evidence lower bound. We provide conditions under which they recover the data distribution and learn latent features, and formally show that common issues such as blurry samples and uninformative latent feat…
Learning multiple tasks across heterogeneous domains is a challenging problem since the feature space may not be the same for different tasks. We assume the data in multiple tasks are generated from a latent common domain via sparse domain transforms and propose a latent probit model (LPM) to jointly learn the domain t…
Recognizing group activities is challenging due to the difficulties in isolating individual entities, finding the respective roles played by the individuals and representing the complex interactions among the participants. Individual actions and group activities in videos can be represented in a common framework as the…
Understanding Kernel Ridge Regression: Common behaviors from simple functions to density functionalsphysics.comp-ph
Accurate approximations to density functionals have recently been obtained via machine learning (ML). By applying ML to a simple function of one variable without any random sampling, we extract the qualitative dependence of errors on hyperparameters. We find universal features of the behavior in extreme limits, includi…
Networks have been a general tool for representing, analyzing, and modeling relational data arising in several domains. One of the most important aspect of network analysis is community detection or network clustering. Until recently, the major focus have been on discovering community structure in single (i.e., monople…
This paper introduces a novel deep learning based method, named bridge neural network (BNN) to dig the potential relationship between two given data sources task by task. The proposed approach employs two convolutional neural networks that project the two data sources into a feature space to learn the desired common re…
CFA improves model's ability to generalize across unseen domain-class combinations.
problem Challenges in real-world machine learning applications due to data distribution shifts and limited training data.
method Developed Compositional Feature Alignment (CFA) technique to improve CG ability of pretrained models.
result CFA outperforms common finetuning techniques in compositional generalization.
Quantum computing improves feature selection in machine learning.
problem Optimizing feature selection in machine learning problems.
method Formulated feature selection as a QUBO problem and compared quantum and classical methods.
result Quantum computing can outperform classical methods in feature selection, depending on data set.