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BinaryDuo improves BNNs by coupling binary activations, outperforming state-of-the-art models.

problem Gradient mismatch in BNNs due to binarizing activations.
method Using gradient of smoothed loss function to estimate gradient mismatch, proposing BinaryDuo scheme with coupled ternary activations.
result BinaryDuo outperforms state-of-the-art BNNs on various benchmarks.

Study active nematic forces on curved surfaces, revealing new coupling mechanisms.

problem Understanding active nematic forces on curved surfaces.
method Developed a thermodynamically consistent surface model with nematic activity, analyzed topological defects.
result Active defects contribute both tangential and normal forces on curved surfaces.

REMAL: Residual Equilibrium Manifold Active Learning for Surrogate-Based Multidisciplinary Design Analysis

problem Multidisciplinary design analysis of coupled engineering systems requires solving equilibrium states where all disciplinary coupling variables are consistent.
method Residual manifold surrogate modeling framework for coupled systems.
result REMAL learns a surrogate model of the joint residual manifold via multitask Gaussian process models.

Agents learn and control complex mechanical systems through shared memories.

problem Controlling multi-joint dynamical systems.
method Coupled autoregressive active inference agents using Bayesian filtering and minimizing expected free energy.
result Demonstrated learning and control of a double mass-spring-damper system.

Unified SVD compression fails in practical tasks, highlighting the importance of per layer activation reconstruction.

problem The failure of a unified SVD compression method in practical tasks like perplexity and accuracy.
method Unified optimization problem for SVD based compression methods, focusing on cross-layer coupling.
result Downstream metrics like perplexity and accuracy degrade severely compared to standard per layer SVD LLM.

How can we correlate neural activity in the human brain as it responds to words, with behavioral data expressed as answers to questions about these same words? In short, we want to find latent variables, that explain both the brain activity, as well as the behavioral responses. We show that this is an instance of the C…

2013-02-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Active-GRPO improves molecular optimization by actively deciding when to imitate or self-improve.

problem Training robust and efficient molecular optimization models with large language models.
method Active-GRPO combines imitation and reinforcement learning, upgrading references and policies dynamically.
result Improves molecular optimization performance, achieving statistically significant gains.

Enhances activity recognition in wearable computing with context awareness and uncertainty quantification.

problem Context-dependent activity recognition and unknown contexts in wearable computing.
method Developed the α-{eta} network coupled with uncertainty quantification (UQ) based on maximum entropy.
result Improved accuracy and F-score by 10% through high-level context identification.

Many real-world data sets, especially in biology, are produced by complex nonlinear dynamical systems. In this paper, we focus on brain calcium imaging (CaI) of different organisms (zebrafish and rat), aiming to build a model of joint activation dynamics in large neuronal populations, including the whole brain of zebra…

2018-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

A deterministic system of coupled maps is proposed as a model for economic activity among interacting agents. The values of the maps represent the wealth of the agents. The dynamics of the system is controlled by two parameters. One parameter expresses the growth capacity of the agents and the other describes the local…

2007-01-09abs ↗pdf ↗

We study active learning where the labeler can not only return incorrect labels but also abstain from labeling. We consider different noise and abstention conditions of the labeler. We propose an algorithm which utilizes abstention responses, and analyze its statistical consistency and query complexity under fairly nat…

2016-10-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper introduces a new method to identify brain hubs using both structural and functional connectivity.

problem Hub node identification in brain networks using only functional connectivity.
method Graph signal processing framework that models functional activity as graph signals on structural connectivity.
result The proposed GraFHub framework identifies hub nodes more accurately than conventional methods.

We propose a novel approach to addressing the vanishing (or exploding) gradient problem in deep neural networks. We construct a new architecture for deep neural networks where all layers (except the output layer) of the network are a combination of rotation, permutation, diagonal, and activation sublayers which are all…

2019-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

AIF improves physical AI agents' performance in dynamic environments.

problem Physical AI agents are less capable than biological agents in open-ended real-world environments.
method Developed from probability theory, Bayesian machine learning, variational inference, and Active Inference (AIF), grounded in the Free Energy Principle.
result AIF minimizes variational free energy and is well-suited to physical constraints.

Estimates reliability of nuclear fuel using advanced modeling techniques.

problem Determining the reliability of TRISO-coated particle fuel, which has small failure probabilities and expensive computational models.
method Coupled active learning, multifidelity modeling, and subset simulation.
result Multifidelity modeling strategies consistently reduce the number of high-fidelity model calls.

The Group-Lasso is a well-known tool for joint regularization in machine learning methods. While the l_{1,2} and the l_{1,\infty} version have been studied in detail and efficient algorithms exist, there are still open questions regarding other l_{1,p} variants. We characterize conditions for solutions of the l_{1,p} G…

2012-06-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Active learning (AL) is a widely-used training strategy for maximizing predictive performance subject to a fixed annotation budget. In AL one iteratively selects training examples for annotation, often those for which the current model is most uncertain (by some measure). The hope is that active sampling leads to bette…

2018-07-12abs ↗pdf ↗

In the face of growing needs for water and energy, a fundamental understanding of the environmental impacts of human activities becomes critical for managing water and energy resources, remedying water pollution, and making regulatory policy wisely. Among activities that impact the environment, oil and gas production, …

2019-08-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified framework for hybrid learning and optimization via active inference.

problem Sequential decisions in black-box evaluations requiring both task improvement and uncertainty reduction.
method Pragmatic Curiosity (PraC) framework that evaluates queries by balancing information gain and pragmatic value.
result Unified approach reduces decision risk and improves coverage of critical regions without task-specific rules.

Poisson variational autoencoders introduce a metabolic cost term that penalizes high baseline activity.

problem Energy constraints in computation.
method Poisson variational autoencoders with a Kullback-Leibler divergence term proportional to firing rates.
result Poisson variational autoencoders introduce a metabolic cost term that penalizes high baseline activity.

Modeling social network activity through user and topic interaction.

problem Understanding complex dynamics of opinion formation in social networks.
method Mixture of Interacting Cascades (MIC) model of marked multidimensional Hawkes processes.
result MIC achieves superior performance in modeling information cascade spread.

A game-theoretic analysis of DEX competition through dynamic trading fees.

problem Competition between decentralized exchanges (DEXs) and their impact on trading fees and slippage.
method Characterization of an approximate Nash equilibrium via coupled system of partial differential equations and closed-form expressions for equilibrium fees.
result The equilibrium trading fees shift from the oracle price to a weighted average of the oracle and competitors' exchange rates under competition.

Electroencephalogram, an influential equipment for analyzing humans activities and recognition of seizure attacks can play a crucial role in designing accurate systems which can distinguish ictal seizures from regular brain alertness, since it is the first step towards accomplishing a high accuracy computer aided diagn…

2018-05-04abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method generates natural-looking adversarial examples by bounding internal activation values.

problem Creating natural-looking adversarial examples that closely mimic the original input.
method Bounding internal activation values through a distribution quantile bound and polynomial barrier loss function.
result Our attack achieves similar success and confidence levels as state-of-the-art methods but with more natural-looking perturbations.

Study examines how uncertainty visualization affects analyst trust in automated classification systems.

problem The impact of uncertainty on analyst trust in automated classification systems.
method Empirical study evaluating different active learning query policies and visualizations.
result Query policy significantly influences analyst trust in automated classification systems.

Paper analyzes convergence of Sinkhorn algorithm for discrete probability measures on torus.

problem Achieving exponential convergence of Sinkhorn algorithm in general settings.
method Coupling by reflection techniques for controlled diffusions on the torus.
result Proves pointwise exponential convergence of Sinkhorn iterates and their gradient.

We empirically investigate the (negative) expected accuracy as an alternative loss function to cross entropy (negative log likelihood) for classification tasks. Coupled with softmax activation, it has small derivatives over most of its domain, and is therefore hard to optimize. A modified, leaky version is evaluated on…

2019-05-01abs ↗pdf ↗

TIME network simplifies complex physical processes with interpretable models.

problem Challenges in learning coupled dynamic processes from multiple observations.
method Fully convolutional architecture capturing invariant domain structure.
result Robust and transparent in capturing process kernels and anomalies.

The paper solves integrable systems of PDEs, including famous equations.

problem Constructing solutions for multicomponent integrable PDEs.
method Reduction to a finite-dimensional system, using Nijenhuis geometry.
result Animations of multi-component soliton and cnoidal solutions.

Label space expansion for multi-label classification (MLC) is a methodology that encodes the original label vectors to higher dimensional codes before training and decodes the predicted codes back to the label vectors during testing. The methodology has been demonstrated to improve the performance of MLC algorithms whe…

2016-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Constraint-based clustering algorithms exploit background knowledge to construct clusterings that are aligned with the interests of a particular user. This background knowledge is often obtained by allowing the clustering system to pose pairwise queries to the user: should these two elements be in the same cluster or n…

2018-03-29abs ↗pdf ↗