FedCVT improves VFL models with limited aligned samples.
problem Limited aligned samples in VFL.
method Cross-view training to estimate missing features and predict pseudo-labels.
result FedCVT significantly outperforms vanilla VFL.
Paper proposes Adversarial CCA for multi-view alignment and generation.
problem Aligning multiple views in cross-view data analysis problems.
method Bayesian perspective, adversarial training for consistent latent encodings.
result ACCA model achieves superior performance in multi-view alignment and generation.
We present a novel cross-view classification algorithm where the gallery and probe data come from different views. A popular approach to tackle this problem is the multi-view subspace learning (MvSL) that aims to learn a latent subspace shared by multi-view data. Despite promising results obtained on some applications,…
We consider the kernel completion problem with the presence of multiple views in the data. In this context the data samples can be fully missing in some views, creating missing columns and rows to the kernel matrices that are calculated individually for each view. We propose to solve the problem of completing the kerne…
Finding relationships between multiple views of data is essential both for exploratory analysis and as pre-processing for predictive tasks. A prominent approach is to apply variants of Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA), a classical method seeking correlated components between views. The basic CCA is restricted to ma…
Person Re-identification (re-id) faces two major challenges: the lack of cross-view paired training data and learning discriminative identity-sensitive and view-invariant features in the presence of large pose variations. In this work, we address both problems by proposing a novel deep person image generation model for…
New method clusters multi-view data by squeezing hybrid knowledge.
problem Removal of redundant information and fusion of multi-view features.
method Low-rank subspace multi-view clustering with adaptive graph regularization.
result Our method outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms on multi-view benchmarks.
This paper is concerned with multi-view reinforcement learning (MVRL), which allows for decision making when agents share common dynamics but adhere to different observation models. We define the MVRL framework by extending partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) to support more than one observation mod…
CLIM-FS tackles mixed-missing multi-view unsupervised feature selection.
problem Mixed-missing multi-view data with incomplete features and views.
method Integrates imputation of missing views and variables into feature selection model based on nonnegative orthogonal matrix factorization.
result CLIM-FS outperforms state-of-the-art methods on real-world datasets.
Increasingly many real world tasks involve data in multiple modalities or views. This has motivated the development of many effective algorithms for learning a common latent space to relate multiple domains. However, most existing cross-view learning algorithms assume access to paired data for training. Their applicabi…
Acoustic word embeddings --- fixed-dimensional vector representations of arbitrary-length words --- have attracted increasing interest in query-by-example spoken term detection. Recently, on the fact that the orthography of text labels partly reflects the phonetic similarity between the words' pronunciation, a multi-vi…
Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) is widely used for multimodal data analysis and, more recently, for discriminative tasks such as multi-view learning; however, it makes no use of class labels. Recent CCA methods have started to address this weakness but are limited in that they do not simultaneously optimize the CC…
In this paper, we address the challenging task of achieving multi-view dimensionality reduction. The goal is to effectively use the availability of multiple views for extracting a coherent low-dimensional representation of the data. The proposed method exploits the intrinsic relation within each view, as well as the mu…
Bayesian approach for handling incomplete clinical data.
problem Challenges in machine learning with multimodal, incomplete clinical data.
method Generative and discriminative learning, semi-supervised strategy, imputation of missing views.
result Automatic imputation of missing views and robust inference across different data sources.
The group membership prediction (GMP) problem involves predicting whether or not a collection of instances share a certain semantic property. For instance, in kinship verification given a collection of images, the goal is to predict whether or not they share a {\it familial} relationship. In this context we propose a n…
We propose to jointly learn multi-view geometry and warping between views of the same object instances for robust cross-view object detection. What makes multi-view object instance detection difficult are strong changes in viewpoint, lighting conditions, high similarity of neighbouring objects, and strong variability i…
New method improves unsupervised feature learning for natural data.
problem Natural data's correlated and long-tail distribution challenges instance-level contrastive learning.
method Cross-level instance-group discrimination (CLD) to integrate between-instance similarity.
result CLD achieves new state-of-the-art performance on various datasets.
Estimates latent dimensionality for prediction tasks using mutual information.
problem Estimating the latent dimensionality needed for accurate prediction.
method Formulates the problem as an Information Bottleneck question and uses neural mutual information estimators with a hybrid critic to preserve latent geometry.
result The hybrid critic method provides a more accurate estimation of task-relevant dimensionality.
This paper analyzes multi-view learning using information theory to improve generalization.
problem Lack of theoretical understanding of multi-view learning's generalization behavior.
method Developed information-theoretic generalization bounds for multi-view learning.
result Capturing both consensus and complementary information maximizes representation disentanglement.
This paper analyzes self-supervised learning from a multi-view perspective.
problem Understanding and optimizing self-supervised learning from multi-view data.
method Information-theoretical framework to understand and design self-supervised learning objectives.
result Self-supervised representations can extract task-relevant information and discard task-irrelevant information.
KHGRec tackles noisy and incomplete KG-enhanced recommendations by modeling complex interactions.
problem Challenges in integrating KGs for accurate recommendations, especially in complex higher-order interactions and heterogeneous modalities.
method KHGRec uses a collaborative knowledge heterogeneous hypergraph (CKHG) to model group-wise interdependencies, employing two hypergraph encoders and attention mechanisms.
result KHGRec achieves an average 5.18% relative improvement over state-of-the-art baselines on four real-world datasets.
HSACC improves multi-view clustering of incomplete data.
problem Challenges in clustering incomplete multi-view data.
method Hierarchical Semantic Alignment and Cooperative Completion framework.
result HSACC outperforms state-of-the-art methods on benchmark datasets.
A new framework for PPLS combines noise estimation, optimization, and calibration.
problem Probabilistic PLS models need interpretable latent factors and calibrated uncertainty.
method End-to-end pipeline combining noise estimation, constrained optimization, and prediction calibration.
result Achieves near-nominal coverage and native calibrated uncertainty across benchmarks.
Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) is a classic technique for multi-view data analysis. To overcome the deficiency of linear correlation in practical multi-view learning tasks, various CCA variants were proposed to capture nonlinear dependency. However, it is non-trivial to have an in-principle understanding of these…
This work explains how maximizing latent correlations across multiple data views helps in identifying shared and private components.
problem Understanding how to identify shared and private components in multiview data.
method An intuitive generative model of multiview data is adopted, and latent correlation maximization is shown to guarantee the extraction of shared components.
result Latent correlation maximization guarantees the extraction of shared components across views and disentangles private information.
Taylorized training improves neural network training at finite width.
problem Understanding and improving neural network training at finite width.
method Training the k-th order Taylor expansion of the neural network at initialization.
result Taylorized training agrees with full neural network training better as k increases and can significantly close the performance gap.
Self-training outperforms pre-training on COCO object detection and segmentation datasets.
problem The effectiveness of pre-training in improving object detection and segmentation models is limited.
method Investigated self-training as an alternative method to utilize additional data.
result Self-training consistently improves model performance across various dataset sizes and data augmentation levels.
Un-trained neural networks outperform trained methods in MRI reconstruction.
problem Accelerated MRI reconstruction with minimal training data.
method Variation of Deep Decoder without training data.
result Un-trained approach significantly outperforms other methods in reconstruction accuracy.
Meta-learning performance depends on train-validation split type.
problem Understanding the importance of train-validation split in meta-learning.
method Theoretical and experimental study comparing train-val and train-train methods.
result Train-train method can achieve strictly better excess loss in realizable cases.
New method reveals how training data influence diffusion model outputs.
problem Difficulty in assessing training data impact on diffusion model outputs.
method Use of ensembles trained on carefully engineered splits of training data to identify influential training examples.
result Demonstrated the viability of ensembles as generative models and validity of assessing influence.
Paper shows adversarial training can be fooled by new type of noise.
problem Adversarial training can be fooled by new types of noise.
method Designing ADVIN, a new type of inducing noise.
result ADVIN can degrade adversarial training robustness by 99.9%.
New MIP methods improve training of integer-valued neural networks.
problem Training integer-valued neural networks with limited data and resources.
method Formulated new MIP models to optimize training efficiency and handle more data.
result Significantly outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods in accuracy, training time, and data usage.
Free adversarial training reduces the generalization gap compared to vanilla method.
problem Improving generalization in adversarial training.
method Analysis of algorithmic stability in free adversarial training.
result Free adversarial training shows a lower generalization gap.
Making neural networks robust against adversarial inputs has resulted in an arms race between new defenses and attacks. The most promising defenses, adversarially robust training and verifiably robust training, have limitations that restrict their practical applications. The adversarially robust training only makes the…
learn2mix trains neural nets faster by adjusting class proportions dynamically.
problem Training neural nets efficiently with limited resources and imbalanced classes.
method Adaptive class proportion adjustment during training.
result Neural nets trained with learn2mix converge faster than static methods.
Loss-guided training accelerates node embedding methods on graphs.
problem Training efficiency in graph learning methods with implicit positive examples.
method Dynamic adjustment of training distribution based on loss values.
result Significant acceleration in training and computation over static methods.
Paper explores fast adversarial training to improve robustness with less computation.
problem Efficiently defending against adversarial examples.
method Integrates simple self-attacks for faster training, focusing on overfitting recovery.
result Shows superior robust accuracy with reduced training time compared to strong adversarial training.
Stochastic gradient decent~(SGD) and its variants, including some accelerated variants, have become popular for training in machine learning. However, in all existing SGD and its variants, the sample size in each iteration~(epoch) of training is the same as the size of the full training set. In this paper, we propose a…
Crowdsourced training of large neural networks with decentralized Mixture-of-Experts.
problem Expensive training of large neural networks limits research contributions.
method Learning@home: decentralized Mixture-of-Experts for large, poorly connected participants.
result Performance and reliability of Learning@home surpass conventional distributed training.
Pre-training is crucial for learning deep neural networks. Most of existing pre-training methods train simple models (e.g., restricted Boltzmann machines) and then stack them layer by layer to form the deep structure. This layer-wise pre-training has found strong theoretical foundation and broad empirical support. Howe…
New method reconstructs significant parts of training data from neural networks.
problem Understanding and reconstructing training data from neural networks.
method Proposes a novel reconstruction scheme based on recent theoretical results about neural network training.
result Shows that a significant fraction of training data can be reconstructed from neural network parameters.
The paper studies the asymptotic behavior of adversarial training under ℓ∞-perturbation.
problem Theoretical guarantees for sparsity-recovery in adversarial training.
method Investigation of the asymptotic distribution of the adversarial training estimator in generalized linear models.
result The asymptotic distribution of the adversarial training estimator under ℓ∞-perturbation could have a positive probability mass at 0 when the true parameter is 0. This paper introduces 'General Cyclical Training' for neural networks.
problem Improving training efficiency and performance of neural networks.
method Cyclical training phases with varying hyperparameters, batch sizes, loss functions, and data augmentation.
result Cyclical weight decay, softmax temperature, and gradient clipping enhance model accuracy.
Speeds up training and inference by pruning entire channels before training.
problem Training and inference speed in deep neural networks.
method Structured pruning applied before training, focusing on removing entire channels and hidden units.
result 2x speedup in training and 3x speedup in inference.
The paper predicts loss scaling across different datasets and compute scales.
problem Predicting loss scaling across different datasets and compute scales.
method Derive shifted power law relationships between train and test losses.
result Shifted power law relationships hold for various datasets and tasks, improving prediction accuracy.
Theoretical study shows adversarial training improves robustness in deep learning models.
problem Ensuring robustness in pre-trained deep learning models.
method Theoretical analysis of adversarial training and feature purification in two-layer neural networks.
result Adversarial training leads to feature purification, making models more robust to attacks.
Training dynamics reveal neural network complexity.
problem Understanding the complexity of neural networks during training.
method Relating the Lipschitz constant and training behavior of neural networks.
result Steady training and bounded complexity in far regions of input space.
LIIT uses large deviations to train neural networks faster.
problem Training neural networks requires large amounts of data, leading to inefficiencies.
method LIIT uses large deviations principle to generate and update training samples.
result LIIT achieves similar classification performance with smaller, more representative samples.