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48 results for Curated Bags

The paper compares aggregated data labels in curated and random bags for machine learning models.

problem Protecting user privacy in machine learning systems with aggregated data.
method Examined curated and random bags for training machine learning models and compared their performance.
result Gradient-based learning can be performed on aggregated data without performance degradation.

For statistical learning, categorical variables in a table are usually considered as discrete entities and encoded separately to feature vectors, e.g., with one-hot encoding. "Dirty" non-curated data gives rise to categorical variables with a very high cardinality but redundancy: several categories reflect the same ent…

2018-06-04abs ↗pdf ↗

We explain SSL objectives as log-likelihoods in a data curation model.

problem Lack of understanding of SSL objectives as log-likelihoods.
method Formulate SSL objectives as a log-likelihood in a generative model of data curation.
result SSL methods can be understood as lower-bounds on a principled log-likelihood.

The paper examines how decentralized credit curators have taken over risk management from traditional protocols.

problem Risk management in decentralized credit has shifted from centralized protocols to decentralized curators.
method Analysis of ERC 4626 vaults and third-party curators, focusing on capital utilization, concentration, and fee margins.
result Curators have a significant impact on the risk profile of decentralized credit systems, with a small set of curators handling a disproportionate share of system TVL.

In multi-instance (MI) learning, each object (bag) consists of multiple feature vectors (instances), and is most commonly regarded as a set of points in a multidimensional space. A different viewpoint is that the instances are realisations of random vectors with corresponding probability distribution, and that a bag is…

2018-03-07abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes bagging in overparameterized learning, deriving risk properties and optimal subsample sizes.

problem Characterizing the risk of bagged predictors in overparameterized settings.
method General strategy using classical results on simple random sampling, specialized for ridge and ridgeless predictors.
result Derives exact asymptotic risk of bagged ridge and ridgeless predictors under various conditions.

Multi-instance learning (MIL) has a wide range of applications due to its distinctive characteristics. Although many state-of-the-art algorithms have achieved decent performances, a plurality of existing methods solve the problem only in instance level rather than excavating relations among bags. In this paper, we prop…

2015-12-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Multiple instance learning (MIL) is concerned with learning from sets (bags) of objects (instances), where the individual instance labels are ambiguous. In this setting, supervised learning cannot be applied directly. Often, specialized MIL methods learn by making additional assumptions about the relationship of the ba…

2013-09-22abs ↗pdf ↗

A new large-scale tabular benchmark for Learning from Label Proportions.

problem Lack of a large-scale open benchmark for tabular Learning from Label Proportions.
method Proposed LLP-Bench, a suite of 70 datasets (62 feature bag and 8 random bag) from real-world tabular data.
result Demonstrated the effectiveness of 9 SOTA and popular tabular LLP techniques on 62 feature bag datasets.

Bagging can significantly improve the generalization performance of unstable machine learning algorithms such as trees or neural networks. Though bagging is now widely used in practice and many empirical studies have explored its behavior, we still know little about the theoretical properties of bagged predictions. In …

2019-08-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Under-bagging kk-NN improves performance on imbalanced classification.

problem Imbalanced classification problems where one class is significantly underrepresented.
method Proposes an under-bagging kk-NN ensemble learning algorithm, analyzing convergence rates and efficiency.
result Achieves optimal convergence rates under mild assumptions and reduces sub-sample size and kk for highly imbalanced data.

Improved Bayesian uncertainty quantification using variational bagging.

problem Inefficient and underestimating uncertainty in mean-field variational Bayes.
method Integrates bagging with variational Bayes for improved inference.
result Bagged variational posterior provides proper uncertainty quantification.

In the supervised learning setting termed Multiple-Instance Learning (MIL), the examples are bags of instances, and the bag label is a function of the labels of its instances. Typically, this function is the Boolean OR. The learner observes a sample of bags and the bag labels, but not the instance labels that determine…

2011-07-11abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper shows how curated synthetic data can optimize human preferences in generative models.

problem Contamination of web-scale datasets by synthetic data affects future model training.
method Theoretical study of iterated retraining of generative models with curated synthetic data.
result Data curation can be seen as an implicit preference optimization mechanism, maximizing expected reward.

Multiple instance learning (MIL) aims to learn the mapping between a bag of instances and the bag-level label. In this paper, we propose a new end-to-end graph neural network (GNN) based algorithm for MIL: we treat each bag as a graph and use GNN to learn the bag embedding, in order to explore the useful structural inf…

2019-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

In multiple instance learning, objects are sets (bags) of feature vectors (instances) rather than individual feature vectors. In this paper we address the problem of how these bags can best be represented. Two standard approaches are to use (dis)similarities between bags and prototype bags, or between bags and prototyp…

2014-02-06abs ↗pdf ↗

New method improves weakly-supervised action localization.

problem Locating action segments in videos with limited labels.
method Explicitly models key instance assignment as hidden variable using EM framework.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on THUMOS14 and ActivityNet1.2 benchmarks.

Bagging, a powerful ensemble method from machine learning, improves the performance of unstable predictors. Although the power of Bagging has been shown mostly in classification problems, we demonstrate the success of employing Bagging in sparse regression over the baseline method (L1 minimization). The framework emplo…

2018-12-20abs ↗pdf ↗

BRDAD uses bagging and regularization to improve anomaly detection without labeled data.

problem Anomaly detection in unlabeled data with sensitivity to kk-nearest neighbors.
method Bagged regularized kk-distances (BRDAD) for anomaly detection, converting to convex optimization.
result BRDAD addresses sensitivity to hyperparameter choice and improves performance on large datasets.

New framework learns labels at both bag and graph levels.

problem Learning multi-label classifiers from multi-graph bags.
method Designing scoring functions and rank-loss objective for graph and bag levels; developing sub-gradient descent algorithm.
result Superior performance over state-of-the-art algorithms.

This paper compares two loss functions for learning from aggregated responses and introduces an interpolating estimator.

problem Learning from aggregated responses in privacy-sensitive settings.
method Investigates bag-level and instance-level loss functions, and introduces an interpolating estimator.
result Instance-level loss can be seen as a regularized form of bag-level loss, leading to improved estimators.

Improves key instance detection in MIL models by using neural network inversion with sparseness constraint.

problem Limited key instance detection performance in attention-based deep MIL models due to skewed attention scores.
method Sparse network inversion with a sparseness constraint incorporated into neural network inversion, solved by proximal gradient method.
result Significantly improved key instance detection performance while maintaining bag-level prediction performance.

WildWood improves Random Forest predictions using bootstrap out-of-bag samples.

problem Improving Random Forest predictions for supervised learning.
method Uses bootstrap out-of-bag samples to compute improved predictions by aggregating all possible subtrees with exponential weights.
result WildWood produces faster and more competitive predictions compared to other ensemble methods.

\textit{Multiple Instance Learning} (MIL) is concerned with learning from bags of instances, where only bag labels are given and instance labels are unknown. Existent approaches in this field were mainly designed for the bag-level label prediction (predict labels for bags) but not the instance-level (predict labels for…

2019-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

We investigate the mapping class group of an orientable ωω-bounded surface. Such a surface splits, by Nyikos's Bagpipe Theorem, into a union of a bag (a compact surface with boundary) and finitely many long pipes. The subgroup consisting of classes of homeomorphisms fixing the boundary of the bag is a normal subgroup …

2009-10-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Stacking is a general approach for combining multiple models toward greater predictive accuracy. It has found various application across different domains, ensuing from its meta-learning nature. Our understanding, nevertheless, on how and why stacking works remains intuitive and lacking in theoretical insight. In this …

2019-01-26abs ↗pdf ↗

For a social networking service to acquire and retain users, it must find ways to keep them engaged. By accurately gauging their preferences, it is able to serve them with the subset of available content that maximises revenue for the site. Without the constraints of an appropriate regulatory framework, we argue that a…

2017-01-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Boosting weak learners to strong ones from aggregate labels is possible for LLP but not for MIL.

problem Boosting weak learners to strong ones from aggregate labels in learning from label proportions (LLP).
method Using a weak learner on large enough bags to obtain a strong learner for small bags in polynomial time.
result Boosting is possible for LLP but not for MIL.

Learning from Label Proportions (LLP) is a learning setting, where the training data is provided in groups, or "bags", and only the proportion of each class in each bag is known. The task is to learn a model to predict the class labels of the individual instances. LLP has broad applications in political science, market…

2014-02-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Multiple instance learning (MIL) is a variation of supervised learning where a single class label is assigned to a bag of instances. In this paper, we state the MIL problem as learning the Bernoulli distribution of the bag label where the bag label probability is fully parameterized by neural networks. Furthermore, we …

2018-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning research depends on objectively interpretable, comparable, and reproducible algorithm benchmarks. We advocate the use of curated, comprehensive suites of machine learning tasks to standardize the setup, execution, and reporting of benchmarks. We enable this through software tools that help to create an…

2017-08-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Cold posteriors in BNNs harm performance, likely due to incorrect likelihood.

problem Cold posteriors in Bayesian neural networks degrade performance.
method Developed a generative model explaining cold posteriors and matched it to the tempered likelihoods.
result Cold posteriors are a result of using the wrong likelihood for image classification datasets.