AdapTable adapts tabular models to shifts without source data, improving HELOC performance.
problem Distribution shifts in tabular data threaten model performance.
method Shift-aware uncertainty calibrator and label distribution handler.
result Up to 16% improvement on HELOC dataset.
Paper tackles test-time adaptation for tabular data.
problem Performance degradation due to distribution shifts in testing.
method Proposes FTAT for robustly adapting tabular models during testing.
result FTAT outperforms state-of-the-art methods on benchmark datasets.
Adapts data analysis for growing data, improving generalization guarantees.
problem Challenges of overfitting and statistical validity in adaptive workflows with growing data.
method Generalizes adaptive analysis on dynamic data, incorporating time-varying empirical accuracy bounds and mechanisms.
result First generalization bounds for adaptive analysis on dynamic data, matching prior works' improvement over data splitting.
DoubleAdapt improves stock trend forecasting by adapting models to evolving data.
problem Incremental learning for stock trend forecasting is challenging due to distribution shifts.
method DoubleAdapt framework with two adapters for data and model adaptation.
result DoubleAdapt achieves state-of-the-art predictive performance on real-world stock datasets.
New adaptive models improve prediction accuracy with missing data.
problem Improving prediction accuracy with missing data entries.
method Adaptive optimization approach, learning imputation and regression simultaneously.
result 2-10% improvement in out-of-sample accuracy in strongly non-random missing data settings.
Bayesian approach improves speech recognition with limited speaker data.
problem Reduces mismatch between training and evaluation data due to speaker differences.
method Bayesian learning for DNN adaptation models with limited speaker data.
result Bayesian adaptation consistently outperforms deterministic methods, reducing word error rates up to 1.4%.
Generative models learn better with data-adaptive noise.
problem Learning heavy-tailed distributions in flow-based models.
method Data-adaptive latent noise using 1D quantile functions optimized via Wasserstein distance.
result Flexibility and effectiveness in learning heavy-tailed and compactly supported distributions.
Sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) based ASR systems have shown state-of-the-art performances while having clear advantages in terms of simplicity. However, comparisons are mostly done on speaker independent (SI) ASR systems, though speaker adapted conventional systems are commonly used in practice for improving robustness…
Paper develops adaptive models for robust energy forecasting with missing data.
problem Operational models assume complete data; missing data can degrade forecast accuracy.
method Adaptive robust optimization and adversarial machine learning for missing data.
result Proposed models perform well even with short-term missing data and significantly outperform imputation with longer-term missing data.
Client adaptation improves federated learning performance with non-IID data.
problem Improving model performance in federated learning with non-identically and non-independently distributed data.
method Simulates heterogeneous clients to learn client-specific conditioning using a conditional gated activation unit.
result Client adaptation enhances model performance across balanced and imbalanced data sets from audio and image domains.
Adapting policy learning for data collected from evolving systems.
problem Challenges in learning optimal policies from adaptively collected data.
method Proposes an algorithm based on generalized augmented inverse propensity weighted (AIPW) estimators to control worst-case estimation variance.
result Achieves minimax rate optimal regret guarantees even with diminishing exploration.
Adaptive financial dataflow system improves model robustness in dynamic markets.
problem Static historical data leads to poor performance in dynamic financial markets.
method Drift-aware dataflow system with adaptive control and optimization.
result Enhanced model robustness and improved risk-adjusted returns.
Paper tackles adaptive deletion of data points from trained models.
problem Adaptive deletion of data points from trained models.
method Reduction from adaptive to non-adaptive deletion guarantees using differential privacy and max information.
result Strong provable deletion guarantees for adaptive deletion sequences.
An adaptive clustering algorithm learns from evolving data without manual tuning.
problem Clustering in dynamic data environments where distributions change over time.
method ART-based topological clustering with self-adjusting vigilance parameter.
result The algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art methods in clustering performance and continual learning.
New method uses limited labeled data and multiple starts to adapt models across domains.
problem Accurate predictions in target domain with few labeled data.
method Fine-tuning from multiple adaptive starts, extending UDA methods.
result Minimax-optimal target performance with limited labeled target data.
Efficient inference for adaptive data with directional stability condition.
problem Efficient inference on scalar targets after adaptive data collection.
method Introduces directional stability, a weaker condition than i.i.d. data, and shows asymptotic normality and efficiency of estimators.
result Estimators remain asymptotically normal and semiparametrically efficient under directional stability.
Edge devices adapt pre-trained models to local data without backpropagation.
problem Adapting pre-trained models to edge devices' local data distributions.
method Feed-forward latent domain adaptation using cross-attention.
result Consistent improvements over ERM baselines and domain-supervised adaptation.
Study examines AutoML adaptation to evolving data.
problem Understanding and improving AutoML performance with concept drift.
method 6 concept drift adaptation strategies evaluated on various AutoML approaches.
result Robust AutoML techniques can be developed to handle concept drift.
A new method for learning function parameters in operators using data-adaptive RKHS.
problem Learning function parameters in operators with robustness to noise and numerical error.
method Data Adaptive RKHS Tikhonov Regularization (DARTR) method.
result DARTR leads to an accurate estimator robust to noise and numerical error, converging at a consistent rate as data refines.
Adaptive inference for M-estimators in bandit data with model misspecification.
problem Challenges in off-policy inference for adaptively collected bandit data with a misspecified model.
method A novel approach to define a projected solution over a stationary evaluation policy, stabilizing variance with flexible methods.
result Valid inference for M-estimators in adaptive settings, even with unstable treatment policies. New method restores source features for SFDA without source data.
problem Domain adaptation without access to source data.
method Feature Restoration (FR) and Bottom-Up Feature Restoration (BUFR).
result BUFR outperforms existing SFDA methods in accuracy, calibration, and data efficiency.
We study the performance of the adaptive construction scheme for a Bayesian inference on the Quadratic GARCH model which introduces the asymmetry in time series dynamics. In the adaptive construction scheme a proposal density in the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is constructed adaptively by changing the parameters of t…
In practice, the data distribution at test time often differs, to a smaller or larger extent, from that of the original training data. Consequentially, the so-called source classifier, trained on the available labelled data, deteriorates on the test, or target, data. Domain adaptive classifiers aim to combat this probl…
This paper improves test-time adaptation for distribution shifts using confidence maximization and input transformation.
problem Improving deep networks' performance on data shifted from the training distribution.
method Proposes a novel loss function combining confidence maximization and batch-wise entropy maximization with an input transformation module.
result Significantly improves robustness of pretrained networks to corruptions on benchmarks like ImageNet-C.
A new data-adaptive prior stabilizes kernel learning in operators.
problem Learning kernels in operators from data is ill-posed due to nonlocal dependence.
method Introduces a data-adaptive prior to stabilize the Bayesian posterior mean.
result The data-adaptive prior achieves a stable posterior with small noise limits.
Private algorithms adapt from public to private domains with minimal labeled data.
problem Adapting from a public source domain to a private target domain with few labeled data.
method Differentially private discrepancy minimization algorithms based on Frank-Wolfe and Mirror-Descent methods.
result Effective adaptation with strong generalization and privacy guarantees.
This work proves convergence of adaptive resampling for random Fourier features.
problem Sampling Fourier frequencies well for high-dimensional data.
method Data adaptive resampling of Fourier frequencies, asymptotically optimal.
result Proves convergence of adaptive resampling method for regression and classification problems.
Adaptive PCR improves panel data analysis with uniform guarantees.
problem Adaptive data collection in panel data settings.
method Adapting PCR to online settings using martingale concentration.
result Time-uniform guarantees for adaptive PCR in panel data.
A probabilistic framework for online test-time adaptation
problem Adapting models to new data under distributional shift
method State-space modelling architecture
result Characterizing parameter learning, time evolution, prior tuning, and prediction
A Bayesian estimation of a GARCH model is performed for US Dollar/Japanese Yen exchange rate by the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm with a proposal density given by the adaptive construction scheme. In the adaptive construction scheme the proposal density is assumed to take a form of a multivariate Student's t-distributi…
Paper proposes SiSTA for single-shot domain adaptation using target-aware generative augmentation.
problem Adapting models from source to target domains with limited target data.
method Fine-tunes a generative model on a single-shot target and uses novel sampling strategies for synthetic data.
result Improves performance by up to 20% over existing baselines in face attribute detection.
We present the first adaptive strategy for active learning in the setting of classification with smooth decision boundary. The problem of adaptivity (to unknown distributional parameters) has remained opened since the seminal work of Castro and Nowak (2007), which first established (active learning) rates for this sett…
EnMDAP aligns conditional distributions for multi-source domain adaptation using pseudolabels.
problem Training a target model with no labeled data in the absence of target data labels.
method EnMDAP uses label-wise moment matching and ensemble learning with multiple feature extractors.
result EnMDAP achieves state-of-the-art performance in multi-source domain adaptation tasks.
This paper describes a reference architecture for self-maintaining systems that can learn continually, as data arrives. In environments where data evolves, we need architectures that manage Machine Learning (ML) models in production, adapt to shifting data distributions, cope with outliers, retrain when necessary, and …
Learn to automatically plug domain-specific modules into a common network.
problem Learning inflexibility and computational intensiveness in multi-domain learning.
method Neural Architecture Search (NAS) for data-driven adapter plugging and structure design.
result NAS-driven MDL model achieves comparable performance to existing approaches.
Distributed sensors compress and send features to a fusion center for linear regression.
problem Efficiently compress and transmit features from distributed sensors to a fusion center under varying communication constraints.
method Designs a distributed and adaptive feature compression scheme using optimal quantizers and simple adaptive strategies.
result Demonstrates improved inference performance through simulated experiments.
Estimators computed from adaptively collected data do not behave like their non-adaptive brethren. Rather, the sequential dependence of the collection policy can lead to severe distributional biases that persist even in the infinite data limit. We develop a general method -- W-decorrelation -- for transformi…
Domain adaptation algorithms are designed to minimize the misclassification risk of a discriminative model for a target domain with little training data by adapting a model from a source domain with a large amount of training data. Standard approaches measure the adaptation discrepancy based on distance measures betwee…
Paper tackles backwards-compatible data adaptation for confounded covariate and label shifts.
problem Adapt covariates to predict labels confounded with covariate shifts.
method Proposes confounded shift framework based on minimizing divergence between source and target conditional distributions, conditioning on confounders.
result Demonstrates approach on synthetic and real datasets, achieving backwards-compatible data adaptation.
Adaptive quantization improves SGD accuracy in data-parallel settings.
problem Fixed gradient quantization schemes lead to suboptimal performance in deep learning.
method Developed adaptive quantization schemes ALQ and AMQ that update compression schemes based on gradient statistics.
result Improved validation accuracy on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet datasets by 2% and 1% respectively.
This research improves neural network performance with adaptive activation functions in sparse data settings.
problem Limited data availability in scientific and engineering problems.
method Investigation of two types of adaptive activation functions with individual trainable parameters.
result Adaptive activation functions, especially with individual trainable parameters, enhance prediction accuracy and confidence in sparse data settings.
PriorGrad improves speech synthesis models by using data-dependent adaptive priors.
problem Inefficiency in denoising diffusion models due to mismatch between prior and data distributions.
method Proposes PriorGrad, an adaptive prior derived from data statistics based on conditional information.
result PriorGrad achieves faster convergence and superior performance in speech synthesis models.
Paper proposes a method to adapt classifiers using complementary labels instead of true labels.
problem Training classifiers with true labels from the source domain is costly and sometimes impossible.
method Proposes a novel setting with complementary labels and a complementary label adversarial network (CLARINET).
result CLARINET significantly outperforms baselines on handwritten digits and object recognition tasks.
We address challenges in estimating parameters from adaptively collected data.
problem Estimating parameters from data collected adaptively leads to non-normal asymptotic distributions.
method We develop semi-parametric estimators that account for adaptivity in data collection.
result Our estimators are asymptotically normal under certain conditions.
Noise addition prevents overfitting in adaptive data analysis.
problem Overfitting in repeated use of a data sample via adaptively chosen queries.
method Simple noise addition algorithms and differential privacy-based analysis.
result Noise-addition algorithms provide variance-dependent guarantees for unbounded queries.
Paper tackles online multi-source domain adaptation using Gaussian mixtures and dictionary learning.
problem Adapting multiple, heterogeneous source domains to a target domain in a streaming fashion.
method Introduces a novel approach for online fitting of Gaussian Mixture Models based on Wasserstein geometry, combined with dataset dictionary learning.
result Demonstrates ability to adapt 'on the fly' to target domain data streams.
Proposes a regularization method for unsupervised domain adaptation that aligns predictions with target data's top singular vectors.
problem Domain adaptation challenges in high joint error scenarios.
method Regularizes classifier to align with unsupervised target data guided by label alignment property (LAP).
result The method improves performance in MNIST-USPS domain adaptation and cross-lingual sentiment analysis.
Framework for domain adaptation using pseudo-labels from unlabeled data.
problem Improving prediction accuracy in target domain with covariate shift.
method Kernel GLMs with labeled and pseudo-labeled data, using imputation model for target data.
result Non-asymptotic excess-risk bounds for effective labeled sample size.