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48 results for Distance Penalties

This paper proposes a new method for GLM estimation using distance penalties to handle constraints.

problem Handling constraints in generalized linear models (GLM) is complicated.
method The approach uses distance penalties to optimize the log-likelihood, avoiding shrinkage.
result Distance penalties provide a flexible and non-shrinking alternative to traditional penalties.

The paper studies robust risk measures with linear penalties under uncertain distributions.

problem Risk measurement under distributional uncertainty.
method Robust distortion risk measures with linear penalty function under distributional constraints.
result Explicit characterization of optimal quantile distribution and value function.

Gradient penalty improves GAN performance by inducing a large-margin classifier.

problem Improving GAN performance and addressing vanishing gradients.
method A unifying framework of expected margin maximization, showing gradient penalties induce large-margin classifiers.
result Gradient penalties reduce vanishing gradients and produce better generated outputs.

New method approximates sampling from smooth potential distributions using a vanishing penalty.

problem Sampling from smooth potential distributions on high-dimensional spaces.
method Penalized Langevin dynamics (PLD) with vanishing penalty.
result Established upper bound on Wasserstein-2 distance for PLD approximation.

Study improves estimation of functions from noisy data using convex penalties.

problem Estimating functions from noisy point evaluations of linear operators.
method Tikhonov regularization with convex and pp-homogeneous penalty functionals.
result Derives concentration rates for regularized solutions in symmetric Bregman distance.

This study proves local stability of SGP μ-WGAN and shows penalizing data or sample manifold is key.

problem Stabilizing and regularizing WGAN with gradient penalty.
method Proves local stability of SGP μ-WGAN using measure valued differentiation.
result Penalizing data or sample manifold is key to regularizing WGAN.

Wasserstein GANs with Gradient Penalty compute a different optimal transport problem called congested transport.

problem Training generative models to produce high-quality synthetic data.
method Wasserstein GANs with Gradient Penalty (WGAN-GP) approach to calculate the Wasserstein 1 distance.
result WGAN-GP computes the minimum of the congested transport problem, not the Wasserstein 1 distance.

We stabilize the activations of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) by penalizing the squared distance between successive hidden states' norms. This penalty term is an effective regularizer for RNNs including LSTMs and IRNNs, improving performance on character-level language modeling and phoneme recognition, and outperfor…

2015-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we propose and study a family of sparsity-inducing penalty functions. Since the penalty functions are related to the kinetic energy in special relativity, we call them \emph{kinetic energy plus} (KEP) functions. We construct the KEP function by using the concave conjugate of a χ2χ^2-distance function and …

2013-07-22abs ↗pdf ↗

We investigate properties of estimators obtained by minimization of U-processes with the Lasso penalty in high-dimensional settings. Our attention is focused on the ranking problem that is popular in machine learning. It is related to guessing the ordering between objects on the basis of their observed predictors. We p…

2015-12-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Energy distance measures feature heterogeneity in federated learning.

problem Heterogeneity across data sources hinders model aggregation in federated learning.
method Introduced Taylor approximations of energy distance for efficient computation.
result Taylor approximations accurately capture feature discrepancies, improving convergence.

Algorithm minimizes loss and constraint violations in online convex optimization with smooth penalties.

problem Minimizing loss and constraint violations in online convex optimization with smooth penalties.
method Projected gradient descent over a set around the current action.
result Both dynamic regret and constraint violation are bounded by the path-length.

New method prevents gradient attenuation in Lipschitz constrained convolutional networks.

problem Gradient norm attenuation in Lipschitz constrained convolutional networks.
method Block Convolution Orthogonal Parameterization (BCOP) to train scalable, expressive, provably Lipschitz convolutional networks.
result Empirically, BCOP parameterization is competitive with existing approaches to provable adversarial robustness and Wasserstein distance estimation.

Study extends DRO with IPMs, linking robustness to regularization and GANs.

problem Addressing robustness of deep neural networks to adversarial attacks.
method Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) with Integral Probability Metrics (IPMs).
result DRO under any IPM corresponds to a family of regularization penalties.

Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (WGANs) provide a versatile class of models, which have attracted great attention in various applications. However, this framework has two main drawbacks: (i) Wasserstein-1 (or Earth-Mover) distance is restrictive such that WGANs cannot always fit data geometry well; (ii) It …

2017-05-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Study improves speaker verification accuracy using angular based embedding learning.

problem Improving discriminative power of embeddings for open-set speaker verification.
method Optimizes angular distance and adds margin penalty, applying various angular margin embedding strategies and proposing inter-class regularization.
result Achieved impressive results with 16.5% improvement in EER and 18.2% improvement in minimum detection cost function.

Proposes a method to incorporate prior domain knowledge into hierarchical clustering.

problem Hierarchical clustering results depend on similarity measures and algorithm choices.
method Uses ultrametric distance function to encode external ontological information and adds it as a penalty term to the original pairwise distance.
result Popular linkage-based algorithms can faithfully recover the encoded structure.

Physics: Similar long-distance properties can mask vastly different short-distance metrics.

problem Classifying homogeneous metrics on group manifolds by long-distance properties.
method Apply universality concept to geometry, focusing on metrics on Lie groups.
result Many metrics on low-dimensional Lie groups have similar long-distance properties despite differing short-distance properties.

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have received a tremendous amount of attention in the past few years, and have inspired applications addressing a wide range of problems. Despite its great potential, GANs are difficult to train. Recently, a series of papers (Arjovsky & Bottou, 2017a; Arjovsky et al. 2017b; and Gu…

2017-05-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Study robust distribution estimation with Wasserstein distance, achieving optimal risk.

problem Robust distribution estimation under adversarial corruption.
method Combining partial OT and minimum distance estimation, proving structural properties and deriving a novel dual form.
result Achieves minimax-optimal robust estimation risk in many settings.

New privacy mechanism for user-level discrete distributions with reduced penalty.

problem Achieving privacy for all items of a single user in practical applications.
method Study of learning discrete distributions with user-level differential privacy, proposing a new mechanism with reduced privacy penalty.
result Proposed mechanism reduces privacy penalty to ildeO(k/(mα2)+k/mεα) ilde{\mathcal{O}}(k/(mα^2) + k/\sqrt{m}εα), significantly smaller than standard mechanisms.

TRACE analyzes risk changes in models trained on shifted data.

problem Understanding performance changes when a model trained on shifted data is used.
method TRACE framework decomposes risk change into four factors: generalization gaps, model change penalty, and covariate shift penalty.
result TRACE provides a diagnostic tool to understand and quantify risk changes due to covariate shift.

The problem of minimizing a continuously differentiable convex function over an intersection of closed convex sets is ubiquitous in applied mathematics. It is particularly interesting when it is easy to project onto each separate set, but nontrivial to project onto their intersection. Algorithms based on Newton's metho…

2012-11-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Study examines insider trading with penalties, finding optimal penalties increase quickly for small orders.

problem Analyzing the impact of penalties on insider trading behavior and market efficiency.
method Formal economic model with penalty functions, existence and uniqueness theorems, and optimization.
result Optimal penalties increase quickly for small orders, signaling extreme events and incorporating information into prices.

This paper presents a unified framework for smooth convex regularization of discrete optimal transport problems. In this context, the regularized optimal transport turns out to be equivalent to a matrix nearness problem with respect to Bregman divergences. Our framework thus naturally generalizes a previously proposed …

2016-10-20abs ↗pdf ↗

New approach avoids excess empirical risk in domain generalization.

problem Learning models that generalize to unseen distributions from diverse data sets.
method Minimizes penalty under constraint of optimal empirical risk, leveraging rate-distortion theory.
result Significant improvements in domain generalization performance across multiple methods.

Curvature penalties improve interpretability of KANs without sacrificing accuracy.

problem Pathologically high-curvature oscillations in KANs activations make them hard to interpret.
method Derived a curvature penalty and proved an upper bound on model curvature.
result KANs with curvature penalties achieve substantially smoother activations while maintaining accuracy.

Optimizes decisions in time-varying distributions using online stochastic methods and Wasserstein distance.

problem Optimizing decisions in time-varying distributions using Wasserstein distance.
method Online proximal-gradient method, exact penalty method, constraint-tightening approach.
result Dynamic regret bounds for tracking and estimation error.