Paper explores how text generation quality and diversity metrics relate to distribution fitting.
problem Unclear relation between text generation quality and diversity metrics and distribution fitting.
method Theoretical approach to prove a linear combination of quality and diversity metrics can be a divergence metric.
result CR/NRR proposed as a better substitute for BLEU/Self-BLEU metrics.
New model improves diversity in question generation over text.
problem Inadequate evaluation metrics for diverse questions.
method Proposed a variational encoder-decoder model and evaluation scheme.
result Improved diversity in generated questions without loss of quality.
New measures quantify diversity of latent representations using metric space magnitude.
problem Evaluating the diversity of latent representations in machine learning models.
method Developed magnitude-based measures for latent representations, stable under data perturbations.
result Demonstrated superior performance across various domains and tasks.
Study shows diverse data sources improve cryptocurrency forecasting models.
problem Improving cryptocurrency market forecasting accuracy.
method Integrating various data types, including on-chain metrics, traditional indices, and macroeconomic indicators.
result Data source diversity significantly enhances forecasting model performance.
New method improves ensemble diversity and generalization.
problem Ensemble diversity does not guarantee practical generalization.
method Introduced a new diversity metric and training method for extrapolating differently on local data patches.
result Improves generalization and diversity in practical settings, especially under data limits and covariate shift.
The paper improves experimental design by weighting diversity metrics with quality, leading to more diverse and effective discoveries.
problem Existing experimental design techniques favor exploitation over exploration, leading to local optima and insufficient diversity.
method The paper extends Vendi scores to account for quality and applies them to various experimental design problems.
result Quality-weighted Vendi scores allow for better balance between quality and diversity, resulting in 70%-170% more effective discoveries.
Proposes Vendi Score for evaluating diversity in ML models.
problem Lack of flexible diversity evaluation metrics in ML.
method Integrates ecological and quantum statistical mechanics concepts to define Vendi Score.
result Vendi Score enables flexible diversity evaluation without requiring a reference dataset.
New metric evaluates generative models across domains, diagnosing fidelity, diversity, and generalization.
problem Evaluating generative models in diverse domains with limited metrics.
method Introduces a 3D evaluation metric (α-Precision, β-Recall, Authenticity) for domain-agnostic diagnostics. result Unified metric characterizes fidelity, diversity, and generalization, diagnosing model performance.
This research introduces a new strategy in cluster ensemble selection by using Independency and Diversity metrics. In recent years, Diversity and Quality, which are two metrics in evaluation procedure, have been used for selecting basic clustering results in the cluster ensemble selection. Although quality can improve …
Heterogeneous SVO leads to diverse policies in sequential social dilemmas.
problem Understanding how diverse social value orientations affect behavior in sequential social dilemmas.
method Extending prior reinforcement learning studies, we instantiated heterogeneous SVO in a sequential social dilemma setting and measured task-specific diversity metrics.
result Heterogeneous SVO leads to meaningfully diverse policies across various incentive structures.
Text generation is an important Natural Language Processing task with various applications. Although several metrics have already been introduced to evaluate the text generation methods, each of them has its own shortcomings. The most widely used metrics such as BLEU only consider the quality of generated sentences and…
Proposes GM Score to evaluate GANs considering diversity, disentanglement, and discriminability.
problem Evaluation of GANs for sample quality and diversity.
method Integrates various factors including intra-class and inter-class diversity, disentanglement, and discriminability metrics.
result Demonstrates improved evaluation of GANs on MNIST dataset.
Thanks to the recent availability of comprehensive and detailed online databases of startup companies, it has become possible to more directly investigate startup ecosystems i.e. startup populations in specific regions. In this paper, we analyze the emergence of 20+ such ecosystems in Europe and the USA, with a specifi…
MO-PaDGAN generates diverse, high-performance designs with multiple metrics.
problem Challenges in generating diverse, high-performance designs with multiple metrics.
method MO-PaDGAN uses a new Determinantal Point Processes based loss function for probabilistic modeling of diversity and performances.
result MO-PaDGAN expands the design space towards high-performance regions and generates new designs with high diversity and performances.
New metrics improve reliability of image generation evaluation.
problem Lack of reliable metrics for evaluating fidelity and diversity in generative models.
method Proposed density and coverage metrics to diagnose fidelity and diversity separately.
result Density and coverage metrics provide more interpretable and reliable signals.
METASET selects diverse unit cells for efficient data-driven metamaterial design.
problem Imbalanced datasets in unit cells can bias data-driven metamaterial design.
method METASET uses similarity metrics and DPPs to select diverse subsets of unit cells.
result Smaller, diverse subsets improve search process and structural performance.
How can we measure whether a natural language generation system produces both high quality and diverse outputs? Human evaluation captures quality but not diversity, as it does not catch models that simply plagiarize from the training set. On the other hand, statistical evaluation (i.e., perplexity) captures diversity b…
The need for diversification of recommendation lists manifests in a number of recommender systems use cases. However, an increase in diversity may undermine the utility of the recommendations, as relevant items in the list may be replaced by more diverse ones. In this work we propose a novel method for maximizing the u…
Novel method decorrelates batches of triplets for active metric learning.
problem Correlation among triplets degrades active learning performance.
method Proposes a novel method to decorrelate batches of triplets, balancing informativeness and diversity.
result Method outperforms state-of-the-art in active metric learning.
Few-shot Learning aims to learn classifiers for new classes with only a few training examples per class. Existing meta-learning or metric-learning based few-shot learning approaches are limited in handling diverse domains with various number of labels. The meta-learning approaches train a meta learner to predict weight…
Product diversity of large US firms has declined steadily since 1997.
problem Lack of data on global product diversity makes investigation difficult.
method Text mining of US firms' product descriptions from 1997-2017.
result Product diversity of large US firms has been declining since 1997.
Study flaws in generative model evaluation metrics, especially for diffusion models.
problem Flaws in existing metrics for evaluating generative models, particularly for diffusion models.
method Systematic study of generative models, human perception experiments, and analysis of feature extractors.
result State-of-the-art perceptual realism of diffusion models is not reflected in commonly reported metrics.
Post-hoc explanations of machine learning models are crucial for people to understand and act on algorithmic predictions. An intriguing class of explanations is through counterfactuals, hypothetical examples that show people how to obtain a different prediction. We posit that effective counterfactual explanations shoul…
Proposes a method to generate diverse translations by conditioning on target domain.
problem NMT models lack diversity in translations, even with search algorithms.
method Condition the decoder on a latent variable representing target domain, generated by a target encoder.
result Generated diverse translations without affecting performance or training time.
AlphaEval evaluates alpha mining models efficiently and comprehensively.
problem Lack of systematic evaluation for alpha mining models.
method Unified, parallelizable evaluation framework assessing predictive power, stability, robustness, financial logic, and diversity.
result AlphaEval achieves evaluation consistency comparable to comprehensive backtesting, providing more comprehensive insights and higher efficiency.
Diverse and accurate vision+language modeling is an important goal to retain creative freedom and maintain user engagement. However, adequately capturing the intricacies of diversity in language models is challenging. Recent works commonly resort to latent variable models augmented with more or less supervision from ob…
Clustering explores meaningful patterns in the non-labeled data sets. Cluster Ensemble Selection (CES) is a new approach, which can combine individual clustering results for increasing the performance of the final results. Although CES can achieve better final results in comparison with individual clustering algorithms…
Two proteins are homologous if they have a common evolutionary origin, and the binary classification problem is to identify proteins in a candidate set that are homologous to a particular native protein. The feature (explanatory) variables available for classification are various measures of similarity of proteins. The…
Enhances multimodal generation with Normalizing Flows and correlation analysis.
problem Generating coherent cross-modal data from multiple sources.
method Uses Deep Canonical Correlation Analysis for shared information, Normalizing Flows for diversity, and Product of Experts for scalability.
result Improves likelihood, diversity, and coherence in conditional generation.
Real-world machine learning applications often have complex test metrics, and may have training and test data that are not identically distributed. Motivated by known connections between complex test metrics and cost-weighted learning, we propose addressing these issues by using a weighted loss function with a standard…
PGEL learns embeddings to diversify protein motifs while maintaining biological function.
problem Generating diverse protein structures while preserving biological function.
method Embedding learning framework that enhances motif diversity in a diffusion model's frozen denoiser.
result PGEL achieves greater structural diversity, better designability, and improved self-consistency compared to partial diffusion.
Causal analysis predicts market trends using time series data.
problem Predicting financial market trends using diverse time series data.
method Causal analysis based on lagged Pearson correlation applied to financial metrics.
result Discrimination of causal connections between different types of market data.
State representation learning aims at learning compact representations from raw observations in robotics and control applications. Approaches used for this objective are auto-encoders, learning forward models, inverse dynamics or learning using generic priors on the state characteristics. However, the diversity in appl…
This paper introduces new invariants for time series analysis.
problem Analyzing the diversity and invariants of time series data.
method Introduces new invariants derived from the continuity of magnitude and maximum diversity.
result Demonstrates improved performance in machine learning experiments with real-world data.
CMA-ME combines CMA-ES and MAP-Elites for better quality and diversity in continuous domains.
problem Finding a diverse set of high-quality solutions in complex continuous domains.
method Combines CMA-ES self-adaptation with MAP-Elites archiving and mapping.
result CMA-ME outperforms MAP-Elites in both quality and diversity of solutions.
Waymo Open Dataset provides a large, diverse, and synchronized LiDAR and camera dataset for autonomous driving research.
problem Limited diversity and scale in existing self-driving datasets hinder real-world problem alignment.
method Developed a new large-scale, high-quality, diverse dataset with synchronized LiDAR and camera data.
result The dataset is 15x more diverse than the largest existing dataset based on a proposed diversity metric.
We introduce autoregressive implicit quantile networks (AIQN), a fundamentally different approach to generative modeling than those commonly used, that implicitly captures the distribution using quantile regression. AIQN is able to achieve superior perceptual quality and improvements in evaluation metrics, without incu…
New method prevents class collapse in metric learning with margin-based losses.
problem Class collapse in metric learning due to diverse intra-class samples.
method Proposed a sampling method to select nearest same-class samples as positive elements in tuple.
result Demonstrated clear benefits on various fine-grained image retrieval datasets.
We propose MAD-GAN, an intuitive generalization to the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and its conditional variants to address the well known problem of mode collapse. First, MAD-GAN is a multi-agent GAN architecture incorporating multiple generators and one discriminator. Second, to enforce that different gener…
Much of the focus in the design of deep neural networks has been on improving accuracy, leading to more powerful yet highly complex network architectures that are difficult to deploy in practical scenarios, particularly on edge devices such as mobile and other consumer devices given their high computational and memory …
Survey on metric SYZ conjecture and non-archimedean geometry.
problem Existence of special Lagrangian fibrations on Calabi-Yau manifolds.
method Pluripotential theory and non-archimedean geometry.
result Subtleties and open questions in the conjectural picture.
DVERGE diversifies adversarial vulnerabilities to enhance robust ensemble models.
problem Diverse adversarial vulnerabilities for robust ensemble models.
method Isolates and diversifies adversarial vulnerabilities through distillation and training.
result Achieves higher robustness against transfer attacks compared to previous methods.
RNE tackles scalable recommendation for billion-scale scenarios.
problem Designing a scalable recommendation system for diverse and dynamic user interests.
method RNE uses a diversity- and dynamics-aware neighbor sampling method for scalable network embedding.
result RNE achieves high-quality and diverse results on a billion-scale user-item graph.
Paper proposes SDRL to improve continual learning with less computational cost.
problem Catastrophic forgetting in continual learning.
method SDRL method that refines gradients from memorized samples to reduce gradient diversity.
result SDRL shows better performance than state-of-the-art methods on multiple benchmark tasks.
New method designs joint initial noises for diffusion models to improve diversity and alignment.
problem Independent initial noises limit diversity in generated images.
method Coupling of initial noises, maintaining Gaussian distribution while allowing dependence.
result Repulsive Gaussian coupling improves diversity without increasing sampling cost.
The new wave of successful generative models in machine learning has increased the interest in deep learning driven de novo drug design. However, assessing the performance of such generative models is notoriously difficult. Metrics that are typically used to assess the performance of such generative models are the perc…
Improves diversity of text-to-image models without sacrificing FID.
problem Lack of diversity and tendency to recreate training set images.
method Adds sparse repellency terms to diffusion SDE to guide trajectories away from a reference set.
result Improves diversity of diffusion models with minimal impact on FID.
In most machine learning training paradigms a fixed, often handcrafted, loss function is assumed to be a good proxy for an underlying evaluation metric. In this work we assess this assumption by meta-learning an adaptive loss function to directly optimize the evaluation metric. We propose a sample efficient reinforceme…