CosML combines domain-specific meta-learners for cross-domain few-shot classification.
problem Generalizing to unseen domains while meta-learning on multiple seen domains.
method CosML trains domain-specific meta-learners and combines their meta-parameters in the parameter space.
result CosML outperforms state-of-the-art methods and achieves strong cross-domain generalization.
The paper improves classification accuracy by leveraging a shared signal across domains in high-dimensional classification.
problem Improving classification accuracy in high-dimensional data with shared signals across domains.
method Transfer learning for linear discriminant analysis, decomposing mean differences into common and domain-specific components.
result Deterministic limits for transfer performance, leading to optimal weights and corrections for bias.
Improves machine learning performance with domain-specific embeddings.
problem Tuning word embeddings for specific use cases and domains.
method Combines multiple domain-specific embeddings using a ranking function and dimensionality reduction.
result Effective domain-specific embeddings improve machine learning performance.
We propose a method to infer domain-specific models such as classifiers for unseen domains, from which no data are given in the training phase, without domain semantic descriptors. When training and test distributions are different, standard supervised learning methods perform poorly. Zero-shot domain adaptation attemp…
Generating novel graph structures that optimize given objectives while obeying some given underlying rules is fundamental for chemistry, biology and social science research. This is especially important in the task of molecular graph generation, whose goal is to discover novel molecules with desired properties such as …
Protocol for constructing tailored evaluation datasets for semantic models.
problem Evaluation of domain-specific semantic models, focusing on top ranks.
method Adaptive pairwise comparisons, relatedness-based evaluation dataset, metrics, stochastic transitivity model.
result Effectiveness of the proposed dataset construction protocol confirmed.
DSSM separates domain-invariant dynamics from domain-specifics in sequential data.
problem Learning cross-domain sequence representations from diverse data domains.
method Introduce disentangled state space models (DSSM) using unsupervised VAE-based training.
result Improves knowledge transfer and robust prediction across domains.
Study introduces KorFinMTEB for Korean financial texts, revealing model limitations.
problem Limited evaluation benchmarks for low-resource domains, especially Korean.
method Developed KorFinMTEB, a tailored benchmark for Korean financial texts.
result Models perform better on translated benchmarks than on domain-specific ones.
Method constructs finance LLMs without instruction data using pretraining and model merging.
problem Developing domain-specific LLMs for finance is resource-intensive.
method Continual pretraining on financial data + model merging of instruction-tuned and domain-specific pretrained vectors.
result Successfully constructs instruction-tuned LLMs for finance without additional instruction data.
Optimizes portfolios with GM returns using convex optimization.
problem Maximizing expected exponential utility with GM asset returns.
method Formulated as a convex optimization problem.
result Optimal solutions found without sampling or scenarios.
CSD learns a common component for domain generalization, outperforming existing methods.
problem Training models to generalize across unseen domains.
method CSD decomposes the model into a common and specific component, discarding the latter.
result CSD outperforms state-of-the-art domain generalization methods.
EQD model improves domain-specific QA by 0.6% to 10.5%.
problem Challenges in domain-specific quantitative reasoning for LLMs.
method Two-step fine-tuning framework guided by a reward function.
result EQD outperforms state-of-the-art models and prompting strategies.
Neural networks outperform conventional filters in inertial sensor-based attitude estimation.
problem Limited accuracy in inertial sensor-based attitude estimation due to dynamic and static motion.
method Investigated neural networks versus conventional filters for improving accuracy.
result Neural networks outperform conventional filters only with domain-specific optimizations.
Interventional domain adaptation improves feature transferability by removing spurious correlations.
problem Improper feature transferability due to spurious correlations in domain adaptation.
method Intervention strategy using unlabeled target data to generate counterfactual features and train discriminability invariance.
result Consistent performance improvements over state-of-the-art approaches in various domain adaptation tasks.
LLMs translate natural language trading intents into correct option strategies using a domain-specific language.
problem Challenges in translating natural language trading intents into correct option strategies due to the complexity of option chain data.
method Introduce Option Query Language (OQL) as a domain-specific intermediate representation to abstract option markets into high-level primitives under grammatical rules. Use LLMs as semantic parsers and validate queries by an engine.
result Significantly improves execution accuracy and logical consistency over direct baselines.
The paper tackles learning domain-specific bias by learning many tasks from the same domain.
problem Learning appropriate domain-specific bias in machine learning models.
method Learning many related tasks from the same domain, with a theorem bounding the number of tasks needed.
result The number of examples required per task for good generalization scales like \(O(a + \frac{b}{n})\), where \(O(a)\) is the minimum number of examples per task and \(O(a + b)\) is the number of examples per task independently.
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.
Study reveals XAI methods fail in neuroimaging, suggesting domain-specific adaptation.
problem Systematic failures of XAI methods in neuroimaging applications.
method Systematic comparison of XAI methods on 45,000 structural brain MRIs using a novel validation framework.
result Two widely used XAI methods (GradCAM and Layer-wise Relevance Propagation) fail to accurately explain neuroimaging data.
This paper introduces Sigma, a domain-specific computational representation for collaboration in large-scale for the field of economics. A computational representation is not a programming language or a software platform. A computational representation is a domain-specific representation system based on three specific …
DACL tackles domain-specific contrastive learning by using Mixup noise.
problem Domain-specific contrastive learning methods rely on data augmentation techniques that require domain knowledge.
method DACL uses Mixup noise to create similar and dissimilar examples without domain-specific data augmentation.
result DACL outperforms other domain-agnostic noising methods and combines well with domain-specific methods.
EMFs combine deep learning and probabilistic models for better density estimation.
problem Combining domain-specific knowledge with general-purpose deep learning.
method Alternating transformations with structured layers that embed domain-specific inductive biases.
result EMFs induce desirable properties like multimodality and hierarchical coupling.
Framework improves CT image segmentation robustness with domain-specific cues.
problem Challenges in CT image segmentation by deep learning models.
method Combines domain-specific preprocessing and augmentation with CNN architectures.
result Framework stabilizes prediction performance on varying CT volumes.
CDSPP learns domain-specific projections for heterogeneous domain adaptation.
problem Heterogeneous domain adaptation problems where source and target domains have different modalities or feature dimensions.
method Cross-Domain Structure Preserving Projection (CDSPP) algorithm that learns domain-specific projections to map features into a common subspace.
result CDSPP achieves superior performance in both supervised and semi-supervised HDA compared to state-of-the-art methods.
This paper compares self-reflection and budget tuning for LLMs, revealing domain-specific performance gains.
problem Improving inference-time performance of LLMs without retraining, balancing quality, cost, and latency.
method Systematic comparison of self-reflection and budget tuning across mathematical reasoning and translation tasks, evaluating various LLMs and model families.
result Substantial domain-dependent variation in self-reflection effectiveness, with up to 220% performance gains in mathematical reasoning.
Hybrid approach combines topic and graph embeddings for legal document clustering.
problem Challenges in classifying legal texts due to domain-specific language and limited labeled data.
method Combines unsupervised topic and graph embeddings with a supervised model.
result Improves clustering quality over text-only or graph-only embeddings.
New method transfers word embeddings from large to small datasets efficiently.
problem Challenges in learning word embeddings from new domains with limited data.
method Group-sparse matrix factorization for transfer learning.
result Efficiently learns domain-specific word embeddings with less data.
ADMM solves constrained CASH problems by breaking them into smaller, manageable pieces.
problem Handling black-box constraints in CASH problems.
method Leverages ADMM optimization framework to decompose CASH problems.
result ADMM facilitates incorporation of black-box constraints.
Method learns domain-specific representations without supervision.
problem Domain generalization without labeled data.
method Hierarchical variational autoencoder approach.
result Model generalizes to unseen domains without domain supervision.
Proposes a novel framework for unsupervised domain adaptation using specialized batch normalization.
problem Improves unsupervised domain adaptation in deep neural networks.
method Integrates domain-specific batch normalization layers in convolutional neural networks, estimating pseudo-labels for target domain examples and learning final models with multi-task classification loss.
result Achieves state-of-the-art accuracy in standard and multi-source domain adaptation scenarios.
We present an approach to automate the process of discovering optimization methods, with a focus on deep learning architectures. We train a Recurrent Neural Network controller to generate a string in a domain specific language that describes a mathematical update equation based on a list of primitive functions, such as…
Paper proposes a unified time series forecasting model with adaptive transfer.
problem General forecasting models for diverse time series data.
method Unified representations through Decomposed Frequency Learning and adaptive domain-specific features via Time Series Register.
result State-of-the-art forecasting performance on seven real-world benchmarks.
MPHD transfers knowledge across different domains for Bayesian optimization.
problem Optimizing functions with unknown or diverse domains.
method MPHD uses neural nets to map domain-specific contexts to GP specifications, enabling transfer learning across heterogeneous search spaces.
result MPHD improves black-box function optimization performance on diverse domains.
A new CNN architecture tackles domain shifts with a dictionary approach.
problem Handling domain shifts in deep learning models.
method Decompose CNN layers into domain-specific and shared parts using a dictionary of atoms.
result The approach promotes shared semantics across domains with minimal additional parameters.
We introduce a learning-based framework to optimize tensor programs for deep learning workloads. Efficient implementations of tensor operators, such as matrix multiplication and high dimensional convolution, are key enablers of effective deep learning systems. However, existing systems rely on manually optimized librar…
We propose a technique for declaratively specifying strategies for semi-supervised learning (SSL). The proposed method can be used to specify ensembles of semi-supervised learning, as well as agreement constraints and entropic regularization constraints between these learners, and can be used to model both well-known h…
We propose a general approach to modeling semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms. Specifically, we present a declarative language for modeling both traditional supervised classification tasks and many SSL heuristics, including both well-known heuristics such as co-training and novel domain-specific heuristics. In ad…
Model learns disease self-representations for drug repositioning.
problem Drug repositioning for disease treatment.
method Enforces proximity in disease self-representations to preserve human phenome network structure.
result Method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches and produces biologically interpretable disease self-representations.
This paper examines inductive biases in deep reinforcement learning and their impact on performance.
problem The trade-off between inductive biases and performance in deep reinforcement learning.
method Investigated domain-specific components and adaptive solutions in deep reinforcement learning agents.
result Adaptive components can sometimes outperform domain-specific components, but not always.
A new model for imputing missing values in time series data across domains.
problem Imputing missing values in time series data across domains with domain shifts and high missing rates.
method A diffusion-based imputation model that integrates shared spectral components and domain-specific temporal structures, with cross-domain consistency alignment.
result Our model effectively handles missing values and domain shifts, outperforming existing methods.
RSIC identifies multiple ranks of interest in NMF by analyzing residual sensitivity.
problem Determining the optimal rank in NMF.
method RSIC analyzes sensitivity of relative residuals to different initializations.
result RSIC identifies meaningful ranks consistent with data structure.
Ontology learning is a critical task in industry, dealing with identifying and extracting concepts captured in text data such that these concepts can be used in different tasks, e.g. information retrieval. Ontology learning is non-trivial due to several reasons with limited amount of prior research work that automatica…
By introducing several improvements to the AlphaZero process and architecture, we greatly accelerate self-play learning in Go, achieving a 50x reduction in computation over comparable methods. Like AlphaZero and replications such as ELF OpenGo and Leela Zero, our bot KataGo only learns from neural-net-guided Monte Carl…
Complex computer simulators are increasingly used across fields of science as generative models tying parameters of an underlying theory to experimental observations. Inference in this setup is often difficult, as simulators rarely admit a tractable density or likelihood function. We introduce Adversarial Variational O…
Domain adaptation provides a powerful set of model training techniques given domain-specific training data and supplemental data with unknown relevance. The techniques are useful when users need to develop models with data from varying sources, of varying quality, or from different time ranges. We build CrossTrainer, a…
Optimized normalization layers improve domain generalization.
problem Improving model generalization across different domains.
method Learning separate normalization parameters per domain using multiple normalization methods (batch and instance).
result State-of-the-art accuracy on domain generalization benchmarks.
Neural network learns fast PDE solvers with proven guarantees.
problem Designing fast iterative solvers for specific PDE problems.
method Learn to modify an existing solver using a deep neural network.
result Achieves 2-3 times speedup compared to state-of-the-art solvers.
Solves Merton's investment-consumption problem with certainty equivalent approach.
problem Maximizing CRRA utility of consumption over time and investment mix.
method Identifies a certainty equivalent problem for the Merton problem, reformulates it as an SOCP, and applies it to model predictive control.
result The certainty equivalent problem can be solved as an SOCP, facilitating model predictive control.
GENIE balances domain-invariant feature learning and gradient alignment for improved DG performance.
problem Domain Generalization (DG) overfitting to domain-specific features
method GENIE (Generalization-ENhancing Iterative Equalizer) optimizer
result Prevents a small subset of parameters from dominating optimization, promoting domain-invariant feature learning