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48 results for Effective margin

The paper proposes effective margin regularization to improve adversarial robustness in deep neural networks.

problem Adversarial vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs).
method Regularization of effective weight norm during training to maximize effective margins.
result Effective margin regularization (EMR) boosts adversarial robustness in both standard and adversarial training.

This paper identifies and bounds ICE central moments using PO marginal central moments.

problem Identifying and characterizing treatment effect heterogeneity.
method Using only marginal central moments of potential outcomes, the paper identifies and bounds central moments of individual causal effects.
result Identification and bounding of central moments of ICE using marginal moments of POs.

We develop an HMC algorithm to easily marginalize random effects in LMMs.

problem Bayesian inference in LMMs is challenging, especially marginalizing random effects.
method Developed an HMC algorithm to marginalize random effects in LMMs efficiently.
result Marginalization is always beneficial when applicable and improves various models, especially cognitive science models.

Proposes a tabular transformer model to maintain feature effect intelligibility.

problem Losing marginal feature effects in deep tabular transformer networks.
method Adapts tabular transformer networks to identify marginal feature effects.
result The model accurately identifies marginal feature effects, matching black-box performance while maintaining intelligibility.

MACQ method explains deep learning models by analyzing feature contributions across prediction levels.

problem Explaining deep learning model predictions.
method Global gradient-based, model-agnostic approach focusing on marginal attribution.
result MACQ separates feature contributions from interaction effects and visualizes 3-way relationships.

Frugal Flows learn complex data and infer marginal causal effects.

problem Challenges in estimating marginal causal effects from complex data.
method Frugal Flows use normalizing flows to flexibly learn data and infer causal quantities.
result Frugal Flows can generate synthetic data that closely matches real-world data and exactly parameterize causal quantities.

Explaining the unreasonable effectiveness of deep learning has eluded researchers around the globe. Various authors have described multiple metrics to evaluate the capacity of deep architectures. In this paper, we allude to the radius margin bounds described for a support vector machine (SVM) with hinge loss, apply the…

2018-11-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved exploration in RL with latent state marginalization.

problem Complexity of deep probabilistic models limits their practical use in reinforcement learning.
method Adopting latent variable policies within the MaxEnt framework, with low-cost marginalization of latent states.
result Effective marginalization leads to better exploration and more robust training.

Learning knowledge representation is an increasingly important technology that supports a variety of machine learning related applications. However, the choice of hyperparameters is seldom justified and usually relies on exhaustive search. Understanding the effect of hyperparameter combinations on embedding quality is …

2019-12-21abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we reformulate the forest representation learning approach as an additive model which boosts the augmented feature instead of the prediction. We substantially improve the upper bound of generalization gap from O(lnmm)\mathcal{O}(\sqrt\frac{\ln m}{m}) to O(lnmm)\mathcal{O}(\frac{\ln m}{m}), while λλ - the margin r…

2019-05-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep generative models (DGMs) are effective on learning multilayered representations of complex data and performing inference of input data by exploring the generative ability. However, it is relatively insufficient to empower the discriminative ability of DGMs on making accurate predictions. This paper presents max-ma…

2016-11-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Max-min margin Markov networks improve consistency in structured prediction.

problem Statistical inconsistency in max-margin methods for structured prediction.
method Defining a max-min margin formulation to overcome statistical inconsistency.
result Proves consistency and provides an explicit algorithm with finite sample generalization bounds.

The key issue of few-shot learning is learning to generalize. This paper proposes a large margin principle to improve the generalization capacity of metric based methods for few-shot learning. To realize it, we develop a unified framework to learn a more discriminative metric space by augmenting the classification loss…

2018-07-08abs ↗pdf ↗

ScoreMatchingRiesz improves debiased machine learning and policy effects estimation.

problem Improving debiased machine learning and policy effects estimation.
method Score matching and Riesz representer estimation.
result Estimates policy path for continuous treatments, improving interpretability.

New insights show Medicaid impacts on ED use vary widely, with some groups seeing significant increases.

problem Understanding the varied impacts of Medicaid on emergency department use.
method Causal machine learning methods to identify heterogeneous impacts.
result Meaningful heterogeneity in the effect of Medicaid on ED use, with a small group driving the overall effect.

Active learning can't improve over passive in certain settings.

problem Active learning vs. passive learning in nonparametric settings.
method Analyzing margin conditions and their effects on active learning performance.
result Nuances in margin conditions determine whether active learning can outperform passive learning.

New framework for learning from imbalanced data with theoretical guarantees.

problem Class imbalance in machine learning, especially in multi-class problems.
method Theoretical framework and new margin loss function for imbalanced classification.
result Proves strong HH-consistency of the proposed margin loss function.

Multiple marginal matching problem aims at learning mappings to match a source domain to multiple target domains and it has attracted great attention in many applications, such as multi-domain image translation. However, addressing this problem has two critical challenges: (i) Measuring the multi-marginal distance amon…

2019-11-03abs ↗pdf ↗

New method for efficient marginalization of discrete latent variables in neural networks.

problem Computational challenges in training models with discrete latent variables.
method Parameterizing discrete distributions using sparse mappings (sparsemax and structured variants) to reduce support and enable efficient marginalization.
result Achieved good performance in various tasks with efficient and practical training.

The paper examines how heavy-tailed risks behave under Gaussian copula models.

problem Understanding tail risk probabilities with heavy-tailed marginal risks and Gaussian dependence.
method Modeling heavy-tailed risks using regular variation and analyzing tail probabilities under Gaussian copula.
result The rate of decay of tail set probabilities varies with the type of tail sets and Gaussian correlation matrix.

This work introduces a noise-adaptive conformal inference method for better prediction sets in noisy data.

problem Real-world complications like random label noise limit the effectiveness of conformal inference.
method An adaptive conformal inference method capable of handling deviations from exchangeability.
result Informative prediction sets with tight marginal coverage guarantees in noisy data.

We obtain a tight distribution-specific characterization of the sample complexity of large-margin classification with L2 regularization: We introduce the margin-adapted dimension, which is a simple function of the second order statistics of the data distribution, and show distribution-specific upper and lower bounds on…

2012-04-05abs ↗pdf ↗

PredDiff measures prediction changes while marginalizing features, offering new insights into interaction effects.

problem Understanding interaction effects in black-box models.
method Model-agnostic, local attribution method based on probability theory.
result Introduced a new measure for interaction effects between arbitrary feature subsets.

GADGET framework decomposes global feature effects using recursive partitioning.

problem Misleading global feature effects when feature interactions are present.
method Generalized additive decomposition of global effects (GADGET) based on recursive partitioning.
result Minimizes interaction-related heterogeneity of local feature effects.

New method estimates causal effects with multi-valued, time-varying treatments.

problem Estimating causal effects with complex time-varying exposures.
method Combines machine learning and semiparametric efficiency theory.
result Proposes an efficient, asymptotically normal estimator for marginal structural models.

We give polynomial-time algorithms for the exact computation of lowest-energy (ground) states, worst margin violators, log partition functions, and marginal edge probabilities in certain binary undirected graphical models. Our approach provides an interesting alternative to the well-known graph cut paradigm in that it …

2008-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

DAIS improves AIS for differentiable marginal likelihood estimation.

problem Differentiable marginal likelihood estimation for complex models.
method Proposes Differentiable Annealed Importance Sampling (DAIS) to make AIS differentiable.
result DAIS achieves convergence and consistency in Bayesian linear regression.

New framework for estimating treatment effects in observational studies.

problem Estimating average treatment effects in the presence of unobserved confounders.
method Distributionally robust optimization, sensitivity models.
result Sharp bounds on average treatment effects under distributional assumptions.

Bayesian max-margin models have shown superiority in various practical applications, such as text categorization, collaborative prediction, social network link prediction and crowdsourcing, and they conjoin the flexibility of Bayesian modeling and predictive strengths of max-margin learning. However, Monte Carlo sampli…

2015-04-27abs ↗pdf ↗