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48 results for Expert Networks

In this paper we introduce a model of lifelong learning, based on a Network of Experts. New tasks / experts are learned and added to the model sequentially, building on what was learned before. To ensure scalability of this process,data from previous tasks cannot be stored and hence is not available when learning a new…

2016-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper proposes a semi-parametric Bayesian network model using Gaussian Processes and Horseshoe priors.

problem Learning semi-parametric relationships in Expert Bayesian Networks with minimal nonlinear components.
method Uses Gaussian Processes and Horseshoe priors to model relationships, prioritizes modifying expert graphs, and generates diverse graphs.
result Models outperform state-of-the-art semi-parametric Bayesian Network models in synthetic and real-world datasets.

A new framework uses deep RL to aggregate expert advice for better portfolio management.

problem Improving portfolio management through expert advice and deep reinforcement learning.
method Convolutional networks for signal aggregation and historical price data, Proximal Policy Optimization algorithm.
result Our framework can achieve 90% of the best expert's profit on average.

Combines neural networks and expert rules for concept-based learning.

problem Extending concept-based learning with machine learning models.
method Form constraints for joint probability distribution and represent feasible set as a convex polytope.
result Neural networks can be trained to satisfy expert rules without violating them.

LMoE uses LLMs to improve stock trading by selecting experts based on textual and price data.

problem Traditional neural network-based router selection in MoE models is suboptimal and ignores textual data.
method Proposes LLMoE, using LLMs as routers to select experts based on historical price data and stock news.
result LLoM outperforms state-of-the-art MoE models and other deep neural network approaches.

New method combines FMEA and Bayesian Network for root cause analysis in lithium-ion battery production.

problem Complex cause-effect relationships in lithium-ion battery production.
method Combining FMEA with Bayesian Network to detect and resolve inconsistencies.
result Holistic method builds large-scale cross-process Bayesian Failure Network for root cause analysis.

The promise of ANNs to automatically discover and extract useful features/patterns from data without dwelling on domain expertise although seems highly promising but comes at the cost of high reliance on large amount of accurately labeled data, which is often hard to acquire and formulate especially in time-series doma…

2019-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes GPHMEs using Gaussian processes for hierarchical expert models.

problem Hierarchical mixtures of experts with complex gating functions.
method Gaussian process-gated hierarchical mixtures of experts (GPHMEs) with non-linear gating and expert functions.
result Outperforms tree-based HMEs and achieves good performance with reduced complexity.

Sparse routing networks with co-training prevent catastrophic forgetting in continual learning.

problem Catastrophic forgetting in neural networks trained on a sequence of tasks.
method Sparse routing networks with co-training to minimize interference between dissimilar tasks.
result Sparse routing networks with co-training outperform densely connected networks on benchmarks.

Improved time series forecasting with expert loss integration.

problem Enhancing time series forecasting accuracy and efficiency.
method Adaptive Mixture-of-Experts framework with expert-specific loss integration and online learning.
result Significantly improved forecasting accuracy and computational efficiency.

Sleep staging is a crucial task for diagnosing sleep disorders. It is tedious and complex as it can take a trained expert several hours to annotate just one patient's polysomnogram (PSG) from a single night. Although deep learning models have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in automating sleep staging, interp…

2019-10-14abs ↗pdf ↗

MoEs can efficiently model complex tasks with low-dimensionality and sparsity.

problem Understanding the theoretical foundations of MoEs for complex tasks.
method Systematic study of MoEs with two structural priors: low-dimensionality and sparsity.
result MoEs can approximate functions on low-dimensional manifolds and exhibit exponential structured tasks.

Gating is a key feature in modern neural networks including LSTMs, GRUs and sparsely-gated deep neural networks. The backbone of such gated networks is a mixture-of-experts layer, where several experts make regression decisions and gating controls how to weigh the decisions in an input-dependent manner. Despite having …

2019-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Existing imitation learning approaches often require that the complete demonstration data, including sequences of actions and states, are available. In this paper, we consider a more realistic and difficult scenario where a reinforcement learning agent only has access to the state sequences of an expert, while the expe…

2019-03-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a novel method to accurately determine the number of experts in Gaussian-gated Gaussian MoE models.

problem Challenges in model selection for MoE models, especially with covariates.
method Introduces a novel extension using dendrograms of mixing measures to estimate the true number of mixture components.
result Achieves optimal convergence rates for parameter estimation and accurately approximates the regression function.

Bayesian Experience Reuse improves learning from multiple experts.

problem Learning from multiple experts with conflicting goals.
method Bayesian neural networks with shared features to model uncertainty and derive a probability distribution over expert models.
result BERS method effectively samples demonstrations from the derived distribution to reuse them in new tasks.

New model learns better policies from expert demonstrations with higher efficiency.

problem Learning accurate policies from expert demonstrations with high efficiency.
method Generative adversarial imitation learning (GAIL) model that learns ff-divergence automatically.
result Learns better policies with higher data efficiency in physics-based control tasks.

Paper proposes interpretable RL policies from a mixture of experts.

problem Making RL policies transparent and understandable in real-world applications.
method Policy iteration scheme with interpretable experts and prototypical states.
result Proposed algorithm learns policies comparable to neural networks but more interpretable.

Sigmoid gating is more sample efficient than softmax in mixture of experts.

problem Softmax gating leads to unnecessary competition among experts, causing representation collapse.
method Theoretical analysis of a regression framework with mixture of experts, identifying identifiability conditions and convergence rates.
result Sigmoid gating requires fewer samples to achieve the same expert estimation error as softmax gating.

Scarcity of labeled data is one of the most frequent problems faced in machine learning. This is particularly true in relation extraction in text mining, where large corpora of texts exists in many application domains, while labeling of text data requires an expert to invest much time to read the documents. Overall, st…

2018-07-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Study improves stock price prediction using adaptive Mixture of Experts framework.

problem Tackles diverse volatility regimes in stock price prediction.
method Combines RNN for high-volatility stocks and linear regression for stable stocks with a gating mechanism.
result Achieves up to 33% improvement in MSE for volatile assets and 28% for stable assets.

The paper analyzes convergence rates of softmax gating in MoE models.

problem The effectiveness and scalability of machine learning models using MoE.
method Convergence analysis of parameter and expert estimation under MoE with softmax gating and its variants.
result Theoretical results show polynomially many data points are needed for strong identifiability conditions, while exponential points are required for linear experts.

A new approach for learning from expert demonstrations using multiple perspectives.

problem Learning from expert demonstrations with limited information from different perspectives.
method Generative adversarial network-based active learning approach.
result Our approach effectively learns from expert demonstrations and highlights the importance of architectural choices.

End-to-end CAD system for thyroid nodule classification using multimodal data and expert guidance.

problem Improving accuracy in thyroid nodule classification for clinicians.
method Knowledge-driven DenseNet framework using multimodal ultrasound data and expert cues.
result The proposed system achieves relevant performances in thyroid nodule classification.

We provide a theoretical treatment of over-specified Gaussian mixtures of experts with covariate-free gating networks. We establish the convergence rates of the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) for these models. Our proof technique is based on a novel notion of \emph{algebraic independence} of the expert functions. …

2019-07-09abs ↗pdf ↗

A new model improves the performance of knowledge distillation in GNNs.

problem Inconsistent performance of existing knowledge distillation techniques in GNNs.
method Proposes a new model, Routing-by-Memory (RbM), a form of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE), to address performance concerns.
result Demonstrates experimentally that RbM achieves considerably more consistent performance across multiple datasets.

CNNs identify stock market trend endpoints based on expert opinion.

problem Finding optimal entry and exit points for stock market trends.
method Three CNN submodels sequentially identify changepoints, locate them, and classify trends as upward, downward, or flat.
result CNNs can identify long-term trends based on expert opinion, offering a new approach to stock market analysis.

Paper analyzes approximation and learning of MoEs with (P)ReLU activation.

problem Scaling up deep learning models with MoEs and (P)ReLU activation.
method Approximation and learning-theoretic analysis of MoMLPs with (P)ReLU.
result MoMLPs can uniformly approximate Lipschitz functions with ε\varepsilon accuracy using O(ε1)\mathcal{O}(\varepsilon^{-1}) parameters.

In recent work, it was shown that combining multi-kernel based support vector machines (SVMs) can lead to near state-of-the-art performance on an action recognition dataset (HMDB-51 dataset). This was 0.4\% lower than frameworks that used hand-crafted features in addition to the deep convolutional feature extractors. I…

2017-08-18abs ↗pdf ↗

This study analyzes communication constraints in MoE architectures using information theory.

problem Communication constraints in Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures.
method Developed a rate-distortion characterization of finite-rate gating in MoE architectures using information theory.
result Yielded capacity-aware limits for communication-constrained MoE systems.

VMoER improves uncertainty quantification in MoE layers for scalable foundation models.

problem Uncertainty quantification in large-scale models like MoE layers.
method Structured Bayesian approach with amortized variational inference over routing logits and temperature parameter inference.
result Improves routing stability, reduces calibration error, and increases AUROC by 12%.

We introduce a novel apprenticeship learning algorithm to learn an expert's underlying reward structure in off-policy model-free \emph{batch} settings. Unlike existing methods that require a dynamics model or additional data acquisition for on-policy evaluation, our algorithm requires only the batch data of observed ex…

2019-03-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Adding uninformative labels improves tumor segmentation in low-data mammography.

problem Improving tumor segmentation in mammography with limited data.
method Used seemingly uninformative labels from non-expert annotators to turn a multi-label task into a multi-class problem.
result Performance gains in tumor segmentation are achieved in low-data settings with additional uninformative labels.

MoE outperforms vanilla networks in detecting latent cluster structures in regression tasks.

problem Detecting latent cluster structures in regression tasks with gradient-based learning.
method Theoretical analysis of Mixture of Experts (MoE) using stochastic gradient descent (SGD).
result MoE can successfully divide the problem into subproblems, allowing each expert to recover simpler functions corresponding to individual clusters.