The excellent performance of representation learning of autoencoders have attracted considerable interest in various applications. However, the structure and multi-local collaborative relationships of unlabeled data are ignored in their encoding procedure that limits the capability of feature extraction. This paper pre…
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Proposes TFCL to mitigate negative transfer in MTL by collaborating across features and tasks.
problem Negative transfer in Multi-Task Learning (MTL) due to dissimilar tasks.
method Task-Feature Collaborative Learning (TFCL) with heterogeneous block-diagonal structure regularizer and optimization method.
result Global convergence and block-diagonal structure recovery guarantees.
Backdoor attacks are possible in feature-partitioned collaborative learning, even without labels.
problem Backdoor attacks in feature-partitioned collaborative learning.
method Demonstrated the feasibility of backdoor attacks and introduced defense techniques.
result Backdoor attacks can be blocked without significantly affecting main task accuracy.
Collaborative Trees model analyzes feature interactions and additive effects.
problem Analyzing complex statistical associations between features and response variables.
method Proposes a novel tree model and its bagging version to decompose mean decrease in impurity and visualize feature contributions.
result Demonstrates the superior capability of the tree model in estimating additive effects and interaction effects.
A novel federated learning framework resolves structural misalignment in model fusion.
problem Structural misalignment in model fusion due to chaotic information distribution.
method Feature-oriented regulation method (-Net) to ensure feature information allocation and dedicated collaboration schemes.
result Effective enhancement of federated learning applicability to heterogeneous settings with improved convergence speed, accuracy, and efficiency.
Enhances student diversity in collaborative learning.
problem Student homogenization in large groups.
method Random routing, diverse feature sets, and random subgroup imitation.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches.
Cold-start is a very common and still open problem in the Recommender Systems literature. Since cold start items do not have any interaction, collaborative algorithms are not applicable. One of the main strategies is to use pure or hybrid content-based approaches, which usually yield to lower recommendation quality tha…
DeepUnHide uses deep learning to reveal hidden demographic features in recommender systems.
problem Extracting hidden demographic features from recommender systems factors.
method Gradient-based localization in deep learning for feature extraction.
result DeepUnHide outperforms state-of-the-art feature selection methods.
DEMVC improves multi-view clustering with collaborative training and deep autoencoders.
problem Existing multi-view clustering methods have high computation and space complexities or lack representation capability.
method DEMVC learns embedded representations of multiple views individually using deep autoencoders and collaboratively trains all views.
result DEMVC achieves significant improvements over state-of-the-art methods on multi-view datasets.
With the proliferation of social media platforms and e-commerce sites, several cross-domain collaborative filtering strategies have been recently introduced to transfer the knowledge of user preferences across domains. The main challenge of cross-domain recommendation is to weigh and learn users' different behaviors in…
PML-LFC improves PML by estimating label confidence from both feature and label spaces.
problem PML challenges in real-world scenarios where only some labels are relevant.
method PML-LFC estimates label confidence using feature and label space similarities, training a predictor with these values.
result PML-LFC achieves superior performance on synthetic and real-world datasets.
Machine Collaborationstat.ML
A new machine learning framework called machine collaboration improves prediction accuracy.
problem Improving prediction accuracy in machine learning.
method Machine Collaboration (MaC) framework, which uses a circular and interactive learning approach.
result Machine Collaboration framework significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art methods in most cases.
This work enhances collaborative inference privacy by minimizing conditional entropy and boosting robustness against model inversion attacks.
problem Privacy leakage in collaborative inference systems via model inversion attacks.
method Theoretical proof and derivation of a differentiable measure for bounding conditional entropy, followed by a CEM algorithm to maximize it.
result Theoretical proof and experimental validation show that CEM consistently boosts inversion robustness without compromising feature utility or efficiency.
RGCF improves collaborative filtering by refining graph convolution embeddings.
problem GCN-based recommendation models introduce noise and redundancy, limiting high-order connectivity capture.
method Developed RGCF, a new GCN-based Collaborative Filtering model with redesigned embeddings.
result RGCF significantly outperforms state-of-the-art models on public datasets.
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) offer new opportunities to identify genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Recently, collaborative efforts across different institutions emerged that enhance the power of many existing techniques on individual institution data. However, a major barrier to collaborative…
New algorithms balance collaboration and adversarial behavior in linear bandits.
problem Minimizing regret in a collaborative linear bandit problem with adversarial agents.
method Robust collaborative phased elimination algorithm with tight analyses.
result Achieves near-optimal regret bounds of $O\left(α+ 1/\sqrt{M}
ight) \sqrt{dT}$ for good agents.
Study addresses covariate mismatch in federated learning, improving model accuracy.
problem Learning from clients with different feature sets in federated learning.
method Developed two approaches for linear prediction under covariate mismatch: plug-in estimator and impute-then-regress strategy.
result Proposed methods provide asymptotic and finite-sample learning rates, improving model accuracy.
Recommending new items to existing users has remained a challenging problem due to absence of user's past preferences for these items. The user personalized non-collaborative methods based on item features can be used to address this item cold-start problem. These methods rely on similarities between the target item an…
We learn hierarchical slate representations for collaborative filtering.
problem Building models for recommendation systems with hierarchical slates.
method Learning low-dimensional embeddings of hierarchical slates using recursive composition rules.
result Improved recommendation system performance on a real-world dataset.
Novel method reduces radiomic data annotation needs.
problem Insufficient labeled radiomic data for disease diagnosis.
method Collaborative self-supervised learning with two pretext tasks.
result Outperforms other self-supervised methods on radiomic data.
Proposes a deep hybrid model for better recommendation systems.
problem Limited studies on hybrid recommender systems and the need for more advanced approaches.
method Integrates deep learning with ID embeddings and auxiliary features for improved recommendation.
result Improves recommendation results over deep learning models using ID embeddings.
Recommender systems (RS), which have been an essential part in a wide range of applications, can be formulated as a matrix completion (MC) problem. To boost the performance of MC, matrix completion with side information, called inductive matrix completion (IMC), was further proposed. In real applications, the factorize…
Accessibility is a major challenge of machine learning (ML). Typical ML models are built by specialists and require specialized hardware/software as well as ML experience to validate. This makes it challenging for non-technical collaborators and endpoint users (e.g. physicians) to easily provide feedback on model devel…
Cloak identifies essential features to preserve prediction privacy without provider collaboration.
problem Discovering the subset of features necessary for a prediction task.
method Gradient-based perturbation maximization method to identify essential features, followed by suppression of the rest using utility-preserving constant values.
result Cloak reduces mutual information between input and sifted representations by 85.01% with negligible utility loss.
Sparse modeling is a powerful framework for data analysis and processing. Traditionally, encoding in this framework is performed by solving an L1-regularized linear regression problem, commonly referred to as Lasso or Basis Pursuit. In this work we combine the sparsity-inducing property of the Lasso model at the indivi…
Collab algorithm learns models from agents with missing data.
problem Learning linear models collaboratively with missing data.
method Distributed, semi-supervised algorithm with three steps: local training, aggregation, and distribution.
result Collab achieves nearly asymptotically local minimax optimal performance.
We introduce a collaborative learning framework allowing multiple parties having different sets of attributes about the same user to jointly build models without exposing their raw data or model parameters. In particular, we propose a Federated Stochastic Block Coordinate Descent (FedBCD) algorithm, in which each party…
In this paper, we consider recommender systems with side information in the form of graphs. Existing collaborative filtering algorithms mainly utilize only immediate neighborhood information and have a hard time taking advantage of deeper neighborhoods beyond 1-2 hops. The main caveat of exploiting deeper graph informa…
CoLoRA leverages task similarity to boost fine-tuning efficiency.
problem Efficiently fine-tuning large foundation models with scarce labeled data.
method CoLoRA trains a shared adapter for task similarity and personalized adapters for user-specific tasks.
result CoLoRA significantly boosts fine-tuning performance when tasks are similar.
Restricted Boltzman Machines (RBMs) have been successfully used in recommender systems. However, as with most of other collaborative filtering techniques, it cannot solve cold start problems for there is no rating for a new item. In this paper, we first apply conditional RBM (CRBM) which could take extra information in…
This study proposes a deep learning framework using ResNeXt for efficient financial data mining.
problem Complex financial data with high dimensionality, nonlinearity, and task correlations.
method Introduces ResNeXt into multi-task learning framework for efficient feature extraction and task collaboration.
result Significantly improved performance in classification and regression tasks on S&P 500 data.
The paper proposes a method to analyze categorical feature interactions in large datasets using graph covariance and LLMs.
problem Analyzing complex datasets with numerous categorical features and timestamps.
method Binarization of categorical features using one-hot encoding, computation of graph covariance, identifying significant feature pairs, and using LLMs to generate explanations.
result The method identifies meaningful feature pairs and potential data stories underlying categorical feature interactions.
Mobile context determination is an important step for many context aware services such as location-based services, enterprise policy enforcement, building or room occupancy detection for power or HVAC operation, etc. Especially in enterprise scenarios where policies (e.g., attending a confidential meeting only when the…
Feature Engineering Methods on Multivariate Time-Series Data for Financial Data Science Competitionsq-fin.ST
The authors seek financial datasets to benchmark feature engineering methods on US market data.
problem Improving predictive models for financial data science competitions.
method Feature engineering methods applied to multivariate time-series data from the US market.
result Predictive power of models tested against Numerai-Signals targets.
New algorithms reduce communication costs in collaborative learning.
problem Reducing communication costs in collaborative learning.
method Distributed boosting and adaptation to classification noise.
result Communication-efficient algorithms for collaborative PAC learning robust to noise.
Multi-view Multi-instance Multi-label Learning(M3L) deals with complex objects encompassing diverse instances, represented with different feature views, and annotated with multiple labels. Existing M3L solutions only partially explore the inter or intra relations between objects (or bags), instances, and labels, which …
Supply Chain Management often requires independent organizations to work together to achieve shared objectives. This collaboration is necessary when coordinated actions benefit the group more than the uncoordinated efforts of individual firms. Despite the commonly reported benefits that can be gained in close relations…
This paper considers the problem of high dimensional signal detection in a large distributed network whose nodes can collaborate with their one-hop neighboring nodes (spatial collaboration). We assume that only a small subset of nodes communicate with the Fusion Center (FC). We design optimal collaboration strategies w…
Content Based Player and Game Interaction Model for Game Recommendation in the Cold Start settingcs.IR
Paper presents content-based models for game recommendation in cold start scenarios.
problem Cold start problem in game recommendation where new games and players have no historical data.
method Uses survey data to develop content-based interaction models that generalize to new games, players, and both.
result Content models outperform collaborative filtering in predicting new interactions.
We propose a new hybrid algorithm that allows incorporating both user and item side information within the standard collaborative filtering technique. One of its key features is that it naturally extends a simple PureSVD approach and inherits its unique advantages, such as highly efficient Lanczos-based optimization pr…
CATA++ improves scientific article recommendations by learning latent spaces with attention.
problem Natural data sparsity limits MF performance in recommender systems.
method CATA++ uses a dual autoencoder with attention to learn latent spaces from content and contextual information.
result CATA++ significantly improves MF performance on real-world datasets.
Lingvo is a Tensorflow framework offering a complete solution for collaborative deep learning research, with a particular focus towards sequence-to-sequence models. Lingvo models are composed of modular building blocks that are flexible and easily extensible, and experiment configurations are centralized and highly cus…
Paper tackles unobserved confounding in human-AI collaborations.
problem Unobserved confounding undermines human-AI collaboration effectiveness.
method Combines sensitivity analysis from causal inference with AI-driven statistical modeling.
result Enhances robustness and reliability of collaborative outcomes.
TradingAgents uses LLM-powered multi-agent framework for financial trading.
problem Lack of collaborative dynamics in multi-agent financial trading systems.
method Inspired by real-world trading firms, TradingAgents features specialized LLM-powered agents and a risk management team.
result Framework outperforms baseline models in trading performance metrics.
In recent years, deep neural networks have yielded state-of-the-art performance on several tasks. Although some recent works have focused on combining deep learning with recommendation, we highlight three issues of existing models. First, these models cannot work on both explicit and implicit feedback, since the networ…
To select the best algorithm for a new problem is an expensive and difficult task. However, there are automatic solutions to address this problem: using Metalearning, which takes advantage of problem characteristics (i.e. metafeatures), one is able to predict the relative performance of algorithms. In the Collaborative…
SubTab turns tabular data into a multi-view problem for better representation learning.
problem Lack of structure in tabular data makes it hard to apply effective self-supervised learning methods.
method Divides tabular features into subsets and uses autoencoder-like reconstruction for collaborative inference.
result SubTab achieves state-of-the-art performance on tabular datasets, matching or surpassing CNN-based methods.
Firms' collaboration networks can decline but remain resilient.
problem Resilience of firms' collaboration networks during decline.
method Analysis of 21,500 R&D collaborations over 25 years, simulating drop-out cascades.
result Firms' collaboration networks can adapt to mitigate decline and recover.