We provide a methodology, resilient feature engineering, for creating adversarially resilient classifiers. According to existing work, adversarial attacks identify weakly correlated or non-predictive features learned by the classifier during training and design the adversarial noise to utilize these features. Therefore…
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A new method for feature selection robust to noise and design variability.
problem Feature selection in high-dimensional regression under sampling variability and measurement error.
method Injects controlled additive noise into the design matrix, fits a base selector, and aggregates selection frequencies.
result Improved robustness compared to Stability Selection and standard base selectors.
A new framework learns system design using neural features in function space.
problem Learning system design with neural feature extractors.
method Introduces feature geometry in function space, nesting technique for optimal feature approximation.
result Optimal features found from data samples using off-the-shelf architectures and optimizers.
Feature selection aims to select the smallest subset of features for a specified level of performance. The optimal achievable classification performance on a feature subset is summarized by its Receiver Operating Curve (ROC). When infinite data is available, the Neyman- Pearson (NP) design procedure provides the most e…
Microstructure Representation and Reconstruction of Heterogeneous Materials via Deep Belief Network for Computational Material Designcond-mat.mtrl-sci
Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) aims to accelerate optimal design of complex material systems by integrating material science and design automation. For tractable ICME, it is required that (1) a structural feature space be identified to allow reconstruction of new designs, and (2) the reconstructi…
Cross-GCN models cross features in GCN for better performance.
problem GCN's lack of cross feature modeling limits its effectiveness.
method Introduces Cross-feature Graph Convolution (Cross-GCN) to model cross features explicitly.
result Explicit cross feature modeling improves GCN's performance on tasks requiring cross features.
Strategic feature selection in high-stakes domains like healthcare.
problem Strategic manipulation of input features in algorithmic predictors.
method Formal study of strategic classification through feature selection and ridge regularization.
result Excluding individual features based on manipulability is generally suboptimal.
A game-theoretic approach selects features by testing their marginal contributions.
problem Feature selection in econometric and statistical models.
method A coalitional game where features are players and payoff is model performance. Hypothesis test decides feature relevance.
result The approach significantly outperforms existing methods in simulations.
RAMs improve GAMs' accuracy by fitting components to subregions of feature space.
problem Subpar accuracy in GAMs due to inability to capture feature interactions.
method Identify subregions of feature space where interactions are minimized, fitting one component per subregion.
result RAMs offer improved expressiveness compared to GAMs while maintaining interpretability.
It has been shown that instead of learning actual object features, deep networks tend to exploit non-robust (spurious) discriminative features that are shared between training and test sets. Therefore, while they achieve state of the art performance on such test sets, they achieve poor generalization on out of distribu…
Generalization error defines the discriminability and the representation power of a deep model. In this work, we claim that feature space design using deep compositional function plays a significant role in generalization along with explicit and implicit regularizations. Our claims are being established with several im…
DNNs improve localization from channel estimates, overcoming practical impairments.
problem Improving localization accuracy from channel estimates in Massive MIMO systems.
method Principled feature design for DNNs invariant to practical impairments.
result DNN achieves high localization accuracy and generalization capability.
Optimal Bayesian feature filtering (OBF) is a supervised screening method designed for biomarker discovery. In this article, we prove two major theoretical properties of OBF. First, optimal Bayesian feature selection under a general family of Bayesian models reduces to filtering if and only if the underlying Bayesian m…
Identifying features that leak information about sensitive attributes is a key challenge in the design of information obfuscation mechanisms. In this paper, we propose a framework to identify information-leaking features via information density estimation. Here, features whose information densities exceed a pre-defined…
We simplify information measure computation using learned features.
problem Computing information measures from raw data is computationally expensive.
method Developed a separable design for computing information measures from learned feature representations.
result A variety of information measures can be computed efficiently through learned feature representations.
Physics-informed machine learning for composition-process-property alloy design: shape memory alloy demonstrationcond-mat.mtrl-sci
ML predicts alloy properties considering chemistry, processing, and data transformations.
problem Designing and predicting alloy properties in high-dimensional design space.
method Physics-informed machine learning with engineered features from chemistry and heat treatment.
result ML models accurately predict alloy properties, including hysteresis in shape memory alloys.
Despite their success, kernel methods suffer from a massive computational cost in practice. In this paper, in lieu of commonly used kernel expansion with respect to inputs, we develop a novel optimal design maximizing the entropy among kernel features. This procedure results in a kernel expansion with respect to en…
Develops a prediction method based on sampling design.
problem Creating accurate individual predictions.
method Design-based approach using expected cross-validation results.
result Valid inference of unobserved prediction errors defined with respect to sampling design.
Approach for selecting features by discarding nuisance and correlated ones.
problem Large datasets with correlated and nuisance features.
method Laplacian score criterion, autoencoder architecture, concrete layer.
result Outperforms similar approaches in clustering performance.
New Fourier features improve high-precision approximation in large-scale problems.
problem Designing scalable, high-precision Fourier features for large-scale kernel methods.
method Introducing a new family of quadrature rules that accurately approximate the Gaussian measure in higher dimensions.
result Improved approximation bounds with new Fourier features.
We consider the problem of distributed feature quantization, where the goal is to enable a pretrained classifier at a central node to carry out its classification on features that are gathered from distributed nodes through communication constrained channels. We propose the design of distributed quantization schemes sp…
In this paper, we propose a new framework for designing fast parallel algorithms for fundamental statistical subset selection tasks that include feature selection and experimental design. Such tasks are known to be weakly submodular and are amenable to optimization via the standard greedy algorithm. Despite its desirab…
Study on shortcuts in deep networks, revealing their layer-wise distribution and impact.
problem Understudied impact of shortcuts on feature representations in deep networks.
method Layer-wise localization through counterfactual training on clean and skewed datasets.
result Shortcuts are distributed throughout the network, not localized in specific layers.
A2D2E designs optimal evaluations for estimating main effects in black-box models.
problem Sensitivity to OOD evaluations and instability under feature correlation in estimating black-box model effects.
method A2D2E uses D-optimal hypercube designs to minimize main effect estimation variance.
result A2D2E outperforms existing methods, especially under high feature correlation.
A new Gaussian process framework uses neural feature maps for scalable, accurate inference.
problem Efficient and accurate Gaussian process inference for diverse data types.
method Neural feature maps to construct expressive kernels, with theoretical guarantees and practical scalability.
result The approach outperforms existing methods in accuracy and efficiency across various data modalities.
GrateTile optimizes CNN feature map storage for efficient data access.
problem Efficient storage and access of sparse CNN feature maps.
method Divides feature maps into uneven-sized subtensors, compresses and stores them in a compressed yet accessible format.
result Average 55% DRAM bandwidth reduction with minimal indexing overhead.
New feature selection methods improve uplift modeling accuracy.
problem Overfitting and poor interpretability in feature selection for uplift models.
method Explicitly designed feature selection methods inspired by statistics and information theory.
result Proposed methods outperform traditional feature selection methods in uplift modeling.
Improved graph neural networks by separating feature aggregation and depth.
problem Understanding feature importance in graph neural networks without prior information.
method Decoupling feature aggregation and depth, using softmax as a regularizer, and introducing 'Soft-Selector' and 'Hop-Normalization'.
result FSGNN model achieves up to 64% accuracy improvements in node classification tasks.
Designs a neural network to reduce training cost by mapping to higher dimensions.
problem High training cost in neural networks.
method Maps feature vectors to higher dimensional space, designs weight matrices to reduce cost, uses convex constraints.
result Reduces training cost as the number of layers increases, without cross-validation.
New methods reduce extrapolation errors in feature importance.
problem Flawed feature importance methods using unrestricted permutations lead to extrapolation errors.
method Three new approaches: conditional model reliance, Knockoffs with Gaussian transformation, and restricted ALE plot designs.
result Theoretical and numerical results show our strategies reduce/eliminate extrapolation.
This work presents a new classifier that is specifically designed to be fully interpretable. This technique determines the probability of a class outcome, based directly on probability assignments measured from the training data. The accuracy of the predicted probability can be improved by measuring more probability es…
Graph classification improved using spectral features and wavelet filters.
problem Categorizing graphs based on their structure and node attributes.
method Derived spectral features from graph signal processing, designed two Gaussian process models: one simple and one sophisticated.
result Simple and sophisticated Gaussian process models yield competitive performance, including well-calibrated uncertainty estimates.
Non-experts have long made important contributions to machine learning (ML) by contributing training data, and recent work has shown that non-experts can also help with feature engineering by suggesting novel predictive features. However, non-experts have only contributed features to prediction tasks already posed by e…
We describe a new technique which minimizes the amount of neurons in the hidden layer of a random recurrent neural network (rRNN) for time series prediction. Merging Takens-based attractor reconstruction methods with machine learning, we identify a mechanism for feature extraction that can be leveraged to lower the net…
This paper improves land cover classification using global spatial features in CNN.
problem Limited classification accuracy and universality of traditional remote sensing image classification methods.
method Integrates global spatial features into a dual-branch CNN for hyperspectral/SAR imagery classification.
result The proposed method outperforms traditional single-channel CNN methods.
A novel method uses blockchain transaction graphs for Bitcoin price prediction.
problem Insufficient effectiveness of manually designed features for Bitcoin price prediction.
method Mining patterns from Bitcoin transactions using k-order transaction graphs and proposing a novel prediction method.
result The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art Bitcoin price prediction methods.
The MAP-Elites algorithm produces a set of high-performing solutions that vary according to features defined by the user. This technique has the potential to be a powerful tool for design space exploration, but is limited by the need for numerous evaluations. The Surrogate-Assisted Illumination algorithm (SAIL), introd…
Deep Regression Ensemblesstat.ML
DRE combines DNN with random feature regression for efficient neural network design.
problem Designing and training deep neural networks (DNN) efficiently and effectively.
method DRE architecture with two-layer neural networks, randomly drawn input and output weights trained with linear ridge regression.
result DRE outperforms state-of-the-art DNN in many data sets with lower computational cost.
Unsupervised dimension selection is an important problem that seeks to reduce dimensionality of data, while preserving the most useful characteristics. While dimensionality reduction is commonly utilized to construct low-dimensional embeddings, they produce feature spaces that are hard to interpret. Further, in applica…
We present two instances, L-GAE and L-VGAE, of the variational graph auto-encoding family (VGAE) based on separating feature propagation operations from graph convolution layers typically found in graph learning methods to a single linear matrix computation made prior to input in standard auto-encoder architectures. Th…
Paper reviews neuromorphic engineering features and compares analog vs digital systems.
problem Lack of consensus and unclear features in neuromorphic engineering.
method Review of recent work, comparison of machine learning accelerator chips.
result Analog processing and reduced bit precision architectures offer best efficiencies.
We address feature interpretation and reproducibility issues in dense nets, proposing a modified loss function.
problem Feature interpretation and reproducibility issues in dense nets.
method Proposed a modified loss function to circumvent basis collapse.
result Substantially concise nets with 100x fewer parameters and lower MSE loss.
As an emerging research direction, online streaming feature selection deals with sequentially added dimensions in a feature space while the number of data instances is fixed. Online streaming feature selection provides a new, complementary algorithmic methodology to enrich online feature selection, especially targets t…
We applied Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to learn a model of DOOM levels from human-designed content. Initially, we analysed the levels and extracted several topological features. Then, for each level, we extracted a set of images identifying the occupied area, the height map, the walls, and the position of ga…
Audio fingerprinting, also named as audio hashing, has been well-known as a powerful technique to perform audio identification and synchronization. It basically involves two major steps: fingerprint (voice pattern) design and matching search. While the first step concerns the derivation of a robust and compact audio si…
The paper defines and analyzes feature complexity in DNNs, proposing metrics for feature disentanglement and evaluation.
problem Understanding and quantifying the complexity of features learned by deep neural networks.
method Proposes a definition and disentanglement of feature complexity orders, introduces metrics for reliability and over-fitting evaluation.
result Establishes a relationship between feature complexity and DNN performance, and proposes a generic mathematical tool for network compression and knowledge distillation.
New method uses models from regularity structures as features in machine learning.
problem Learning solutions to PDEs with low regularity.
method Developed a flexible definition of model feature vectors and two algorithms for combining them with linear regression.
result Advantage in learning solutions to PDEs compared to alternative methods.
State-of-the-art machine learning frameworks support a wide variety of design features to enable a flexible machine learning programming interface and to ease the programmability burden on machine learning developers. Identifying and using a performance-optimal setting in feature-rich frameworks, however, involves a no…