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48 results for Feature Similarity

New stability measures for similar features improve feature selection accuracy.

problem Existing stability measures fail to distinguish similar features in highly correlated datasets.
method Introduce new adjusted stability measures that consider feature similarities.
result One new stability measure considers highly similar features as interchangeable.

Proposes a new stability measure for model fitting on similar feature data sets.

problem Model fitting on data sets with similar features is challenging.
method Tuning hyperparameters in a multi-criteria fashion with predictive accuracy and feature selection stability.
result Our approach achieves similar or better predictive performance than single-criteria and stability selection approaches.

Enhances graph neural networks by considering feature similarities in node aggregation.

problem Ignoring node feature similarities in traditional graph aggregation schemes.
method Interprets node aggregation as kernel weighting, proposing a framework that considers feature similarities.
result Proposed framework outperforms traditional GCNs in real-world applications.

Rapid overlay of chemical structures (ROCS) is a standard tool for the calculation of 3D shape and chemical ("color") similarity. ROCS uses unweighted sums to combine many aspects of similarity, yielding parameter-free models for virtual screening. In this report, we decompose the ROCS color force field into "color com…

2016-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Proposes SimPool for graph pooling using structural similarity features.

problem Challenges in graph pooling due to lack of spatial locality.
method Integrates structural similarity features with a revised pooling layer to propose SimPool.
result SimPool produces node cluster assignments resembling CNN's locality preserving pooling.

Study shows how task similarity affects forgetting in teacher-student setup.

problem Catastrophic forgetting in continual learning.
method Extended teacher-student setup to multiple teachers, analyzing similarity between tasks.
result Task similarity, whether at readouts or features, influences forgetting and transfer.

A good measure of similarity between data points is crucial to many tasks in machine learning. Similarity and metric learning methods learn such measures automatically from data, but they do not scale well respect to the dimensionality of the data. In this paper, we propose a method that can learn efficiently similarit…

2014-11-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimized fuzzy entropy framework improves feature selection and classification performance.

problem Improving feature selection and classification in fuzzy entropy frameworks.
method Implemented and compared combinations of ideal vectors, maximal similarity classifiers, and fuzzy entropy functions.
result Optimized combination of ideal vector, similarity classifier, and fuzzy entropy function achieved the most stable performance for all three datasets.

Production recommendation systems rely on embedding methods to represent various features. An impeding challenge in practice is that the large embedding matrix incurs substantial memory footprint in serving as the number of features grows over time. We propose a similarity-aware embedding matrix compression method call…

2019-02-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Quantum networks learn task-dependent asymmetric similarity measures.

problem Challenges of conventional distance functions in capturing meaningful similarity.
method GQSim: Quantum networks for learning task-dependent (a)symmetric similarity.
result Quantum similarity measures extract salient features and achieve theoretically guaranteed performance.

A new method selects the best feature selection technique for datasets.

problem Selecting the best feature selection method for unseen datasets.
method Data synthesis, meta features, fuzzy similarity, classification model training.
result Successfully recommended the best feature selection method for five out of eight datasets.

Similarity metrics are a core component of many information retrieval and machine learning systems. In this work we propose a method capable of learning a similarity metric from data equipped with a binary relation. By considering only the similarity constraints, and initially ignoring the features, we are able to lear…

2015-11-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a method to compare neural networks using feature and gradient vectors.

problem Understanding the behavior of neural networks trained on different datasets.
method Defines a similarity index using feature and gradient vectors, and employs sketching techniques for efficient comparison.
result Demonstrates superior performance in computing similarity of neural networks trained on different datasets.

We propose Deep Feature Factorization (DFF), a method capable of localizing similar semantic concepts within an image or a set of images. We use DFF to gain insight into a deep convolutional neural network's learned features, where we detect hierarchical cluster structures in feature space. This is visualized as heat m…

2018-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Study how models represent features in naturalistic learning problems.

problem Understanding which features models use and ignore in naturalistic tasks.
method Synthetic datasets with controlled task-relevance of features, training models to recognize both easy and hard features.
result Models preferentially represent task-relevant features and suppress task-irrelevant ones over training.

We propose a novel model for generating graphs similar to a given example graph. Unlike standard approaches that compute features of graphs in Euclidean space, our approach obtains features on a surface of a hypersphere. We then utilize a von Mises-Fisher distribution, an exponential family distribution on the surface …

2011-05-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a new method for joint feature selection and graph learning.

problem Previous methods suffer from neglecting joint formulation and lack of graph learning.
method Formulates multi-view feature selection with orthogonal decomposition, incorporates cross-space locality preservation, and uses a unified objective function for simultaneous learning.
result Demonstrates superior performance in multi-view feature selection and graph learning tasks.

We present an autoencoder that leverages learned representations to better measure similarities in data space. By combining a variational autoencoder with a generative adversarial network we can use learned feature representations in the GAN discriminator as basis for the VAE reconstruction objective. Thereby, we repla…

2015-12-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Rewiring GNNs to optimize community and feature alignment improves their performance.

problem Improving GNNs' performance by addressing over-squashing and generalization issues.
method Three rewiring strategies: ComMa, FeaSt, and ComFy, targeting community structure, node labels, and their alignment.
result Rewiring strategies enhance GNNs' performance by optimizing label-community alignment.

Hyperparameter optimization aims to find the optimal hyperparameter configuration of a machine learning model, which provides the best performance on a validation dataset. Manual search usually leads to get stuck in a local hyperparameter configuration, and heavily depends on human intuition and experience. A simple al…

2017-10-17abs ↗pdf ↗

CLS measures dataset similarity through decision rule performance.

problem Measuring dataset similarity in machine learning, especially for transfer learning and domain adaptation.
method Cross-Learning Score (CLS) measures similarity through bidirectional generalization performance of decision rules, linking to cosine similarity under canonical linear models.
result CLS effectively measures dataset similarity and transferability, validated on synthetic and real-world datasets.

Graph network predicts circRNA-disease associations using multi-source similarity features.

problem Identifying circRNA-disease associations is challenging and time-consuming.
method Proposes a graph convolution network framework using multi-source similarity information.
result Framework predicts circRNA-disease associations with promising results and outperforms existing methods.

A new method for feature selection in high-dimensional data.

problem Dealing with noise and high-dimensional data in unsupervised feature selection.
method Sparse PCA via l2,pl_{2,p}-norm regularization, combined with an efficient optimization algorithm.
result The proposed method effectively selects features from real-world data sets.

Spectral clustering is one of the most effective clustering approaches that capture hidden cluster structures in the data. However, it does not scale well to large-scale problems due to its quadratic complexity in constructing similarity graphs and computing subsequent eigendecomposition. Although a number of methods h…

2018-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Classical supervised classification tasks search for a nonlinear mapping that maps each encoded feature directly to a probability mass over the labels. Such a learning framework typically lacks the intuition that encoded features from the same class tend to be similar and thus has little interpretability for the learne…

2019-10-15abs ↗pdf ↗

This work improves transferability by considering conditional distributions in feature representations.

problem Improving transferability across multiple domains by considering conditional distributions.
method Introducing von Neumann conditional divergence to quantify the functional dependence between features and desired response.
result Favorable performance in terms of smaller generalization error and less catastrophic forgetting.

This work proposes an ensemble clustering method using transfer learning approach. We consider a clustering problem, in which in addition to data under consideration, "similar" labeled data are available. The datasets can be described with different features. The method is based on constructing meta-features which desc…

2020-01-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Improves document summarization by combining word embeddings and n-grams.

problem Exact word matching fails to measure semantic similarity between sentences.
method Uses deep embedding features and tf-idf features to improve sentence similarity measure; builds an improved sentence similarity graph; employs a submodular objective function; develops a Transformer-based compression model.
result Outperforms tf-idf based approach and achieves state-of-the-art performance on DUC04 dataset.

In many situations, the choice of an adequate similarity measure or metric on the feature space dramatically determines the performance of machine learning methods. Building automatically such measures is the specific purpose of metric/similarity learning. In Vogel et al. (2018), similarity learning is formulated as a …

2019-06-21abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes MAML's representation using RSA, revealing that feature reuse is not the primary reason for its success.

problem Understanding why model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) works well in few-shot learning tasks.
method Representation similarity analysis (RSA) applied to MAML's few-shot learning instantiation.
result Feature reuse is not the primary reason for MAML's success; instead, it is the learning task itself that increases representation similarity.