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48 results for Feature Similarity Measurement

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.

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 ↗

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.

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.

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 ↗

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 ↗

Method measures weight similarity in neural networks using normalization and statistical inference.

problem Quantifying weight similarity in non-convex neural networks.
method Chain normalization rule and hypothesis-training-testing statistical inference.
result Weights of identical neural networks converge to similar local solutions.

In this paper, we deal with two challenges for measuring the similarity of the subject identities in practical video-based face recognition - the variation of the head pose in uncontrolled environments and the computational expense of processing videos. Since the frame-wise feature mean is unable to characterize the po…

2016-09-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian neural network improves feature selection and prediction.

problem Improving feature selection and prediction accuracy in neural networks.
method BNN-ARD with l2-norm feature importance measure.
result Improves variable selection and predictive performance on real-world data.

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.

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 ↗

New measures link neural representation geometry to decoding ability.

problem Understanding how neural representations relate to decoding ability.
method Showed that popular similarity measures can be interpreted from a decoding perspective.
result Proved that measures like CKA and CCA quantify alignment between optimal linear readouts.

Geometric stability measures neural network robustness, distinguishing from similarity metrics.

problem Lack of robustness in neural network representations.
method Introduces geometric stability, quantified by Shesha metric measuring self-consistency.
result Stability and similarity are uncorrelated, revealing distinct properties of neural network robustness.

Improves confidence calibration in neural networks by smoothing labels based on class similarity.

problem Improving confidence calibration in deep neural networks for safety-critical applications.
method Proposes a novel label smoothing technique where label values are based on similarities with the reference class, using different similarity measurements.
result Consistently outperforms state-of-the-art calibration techniques on various datasets and network architectures.

Paper proposes a supervised similarity framework for corporate bonds using RF proximities.

problem Challenges in measuring similarity for corporate bonds due to noisy data and lack of ground truth.
method Proposes a supervised similarity framework using Random Forest for corporate bonds, introducing a novel metric to evaluate similarities.
result Random Forest outperforms other methods in evaluating similarities for corporate bonds.

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.

We consider the problem of learning a measure of distance among vectors in a feature space and propose a hybrid method that simultaneously learns from similarity ratings assigned to pairs of vectors and class labels assigned to individual vectors. Our method is based on a generative model in which class labels can prov…

2012-06-29abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a family of near-metrics based on local graph diffusion to capture similarity for a wide class of data sets. These quasi-metametrics, as their names suggest, dispense with one or two standard axioms of metric spaces, specifically distinguishability and symmetry, so that similarity between data points of arbi…

2017-07-21abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithms select and rank features from MTS without feature extraction.

problem Feature extraction step for MTS classification.
method Directly computes similarity between time series and assesses cluster structure matching labels.
result Techniques match labels well without feature extraction.

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 ↗

Many contemporary statistical learning methods assume a Euclidean feature space. This paper presents a method for defining similarity based on hyperspherical geometry and shows that it often improves the performance of support vector machine compared to other competing similarity measures. Specifically, the idea of usi…

2017-02-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Physics-guided deep learning improves CFD for bubbly flow simulations.

problem Accurate CFD prediction of two-phase bubbly flow with high computational efficiency.
method Developed a multi-scale framework with Feature Similarity Measurement (FSM) for error estimation and a physics-guided deep feedforward neural network (DFNN) surrogate model.
result Physics-guided deep learning achieves comparable accuracy to fine-mesh simulations with fast-running feature.

Extends Tanimoto kernel to real-valued functions.

problem Measuring similarity between real-valued functions.
method Unified representation of real-valued functions via sets, derived general form of the kernel, explicit feature representation, and smooth approximation.
result General Tanimoto kernel for real-valued functions.

We propose a novel method of introducing structure into existing machine learning techniques by developing structure-based similarity and distance measures. To learn structural information, low-dimensional structure of the data is captured by solving a non-linear, low-rank representation problem. We show that this low-…

2011-10-26abs ↗pdf ↗

SAEs struggle with feature consistency across runs, hindering MI reliability.

problem Inconsistency of learned SAE features across different training runs.
method Propose using the Pairwise Dictionary Mean Correlation Coefficient (PW-MCC) to measure feature consistency.
result High levels of feature consistency (0.80 for TopK SAEs on LLM activations) are achievable with appropriate architectural choices.

A novel criterion selects optimal distance metrics for cell profile analysis.

problem Determining the most accurate distance metric for high-dimensional cell profiles.
method Generalized proposition and corollaries to evaluate and select distance metrics.
result Wasserstein and cosine similarity metrics are optimal for general cases.

New methods compare local and global feature importance scores for bioinformatics models.

problem Improving feature importance estimation in tree-based models.
method Comparison of SHAP values and Conditional Feature Contributions (CFCs) for 164 bioinformatics problems.
result SHAP values and CFCs yield similar rankings and interpretations for random forests.

TCMI assesses mutual dependence of continuous variables without parametric assumptions.

problem Estimating mutual information from continuous distributions.
method TCMI extends mutual information to continuous variables using cumulative distributions.
result TCMI facilitates feature selection and ranking of variable sets.