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48 results for Filtered Transfer Learning

This paper focuses on spectral filters on graphs, namely filters defined as elementwise multiplication in the frequency domain of a graph. In many graph signal processing settings, it is important to transfer a filter from one graph to another. One example is in graph convolutional neural networks (ConvNets), where the…

2019-01-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved drug-protein interaction prediction using FTL method.

problem Predicting drug-protein interactions from noisy data with uncertain labels.
method Filtered Transfer Learning (FTL) method that fine-tunes a deep neural network across multiple tiers of data confidence.
result FTL method outperforms deep neural networks trained on single confidence ranges.

This paper focuses on spectral graph convolutional neural networks (ConvNets), where filters are defined as elementwise multiplication in the frequency domain of a graph. In machine learning settings where the dataset consists of signals defined on many different graphs, the trained ConvNet should generalize to signals…

2019-07-30abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper improves MI-based BCIs by applying transfer learning across all components.

problem Reducing calibration effort for new subjects in MI-based BCIs.
method Proposes TL in spatial filtering, feature engineering, and classification blocks, and adds data alignment.
result Integrating data alignment and sophisticated TL significantly improves classification performance and reduces calibration effort.

Transfer learning is a popular practice in deep neural networks, but fine-tuning of large number of parameters is a hard task due to the complex wiring of neurons between splitting layers and imbalance distributions of data in pretrained and transferred domains. The reconstruction of the original wiring for the target …

2017-10-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Kähler information manifolds for signal filters in weighted Hardy spaces are explored.

problem Developing a geometric framework for signal processing filters in weighted Hardy spaces.
method Introducing weighted Hardy spaces and smooth transformations of transfer functions, demonstrating the Kähler manifold structure.
result The Riemannian geometry of weighted Hardy norms for transfer functions forms a Kähler manifold.

When labeled data is scarce for a specific target task, transfer learning often offers an effective solution by utilizing data from a related source task. However, when transferring knowledge from a less related source, it may inversely hurt the target performance, a phenomenon known as negative transfer. Despite its p…

2018-11-24abs ↗pdf ↗

AdaTrans adapts to feature and sample transfer in high-dimensional regression.

problem High-dimensional linear regression with more features than samples.
method F-AdaTrans and S-AdaTrans methods using fused-penalties and adaptive weights.
result AdaTrans achieves convergence rates close to oracle estimators and near-minimax optimal rates.

This paper tackles continuous domain adaptation with a new approach.

problem Learning in non-stationary environments, especially domain drift.
method Variational domain-agnostic feature replay, composed of inference, generative, and solver modules.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed approach for practical usage.

New approach improves cross-domain recommendation for sparse target domains.

problem Cross-domain recommendation challenges with sparse target domains.
method Guided neural collaborative filtering with domain-invariant components across dense and sparse domains.
result Effective and scalable approach demonstrated on public and Visa datasets.

We construct Hodge filtered cohomology groups for complex manifolds that combine the topological information of generalized cohomology theories with geometric data of Hodge filtered holomorphic forms. This theory provides a natural generalization of Deligne cohomology. For smooth complex algebraic varieties, we show th…

2012-12-10abs ↗pdf ↗

New method constrains CNN filter frequencies to improve robustness.

problem CNN bias towards low frequency components, leading to poor performance in scenario transformations.
method Frequency domain regularization by constraining filter spectra, training valid frequency range end-to-end.
result Demonstrated effectiveness in defending adversarial perturbations, reducing generalization gap, and improving transfer learning.

Graph neural networks leverage graph filters to learn from network data.

problem Learning from network data with graph structure.
method Characterize graph neural networks using graph signal processing and graph convolutional filters.
result Graph neural networks have permutation equivariance and stability to topology changes.

Graph neural networks can be adapted to new graphs with a limit object called graphon NNs.

problem Transferability of graph neural networks across different graphs.
method Introduced graphon NNs as limit objects of GNNs and proved a bound on the difference between GNN and graphon-NN outputs.
result The bound on the difference between GNN and graphon-NN outputs vanishes with growing number of nodes if the graph convolutional filters are bandlimited.

Collaborative filtering (CF) aims to predict users' ratings on items according to historical user-item preference data. In many real-world applications, preference data are usually sparse, which would make models overfit and fail to give accurate predictions. Recently, several research works show that by transferring k…

2012-10-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Nowadays, collaborative filtering recommender systems have been widely deployed in many commercial companies to make profit. Neighbourhood-based collaborative filtering is common and effective. To date, despite its effectiveness, there has been little effort to explore their robustness and the impact of data poisoning …

2019-12-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Popular graph neural networks implement convolution operations on graphs based on polynomial spectral filters. In this paper, we propose a novel graph convolutional layer inspired by the auto-regressive moving average (ARMA) filter that, compared to polynomial ones, provides a more flexible frequency response, is more …

2019-01-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Recently, the field of adversarial machine learning has been garnering attention by showing that state-of-the-art deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, stemming from small perturbations being added to the input image. Adversarial examples are generated by a malicious adversary by obtaining access…

2019-08-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Compressing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is essential for transferring the success of CNNs to a wide variety of applications to mobile devices. In contrast to directly recognizing subtle weights or filters as redundant in a given CNN, this paper presents an evolutionary method to automatically eliminate redunda…

2017-07-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Graphon autoencoder generates graphs with arbitrary sizes using Chebyshev filters.

problem Generating graphs with arbitrary sizes and arbitrary structures.
method Induces graphons from observed graphs, uses Chebyshev filters for latent representation, and learns encoder and decoder to minimize Wasserstein distance.
result Graphon autoencoder provides a new paradigm for graph generation with good generalizability and transferability.

Local Hebbian learning is believed to be inferior in performance to end-to-end training using a backpropagation algorithm. We question this popular belief by designing a local algorithm that can learn convolutional filters at scale on large image datasets. These filters combined with patch normalization and very steep …

2019-08-14abs ↗pdf ↗

In Domain Adaptation (DA), the category-relevant losses usually occupy a dominant position, while they are usually built with hard or soft labels in existing models. We observed that hard labels are overconfident due to hard samples existed, and soft labels are ambiguous as too many small noisy probabilities involved, …

2019-12-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Study assesses deep neural networks' robustness in mammogram images.

problem Understanding deep neural networks' robustness in mammogram images for breast cancer screening.
method Measuring sensitivity to four perturbations and analyzing low-pass filtering effects.
result Mammogram image classifiers are sensitive to perturbations similar to natural images, but low-pass filtering degrades clinically meaningful features.

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…

2019-08-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Improves classifier performance in multi-stage selection processes.

problem Difficulty in training classifiers in multi-stage selection processes due to varying sample sizes and information.
method Multi-Stage Transfer Learning (MSGTL) approach that uses knowledge from simpler classifiers trained in early stages to improve later stages.
result MSGTL outperforms other transfer learning methods in real-world selection process data.

A new GNN architecture called coVariance neural network (VNN) improves stability and transferability of covariance matrix analysis.

problem Stability and transferability issues in covariance matrix analysis.
method Developed coVariance neural network (VNN) that operates on sample covariance matrices.
result VNN is more stable and transferable than PCA-based approaches.

We present a new model, Predictive State Recurrent Neural Networks (PSRNNs), for filtering and prediction in dynamical systems. PSRNNs draw on insights from both Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and Predictive State Representations (PSRs), and inherit advantages from both types of models. Like many successful RNN archi…

2017-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a feature transformation for spatio-temporal traffic models to improve performance and transferability.

problem Limited transferability of deep learning models for traffic flow prediction across different locations.
method Integrates Newell's traffic flow estimators to capture broader dynamics and incorporates spatial dependencies.
result Improves model performance in predicting traffic flows over different horizons.

UBMF tackles fault diagnosis in imbalanced industrial data with enhanced accuracy and adaptability.

problem Fault diagnosis challenges in imbalanced industrial data.
method Integrates four key modules: data perturbation, cross-task feature extraction, uncertainty-based filtering, and Bayesian meta-knowledge integration.
result Achieves an average improvement of 42.22% across ten diagnostic tasks.

The problem of image restoration in cryo-EM entails correcting for the effects of the Contrast Transfer Function (CTF) and noise. Popular methods for image restoration include `phase flipping', which corrects only for the Fourier phases but not amplitudes, and Wiener filtering, which requires the spectral signal to noi…

2016-02-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Band-limited SAC improves learning efficiency and stability in simulated environments.

problem Improving sample efficiency and stability in SAC algorithms.
method Artificially bandlimiting the target critic's spatial resolution using a convolutional filter.
result Bandlimited SAC outperforms classic twin-critic SAC in various Gym environments and is more stable.

This paper proposes a principled information theoretic analysis of classification for deep neural network structures, e.g. convolutional neural networks (CNN). The output of convolutional filters is modeled as a random variable Y conditioned on the object class C and network filter bank F. The conditional entropy (CENT…

2017-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

PULSE learns representations from physiological time series.

problem Lack of effective pretraining objectives for physiological time series.
method Proposes a pretraining framework exploiting dynamical systems generative model.
result PULSE learns representations that distinguish semantic classes and improve transfer learning.

Deep neural networks trained over large datasets learn features that are both generic to the whole dataset, and specific to individual classes in the dataset. Learned features tend towards generic in the lower layers and specific in the higher layers of a network. Methods like fine-tuning are made possible because of t…

2018-04-20abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper bridges spectral and spatial graph convolutions, improving model capacity and transferability.

problem Improving graph neural networks by bridging spectral and spatial design.
method Theoretical demonstration and general framework for spectral analysis, new spectral convolutions, and depthwise separable convolutions.
result General framework allows spectral analysis of ConvGNNs, showing their performance and limits, and proposing new spectral convolutions.

Paper analyzes transfer risk in transfer learning for finance.

problem Evaluate transferability of transfer learning in finance.
method Proposes transfer risk concept and applies to stock return prediction and portfolio optimization.
result Transfer risk correlates with transfer learning performance and identifies appropriate source tasks.

Mathematical framework for transfer learning feasibility and transfer risk.

problem Theoretical analysis of transfer learning.
method Reformulated transfer learning as an optimization problem, introduced transfer risk concept.
result Demonstrated the potential and benefits of incorporating transfer risk in transfer learning evaluation.

Transfer learning borrows knowledge from a source domain to facilitate learning in a target domain. Two primary issues to be addressed in transfer learning are what and how to transfer. For a pair of domains, adopting different transfer learning algorithms results in different knowledge transferred between them. To dis…

2017-08-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes efficient model for continual learning that grows model over task-specific parameters.

problem Limited transfer learning ability and forgetting of earlier knowledge in existing methods.
method Filter and channel expansion method that grows model over previous task parameters.
result Better knowledge transfer and improved performance in task incremental learning.

Sequential data often originates from diverse domains across which statistical regularities and domain specifics exist. To specifically learn cross-domain sequence representations, we introduce disentangled state space models (DSSM) -- a class of SSM in which domain-invariant state dynamics is explicitly disentangled f…

2019-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗