New method provides fine-grained feedback on interactive student programs.
problem Time-consuming manual grading of interactive student programs.
method Meta-exploration approach using reinforcement learning.
result 94.3% accuracy in providing fine-grained feedback.
Heterogeneous GNN improves species distribution modeling.
problem Predicting species occurrences and habitat suitability using environmental factors.
method Graph Neural Networks (GNN) for presence-only species distribution modeling.
result Heterogeneous GNN model outperforms single-species SDMs and baseline models.
The success of recommender systems in modern online platforms is inseparable from the accurate capture of users' personal tastes. In everyday life, large amounts of user feedback data are created along with user-item online interactions in a variety of ways, such as browsing, purchasing, and sharing. These multiple typ…
Estimates interactions between modalities for multimodal data.
problem Accurately quantifying interactions between different data types.
method Developed Lightweight Sample-wise Multimodal Interaction (LSMI) estimator using pointwise information theory.
result LSMI reveals fine-grained dynamics in multimodal data.
Graph model detects fake news by analyzing sentence interactions.
problem Detecting fake news through online media.
method Graph Neural Network-based model for sentence interactions.
result Our model achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on fake news datasets.
PSimGNN partitions graphs into subgraphs for efficient graph similarity computation.
problem Efficiently compute graph similarity scores for large graphs.
method Graph partitioning followed by subgraph-level and node-level comparisons using a graph neural network.
result PSimGNN outperforms state-of-the-art methods in graph similarity computation tasks.
As entity type systems become richer and more fine-grained, we expect the number of types assigned to a given entity to increase. However, most fine-grained typing work has focused on datasets that exhibit a low degree of type multiplicity. In this paper, we consider the high-multiplicity regime inherent in data source…
Proposes a method to predict stock movements using fine-grained events from finance news.
problem Lack of specific semantic information in coarse-grained events for stock movement prediction.
method Built a finance event dictionary, extracted fine-grained events, combined with stock trade data, and used distant supervision for training.
result Method outperforms all baselines and shows good generalizability.
Rugby-Bot predicts multiple metrics from a single source using fine-grain data.
problem Complexity of sporting events requires multiple metrics for accurate analysis.
method Multi-task learning with fine-grain spatial data and wide-and-deep learning.
result Predictions are consistent and can be in distribution form.
Proposes MCCF to distinguish latent purchasing motivations in user-item interactions.
problem Difficulty in capturing fine-grained user preferences due to complex latent motivations.
method Introduces MCCF with decomposer and combiner modules to identify and recombine latent components.
result Significant performance gains and necessity of considering multiple components demonstrated.
Advertising and feed ranking are essential to many Internet companies such as Facebook and Sina Weibo. Among many real-world advertising and feed ranking systems, click through rate (CTR) prediction plays a central role. There are many proposed models in this field such as logistic regression, tree based models, factor…
New principle reveals how neural networks learn complex interactions.
problem Understanding neural networks' success and complexity.
method Infinite-width networks, focusing on frequency and space.
result Fine-grained eigenstructure improves network learnability.
Paper presents UrbanFM and UrbanPy models for inferring fine-grained urban flows.
problem Reduce cost of urban flow monitoring while maintaining data accuracy and granularity.
method Develops UrbanFM and UrbanPy models to infer fine-grained urban flows from coarse-grained observations.
result UrbanPy model demonstrates favorable performance for larger-scale inference tasks.
ADSAGE detects anomalies in graph edge sequences for insider threat detection.
problem Detecting insider threats in fine-grained audit logs using graph and text features.
method Anomaly detection at edge level, supporting numeric, categorical, and text attributes.
result ADSAGE detects anomalies in authentications and email communications effectively.
Fine-grained gap-dependent regret bounds for reinforcement learning.
problem Achieving optimal regret bounds for reinforcement learning with suboptimality gaps.
method Developed novel analytical frameworks and refined algorithms for UCB-based and non-UCB-based reinforcement learning.
result Established the first fine-grained gap-dependent regret bounds for both UCB-based and non-UCB-based algorithms.
This work improves generative models by using feedback from multiple dependent models.
problem Improving the performance of generative models in multi-agent systems.
method Building a hierarchical set-up of multiple dependent generative models and using feedback to improve lower-level models.
result The technique improves the performance of lower-level generative models under certain conditions.
Media seems to have become more partisan, often providing a biased coverage of news catering to the interest of specific groups. It is therefore essential to identify credible information content that provides an objective narrative of an event. News communities such as digg, reddit, or newstrust offer recommendations,…
FIGARO generates symbolic music with fine-grained control.
problem Minimal control over generated music sequences.
method Description-to-sequence task, learning conditional distribution of sequences given high-level descriptions.
result State-of-the-art controllable symbolic music generation.
DistPre predicts traffic speeds efficiently for large networks.
problem Fine-grained, accurate speed prediction for large-scale transportation networks.
method Customizes LSTM models on a cluster, sharing trained models between detectors.
result Efficient and accurate fine-grained traffic-speed prediction.
Fine-grained pretraining improves neural network's ability to learn rare features.
problem Improving generalization in deep learning models.
method Introducing a hierarchical multi-view structure to confine input data distribution.
result Fine-grained pretraining leads to better accuracy on hard downstream test samples.
The growing trend of using wearable devices for context-aware computing and pervasive sensing systems has raised its potentials for quick and reliable authentication techniques. Since personal writing habitats differ from each other, it is possible to realize user authentication through writing. This is of great signif…
ECN framework improves training on noisy structured labels.
problem Structured errors in fine-grained annotations lead to biased models.
method Error-Correcting Networks (ECN) framework.
result ECN improves fine-grained annotation prediction.
Deep learning models can have low bias and variance, contrary to classical theory.
problem Understanding the performance of deep learning models at high complexity.
method Developed a fine-grained bias-variance decomposition for random feature kernel regression, analyzing the effects of sampling, initialization, and labels.
result The variance terms exhibit non-monotonic behavior and can diverge at the interpolation boundary, even in the absence of label noise.
Fine-grained action segmentation in long untrimmed videos is an important task for many applications such as surveillance, robotics, and human-computer interaction. To understand subtle and precise actions within a long time period, second-order information (e.g. feature covariance) or higher is reported to be effectiv…
Proposes a new method to generate unrestricted adversarial examples.
problem Generating unrestricted adversarial examples without norm constraints.
method Leveraging state-of-the-art generative models to manipulate image fine-grained aspects.
result Our adversarial images look indistinguishable from natural images and can bypass certified defenses.
Efficient algorithms learn from coarse labels instead of fine grained ones.
problem Learning from coarse labels when fine labels are unavailable.
method Formalized coarse label settings, used a reduction for SQs, and provided efficient algorithms.
result Any problem learnable from fine labels can be learned efficiently from coarse labels.
Developing an explainable outlier detection method for interval-valued data using Shapley value-based approach.
problem Outlier detection in interval-valued data.
method Proposed a novel approach based on Shapley value for interval-valued data.
result Fine-grained interpretation of outliers with variable contributions.
CoSimGNN improves graph similarity computation for large graphs.
problem Efficiently computing graph similarity scores for large graphs.
method Embedding-coarsening-matching framework with adaptive pooling and fine-grained interactions.
result CoSimGNN achieves best performance in graph similarity computation.
Proposes a method for weakly-supervised object localization to improve few-shot learning.
problem Challenges of few-shot learning, especially with fine-grained categories.
method Introduces a Self-Attention Based Complementary Module (SAC Module) for weakly-supervised object localization.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on benchmark datasets, especially for fine-grained few-shot tasks.
INP accelerates stochastic simulations using deep Bayesian active learning.
problem Computational expense of stochastic simulations at fine-grained resolution.
method Interactive Neural Process (INP) framework combining spatiotemporal surrogate model and active learning acquisition function.
result STNP outperforms baselines in accelerating stochastic simulations and LIG achieves state-of-the-art for Bayesian active learning.
Improved MLE for Hawkes Processes stabilizes unstable optimization.
problem Unstable Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) for Hawkes Processes.
method Simple stabilization procedure to improve MLE without restrictive assumptions.
result Stabilized MLE outperforms traditional methods over various sequence lengths.
In construction projects, estimation of the settlement of fine-grained soils is of critical importance, and yet is a challenging task. The coefficient of consolidation for the compression index (Cc) is a key parameter in modeling the settlement of fine-grained soil layers. However, the estimation of this parameter is c…
We propose a probabilistic model for refining coarse-grained spatial data by utilizing auxiliary spatial data sets. Existing methods require that the spatial granularities of the auxiliary data sets are the same as the desired granularity of target data. The proposed model can effectively make use of auxiliary data set…
L*ReLU improves deep learning for fine-grained image classification.
problem Fine-grained image classification requires specific AFs.
method Proposes L*ReLU, piece-wise linear AFs for deep learning.
result L*ReLU achieves superior results on FGVC datasets.
Recent advances in Bayesian reinforcement learning (BRL) have shown that Bayes-optimality is theoretically achievable by modeling the environment's latent dynamics using Flat-Dirichlet-Multinomial (FDM) prior. In self-interested multi-agent environments, the transition dynamics are mainly controlled by the other agent'…
New method uses LLMs to generate detailed scientific hypotheses.
problem Generating detailed, actionable scientific hypotheses from coarse initial directions.
method Hierarchical search method that incrementally adds details to hypotheses.
result Hierarchical search method consistently outperforms strong baselines on expert-annotated hypotheses.
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.
Improved investment performance with fine-grained LLM tasks.
problem Abstract financial trading systems often overlook real-world workflow intricacies, leading to degraded performance.
method Proposes a multi-agent LLM trading framework that decomposes investment analysis into fine-grained tasks.
result Fine-grained task decomposition significantly improves risk-adjusted returns compared to coarse-grained designs.
Predicting fine-grained interests of users with temporal behavior is important to personalization and information filtering applications. However, existing interest prediction methods are incapable of capturing the subtle degreed user interests towards particular items, and the internal time-varying drifting attention …
Solves dual imbalance in detecting sparse anomalies in MIL.
problem Detecting scarce and sparse anomalous samples in MIL.
method Reformulates MIL as a fine-grained PU learning problem, addressing imbalance at both macro and micro levels.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of BFGPU framework on synthetic and real-world datasets.
Sentiment classification is an important process in understanding people's perception towards a product, service, or topic. Many natural language processing models have been proposed to solve the sentiment classification problem. However, most of them have focused on binary sentiment classification. In this paper, we u…
Paper tackles cross-granularity few-shot learning with meta-embedder.
problem Few-shot learning with coarse labels and fine-grained testing.
method Meta-embedder that optimizes visual and semantic discrimination across coarse and fine classes.
result Meta-embedder achieves effective cross-granularity few-shot classification.
Pipelined Backpropagation trains large models without batches efficiently.
problem Training large models efficiently on hardware with limited batch sizes.
method Fine-grained Pipelined Backpropagation with Spike Compensation and Linear Weight Prediction.
result Fine-grained Pipelined Backpropagation with a batch size of one matches the accuracy of SGD for multiple networks.
Predictive modeling applications increasingly use data representing people's behavior, opinions, and interactions. Fine-grained behavior data often has different structure from traditional data, being very high-dimensional and sparse. Models built from these data are quite difficult to interpret, since they contain man…
We analyze computational limits of modern Hopfield models based on pattern norms.
problem Understanding the efficiency of modern Hopfield models from a fine-grained complexity perspective.
method Fine-grained complexity analysis and upper bound criterion for pattern norms.
result Below a specific norm threshold, efficient variants of modern Hopfield models exist.
New framework learns labels at both bag and graph levels.
problem Learning multi-label classifiers from multi-graph bags.
method Designing scoring functions and rank-loss objective for graph and bag levels; developing sub-gradient descent algorithm.
result Superior performance over state-of-the-art algorithms.
NeuroDiff improves neural network equivalence verification with fine-grained approximations.
problem Verifying the equivalence of compressed neural networks.
method Symbolic and fine-grained approximation technique for differential verification.
result NeuroDiff achieves up to 1000X speedup and 5X accuracy improvement.
Fine-grained event tagging system for SEC 8-K filings improves precision to 96%.
problem Coarse SEC item codes mislabel routine and significant events.
method Two-stage system tagging 8-K disclosures against a 119-event taxonomy.
result LLM judge finds precision rises to 96% with quality scores.