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48 results for Friendly neighborhoods

Spider GAN accelerates GAN training with a new approach.

problem Stable training of Generative adversarial networks (GANs).
method Spider GAN leverages a novel approach to identify closely related datasets (friendly neighborhoods) and uses a new measure (signed inception distance) to accelerate GAN training.
result Spider GAN achieves faster convergence and state-of-the-art FID values with one-fifth of the training iterations.

The notion of friendliness between trees first appeared in solution of Lando's problem on intersection of polyhedra in 3-space. A tree is friendly to a path graph if edges of the tree can be numbered so that for each k,s the path between the edges k and k+1 contains either both or none of the edges k+2s,k+2s+1. Theorem…

2015-09-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Financial decisions impact our lives, and thus everyone from the regulator to the consumer is interested in fair, sound, and explainable decisions. There is increasing competitive desire and regulatory incentive to deploy AI mindfully within financial services. An important mechanism towards that end is to explain AI d…

2019-06-24abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper focuses on coordinate update methods, which are useful for solving problems involving large or high-dimensional datasets. They decompose a problem into simple subproblems, where each updates one, or a small block of, variables while fixing others. These methods can deal with linear and nonlinear mappings, sm…

2016-01-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Root Cause Analysis for Anomalies is challenging because of the trade-off between the accuracy and its explanatory friendliness, required for industrial applications. In this paper we propose a framework for simple and friendly RCA within the Bayesian regime under certain restrictions (that Hessian at the mode is diago…

2018-08-13abs ↗pdf ↗

New approach improves adversarial robustness without sacrificing natural generalization.

problem Balancing adversarial robustness and natural generalization in machine learning.
method Friendly adversarial training (FAT) using early-stopped PGD to find least adversarial data.
result Early-stopped PGD achieves adversarial robustness without compromising natural generalization.

Clarinet uses complementary labels to train classifiers with less source data.

problem Training classifiers with true-label data from source domain is costly.
method Proposes CLARINET to train classifiers with complementary-label source data and unlabeled target data.
result CLARINET significantly outperforms baselines in unsupervised domain adaptation.

Making an adaptive prediction based on one's input is an important ability for general artificial intelligence. In this work, we step forward in this direction and propose a semi-parametric method, Meta-Neighborhoods, where predictions are made adaptively to the neighborhood of the input. We show that Meta-Neighborhood…

2019-09-18abs ↗pdf ↗

NNK algorithm improves neighborhood and graph construction for machine learning.

problem Ad hoc selection of k and ε parameters in kNN and ε-neighborhood methods.
method NNK algorithm for better sparse signal approximation.
result NNK leads to superior performance in local neighborhood and graph-based machine learning tasks.

A new, computationally friendly formula for a class of risk-averse preferences.

problem Characterizing a class of risk-averse preferences called uniformly weighted divergence preferences.
method Introducing a new formula that characterizes UWDP as the translation-invariant hull of state-independent expected utility.
result UWDP are the translation-invariant hull of state-independent expected utility over L0L^0.

Study geodesics entering a fixed cusp neighborhood multiple times.

problem Understanding geodesics entering a specific cusp neighborhood multiple times.
method Investigate reciprocal geodesics entering a fixed cusp neighborhood a fixed number of times.
result Characterized the class of reciprocal geodesics entering a fixed cusp neighborhood a fixed number of times.

Urban2Vec combines street view imagery and POIs for better urban neighborhood embeddings.

problem Lack of comprehensive representation of urban neighborhoods using heterogeneous data.
method Unsupervised multi-modal framework using CNN for visual features and bag-of-words for POI data.
result Urban2Vec achieves better performance than baseline models and comparable to fully-supervised methods.

Skeleta and other pure subsets of manifold stratified spaces are shown to have neighborhoods which are teardrops of stratified approximate fibrations (under dimension and compactness assumptions). In general, the stratified approximate fibrations cannot be replaced by bundles, and the teardrops cannot be replaced by ma…

2005-01-07abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper tackles selection bias in recommender systems by considering the neighborhood effect.

problem Selection bias in recommender systems due to filtering and user selection.
method Formalizes neighborhood effect as interference problem, introduces treatment representation, and proposes ideal loss.
result Proposed methods achieve unbiased learning when both selection bias and neighborhood effect are present.

Maximally hyperbolic solutions contain future neighborhoods of intersecting hypersurfaces.

problem Maximally globally hyperbolic solutions of higher-dimensional vacuum Einstein equations.
method Analyzing intersections of characteristic hypersurfaces.
result Contains a future neighborhood of intersecting hypersurfaces.

Many prediction problems can be phrased as inferences over local neighborhoods of graphs. The graph represents the interaction between entities, and the neighborhood of each entity contains information that allows the inferences or predictions. We present an approach for applying machine learning directly to such graph…

2016-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a new NMF method incorporating neighborhood structure for better anomaly detection.

problem NMF's inability to incorporate neighborhood structure information limits its performance in nonlinear manifold structures.
method Integrates neighborhood structure information using Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) within NMF framework.
result Empirical results show superior performance in anomaly detection using the proposed method.

Study on transverse knots and their neighborhoods, proving unique standard neighborhoods and destabilization results.

problem Understanding the structure and properties of transverse knots and their neighborhoods.
method Proves unique standard neighborhoods and structure theorems for non-loose Legendrian knots through destabilization results.
result Finds a manifold with infinite tight contact structures, up to contactomorphism, without Giroux torsion.

TRUST improves tree models' accuracy while maintaining interpretability.

problem Piecewise-constant regression trees lack in predictive accuracy compared to black-box models.
method Combines Random Forest accuracy with interpretability of shallow trees and sparsity of linear models, using LLMs for explanations.
result TRUST outperforms other interpretable models in predictive accuracy and matches Random Forest's accuracy.

Physicists explain a mathematical theorem about topological insulators.

problem Mathematical formulation of APS index theorem not directly related to physical fermion system.
method Reformulated APS index theorem using η invariant of domain-wall Dirac operator.
result Equivalence between APS index and η invariant is generally true.

Revises GNN neighborhood aggregation for more accurate node classification.

problem Flaws in benchmark GNN models for node classification.
method Statistical signal processing approach to neighborhood aggregation.
result Novel insights for designing more efficient GNN models.

The study proves a neighborhood theorem for mean curvature flow in higher dimensions.

problem Proving a canonical neighborhood theorem for mean curvature flow in higher dimensions.
method Proved a canonical neighborhood theorem for mean curvature flow of compact submanifolds in RN\mathbb{R}^N with a pinching condition.
result Proved a canonical neighborhood theorem for mean curvature flow in dimensions n5n \geq 5.

A user-friendly interface constructs effective background knowledge from ER diagrams.

problem Inefficient construction of background knowledge by domain experts in ILP systems.
method Design of a graphical user interface to interact with Entity Relationship diagrams to construct modes for a probabilistic logic learning system.
result Domain experts can construct effective background knowledge on par with experts using the graphical interface.

A simplified, user-friendly repackaging of the curvature estimates implied by the Seiberg-Witten equations is formulated in terms of the convex hull of the set of monopole classes. New results are also obtained concerning boundary cases of the resulting forms of the curvature estimates.

2006-11-15abs ↗pdf ↗

GraphAIR improves graph representation learning by capturing non-linear interactions.

problem Challenges in capturing non-linear interactions in graph data.
method Integrates neighborhood aggregation and interaction modeling.
result Demonstrates improved performance on node classification and link prediction tasks.

Optimized method tackles convex optimization with heavy-tailed noise.

problem Convex optimization problems with noisy gradients.
method Vanilla stochastic proximal subgradient method without gradient clipping or normalization.
result Achieves optimal complexity for various convex optimization types under heavy-tailed noise.

Neighborhood sampling affects graph neural network training outcomes.

problem Understanding the impact of neighborhood sampling on graph neural network training.
method Theoretical analysis using neural tangent kernels and Gaussian processes.
result Posterior covariance differs for different neighborhood sampling approaches, indicating no dominant approach.

Learning graph-structured data with graph neural networks (GNNs) has been recently emerging as an important field because of its wide applicability in bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, social network analysis and data mining. Recent GNN algorithms are based on neural message passing, which enables GNNs to integrate loc…

2019-09-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We present novel graph kernels for graphs with node and edge labels that have ordered neighborhoods, i.e. when neighbor nodes follow an order. Graphs with ordered neighborhoods are a natural data representation for evolving graphs where edges are created over time, which induces an order. Combining convolutional subgra…

2018-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

HMQ improves quantization for edge devices with mixed precision.

problem Efficient quantization for edge devices with uniform, power-of-two thresholds.
method Introduces HMQ, a mixed precision quantization block that repurposes Gumbel-Softmax for searching over quantization schemes.
result Achieves competitive and state-of-the-art results on ImageNet despite restrictions.

This article is one of three highly influential articles on the topology of manifolds written by Robert D. Edwards in the 1970's but never published. Organizers of the Workshops in Geometric Topology (http://www.uwm.edu/~craigg/workshopgtt.htm) with the support of the National Science Foundation have facilitated the pr…

2009-04-29abs ↗pdf ↗

TNC learns time series representations by leveraging temporal neighborhoods.

problem Complex, unlabeled time series data.
method Temporal Neighborhood Coding (TNC) with a debiased contrastive objective.
result TNC outperforms other unsupervised methods in time series clustering and classification.

This paper sets a lower limit for the size of Weinstein's Lagrangian tubular neighborhoods.

problem Finding the minimum size of Weinstein's Lagrangian tubular neighborhoods.
method Using the curvature tensor and second fundamental form of the submanifold.
result Explicit lower bounds for the radii of tubular neighborhoods are derived.