Bayesian active learning improves holistic educational assessments.
problem Gap between holistic CJ and criterion-based rubrics in education.
method Extends Bayesian CJ to handle multiple LO components, using entropy-based active learning.
result Enhanced predictive rankings with uncertainty estimates and quantified assessor agreement.
HEAR benchmark evaluates audio representations for diverse tasks.
problem Developing a general-purpose audio representation for various tasks.
method Evaluated 29 models across 19 tasks using 16 datasets.
result No single audio representation performs holistically.
Holistic GLMs add constraints for better model quality.
problem Improving classical linear regression models.
method Sparsity-inducing, sign-coherence, and linear constraints.
result Holistic GLMs reliably solve GLMs for various responses.
Paper assesses holistic risks of inference attacks on ML models.
problem Lack of comprehensive risk assessment of inference attacks on ML models.
method Presented a threat model taxonomy for four inference attacks on five model architectures and four image datasets.
result Complexity of training dataset influences attack performance; model stealing and membership inference attacks are negatively correlated.
Framework audits synthetic datasets for trustworthiness across various use cases.
problem Assessing the trustworthiness of synthetic datasets and models.
method Holistic auditing framework focusing on bias, fidelity, utility, robustness, and privacy.
result Introduces a trustworthiness index and model selection process for controllable trade-offs.
Unsupervised domain adaptation methods aim to alleviate performance degradation caused by domain-shift by learning domain-invariant representations. Existing deep domain adaptation methods focus on holistic feature alignment by matching source and target holistic feature distributions, without considering local feature…
New holistic approach measures sample-level adversarial vulnerability for trustworthy systems.
problem Inherent bias in adversarial attacks across subgroups.
method Combining high-frequency feature reliance and sample-distance to decision boundary.
result Holistic approach improves adversarial vulnerability estimation and system trustworthiness.
Risk is part of the fabric of every business; surprisingly, there is little work on establishing best practices for systematic, repeatable risk identification, arguably the first step of any risk management process. In this paper, we present a proposal that constitutes a more holistic risk management approach, a method…
We propose a new scalable algorithm for holistic linear regression building on Bertsimas & King (2016). Specifically, we develop new theory to model significance and multicollinearity as lazy constraints rather than checking the conditions iteratively. The resulting algorithm scales with the number of samples n in th…
The paper introduces ESE scores for farmers to assess climate change risks.
problem Assessing climate change risks in individual farmers' credit evaluations.
method Integrating ESG variables into joint liability models and using a mean-variance utility function.
result Optimal group sizes and individual-ESE score relationships under various climatic conditions.
This paper proposes a new approach to RL by focusing on the value-improvement path.
problem Value prediction problems in RL are sequence-dependent and require holistic approach.
method Characterize and approximate the value-improvement path holistically.
result A representation that spans the value-improvement path provides accurate value approximations for future policy improvements.
MARS-Gym framework for marketplaces to train and evaluate recommender systems.
problem Challenges in designing, training, and evaluating recommender systems in marketplaces.
method Open-source framework for Reinforcement Learning agents in marketplaces.
result Empowers researchers and engineers to quickly build and evaluate agents for recommendations.
Generic generation and manipulation of text is challenging and has limited success compared to recent deep generative modeling in visual domain. This paper aims at generating plausible natural language sentences, whose attributes are dynamically controlled by learning disentangled latent representations with designated…
P3I learns holistic scene representations from a single image.
problem Inferring camera poses, object locations, and global scene structures from a single image.
method Combines search-based and gradient-based algorithms.
result P3I outperforms baselines on various image manipulation tasks.
Paper proposes a holistic optimization for civil structures considering uncertainties.
problem Designing civil structures requires integration of material and structural design.
method Holistic optimization combining concrete mixture design and structural simulations.
result Inverted workflow allows consideration of new mixtures and uncertainties.
This paper presents the first use of graph neural networks (GNNs) for higher-order proof search and demonstrates that GNNs can improve upon state-of-the-art results in this domain. Interactive, higher-order theorem provers allow for the formalization of most mathematical theories and have been shown to pose a significa…
Recently, deep neural networks have demonstrated excellent performances in recognizing the age and gender on human face images. However, these models were applied in a black-box manner with no information provided about which facial features are actually used for prediction and how these features depend on image prepro…
Optimizes fund portfolio updates using linear programming and heuristic search.
problem Efficiently updating mutual fund portfolios with various instruments.
method Linear programming and heuristic search approaches.
result Cost improvements over traditional methods.
Paper tackles leverage effect estimation from noisy data.
problem Estimating leverage effect from high-frequency data with microstructure noise.
method Holistic multi-scale framework operating directly on leverage effect, using Subsampling-and-Averaging Leverage Effect (SALE) and Multi-Scale Leverage Effect (MSLE) estimators.
result Holistic multi-scale framework achieves substantial efficiency gains over existing benchmarks.
Holistic Filter Pruning reduces DNN complexity efficiently.
problem Redundant parameters in deep neural networks.
method Holistic Filter Pruning (HFP) for efficient DNN training.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance with 60% reduction in multiplications on ImageNet.
FinReflectKG - EvalBench benchmarks financial KG extraction from SEC 10-K filings.
problem Lack of universal benchmark and evaluation framework for financial KG construction.
method Agentic and holistic evaluation principles, deterministic commit-then-justify judging protocol, binary and ordinal evaluations.
result Reflection-based extraction outperforms single-pass extraction in comprehensiveness, precision, and relevance.
In likelihood-free settings where likelihood evaluations are intractable, approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) addresses the formidable inference task to discover plausible parameters of simulation programs that explain the observations. However, they demand large quantities of simulation calls. Critically, hyperpara…
B-cos transformers explain Vision Transformers' decisions.
problem Lack of holistic explanations for transformer outputs.
method Formulate each component as dynamic linear, allowing a single linear transform for summarization.
result Bcos-ViTs are highly interpretable and competitive on ImageNet.
A scalable DL benchmarking platform for evaluating and comparing models, frameworks, and hardware.
problem Lack of a uniform DL benchmarking platform for evaluating and comparing innovations.
method Identified 10 design features for a DL benchmarking platform, proposed MLModelScope, and implemented as an open-source project.
result Demonstrated how model, hardware, and framework selection affect accuracy and performance under different scenarios.
FinReflectKG builds a comprehensive financial knowledge graph from SEC filings, improving extraction quality.
problem Lack of large-scale, open-source financial knowledge graph datasets.
method Intelligent document parsing, table-aware chunking, schema-guided iterative extraction, reflection-driven feedback loop.
result Reflection-agent-based mode achieves best balance of efficiency, accuracy, and reliability.
This study optimizes quantized neural networks by considering model architecture and quantization types.
problem Optimizing quantized neural networks for low-power, high-throughput applications.
method Holistic approach including training methods and quantization-friendly architecture design.
result Deeper models are more sensitive to activation quantization, while wider models improve resilience to both weight and activation quantization.
New approach to fairness in machine learning models using conformal prediction.
problem Fairness in machine learning models' downstream decision-making.
method Theoretical derivation and empirical evaluation of label-clustered conformal prediction.
result Label-clustered conformal prediction often provides a favorable balance between utility and substantive fairness.
We investigate the forecasting ability of the most commonly used benchmarks in financial economics. We approach the usual caveats of probabilistic forecasts studies -small samples, limited models and non-holistic validations- by performing a comprehensive comparison of 15 predictive schemes during a time period of over…
Designs a robust data-driven decision-making model to handle multiple overfitting sources.
problem Overfitting in data-driven models due to statistical error, data noise, and data misspecification.
method Holistic distributionally robust optimization formulation combining Kullback-Leibler and Lévy-Prokhorov approaches.
result Guaranteed holistic protection against statistical error, data noise, and data misspecification.
The paper proposes a method to calibrate healthcare AI models for reliability and interpretability.
problem Characterizing model reliability and enabling introspection of model behavior in clinical decision making.
method A calibration-driven learning method combined with interpretability techniques based on counterfactual reasoning.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed approach using a lesion classification problem with dermoscopy images.
We give a short, simple and conceptual proof, based on spin structures, of sphere eversion: an embedded 2-sphere in R3 can be turned inside out by regular homotopy. Ingredients of this eversion are seamlessly connected. We also give the mathematical origins of the proof: the Hopf fibration, and the topological struc…
Data extracted from software repositories is used intensively in Software Engineering research, for example, to predict defects in source code. In our research in this area, with data from open source projects as well as an industrial partner, we noticed several shortcomings of conventional data mining approaches for c…
Proposes a method for ranking items across multiple aspects based on user feedback.
problem No principled solution exists for generating multiple item rankings over different aspects.
method Developed a directional multi-aspect ranking criterion using probabilistic multivariate tensor factorization.
result Demonstrated effectiveness of the proposed method through comprehensive experiments on real datasets.
Article evaluates AI security threats and proposes multiple measures.
problem Threats to AI integrity and security.
method Literature review, analysis of AI supply chain, discussion of mitigations.
result Multiple protective measures are necessary for AI security.
New method adapts to user preferences dynamically, improving recommendation models.
problem Current recommendation models lack dynamic adaptation to changing user preferences.
method Preference Discerning with LLM-Enhanced Generative Retrieval
result Mender achieves state-of-the-art performance in adapting to evolving user preferences.
We discuss recently emerging applications of the state-of-art deep learning methods on optical microscopy and microscopic image reconstruction, which enable new transformations among different modes and modalities of microscopic imaging, driven entirely by image data. We believe that deep learning will fundamentally ch…
Recent advances in visual tracking are based on siamese feature extractors and template matching. For this category of trackers, latest research focuses on better feature embeddings and similarity measures. In this work, we focus on building holistic object representations for tracking. We propose a framework that is d…
Proposes training neural networks to predict uncertainty for out-of-distribution inputs.
problem Poor uncertainty predictions for out-of-distribution inputs limit model robustness.
method Generates pseudo-inputs in low-density regions and trains a Bayesian framework.
result Yields robust and interpretable uncertainty predictions.
DocParser parses document structures from renderings like PDFs and scans.
problem Parsing complete hierarchical document structures from renderings.
method End-to-end system with novel weak supervision approach.
result Significant improvement in document structure parsing performance.
We present a framework based on neural networks to extract music scores directly from polyphonic audio in an end-to-end fashion. Most previous Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) methods seek a piano-roll representation of the pitches, that can be further transformed into a score by incorporating tempo estimation, beat…
We present a new machine learning and text information extraction approach to detection of cyber threat events in Twitter that are novel (previously non-extant) and developing (marked by significance with respect to similarity with a previously detected event). While some existing approaches to event detection measure …
A model integrates CNN and LSTM with LLM for better stock forecasting.
problem Complex stock market prediction with volatile patterns and multifaceted data.
method Two-Level Conv-LSTM Neural Network with LLM for holistic stock advising.
result Improved prediction accuracy and contextual insights.
This work shifts focus from prediction to intervention in social systems.
problem The limitations of focusing solely on prediction in automated decision systems.
method Shift from prediction-focused paradigm to intervention-oriented approach.
result A new perspective unifies statistical frameworks and tools for ADS design, implementation, and evaluation.
PaRCE estimates model confidence for CNNs across various uncertainties.
problem Limited holistic approach to estimating perception model confidence in CNNs.
method Probabilistic and reconstruction-based competency estimation.
result PaRCE best distinguishes between various types of samples and regions.
This paper provides a holistic study of how stock prices vary in their response to financial disclosures across different topics. Thereby, we specifically shed light into the extensive amount of filings for which no a priori categorization of their content exists. For this purpose, we utilize an approach from data mini…
EQ-Net combines LLR estimation and quantization using deep learning.
problem Unified solution for LLR estimation and quantization.
method Two-stage algorithm using LLR compression as a pretext task.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results with gains in efficiency and latency.
FinMaster benchmarks LLMs in financial tasks, revealing gaps in reasoning.
problem Challenges in financial tasks, including labor-intensive processes and low error tolerance.
method Developed a comprehensive financial benchmark (FinMaster) with three modules: FinSim, FinSuite, and FinEval.
result LLMs struggle with complex financial reasoning, showing significant accuracy drops.
We take the holistic approach of computing an OTC claim value that incorporates credit and funding liquidity risks and their interplays, instead of forcing individual price adjustments: CVA, DVA, FVA, KVA. The resulting nonlinear mathematical problem features semilinear PDEs and FBSDEs. We show that for the benchmark v…