Transformers learn to integrate information from past positions incrementally, specializing heads in distinct patterns.
problem How transformers learn to integrate information from multiple past positions with varying statistical significance.
method High-order Markov chain task, incremental learning, sparse attention patterns, simplified differential equations, stage-wise convergence, early stopping as regularizer.
result Transformers learn to specialize heads in distinct patterns, shifting from competitive to cooperative learning dynamics.
Efficiently processes dynamic inputs in AI writing assistants with incremental computation.
problem Efficiently updating AI models in real-time with dynamic inputs.
method Incremental computing using vector quantization to filter and reuse intermediate values in neural networks.
result Comparable accuracy with 12.1X fewer operations for processing dynamic inputs.
The price of financial assets are, since Bachelier, considered to be described by a (discrete or continuous) time sequence of random variables, i.e a stochastic process. Sharp scaling exponents or unifractal behavior of such processes has been reported in several works. In this letter we investigate the question of sca…
A new framework uses an Incremental Transformer to design geopolymer mixtures efficiently.
problem Designing geopolymer mixtures with limited data and physical constraints.
method Topology-aware surrogate framework guided by Incremental Transformer.
result The design space is redundant, with fewer effective mixture regimes.
Vehicle recognition and classification have broad applications, ranging from traffic flow management to military target identification. We demonstrate an unsupervised method for automated identification of moving vehicles from roadside audio sensors. Using a short-time Fourier transform to decompose audio signals, we t…
This paper describes some applications of an incremental implementation of the principal component analysis (PCA). The algorithm updates the transformation coefficients matrix on-line for each new sample, without the need to keep all the samples in memory. The algorithm is formally equivalent to the usual batch version…
Imputation-free method learns tabular data with missing values using transformer.
problem Machine learning on tabular data with missing values often leads to unreliable outcomes due to synthetic imputation.
method Incremental attention learning (IFIAL) using transformer with attention masks.
result IFIAL outperforms state-of-the-art methods in 17 diverse tabular data sets.
Data is continuously generated by modern data sources, and a recent challenge in machine learning has been to develop techniques that perform well in an incremental (streaming) setting. In this paper, we investigate the problem of private machine learning, where as common in practice, the data is not given at once, but…
FISHDBC is a flexible, incremental, scalable, and hierarchical density-based clustering algorithm. It is flexible because it empowers users to work on arbitrary data, skipping the feature extraction step that usually transforms raw data in numeric arrays letting users define an arbitrary distance function instead. It i…
Efficient algorithm removes redundant nodes and obsolete samples in machine learning.
problem Pruning redundant nodes and removing obsolete training samples in machine learning.
method Deduced decremented learning algorithms from incremental learning algorithms, using inverse Cholesterol factor and unitary transformation.
result Proposed decremented learning algorithms efficiently prune redundant nodes and remove obsolete training samples.
Method estimates causal effects from incremental data, overcoming missing data challenges.
problem Estimating causal effects from non-stationary, incrementally available observational data.
method Continual Causal Effect Representation Learning
result Method achieves continual causal effect estimation without compromising original data.
In class-incremental learning, a model learns continuously from a sequential data stream in which new classes occur. Existing methods often rely on static architectures that are manually crafted. These methods can be prone to capacity saturation because a neural network's ability to generalize to new concepts is limite…
We apply neural nets with ReLU gates in online reinforcement learning. Our goal is to train these networks in an incremental manner, without the computationally expensive experience replay. By studying how individual neural nodes behave in online training, we recognize that the global nature of ReLU gates can cause und…
MASnet enhances speech on mobile devices with low latency.
problem Efficiently enhancing speech on mobile devices with low latency.
method MASnet processes linear-scale spectrograms, using ratio masks to enhance noisy frames, and operates in low-latency incremental inference mode.
result MASnet achieves efficient speech enhancement with low latency, reducing FMA/s operations.
A new method for estimating density ratios using geodesics on statistical manifolds.
problem Stability of density ratio estimation when distributions are distant.
method Iterative sampling along generalized geodesics on the Riemannian manifold.
result The proposed method outperforms existing incremental mixture methods.
The smallest eigenvalues and the associated eigenvectors (i.e., eigenpairs) of a graph Laplacian matrix have been widely used for spectral clustering and community detection. However, in real-life applications the number of clusters or communities (say, K) is generally unknown a-priori. Consequently, the majority of …
In this paper we study the exponential functionals of the processes X with independent increments , namely It=∫0texp(−Xs)ds,,t≥0, and also I∞=∫0∞exp(−Xs)ds. When X is a semi-martingale with absolutely continuous characteristics, we derive recurrent integral equat…
The smallest eigenvalues and the associated eigenvectors (i.e., eigenpairs) of a graph Laplacian matrix have been widely used in spectral clustering and community detection. However, in real-life applications the number of clusters or communities (say, K) is generally unknown a-priori. Consequently, the majority of t…
The paper introduces revenue uplift modeling to maximize marketing profits.
problem Maximizing incremental sales versus maximizing incremental revenue in marketing campaigns.
method Response transformation and two-stage models to decompose campaign profit.
result Revenue uplift modeling can improve campaign profit substantially.
Paper develops methods for estimating and simulating a Student-t Lévy regression model.
problem Estimation and simulation of Student-t Lévy process with arbitrary degrees of freedom.
method Develops a two-step estimation procedure and simulates increments using inverse Fourier transform.
result Efficient estimation and simulation methods for Student-t Lévy process.
We introduce incremental variational inference and apply it to latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA). Incremental variational inference is inspired by incremental EM and provides an alternative to stochastic variational inference. Incremental LDA can process massive document collections, does not require to set a learning …
Deep Transformed Gaussian Processes extend TGPs with variational inference for scalable multi-layer modeling.
problem Flexible modeling of complex data distributions.
method DTGPs are a multi-layer model of TGPs using variational inference for scalability.
result DTGPs achieve good scalability and performance in multiple regression datasets.
EML model tackles evolving features in online metric learning.
problem Challenges in applying metric learning to evolving features.
method Develops a new Evolving Metric Learning (EML) model for incremental and decremental features.
result EML model handles instance and feature evolutions simultaneously.
Improves few-shot learning for hierarchical data using hyperbolic space.
problem Few-shot class-incremental learning for hierarchical data.
method Contrastive learning in hyperbolic space, Poincaré ball model, hyperbolic contrastive loss, maximum entropy distribution.
result Effective improvement of coarse and fine class accuracies in few-shot conditions.
Paper proposes faster incremental subclass discriminant analysis.
problem Efficiently classify subclasses in incremental data.
method Exact and approximate linear and kernelized solutions.
result Superior training time and accuracy compared to existing methods.
Time and Sales of corn futures traded electronically on the CME Group Globex are studied. Theories of continuous prices turn upside down reality of intra-day trading. Prices and their increments are discrete and obey lattice probability distributions. A function for systematic evolution of futures trading volume is pro…
Develops a new model for pricing without arbitrage opportunities.
problem Arbitrage opportunities in standard jump-diffusion models.
method Introduces a multi-type jump-diffusion model with diffusion-dependent jumps.
result Derives no-arbitrage condition linking drift to model parameters.
Paper tackles few-shot class-incremental learning with a neural gas network.
problem Incrementally learn new classes from very few labelled samples without forgetting old classes.
method Proposes TOPIC framework using a neural gas network to preserve class topology and adapt to new samples.
result Significantly outperforms other methods on CIFAR100, miniImageNet, and CUB200 datasets.
Validation is one of the most important aspects of clustering, but most approaches have been batch methods. Recently, interest has grown in providing incremental alternatives. This paper extends the incremental cluster validity index (iCVI) family to include incremental versions of Calinski-Harabasz (iCH), I index and …
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.
A new model learns preferences incrementally without personal data.
problem Incremental session-based recommendation without personal data.
method Memory Augmented Neural model (MAN) that combines a neural recommender with a nonparametric memory.
result MAN consistently outperforms existing methods in incremental session-based recommendation.
Incremental versions of batch algorithms are often desired, for increased time efficiency in the streaming data setting, or increased memory efficiency in general. In this paper we present a novel algorithm for incremental kernel PCA, based on rank one updates to the eigendecomposition of the kernel matrix, which is mo…
This paper introduces Deep Incremental Boosting, a new technique derived from AdaBoost, specifically adapted to work with Deep Learning methods, that reduces the required training time and improves generalisation. We draw inspiration from Transfer of Learning approaches to reduce the start-up time to training each incr…
Paper proposes CNE-net to tackle incremental learning in (T)ACSA tasks.
problem Catastrophic forgetting in multi-task incremental learning for (T)ACSA.
method Category Name Embedding network (CNE-net) with shared encoder and decoder.
result State-of-the-art performance on (T)ACSA benchmark datasets.
This paper presents a novel approach for incremental semiparametric inverse dynamics learning. In particular, we consider the mixture of two approaches: Parametric modeling based on rigid body dynamics equations and nonparametric modeling based on incremental kernel methods, with no prior information on the mechanical …
GraphSAIL updates GNN-based recommender models incrementally to reduce computation time and improve frequent updates.
problem Incremental updates in GNN-based recommender systems are computationally expensive and prone to forgetting.
method GraphSAIL uses a graph structure preservation strategy to update GNN models incrementally, preserving long-term preferences and properties.
result GraphSAIL reduces computation time and improves frequent updates compared to other incremental learning techniques.
A leading hypothesis for the surprising generalization of neural networks is that the dynamics of gradient descent bias the model towards simple solutions, by searching through the solution space in an incremental order of complexity. We formally define the notion of incremental learning dynamics and derive the conditi…
We propose an algorithm for incremental learning of classifiers. The proposed method enables an ensemble of classifiers to learn incrementally by accommodating new training data. We use an effective mechanism to overcome the stability-plasticity dilemma. In incremental learning, the general convention is to use only th…
We analyze the question whether sliding window time averages applied to stationary increment processes converge to a limit in probability. The question centers on averages, correlations, and densities constructed via time averages of the increment x(t,T)=x(t+T)-x(t)and the assumption is that the increment is distribute…
New algorithm improves on EM for streaming data, outperforming existing methods.
problem Processing high-volume, streaming data efficiently.
method Incremental stochastic Majorization-Minimization (MM) algorithm.
result The algorithm converges to a stationary point with vanishing gradient.
Incremental clustering approaches have been proposed for handling large data when given data set is too large to be stored. The key idea of these approaches is to find representatives to represent each cluster in each data chunk and final data analysis is carried out based on those identified representatives from all t…
It was recently shown that architectural, regularization and rehearsal strategies can be used to train deep models sequentially on a number of disjoint tasks without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. However, these strategies are still unsatisfactory if the tasks are not disjoint but constitute a single increme…
Tensor decompositions are invaluable tools in analyzing multimodal datasets. In many real-world scenarios, such datasets are far from being static, to the contrary they tend to grow over time. For instance, in an online social network setting, as we observe new interactions over time, our dataset gets updated in its "t…
A new generative classification strategy outperforms existing methods in class-incremental learning.
problem Incrementally training deep neural networks to recognize new classes is challenging.
method Proposes learning the joint distribution p(x,y) and performing classification using Bayes' rule, implemented with variational autoencoders and importance sampling.
result Performs very well on continual learning benchmarks, outperforming existing baselines.
The statistical properties of the increments x(t+T) - x(t) of a financial time series depend on the time resolution T on which the increments are considered. A non-parametric approach is used to study the scale dependence of the empirical distribution of the price increments x(t+T) - x(t) of S&P Index futures, for time…
For classification of the high frequency trading quantities, waiting times, price increments within and between sessions are referred to as the a-, b-, and c-increments. Statistics of the a-b-c-increments are computed for the Time & Sales records posted by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group for the futures traded on…
Knowledge graph construction consists of two tasks: extracting information from external resources (knowledge population) and inferring missing information through a statistical analysis on the extracted information (knowledge completion). In many cases, insufficient external resources in the knowledge population hinde…
Paper improves privacy-preserving measurement of advertising incrementality.
problem Privacy degradation in randomized lift tests for advertising measurement.
method Formulates a robust causal decision problem under signal losses, projecting clean worlds onto incrementality.
result Sharp decision frontier shows valid certification or rejection outside the frontier.