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48 results for Local features

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…

2018-11-12abs ↗pdf ↗

FSL-Net detects and localizes feature shifts in large, high-dimensional datasets.

problem Feature shifts between data sources lead to erroneous features in various applications.
method FSL-Net is a neural network trained on multiple datasets to localize feature shifts.
result FSL-Net accurately localizes feature shifts from unseen datasets without re-training.

Although the recent progress in the deep neural network has led to the development of learnable local feature descriptors, there is no explicit answer for estimation of the necessary size of a neural network. Specifically, the local feature is represented in a low dimensional space, so the neural network should have mo…

2017-06-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper presents a novel approach for global feature aggregation in Graph Neural Networks.

problem Graphs lack a straightforward way to perform non-local feature aggregation like images and texts.
method Utilizes Latent Fixed Data Structure (LFDS) to aggregate feature vectors from local extraction.
result Proposed methods achieve competitive or better results with linear computational complexity.

This paper introduces a family of local feature aggregation functions and a novel method to estimate their parameters, such that they generate optimal representations for classification (or any task that can be expressed as a cost function minimization problem). To achieve that, we compose the local feature aggregation…

2017-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

New method identifies important features and interactions in RF models.

problem Limited theoretical understanding of local feature and interaction importance in RF models.
method Combines global and local analysis to identify frequent feature co-occurrences.
result Proves consistent recovery of true local signal features and interactions.

Study of local optima in neural networks for feature interactions.

problem NNs struggle with local optima in feature interactions for small datasets.
method Proposed a node pruning and feature selection algorithm to improve NN performance.
result NNs have many non-equivalent local optima in XOR-like data with irrelevant variables.

GOLFS selects features for clustering by combining global and local information.

problem Feature selection for high-dimensional clustering without labels.
method Combines global and local information via manifold learning and regularized self-representation.
result Improves feature selection and clustering accuracy.

BagNet classifies images using local features, making decisions clearer and more understandable.

problem Understanding how deep neural networks make decisions is difficult.
method BagNet is a variant of ResNet-50 that classifies images based on local features without spatial ordering.
result BagNet achieves high accuracy on ImageNet (87.6% top-5 for 33 x 33 px features).

Develops a method to interpret deep learning models by identifying key features.

problem Revealing the decision-making process of blackbox models from raw data to predictions.
method Adversarial attacks to localize discriminative features with statistical guarantees.
result Locally identified features are both biologically plausible and statistically significant.

Gradient descent learns useful features even in the NTK regime.

problem The ability of neural networks to learn useful features.
method Local convergence analysis of gradient descent with regularization.
result Gradient descent can capture ground-truth directions for feature learning even after the loss threshold is reached.

LOCO-Reg improves CNN accuracy by promoting feature cohesion near filter centers.

problem Current regularization schemes in CNNs violate the principle that weights near the center of a filter are larger than weights on the outside.
method Introduces Locality-Promoting Regularization (LOCO-Reg) to correct this issue.
result LOCO-Reg yields accuracy gains across multiple architectures and datasets.

SVM with local features improves human action recognition.

problem Improving human action recognition in videos.
method Local appearance and motion features extracted using CNNs, concatenated, and used with SVM for classification.
result SVM with local features outperforms previous methods on benchmark datasets.

Paper develops a method to identify feature subspaces contributing to local data complexity.

problem Identifying feature subspaces that contribute to local data complexity.
method Develops an estimator of Local Intrinsic Dimension (LID) along axis projections to identify feature subspaces.
result Preliminary evidence suggests LID decomposition can indicate axis-aligned data subspaces supporting cluster formation.

This paper improves image super-resolution by integrating cross-scale non-local attention.

problem Improving image super-resolution by leveraging long-range and cross-scale feature correlations.
method Proposes a Cross-Scale Non-Local (CS-NL) attention module integrated into a recurrent neural network.
result Significantly improved performance on SISR benchmarks.

Local MDI+ improves feature importance for tree-based models, enhancing interpretability and performance.

problem Lack of instance-specific feature importance for tree-based models.
method Local MDI+ extends MDI+ framework to provide instance-specific feature importances.
result Local MDI+ outperforms existing baselines, improving predictive performance by 10%.

NormLIME improves feature importance explanations for deep neural networks.

problem Improving local feature explanations for deep learning models.
method NormLIME aggregates local models into global and class-specific interpretations.
result NormLIME outperforms other feature importance metrics in human user studies and numerical experiments.

A theory of feature geometry using spectral analysis of weight matrices.

problem Current methods decompose neural network activations into sparse linear features, losing geometric structure.
method Develops a theory by analyzing the spectra of weight-derived matrices, introducing the frame operator.
result Features collapse onto single eigenspaces, organizing into tight frames, and admit discrete classification.

Study models deep learning training dynamics using locally elastic SDEs to reveal feature separability.

problem Understanding how deep learning models separate features from different classes during training.
method Modeling deep learning training using locally elastic SDEs with a drift term reflecting backpropagation impact.
result Local elasticity in SDEs leads to linear separability of features, resulting in vanishing training loss.

FedCONST adapts update magnitudes to enhance feature generalization in FL.

problem Heterogeneous client data in FL leads to overfitting and distorted transferable features.
method FedCONST uses linear convex constraints to stabilize training and preserve generalization.
result FedCONST enhances feature transferability and robustness, achieving state-of-the-art performance.

HKConv learns hyperbolic features by aggregating kernel points.

problem Challenges in learning good hyperbolic representations using Euclidean operations.
method Proposes HKConv, a trainable hyperbolic convolution that correlates local features with kernel points and aggregates them.
result HKConv learns expressive local features according to hyperbolic geometry and enjoys equivariance to permutation and invariance to parallel transport.

DNNs improve localization from channel estimates, overcoming practical impairments.

problem Improving localization accuracy from channel estimates in Massive MIMO systems.
method Principled feature design for DNNs invariant to practical impairments.
result DNN achieves high localization accuracy and generalization capability.

In recent years, a large amount of model-agnostic methods to improve the transparency, trustability and interpretability of machine learning models have been developed. We introduce local feature importance as a local version of a recent model-agnostic global feature importance method. Based on local feature importance…

2018-04-18abs ↗pdf ↗

GADGET framework decomposes global feature effects using recursive partitioning.

problem Misleading global feature effects when feature interactions are present.
method Generalized additive decomposition of global effects (GADGET) based on recursive partitioning.
result Minimizes interaction-related heterogeneity of local feature effects.

LASE improves local network structure visualization by targeting locally low-dimensional regions.

problem Global spectral embedding fails to capture local geometric features in sparse, transitive networks.
method Local Adjacency Spectral Embedding (LASE) using weighted spectral decomposition.
result LASE reveals locally low-dimensional structure, improving local reconstruction and visualization.

This paper presents a spermwhale' localization architecture using jointly a bag-of-features (BoF) approach and machine learning framework. BoF methods are known, especially in computer vision, to produce from a collection of local features a global representation invariant to principal signal transformations. Our idea …

2013-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Combines global and local features for better social circle prediction in ego-networks.

problem Efficiently analyzing ego-networks with hidden local structures.
method Evolved deep learning techniques to capture both global and local network features.
result Social circle prediction benefits from a combination of global and local features.

In recent years, many publications showed that convolutional neural network based features can have a superior performance to engineered features. However, not much effort was taken so far to extract local features efficiently for a whole image. In this paper, we present an approach to compute patch-based local feature…

2018-05-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Linear dimensionality reduction techniques are powerful tools for image analysis as they allow the identification of important features in a data set. In particular, nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has become very popular as it is able to extract sparse, localized and easily interpretable features by imposing an…

2015-05-26abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we propose and study random maxout features, which are constructed by first projecting the input data onto sets of randomly generated vectors with Gaussian elements, and then outputing the maximum projection value for each set. We show that the resulting random feature map, when used in conjunction with …

2015-06-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Compact bilinear pooling approximates covariance features for faster training.

problem Efficiently approximating covariance features for faster training.
method Compact bilinear pooling extended to polynomial approximations of covariance features.
result The proposed method achieves comparable accuracy with fewer dimensions.

CaLoNet integrates spatial and local correlations for multivariate time series classification.

problem Ignoring spatial and local correlations in multivariate time series classification.
method Model spatial correlations using causality modeling, extract local correlations, integrate into graph neural network.
result Competitive performance compared to state-of-the-art methods on UEA datasets.