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48 results for Noisy Contexts

Thompson Sampling tackles noisy context in stochastic bandits.

problem Designing an action policy for noisy, corrupted contexts in stochastic bandits.
method Introducing a Thompson Sampling algorithm for Gaussian bandits with Gaussian context noise, adopting an information-theoretic analysis.
result Demonstrates the Bayesian regret of the proposed algorithm concerning the oracle's action policy.

This study uses ICL to efficiently generate robust confidence intervals for noisy regression tasks.

problem Uncertainty quantification for in-context learning in noisy regression tasks.
method Proposes a method based on conformal prediction to construct prediction intervals with guaranteed coverage.
result Conformal prediction with in-context learning (CP with ICL) achieves robust and scalable uncertainty estimates.

Transformers can learn noisy linear systems with depth and IID data.

problem Learning noisy linear dynamical systems with transformers.
method Theoretical analysis of multi-layer and single-layer transformers with respect to L2L^2-testing loss.
result Single-layer transformers have a non-diminishing lower bound on approximation error, suggesting depth separation.

Paper studies zero-sum games with noisy observations and identifies equilibrium conditions.

problem Zero-sum games with noisy observations of the leader's actions.
method Analyzes the equilibrium of games with noisy action observability, identifies necessary conditions for uniqueness, and investigates the cardinality of best responses.
result The noisy observations significantly impact the cardinality of the follower's set of best responses, and under certain conditions, this set becomes a singleton almost surely.

This research tackles unsupervised topic extraction in noisy social media data.

problem Capturing customer insights from social media data is challenging due to noise and heterogeneity.
method The research presents three nonparametric approaches based on the Variational Autoencoder framework: Embedded Dirichlet Process, Embedded Hierarchical Dirichlet Process, and time-aware Dynamic Embedded Dirichlet Process.
result The models achieve equal to better performance than state-of-the-art methods in topic extraction from noisy social media data.

Compressed LLM embeddings improve noisy regression tasks without overfitting.

problem Noisy regression tasks with high signal-to-noise ratios.
method Comparison of embedding compression techniques using autoencoder hidden representations.
result Compression improves performance on noisy tasks like financial return prediction.

Learning from unlabeled and noisy data is one of the grand challenges of machine learning. As such, it has seen a flurry of research with new ideas proposed continuously. In this work, we revisit a classical idea: Stein's Unbiased Risk Estimator (SURE). We show that, in the context of image recovery, SURE and its gener…

2018-05-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Noisy labels often occur in vision datasets, especially when they are obtained from crowdsourcing or Web scraping. We propose a new regularization method, which enables learning robust classifiers in presence of noisy data. To achieve this goal, we propose a new adversarial regularization scheme based on the Wasserstei…

2019-04-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We analyze the KK-armed bandit problem where the reward for each arm is a noisy realization based on an observed context under mild nonparametric assumptions. We attain tight results for top-arm identification and a sublinear regret of O~(T1+D2+D)\widetilde{O}\Big(T^{\frac{1+D}{2+D}}\Big), where DD is the context dimension, f…

2018-01-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Entity linking is the task of mapping potentially ambiguous terms in text to their constituent entities in a knowledge base like Wikipedia. This is useful for organizing content, extracting structured data from textual documents, and in machine learning relevance applications like semantic search, knowledge graph const…

2018-07-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Low dimensional embeddings that capture the main variations of interest in collections of data are important for many applications. One way to construct these embeddings is to acquire estimates of similarity from the crowd. However, similarity is a multi-dimensional concept that varies from individual to individual. Ex…

2017-09-22abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper explores fair machine learning policies for balancing competing objectives in noisy data.

problem Balancing competing objectives in noisy data.
method Analyzes a class of policies that trace an empirical Pareto frontier based on learned scores.
result Characterizes optimal strategies and bounds Pareto errors due to score inaccuracies.

New oracles improve stochastic optimization with noisy or biased measurements.

problem Optimizing functions with noisy or biased measurements.
method Introduced biased gradient oracles for stochastic optimization, analyzed RSG and SGD algorithms with these oracles.
result Derived non-asymptotic bounds for convergence rates of algorithms with biased gradient oracles.

A federated learning algorithm tackles unknown contexts in multi-arm bandits.

problem Learning optimal actions in federated multi-arm bandits with unobserved contexts.
method Elimination-based algorithm for linearly parametrized reward functions.
result Proved regret bound for linearly parametrized reward functions.

Attention-only transformers learn from context via two stages of inference.

problem Learning from corrupted token sequences in minimal transformers.
method Two-stage empirical Bayes interpretation: kernel-weighted posterior mean and particle dynamics.
result Effective denoising without explicit noise schedules, showing posterior-mean recovery under asymptotic conditions.

Multi-head attention outperforms single-head in in-context linear regression tasks.

problem Comparing performance of transformer with single-/multi-head attention in in-context learning.
method Theoretical analysis of performance of transformers with different attention mechanisms in linear regression tasks.
result Multi-head attention with a substantial embedding dimension outperforms single-head attention in in-context linear regression tasks.

Transformers enable in-context learning with guarantees for a wide range of tasks.

problem How to enable in-context learning with transformers for various tasks.
method Developed a universal approximation theory integrating Barron's function approximation with transformer capabilities.
result Transformers can approximate any target function with vanishingly small risk using a few in-context examples.

Paper tackles federated linear bandit learning with AirComp for noisy channels.

problem Minimize cumulative regret in federated linear bandit learning.
method Proposes a federated linear bandits scheme using over-the-air computation (AirComp) over noisy fading channels.
result Determines the regret bound of the proposed scheme.

Study improves estimation of functions from noisy data using convex penalties.

problem Estimating functions from noisy point evaluations of linear operators.
method Tikhonov regularization with convex and pp-homogeneous penalty functionals.
result Derives concentration rates for regularized solutions in symmetric Bregman distance.

Method separates target signal properties from noisy mixtures.

problem Signal recovery from noisy mixtures with specific statistical properties.
method Statistical component separation method using noise samples and matching statistics.
result Method outperforms standard denoising methods in recovering target signal properties.

Framework for Bayesian inference using GP emulated MH sampler for noisy likelihoods.

problem Approximate Bayesian inference with limited noisy log-likelihood evaluations.
method Gaussian process emulates MH sampler for log-likelihood evaluations; sequential experimental design selects evaluation points.
result Approximate sampler is sample-efficient and robust to GP assumptions.

A new algorithm optimizes unknown functions with noisy data and unmatched features.

problem Sequentially maximizing a function with unknown and noisy data and features not under control.
method Bayesian conditional mean embedding and Gaussian process for uncertainty.
result Empirically outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms.

Transformers can adaptively select and perform various machine learning tasks in context.

problem Transformers' ability to perform multiple machine learning tasks without explicit prompting.
method Statistical theory and efficient implementation of in-context gradient descent, enabling transformers to implement various algorithms and tasks.
result Transformers can implement a broad class of standard machine learning algorithms in context, including algorithm selection.

Study improves resilience against adversarial clean-label attacks in real and noisy settings.

problem Ensuring accurate predictions in the presence of adversarial clean-label samples.
method Sequential learning from a stream of i.i.d. data, allowing abstention for uncertain predictions.
result Theoretical analysis and adaptations for the agnostic setting with a clean-label adversary and noise.

LangDA improves domain adaptation for semantic segmentation by learning context-aware scene descriptions.

problem Improving domain adaptation for semantic segmentation with dense prediction tasks.
method LangDA learns contextual relationships between objects via VLM-generated scene descriptions and aligns image features with text representation.
result LangDA sets new state-of-the-art across three DASS benchmarks, outperforming existing methods.

Attention temperature improves robustness of ICL in high-dimensional settings.

problem ICL robustness failure under distribution shift in high dimensions.
method Analyzed a Transformer with approximate softmax attention, derived a closed-form error expression, and showed optimal temperature minimizes error.
result Optimal attention temperature minimizes ICL generalization error under distribution shift.

Model detects patterns in noisy binary data, explaining neuron activity in terms of cell assemblies.

problem Detecting structure in noisy or approximate repeats of patterns in sparse binary data.
method Probabilistic binary latent variable model based on Noisy-OR model, inferring sparse activity in latent variables.
result Model successfully extracts and explains latent structure in spiking neural data.

Market-GAN adds context control to financial market data generation.

problem Lack of context labels and precision in generating context-aligned financial data.
method Proposes Contextual Market Dataset and Market-GAN architecture integrating GAN, autoencoder, and supervisors.
result Market-GAN outperforms state-of-the-art models in Dow Jones data generation.

Algorithm minimizes regret in dueling bandits with contextualized utilities.

problem Minimizing regret in dueling bandits with context-dependent utilities.
method Proposes CoLSTIM algorithm based on perturbed utility estimates.
result Achieves regret of order ildeO(dT) ilde O(\sqrt{dT}).

This paper recovers smooth functions from noisy modulo samples using a three-stage strategy.

problem Recovering Hölder smooth functions from noisy modulo samples.
method Three-stage strategy: denoising with local polynomial estimators, unwrapping, and spline-based quasi-interpolant.
result Uniform error rates for Hölder class functions with high probability.

High-dimensional time series prediction is needed in applications as diverse as demand forecasting and climatology. Often, such applications require methods that are both highly scalable, and deal with noisy data in terms of corruptions or missing values. Classical time series methods usually fall short of handling bot…

2015-09-28abs ↗pdf ↗