Though used extensively, the concept and process of machine learning (ML) personalization have generally received little attention from academics, practitioners, and the general public. We describe the ML approach as relying on the metaphor of the person as a feature vector and contrast this with humanistic views of th…
Adaptive personalized federated learning improves local model personalization.
problem Maximizing global model performance limits local model personalization.
method APFL algorithm trains local models while contributing to global model, with optimal mixing parameter and communication-efficient optimization.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of personalization schema and correctness of generalization theories.
Framework generates personalized insulin treatment strategies using deep models.
problem Developing optimal personalized treatment strategies for diabetes patients.
method Combines deep generative time series models with decision theory.
result Demonstrated improved personalized insulin treatment strategies for diabetes patients.
FMP improves personalized ASR models on private devices.
problem Limited accuracy and privacy in federated fine-tuning of ASR models.
method FMP estimates global and personalized marginal distributions and adjusts NNLM probabilities.
result FMP achieves modest WER reductions on ASR rescoring tasks.
Federated learning is a distributed, on-device computation framework that enables training global models without exporting sensitive user data to servers. In this work, we describe methods to extend the federation framework to evaluate strategies for personalization of global models. We present tools to analyze the eff…
Generative framework unifies and improves personalized learning and estimation methods.
problem Statistical heterogeneity in client data motivates personalized learning models.
method Generative framework unifies and suggests new personalized learning and estimation algorithms.
result AdaPeD algorithm numerically outperforms known algorithms.
A new federated multi-armed bandit framework with personalization balances generalization and personalization.
problem Balancing generalization and personalization in federated multi-armed bandits.
method Proposed a Personalized Federated Upper Confidence Bound (PF-UCB) algorithm to achieve a O(log(T)) regret. result PF-UCB achieves an O(log(T)) regret regardless of personalization degree and has similar instance dependency to lower bound. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a popular personality metric that uses four dichotomies as indicators of personality traits. This paper examines the use of pre-trained language models to predict MBTI personality types based on scraped labeled texts. The proposed model reaches an accuracy of 0.47 for correct…
Unified proof for scalable personalized federated learning.
problem Personalized federated learning under asynchronous updates.
method Unified proof for asynchronous federated learning with bounded staleness applied to MAML and ME personalization frameworks.
result Unified proof for convergence to first-order stationary point for smooth and non-convex functions.
Explanation in machine learning and related fields such as artificial intelligence aims at making machine learning models and their decisions understandable to humans. Existing work suggests that personalizing explanations might help to improve understandability. In this work, we derive a conceptualization of personali…
Existing Recommender Systems mainly focus on exploiting users' feedback, e.g., ratings, and reviews on common items to detect similar users. Thus, they might fail when there are no common items of interest among users. We call this problem the Data Sparsity With no Feedback on Common Items (DSW-n-FCI). Personality-base…
This paper analyzes the trade-off between accuracy and communication in personalized federated learning.
problem The accuracy-communication trade-off in personalized federated learning.
method The paper provides a quantitative characterization of the personalization degree on the trade-off, establishing minimax optimality.
result The paper offers theoretical insights for choosing the personalization degree and validates the results on synthetic and real-world datasets.
Personalized sleep staging achieved with single-night data using KL-divergence regularization.
problem Improving automatic sleep staging accuracy with limited single-night data.
method KL-divergence regularization for transfer learning from a pretrained model to a personalized model.
result Personalized sleep staging accuracy of 79.6% with KL-divergence regularization.
System interprets complex treatment effects for personalized policies.
problem Complex, hard-to-understand treatment effect models.
method Scalable, interpretable personalized experimentation system.
result Learned explanations and generated interpretable policies.
FSPO optimizes synthetic preferences for LLM personalization.
problem Personalizing large language models for diverse users.
method FSPO reframes reward modeling as a meta-learning problem, using few labeled preferences and synthetic data.
result FSPO achieves high winrates in personalized responses, both synthetic and real.
Perceived personality traits attributed to an individual do not have to correspond to their actual personality traits and may be determined in part by the context in which one encounters a person. These apparent traits determine, to a large extent, how other people will behave towards them. Deep neural networks are inc…
The paper analyzes a game where players must balance short-term and long-term interests, leading to cooperative or competitive outcomes.
problem Analyzing time inconsistency in inter-personal decision-making under non-exponential discounting.
method Iterative procedures and Zorn's lemma to find Nash equilibria between players' intra-personal equilibria.
result Inter-personal equilibria exist and depend on the impatience levels of the players.
Group personalization improves FL performance in heterogeneous client data.
problem Mitigating client drift in federated learning with heterogeneous data.
method Fine-tuning a global FL model over homogeneous groups of clients, then personalizing each group's model.
result The proposed method achieves superior personalization performance compared to other FL approaches.
LP-FT improves personalized model training in FL by balancing generalization and personalization.
problem Federated Learning struggles with balancing global generalization and local personalization due to non-identical data distributions.
method Adapting Linear Probing followed by full Fine-Tuning (LP-FT) to the FL setting.
result LP-FT outperforms standard fine-tuning in balancing personalization and generalization across various datasets and PFT variants.
Study assesses whether RL algorithm personalizes treatment sequences.
problem Evaluate if RL algorithm truly personalizes treatment sequences.
method Resampling-based methodology to investigate personalization.
result RL algorithm's personalization may be due to stochasticity.
The paper explores fairness, welfare, and equity in personalized pricing across various applications.
problem Interplay of fairness, welfare, and equity in personalized pricing based on customer features.
method Comprehensive literature review and observational metrics without underlying valuation distribution assumptions.
result Personalized pricing can expand access, improve welfare, and increase revenue or budget utilization.
pFedMe uses Moreau envelopes to improve personalized FL performance.
problem Statistical diversity among clients limits FL performance.
method pFedMe employs Moreau envelopes as clients' regularized loss functions in a bi-level optimization problem.
result pFedMe achieves state-of-the-art convergence rates and superior empirical performance.
We discuss training techniques, objectives and metrics toward personalization of deep learning models. In machine learning, personalization addresses the goal of a trained model to target a particular individual by optimizing one or more performance metrics, while conforming to certain constraints. To personalize, we i…
A new Federated Learning approach balances personalization and global training.
problem Breaking the curse of data heterogeneity in Federated Learning.
method Splitting variables into global and local parameters, using a simple algorithm.
result The approach allows each client to fit their data perfectly, breaking the curse of data heterogeneity.
Personalizes query completion in digital commerce with image-based vectors.
problem High bounce rate and low recurring users in query completion.
method Injects dense vectors from product images into a noisy channel model.
result Image-based personalization improves query completion and user experience.
Statistical test evaluates if personalizing interventions is cost-effective.
problem Balancing the benefits of personalizing interventions with their potential costs.
method Developed a statistical hypothesis test to assess the performance of personalized interventions.
result The test shows that personalized interventions can outperform standard approaches under certain conditions.
PerSense assesses personality traits from text for commonsense reasoning.
problem Estimating human personality traits from text for mental health analysis.
method Aggregated Probability Density Functions (PDF) and Machine Learning (ML) models.
result PerSense algorithms achieve comparable results to ground truth data, with high accuracy for personality assessment and commonsense prediction.
This paper surveys techniques to personalize federated learning models.
problem Personalized models outperform shared models for some clients, reducing participation.
method Surveys recent research on personalizing federated learning models.
result Personalization techniques improve model performance for individual clients.
The paper tackles carousel personalization in music streaming apps using contextual bandits.
problem Selecting relevant items to display in carousels for personalized content recommendation.
method Modeling carousel personalization as a contextual multi-armed bandit problem with multiple plays, cascade-based updates and delayed batch feedback.
result Empirically shows the effectiveness of the framework in capturing characteristics of real-world carousels.
This paper improves federated learning by selecting between global and personalized models based on uncertainty.
problem Inherent heterogeneity and diverse data distributions in federated learning.
method Introduces a new approach to federated learning that models predictive uncertainties to select between global and personalized models.
result The model performs better on out-of-distribution data and on par with state-of-the-art personalized federated learning algorithms in standard scenarios.
Object tracking is an ubiquitous problem that appears in many applications such as remote sensing, audio processing, computer vision, human-machine interfaces, human-robot interaction, etc. Although thoroughly investigated in computer vision, tracking a time-varying number of persons remains a challenging open problem.…
Wi-Fi signals-based person identification attracts increasing attention in the booming Internet-of-Things era mainly due to its pervasiveness and passiveness. Most previous work applies gaits extracted from WiFi distortions caused by the person walking to achieve the identification. However, to extract useful gait, a p…
PCL tackles collaborative learning for diverse agents, reducing sample complexity.
problem Balancing collaborative speedup with personalization for heterogeneous agents.
method AffPCL, with bias and importance correction mechanisms.
result AffPCL reduces sample complexity by a factor of max{n−1,δ}, where n is the number of agents and δ∈[0,1] measures heterogeneity. Personalized models using group attributes reduce performance, study finds.
problem Reducing performance of models using group attributes like race or gender.
method Formal conditions and collective preference guarantees to ensure fair use.
result Models personalized with group attributes reduce performance at a group level.
Paper develops privacy-preserving dynamic pricing policy for e-commerce.
problem Protecting customer privacy in dynamic pricing with personalized information.
method Uses differential privacy framework to develop a privacy-preserving policy.
result Achieves both privacy and performance guarantees in dynamic pricing.
Boosting-inspired framework for federated learning with progressive model personalization.
problem Statistical heterogeneity across clients in federated learning.
method Construct an ensemble of personalized models, progressively increasing the depth of the personalized component while controlling its effective complexity.
result Consistently outperforms state-of-the-art PFL methods under heterogeneous data distributions.
Study identifies personality traits from dance movements in music.
problem Predicting individual differences from music-induced movement.
method Identified Big Five personality traits and EQ/SQ scores from dance movements.
result Successfully explored unseen space for personality and EQ/SQ.
The paper discusses Nirenberg's work on geometric problems and his personality.
problem Geometric problems in mathematics.
method Method of moving planes and implicit fully nonlinear elliptic equations.
result Illustrates Nirenberg's contributions to geometric problems.
DeepCoDA provides personalized interpretability for complex health data.
problem Interpreting complex health data, especially compositional data, is challenging.
method DeepCoDA framework for high-dimensional compositional data, personalized interpretability through patient-specific weights.
result DeepCoDA maintains state-of-the-art performance and provides coherent, personalized interpretations.
In this paper, we propose a novel model RevGAN that automatically generates controllable and personalized user reviews based on the arbitrarily given sentimental and stylistic information. RevGAN utilizes the combination of three novel components, including self-attentive recursive autoencoders, conditional discriminat…
Personalized federated learning for diverse client objectives.
problem Training a single global model across diverse local datasets is not optimal.
method Efficiently calculates optimal weighted model combinations for each client based on their specific objectives.
result Our method outperforms existing alternatives and enables new personalized features.
A new method models user-specific parameters as a low-rank plus sparse component for efficient personalization.
problem Efficient personalization of machine learning models for individual users.
method Meta-learning approach that models network weights as a sum of low-rank and sparse components.
result The proposed method, AMHT-LRS, achieves nearly optimal sample complexity for estimating the low-rank and sparse components.
Investor finds a fair outcome in complex financial markets.
problem Finding a fair outcome in complex financial markets.
method Recalled and proved the existence of personal equilibrium in a multistep, generically incomplete financial market model.
result Personal equilibrium exists in a multistep, generically incomplete financial market model under appropriate assumptions.
Develops algorithms to balance personalization and statistical power in mobile health studies.
problem Balancing personalization and statistical power in mobile health studies.
method Develops general meta-algorithms to modify existing bandit algorithms.
result Guarantees sufficient power while improving user well-being.
Paper proposes a novel MTL framework for personalized modeling of diverse individuals.
problem Personalized modeling of heterogeneous subpopulations with high-dimensional data.
method Low-rank tensor decomposition for multi-task learning.
result Superior performance compared to benchmarks in diverse subpopulation scenarios.
FGPR uses averaging and SGD for federated GP regression, excelling in personalization and multi-fidelity modeling.
problem Privacy-preserving multi-fidelity data modeling and personalization.
method Federated Gaussian process framework with averaging and SGD for local computations.
result FGPR converges to a critical point of the full log-likelihood function, excels in personalization and multi-fidelity modeling.
Domain adaptation in imitation learning represents an essential step towards improving generalizability. However, even in the restricted setting of third-person imitation where transfer is between isomorphic Markov Decision Processes, there are no strong guarantees on the performance of transferred policies. We present…
Personalized federated learning improves model accuracy and fairness by leveraging shared representations and local memorization.
problem Sub-optimal performance of federated learning when client data distributions are heterogeneous.
method Proposes a personalization mechanism based on local memorization of shared representations from a collectively trained global model.
result Significantly higher accuracy and fairness compared to state-of-the-art methods.