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We present a signal representation framework called the sparse manifold transform that combines key ideas from sparse coding, manifold learning, and slow feature analysis. It turns non-linear transformations in the primary sensory signal space into linear interpolations in a representational embedding space while maint…
Sparse representations using data dictionaries provide an efficient model particularly for signals that do not enjoy alternate analytic sparsifying transformations. However, solving inverse problems with sparsifying dictionaries can be computationally expensive, especially when the dictionary under consideration has a …
SPARTAN learns sparse interaction graphs between objects in scenes.
problem Capturing structured interactions between entities in complex settings remains challenging.
method SPARTAN is a Transformer-based world model that learns sparse, context-dependent interaction graphs through sparsity regularization on attention patterns.
result SPARTAN achieves significantly improved few-shot adaptation to dynamics changes and robustness against distractors.
In this paper, we consider the sparse regularization of manifold-valued data with respect to an interpolatory wavelet/multiscale transform. We propose and study variational models for this task and provide results on their well-posedness. We present algorithms for a numerical realization of these models in the manifold…
Sparse Transformers can approximate dense Transformers with only O(n) connections.
problem Can sparse Transformers approximate arbitrary sequence-to-sequence functions?
method Proposed sufficient conditions for universal approximation and proved that sparse Transformers with O(n) connections can approximate dense models.
result Sparse Transformers with O(n) connections can approximate the same function class as dense models with n^2 connections.
Multi-output prediction deals with the prediction of several targets of possibly diverse types. One way to address this problem is the so called problem transformation method. This method is often used in multi-label learning, but can also be used for multi-output prediction due to its generality and simplicity. In thi…
The presence of a sparse "truth" has been a constant assumption in the theoretical analysis of sparse PCA and is often implicit in its methodological development. This naturally raises questions about the properties of sparse PCA methods and how they depend on the assumption of sparsity. Under what conditions can the r…
Many transformations in deep learning architectures are sparsely connected. When such transformations cannot be designed by hand, they can be learned, even through plain backpropagation, for instance in attention mechanisms. However, during learning, such sparse structures are often represented in a dense form, as we d…
In drug-discovery-related tasks such as virtual screening, machine learning is emerging as a promising way to predict molecular properties. Conventionally, molecular fingerprints (numerical representations of molecules) are calculated through rule-based algorithms that map molecules to a sparse discrete space. However,…
Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a popular method for audio spectral unmixing. While NMF is traditionally applied to off-the-shelf time-frequency representations based on the short-time Fourier or Cosine transforms, the ability to learn transforms from raw data attracts increasing attention. However, this adds…
DGPFM uses deep Gaussian processes to map functions accurately and quantify uncertainty.
problem Learning mappings between functional spaces, especially when data are noisy, sparse, or irregularly sampled.
method Constructs a sequence of GP-based linear and nonlinear transformations directly in function space, leveraging kernel integral transforms, GP conditional means, and nonlinear activations sampled from Gaussian processes.
result Empirical results show DGPFM outperforms existing methods in predictive accuracy and uncertainty calibration.
The paper explores algorithms to transform 3-manifold triangulations while controlling sparsity.
problem Designing efficient algorithms for 3-manifold triangulations with controlled sparsity.
method Revisit and apply a linear-time algorithm for converting triangulations into Heegaard diagrams, and present a quasi-linear-time algorithm for retriangulation.
result Quasi-linear-time algorithm producing a Heegaard diagram with controlled sparsity.
The study of healthy brain development helps to better understand the brain transformation and brain connectivity patterns which happen during childhood to adulthood. This study presents a sparse machine learning solution across whole-brain functional connectivity (FC) measures of three sets of data, derived from resti…
Let Φ∈Rm×n be a sparse Johnson-Lindenstrauss transform [KN14] with s non-zeroes per column. For a subset T of the unit sphere, ε∈(0,1/2) given, we study settings for m,s required to ensure EΦsupx∈T∥Φx∥22−1<ε, i.e…
It is difficult to find the optimal sparse solution of a manifold learning based dimensionality reduction algorithm. The lasso or the elastic net penalized manifold learning based dimensionality reduction is not directly a lasso penalized least square problem and thus the least angle regression (LARS) (Efron et al. \ci…
A new iterative low complexity algorithm has been presented for computing the Walsh-Hadamard transform (WHT) of an N dimensional signal with a K-sparse WHT, where N is a power of two and K=O(Nα), scales sub-linearly in N for some 0<α<1. Assuming a random support model for the non-zero transform domain…