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48 results for Prioritization

Unified framework improves gene prioritization in disease studies.

problem Identifying genes involved in diseases using heterogeneous biological data.
method Network propagation-based gene prioritization with integrated biological information.
result Significant improvements in prioritizing genes not identified by traditional methods.

A new method prioritizes and recycles experiences for better reinforcement learning.

problem Improving reinforcement learning efficiency by prioritizing and recycling experiences.
method Double-prioritized state-recycled (DPSR) experience replay.
result DPSR achieved state-of-the-art results in Atari games, outperforming original and prioritized methods.

RATE metrics evaluate treatment prioritization rules, subsuming existing methods.

problem Comparing and testing the quality of treatment prioritization rules.
method Rank-weighted average treatment effect (RATE) metrics.
result RATE metrics enable asymptotically exact inference in various study settings.

Experience replay is widely used in deep reinforcement learning algorithms and allows agents to remember and learn from experiences from the past. In an effort to learn more efficiently, researchers proposed prioritized experience replay (PER) which samples important transitions more frequently. In this paper, we propo…

2019-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Most exact methods for k-nearest neighbour search suffer from the curse of dimensionality; that is, their query times exhibit exponential dependence on either the ambient or the intrinsic dimensionality. Dynamic Continuous Indexing (DCI) offers a promising way of circumventing the curse and successfully reduces the dep…

2017-03-01abs ↗pdf ↗

In Hindsight Experience Replay (HER), a reinforcement learning agent is trained by treating whatever it has achieved as virtual goals. However, in previous work, the experience was replayed at random, without considering which episode might be the most valuable for learning. In this paper, we develop an energy-based fr…

2018-10-02abs ↗pdf ↗

A framework uses proxies to prioritize treatment without estimating causal effects.

problem Prioritizing treatment when causal effects are hard to estimate.
method Decision-focused framework identifying conditions for proxy usefulness.
result Proxies can recover correct effect ordering under specific conditions.

Precision medicine is becoming a focus in medical research recently, as its implementation brings values to all stakeholders in the healthcare system. Various statistical methodologies have been developed tackling problems in different aspects of this field, e.g., assessing treatment heterogeneity, identifying patient …

2019-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

A new approach to cost-sensitive multiclass classification prioritizes certain classes over others.

problem Cost-sensitive multiclass classification where some classes are more important than others.
method Apportioned margin framework that shifts the decision boundary to prioritize certain classes.
result The method improves the error rate for important classes while reducing overall error.

Introduces PIT-plot for prioritizing projects based on their impact.

problem Optimizing R&D investments in project portfolios.
method Develops a new tool (PIT-plot) focusing on project impact rather than project properties.
result Identifies projects with the largest impact for risk mitigation or value-adding.

Heteroskedasticity biases uplift model rankings, leading to inefficient treatment allocation.

problem Bias in uplift model rankings due to heteroskedasticity.
method Theoretical analysis and simulation on real-world data.
result Heteroskedasticity can cause individuals with high treatment effects to be ranked at the bottom, leading to inefficient treatment allocation.

SAEs struggle with feature consistency across runs, hindering MI reliability.

problem Inconsistency of learned SAE features across different training runs.
method Propose using the Pairwise Dictionary Mean Correlation Coefficient (PW-MCC) to measure feature consistency.
result High levels of feature consistency (0.80 for TopK SAEs on LLM activations) are achievable with appropriate architectural choices.

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being adopted for sensing and control functions in a variety of safety and mission-critical systems such as self-driving cars, autonomous air vehicles, medical diagnostics, and industrial robotics. Failures of such systems can lead to loss of life or property, which necessit…

2019-01-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Designs for allocating resources to prioritize needy applicants while estimating treatment effects.

problem Resource allocation under uncertainty with prioritized queues.
method Priority-queue randomization for treatment assignment and estimation of treatment effects.
result Identification of causal effects under different arrival and treatment assignment scenarios.

Traditional medicine typically applies one-size-fits-all treatment for the entire patient population whereas precision medicine develops tailored treatment schemes for different patient subgroups. The fact that some factors may be more significant for a specific patient subgroup motivates clinicians and medical researc…

2017-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗

New loss function equivalence reveals PER's uniform sampling can be improved.

problem Improving Prioritized Experience Replay (PER) for better learning efficiency.
method Transforming non-uniformly sampled data loss functions into uniformly sampled ones.
result Some environments can replace PER with a new loss function without performance loss.

The paper argues for prioritizing identifying structure over complex models for scientific discovery.

problem Underdetermination of mechanisms in high-dimensional data, leading to unreliable explanations.
method Proposes concrete standards for 'mechanistic ML' to avoid collapsing explanations.
result Large language models (LLMs) can collapse large equivalence classes of explanations, making it hard to distinguish between mechanisms.

A variety of methods have been proposed for interpreting nodes in deep neural networks, which typically involve scoring nodes at lower layers with respect to their effects on the output of higher-layer nodes (where lower and higher layers are closer to the input and output layers, respectively). However, we may be inte…

2018-12-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Curious Replay improves model-based reinforcement learning agents' adaptability.

problem Existing model-based reinforcement learning agents struggle to adapt quickly to changing environments.
method Curious Replay uses a curiosity-based priority signal for prioritized experience replay tailored to model-based agents.
result Agents using Curious Replay achieve improved performance in exploration and on benchmarks.

In Reinforcement Learning (RL), an agent explores the environment and collects trajectories into the memory buffer for later learning. However, the collected trajectories can easily be imbalanced with respect to the achieved goal states. The problem of learning from imbalanced data is a well-known problem in supervised…

2019-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimizes COVID-19 testing policy using a Multi-Armed Bandit approach.

problem Balancing discovery of positive cases with population surveillance.
method Risk scoring and random sampling based on Multi-Armed Bandit theory.
result Effective prioritization captures 65-92% of positive cases with varying testing capacity.

Experience replay is a key technique behind many recent advances in deep reinforcement learning. Allowing the agent to learn from earlier memories can speed up learning and break undesirable temporal correlations. Despite its wide-spread application, very little is understood about the properties of experience replay. …

2017-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep networks prioritize easier examples over harder ones, leading to faster training.

problem Understanding how deep networks prioritize examples of varying difficulty.
method Investigated the effect of linear vs non-linear learning modes on example difficulty.
result Non-linear dynamics tend to sequentialize the learning of examples of increasing difficulty.

New methods prioritize acquiring confounding features for efficient treatment effect estimation.

problem Efficient treatment effect estimation from observational data with missing confounding information.
method Proposes two acquisition strategies: covariate balancing and reducing factual outcome error.
result Our proposed methods, especially reducing factual outcome error, improve sample efficiency for treatment effect estimation.

UMFI improves feature importance methods by reducing runtime and enhancing performance.

problem Improving feature importance methods to better explain causal and associative relationships in data.
method Introducing UMFI, which uses dependence removal techniques from AI fairness literature.
result UMFI outperforms MCI, especially in complex data scenarios, and reduces runtime from exponential to super-linear.

Optimizes reinforcement learning by prioritizing sets of samples over individual ones.

problem Limits exploration and improvement on harder examples due to focusing on isolated samples.
method Proposes Pass@K Policy Optimization (PKPO) to optimize for sets of samples that maximize reward when considered jointly.
result Optimization with novel low variance unbiased estimators for pass@k and its gradient leads to significant pass@k gains.

Adaptive compute allocation improves model performance by prioritizing harder queries.

problem Inefficiency in allocating test-time compute uniformly across all queries.
method Formulated as a bandit learning problem, proposed adaptive algorithms that estimate query difficulty and allocate compute accordingly.
result Achieved up to 15.29% relative performance improvement on various benchmarks.

Active inference uses machine learning to prioritize data labeling for more efficient statistical inference.

problem Efficiently collecting data points for statistical inference with limited labels.
method A machine learning-assisted approach that identifies uncertain data points for labeling.
result Achieves the same level of accuracy with fewer samples, resulting in smaller confidence intervals and more powerful p-values.

The devastating effects of cyber-attacks, highlight the need for novel attack detection and prevention techniques. Over the last years, considerable work has been done in the areas of attack detection as well as in collaborative defense. However, an analysis of the state of the art suggests that many challenges exist i…

2019-09-17abs ↗pdf ↗

ReTabSyn synthesizes realistic tabular data efficiently by focusing on conditional distribution.

problem Synthesizing realistic tabular data in low-data, imbalanced settings.
method ReTabSyn uses reinforcement learning to prioritize feature correlation preservation during training.
result ReTabSyn consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines across various benchmarks.

A new method reduces compounding errors in model-based reinforcement learning.

problem Compounding errors in long horizon predictions from model-based reinforcement learning.
method Maximum Entropy Model Rollouts (MEMR) with non-uniform sampling and prioritized experience replay.
result Significantly reduces computation requirements compared to other model-based methods.

The paper tackles Neyman-Pearson classification control issues.

problem Neyman-Pearson classification's control constraint is hard to satisfy in finite samples.
method Developed refined learning procedures under two accuracy control strategies.
result Proposed methods achieve desired control levels in finite samples.

Graded Transformers embed algebraic structure in neural networks through graded transformations.

problem Efficiently modeling hierarchical and structured data in neural networks.
method Introduces Linearly Graded Transformer (LGT) and Exponentially Graded Transformer (EGT) with graded scaling operators.
result Establishes rigorous guarantees and improved efficiency for structured data.