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48 results for Public features

New private learning algorithms improve utility in tasks with public features.

problem Private learning with public features in recommendation and ad prediction.
method Developed algorithms that protect only certain sufficient statistics, improving utility for linear regression and private recommendation benchmarks.
result Achieved state-of-the-art performance on private recommendation benchmarks.

Study shows how missing data from certain groups can unfairly bias risk models.

problem Data missingness without indicators of missingness can unfairly bias risk models.
method Developed an analytically tractable model of differential feature under-reporting and proposed new methods to mitigate bias.
result Under-reporting typically leads to increasing disparities in risk models.

The paper proposes to analyze a data set of Finnish ranks of academic publication channels with Extreme Learning Machine (ELM). The purpose is to introduce and test recently proposed ELM-based mislabel detection approach with a rich set of features characterizing a publication channel. We will compare the architecture,…

2019-12-19abs ↗pdf ↗

The aim of the present article is to treat the Greek public debt issue strictly as a curve fitting problem. Thus, based on Eurostat data and using the Mathematica technical computing software, an exponential function that best fits the data is determined modelling how the Greek public debt expands with time. Exploring …

2012-12-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Public pretraining improves private model training even in extreme distribution shift scenarios.

problem Improving private model training accuracy in settings with large distribution shift.
method Empirical evaluation and theoretical explanation of public representations improving private training accuracy.
result Public representations can improve private training accuracy by up to 67% over private training from scratch in settings with large distribution shift.

The paper examines how NFT valuations correlate with market data and social trends.

problem Predicting NFT valuations based on market data and social trends.
method Utilizes public market data, NFT metadata, and social trends data; employs linear regression and recurrent neural networks.
result Identifies correlations between NFT valuations and various features.

Improved image generation with private data using perceptual features.

problem Difficulty in training generative models with differential privacy.
method Use pre-trained perceptual features to learn private data distribution.
result Generative models can generate high-quality images with low privacy budget (ϵ2\epsilon \approx 2).

Study predicts coastal water quality using machine learning, identifying salinity as key factor.

problem Predicting and managing coastal water quality for public health and tourism.
method Machine learning models (Catboost, Xgboost, Random Forests, Support Vector Regression, Artificial Neural Networks) trained on environmental data.
result Catboost algorithm performed best, with R² values of 0.71 and 0.68 for E. Coli and enterococci predictions.

Study detects unlawful insider trading using SHAP and CF, identifying key features.

problem Detecting and explaining unlawful insider trading with MNPI.
method Combining Shapley Values and Causal Forest approaches.
result Identifies key features explaining unlawful insider trading.

Proposes a copula-based filter for diabetes risk prediction.

problem Feature selection for robust and interpretable predictive modeling in medicine, especially for extreme patient strata.
method Copula-based supervised filter using Gumbel-copula implied upper-tail concordance score (lambda U).
result The proposed filter outperforms standard filters and provides clinically coherent predictors.

Satellite images predict U.S. county mortality rates.

problem Predicting mortality rates in U.S. counties using satellite imagery.
method Convolutional neural network trained on crude mortality rates, learned features interpreted using Shapley Additive Feature Explanations.
result Predicted mortality from satellite images correlated strongly with true mortality rates (Pearson r=0.72).

PriRec preserves privacy in POI recommendation by keeping data and models on users' devices.

problem Privacy concerns in centralized POI recommendation models.
method Local differential privacy for sensitive data, secure decentralized gradient descent for linear models, secure aggregation for feature interactions.
result PriRec achieves comparable or better recommendation accuracy than FM while protecting user privacy.

Automatic summarisation is a popular approach to reduce a document to its main arguments. Recent research in the area has focused on neural approaches to summarisation, which can be very data-hungry. However, few large datasets exist and none for the traditionally popular domain of scientific publications, which opens …

2017-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

DeepUnHide uses deep learning to reveal hidden demographic features in recommender systems.

problem Extracting hidden demographic features from recommender systems factors.
method Gradient-based localization in deep learning for feature extraction.
result DeepUnHide outperforms state-of-the-art feature selection methods.

A new framework for optimizing interventions with limited data.

problem Small data, default intervention data, unmodeled objectives, unforeseen consequences.
method Bandit data-driven optimization combining online bandit learning and offline predictive analytics.
result PROOF algorithm achieves no-regret and superior performance in simulations and real-world application.

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 ↗

We consider learning problems where the training set consists of two types of examples: private and public. The goal is to design a learning algorithm that satisfies differential privacy only with respect to the private examples. This setting interpolates between private learning (where all examples are private) and cl…

2019-10-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Study public-data assisted private stochastic optimization with labeled or unlabeled public data.

problem Limits and capability of public-data assisted differentially private (PA-DP) algorithms in stochastic convex optimization.
method Lower bounds for PA-DP mean estimation and novel methods for leveraging public data in private supervised learning.
result Achieved dimension independent rate for GLM with unlabeled public data, showing optimality.

Feature selection, which searches for the most representative features in observed data, is critical for health data analysis. Unlike feature extraction, such as PCA and autoencoder based methods, feature selection preserves interpretability, meaning that the selected features provide direct information about certain h…

2018-12-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Algorithm selects public datasets for private machine learning.

problem Choosing the most suitable public dataset for private machine learning.
method Measures gradient subspace distance between public and private datasets.
result Excess risk scales with the subspace distance between gradients.

Capsule networks are a recently developed class of neural networks that potentially address some of the deficiencies with traditional convolutional neural networks. By replacing the standard scalar activations with vectors, and by connecting the artificial neurons in a new way, capsule networks aim to be the next great…

2020-01-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Private distribution learning with public data, leveraging sample compression schemes.

problem Private distribution learning with public and private samples under differential privacy constraints.
method Connection to sample compression schemes and list learning.
result At least d public samples are necessary for private learnability of Gaussians in R^d.

Study uses AI to predict changes in international public finances based on US markets.

problem Understanding correlations between US and international public finances.
method Artificial intelligence and neural networks to model and predict changes.
result Neural network model achieved MSE of 2.79, indicating significant correlation and impact of US market volatility on international markets.

Traditionally, machine learning algorithms rely on the assumption that all features of a given dataset are available for free. However, there are many concerns such as monetary data collection costs, patient discomfort in medical procedures, and privacy impacts of data collection that require careful consideration in a…

2019-02-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a multi-modal attention network for better stock price prediction.

problem Predicting future stock movements using historical records and social media.
method Extracts semantic information from social media, estimates credibility, and integrates with numeric features.
result Significantly improved prediction accuracy and trading profits compared to previous methods.