Paper proposes redundancy-free features for zero-shot object recognition.
problem Redundant visual features degrade zero-shot object recognition.
method Project original features into a new, statistically independent space.
result RFF-GZSL achieves competitive results on benchmark datasets.
Redundancy improves learning stability and generalization in structured systems.
problem Understanding redundancy in structured systems for learning and generalization.
method Developed a theoretical framework that redefines redundancy as a geometric principle unifying various measures.
result Redundancy balances structure and coupling, leading to optimal stability and generalization.
Introduces MSW distances to improve SW metrics.
problem Redundant projections in SW distance.
method Imposes Markov structure on projecting directions.
result MSW distances improve SW metrics.
STAR improves equivariant and invariant representation learning by routing projection heads.
problem Redundant feature learning in equivariant and invariant representation learning.
method Soft Task-Aware Routing (STAR) for projection heads specialization.
result Lower canonical correlations between invariant and equivariant embeddings.
Signed pairwise interactions conflate uniqueness, redundancy, and synergy
problem Signed pairwise interactions conflate uniqueness, redundancy, and synergy
method Stochastic Hi-Fi
result Stochastic Hi-Fi recovers structure missed by scalar baselines
This work proposes a collaborative multi-head attention layer to reduce model size without sacrificing accuracy.
problem Over-parameterization in transformer models trained with large datasets.
method Proposes a collaborative multi-head attention layer that shares key/query projections.
result Reduction in model size by 4 for same accuracy and speed.
Redundancy in AI perception systems doesn't guarantee independent error occurrences.
problem Lack of direct statistical evidence of super-human automated driving performance.
method Investigated the effectiveness of redundancy in neural networks for independent error occurrences.
result Errors in neural networks for computer vision tasks are correlated, not independent.
TSFMs show redundant components in layers, affecting their performance.
problem Redundant components in TSFMs layers impact their predictive accuracy.
method Mechanistic interpretability tools, ablations, logit attribution, theoretical framework.
result TSFMs are robust to ablations of entire layers and specific heads.
This paper tabulates prime knot projections up to eight double points.
problem Tabulating prime knot projections and their mirror images up to a certain number of double points.
method Systematic flypes and enumeration of tangles with at most four double points, using arrow diagrams.
result Complete table of prime knot projections with their mirror images up to eight double points.
Williams and Beer (2010) proposed a nonnegative mutual information decomposition, based on the construction of redundancy lattices, which allows separating the information that a set of variables contains about a target variable into nonnegative components interpretable as the unique information of some variables not p…
A new law limits kurtosis contrast in balanced mixtures.
problem Kurtosis-based ICA fails in wide, balanced mixtures.
method Proved a redundancy law and showed purification restores contrast.
result Kurtosis contrast obeys O(κmax/Reff) in balanced mixtures. New method quantifies redundant information using information bottleneck.
problem Quantifying redundant information among multiple sources.
method Formulated as an information bottleneck problem, termed redundancy bottleneck.
result Extracts information that best predicts the target without revealing source identity.
Enhash detects concept drift in data streams quickly and efficiently.
problem Detecting abrupt, gradual, virtual, or recurring events in data streams.
method Uses projection hash to insert incoming samples and detects concept drift.
result Enhash has competitive performance and moderate resource requirements compared to existing ensemble learners.
New method reconstructs stable sentiment signals from sparse news data.
problem Transforming raw news sentiment outputs into reliable temporal series.
method Modular three-stage pipeline: aggregation, gap filling, and smoothing.
result Three-week lead-lag pattern between reconstructed sentiment and stock prices.
Transformers reduce redundancy by focusing on invariant relational quantities.
problem Substantial internal redundancy in Transformer models due to coordinate-dependent representations and continuous symmetries.
method Reformulate representations, attention mechanisms, and optimization dynamics in terms of invariant relational quantities, eliminating redundant degrees of freedom by construction.
result Architectures that operate directly on relational structures, providing a principled geometric framework for reducing parameter redundancy and analyzing optimization.
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are generally designed with a heuristic initialization of network architecture and trained for a certain task. This often leads to overparametrization after learning and induces redundancy in the information flow paths within the network. This robustness and reliability is at the inc…
Aggregates predictions from multiple regression models using random projections and kernel methods.
problem Combining predictions from multiple regression models to improve accuracy.
method Random projection of high-dimensional feature space, followed by kernel-based consensual aggregation.
result The aggregation scheme performs similarly to using the original high-dimensional features, with high probability.
For curved projective manifolds we introduce a notion of a normal tractor frame field, based around any point. This leads to canonical systems of (redundant) coordinates that generalise the usual homogeneous coordinates on projective space. These give preferred local maps to the model projective space that encode geome…
Efficient index structures for fast approximate nearest neighbor queries are required in many applications such as recommendation systems. In high-dimensional spaces, many conventional methods suffer from excessive usage of memory and slow response times. We propose a method where multiple random projection trees are c…
This work explains scaling laws as redundancy laws in deep learning.
problem The mathematical origins of scaling laws in deep learning models remain unclear.
method Kernel regression and analysis of data covariance spectra.
result Scaling laws can be explained as redundancy laws, revealing the learning curve's slope depends on data redundancy.
Study on neural networks to identify redundancy issues in safe machine learning.
problem Identifying redundancy in neural network architectures for safe machine learning.
method Experiments with MNIST database using neural network classifiers.
result Underlines difficulties in using neural network classifiers for safe systems.
Develops ML-DQA for healthcare data quality assurance.
problem Inconsistent use of real-world data in machine learning projects.
method Develops ML-DQA framework based on RWD best practices.
result Five generalizable practices emerge from ML-DQA implementation.
We simplify SSL by approximating redundant structural components with low-rank factorization.
problem Improving self-supervised learning performance with limited labeled data.
method Low-rank approximation of structural redundancy, introducing ε_s to measure approximation quality.
result The proposed method enhances SSL performance, as shown by theoretical and experimental validations.
Redundancy in deep neural network (DNN) models has always been one of their most intriguing and important properties. DNNs have been shown to overparameterize, or extract a lot of redundant features. In this work, we explore the impact of size (both width and depth), activation function, and weight initialization on th…
This paper introduces a new measure to identify model redundancy in compressed CNNs.
problem Identifying remaining model redundancy in compressed CNNs.
method Developed a statistical formulation of CNNs and compressed CNNs via tensor decomposition, revealing discrepancies in sample complexity and model redundancy.
result Introduced a new model redundancy measure, the K/R ratio, for compressed CNNs. Optimized GPRNN reduces model complexity and overfitting, improving performance.
problem Overfitting in neural networks and high model complexity.
method Gaussian Process Regression - Neural Network hybrid with optimized redundant coordinates.
result Optimized GPRNN achieves lower test set error with fewer terms/neurons.
For statistical learning, categorical variables in a table are usually considered as discrete entities and encoded separately to feature vectors, e.g., with one-hot encoding. "Dirty" non-curated data gives rise to categorical variables with a very high cardinality but redundancy: several categories reflect the same ent…
The study analyzes optimization trajectories in neural networks to reveal redundancy and redundancy-reducing strategies.
problem Understanding the directional structure and redundancy in neural network optimization.
method Introducing natural notions of complexity for optimization trajectories and analyzing their directional nature.
result Training only scalar batchnorm parameters can match the performance of training the entire network, indicating potential for hybrid optimization schemes.
Contrastive learning works well with redundant data views.
problem Improving unsupervised learning with redundant data views.
method Theoretical analysis of contrastive learning in a multi-view setting.
result Linear functions of learned representations are nearly optimal on prediction tasks when views are redundant.
This work introduces RISE to explain LLMs more reliably by distinguishing essential context.
problem Identifying which context elements influence LLM outputs reliably.
method RISE (Redundancy-Insensitive Scoring of Explanation) method.
result RISE provides more robust explanations than traditional methods.
This work identifies redundant tests in conditional-independence-based discovery that can improve graphical model accuracy.
problem Reliability and sensitivity of conditional-independence-based discovery algorithms.
method Analysis of redundant tests and their impact on error detection and correction.
result Redundant tests can improve graphical model accuracy but not all are beneficial.
Pruning of redundant or irrelevant instances of data is a key to every successful solution for pattern recognition. In this paper, we present a novel ranking-selection framework for low-length but highly correlated instances. Instead of working in the low-dimensional instance space, we learn a supervised projection to …
New method distinguishes feature relevance in non-linear contexts.
problem Finding relevant features with preserved redundancies.
method Random forest models and statistical methods.
result Distinguishes strong from weak feature relevance in non-linear problems.
We propose a novel objective function for learning robust deep representations of data based on information theory. Data is projected into a feature-vector space such that the mutual information of all subsets of features relative to the supervising signal is maximized. This objective function gives rise to robust repr…
Paper compresses deep neural networks by eliminating redundant neurons.
problem Challenges in deploying deep learning models due to high parameter count.
method Exploits non-linear redundancy to compress neural networks without loss.
result Reduces network size by up to 99% with minimal performance loss.
Large datasets have been crucial to the success of deep learning models in the recent years, which keep performing better as they are trained with more labelled data. While there have been sustained efforts to make these models more data-efficient, the potential benefit of understanding the data itself, is largely unta…
FactorMiner discovers financial alpha factors with low redundancy.
problem Finding novel financial alpha factors in a vast search space.
method Modular Skill Architecture and Experience Memory to distill and guide exploration.
result FactorMiner constructs a diverse library of high-quality factors with competitive performance.
Wide neural networks' last hidden layers split into groups of redundant neurons.
problem Understanding why wide neural networks generalize well despite overfitting.
method Analyzed the last hidden layer representations of various convolutional neural networks.
result Wide hidden layers split into groups of redundant neurons, which help generalize.
The matrix-based Renyi's α-entropy functional and its multivariate extension were recently developed in terms of the normalized eigenspectrum of a Hermitian matrix of the projected data in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). However, the utility and possible applications of these new estimators are rather new an…
Spectral dimensionality reduction algorithms are widely used in numerous domains, including for recognition, segmentation, tracking and visualization. However, despite their popularity, these algorithms suffer from a major limitation known as the "repeated Eigen-directions" phenomenon. That is, many of the embedding co…
Machine learning (ML) is probably the first and foremost used technique to deal with the size and complexity of the new generation of data. In this paper, we analyze one of the means to increase the performances of ML algorithms which is exploiting data locality. Data locality and access patterns are often at the heart…
In 1980 J. Powell proposed that five specific elements sufficed to generate the Goeritz group of any Heegaard splitting of S3. This conjecture remains unresolved for genus g≥4. Here a short argument shows that one of his proposed generators is redundant, in fact a consequence of three of the other four.
CurvSSL improves SSL by aligning local manifold curvature.
problem Improving self-supervised learning by capturing local manifold geometry.
method CurvSSL augments Barlow Twins with a curvature-based regularizer to align and decorrelate embeddings across augmentations.
result Curvature-regularized SSL yields competitive or improved linear evaluation performance.
Develops exact and invariant study-based decompositions for network meta-analysis.
problem Lack of exact contribution decompositions in network meta-analysis.
method Contrast-space projection formulation of NMA, study-based definition of direct and indirect evidence.
result Exact covariance-aware decompositions of NMA estimator into direct and indirect contributions.
Parseval frames can be thought of as redundant or linearly dependent coordinate systems for Hilbert spaces, and have important applications in such areas as signal processing, data compression, and sampling theory. We extend the notion of a Parseval frame for a fixed Hilbert space to that of a moving Parseval frame for…
Cell-based NAS search spaces are redundant and lack novelty.
problem Redundancy and lack of novelty in cell-based neural architecture search.
method Empirical analysis of architectures from popular cell-based search spaces.
result Randomly sampled architectures can match or outperform state-of-the-art results.
iSTFTNet speeds up mel-spectrogram vocoders without sacrificing quality.
problem Efficiently converting mel-spectrograms to speech with minimal computation.
method Replaces convolutional layers with iSTFT after frequency dimension reduction.
result Significant reduction in computational cost with comparable quality.
Estimates interactions between modalities for multimodal data.
problem Accurately quantifying interactions between different data types.
method Developed Lightweight Sample-wise Multimodal Interaction (LSMI) estimator using pointwise information theory.
result LSMI reveals fine-grained dynamics in multimodal data.