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48 results for Removal effects

PUMA augments models to remove unique data points without performance loss.

problem Preserving model performance while removing unique training data points.
method Explicitly models data influence, reweights remaining data optimally.
result PUMA effectively removes unique data points without performance degradation.

Proposes a new k-NN algorithm to improve classification accuracy by removing noise and pseudo-neighbours.

problem Noise and pseudo-neighbours in large-scale databases affect k-NN performance.
method Introduces a weighted mutual k-Nearest Neighbour algorithm to detect and remove noise, and minimize distant neighbours' influence.
result The proposed algorithm provides comparative better results compared to standard k-NN.

New fairness approach removes direct effects of unprivileged groups through causal regularization.

problem Ensuring fairness in machine learning models for unprivileged groups.
method Proposes a new fairness definition based on causal effects and develops regularizations to remove the impact of unprivileged groups on model outcomes.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of the approach on various datasets, reducing unfairness with minimal performance loss.

Selective removal of data subsets can efficiently unlearn unwanted distributions.

problem Efficiently removing unwanted data subsets without losing important information.
method Formalized as distributional unlearning, using Kullback-Leibler divergence constraints to select a small subset of data.
result Proposed method achieves corresponding log-loss bounds and is quadratically more sample-efficient than random removal.

Machine learning confound removal biases results, leading to misleading predictions.

problem Common confound removal methods in machine learning lead to misleading predictions.
method Featurewise removal of confound variance by linear regression before applying ML.
result This common deconfounding approach can leak information, amplifying null or moderate effects.

We describe a method for removing the effect of confounders in order to reconstruct a latent quantity of interest. The method, referred to as half-sibling regression, is inspired by recent work in causal inference using additive noise models. We provide a theoretical justification and illustrate the potential of the me…

2015-05-12abs ↗pdf ↗

We analyze the effect of adding, removing, and moving basepoints on link Floer homology. We prove that adding or removing basepoints via a procedure called quasi-stabilization is a natural operation on a certain version of link Floer homology, which we call CFLUVCFL_{UV}^\infty. We consider the effect on the full link Flo…

2016-04-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Sources of variability in experimentally derived data include measurement error in addition to the physical phenomena of interest. This measurement error is a combination of systematic components, originating from the measuring instrument, and random measurement errors. Several novel biological technologies, such as ma…

2016-10-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Simple attack bypasses state-of-the-art DNN watermarking.

problem Protecting DNN models from watermark removal attacks.
method Combining imperceptible pattern embedding and spatial-level transformations for a simple yet effective watermark removal.
result Our attack bypasses state-of-the-art watermarking solutions with high success rates.

Unified theory explains how data augmentation improves deep learning models.

problem Understanding why data augmentation improves model generalization.
method Unified theoretical framework explaining two key effects: partial semantic feature removal and feature mixing.
result Data augmentation enhances generalization through partial semantic feature removal and feature mixing.

New framework removes harmful momentum effect for long-tailed classification.

problem Challenges in maintaining balanced datasets with long-tailed data.
method Causal inference framework to disentangle and remove harmful effects of momentum.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on long-tailed visual recognition benchmarks.

An important problem in networked systems is detection and removal of suspected malicious nodes. A crucial consideration in such settings is the uncertainty endemic in detection, coupled with considerations of network connectivity, which impose indirect costs from mistakely removing benign nodes as well as failing to r…

2019-01-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper develops efficient mechanisms for estimating variance and covariance under differential privacy in the add-remove model.

problem Estimating variance and covariance under differential privacy in the add-remove model.
method Developed mechanisms based on the Bézier mechanism, a novel moment-release framework.
result Proved minimax optimality of the Bézier-based estimator in the high-privacy regime and demonstrated its better utility in instance-wise analysis.

Algorithm removes specific training data from models efficiently in high-dimensional settings.

problem Efficiently removing specific training data from high-dimensional models without full retraining.
method Starts from original model parameters, performs Newton steps, adds isotropic Laplacian noise.
result Two Newton steps are sufficient for effective unlearning in high-dimensional problems.

Influence functions estimate the effect of removing a training point on a model without the need to retrain. They are based on a first-order Taylor approximation that is guaranteed to be accurate for sufficiently small changes to the model, and so are commonly used to study the effect of individual points in large data…

2019-05-30abs ↗pdf ↗

New method removes interference bias in causal models.

problem Interference bias impedes causal effect identification in real-world settings.
method Novel definition of causal models with local interference, semi-parametric assumptions.
result True Average Causal Effect can be identified in certain semi-parametric models with local interference.

Study on removing sets and uniqueness of diffusion operators on various spaces.

problem Determining the effect of removing small sets on the self-adjointness and uniqueness of diffusion operators.
method Analyzes symmetric diffusion operators on metric measure spaces, proving a truncation result for potentials.
result Characterizes the critical size of removed sets and their effect on operator properties.

Multiplicative noise, including dropout, is widely used to regularize deep neural networks (DNNs), and is shown to be effective in a wide range of architectures and tasks. From an information perspective, we consider injecting multiplicative noise into a DNN as training the network to solve the task with noisy informat…

2018-09-19abs ↗pdf ↗

A statistical framework for removing unwanted data domains in machine learning.

problem Removing unwanted data domains in machine learning while preserving desired performance.
method Modeling domains as probability distributions and using hypothesis testing to select samples to remove.
result Characterization of allowable edited data distributions and removal-preservation Pareto frontiers for various distribution families.

This paper describes a novel deep learning-based method for mitigating the effects of atmospheric distortion. We have built an end-to-end supervised convolutional neural network (CNN) to reconstruct turbulence-corrupted video sequence. Our framework has been developed on the residual learning concept, where the spatio-…

2019-12-22abs ↗pdf ↗

A new unsupervised method removes CT metal artifacts using beta-CycleGAN and attention.

problem Metal artifact reduction in computed tomography (CT) images.
method Unsupervised learning using a beta-CycleGAN architecture with attention mechanism.
result Improved metal artifact removal that preserves image details.

Matrix factorization is a simple and effective solution to the recommendation problem. It has been extensively employed in the industry and has attracted much attention from the academia. However, it is unclear what the low-dimensional matrices represent. We show that matrix factorization can actually be seen as simult…

2018-08-28abs ↗pdf ↗

A denoising algorithm seeks to remove noise, errors, or perturbations from a signal. Extensive research has been devoted to this arena over the last several decades, and as a result, today's denoisers can effectively remove large amounts of additive white Gaussian noise. A compressed sensing (CS) reconstruction algorit…

2014-06-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Theorem proves minimal hypersurfaces in nonnegative scalar curvature manifolds are smooth.

problem Minimal hypersurfaces with singularities in manifolds of nonnegative scalar curvature.
method Singularity removal rigidity theorems, spectral PMT for AF manifolds.
result Smoothness of minimal hypersurfaces in nonnegative scalar curvature manifolds.

Recent advances in Representation Learning and Adversarial Training seem to succeed in removing unwanted features from the learned representation. We show that demographic information of authors is encoded in -- and can be recovered from -- the intermediate representations learned by text-based neural classifiers. The …

2018-08-20abs ↗pdf ↗

New method removes hidden confounders for unbiased treatment effect estimation.

problem Bias in treatment effect estimation due to unobserved confounders.
method Proposes a new debiased estimation approach via SVD to handle heterogeneous confounding.
result Established rate of convergence for the estimator under different noise conditions.

NTL protects AI models by restricting their generalization ability to specific domains.

problem Protecting AI models as intellectual property in a secure and robust manner.
method Non-Transferable Learning (NTL) captures exclusive data representation and restricts model generalization ability.
result NTL provides robust resistance to watermark removal and data-centric protection for usage authorization.

Pruning is a standard technique for removing unnecessary structure from a neural network to reduce its storage footprint, computational demands, or energy consumption. Pruning can reduce the parameter-counts of many state-of-the-art neural networks by an order of magnitude without compromising accuracy, meaning these n…

2019-06-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Bank behaviour is important for pricing XVA because it links different counterparties and thus breaks the usual XVA pricing assumption of counterparty independence. Consider a typical case of a bank hedging a client trade via a CCP. On client default the hedge (effects) will be removed (rebalanced). On the other hand, …

2018-03-09abs ↗pdf ↗

New method removes unwanted information from representations efficiently.

problem Learning representations that are uninformative about a target variable.
method Adversarial training with a novel proxy metric for mutual information, leading to an analytically computable approximation.
result Our method effectively removes unwanted information with limited time budget.

We investigate the problem of learning representations that are invariant to certain nuisance or sensitive factors of variation in the data while retaining as much of the remaining information as possible. Our model is based on a variational autoencoding architecture with priors that encourage independence between sens…

2015-11-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Cluster analysis and outlier detection are strongly coupled tasks in data mining area. Cluster structure can be easily destroyed by few outliers; on the contrary, outliers are defined by the concept of cluster, which are recognized as the points belonging to none of the clusters. Unfortunately, most existing studies do…

2018-01-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Good data stewardship requires removal of data at the request of the data's owner. This raises the question if and how a trained machine-learning model, which implicitly stores information about its training data, should be affected by such a removal request. Is it possible to "remove" data from a machine-learning mode…

2019-11-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the non-parametric regression problem under Huber's εε-contamination model, in which an εε fraction of observations are subject to arbitrary adversarial noise. We first show that a simple local binning median step can effectively remove the adversary noise and this median estimator is minimax optimal up t…

2018-05-26abs ↗pdf ↗