Neural Empirical Bayes estimates source distributions from noisy simulations.
problem Estimating source distributions from noisy, simulated data.
method Uses neural density estimators to estimate a prior or source distribution over uncorrupted samples, then performs posterior inference.
result Recovering ground truth source distributions up to symmetries.
Bayesian method improves EEG source imaging accuracy by estimating skull conductivity.
problem Sensitivity of EEG source imaging to skull conductivity modeling.
method Bayesian uncertainty modeling to estimate skull conductivity and focal sources.
result Clear improvements in source localization accuracy and feasible skull conductivity estimates.
New technique for multiple-source adaptation without density estimation.
problem Multiple-source adaptation problem.
method Discriminative technique that uses conditional probabilities from unlabeled data.
result Our technique outperforms previous generative solutions and other domain adaptation baselines.
Estimates watermarked content proportions in mixed-source texts.
problem Optimally estimating the proportion of watermarked content in texts with mixed sources.
method Casting the problem as estimating a proportion parameter in a mixture model based on pivotal statistics.
result Proposes efficient estimators for watermark proportion and shows their accuracy through evaluations.
Principal component analysis (PCA) is a popular method for projecting data onto uncorrelated components in lower dimension, although the optimal number of components is not specified. Likewise, multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm is a popular PCA-based method for estimating directions of arrival (DOAs) of …
Paper proposes methods to localize sources in WSNs without knowing sensor parameters.
problem Source localization in WSNs without sensor parameter knowledge.
method Hitting set approach and feature selection method.
result Effective source localization methods validated through simulations.
New ICA method for sources with mixed spectra.
problem Inaccurate separation of sources with temporal autocorrelations and mixed spectra.
method Estimates spectral density functions and line spectra using cubic splines and indicator functions, then maximizes the Whittle likelihood function.
result Outperforms existing ICA methods in simulations and EEG data applications.
Algorithm finds frequencies, amplitudes, and phases of sinusoids in noisy data.
problem Finding frequencies, amplitudes, and phases of sinusoids in noisy data.
method Maximum likelihood approach to estimate tone parameters from contaminated observations. Successively estimates frequencies and jointly optimizes amplitudes and phases.
result Near-linear computational complexity (O(N)) for estimating M number of sinusoidal sources. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalogra-phy (EEG) are non-invasive modalities that measure the weak electromagnetic fields generated by neural activity. Inferring the location of the current sources that generated these magnetic fields is an ill-posed inverse problem known as source imaging. When consideri…
New method predicts brain activity using past states for more accurate source estimation.
problem Independent source estimates ignore temporal context of neuronal activity.
method Combines LSTM networks with Minimum-Norm Estimates (MNE) for context-dependent brain activity prediction.
result CMNE leads to more accurate source estimation compared to independent MNE.
Study uses open data to improve traffic emissions estimation.
problem Estimating accurate link level traffic emissions.
method Data-driven framework integrating MOVES, GPS, OSM, and satellite imagery.
result Neural network reduces RMSE by over 50% for key pollutants.
AVICA estimates noise levels for better group ICA source recovery.
problem Estimating shared independent sources from multiple noisy views.
method AVICA models each view as a linear mixture of shared sources with additive noise, optimizing noise levels alongside sources.
result AVICA yields better source estimates than other methods, especially in real-world applications like MEG and fMRI.
Study evaluates cross-validation methods for clinical ECG classification, finding leave-source-out more reliable.
problem Overoptimistic cross-validation estimates for new patient sources.
method Empirical evaluation of K-fold and leave-source-out cross-validation methods.
result Leave-source-out cross-validation provides more reliable performance estimates.
Blind Source Separation is a widely used technique to analyze multichannel data. In many real-world applications, its results can be significantly hampered by the presence of unknown outliers. In this paper, a novel algorithm coined rGMCA (robust Generalized Morphological Component Analysis) is introduced to retrieve s…
This work tackles robust multi-source domain adaptation under label shift.
problem Label shift and data contamination in multi-source domain adaptation.
method Domain-weighted empirical risk minimization framework with refinement procedure.
result The proposed method achieves superior performance in multi-category classification problems.
Analyzes error sources in global feature effect estimation methods.
problem Unexplored error sources in global feature effect estimation methods.
method Systematic, estimator-level analysis of bias and variance.
result Holdout data is theoretically cleanest, but estimation variance depends on sample size and model characteristics.
This article addresses the modeling of reverberant recording environments in the context of under-determined convolutive blind source separation. We model the contribution of each source to all mixture channels in the time-frequency domain as a zero-mean Gaussian random variable whose covariance encodes the spatial cha…
Proposes a method to adapt models in nonstationary environments using ℓ1 regularization.
problem Adapting models to nonstationary environments in machine learning.
method Integrates ℓ1 regularization of differences between source and target parameters.
result Effective balance of stability and plasticity in model adaptation.
Study optimizes data collection from biased, costly sources to minimize risk.
problem Estimating population means and group-conditional means from multiple sources with varying costs and biases.
method Develops a sampling plan that maximizes effective sample size, paired with a post-stratification estimator.
result Achieves budgeted minimax optimal risk for estimating population means and group-conditional means.
This paper proposes a multichannel source separation technique called the multichannel variational autoencoder (MVAE) method, which uses a conditional VAE (CVAE) to model and estimate the power spectrograms of the sources in a mixture. By training the CVAE using the spectrograms of training examples with source-class l…
Method fuses low and high-resolution data for better health estimates.
problem Improving high-resolution health estimates from mixed data sources.
method Fusion of unbiased low-resolution and potentially biased high-resolution data, learning a distribution consistent with sampling bias.
result Significant reduction in bias in high-resolution estimates.
Adaptive kernel approach learns causal effects from diverse data sources.
problem Learning causal effects from multiple, decentralized data sources in a federated setting.
method Adaptive transfer algorithm using Random Fourier Features to estimate similarities and disentangle loss function components.
result Empirically outperforms baselines on decentralized data sources with different distributions.
Unified model detects transferable variables and source data in high-dimensional linear regression.
problem Scarcity of target data and heterogeneity of source and target data distributions.
method UTrans model, estimation error bounds, hypothesis testing for source detection.
result UTrans achieves lower estimation and prediction errors than existing methods.
In this paper, we describe our method for DCASE2019 task3: Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD). We use four CRNN SELDnet-like single output models which run in a consecutive manner to recover all possible information of occurring events. We decompose the SELD task into estimating number of active sources, est…
The paper estimates key metrics for linear models with Markov or hidden Markov sources.
problem Estimating free energy, mutual information, and MMSE for linear models with specific signal priors.
method Replica analysis in statistical physics, focusing on Markov and hidden Markov sources.
result The linear model with Markov or hidden Markov sources can be simplified into decoupled AWGN channels.
A number of modern learning tasks involve estimation from heterogeneous information sources. This includes classification with labeled and unlabeled data as well as other problems with analogous structure such as competitive (game theoretic) problems. The associated estimation problems can be typically reduced to solvi…
Suppose that we are given a time series where consecutive samples are believed to come from a probabilistic source, that the source changes from time to time and that the total number of sources is fixed. Our objective is to estimate the distributions of the sources. A standard approach to this problem is to model the …
LEARNER improves low-rank matrix estimation using source population data.
problem Improving low-rank matrix estimation in target populations with diverse data sources.
method LEARNER uses similarity in latent spaces between source and target populations to enhance estimation.
result LEARNER often outperforms benchmark methods, especially with higher signal-to-noise ratios in the source population.
We consider two areas of research that have been developing in parallel over the last decade: blind source separation (BSS) and electromagnetic source estimation (ESE). BSS deals with the recovery of source signals when only mixtures of signals can be obtained from an array of detectors and the only prior knowledge con…
Latent truth discovery, LTD for short, refers to the problem of aggregating ltiple claims from various sources in order to estimate the plausibility of atements about entities. In the absence of a ground truth, this problem is highly challenging, when some sources provide conflicting claims and others no claims at all.…
This paper identifies a problem with the usual procedure for L2-regularization parameter estimation in a domain adaptation setting. In such a setting, there are differences between the distributions generating the training data (source domain) and the test data (target domain). The usual cross-validation procedure requ…
Online algorithms for identifying river pollution sources.
problem Real-time estimation of river pollution sources from downstream data.
method Gradient-based online learning algorithms with adaptive step sizes and escaping from saddle points module.
result High estimation accuracy in three dimensions, superior to existing methods.
We are losing biodiversity at an unprecedented scale and in many cases, we do not even know the basic data for the species. Traditional methods for wildlife monitoring are inadequate. Development of new computer vision tools enables the use of images as the source of information about wildlife. Social media is the rich…
We provide a systematic study of the problem of finding the source of a rumor in a network. We model rumor spreading in a network with a variant of the popular SIR model and then construct an estimator for the rumor source. This estimator is based upon a novel topological quantity which we term \textbf{rumor centrality…
New theory allows ICA without assuming non-Gaussian sources.
problem Traditional ICA struggles with Gaussian sources.
method Developed identifiability theory based on second-order statistics and sparsity.
result Identifiability theory and estimation methods validated experimentally.
New method recovers predictions from unobservable source subpopulation in binary classification.
problem Challenging binary classification with unobservable subpopulation in source domain.
method Distribution matching method to estimate subpopulation proportions, rigorous derivation of prediction models.
result Our method outperforms naive benchmarks in synthetic and real-world datasets.
Proposes using Wasserstein barycenters for robust optimization with multiple data sources.
problem Distributionally robust optimization with multiple heterogeneous data sources.
method Construct nominal distribution through Wasserstein barycenter of multiple data samples, reformulates as a finite convex program.
result Proposed scheme outperforms other estimators in sparse inverse covariance matrix estimation.
Separating an audio scene into isolated sources is a fundamental problem in computer audition, analogous to image segmentation in visual scene analysis. Source separation systems based on deep learning are currently the most successful approaches for solving the underdetermined separation problem, where there are more …
Proposes a transfer learning method for high-dimensional quantile regression.
problem Inadequate handling of heterogeneity and heavy tails in transfer learning.
method High-dimensional quantile regression framework with double transfer learning estimator.
result Established error bounds and valid confidence intervals for high-dimensional quantile regression coefficients.
Develops a method to estimate personalized treatment regimes from summary statistics.
problem Estimating optimal treatment regimes for a target population when individual-level data is unavailable.
method A weighting framework that tailors a treatment regime for the target population using summary statistics.
result Consistent and asymptotically normal estimator for optimal treatment regimes.
ASKAP observes a region of the Galactic plane, identifying 3963 radio sources.
problem Characterizing radio sources in the Galactic plane using ASKAP observations.
method 912 MHz observations with 15 ASKAP antennas, source characterization using CAESAR.
result Differential source counts in agreement with previous surveys, spectral index estimation for sources.
This paper proposes a TL method for SOH estimation of lithium-ion batteries.
problem Accurately estimating battery SOH to prevent unexpected failures.
method Temporal synchronization and distribution similarity analysis for transfer learning.
result The proposed method achieves a root mean squared error of 0.0034, improving accuracy by 77%.
Independent component analysis (ICA) is the most popular method for blind source separation (BSS) with a diverse set of applications, such as biomedical signal processing, video and image analysis, and communications. Maximum likelihood (ML), an optimal theoretical framework for ICA, requires knowledge of the true unde…
We study the problem of identifying the source of a diffusion spreading over a regular tree. When the degree of each node is at least three, we show that it is possible to construct confidence sets for the diffusion source with size independent of the number of infected nodes. Our estimators are motivated by analogous …
Transfer learning improves causal model estimates in small samples.
problem Challenges in estimating individual treatment effects (ITE) from small datasets.
method Treatment Agnostic Representation Networks (TARNet) with transfer learning (TL-TARNet).
result Transfer learning reduces ITE error and bias in small samples.
A new method for multi-subject brain source imaging improves accuracy and specificity.
problem Estimating brain source locations from M/EEG data for multiple subjects.
method Sparse multi-task regression with Minimum Wasserstein Estimates and Optimal Transport metrics.
result Significant improvement in spatial specificity and localization accuracy compared to individual subject solutions.
Anytime-valid confirmation of label-shift corrections
problem Small-batch scientific deployments with scarce labeled outcomes
method Conditional e-value and martingale-based rule
result Nonnegative martingale and anytime-valid confirmation rule
Paper proposes efficient online estimation of causal effects by deciding which data sources to query.
problem Data fusion problems with multiple data sources capturing distinct subsets of variables.
method Online moment selection (OMS) framework, balancing exploration and exploitation.
result OMS algorithms achieve zero asymptotic regret for estimating average treatment effects.