We describe a strategy for constructing a neural network jet substructure tagger which powerfully discriminates boosted decay signals while remaining largely uncorrelated with the jet mass. This reduces the impact of systematic uncertainties in background modeling while enhancing signal purity, resulting in improved di…
A convolution neural network (CNN) based classification method for broadband DOA estimation is proposed, where the phase component of the short-time Fourier transform coefficients of the received microphone signals are directly fed into the CNN and the features required for DOA estimation are learnt during training. Si…
Deep learning models detect nanopore translocation events with high accuracy.
problem Manual parameter selection for nanopore signal analysis is prone to error.
method Developed a synthetic signal generator for training ML models.
result Deep learning models achieve over 99% true event detection.
Autoencoder estimates parameters of noisy, multi-component damped signals.
problem Parameter estimation of damped sinusoidal signals under rapid decay and noise.
method Autoencoder-based approach using latent space for frequency, phase, decay, and amplitude estimation.
result High accuracy in parameter estimation, robustness to subdominant components and phase differences.
Iterated Amplification uses subproblem solutions to build training signals for complex tasks.
problem Learning complex tasks when humans can't directly evaluate performance.
method Progressively builds training signal by combining solutions to easier subproblems.
result Efficiently learns complex behaviors in algorithmic environments.
GAN-based spoofing attacks improve wireless signal authentication.
problem Improving wireless signal authentication against sophisticated spoofing attacks.
method Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for generating synthetic signals.
result GAN-based spoofing attacks significantly increase the success probability of wireless signal spoofing.
Enhances reinforcement learning with partial state information.
problem Improving learning under partial observability with limited privileged signals.
method Introduced informed asymmetric actor-critic framework that uses arbitrary state-dependent privileged signals.
result Unbiased policy gradient estimates with arbitrary privileged signals.
Paper presents DL models for ECG signal denoising.
problem Efficient denoising of ECG signals for wearable devices.
method CNNs, LSTM, RBM, filtering methods, wavelet-based technique.
result CNN model performs well for offline denoising.
Approximate Message Passing (AMP) has been shown to be an excellent statistical approach to signal inference and compressed sensing problem. The AMP framework provides modularity in the choice of signal prior; here we propose a hierarchical form of the Gauss-Bernouilli prior which utilizes a Restricted Boltzmann Machin…
PHASE predicts surgical complications from physiological signals.
problem Predicting adverse surgical outcomes from physiological signals.
method Self-supervised transfer learning for physiological signals.
result PHASE outperforms other approaches in predicting five surgical complications.
Paper investigates robustness to interference as a new training signal for meta-learning.
problem Improving incremental learning through robust representations.
method Directly minimizing catastrophic interference as a training signal.
result Representations learned to minimize interference lead to better incremental learning.
Neural network detects spectrum signals under uncertain parameters.
problem Spectrum sensing under uncertain primary user signal parameters.
method Trained neural network to detect modulated signals robustly.
result Neural network gains robustness under carrier frequency, phase, and symbol time offsets.
A neural network learns to estimate spectra from few noisy samples.
problem Estimating spectra from limited noisy data.
method Training a neural network on simulated data to approximate multisinusoidal signal spectra.
result The approach performs well in various noise conditions and is competitive with classical methods.
DynaCor detects noisy labels by learning from corrupted training signals.
problem Label noise in real-world datasets hinders model generalization.
method DynaCor introduces label corruption to indirectly simulate noisy labels and learns to distinguish clean from noisy instances.
result DynaCor outperforms state-of-the-art competitors in noisy label detection.
Backpropagation-free RL method trains layers using local signals.
problem Vanishing or exploding gradients in backpropagation-based RL.
method Local pairwise distance matching for layer-wise training without backpropagation.
result Backpropagation-free method achieves competitive performance and stability.
In this paper we develop a novel computational sensing framework for sensing and recovering structured signals. When trained on a set of representative signals, our framework learns to take undersampled measurements and recover signals from them using a deep convolutional neural network. In other words, it learns a tra…
We propose a novel learning method for multilayered neural networks which uses feedforward supervisory signal and associates classification of a new input with that of pre-trained input. The proposed method effectively uses rich input information in the earlier layer for robust leaning and revising internal representat…
PEGR improves deep learning models' robustness against noisy data.
problem Learning signals from noisy data in deep learning models.
method Per-example gradient regularization (PEGR) to suppress noise.
result PEGR enhances test error and robustness against noise perturbations.
New method shows random, diverse initializations are not essential for deep neural networks.
problem The necessity of random, diverse initializations in deep neural networks.
method Constructed a deep convolutional network with identical features by initializing weights to 0, enabling signal propagation and stable gradients.
result Random, diverse initializations are not necessary for training neural networks.
New method uses adversarial training for blind source separation.
problem Blind single-channel source separation challenge.
method Adversarial training for independence of sources.
result Good performance validated on image sources.
CardiacGen generates realistic ECG signals for training deep learning models.
problem Creating realistic synthetic ECG signals for training deep learning models.
method Hierarchical deep generative model with multi-objective loss functions.
result Synthetic ECG signals from CardiacGen can be used for data augmentation and improve classifier performance.
This work improves LSTM and GRU training stability and generalization.
problem Training instabilities in LSTMs and GRUs on long sequences.
method Developed a mean field theory to optimize initialization hyperparameters.
result Eliminates or reduces training instabilities and improves generalization.
PerceptNet learns haptic signal similarity using human data.
problem Designing haptic icons requires accurate perceptual similarity estimation.
method Deep neural network projecting signals to an embedding space with a triplet loss.
result Our method effectively models perceptual dissimilarity compared to alternatives.
A new graph generation model uses Mallat's scattering transform.
problem Unclear mathematical properties and difficulty in training good generative models for graphs.
method Proposes a graph generation model using a Gaussianized graph scattering transform.
result Demonstrates state-of-the-art performance in link prediction and graph/signal generation.
New method trains neural networks with local error signals, outperforming global methods.
problem Training neural networks with global error signals.
method Layer-wise training with local error signals.
result Layer-wise training with local error signals can approach state-of-the-art performance.
A faster neural waveform model for speech synthesis.
problem Slow waveform generation in existing neural models.
method Proposes a non-autoregressive neural source-filter model.
result Generated waveforms 100 times faster than AR WaveNet.
New algorithms for learning shift-invariant components and aligning signals.
problem Learning shift-invariant components and aligning signals.
method Formulated optimization problems using circulant and convolutional matrices, proposed efficient solutions.
result Effective algorithms for learning shift-invariant components and aligning signals.
Stabilizes deep Bayesian neural networks with self-stabilizing priors.
problem Brittleness and difficulty in training deep Bayesian neural networks.
method Signal propagation theory, reformulated ELBO, self-stabilizing priors.
result Improved convergence and robustness in training deeper networks and noisier settings.
This paper tackles efficient cooperative control for large-scale traffic signals using tensor-based deep learning.
problem Efficient training and control for large-scale multi-intersection traffic signals.
method Tensor representation, multi-task learning, imitation learning, proximal policy optimization.
result The proposed model achieves better performance compared to existing methods.
Deep vanilla transformers trained without shortcuts achieve similar performance to standard models.
problem Training deep vanilla transformers without shortcuts and normalizations.
method Parameter initializations, bias matrices, and location-dependent rescaling.
result Deep vanilla transformers can train at similar speeds and performance to standard models.
DP-GD improves CNN training accuracy with privacy, especially with low signal-to-noise ratios.
problem Privacy-preserving training of neural networks with crowdsourced data.
method Differentially private gradient descent (DP-GD) algorithm applied to two-layer CNNs.
result DP-GD can achieve superior generalization performance compared to GD, especially with low signal-to-noise ratios.
Study shows DL models trained on healthy subjects perform worse on patients' ECG data.
problem Inefficiency of DL models on heterogeneous datasets for heart beat detection.
method Investigated and evaluated the use of Transfer Learning to adapt DL models to different datasets.
result Transfer Learning improves classification performance on small sample size datasets.
This work uses encoder-decoder networks to denoise one-dimensional signals by aligning clean and noisy signal latent representations.
problem Noise removal in one-dimensional signals, especially in medical and motion signals.
method Encoder-decoder architecture with adversarial learning to align clean and noisy signal latent representations.
result Better performance on electrocardiogram and motion signal denoising compared to learning-based and non-learning approaches.
In this article, we propose an approach that can make use of not only labeled EEG signals but also the unlabeled ones which is more accessible. We also suggest the use of data fusion to further improve the seizure prediction accuracy. Data fusion in our vision includes EEG signals, cardiogram signals, body temperature …
In this article, we improve extreme learning machines for regression tasks using a graph signal processing based regularization. We assume that the target signal for prediction or regression is a graph signal. With this assumption, we use the regularization to enforce that the output of an extreme learning machine is s…
Outliers with opposing signals significantly affect neural network optimization.
problem Understanding and mitigating the impact of outliers with opposing signals on neural network training.
method Identifying and analyzing pairs of outliers with strong opposing signals in training data.
result Outliers with opposing signals can cause optimization to enter a narrow valley, leading to oscillatory behavior and eventual loss spikes.
In this paper, we address the problem of reconstructing a time-domain signal (or a phase spectrogram) solely from a magnitude spectrogram. Since magnitude spectrograms do not contain phase information, we must restore or infer phase information to reconstruct a time-domain signal. One widely used approach for dealing w…
The paper presents a method to recover high-resolution signals from low-resolution measurements.
problem Recovering high-resolution signals from low-resolution indirect measurements.
method Combining generalized sampling and functional principal component analysis.
result High-resolution recovery is possible under certain conditions and with a sufficiently large training set.
We find ways to make physical signals misclassified by computer vision models.
problem Vulnerability of signal classifiers to adversarial perturbations in physical signals.
method Solving PDE-constrained optimization problems to construct imperceptible perturbations.
result Effective and physically realizable adversarial perturbations can be computed for machine learning models.
Deep clustering is a recently introduced deep learning architecture that uses discriminatively trained embeddings as the basis for clustering. It was recently applied to spectrogram segmentation, resulting in impressive results on speaker-independent multi-speaker separation. In this paper we extend the baseline system…
Improved compressed sensing using a generator that learns from measurements.
problem Signal recovery accuracy in compressed sensing.
method Proposes a framework that uses measurement-conditional generative models to refine signal estimation.
result Uniformly superior performance with up to an order of magnitude reduction in reconstruction error.
Paper uses user engagement signals to automatically label training data for AI assistants.
problem Lack of annotated training data for AI assistants.
method Leverages user engagement signals for unsupervised entity labeling and data augmentation.
result Significant accuracy gains in sequence labeling tasks and user-facing results.
Sparse coding in learned dictionaries has been established as a successful approach for signal denoising, source separation and solving inverse problems in general. A dictionary learning method adapts an initial dictionary to a particular signal class by iteratively computing an approximate factorization of a training …
Self-training in linear models shows a U-shaped test-risk curve due to signal forgetting and denoising.
problem Understanding the dynamics of iterative self-training in high-dimensional linear regression.
method Derivation of deterministic-equivalent recursions for prediction risk and effective noise, analysis of signal forgetting and denoising effects.
result An optimal early-stopping time is determined, and a U-shaped test-risk curve is observed.
Paper proposes verifier engineering for improving foundation models.
problem Challenges in providing effective supervision signals for foundation models.
method Leverages automated verifiers to perform verification tasks and deliver feedback.
result Verifier engineering can enhance foundation models' capabilities.
VPNet uses variable projection for efficient neural network training.
problem Efficient and interpretable neural network training for signal processing.
method Variable projection (VP) applied to neural networks.
result VPNet achieves fast learning and good accuracy with low computational cost.
In this paper, we develop a new framework for sensing and recovering structured signals. In contrast to compressive sensing (CS) systems that employ linear measurements, sparse representations, and computationally complex convex/greedy algorithms, we introduce a deep learning framework that supports both linear and mil…
Novel Bayesian meta-reinforcement learning framework improves traffic signal control robustness.
problem Lack of robustness and stability in adaptation for traffic signal control.
method Value-based Bayesian meta-reinforcement learning framework BM-DQN with fast-adaptation variation and DQN fast-update advantage.
result Framework adapts more quickly and robustly to new scenarios than previous methods.