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New datasets improve fairness research by revealing UCI Adult's limitations.
Neural linear model performs well on simple regression tasks but requires tuning.
Interpretable ML models for missing data and visualisation.
Proposes a new network for accurate predictions and uncertainty estimation.
Machine learning qualifies computers to assimilate with data, without being solely programmed [1, 2]. Machine learning can be classified as supervised and unsupervised learning. In supervised learning, computers learn an objective that portrays an input to an output hinged on training input-output pairs [3]. Most effic…
Gaussian Processes improve missing value imputation in datasets.
Evolutionary algorithms improve decision tree ensembles.
New NHCAs improve multi-category classification efficiency.
FLDCRF improves sequence labeling performance with latent dynamics interactions.
Paper compares three regularization-based methods for HAR, highlighting their strengths and limitations.
In this paper we explore different regression models based on Clusterwise Linear Regression (CLR). CLR aims to find the partition of the data into clusters, such that linear regressions fitted to each of the clusters minimize overall mean squared error on the whole data. The main obstacle preventing to use found re…
To improve accuracy and speed of regressions and classifications, we present a data-based prediction method, Random Bits Regression (RBR). This method first generates a large number of random binary intermediate/derived features based on the original input matrix, and then performs regularized linear/logistic regressio…
As much as data science is playing a pivotal role everywhere, healthcare also finds it prominent application. Breast Cancer is the top rated type of cancer amongst women; which took away 627,000 lives alone. This high mortality rate due to breast cancer does need attention, for early detection so that prevention can be…
A Bayesian treatment of latent directed graph structure for non-iid data is provided where each child datum is sampled with a directed conditional dependence on a single unknown parent datum. The latent graph structure is assumed to lie in the family of directed out-tree graphs which leads to efficient Bayesian inferen…
Stochastic Bayesian Neural Network improves scalability and performance.
Random forests perform bootstrap-aggregation by sampling the training samples with replacement. This enables the evaluation of out-of-bag error which serves as a internal cross-validation mechanism. Our motivation lies in using the unsampled training samples to improve each decision tree in the ensemble. We study the e…
Optimal transport distances help impute missing data.
This paper presents a novel method for information interpretability in an MC-SEFRON classifier. To develop a method to extract knowledge stored in a trained classifier, first, the binary-class SEFRON classifier developed earlier is extended to handle multi-class problems. MC-SEFRON uses the population encoding scheme t…
FineMorphs models smooth transformations for multivariate regression.
Choosing optimal (or at least better) policies is an important problem in domains from medicine to education to finance and many others. One approach to this problem is through controlled experiments/trials - but controlled experiments are expensive. Hence it is important to choose the best policies on the basis of obs…
We develop an approximate formula for evaluating a cross-validation estimator of predictive likelihood for multinomial logistic regression regularized by an -norm. This allows us to avoid repeated optimizations required for literally conducting cross-validation; hence, the computational time can be significantl…
We introduce a novel incremental decision tree learning algorithm, Hoeffding Anytime Tree, that is statistically more efficient than the current state-of-the-art, Hoeffding Tree. We demonstrate that an implementation of Hoeffding Anytime Tree---"Extremely Fast Decision Tree", a minor modification to the MOA implementat…
A new algorithm enhances minority class representation in imbalanced datasets.
The ability to interpret machine learning models has become increasingly important now that machine learning is used to inform consequential decisions. We propose an approach called model extraction for interpreting complex, blackbox models. Our approach approximates the complex model using a much more interpretable mo…
This study combines two different learning paradigms, k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) rule, as memory-based learning paradigm and relevance vector machines (RVM), as statistical learning paradigm. This combination is performed in kernel space and is called k-relevance vector (k-RV). The purpose is to improve the performance …
The paper proposes a semi-parametric Bayesian network model using Gaussian Processes and Horseshoe priors.
The inaccuracy of neural network models on inputs that do not stem from the training data distribution is both problematic and at times unrecognized. Model uncertainty estimation can address this issue, where uncertainty estimates are often based on the variation in predictions produced by a diverse ensemble of models …
The potential for learned models to amplify existing societal biases has been broadly recognized. Fairness-aware classifier constraints, which apply equality metrics of performance across subgroups defined on sensitive attributes such as race and gender, seek to rectify inequity but can yield non-uniform degradation in…
Multithreshold Entropy Linear Classifier (MELC) is a density based model which searches for a linear projection maximizing the Cauchy-Schwarz Divergence of dataset kernel density estimation. Despite its good empirical results, one of its drawbacks is the optimization speed. In this paper we analyze how one can speed it…
Identification of informative variables in an information system is often performed using simple one-dimensional filtering procedures that discard information about interactions between variables. Such approach may result in removing some relevant variables from consideration. Here we present an R package MDFS (MultiDi…
Paper proposes methods to improve SVM classifiers in noisy data scenarios.
AP-Perf integrates custom metrics into neural networks.
Meta-learning, or learning to learn, is a machine learning approach that utilizes prior learning experiences to expedite the learning process on unseen tasks. As a data-driven approach, meta-learning requires meta-features that represent the primary learning tasks or datasets, and are estimated traditonally as engineer…
The recently proposed Minimal Complexity Machine (MCM) finds a hyperplane classifier by minimizing an exact bound on the Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension. The VC dimension measures the capacity of a learning machine, and a smaller VC dimension leads to improved generalization. On many benchmark datasets, the MCM gene…
Kernel method-based one-class classifier is mainly used for outlier or novelty detection. In this letter, kernel ridge regression (KRR) based one-class classifier (KOC) has been extended for learning using privileged information (LUPI). LUPI-based KOC method is referred to as KOC+. This privileged information is availa…
Large deep neural networks are powerful, but exhibit undesirable behaviors such as memorization and sensitivity to adversarial examples. In this work, we propose mixup, a simple learning principle to alleviate these issues. In essence, mixup trains a neural network on convex combinations of pairs of examples and their …
In the classical Gaussian SVM classification we use the feature space projection transforming points to normal distributions with fixed covariance matrices (identity in the standard RBF and the covariance of the whole dataset in Mahalanobis RBF). In this paper we add additional information to Gaussian SVM by considerin…
This study evaluates clustering algorithms on high-dimensional data.
Improved natural gradient boosting with leaf number clipping for faster and better performance.
Under covariate shift, training (source) data and testing (target) data differ in input space distribution, but share the same conditional label distribution. This poses a challenging machine learning task. Robust Bias-Aware (RBA) prediction provides the conditional label distribution that is robust to the worstcase lo…
Two binary Sine Cosine Algorithms improve feature selection in medical datasets.
This paper evaluates t-SNE and MDS for reducing dimensions in datasets and classifying them with KNN, ENN, and SVM.
New method predicts graph structure changes over time.
New fairness approach removes direct effects of unprivileged groups through causal regularization.
Deep heteroskedastic models overfit, showing a phase transition with regularization strength.
New framework for fairness in machine learning models using SHAP values and adversarial learning.
We present a new PAC-Bayesian generalization bound. Standard bounds contain a $\sqrt{L_n \cdot \KL/n}$ complexity term which dominates unless , the empirical error of the learning algorithm's randomized predictions, vanishes. We manage to replace by a term which vanishes in many more situations, essentially …
Excluding irrelevant features in a pattern recognition task plays an important role in maintaining a simpler machine learning model and optimizing the computational efficiency. Nowadays with the rise of large scale datasets, feature selection is in great demand as it becomes a central issue when facing high-dimensional…