Extends active subspace analysis to infinite dimensions.
problem Dimension reduction in infinite dimensional functionals.
method Defines an operator for Hilbert space, extends Euclidean properties, proposes Monte Carlo procedure.
result Desirable properties extend to infinite dimensional setting.
New method estimates active subspaces for jump-discontinuous functions.
problem Estimating active subspaces for discontinuous functions like ABMs.
method Extending active subspaces to discontinuous functions, using Gaussian process.
result Identifies important parameters in ABM simulations of refugee movement.
Active subspace is a model reduction method widely used in the uncertainty quantification community. In this paper, we propose analyzing the internal structure and vulnerability and deep neural networks using active subspace. Firstly, we employ the active subspace to measure the number of "active neurons" at each inter…
Active learning improves subspace clustering with less labeled data.
problem Efficiently incorporating labeled data to improve subspace clustering models.
method Proposes an active learning framework for subspace clustering that queries informative points and updates the subspace model.
result Demonstrates the advantage of the proposed active strategy over state-of-the-art methods.
New framework tackles high-dimensional reliability analysis using surrogate models and active subspaces.
problem High computational cost and curse of dimensionality in reliability analysis of high-dimensional systems.
method Sparse Active Subspace (SAS) algorithm for identifying low-dimensional manifolds and constructing efficient surrogate models.
result Proposed framework significantly improves accuracy and efficiency of reliability analysis compared to existing methods.
Active sampling selects few points for accurate model reduction of high-fidelity systems.
problem Efficiently identify dominant subspaces for model reduction of large training sets.
method Proposes an active sampling strategy to select a few points from the training set to estimate dominant subspaces accurately.
result Active sampling can provide 17x speed-up without sacrificing accuracy.
A problem of considerable importance within the field of uncertainty quantification (UQ) is the development of efficient methods for the construction of accurate surrogate models. Such efforts are particularly important to applications constrained by high-dimensional uncertain parameter spaces. The difficulty of accura…
This work simplifies Bayesian inference for neural networks by identifying influential parameter directions.
problem High computational complexity in Bayesian inference for neural networks due to high-dimensional parameter space.
method Constructing an active subspace of influential parameter directions to reduce dimensionality.
result Effective and scalable Bayesian inference achieved via reduced active subspace.
The paper proposes methods to find a shared active subspace for multivariate vector-valued functions.
problem Minimizing the deviation between function evaluations in the original and reconstructed spaces.
method Manipulating gradients or SPD matrices to identify a shared structure.
result Summing SPD matrices often identifies the best shared active subspace.
Researchers use active subspaces to quantify uncertainty in deep generative models for molecular design.
problem Uncertainty quantification in deep generative models for molecular design due to high parameter space.
method Leveraging active subspaces to approximate posterior distribution over low-dimensional parameters.
result The proposed UQ scheme effectively estimates epistemic uncertainty in high-dimensional parameter space without altering model architecture.
State-of-the-art subspace clustering methods are based on expressing each data point as a linear combination of other data points while regularizing the matrix of coefficients with ℓ1, ℓ2 or nuclear norms. ℓ1 regularization is guaranteed to give a subspace-preserving affinity (i.e., there are no conne…
Unified framework for clustering with sparse convex combinations.
problem Challenges in subspace clustering with limited labelled data.
method Spectral-based sparse subspace representation with extensions to constrained and active learning.
result Effective and competitive clustering results on simulated and real data.
Combines additivity and active subspaces for high-dimensional Gaussian process modeling.
problem High-dimensional Gaussian process modeling challenges due to the curse of dimensionality.
method Combines additivity and active subspaces with a multi-fidelity strategy.
result Shows advantages through experiments on synthetic functions and datasets.
Enhances Gaussian process regression with multi-fidelity models and active subspaces for high-dimensional problems.
problem Data scarcity and high-dimensional input spaces with low intrinsic dimensionality.
method Employ Gaussian processes in a Bayesian setting, augmenting with low-fidelity models, and exploiting active subspaces.
result Improves model accuracy through multi-fidelity Gaussian process regression with active subspaces.
LASER compresses recursive model activations by exploiting their low-dimensional structure.
problem Understanding and optimizing the geometric structure of recursive reasoning trajectories.
method Dynamic low-rank basis tracking via matrix-free subspace tracking with a fidelity-triggered reset mechanism.
result Recursive activations occupy a linear, low-dimensional subspace that can be compressed efficiently.
The inputs of deep neural network (DNN) from real-world data usually come with uncertainties. Yet, it is challenging to propagate the uncertainty in the input features to the DNN predictions at a low computational cost. This work employs a gradient-based subspace method and response surface technique to accelerate the …
Sparse Subspace Clustering (SSC) is a state-of-the-art method for clustering high-dimensional data points lying in a union of low-dimensional subspaces. However, while ℓ1 optimization-based SSC algorithms suffer from high computational complexity, other variants of SSC, such as Orthogonal Matching Pursuit-based S…
In recent years, active subspace methods (ASMs) have become a popular means of performing subspace sensitivity analysis on black-box functions. Naively applied, however, ASMs require gradient evaluations of the target function. In the event of noisy, expensive, or stochastic simulators, evaluating gradients via finite …
In applications ranging from communications to genetics, signals can be modeled as lying in a union of subspaces. Under this model, signal coefficients that lie in certain subspaces are active or inactive together. The potential subspaces are known in advance, but the particular set of subspaces that are active (i.e., …
A new method reduces high-dimensional parameter spaces for faster numerical tasks.
problem Efficiently reducing high-dimensional parameter spaces for numerical tasks.
method Local Active Subspaces (LAS) combining active subspaces with clustering techniques.
result Significant speed-up in numerical tasks through efficient dimension reduction.
Gradient-free method reduces dimensionality without gradients for expensive models.
problem Reducing high-dimensional input spaces for expensive models without gradient information.
method Fully Bayesian, gradient-free approach using Gaussian processes.
result Improves active subspace recovery and probabilistic prediction accuracy with limited data.
Union of Subspaces (UoS) is a popular model to describe the underlying low-dimensional structure of data. The fine details of UoS structure can be described in terms of canonical angles (also known as principal angles) between subspaces, which is a well-known characterization for relative subspace positions. In this pa…
GTBO uses group testing to optimize high-dimensional functions efficiently.
problem Optimizing expensive, high-dimensional functions with limited data.
method Group testing to identify active dimensions, then guide optimization.
result GTBO outperforms state-of-the-art methods on high-dimensional benchmarks.
Emergent misalignment is influenced by training dynamics, model priors, and data.
problem Emergent misalignment in models
method Exploring training dynamics, model priors, and data
result Activation deltas before and after narrow fine-tuning correlate with their similarities when measured with the last prompt-token activations.
Proposes a neural network model to learn active subspaces and interpret important features.
problem Achieving strong predictive performance and human-interpretable models in machine learning.
method Modified Gaussian radial basis function neural network with learnable precision matrix.
result Extracts active subspaces and interpretable rankings of input variables.
Gradient-based meta-learning methods leverage gradient descent to learn the commonalities among various tasks. While previous such methods have been successful in meta-learning tasks, they resort to simple gradient descent during meta-testing. Our primary contribution is the {\em MT-net}, which enables the meta-learner…
GTBO uses group testing to optimize high-dimensional functions efficiently.
problem Challenges in optimizing high-dimensional, expensive functions due to the curse of dimensionality.
method GTBO combines testing and optimization phases to identify active variables and guide efficient optimization.
result GTBO outperforms state-of-the-art methods on high-dimensional optimization tasks.
We present an approach to analyze C1(Rm) functions that addresses limitations present in the Active Subspaces (AS) method of Constantine et al.(2015; 2014). Under appropriate hypotheses, our Active Manifolds (AM) method identifies a 1-D curve in the domain (the active manifold) on which nearly all values o…
Scientists and engineers rely on accurate mathematical models to quantify the objects of their studies, which are often high-dimensional. Unfortunately, high-dimensional models are inherently difficult, i.e. when observations are sparse or expensive to determine. One way to address this problem is to approximate the or…
The autoencoder is an effective unsupervised learning model which is widely used in deep learning. It is well known that an autoencoder with a single fully-connected hidden layer, a linear activation function and a squared error cost function trains weights that span the same subspace as the one spanned by the principa…
Motivated by the idea of turbomachinery active subspace performance maps, this paper studies dimension reduction in turbomachinery 3D CFD simulations. First, we show that these subspaces exist across different blades---under the same parametrization---largely independent of their Mach number or Reynolds number. This is…
It is widely believed that learning good representations is one of the main reasons for the success of deep neural networks. Although highly intuitive, there is a lack of theory and systematic approach quantitatively characterizing what representations do deep neural networks learn. In this work, we move a tiny step to…
MCD offers a complete model understanding for high-stake decisions.
problem Local model understanding in XAI methods is not sufficient for high-stake decisions.
method MCD extends concept-based methods to ensure global model understanding via multi-dimensional subspaces.
result MCD provides a complete model understanding, ensuring the model reasoning is related to the actual model.
Representation of human actions as a sequence of human body movements or action attributes enables the development of models for human activity recognition and summarization. We present an extension of the low-rank representation (LRR) model, termed the clustering-aware structure-constrained low-rank representation (CS…
Neural network models of early sensory processing typically reduce the dimensionality of streaming input data. Such networks learn the principal subspace, in the sense of principal component analysis (PCA), by adjusting synaptic weights according to activity-dependent learning rules. When derived from a principled cost…
We develop embeddings for nonlinear subspaces preserving vector norms.
problem Preserving vector norms in nonlinear subspaces.
method Low-distortion embeddings for subspaces under nonlinear transformations.
result First low-distortion embeddings for a wide class of nonlinear functions.
High-dimensional models pose both safety benefits and risks.
problem Emergent problems in safety alignment due to high-dimensional representations.
method Detailed visualizations and lower-dimensional subspace projections.
result Dimensional reduction preserves safety alignment while avoiding linear jailbreaking.
SAP learns efficient task-specific parameter subspaces for few-shot learning.
problem Efficient few-shot learning with limited data.
method Subspace Adaptation Prior (SAP) learns task-specific parameter subspaces for efficient few-shot learning.
result SAP yields superior or competitive performance in few-shot image classification.
We present a new algorithm ASEBO for optimizing high-dimensional blackbox functions. ASEBO adapts to the geometry of the function and learns optimal sets of sensing directions, which are used to probe it, on-the-fly. It addresses the exploration-exploitation trade-off of blackbox optimization with expensive blackbox qu…
Scalable NAS by factorizing operators into subspaces.
problem Scaling up NAS search space while avoiding operator competition.
method Factorizing a large set of candidate operators into smaller subspaces.
result Achieved state-of-the-art performance on CIFAR10 and ImageNet.
Paper introduces efficient methods for estimating cross-partial derivatives and sensitivity indices.
problem Efficiently estimating cross-partial derivatives and sensitivity indices in complex models.
method Using randomized points and constraints, the paper develops estimators with optimal convergence rates and low bias.
result The estimators achieve optimal rates of convergence and do not suffer from the curse of dimensionality.
Enhances molecular design models by fine-tuning uncertainty-guided VAEs.
problem Fine-tuning pre-trained generative models for specific molecular property optimization.
method Uncertainty-guided fine-tuning of variational autoencoders in an active learning setting.
result Uncertainty-guided fine-tuning improves model performance across multiple molecular properties.
A new method optimizes Bayesian optimization in high dimensions by focusing on low-dimensional subspaces.
problem Scaling Bayesian optimization in high-dimensional spaces with limited computational budget.
method Optimizes acquisition function in low-dimensional subspaces of a high-dimensional search space.
result The method achieves sub-linear cumulative regret, trading convergence rate for computational efficiency.
Active sampling algorithm for linear regression with various norms and improved query complexity.
problem Efficiently querying a few entries of a target vector for near optimal minimizers of linear regression.
method Lewis weight sampling and active sampling algorithms for different p norms. result Optimal query complexity for p∈(0,1), 1<p<2, and 2<p<∞. Improved neural network training in low-dimensional random bases.
problem Inefficient optimization in large-scale neural networks.
method Re-draw random subspace at each training step, apply independent projections to different network parts.
result Significantly better optimization performance and efficiency.
Unified SVD compression fails in practical tasks, highlighting the importance of per layer activation reconstruction.
problem The failure of a unified SVD compression method in practical tasks like perplexity and accuracy.
method Unified optimization problem for SVD based compression methods, focusing on cross-layer coupling.
result Downstream metrics like perplexity and accuracy degrade severely compared to standard per layer SVD LLM.
A new protocol corrects confounding effects to measure alignment-induced activation shifts accurately.
problem Confounding effects in measuring alignment-induced activation shifts using naive methods.
method Introduces a four-variant decomposition to separate alignment shift from template effects.
result Correctly measures alignment-induced activation shifts, recovering behaviorally active subspace.
New framework assesses neural sensitivity to small perturbations.
problem Comparing neural representations' sensitivity to small changes.
method Local decodable information, Fisher information, and projected pullback/Fisher metric.
result Reveals differences in neural sensitivity not captured by activation alignment.