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Extends active subspace analysis to infinite dimensions.

New method estimates active subspaces for jump-discontinuous functions.

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…

New framework tackles high-dimensional reliability analysis using surrogate models and active subspaces.

Active sampling selects few points for accurate model reduction of high-fidelity systems.

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.

The paper proposes methods to find a shared active subspace for multivariate vector-valued functions.

Researchers use active subspaces to quantify uncertainty in deep generative models for molecular design.

Subspace clustering is a growing field of unsupervised learning that has gained much popularity in the computer vision community. Applications can be found in areas such as motion segmentation and face clustering. It assumes that data originate from a union of subspaces, and clusters the data depending on the correspon…

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 $\ell_1$, $\ell_2$ or nuclear norms. $\ell_1$ regularization is guaranteed to give a subspace-preserving affinity (i.e., there are no conne…

Unified framework for clustering with sparse convex combinations.

Combines additivity and active subspaces for high-dimensional Gaussian process modeling.

Enhances Gaussian process regression with multi-fidelity models and active subspaces for high-dimensional problems.

LASER compresses recursive model activations by exploiting their low-dimensional structure.

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 $\ell_1$ 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.

Gradient-free method reduces dimensionality without gradients for expensive models.

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.

Emergent misalignment is influenced by training dynamics, model priors, and data.

Proposes a neural network model to learn active subspaces and interpret important features.

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.

We present an approach to analyze $C^1(\mathbb{R}^m)$ 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.

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.

High-dimensional models pose both safety benefits and risks.

SAP learns efficient task-specific parameter subspaces for few-shot learning.

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…

Paper introduces efficient methods for estimating cross-partial derivatives and sensitivity indices.

Enhances molecular design models by fine-tuning uncertainty-guided VAEs.

Active sampling algorithm for linear regression with various norms and improved query complexity.

Improved neural network training in low-dimensional random bases.

Unified SVD compression fails in practical tasks, highlighting the importance of per layer activation reconstruction.

A new protocol corrects confounding effects to measure alignment-induced activation shifts accurately.

New framework assesses neural sensitivity to small perturbations.

New method speeds up neural kernel computations for various activations.

The multilabel learning problem with large number of labels, features, and data-points has generated a tremendous interest recently. A recurring theme of these problems is that only a few labels are active in any given datapoint as compared to the total number of labels. However, only a small number of existing work ta…