Paper proposes adaptive parameter selection for KGD algorithms.
problem Improving parameter selection for kernel-based gradient descent.
method Integrates bias-variance analysis with splitting method, introduces empirical effective dimension.
result Adaptive parameter selection strategy achieves optimal generalization error bound.
NeAda solves nonconvex minimax optimization by balancing primal and dual variables adaptively.
problem Nonconvex minimax optimization challenges with parameter-agnostic adaptive algorithms.
method Nested Adaptive (NeAda) framework with inner and outer loops for primal and dual variables.
result Achieves near-optimal convergence rates for nonconvex-strongly-concave problems.
A probabilistic framework for online test-time adaptation
problem Adapting models to new data under distributional shift
method State-space modelling architecture
result Characterizing parameter learning, time evolution, prior tuning, and prediction
We study the performance of the adaptive construction scheme for a Bayesian inference on the Quadratic GARCH model which introduces the asymmetry in time series dynamics. In the adaptive construction scheme a proposal density in the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is constructed adaptively by changing the parameters of t…
Fine-tuning large pre-trained models is an effective transfer mechanism in NLP. However, in the presence of many downstream tasks, fine-tuning is parameter inefficient: an entire new model is required for every task. As an alternative, we propose transfer with adapter modules. Adapter modules yield a compact and extens…
New bounds on adaptivity cost in stochastic optimization.
problem Understanding the cost of changing strategies in stochastic optimization.
method Proving impossibility results for adaptivity in non-smooth stochastic convex optimization.
result Lower bounds on the price of adaptivity for different levels of uncertainty.
TiAda adapts adaptive gradient methods for nonconvex minimax optimization.
problem Nonconvex minimax optimization challenges in achieving convergence.
method TiAda is a time-scale adaptive GDA algorithm for nonconvex minimax optimization.
result TiAda achieves near-optimal complexities in deterministic and stochastic settings.
The present paper proposes generalized Gaussian kernel adaptive filtering, where the kernel parameters are adaptive and data-driven. The Gaussian kernel is parametrized by a center vector and a symmetric positive definite (SPD) precision matrix, which is regarded as a generalization of the scalar width parameter. These…
Develops a novel stochastic algorithm for diagonal estimation of large matrices.
problem Efficient diagonal estimation for large or implicit matrices.
method Adaptive parameter selection in a stochastic algorithm.
result Lower bound on random query vectors needed for estimation.
Bayesian approach improves AdaLoRA's performance and efficiency.
problem Improving the efficiency and performance of adaptive low-rank adaptation.
method Utilized Bayesian metrics and the Improved Variational Online Newton (IVON) optimizer for adaptive parameter budget allocation.
result Bayesian counterpart outperforms sensitivity-based importance metric and is faster than AdaLoRA.
Adapts MBDOE for real-time parameter estimation in complex systems.
problem Costly posterior inference and design optimization in nonlinear systems.
method Combines DAD with differentiable mechanistic models for real-time parameter estimation.
result Demonstrated on four systems, including a DC motor.
Optimizing full likelihoods adapts loss scales and shapes for robust modeling.
problem Rigid loss functions limit model adaptability and robustness.
method Optimize full likelihoods with adjustable parameters.
result Adaptive tuning of loss scales and shapes improves model robustness.
ADAPT improves robustness of Vision Transformers without full model fine-tuning.
problem Vulnerability of Vision Transformers to adversarial attacks.
method Parameter-efficient prompt tuning with ADAPT framework for adaptive adversarial training.
result ADAPT achieves robust accuracy of ~40% w.r.t. SOTA methods using only ~1% of the parameters.
A new method for learning function parameters in operators using data-adaptive RKHS.
problem Learning function parameters in operators with robustness to noise and numerical error.
method Data Adaptive RKHS Tikhonov Regularization (DARTR) method.
result DARTR leads to an accurate estimator robust to noise and numerical error, converging at a consistent rate as data refines.
LoRA enhances model adaptability without increasing parameters.
problem Theoretical understanding of LoRA's adaptability.
method Theoretical analysis of LoRA's expressive power.
result LoRA can adapt any model to a smaller target model with a specific rank.
Method adapts frozen models for few-shot tasks without training.
problem Deployment constraints limit model updates, necessitating new adaptation methods.
method Exponential tilting of latent distribution for inference.
result Method outperforms parameter-update methods across benchmarks.
Improved SGD with AdaGrad stepsizes adapts to unknown parameters and unbounded gradients.
problem Adaptive optimization with unknown parameters and unbounded gradients.
method Stochastic Gradient Descent with AdaGrad stepsizes, without assuming problem parameters or strong global Lipschitz conditions.
result Sharp rates of convergence in both low-noise and high-noise regimes, supporting an affine variance noise model.
We propose CAVIA for meta-learning, a simple extension to MAML that is less prone to meta-overfitting, easier to parallelise, and more interpretable. CAVIA partitions the model parameters into two parts: context parameters that serve as additional input to the model and are adapted on individual tasks, and shared param…
We derive new theoretical results on the properties of the adaptive least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (adaptive lasso) for time series regression models. In particular, we investigate the question of how to conduct finite sample inference on the parameters given an adaptive lasso model for some fixed valu…
We present the first adaptive strategy for active learning in the setting of classification with smooth decision boundary. The problem of adaptivity (to unknown distributional parameters) has remained opened since the seminal work of Castro and Nowak (2007), which first established (active learning) rates for this sett…
JADAI optimizes design and inference for parameter estimation.
problem Parameter estimation with active optimization of design variables.
method Jointly trains a policy, history network, and inference network to minimize posterior error.
result Achieves superior or competitive performance across benchmarks.
Adaptive conformal inference without data exchangeability assumptions.
problem Real-world scenarios often violate the data exchangeability assumption for conformal prediction.
method Parameter-free online convex optimization for adaptive conformal inference.
result Controls long-term miscoverage frequency at a nominal level empirically.
New study reveals a polynomial penalty for adapting to unknown margin parameters in batched nonparametric bandits.
problem Adapting to an unknown margin parameter in batched nonparametric bandits.
method Introduces the regret inflation criterion and develops RoBIN algorithm to achieve optimal regret inflation.
result The optimal regret inflation grows polynomially with the horizon T, characterized by a convex optimization problem.
Adaptive multi-domain learning reduces parameter count for efficient deep learning.
problem Different domains have varying complexity, leading to inefficient model training.
method Proposes adaptive parameterization to reduce model complexity without sacrificing performance.
result Efficient multi-domain learning solutions with far fewer parameters.
Adaptive networks improve model robustness through conditional normalization.
problem Limited robustness of adversarial-trained networks due to network capacity and training samples.
method Proposes a conditional normalization module to adapt networks during adversarial training.
result Adaptive networks outperform both clean validation accuracy and robustness compared to non-adaptive counterparts.
Spatial Adapter adds structured spatial representation to frozen predictors.
problem Efficiently adding spatial structure to pre-trained models.
method Structured spatial decomposition and closed-form covariance for residual fields.
result Adapter improves spatial prediction and uncertainty quantification.
A new method for efficient neural network fine-tuning using queryable low-rank update atoms.
problem Rigidity of static low-rank adaptation methods when input and depth-wise computation vary.
method A shared queryable memory of low-rank update atoms, allowing dynamic and context-sensitive adaptation.
result Improves final test performance and training stability compared to standard low-rank adaptation.
TensorGuide improves LoRA efficiency and expressivity through joint tensor-train optimization.
problem Limited expressivity and generalization of standard LoRA.
method TensorGuide uses a unified tensor-train structure with controlled Gaussian noise to generate correlated low-rank matrices.
result TensorGuide achieves superior accuracy and scalability with fewer parameters compared to standard LoRA and TT-LoRA.
Adaptive RBF-KAN improves KANs by dynamically adjusting kernel parameters.
problem Efficiently approximating multivariate functions using learnable univariate edge functions.
method Integrates LOOCV-based kernel scale estimation with adaptive kernel learning.
result Adaptive RBF-KAN outperforms fixed kernel KANs on various benchmark functions.
Paper analyzes adaptive Lasso for high-dimensional diffusion processes, improving support recovery and bias.
problem Support recovery for high-dimensional diffusion processes under sparsity constraints.
method Adaptive Lasso estimator for d-dimensional ergodic diffusion process, focusing on linear models.
result Adaptive Lasso achieves support recovery and asymptotic normality for drift parameter under certain conditions.
Proposes a new method for estimating non-pathwise differentiable functional parameters.
problem Estimating dose-response curves for continuous exposure.
method Targeted Highly Adaptive Lasso (HAL) for non-pathwise differentiable functional parameters.
result The Targeted HAL-MLE achieves dimension-free rates up to log(n) factors and outperforms other methods in simulations.
EVA adapts LoRA for faster, more efficient fine-tuning.
problem Fast and efficient fine-tuning of large models for specific tasks.
method EVA uses directions capturing most activation variance for initialization, maximizing gradient signal and reducing parameters.
result EVA achieves faster convergence and higher average scores across tasks, reducing parameters.
Machine learning software accounts for a significant amount of energy consumed in data centers. These algorithms are usually optimized towards predictive performance, i.e. accuracy, and scalability. This is the case of data stream mining algorithms. Although these algorithms are adaptive to the incoming data, they have…
GIST adapts HMC by tuning parameters based on position and momentum.
problem Locally adaptive sampling in Hamiltonian Monte Carlo.
method GIST uses Gibbs sampling to adaptively tune HMC parameters.
result GIST improves sampling efficiency for high-dimensional models.
Method aggregates models with different hyper-parameters to adapt to target domain.
problem Choosing hyper-parameters for unsupervised domain adaptation.
method Linear aggregation of models with different hyper-parameters using weighted least squares for vector-valued functions.
result The target error is asymptotically not worse than twice the error of the optimal aggregation.
We perform Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations for a Bayesian inference of the GJR-GARCH model which is one of asymmetric GARCH models. The adaptive construction scheme is used for the construction of the proposal density in the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm and the parameters of the proposal density are determined ad…
Study shows annealing with adaptive schedule reduces mode collapse in NFs for parameter estimation.
problem Mode collapse in normalizing flows for multimodal distributions.
method Annealing with an adaptive schedule based on effective sample size (ESS).
result Our approach reduces mode collapse and converges marginal likelihood faster than MCMC methods.
DALTON improves ODE parameter estimation by learning from noisy data.
problem High sensitivity to parameters in ODEs produces unreliable parameter estimates.
method Data-adaptive probabilistic likelihood approximation for ODEs.
result DALTON produces more accurate parameter estimates than existing methods.
Bayesian adaptive designs can be biased by active learning, especially with misspecified models.
problem Active learning bias in Bayesian adaptive experimental designs.
method Analysis of linear and preference learning models, empirical testing.
result Model misspecification and noise influence active learning bias in Bayesian designs.
Develops a parameter-free SGD algorithm with optimal convergence rate.
problem Optimizing parameters in stochastic convex optimization.
method A novel parameter-free algorithm for SGD with high-probability guarantees and adaptive properties.
result Achieves optimal convergence rate with only a double-logarithmic factor increase compared to known-parameter settings.
An algorithm is presented for momentum gradient descent optimization based on the first-order differential equation of the Newtonian dynamics. The fictitious mass is introduced to the dynamics of momentum for regularizing the adaptive stepsize of each individual parameter. The dynamic relaxation is adapted for stochast…
This paper presents the construction of a particle filter, which incorporates elements inspired by genetic algorithms, in order to achieve accelerated adaptation of the estimated posterior distribution to changes in model parameters. Specifically, the filter is designed for the situation where the subsequent data in on…
We consider the scenario where the parameters of a probabilistic model are expected to vary over time. We construct a novel prior distribution that promotes sparsity and adapts the strength of correlation between parameters at successive timesteps, based on the data. We derive approximate variational inference procedur…
Paper improves Thompson Sampling for linear contextual bandits.
problem Empirical Thompson Sampling does not achieve optimal regret bounds.
method Develops a novel estimator with adaptive data augmentation and coupling.
result Achieves nearly minimax optimal performance.
FNSDA adapts to new dynamics via Fourier space adaptation.
problem Generalizing to unseen dynamical systems with limited data.
method Automatic partitioning of known environments in Fourier modes and adaptation of specific modes for new environments.
result FNSDA achieves superior or competitive generalization performance with reduced parameter cost.
Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) is proven powerful for decision making in simulated environments. However, training deep RL model is challenging in real world applications such as production-scale health-care or recommender systems because of the expensiveness of interaction and limitation of budget at deployment. One…
FLoE adapts LLMs by selectively deploying LoRA adapters based on layer importance and task requirements.
problem Uniform LoRA deployment across all layers leads to inefficient and redundant parameter allocation.
method FLoE uses Fisher information to dynamically identify task-critical layers and optimizes LoRA ranks.
result FLoE achieves significant efficiency-accuracy trade-offs, especially in resource-constrained environments.
An adaptive clustering algorithm learns from evolving data without manual tuning.
problem Clustering in dynamic data environments where distributions change over time.
method ART-based topological clustering with self-adjusting vigilance parameter.
result The algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art methods in clustering performance and continual learning.