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48 results for adaptive schemes

A Bayesian estimation of a GARCH model is performed for US Dollar/Japanese Yen exchange rate by the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm with a proposal density given by the adaptive construction scheme. In the adaptive construction scheme the proposal density is assumed to take a form of a multivariate Student's t-distributi…

2010-12-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Adaptive quantization improves SGD accuracy in data-parallel settings.

problem Fixed gradient quantization schemes lead to suboptimal performance in deep learning.
method Developed adaptive quantization schemes ALQ and AMQ that update compression schemes based on gradient statistics.
result Improved validation accuracy on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet datasets by 2% and 1% respectively.

Distributed sensors compress and send features to a fusion center for linear regression.

problem Efficiently compress and transmit features from distributed sensors to a fusion center under varying communication constraints.
method Designs a distributed and adaptive feature compression scheme using optimal quantizers and simple adaptive strategies.
result Demonstrates improved inference performance through simulated experiments.

Crowdsourcing platforms provide marketplaces where task requesters can pay to get labels on their data. Such markets have emerged recently as popular venues for collecting annotations that are crucial in training machine learning models in various applications. However, as jobs are tedious and payments are low, errors …

2016-02-10abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper studies the sample complexity of searching over multiple populations. We consider a large number of populations, each corresponding to either distribution P0 or P1. The goal of the search problem studied here is to find one population corresponding to distribution P1 with as few samples as possible. The main…

2012-09-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhances CEV model pricing with high-order scheme and adaptive time stepping.

problem Improving accuracy in pricing American CEV models with irregularities.
method High-order time adapted scheme, local mesh refinement, adaptive time stepping, fifth-order 5(4) Dormand-Prince method.
result Highly accurate solution with reduced computational runtime.

Adaptive quadrature improves Bayesian inference through active learning.

problem Efficiently estimating posterior densities in Bayesian inference.
method Sequential node selection using acquisition functions, combining interpolative surrogate models and quadrature rules.
result Positive estimation of marginal likelihood with improved accuracy.

Improved multilevel scheme for value-at-risk computation.

problem Discontinuity in Heaviside function affects value-at-risk computation.
method Adaptive multilevel stochastic approximation to mitigate discontinuity.
result Best complexity improved to O(ε2lnε52\varepsilon^{-2}|\ln{\varepsilon}|^\frac52).

Anomaly detection in networks often boils down to identifying an underlying graph structure on which the abnormal occurrence rests on. Financial fraud schemes are one such example, where more or less intricate schemes are employed in order to elude transaction security protocols. We investigate the problem of learning …

2019-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Adaptive importance sampling for estimating point process statistics.

problem Estimating the expected value of a statistic of a locally stable point process.
method Adaptive importance sampling with Poisson point processes and cross-entropy minimization.
result The proposed estimator converges to the target value almost surely and is asymptotically normal.

SKT improves EKI for Bayesian inverse problems with non-Gaussian targets.

problem Efficiently solving Bayesian inverse problems with expensive forward models and non-Gaussian posterior distributions.
method Embedding EKI and FAKI within a Bayesian annealing scheme to adapt tpCN sampler.
result Significant improvements in convergence rate compared to standard SMC and pCN.

Optimized AIS scheme reduces bias and MSE for general proposals.

problem Performing Monte Carlo integration with general proposals.
method Global optimization of χ²-divergence using stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics.
result Explicit theoretical guarantees for uniform-in-time MSE reduction.

CWAN tackles multi-source heterogeneous domain adaptation with conditional weighting.

problem Learning cross-domain samples from multiple heterogeneous domains.
method CWAN uses a feature transformer, label classifier, and domain discriminator to learn from multiple sources.
result CWAN outperforms state-of-the-art methods on four real-world datasets.

This paper optimizes PCE for efficient surrogate modeling in engineering.

problem Efficiently selecting polynomial regressors for surrogate modeling in computationally expensive models.
method Three state-of-the-art basis-adaptive sparse PCE methods are compared and analyzed.
result Automatic selection of the best solver and basis-adaptive scheme improves surrogate model accuracy.

Paper proposes a method to improve building extraction from aerial images by adapting CNN models.

problem Limited generalization of CNN-based segmentation models for unseen images.
method Combines domain transfer and adversarial attack concepts to adapt input images to target images.
result Improves overall IoU and outperforms other methods in cross-dataset experiments.

The non-stationary nature of electroencephalography (EEG) signals makes an EEG-based brain-computer interface (BCI) a dynamic system, thus improving its performance is a challenging task. In addition, it is well-known that due to non-stationarity based covariate shifts, the input data distributions of EEG-based BCI sys…

2018-05-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Gradient codes adapt to varying straggler counts in distributed learning.

problem Mitigating slow worker nodes (stragglers) in distributed machine learning.
method Proposes a flexible gradient coding scheme that concatenates codes for different straggler tolerances, adapting to actual straggler counts.
result Significantly lower latency compared to fixed-tolerance gradient codes.

In this paper a simple, effective adaptation of Alternating Direction Implicit (ADI) time discretization schemes is proposed for the numerical pricing of American-style options under the Heston model via a partial differential complementarity problem. The stability and convergence of the new methods are extensively inv…

2013-08-31abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper proposes AIS for Bayesian inversion of multioutput signals with covariance estimation.

problem Performing uncertainty analysis of covariance matrices in Bayesian inversion problems for multioutput signals.
method Adaptive Importance Sampling (AIS) scheme, split variables, frequentist approach for noise covariance, prior density over covariance matrix.
result Estimation of model parameters and covariance matrix of noise.

Monte Carlo methods represent the "de facto" standard for approximating complicated integrals involving multidimensional target distributions. In order to generate random realizations from the target distribution, Monte Carlo techniques use simpler proposal probability densities to draw candidate samples. The performan…

2015-05-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Adaptive Monte Carlo schemes developed over the last years usually seek to ensure ergodicity of the sampling process in line with MCMC tradition. This poses constraints on what is possible in terms of adaptation. In the general case ergodicity can only be guaranteed if adaptation is diminished at a certain rate. Import…

2015-07-21abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce Graphical TREX (GTREX), a novel method for graph estimation in high-dimensional Gaussian graphical models. By conducting neighborhood selection with TREX, GTREX avoids tuning parameters and is adaptive to the graph topology. We compare GTREX with standard methods on a new simulation set-up that is designed…

2014-10-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper explores weighted averaging schemes for SGD, achieving asymptotic normality and optimality.

problem Improving convergence of SGD in various settings.
method Develops a general weighted averaging scheme for SGD and establishes asymptotic normality.
result Establishes asymptotic normality and optimality of weighted averaged SGD solutions.

We present an approach to adaptively utilize deep neural networks in order to reduce the evaluation time on new examples without loss of accuracy. Rather than attempting to redesign or approximate existing networks, we propose two schemes that adaptively utilize networks. We first pose an adaptive network evaluation sc…

2017-02-25abs ↗pdf ↗

AdAdaGrad optimizes batch sizes for deep learning models, reducing the generalization gap.

problem The generalization gap between large-batch and small-batch training in deep learning.
method AdAdaGrad introduces adaptive batch size strategies derived from adaptive sampling methods.
result AdAdaGradNorm converges to a first-order stationary point with a rate of O(1/K) in K iterations.

The paper proposes a uniformity regularization scheme to improve deep neural network transferability.

problem Improving deep neural network transferability and adaptation to new tasks.
method Introduces a uniformity regularization scheme to encourage high uniformity in embedding space.
result Uniformity regularization consistently offers benefits over baseline methods and achieves state-of-the-art performance in Deep Metric Learning and Meta-Learning.