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48 results for adaptive truncation

Adaptive truncation improves privacy in online Bayesian estimation.

problem Ensuring privacy in online Bayesian estimation of a static parameter.
method Sequential Monte Carlo, adaptive truncation, Thompson sampling.
result Adaptive truncation reduces privacy-preserving noise, enabling more accurate estimation.

The positivity assumption, or the experimental treatment assignment (ETA) assumption, is important for identifiability in causal inference. Even if the positivity assumption holds, practical violations of this assumption may jeopardize the finite sample performance of the causal estimator. One of the consequences of pr…

2017-07-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes approximate Stein classes for efficient truncated density estimation.

problem Difficulties in estimating truncated density models due to intractable normalising constants and boundary conditions.
method Adapts score matching to solve the problem, introduces approximate Stein classes and a novel discrepancy measure, TKSD.
result TKSD does not require a fixed weighting function and can be evaluated using only boundary samples, leading to improved accuracy.

Efficiently estimate Boolean product distribution parameters from truncated samples.

problem Estimating parameters of Boolean product distributions from truncated samples.
method Introducing fatness of truncation set, using membership queries, and adapting Stochastic Gradient Descent.
result Efficiently learn Boolean product distributions from truncated samples with small sample complexity.

In this paper, we develop a general theory of truncated inverse binomial sampling. In this theory, the fixed-size sampling and inverse binomial sampling are accommodated as special cases. In particular, the classical Chernoff-Hoeffding bound is an immediate consequence of the theory. Moreover, we propose a rigorous and…

2019-08-19abs ↗pdf ↗

A new algorithm speeds up elliptical slice sampling for truncated multivariate normals.

problem Efficiently sampling from truncated multivariate normal distributions with linear constraints.
method Adapting elliptical slice sampling to linearly truncated multivariate normals, with an algorithm for ellipse-polytope intersection in O(m log m) time.
result The algorithm enhances numerical stability, speeds up running time, and is easy to parallelize.

As in standard linear regression, in truncated linear regression, we are given access to observations (Ai,yi)i(A_i, y_i)_i whose dependent variable equals yi=AiTx+ηiy_i= A_i^{\rm T} \cdot x^* + η_i, where xx^* is some fixed unknown vector of interest and ηiη_i is independent noise; except we are only given an observation if its dep…

2020-07-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is commonly used for optimization in large-scale machine learning problems. Langford et al. (2009) introduce a sparse online learning method to induce sparsity via truncated gradient. With high-dimensional sparse data, however, the method suffers from slow convergence and high variance…

2016-04-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Adaptive Monte Carlo methods are recent variance reduction techniques. In this work, we propose a mathematical setting which greatly relaxes the assumptions needed by for the adaptive importance sampling techniques presented by Vazquez-Abad and Dufresne, Fu and Su, and Arouna. We establish the convergence and asymptoti…

2010-01-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Improves FI-PINNs by combining re-sampling and subset simulation for better failure probability estimation.

problem Estimating failure probability in physics-informed neural networks (PINNs).
method Adaptive sampling with re-sampling and subset simulation, using cosine-annealing for uniform to adaptive transition.
result Significant improvement in estimating failure probability and generating new training points in the failure region.

Derives equations for deep learning biases and weights, showing data complexity reduction.

problem Understanding interpretability in supervised learning.
method Gradient flow equations and dynamical truncation of training data.
result Data complexity reduction at an exponential rate with training.

Graph-structured data arise ubiquitously in many application domains. A fundamental problem is to quantify their similarities. Graph kernels are often used for this purpose, which decompose graphs into substructures and compare these substructures. However, most of the existing graph kernels do not have the property of…

2020-02-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper tackles unbounded density ratio estimation for covariate shift adaptation.

problem Understudied challenge in statistical learning: unbounded density ratios.
method Three-step estimation method: relative density ratio, truncation, and transformation.
result Established rigorous convergence guarantees for density ratio and regression estimators.

ALTBI enhances outlier detection by maximizing the inlier-memorization effect.

problem Improving outlier detection models via optimization of inlier-memorization effect.
method ALTBI introduces two techniques: increasing mini-batch size and using adaptive threshold for truncated loss function.
result ALTBI achieves state-of-the-art performance in identifying outliers with lower computation costs.

Recommender systems are widely used to recommend the most appealing items to users. These recommendations can be generated by applying collaborative filtering methods. The low-rank matrix completion method is the state-of-the-art collaborative filtering method. In this work, we show that the skewed distribution of rati…

2019-04-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Computing partition functions, the normalizing constants of probability distributions, is often hard. Variants of importance sampling give unbiased estimates of a normalizer Z, however, unbiased estimates of the reciprocal 1/Z are harder to obtain. Unbiased estimates of 1/Z allow Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling of "d…

2016-10-15abs ↗pdf ↗

The problem of an arbitrary truncated Levy flight description using the method of cumulant approach has been solved. The set of cumulants of the truncated Levy distribution given the assumption of arbitrary truncation has been found. The influence of truncation shape on the truncated Levy flight properties in the Gauss…

2010-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

In the paper "On Truncated Variation of Brownian Motion with Drift" (Bull. Pol. Acad. Sci. Math. 56 (2008), no.4, 267 - 281) we defined truncated variation of Brownian motion with drift, Wt=Bt+μt,t0,W_t = B_t + μt, t\geq 0, where (Bt)(B_t) is a standard Brownian motion. Truncated variation differs from regular variation by neglect…

2009-12-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Study develops smart contract framework for procurement under demand variability.

problem Operational and economic implications of smart contract adoption under moderate uncertainty.
method Multi-supplier model with endogenized adoption costs, supplier readiness, and inventory penalties; analytical and numerical results.
result Partial adoption strategies support moderate demand variability, while excessive digital investment reduces profitability.

Optimal algorithm learns Gaussian under halfspace truncation with minimal samples.

problem Learning a Gaussian distribution truncated to an unknown halfspace.
method Efficient algorithm using n=ildeO(d2/ε2)n = ilde{O}(d^2/\varepsilon^2) samples and runtime dominated by empirical covariance matrix computation.
result Optimal sample and time complexity bounds for learning a Gaussian under halfspace truncation.

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) minimizes the Euclidean distance between the data matrix and its low rank approximation, and it fails when applied to corrupted data because the loss function is sensitive to outliers. In this paper, we propose a Truncated CauchyNMF loss that handle outliers by truncating large e…

2019-06-02abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm improves inference for flexible models with infinite latent features.

problem Inference for models with infinite latent features is computationally challenging and limiting.
method Adaptive slice sampling for posterior inference with general completely random measures.
result Higher effective sample size and predictive performance compared to existing methods.

Variance-Calibrated Modulation (VCM) addresses the likelihood trap in LLMs by reshaping the probability distribution before truncation.

problem LLMs fall into the likelihood trap, leading to repetitive degeneration and vocabulary dullness.
method VCM reshapes the probability distribution before truncation through Contextual Searchlight and Adaptive Self-Debiasing.
result VCM mitigates the likelihood trap across open-ended generation, factual QA, and mathematical reasoning.

Adaptive algorithm for multi-objective optimization with binary constraints.

problem Optimization of black-box problems with binary constraints.
method Bayesian optimization using regression and classification models.
result Significantly faster expected hypervolume calculation.

Score matching method improves density estimation for truncated data on manifolds.

problem Density estimation for truncated data on manifolds with intractable normalising constant.
method Truncated score matching extended to Riemannian manifolds with boundary.
result Score matching estimator approximates true parameter values with low error.

The method approximates stationary distributions of Markov models by truncating irrelevant states.

problem Computing the stationary distribution of complex Markov models is computationally challenging.
method A state-space lumping scheme that aggregates states in a grid structure, iteratively refining the state-space.
result The method provides a well-justified finite-state projection tailored to the stationary behavior of Markov models.

Paper tackles overestimation bias in continuous control, improving performance by 25%.

problem Overestimation bias in off-policy learning.
method Truncated Quantile Critics (TQC) combines distributional representation, truncation, and ensembling of critics.
result TQC outperforms state-of-the-art methods by 25% on the Humanoid environment.