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Aggregates predictions from multiple regression models using random projections and kernel methods.
New aggregation methods improve robustness and efficiency in distributed learning.
Enhances graph neural networks by considering feature similarities in node aggregation.
The incremental aggregated gradient algorithm is popular in network optimization and machine learning research. However, the current convergence results require the objective function to be strongly convex. And the existing convergence rates are also limited to linear convergence. Due to the mathematical techniques, th…
We introduce a novel aggregation method to efficiently perform image denoising. Preliminary filters are aggregated in a non-linear fashion, using a new metric of pixel proximity based on how the pool of filters reaches a consensus. We provide a theoretical bound to support our aggregation scheme, its numerical performa…
AWARE improves graph prediction by aggregating walks with attention schemes.
Message-passing neural networks (MPNNs) have been successfully applied to representation learning on graphs in a variety of real-world applications. However, two fundamental weaknesses of MPNNs' aggregators limit their ability to represent graph-structured data: losing the structural information of nodes in neighborhoo…
Fishnets improve set and graph learning with scalable, robust aggregation.
A variety of graph neural networks (GNNs) frameworks for representation learning on graphs have been recently developed. These frameworks rely on aggregation and iteration scheme to learn the representation of nodes. However, information between nodes is inevitably lost in the scheme during learning. In order to reduce…
Proposes a method for private aggregation in heterogeneous federated learning.
This paper addresses privacy in federated learning with wireless clients and base stations.
We propose a dynamic neighborhood aggregation (DNA) procedure guided by (multi-head) attention for representation learning on graphs. In contrast to current graph neural networks which follow a simple neighborhood aggregation scheme, our DNA procedure allows for a selective and node-adaptive aggregation of neighboring …
Federated learning has a variety of applications in multiple domains by utilizing private training data stored on different devices. However, the aggregation process in federated learning is highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks so that the global model may behave abnormally under attacks. To tackle this challenge, …
Paper analyzes sparse aggregation in GLMs with Kullback-Leibler risk bounds.
Despite a growing literature on explaining neural networks, no consensus has been reached on how to explain a neural network decision or how to evaluate an explanation. Our contributions in this paper are twofold. First, we investigate schemes to combine explanation methods and reduce model uncertainty to obtain a sing…
We consider the problem of adaptation to the margin and to complexity in binary classification. We suggest an exponential weighting aggregation scheme. We use this aggregation procedure to construct classifiers which adapt automatically to margin and complexity. Two main examples are worked out in which adaptivity is a…
Our work specifies the fundamental cost of using secure aggregation in federated learning.
This work improves multi-modal generative models by using permutation-invariant neural networks.
Aggregates probability models using Wasserstein space and variational approach.
New study tackles free-rider attacks in federated learning models.
Bayesian method improves Federated Learning robustness against corrupted updates.
In this paper we discuss policy iteration methods for approximate solution of a finite-state discounted Markov decision problem, with a focus on feature-based aggregation methods and their connection with deep reinforcement learning schemes. We introduce features of the states of the original problem, and we formulate …
Ensemble methods have been widely used for improving the results of the best single classificationmodel. A large body of works have achieved better performance mainly by applying one specific ensemble method. However, very few works have explored complex fusion schemes using het-erogeneous ensembles with new aggregatio…
Research explores how interconnected systems synchronize and how to control their behavior.
FastSecAgg improves federated learning security and efficiency.
CAOS aggregates multiple one-shot predictors for efficient uncertainty quantification.
Flexible device participation improves federated learning convergence.
Different types of training data have led to numerous schemes for supervised classification. Current learning techniques are tailored to one specific scheme and cannot handle general ensembles of training data. This paper presents a unifying framework for supervised classification with general ensembles of training dat…
The paper proposes a model reward scheme for collaborative ML based on Shapley value and information gain.
Method constructs uniformly valid prediction sets across multiple distributions.
Study introduces a new method for multiple parameter regularization in polynomial functional regression.
Hash codes are a very efficient data representation needed to be able to cope with the ever growing amounts of data. We introduce a random forest semantic hashing scheme with information-theoretic code aggregation, showing for the first time how random forest, a technique that together with deep learning have shown spe…
Aggregation defenses improve deep learning models' robustness against data poisoning attacks.
We focus on the commonly used synchronous Gradient Descent paradigm for large-scale distributed learning, for which there has been a growing interest to develop efficient and robust gradient aggregation strategies that overcome two key system bottlenecks: communication bandwidth and stragglers' delays. In particular, R…
Graph representation learning is of paramount importance for a variety of graph analytical tasks, ranging from node classification to community detection. Recently, graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have been successfully applied for graph representation learning. These GCNs generate node representation by aggregatin…
AdaCAD improves semi-supervised classification by focusing on intra-class nodes.
Federated learning is a distributed, privacy-aware learning scenario which trains a single model on data belonging to several clients. Each client trains a local model on its data and the local models are then aggregated by a central party. Current federated learning methods struggle in cases with heterogeneous client-…
Many real world problems can now be effectively solved using supervised machine learning. A major roadblock is often the lack of an adequate quantity of labeled data for training. A possible solution is to assign the task of labeling data to a crowd, and then infer the true label using aggregation methods. A well-known…
LightSecAgg reduces secure aggregation complexity in FL.
LATTE tackles heterogeneous network embedding challenges with layer-stacked attention.
Noisy labeled data is more a norm than a rarity for crowd sourced contents. It is effective to distill noise and infer correct labels through aggregation results from crowd workers. To ensure the time relevance and overcome slow responses of workers, online label aggregation is increasingly requested, calling for solut…
New method reduces labeler costs by aggregating predictions from local classifiers.
New compression schemes save communication in distributed mean estimation.
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful to learn the representation of graph-structured data. Most of the GNNs use the message-passing scheme, where the embedding of a node is iteratively updated by aggregating the information of its neighbors. To achieve a better expressive capability of node influences, attention m…
The paper addresses fairness in online learning by extending auditing schemes and presenting efficient algorithms.
This work analyzes aggregation strategies for Bayesian deep learning models in federated learning.
PBM mechanism improves privacy and accuracy in federated learning.
Existing graph convolutional networks focus on the neighborhood aggregation scheme. When applied to semi-supervised learning, they often suffer from the overfitting problem as the networks are trained with the cross-entropy loss on a small potion of labeled data. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised manifold smoot…