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AGBoost uses attention weights to improve GBM for regression problems.
Recently non-convex optimization approaches for solving machine learning problems have gained significant attention. In this paper we explore non-convex boosting in classification by means of integer programming and demonstrate real-world practicability of the approach while circumventing shortcomings of convex boostin…
SAINT improves neural networks for tabular data with row attention and contrastive pre-training.
Attention augments forest for tabular data accuracy.
Gradient boosting enhances existing Mendelian models for genetic disease risk prediction.
Attention networks show promise for both vision and language tasks, by emphasizing relationships between constituent elements through weighting functions. Such elements could be regions in an image output by a region proposal network, or words in a sentence, represented by word embedding. Thus far the learning of atten…
Attention mechanisms have been boosting the performance of deep learning models on a wide range of applications, ranging from speech understanding to program induction. However, despite experiments from psychology which suggest that attention plays an essential role in visual reasoning, the full potential of attention …
FAST-DAD distills complex ensemble models into faster, more accurate individual models.
Gradient boosting of regression trees is a competitive procedure for learning predictive models of continuous data that fits the data with an additive non-parametric model. The classic version of gradient boosting assumes that the data is independent and identically distributed. However, relational data with interdepen…
Lipschitz normalization boosts deep attention models, especially for graph neural networks.
Quantum self-attention boosts automated market maker performance in crypto trading.
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely studied for graph data representation and learning. However, existing GNNs generally conduct context-aware learning on node feature representation only which usually ignores the learning of edge (weight) representation. In this paper, we propose a novel unified GNN model, n…
SurvBESA predicts survival times using ensemble methods with self-attention.
Adapts attention to supervised learning for personalized predictions.
AReLU uses attention-based rectification to improve neural network performance.
In this paper, we propose the Self-Attention Generative Adversarial Network (SAGAN) which allows attention-driven, long-range dependency modeling for image generation tasks. Traditional convolutional GANs generate high-resolution details as a function of only spatially local points in lower-resolution feature maps. In …
A new method for self-attention models that improves uncertainty estimation.
Orion-Bix combines biaxial attention and meta-learning for tabular few-shot learning.
Paper uses ML to predict SME defaults with interpretability.
Person Re-Identification (person re-id) is a crucial task as its applications in visual surveillance and human-computer interaction. In this work, we present a novel joint Spatial and Temporal Attention Pooling Network (ASTPN) for video-based person re-identification, which enables the feature extractor to be aware of …
Unified method for local GBDT feature contributions.
Hydra boosts efficiency for long-context reasoning in resource-constrained settings.
A transformer model improves spell correction with hierarchical attention.
The study develops a machine learning system for credit scoring and default prediction.
Bayesian optimization has been proposed as a practical and efficient tool through which to tune parameters in many difficult settings. Recently, such techniques have been combined with real-time fMRI to propose a novel framework which turns on its head the conventional functional neuroimaging approach. This closed-loop…
New algorithms boost SAT solver performance by optimizing restart strategies.
Model earnings call transcripts for better stock price prediction.
Long-term prediction of multivariate time series is still an important but challenging problem. The key to solve this problem is to capture the spatial correlations at the same time, the spatio-temporal relationships at different times and the long-term dependence of the temporal relationships between different series.…
ChatGPT launch boosted AI-related crypto assets by 10.7% to 15.6%.
In this paper, we propose a model for the Environment Sound Classification Task (ESC) that consists of multiple feature channels given as input to a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with Attention mechanism. The novelty of the paper lies in using multiple feature channels consisting of Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coe…
Joint Models for longitudinal and time-to-event data have gained a lot of attention in the last few years as they are a helpful technique to approach common a data structure in clinical studies where longitudinal outcomes are recorded alongside event times. Those two processes are often linked and the two outcomes shou…
Randomized positional encodings boost transformer performance on longer sequences.
Kaggle competitions offer valuable insights for business forecasting.
Recommender systems (RS), which have been an essential part in a wide range of applications, can be formulated as a matrix completion (MC) problem. To boost the performance of MC, matrix completion with side information, called inductive matrix completion (IMC), was further proposed. In real applications, the factorize…
As an effective data preprocessing step, feature selection has shown its effectiveness to prepare high-dimensional data for many machine learning tasks. The proliferation of high di-mension and huge volume big data, however, has brought major challenges, e.g. computation complexity and stability on noisy data, upon exi…
Paper proposes adaptive margin loss to improve few-shot learning.
The rapid growth of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), as well as the accompanied opportunities in Data-Driven Healthcare (DDH), has been attracting widespread interests and attentions. Recent progress in the design and applications of deep learning methods has shown promising results and is forcing massive changes in h…
Induction of common sense knowledge about prototypical sequences of events has recently received much attention. Instead of inducing this knowledge in the form of graphs, as in much of the previous work, in our method, distributed representations of event realizations are computed based on distributed representations o…
ELCO enhances graph generation by adding new nodes and edges.
Classification and regression in which the inputs are graphs of arbitrary size and shape have been paid attention in various fields such as computational chemistry and bioinformatics. Subgraph indicators are often used as the most fundamental features, but the number of possible subgraph patterns are intractably large …
Fair MP-Boost improves fairness and interpretability in boosting methods.
Multi-label classification has attracted an increasing amount of attention in recent years. To this end, many algorithms have been developed to classify multi-label data in an effective manner. However, they usually do not consider the pairwise relations indicated by sample labels, which actually play important roles i…
MP-Boost boosts accuracy faster and more interpretable than AdaBoost.
Patients increasingly turn to search engines and online content before, or in place of, talking with a health professional. Low quality health information, which is common on the internet, presents risks to the patient in the form of misinformation and a possibly poorer relationship with their physician. To address thi…
Boost-R uses gradient boosted trees for analyzing recurrence data.
Generalized additive models (GAMs) are favored in many regression and binary classification problems because they are able to fit complex, nonlinear functions while still remaining interpretable. In the first part of this paper, we generalize a state-of-the-art GAM learning algorithm based on boosted trees to the multi…
Boosted decision trees typically yield good accuracy, precision, and ROC area. However, because the outputs from boosting are not well calibrated posterior probabilities, boosting yields poor squared error and cross-entropy. We empirically demonstrate why AdaBoost predicts distorted probabilities and examine three cali…