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Study shows perceptual boost of visual attention varies with task difficulty and size.

problem Understanding how task-dependent the perceptual boost of visual attention is in natural settings.
method Designed and trained neural networks on various visual tasks, comparing results to baseline.
result Perceptual boost of attention is stronger with more difficult tasks and weaker with larger task sets.

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…

2020-02-11abs ↗pdf ↗

SAINT improves neural networks for tabular data with row attention and contrastive pre-training.

problem Tabular data challenges in machine learning applications.
method SAINT combines row and column attention with contrastive self-supervised pre-training.
result SAINT outperforms previous deep learning methods and even gradient boosting methods on benchmark tasks.

Gradient boosting enhances existing Mendelian models for genetic disease risk prediction.

problem Improving existing Mendelian models for genetic disease risk prediction.
method Combining gradient boosting with existing Mendelian models.
result Improved model outperforms both original and gradient boosting-only models.

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…

2019-05-27abs ↗pdf ↗

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 …

2019-11-14abs ↗pdf ↗

FAST-DAD distills complex ensemble models into faster, more accurate individual models.

problem Deploying complex AutoML ensemble predictors on tabular data is slow, large, and opaque.
method Data augmentation strategy based on Gibbs sampling from a self-attention pseudolikelihood estimator.
result FAST-DAD distillation produces significantly better individual models than standard training.

Lipschitz normalization boosts deep attention models, especially for graph neural networks.

problem Gradient explosion in deep graph attention networks leads to poor performance.
method Enforcing Lipschitz continuity by normalizing attention scores.
result Deep GAT models with LipschitzNorm achieve state-of-the-art results for tasks with long-range dependencies.

Quantum self-attention boosts automated market maker performance in crypto trading.

problem Improving automated market maker rebalancing in crypto trading.
method Quantum Adaptive Self-Attention (QASA) using variational quantum circuits and softmax attention.
result QASA-Sequence variant achieves best single-model risk-adjusted 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…

2019-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

SurvBESA predicts survival times using ensemble methods with self-attention.

problem Challenges in survival analysis due to censored data and unstable predictions.
method SurvBESA combines Beran estimators with a self-attention mechanism to predict survival times.
result SurvBESA outperforms state-of-the-art models in predicting survival times.

AReLU uses attention-based rectification to improve neural network performance.

problem Improving neural network performance through better activation functions.
method Integrates attention mechanism with rectified linear unit (ReLU) to learn and scale feature maps.
result AReLU significantly boosts performance of most network architectures with minimal changes.

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 …

2018-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method for self-attention models that improves uncertainty estimation.

problem Overconfident predictions and lack of calibrated uncertainty in Transformers.
method Kernel-Eigen Pair Sparse Variational Gaussian Processes (KEP-SVGP) with Kernel SVD (KSVD) to handle asymmetry of attention kernels.
result Reduction in time complexity and improved performance on various benchmarks.

Orion-Bix combines biaxial attention and meta-learning for tabular few-shot learning.

problem Scaling and generalizing tabular models with mixed numeric and categorical fields, weak feature structure, and limited labeled data.
method Orion-Bix uses biaxial attention and meta-learned in-context reasoning to efficiently capture local and global dependencies.
result Orion-Bix outperforms gradient-boosting baselines and state-of-the-art tabular models on public benchmarks.

Hydra boosts efficiency for long-context reasoning in resource-constrained settings.

problem Quadratic complexity of transformers limits long-context reasoning in resource-constrained systems.
method Hydra uses a modular architecture with adaptive routing between sparse global attention, mixture-of-experts, and dual memories.
result Hydra achieves significant throughput and accuracy improvements for long-context reasoning.

The study develops a machine learning system for credit scoring and default prediction.

problem Developing a robust credit rating and default prediction system.
method Combines NLP, AE, GBM, DE, and SHAP/LIME for model interpretability.
result Obtained excellent out-of-sample performance in credit rating and default prediction.

New algorithms boost SAT solver performance by optimizing restart strategies.

problem Optimizing decision-making under time constraints with restarts.
method Developed online learning algorithms for a bandit problem with controlled restarts.
result Achieved O(log(τ))O(\log(τ)) and O(τlog(τ))O(\sqrt{τ\log(τ)}) regret bounds.

Model earnings call transcripts for better stock price prediction.

problem Predicting future stock price movements using earnings call transcripts.
method Deep learning framework with an attention mechanism to encode text data into vectors for predicting stock price movements.
result The proposed model outperforms traditional machine learning methods in stock price prediction.

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…

2016-09-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Randomized positional encodings boost transformer performance on longer sequences.

problem Transformers struggle with generalizing to sequences of arbitrary length.
method Introduced randomized positional encodings that simulate longer sequences and randomly select positions.
result Randomized positional encodings increase test accuracy by 12.0% on average for sequences of unseen length.

Kaggle competitions offer valuable insights for business forecasting.

problem Lack of attention to Kaggle competitions in academic forecasting studies.
method Review of results from six Kaggle competitions featuring real-life business forecasting tasks.
result Global ensemble models outperform local single models in Kaggle competitions.

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…

2019-05-27abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2019-02-28abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2013-12-18abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2014-03-08abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2018-10-22abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2012-07-04abs ↗pdf ↗