Deep generative models parameterized by neural networks have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance in unsupervised and semi-supervised learning. We extend deep generative models with auxiliary variables which improves the variational approximation. The auxiliary variables leave the generative model unchanged b…
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This paper reviews dMTL and methods for selecting auxiliary tasks.
problem Improving model performance for multiple tasks.
method Review of dMTL approaches and methods for selecting auxiliary tasks.
result Methods for selecting auxiliary tasks can improve dMTL performance.
Note on the equivalence of hierarchical variational models and auxiliary deep generative modelsstat.ML
This note compares two recently published machine learning methods for constructing flexible, but tractable families of variational hidden-variable posteriors. The first method, called "hierarchical variational models" enriches the inference model with an extra variable, while the other, called "auxiliary deep generati…
Self-Teaching Networkseess.AS
Self-teaching networks improve deep neural networks' generalization.
problem Improving deep neural networks' generalization capacity.
method Generates soft supervision labels to train lower layers, using an auxiliary loss to mimic the output layer.
result Self-teaching network achieves consistent improvements and outperforms existing methods in speech recognition tasks.
Improves anomaly detection in deep learning with an auxiliary dataset of outliers.
problem Detecting anomalous inputs in complex, large-scale deep learning models.
method Outlier Exposure (OE) approach: training anomaly detectors against an auxiliary dataset of outliers.
result Significantly improves detection performance on natural language processing and vision tasks.
NeurT-FDR controls FDR by incorporating auxiliary covariates in deep learning.
problem Controlling FDR in complex large-scale problems with indirect relations among covariates.
method NeurT-FDR uses a deep Black-Box framework that parametrizes test-level covariates as a neural network and adjusts auxiliary covariates through a regression framework.
result NeurT-FDR makes substantially more discoveries in real datasets compared to competitive baselines.
A novel kernel learning framework detects abrupt changes in time series data.
problem Detecting abrupt changes in time series data with fewer assumptions.
method KL-CPD, a novel kernel learning framework that optimizes a lower bound of test power via an auxiliary generative model.
result Significantly outperformed other state-of-the-art methods in benchmark datasets and simulation studies.
CATS enhances MTSF by generating ATS from OTS to improve forecasting accuracy.
problem Recent deep learning models often outperform multivariate ones in MTSF.
method CATS constructs ATS from OTS using a 2D temporal-contextual attention mechanism.
result CATS achieves state-of-the-art performance with reduced complexity.
Proves identifiability of deep latent variable models without auxiliary information.
problem Identify deep generative models without side information.
method Analyzes a broad class of deep latent variable models with universal approximation capabilities.
result Identifiability of generative models without side information .
Bayesian deep learning improves geostatistical mapping with auxiliary data.
problem Traditional geostatistical methods are limited in feature learning and uncertainty estimation.
method Deep neural networks learn complex relationships from auxiliary data for probabilistic mapping.
result Deep learning produces detailed, probabilistic maps with uncertainty estimates.
Improves deep learning models by blending gradients from training loss and auxiliary objective.
problem Minimizing a single training loss while encouraging desirable model properties.
method Solves a bilevel optimization problem by combining training loss gradients and orthogonal projections of auxiliary gradients.
result Bloop method leads to better performance than other gradient surgery methods without EMA.
Deep learning method solves American options with free boundary using Landau transformation.
problem Solving American options with a free boundary using deep learning.
method Landau transformation, dual solution framework, auxiliary function, feed forward deep neural network (DNN).
result Deep learning method efficiently prices options with early exercise features.
Generative model disentangles dark matter halo properties.
problem Entangling physical factors in generative model latent spaces.
method Auxiliary-variable-guided framework with halo mass and concentration.
result Reveals mass-concentration scaling relation and identifies unusual halo formation.
Count-sketches reduce memory usage for deep learning models without sacrificing performance.
problem Memory constraints in deep learning models as they grow larger.
method Maintain a linear sketch to compress auxiliary variables in optimization methods.
result Compressed optimization methods maintain the same performance as full-sized baselines while using significantly less memory.
Proto-value networks improve deep reinforcement learning representations using auxiliary tasks.
problem Improving deep reinforcement learning representations with auxiliary tasks.
method Derived a new family of auxiliary tasks based on the successor measure, combined with off-policy learning rule.
result Proto-value networks produce rich features comparable to established algorithms using only linear approximation and a small number of interactions.
New model improves MCMC efficiency and multi-modal distribution exploration.
problem Inefficient and slow MCMC methods for complex distributions.
method Deep involutive generative models for Metropolis-Hastings updates.
result Deep involutive models can learn complex MCMC updates efficiently.
Novel neural network models quantify uncertainty for deep classifiers.
problem Deep networks' overconfidence and ignorance about uncertainty.
method Variational autoencoders and GANs generate out-of-distribution samples.
result Better uncertainty estimates for in- and out-of-distribution samples.
Improves CTR prediction by considering spatial and temporal auxiliary ads.
problem Improving CTR prediction in online advertising systems.
method Deep Spatio-Temporal Neural Networks (DSTNs) for CTR prediction.
result DSTNs outperform state-of-the-art methods in CTR prediction.
Paper introduces a novel method for estimating model confidence in deep neural classifiers.
problem Reliable confidence estimation for deep neural classifiers in safety-critical applications.
method Proposes a novel target criterion (true class probability) and learns it from data with an auxiliary model.
result The proposed method outperforms strong baselines in various tasks and network architectures.
A new DP method for deep learning with faster convergence and better privacy.
problem Challenges in differentially private training of deep neural networks.
method Method of auxiliary coordinates with perturbed Taylor expansion for privacy.
result Empirically shows decent trained model quality with modest privacy budget.
ATOM improves robust OOD detection by mining informative auxiliary examples.
problem Robust OOD detection in open-world settings is challenging due to adversarial inputs.
method ATOM combines adversarial training with outlier mining to improve robustness.
result ATOM achieves state-of-the-art performance in OOD detection, reducing FPR by up to 57.99%.
MTCNet uses MTL to estimate crowd density and count.
problem Crowd count estimation challenges due to scale variations and perspective.
method MTL deep neural network architecture with two tasks: density estimation and count classification.
result Achieves lower MAE than state-of-the-art methods on multiple datasets.
Speech enhancement improved by adapting to unknown speakers without auxiliary signals.
problem Improving speech enhancement accuracy for unknown speakers.
method Adopting multi-task learning for speech enhancement and speaker identification, using multi-head self-attention.
result Achieved state-of-the-art performance and improved subjective quality.
Auxiliary Tuning adapts pre-trained models for novel tasks efficiently.
problem Adapting pre-trained models for new tasks efficiently.
method Supplementing pre-trained model with an auxiliary model that shifts output distribution.
result Achieved similar results to training from scratch with fewer resources.
XMixup improves transfer learning accuracy by 1.9% with less training time.
problem Efficiently transfer knowledge from large source datasets to target tasks with small samples.
method Cross-domain Mixup technique that selects auxiliary samples from source datasets and augments training samples via mixup strategy.
result Improves accuracy by 1.9% on average over six real-world transfer learning datasets.
Improved malware detection by adding auxiliary loss terms to a neural network.
problem Malware detection accuracy with a single label.
method Fit deep neural networks to multiple auxiliary prediction targets derived from metadata.
result Significant improvement in detection performance, reducing false negatives by 42.6% at a low false positive rate.
CCAC calibrates DNN classifiers on OOD datasets by separating mis-classified samples.
problem Calibrating DNN classifiers on out-of-distribution datasets is challenging.
method CCAC introduces an auxiliary class to map DNN output to calibrated confidence, separating mis-classified from correctly classified samples.
result CCAC consistently outperforms prior methods on various DNN models, datasets, and applications.
Improved acoustic modeling with attentive adversarial learning.
problem Domain variability in acoustic modeling.
method Proposes an attentive ADIT method with an attention mechanism to improve domain-invariance of deep features.
result Improves deep feature domain-invariance and senone-discriminativity over ADIT.
ScoreFusion fuses multiple diffusion models to enhance generative modeling of a target population.
problem Enhancing generative modeling of a target population with limited data.
method ScoreFusion uses KL barycenters of auxiliary populations and recasts the learning problem as score matching in denoising diffusion.
result ScoreFusion achieves a dimension-free sample complexity bound in total variation distance.
Energy-efficient detection of natural errors in deep networks.
problem Deep networks lack error detection capability without additional energy costs.
method Append RACs at hidden layers to detect natural errors with early classification termination.
result Early classification termination reduces energy consumption.
Small parameterized towers improve multi-task learning efficiency and generalization.
problem Balancing Pareto efficiency and generalization in multi-task learning.
method Under-parameterized self-auxiliaries for multi-task models.
result Small parameterized towers enhance Pareto efficiency in various multi-task applications.
Collaborative filtering (CF) is a successful approach commonly used by many recommender systems. Conventional CF-based methods use the ratings given to items by users as the sole source of information for learning to make recommendation. However, the ratings are often very sparse in many applications, causing CF-based …
Many parametric statistical models are not properly normalised and only specified up to an intractable partition function, which renders parameter estimation difficult. Examples of unnormalised models are Gibbs distributions, Markov random fields, and neural network models in unsupervised deep learning. In previous wor…
Proposes a context-aware approach to deep autoencoder novelty detection.
problem Challenges of static distribution in novelty detection.
method Semi-supervised network architecture with auxiliary labels for contextual information.
result Single model achieves performance of individually trained models on various contexts.
Aux-Net model handles dynamic systems with inconsistent inputs.
problem Inconsistent or unreliable input data in real-world scenarios.
method Aux-Net uses a weighted ensemble of classifiers and online gradient descent.
result Aux-Net provides scalable and agile online learning for dynamic systems.
Autoregressive feedback is considered a necessity for successful unconditional text generation using stochastic sequence models. However, such feedback is known to introduce systematic biases into the training process and it obscures a principle of generation: committing to global information and forgetting local nuanc…
ADRL improves participant selection in MCS systems.
problem Designing a participant selection algorithm for different MCS systems with multiple goals.
method Auxiliary-task based deep reinforcement learning (ADRL) using transformers and pointer networks.
result ADRL outperforms other baselines in various MCS settings.
TAC-GAN improves image diversity in AC-GAN by minimizing class distribution divergence.
problem Low diversity in AC-GAN's generated samples as class count increases.
method TAC-GAN introduces twin auxiliary classifiers to address class separability issues.
result TAC-GAN effectively minimizes divergence between generated and real data distributions.
New method uses neural networks to identify sources from limited data in complex systems.
problem Identifying sources from noisy and limited data in high-dimensional systems.
method Calibrating deep neural network surrogates to ensemble simulations and using Bayesian optimization for source identification.
result Reliable source identification with uncertainty quantification using limited data and auxiliary processes.
PredACGAN optimizes portfolios by balancing returns and risk.
problem Difficulty in considering portfolio risk with deterministic deep learning models.
method PredACGAN uses ACGAN structure for probabilistic predictions and risk measurement.
result PredACGAN portfolios outperform non-PredACGAN portfolios in terms of returns and risk metrics.
New method learns auxiliary labels automatically for improved generalisation.
problem Improving generalisation in supervised learning without additional data.
method Trains two neural networks: label-generation and multi-task networks.
result MAXL outperforms single-task learning on 7 image datasets.
Enhances ZSL models with biologically inspired feature enhancement.
problem Limited training data leads to poor feature extraction from pre-trained models.
method Dual-channel learning framework using auxiliary data sets.
result Improves ZSL model's generalization ability and achieves state-of-the-art results.
Deep Temperingcs.LG
Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are one of the fundamental building blocks of deep learning. Approximate maximum likelihood training of RBMs typically necessitates sampling from these models. In many training scenarios, computationally efficient Gibbs sampling procedures are crippled by poor mixing. In this work w…
A new multilevel framework speeds up ResNet training.
problem Training deep residual networks (ResNets) is time-consuming.
method Formulates ResNets as dynamical systems and uses time-dependent optimal control problems.
result Enhanced training of ResNets with multilevel auxiliary networks achieves significant speedup.
Multi-task learning (MTL) has led to successes in many applications of machine learning, from natural language processing and speech recognition to computer vision and drug discovery. This article aims to give a general overview of MTL, particularly in deep neural networks. It introduces the two most common methods for…
In-N-Out improves model robustness to out-of-distribution data.
problem Learning robust models with few in-distribution labeled examples.
method Pre-training with auxiliary information and self-training with pseudolabels.
result In-N-Out outperforms auxiliary inputs or outputs alone on both in-distribution and OOD error.
Learn dynamics of a system using auxiliary data from similar systems.
problem Learning dynamics of a linear system with limited data.
method Weighted least squares approach, incorporating auxiliary data.
result Auxiliary data can help reduce intrinsic error due to noise.
New insights into state representations in RL help design better learning rules.
problem Lack of automatic feature learning in RL for large or continuous state spaces.
method Bootstrapping methods and theoretical analysis of temporal difference learning.
result State representations differ from other auxiliary-task-based approaches.