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48 results for batch correction

A new method improves data representation for diverse tasks.

problem Learning meaningful representations for tasks like batch correction and counterfactual inference.
method Contrastive Mixture of Posteriors (CoMP) method using misalignment penalties.
result CoMP achieves state-of-the-art performance on challenging tasks.

Given a finite set of unknown distributions or arms that can be sampled, we consider the problem of identifying the one with the maximum mean using a δδ-correct algorithm (an adaptive, sequential algorithm that restricts the probability of error to a specified δδ) that has minimum sample complexity. Lower bounds for …

2019-08-24abs ↗pdf ↗

We make policy optimization algorithms batch size-invariant by decoupling proximal and behavior policies.

problem Some policy optimization algorithms do not have batch size-invariance, leading to inefficiencies.
method We decouple the proximal policy from the behavior policy to achieve batch size-invariance.
result Our approach makes policy optimization algorithms more efficient and allows them to use stale data more effectively.

Two new algorithms improve Q* approximation in batch RL with linear error propagation.

problem Improving Q* approximation in batch reinforcement learning.
method Two novel algorithms that estimate Bellman error directly, without quadratic dependence.
result Linear-in-horizon error propagation for batch RL algorithms.

Adaptive Langevin dynamics reduces bias in Bayesian inference with mini-batching.

problem Bias in posterior sampling due to mini-batching in Bayesian inference.
method Adaptive Langevin dynamics with dynamical friction to correct noise.
result Quantified bias in posterior distribution due to mini-batching.

In an increasing number of domains it has been demonstrated that deep learning models can be trained using relatively large batch sizes without sacrificing data efficiency. However the limits of this massive data parallelism seem to differ from domain to domain, ranging from batches of tens of thousands in ImageNet to …

2018-12-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Many biological data analysis processes like Cytometry or Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) produce massive amounts of data which needs to be processed in batches for down-stream analysis. Such datasets are prone to technical variations due to difference in handling the batches possibly at different times, by different …

2019-01-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes an efficient method for bounding box annotation in object detection.

problem Manual annotation of bounding boxes is tedious and resource-intensive.
method Iterative training of object detector on small batches of labeled images, with human annotator correcting errors.
result Significant reduction in human annotation effort, up to 75%.

A new method for batch prediction sets in classification problems.

problem Constructing reliable prediction sets for multiple unlabeled examples.
method Proposes a uniformly more powerful approach to batch prediction sets using specific combinations of conformal p-values.
result The proposed method provides narrower prediction sets compared to the Bonferroni correction.

Bayesian priors offer a compact yet general means of incorporating domain knowledge into many learning tasks. The correctness of the Bayesian analysis and inference, however, largely depends on accuracy and correctness of these priors. PAC-Bayesian methods overcome this problem by providing bounds that hold regardless …

2012-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a novel framework for combining datasets via alignment of their intrinsic geometry. This alignment can be used to fuse data originating from disparate modalities, or to correct batch effects while preserving intrinsic data structure. Importantly, we do not assume any pointwise correspondence between datasets…

2018-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

WEINCE improves contrastive learning by correcting softmax biases.

problem Softmax in InfoNCE can lead to misaligned statistical assumptions in contrastive learning.
method WEINCE uses anchor-wise online batch statistics to blend softmax logits with an endpoint shortfall correction.
result WEINCE yields consistent improvements in frozen-feature evaluation across five vision benchmarks.

DAIS improves AIS for differentiable marginal likelihood estimation.

problem Differentiable marginal likelihood estimation for complex models.
method Proposes Differentiable Annealed Importance Sampling (DAIS) to make AIS differentiable.
result DAIS achieves convergence and consistency in Bayesian linear regression.

AMAGOLD improves stochastic gradient MCMC by infrequent Metropolis-Hastings corrections.

problem Bias in stochastic gradient Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (SGHMC).
method AMAGOLD infrequently uses Metropolis-Hastings corrections to remove bias, with a fixed step size schedule.
result AMAGOLD converges to the target distribution with a fixed, rather than a diminishing, step size, and at most a constant factor slower convergence rate.

In this study, we consider classification problems based on neural networks in data-imbalanced environment. Learning from an imbalanced data set is one of the most important and practical problems in the field of machine learning. A weighted loss function based on cost-sensitive approach is a well-known effective metho…

2019-11-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Estimates stationary distribution from batch transitions without access to the underlying process.

problem Estimating stationary distribution from batch transitions without access to the underlying process.
method Proposes a consistent estimator based on a correction ratio function and variational power method (VPM).
result VPM provides significantly better estimates across various problems.

In this paper, we present NESTA, a specialized Neural engine that significantly accelerates the computation of convolution layers in a deep convolutional neural network, while reducing the computational energy. NESTA reformats Convolutions into 3×33 \times 3 batches and uses a hierarchy of Hamming Weight Compressors to …

2019-10-01abs ↗pdf ↗

This work tackles sequential data learning challenges by improving neural network robustness to non-iid distribution shifts.

problem Sequential data learning challenges, particularly non-iid distribution shifts across batches.
method Cramér-Rao-based regularization using Fisher Information Matrix to adapt to sequential covariate shifts.
result Achieves 19% accuracy improvement over state-of-the-art methods.

New method for constructing confidence intervals for time series data.

problem Constructing confidence intervals for statistical functionals from time series data.
method Proposes a general purpose confidence interval procedure based on overlapping batches of time series data.
result Large overlapping batches yield confidence intervals of higher quality than generic methods.

We study the dynamics of the `batch' minority game with market-impact correction using generating functional techniques to carry out the quenched disorder average. We find that the assumption of weak long-term memory, which one usually makes in order to calculate ergodic stationary states, breaks down when the persiste…

2001-08-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved method finds second-order stationary points privately with better efficiency.

problem Finding second-order stationary points privately under differential privacy constraints.
method Adaptive batch sizes and binary tree mechanism.
result Improved bound for privately finding SOSP, matching state-of-the-art for FOSP.

Study improves BN TTA under distribution shift using higher-order asymptotics.

problem Improving BN TTA for changing data distributions.
method Integrates Edgeworth expansion and saddlepoint approximation with one-step M-estimation.
result Derives optimal weighting parameter for minimized mean-squared error.

Study aggregation of statistical evidence under unknown dependence using group-invariance.

problem Aggregating statistical evidence under unknown and complex dependence structures.
method Develops a framework using group-invariance and permutation-based constructions to aggregate evidence across transformed datasets.
result Shows uniform improvement in critical values for single-batch aggregation over deterministic calibrations, adapting to unknown dependence structures.

We present a novel Metropolis-Hastings method for large datasets that uses small expected-size minibatches of data. Previous work on reducing the cost of Metropolis-Hastings tests yield variable data consumed per sample, with only constant factor reductions versus using the full dataset for each sample. Here we present…

2016-10-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Batch normalization (BN) is a technique to normalize activations in intermediate layers of deep neural networks. Its tendency to improve accuracy and speed up training have established BN as a favorite technique in deep learning. Yet, despite its enormous success, there remains little consensus on the exact reason and …

2018-06-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Data preprocessing techniques are devoted to correct or alleviate errors in data. Discretization and feature selection are two of the most extended data preprocessing techniques. Although we can find many proposals for static Big Data preprocessing, there is little research devoted to the continuous Big Data problem. A…

2018-10-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Revisits online Laplace methods for neural networks, showing they are sound under certain conditions.

problem Online Laplace methods violate the Laplace approximation's critical assumption.
method Re-derives online Laplace methods, showing they target a variational bound on a mode-corrected variant of the Laplace evidence.
result Online Laplace and its mode-corrected counterpart share stationary points that satisfy the Laplace method's assumption.