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48 results for binary matrices

The article explains how to estimate confusion matrices for classifiers using unlabeled data.

problem Estimating sensitivity and specificity of binary medical diagnostic tests without gold standard tests.
method Modifying diagnostic test solutions to estimate confusion matrices for classifiers on unlabeled data.
result The approach can be used to estimate accuracy statistics for supervised or unsupervised binary classifiers on unlabeled data.

In this paper, we study the problem of compressed sensing using binary measurement matrices and 1\ell_1-norm minimization (basis pursuit) as the recovery algorithm. We derive new upper and lower bounds on the number of measurements to achieve robust sparse recovery with binary matrices. We establish sufficient conditi…

2018-08-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper studies binary random projections with controllable sparsity patterns for computational and accuracy advantages.

problem Improving computational efficiency and accuracy in random projections.
method Proposes two sparse binary projection models with controllable sparsity patterns.
result Significant computational advantages and improved accuracies in empirical evaluations.

New method predicts binary matrix entries using empirical Bayes and low-rank structure.

problem Predicting unobserved entries in binary matrices.
method Empirical Bayes method motivated by Efron--Morris estimator, exploiting low-rank structure.
result Superior performance in predictive accuracy, calibration, and efficiency compared to existing methods.

Matrix factorization is a key tool in data analysis; its applications include recommender systems, correlation analysis, signal processing, among others. Binary matrices are a particular case which has received significant attention for over thirty years, especially within the field of data mining. Dictionary learning …

2018-04-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Pruning is an efficient model compression technique to remove redundancy in the connectivity of deep neural networks (DNNs). Computations using sparse matrices obtained by pruning parameters, however, exhibit vastly different parallelism depending on the index representation scheme. As a result, fine-grained pruning ha…

2019-05-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Symmetric binary matrices representing relations among entities are commonly collected in many areas. Our focus is on dynamically evolving binary relational matrices, with interest being in inference on the relationship structure and prediction. We propose a nonparametric Bayesian dynamic model, which reduces dimension…

2013-11-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Binary data matrices can represent many types of data such as social networks, votes, or gene expression. In some cases, the analysis of binary matrices can be tackled with nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), where the observed data matrix is approximated by the product of two smaller nonnegative matrices. In this …

2018-12-17abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method relaxes Boolean Matrix Factorization to make it more efficient.

problem High computational cost of solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems in Boolean Matrix Factorization.
method Proposes a proximal gradient algorithm using an elastic-binary regularizer to relax BMF.
result Demonstrates improved runtime and better recall, loss, and interpretability on real-world data.

BIND removes background noise from binary matrices, improving detection accuracy and fairness.

problem Real data often violates the i.i.d assumption for binary matrix entries, leading to inaccurate detection.
method BIND optimizes detection by estimating row- and column-wise mixture distributions and eliminating background noise.
result BIND effectively removes background noise and increases detection accuracy and fairness.

Efficient methods for sparse random projections improve classification accuracy in very high-dimensional data.

problem Handling very high-dimensional sparse data efficiently.
method Non-iterative and iterative classification methods using sparse random projections and Jaccard kernel.
result Non-iterative methods yield larger, more accurate models than iterative methods.

CMF is a technique for simultaneously learning low-rank representations based on a collection of matrices with shared entities. A typical example is the joint modeling of user-item, item-property, and user-feature matrices in a recommender system. The key idea in CMF is that the embeddings are shared across the matrice…

2013-12-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a scalable Bayesian model for low-rank factorization of massive tensors with binary observations. The proposed model has the following key properties: (1) in contrast to the models based on the logistic or probit likelihood, using a zero-truncated Poisson likelihood for binary data allows our model to scale …

2015-08-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Federated learning approach for binary matrix factorization.

problem Efficiently factorizing binary data distributed across stakeholders while maintaining privacy.
method Proximal optimization for federated learning of relaxed binary matrix factorization.
result Federated algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art methods in quality and efficacy.

Binary embedding of high-dimensional data requires long codes to preserve the discriminative power of the input space. Traditional binary coding methods often suffer from very high computation and storage costs in such a scenario. To address this problem, we propose Circulant Binary Embedding (CBE) which generates bina…

2014-05-13abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper develops algorithms for Boolean matrix factorization using IP and heuristics.

problem Approximating binary input matrices as products of smaller binary factors.
method Alternating optimization with integer programming and greedy/local-search heuristics.
result Proposed methods improve scalability and performance compared to existing techniques.

Enhances LLM quantization with MDBF, improving perplexity and accuracy.

problem Limited performance of Double Binary Factorization in extreme quantization.
method Introduces Multi-envelope DBF, retaining sign matrices and replacing single envelope with rank-ll envelope.
result Improves perplexity and zero-shot accuracy over previous binary formats.

We present an alternative layer to convolution layers in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Our approach reduces the complexity of convolutions by replacing it with binary decisions. Those binary decisions are used as indexes to conditional distributions where each weight represents a leaf in a decision tree. This m…

2019-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

A novel method relaxes binary constraints to non-negative spheres for multi-matching and clustering.

problem Optimization problems over binary matrices with injectivity constraints.
method Non-negative spherical relaxation followed by conditional power iteration.
result Automatic adjustment of the continuous parameter related to universe size.

New Gaussian min-max theorem extends classical results to non-i.i.d. Gaussian matrices.

problem Extending classical Gaussian min-max theorems to non-i.i.d. Gaussian matrices.
method Identifying a new pair of Gaussian processes that satisfy comparison inequalities.
result New Gaussian min-max and convex Gaussian min-max theorems with applications in multi-source Gaussian regression and binary classification.

Binary and multiclass epilepsy detection methods using EEG features.

problem Epilepsy diagnosis from EEG data.
method Feature extraction from power spectrum, spectrogram, and bispectrogram; eight machine learning algorithms used.
result Random forest and backpropagation algorithms achieved highest accuracy for binary and multiclass classification.

Given a binary prediction problem, which performance metric should the classifier optimize? We address this question by formalizing the problem of Metric Elicitation. The goal of metric elicitation is to discover the performance metric of a practitioner, which reflects her innate rewards (costs) for correct (incorrect)…

2018-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

A fast binary embedding method preserves Euclidean distances in high-dimensional data.

problem Preserving Euclidean distances in high-dimensional datasets.
method Stable noise-shaping quantization of AxA x with AA a sparse Gaussian random matrix, followed by a linear transformation.
result Euclidean distances are approximated by the 1\ell_1 norm on binary sequences, leading to accurate binary codes.

We give an explicit algorithm and source code for computing optimal weights for combining a large number N of alphas. This algorithm does not cost O(N^3) or even O(N^2) operations but is much cheaper, in fact, the number of required operations scales linearly with N. We discuss how in the absence of binary or quasi-bin…

2016-03-18abs ↗pdf ↗

New framework solves low-rank optimization problems to certifiable optimality.

problem Low-rank optimization problems with certifiable solutions.
method Mixed-Projection Conic Optimization framework using symmetric projection matrices and outer-approximation algorithms.
result Solves low-rank problems to certifiable optimality, outperforming existing methods.

The paper sets information-theoretic lower bounds for neural networks' parameter recovery and excess risk.

problem Establishing sample complexity lower bounds for neural network parameters and excess risk.
method Using information-theoretic tools, the paper proves lower bounds by constructing a generative network.
result Proves information-theoretic lower bounds for exact parameter recovery and positive excess risk.

Gaussian processes (GP) are attractive building blocks for many probabilistic models. Their drawbacks, however, are the rapidly increasing inference time and memory requirement alongside increasing data. The problem can be alleviated with compactly supported (CS) covariance functions, which produce sparse covariance ma…

2012-03-15abs ↗pdf ↗

A gamma process dynamic Poisson factor analysis model is proposed to factorize a dynamic count matrix, whose columns are sequentially observed count vectors. The model builds a novel Markov chain that sends the latent gamma random variables at time (t1)(t-1) as the shape parameters of those at time tt, which are linked …

2015-12-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Boolean matrix factorisation aims to decompose a binary data matrix into an approximate Boolean product of two low rank, binary matrices: one containing meaningful patterns, the other quantifying how the observations can be expressed as a combination of these patterns. We introduce the OrMachine, a probabilistic genera…

2017-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider a Gaussian process formulation of the multiple kernel learning problem. The goal is to select the convex combination of kernel matrices that best explains the data and by doing so improve the generalisation on unseen data. Sparsity in the kernel weights is obtained by adopting a hierarchical Bayesian approa…

2011-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper establishes risk convergence and asymptotic weight matrix alignment --- a form of implicit regularization --- of gradient flow and gradient descent when applied to deep linear networks on linearly separable data. In more detail, for gradient flow applied to strictly decreasing loss functions (with similar re…

2018-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper extends ternary algebra concepts using cube roots of unity.

problem Extending algebraic structures from binary to ternary multiplication.
method Introducing ternary associator, commutator, and Lie algebra at cube roots of unity.
result Derived an identity for ternary commutator based on GA(1,5)GA(1,5).

New algorithm recovers sparse binary vectors from generalized linear measurements efficiently.

problem Recovering sparse binary vectors from generalized linear measurements.
method Linear estimation algorithm and information theoretic lower bounds.
result Optimal sample complexity of O((k+σ2)logn)O((k+σ^2)\log{n}) for noisy one bit quantized linear measurements.

Matrix completion aims to reconstruct a data matrix based on observations of a small number of its entries. Usually in matrix completion a single matrix is considered, which can be, for example, a rating matrix in recommendation system. However, in practical situations, data is often obtained from multiple sources whic…

2018-07-24abs ↗pdf ↗