Recently, with convolutional neural networks gaining significant achievements in many challenging machine learning fields, hand-crafted neural networks no longer satisfy our requirements as designing a network will cost a lot, and automatically generating architectures has attracted increasingly more attention and focu…
We examine the recovery of block sparse signals and extend the framework in two important directions; one by exploiting signals' intra-block correlation and the other by generalizing signals' block structure. We propose two families of algorithms based on the framework of block sparse Bayesian learning (BSBL). One fami…
A new framework for robot block-stacking tasks using causal probabilistic models.
problem Robots fail outside controlled environments due to uncertainty and lack of explicit design for all scenarios.
method Causal probabilistic framework combining causal models and probabilistic representations of noise.
result Robots can perceive, reason about, and explain their environment for block-stacking tasks.
This study links blockchain design to cryptos' distributional characteristics.
problem Understanding the relationship between blockchain design and cryptos' distributional characteristics.
method Used spectral clustering to cluster cryptos based on their blockchain mechanisms and operational features.
result Clusters of cryptos share similar blockchain mechanisms, supporting the hypothesis.
Deep learning has shown promising results on many machine learning tasks but DL models are often complex networks with large number of neurons and layers, and recently, complex layer structures known as building blocks. Finding the best deep model requires a combination of finding both the right architecture and the co…
Proposes BMME for optimizing nonsmooth nonconvex problems with block structure.
problem Optimizing nonsmooth nonconvex problems with block structure.
method Block Alternating Bregman Majorization Minimization with Extrapolation (BMME).
result Subsequential convergence to a first-order stationary point under mild assumptions, global convergence under stronger conditions.
Corrects a mistake in hv-block cross-validation consistency claim.
problem Incorrectly assumed hv-block cross-validation is a BIBD. method Demonstrates hv-block is not a BIBD and reopens consistency question. result Theoretical consistency of hv-block remains unresolved. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are effective at solving difficult problems like visual recognition, speech recognition and natural language processing. However, performance gain comes at the cost of laborious trial-and-error in designing deeper CNN architectures. In this paper, a genetic programming (GP) framewor…
Blockchain MEV is unaffected by ordering changes.
problem Maximizing arbitrage opportunities on blockchain exchanges.
method Formalized MEV, proved invariance under certain conditions.
result Maximal extractable value is invariant under changes in ordering mechanism.
Efficient private algorithms for estimating block models and mixture models.
problem Estimating block models and mixture models in high-dimensional settings.
method General tools for designing efficient private estimation algorithms.
result First efficient private algorithms for weak and exact recovery of stochastic block models.
Develops a multichannel deep network for faster, artifact-free image CS.
problem Block-wise sampling artifacts in image CS with multiple sampling rates.
method Multichannel deep network for block-based image CS, removing blocking artifacts.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art CS methods in objective and subjective metrics.
Gradient codes use block designs to resist adversarial stragglers in distributed computing.
problem Mitigating slow machines (stragglers) in distributed gradient-based methods.
method Gradient coding based on balanced incomplete block designs (BIBDs) to resist adversarial selection of stragglers.
result Adversarial stragglers have no advantage over random selection, and codes based on symmetric BIBDs maximize the adversarial threshold.
Paper proposes ABDR for convex subspace clustering with adaptive block diagonal representation.
problem Subspace clustering with block diagonal structure for noisy data.
method ABDR explicitly pursues block diagonality without sacrificing convexity, using a specially designed convex regularizer.
result Experimental results show ABDR outperforms state-of-the-arts.
New fusion blocks improve equivariant neural networks for molecular dynamics.
problem Designing equivariant neural networks for tasks with global symmetries.
method Using fusion diagrams from tensor networks to design novel equivariant components.
result Improved performance with fewer parameters on chemical problems.
Paper proposes a new Markov model for efficient PLC system design.
problem Efficient estimation of Markov model parameters for bursty error channels.
method Introduced a Block Diagonal Markov model and a modified Baum-Welch algorithm.
result Efficient estimation of state transition matrix Λ for PLC system design. To understand the empirical success of approximate MAP inference, recent work (Lang et al., 2018) has shown that some popular approximation algorithms perform very well when the input instance is stable. The simplest stability condition assumes that the MAP solution does not change at all when some of the pairwise pote…
New taxonomy and improved solvers for discrete energy minimization.
problem Maximum-a-posteriori inference in discrete graphical models.
method Dual block-coordinate ascent rule, theoretical analysis, new solver variants.
result Improved state-of-the-art solver outperforming existing methods on all test instances.
A new method for state space partitioning in block particle filtering reduces bias and variance.
problem Overcoming the curse of dimensionality in non-linear, non-Gaussian state space estimation.
method Formulates state space partitioning as a clustering problem and uses spectral clustering with constraints.
result The proposed method effectively groups correlated state variables into smaller blocks, reducing bias and variance.
We adapt tools from information theory to analyze how an observer comes to synchronize with the hidden states of a finitary, stationary stochastic process. We show that synchronization is determined by both the process's internal organization and by an observer's model of it. We analyze these components using the conve…
Paper proposes efficient methods for clustering and signal recovery in high-dimensional data with block structures.
problem High-dimensional clustering and signal recovery under block signal structures.
method CFA-PCA and MA-PCA methods for sparse and dense block signals.
result Proposed methods achieve computational minimax optimality for clustering and signal recovery.
Algorithm solves robust linear regression with block Lewis weights.
problem Group distributionally robust least squares problem.
method Algorithm based on geometric construction and block Lewis weights, using accelerated proximal methods.
result Improves over known methods for moderate accuracy regimes and matches state-of-the-art guarantees.
Improved hyperparameter optimization using simplified Transformer blocks.
problem Discovering optimal architectures in high-dimensional search spaces with limited exploration budgets.
method Simplified Transformer block for modeling hyper-parameter dependencies, actor-critic style algorithm, ensembling.
result Outperformed most algorithms on NAS-Bench-101 and Random Search in discovering more accurate model architectures.
Paper introduces graph-based transforms for video compression.
problem Efficiently represent video signals for compression.
method Develops two techniques for designing graph-based transforms (GL-GBTs and EA-GBTs).
result Graph-based transforms outperform traditional KLT in video compression.
Filters in convolutional networks are typically parameterized in a pixel basis, that does not take prior knowledge about the visual world into account. We investigate the generalized notion of frames designed with image properties in mind, as alternatives to this parametrization. We show that frame-based ResNets and De…
Game-theoretic analysis of mining gaps in blockchain systems.
problem Strategic mining behavior and its impact on blockchain stability.
method Game-theoretic model and Nash equilibrium analysis.
result Mining gaps can destabilize blockchain systems, especially with decreasing block rewards.
New algorithms tackle complex multi-block optimization problems in machine learning.
problem Non-convex multi-block bilevel optimization with hierarchical sampling challenges.
method Blockwise stochastic variance-reduced methods with parallel speedup.
result Achieves matching complexity to single-block problems with parallel speedup.
Large-scale L1-regularized loss minimization problems arise in high-dimensional applications such as compressed sensing and high-dimensional supervised learning, including classification and regression problems. High-performance algorithms and implementations are critical to efficiently solving these problems. Building…
Mesoscopic pattern extraction (MPE) is the problem of finding a partition of the nodes of a complex network that maximizes some objective function. Many well-known network inference problems fall in this category, including, for instance, community detection, core-periphery identification, and imperfect graph coloring.…
This paper introduces GLT for better input data representation in BNN and proposes a compact topology with block pruning.
problem Improving input data representation for Binary Neural Networks (BNN).
method Generic Learned Thermometer (GLT) for encoding, block pruning and Knowledge Distillation for compact topology.
result Significant accuracy gains and lightweight fully-binarized models with limited accuracy degradation.
New insights into Hessian structure of neural networks reveal two forces.
problem Understanding the Hessian structure of neural networks.
method Analyzing the static and dynamic forces, comparing limit distributions using random matrix theory.
result The Hessian structure arises from a combination of static and dynamic forces, with C being a primary driver. Differentially private random block coordinate descent improves utility in machine learning.
problem Lack of privacy in classical CD methods when handling sensitive information.
method Proposes a differentially private random block coordinate descent method using sketch matrices and importance sampling.
result Demonstrates improved convergence rates and utility guarantees compared to non-private methods.
The paper studies a method to sample nodes from a massive graph using personalized PageRank.
problem Sampling from a massive network is expensive and impractical; the paper provides an alternative.
method The paper introduces a crawling method to approximate the personalized PageRank vector without querying the entire graph.
result The adjusted personalized PageRank vector can effectively select nodes within the same block as the seed node.
Perceptual ad-blocking is a novel approach that detects online advertisements based on their visual content. Compared to traditional filter lists, the use of perceptual signals is believed to be less prone to an arms race with web publishers and ad networks. We demonstrate that this may not be the case. We describe att…
Simulation and neural network analysis predict fiber laydown in spunbond processes.
problem Predicting fiber laydown quality in spunbond processes.
method Design of experiments, blocked neural network analysis.
result Prediction of fiber laydown characteristics and ranking of influencing effects.
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely used to solve classification tasks in computer vision. However, they can be tricked into misclassifying specially crafted `adversarial' samples -- and samples built to trick one model often work alarmingly well against other models trained on the same task. In this paper …
We introduce the simulation tool SABCEMM (Simulator for Agent-Based Computational Economic Market Models) for agent-based computational economic market (ABCEM) models. Our simulation tool is implemented in C++ and we can easily run ABCEM models with several million agents. The object-oriented software design enables th…
The min-max problem, also known as the saddle point problem, is a class of optimization problems which minimizes and maximizes two subsets of variables simultaneously. This class of problems can be used to formulate a wide range of signal processing and communication (SPCOM) problems. Despite its popularity, most exist…
New model predicts links in community-based networks robustly.
problem Link prediction in community-based networks with local clustering errors.
method Markov Stochastic Block Model (MSBM) with Hidden Markov Model (HMM) predictions.
result Misclassification error decays exponentially with relevant signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).
LoCo learns local representations without end-to-end synchronization, improving performance on complex tasks.
problem Learning local representations without end-to-end synchronization constraints.
method Overlap local blocks to increase decoder depth and allow feedback from upper to lower layers.
result LoCo closes the performance gap between local learning and end-to-end contrastive learning.
Proposes RBGP framework for efficient block sparse neural networks.
problem Efficiently exploit structured sparsity patterns for sparse neural networks on GPU.
method Uses Ramanujan Bipartite Graph Product to generate structured multi-level block sparse neural networks.
result Achieves 5-9x and 2-5x runtime gains over unstructured and block sparsity patterns respectively, while maintaining accuracy.
MEI model improves knowledge graph completion by efficiently modeling interactions between embeddings.
problem Efficiently modeling interactions between knowledge graph embeddings to predict missing links.
method MEI divides embeddings into partitions and uses Tucker and block term formats to model interactions efficiently.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on link prediction tasks.
We present a novel family of deep neural architectures, named partially exchangeable networks (PENs) that leverage probabilistic symmetries. By design, PENs are invariant to block-switch transformations, which characterize the partial exchangeability properties of conditionally Markovian processes. Moreover, we show th…
Enhances ocean floor mapping with adaptive uncertainty estimates.
problem Inaccurate bathymetric data for precise ocean modeling.
method Block-based conformal prediction with VQ-VAE architecture.
result Significant improvements in reconstruction quality and uncertainty estimation reliability.
Randomized spectral co-clustering speeds up large-scale directed networks.
problem Co-clustering directed networks efficiently for large-scale data.
method Randomized spectral co-clustering algorithms using random-projection and random-sampling techniques.
result Theoretical and numerical validation of approximation and misclustering error rates.
Study on efficiency of Dutch auctions on blockchains considering various parameters.
problem Efficiency and fairness in Dutch auctions on blockchains.
method Modeling Dutch auctions with Poisson process and geometric Brownian motion, computing expected losses and time-to-fill.
result Tradeoff between speed and quality in Dutch auctions, useful for setting parameters.
Proposes a new model for clustering multiplex networks with compositional data.
problem Clustering multiplex networks with multiple types of relations and compositional data.
method Multiplex Dirichlet stochastic block model for compositional networks.
result Validated through simulation and applied to international export data.
This work tackles exploding inverses in INNs, revealing and mitigating their numerical non-invertibility.
problem Exploding inverses in INNs cause numerical non-invertibility, leading to failures in various tasks.
method Derived bi-Lipschitz properties of INN building blocks, proposed regularizers for local invertibility, and stable INN designs for global invertibility.
result Bi-Lipschitz properties and stable INN designs are crucial for addressing numerical non-invertibility.
AdaNAS uses ensembles to improve neural architecture search.
problem Finding optimal neural network architectures is time-consuming and resource-intensive.
method AdaNAS employs ensemble learning to automatically compose neural networks.
result Ensemble networks improve accuracy compared to single neural networks with the same number of parameters.