Optimizes latent space of VAEs using decoder uncertainty to generate valid objects.
problem Lack of robustness in optimizing VAE latent space for black-box properties.
method Importance sampling-based estimator of decoder epistemic uncertainty to guide optimization.
result Improves trade-off between black-box objective and validity of generated samples.
CARDS improves decoding efficiency and alignment quality for LLMs.
problem Efficiency bottlenecks in decoding-time alignment for LLMs.
method Cascade Reward Sampling (CARDS) with segment-level rejection sampling and uncertainty-based segmentation.
result Significant improvement in decoding efficiency and alignment quality.
Adaptive contrastive search improves text generation quality and diversity.
problem Decoding high-quality text from language model outputs.
method Adaptive contrastive search incorporating uncertainty-guided degeneration penalty.
result Enhanced text generation quality and diversity across different models and datasets.
A new method for effective VAE training using calibrated decoders.
problem Training VAEs requires hyperparameter tuning, leading to inefficiency.
method Calibrated decoders that learn uncertainty and automatically determine information retention.
result Calibrated decoders can simplify VAE training without heuristic modifications.
ConformalHDC improves HDC's uncertainty quantification for neuromorphic learning.
problem Lack of rigorous uncertainty quantification in Hyperdimensional Computing.
method Combines conformal prediction with HDC's efficiency, proposing set-valued and point-valued formulations.
result Demonstrates improved robustness and accuracy in decoding neural stimulus information.
A novel capsule network model improves surrogate modeling and uncertainty quantification from sparse data.
problem Surrogate modeling and uncertainty quantification of systems from sparse data.
method Adapted Capsule Network (CapsNet) architecture into image-to-image regression encoder-decoder network.
result The proposed approach accurately, efficiently, and robustly predicts responses for arbitrary diffusion fields.
Ensemble decoders to capture latent space topology in deep generative models.
problem Topological mismatch between latent space geometry and data manifolds.
method Using ensembles of decoders to compute geodesics on the expected manifold.
result Ensemble approach provides a simple and reliable way to capture model uncertainty in latent space.
DOS improves language model generation by considering inter-token dependencies.
problem Lack of sequence-level information and inter-token dependencies in existing decoding strategies.
method Dependency-Oriented Sampler (DOS) that uses attention matrices to approximate inter-token dependencies.
result DOS consistently achieves superior performance on code generation and mathematical reasoning tasks.
We are interested in the development of surrogate models for uncertainty quantification and propagation in problems governed by stochastic PDEs using a deep convolutional encoder-decoder network in a similar fashion to approaches considered in deep learning for image-to-image regression tasks. Since normal neural netwo…
LVM-GP solves PDEs with uncertainty using latent variables and Gaussian processes.
problem Uncertainty quantification in PDE solutions with noisy data.
method Combines latent variable model and Gaussian process for uncertainty-aware prediction.
result Efficiently captures functional dependencies and robust uncertainty quantification.
The paper evaluates and improves uncertainty estimates in neural networks for safety-critical applications.
problem Quantifying uncertainty in neural networks for safety-critical systems.
method Proposes a statistical test for evaluating uncertainty realism in neural networks and transfers a classification architecture to image-to-image tasks.
result The variational U-Net architecture significantly improves uncertainty realism in image-to-image tasks compared to a plain model.
We study the calibration of several state of the art neural machine translation(NMT) systems built on attention-based encoder-decoder models. For structured outputs like in NMT, calibration is important not just for reliable confidence with predictions, but also for proper functioning of beam-search inference. We show …
New model reconstructs flow from sparse data with uncertainty quantification.
problem Reconstructing nonlinear flow from limited observations.
method Semi-Conditional Variational Autoencoder (SCVAE) for probabilistic flow reconstruction.
result SCVAE improves reconstruction accuracy compared to Gappy Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (GPOD).
Surrogate strategies are used widely for uncertainty quantification of groundwater models in order to improve computational efficiency. However, their application to dynamic multiphase flow problems is hindered by the curse of dimensionality, the saturation discontinuity due to capillarity effects, and the time-depende…
Bayesian variational inference improves medical image segmentation confidence.
problem Improving interpretability and confidence in deep learning models for medical image segmentation.
method Encoder-decoder architecture based on variational inference for segmenting brain tumor images.
result The model segments brain tumors with both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty.
New approach decodes stock volatility states for S&P500 network.
problem Discovering multiple volatility states in S&P500 stock returns.
method Encoding-and-decoding approach using quantile-based thresholds and change point detection.
result Forecasting stock returns and revealing volatility dynamics.
NP-PROV separates mean and variance spaces to improve function uncertainty.
problem Neural Processes fail on out-of-domain tasks due to shared latent space uncertainty.
method Separates mean and variance into function-value-related and position-related latent spaces.
result NP-PROV achieves state-of-the-art likelihood with bounded variance in drifts.
ALIEN improves uncertainty estimation of language models by refining entropy-based methods.
problem Overconfidence in uncertainty estimation for language models, especially for difficult inputs.
method ALIEN refines entropy-based uncertainty by aligning it with prediction reliability, using a lightweight uncertainty head.
result ALIEN consistently outperforms strong baselines in detecting incorrect predictions and achieving the lowest calibration error.
CRAUM-Net improves salient object detection with context and uncertainty modeling.
problem Accurate salient object detection with precise boundary delineation.
method Contextual Recursive Attention with Uncertainty Modeling, multi-scale context aggregation, attention mechanisms, edge-aware decoder, Monte Carlo Dropout.
result Superior performance in producing accurate and reliable saliency maps.
VCL adds uncertainty to contrastive learning models.
problem Lack of uncertainty quantification in contrastive learning methods.
method VCL uses a decoder-free framework that maximizes ELBO with InfoNCE loss and KL divergence.
result VCL provides meaningful uncertainty estimates and matches deterministic baselines in accuracy.
FisherNet extends Autoencoder using Fisher information for better data reconstruction.
problem Data reconstruction accuracy and model scalability in high-dimensional latent spaces.
method Introduces FisherNet architecture that uses Fisher information to quantify and account for latent space uncertainty.
result FisherNet produces more accurate reconstructions and scales better with latent space dimensions compared to VAE.
TACTiS models time series uncertainty with transformer attention.
problem Estimating predictive uncertainty in high-dimensional multivariate time series.
method Transformer-Attentional Copulas using attention-based decoder.
result TACTiS produces state-of-the-art predictions on real-world datasets.
Compressed sensing techniques enable efficient acquisition and recovery of sparse, high-dimensional data signals via low-dimensional projections. In this work, we propose Uncertainty Autoencoders, a learning framework for unsupervised representation learning inspired by compressed sensing. We treat the low-dimensional …
Proposes a new method to learn operators for stochastic problems using DeepONet with autoencoder.
problem Efficiently solve forward and inverse stochastic problems with limited data.
method MultiAuto-DeepONet, a multi-resolution autoencoder DeepONet model.
result The model effectively handles high-dimensional stochastic inputs and reduces the number of trainable parameters.
As a technology to read brain states from measurable brain activities, brain decoding are widely applied in industries and medical sciences. In spite of high demands in these applications for a universal decoder that can be applied to all individuals simultaneously, large variation in brain activities across individual…
This work combines autoencoder transfer learning with MSCP for accurate aerodynamic predictions.
problem Data scarcity in aerodynamic modeling limits the use of high-fidelity simulations.
method Autoencoder-based transfer learning with MSCP for uncertainty-aware data fusion.
result The model achieves high accuracy with minimal high-fidelity training data and robust uncertainty bands.
PO-Flow models potential and counterfactual outcomes for personalized treatment decisions.
problem Predicting individualized treatment effects from observational data.
method Continuous normalizing flow (CNF) framework for causal inference.
result Unified approach to potential outcome prediction, treatment effect estimation, and counterfactual prediction.
BF-VAE estimates uncertainty from LF and HF QoI samples.
problem Balancing computational efficiency and numerical accuracy in uncertainty quantification.
method Bi-fidelity formulation of VAEs in latent space.
result BF-VAE improves accuracy with limited HF data.
Enhances molecular design models by fine-tuning uncertainty-guided VAEs.
problem Fine-tuning pre-trained generative models for specific molecular property optimization.
method Uncertainty-guided fine-tuning of variational autoencoders in an active learning setting.
result Uncertainty-guided fine-tuning improves model performance across multiple molecular properties.
Novel low-rank neural decoder improves μ-ECoG neural decoding.
problem Challenging neural decoding from high-dimensional μ-ECoG data. method Low-rank structure in neural network decoder.
result Low-rank decoder outperforms standard PCA.
The paper introduces FMCI and hybrid decoding for hidden Markov models.
problem Computing distributions and decoding hidden state sequences in HMMs.
method Finite Markov chain imbedding (FMCI) and hybrid decoding.
result Hybrid decoding improves performance over traditional methods.
Modeling aortic wall inhomogeneities to predict dissection risks.
problem Predicting localized stress accumulations in the aortic wall due to inhomogeneities.
method Stochastic constitutive model with random field realizations, coupled with a convolutional neural network surrogate.
result The neural network accurately predicts stress distributions and assesses uncertainty in aortic wall stress.
Study examines how decoding algorithms affect fairness in language generation models.
problem Impact of decoding algorithms on fairness in open-ended language generation.
method Systematic analysis of top-p, top-k, and temperature decoding algorithms. result Decoding algorithms significantly impact fairness across demographic groups.
In information theory, Fisher information and Shannon information (entropy) are respectively used to quantify the uncertainty associated with the distribution modeling and the uncertainty in specifying the outcome of given variables. These two quantities are complementary and are jointly applied to information behavior…
Deep learning aids ADMM-based decoding for binary linear codes.
problem Improving decoding efficiency for binary linear codes.
method Designing a decoding network based on ADMM and deep learning.
result Numerical results show improved performance compared to original ADMM.
The paper identifies when larger models improve predictions and proposes a switcher model.
problem Understanding when larger models benefit from added complexity.
method Numerical studies on T5 architecture to analyze predictive uncertainty and model performance.
result Large models improve on examples where small models are uncertain, but not on certain examples.
LLMs produce volatile sentence-level sentiment classifications that affect financial decision-making.
problem Volatile outputs from LLMs impact financial text understanding tasks.
method Case study on US equity market investing via news sentiment analysis.
result Volatile LLM outputs lead to significant variations in portfolio construction and returns.
We present RL-VAE, a graph-to-graph variational autoencoder that uses reinforcement learning to decode molecular graphs from latent embeddings. Methods have been described previously for graph-to-graph autoencoding, but these approaches require sophisticated decoders that increase the complexity of training and evaluat…
In this paper, we use reinforcement learning to find effective decoding strategies for binary linear codes. We start by reviewing several iterative decoding algorithms that involve a decision-making process at each step, including bit-flipping (BF) decoding, residual belief propagation, and anchor decoding. We then ill…
This paper analyzes speculative decoding, a method to speed up large language model inferences.
problem Theoretical understanding of speculative decoding is lacking.
method Conceptualizes speculative decoding as a markov chain problem and studies its key properties.
result Reveals fundamental connections between LLM components and their impact on decoding efficiency.
Finding optimal correction of errors in generic stabilizer codes is a computationally hard problem, even for simple noise models. While this task can be simplified for codes with some structure, such as topological stabilizer codes, developing good and efficient decoders still remains a challenge. In our work, we syste…
Improving the interpretability of brain decoding approaches is of primary interest in many neuroimaging studies. Despite extensive studies of this type, at present, there is no formal definition for interpretability of brain decoding models. As a consequence, there is no quantitative measure for evaluating the interpre…
Recent developments in the field of deep learning have motivated many researchers to apply these methods to problems in quantum information. Torlai and Melko first proposed a decoder for surface codes based on neural networks. Since then, many other researchers have applied neural networks to study a variety of problem…
The paper develops a theory for speculative decoding acceptance criteria.
problem Speculative decoding's acceptance criteria and their rejection regions.
method Characterization of rejection regions as lower level sets of the target distribution, derivation of exact and margin-based certificates.
result Relaxed and tree-based acceptance criteria substantially enlarge the region of certified acceptance.
Inspired by recent advances in deep learning, we propose a novel iterative BP-CNN architecture for channel decoding under correlated noise. This architecture concatenates a trained convolutional neural network (CNN) with a standard belief-propagation (BP) decoder. The standard BP decoder is used to estimate the coded b…
This work proposes an efficient autoregressive model for text generation.
problem The challenge of generating high-quality text with autoregressive models.
method Introduces a cascaded decoding approach using Markov transformers to achieve sub-linear parallel time generation.
result Shows competitive accuracy/speed tradeoff compared to existing methods on five machine translation datasets.
Proposes a secure communication method independent of eavesdropper's decoder.
problem Lack of practical security constraints in existing methods.
method Dual MINE-based neural secure communications model.
result Security performance is not affected by eavesdropper's decoding means.
Finding efficient decoders for quantum error correcting codes adapted to realistic experimental noise in fault-tolerant devices represents a significant challenge. In this paper we introduce several decoding algorithms complemented by deep neural decoders and apply them to analyze several fault-tolerant error correctio…