Proposes a deep learning method for effective data representation.
problem Constructing effective data representations for prediction.
method A deep dimension reduction approach to learning representations with sufficiency, low dimensionality, and disentanglement.
result The proposed deep nonparametric representation is consistent and performs better than existing methods.
Paper improves deep learning models for limit order book data.
problem Deep learning models' performance depends on robust input data representation.
method Identified and modified flaws in existing representations.
result Proposed modifications lead to state-of-the-art performance.
Paper uses deep reinforcement learning for optimal stock portfolio management.
problem Optimizing stock portfolio choices in complex market environments.
method Direct deep reinforcement learning to learn factor representations and make optimal decisions.
result Deep learning outperforms average market performance in portfolio allocation.
Studies show that the representations learned by deep neural networks can be transferred to similar prediction tasks in other domains for which we do not have enough labeled data. However, as we transition to higher layers in the model, the representations become more task-specific and less generalizable. Recent resear…
Graph-based state representation improves deep RL performance.
problem High sample-complexity and starting with a good input representation in deep RL.
method Exploiting the graph structure of MDPs for effective state representation learning.
result Graph-based node representation methods outperform matrix-based methods in grid-world navigation tasks.
Many theories of deep learning have shown that a deep network can require dramatically fewer resources to represent a given function compared to a shallow network. But a question remains: can these efficient representations be learned using current deep learning techniques? In this work, we test whether standard deep l…
Proposes SDCN to integrate structural information into deep clustering.
problem Lack of attention to structural information in representation learning for clustering.
method Designs a delivery operator to transfer autoencoder representations to GCN layers and uses a dual self-supervised mechanism.
result SDCN consistently outperforms state-of-the-art techniques in clustering tasks.
In this paper, we investigate the unsupervised deep representation learning issue and technically propose a novel framework called Deep Self-representative Concept Factorization Network (DSCF-Net), for clustering deep features. To improve the representation and clustering abilities, DSCF-Net explicitly considers discov…
DS2CF-Net learns hierarchical representations with deep coupled factorization and enriched prior.
problem Learning deep hierarchical representations from data.
method Dual-constrained Deep Semi-Supervised Coupled Factorization Network (DS2CF-Net) with enriched prior.
result DS2CF-Net achieves state-of-the-art performance in representation learning and clustering.
Unified framework for fair representation learning in machine learning.
problem Ensuring fairness in machine learning models, especially when biased data representations lead to unfair predictions.
method Integrates nonlinear sufficient dimension reduction with deep learning to construct fair and informative representations, introducing a penalty term to enforce conditional independence between sensitive attributes and learned representations.
result Achieves a superior balance between fairness and utility, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art baselines on various data structures.
Multimodal deep learning improves flaw detection in software programs.
problem Current flaw detection relies on single software representations.
method Adapted multimodal deep learning models for flaw detection.
result Multimodal models outperform traditional deep learning models.
New theory explains deep learning's success in transforming inputs.
problem Standard theoretical approaches eliminate representation learning.
method Developed a new infinite width limit for representation learning.
result Deep Gaussian processes (DGPs) have multivariate Gaussian posteriors.
In this work, we perform unsupervised learning of representations by maximizing mutual information between an input and the output of a deep neural network encoder. Importantly, we show that structure matters: incorporating knowledge about locality of the input to the objective can greatly influence a representation's …
Optimal transport metric transfers deep network representations efficiently.
problem Efficiently transfer deep network representations for new tasks.
method Use optimal transport to quantify representation similarity and regularize student network.
result Optimal transport distance promotes similarity between teacher and student representations.
Since about 100 years ago, to learn the intrinsic structure of data, many representation learning approaches have been proposed, including both linear ones and nonlinear ones, supervised ones and unsupervised ones. Particularly, deep architectures are widely applied for representation learning in recent years, and have…
Improved RL for grasping in cluttered scenes using state representation learning.
problem Poor performance of RL methods in grasping diverse objects from raw images.
method Employed state representation learning (SRL) with disentanglement of raw input images.
result Deep RL can learn grasping skills from varied visual inputs.
New method uses small perturbations to improve representation learning from few labels.
problem Stability issues and label scarcity in representation learning.
method Introduces small-perturbation ideology on representation probability distribution models.
result Proposed models show better performance in clustering compared to baseline methods.
Enhances DIM to match learned representations to a specific distribution.
problem Learning representations conforming to a specific distribution.
method Injecting noise into normalized outputs of the encoder while keeping the InfoMax training objective.
result Learning uniformly and normally distributed representations, as well as representations of other absolutely continuous distributions.
The paper proposes a deep learning technique for structured and composable representations.
problem Learning structured and composable representations from input images and discrete labels.
method End-to-end deep learning to learn representations based on distance estimates between class label and contextual information.
result The representations have a clear structure allowing for class and environment decomposition.
We present Deep Generalized Canonical Correlation Analysis (DGCCA) -- a method for learning nonlinear transformations of arbitrarily many views of data, such that the resulting transformations are maximally informative of each other. While methods for nonlinear two-view representation learning (Deep CCA, (Andrew et al.…
Generative concept representations have three major advantages over discriminative ones: they can represent uncertainty, they support integration of learning and reasoning, and they are good for unsupervised and semi-supervised learning. We discuss probabilistic and generative deep learning, which generative concept re…
The paper explains emergent phenomena in deep learning using entropic forces.
problem Understanding the cause of emergent phenomena in deep learning and large language models.
method Proposes a rigorous entropic-force theory for neural networks trained with SGD and variants.
result Shows that representation learning is governed by emergent entropic forces that break continuous symmetries and preserve discrete ones.
Deep learning reveals ubiquitous predictability in high-frequency returns.
problem Predicting returns in order book markets at high frequencies.
method Volume representation of the order book, deep learning models, model confidence sets.
result Predictability in mid-price returns is ubiquitous at high frequencies.
Proposes using gradients as features for efficient deep learning adaptation.
problem Efficient deep representation learning for different tasks.
method Designs a linear model incorporating gradients and activations of a pre-trained network.
result Shows strong results across various tasks and datasets.
Deep networks learn hierarchical data by invariant representations.
problem How many examples are needed for deep networks to learn hierarchical data?
method Random Hierarchy Model: synthetic tasks inspired by language and images hierarchy.
result Deep networks learn by invariant representations and require a detectable number of correlations between low-level features and classes.
Twitter has been a prominent social media platform for mining population-level health data and accurate clustering of health-related tweets into topics is important for extracting relevant health insights. In this work, we propose deep convolutional autoencoders for learning compact representations of health-related tw…
Recently, deep models have had considerable success in several tasks, especially with low-level representations. However, effective learning from sparse noisy samples is a major challenge in most deep models, especially in domains with structured representations. Inspired by the proven success of human guided machine l…
Study on how optimal representations emerge during deep learning training, focusing on the role of implicit regularization.
problem Understanding how optimal representations for tasks are learned during training.
method Investigates the role of implicit regularization in learning minimal sufficient representations, analyzing changes in representation content during training.
result Semantically meaningful but ultimately irrelevant information is encoded in early transient dynamics of training, which is later discarded.
Sparse representations have been shown to be useful in deep reinforcement learning for mitigating catastrophic interference and improving the performance of agents in terms of cumulative reward. Previous results were based on a two step process were the representation was learned offline and the action-value function w…
Deep learning has recently been shown to be instrumental in the problem of domain adaptation, where the goal is to learn a model on a target domain using a similar --but not identical-- source domain. The rationale for coupling both techniques is the possibility of extracting common concepts across domains. Considering…
Survey of multimodal deep generative models for diverse data types.
problem Inference of shared representations and cross-modal generation from heterogeneous multimodal data.
method Variational autoencoders and other deep generative models.
result A comprehensive survey of multimodal deep generative models.
Develops a hybrid deep learning model for stock price prediction.
problem Predicting daily stock prices in the stock market.
method Representation learning with Stock2Vec embedding and temporal convolutional layers.
result Achieves better performance on stock price prediction than benchmarks.
Reprogram deep models to resist adversarial attacks without changing parameters.
problem Improving deep learning models' robustness against adversarial and noisy inputs.
method Proposes a non-linear robust pattern matching technique and three reprogramming paradigms.
result Demonstrates effective reprogramming of deep models for robustness without altering parameters.
Batch normalization makes deep neural networks' representations increasingly orthogonal.
problem Orthogonality of deep neural network representations.
method Random linear transformations in successive batch-normalizations.
result Orthogonality of representations improves SGD performance.
Deep learning representations of GAN data are like Gaussian mixtures, according to this study.
problem Understanding the statistical nature of deep learning representations of GAN-generated data.
method Using Random Matrix Theory, the study shows that DL representations of GAN data are concentrated random vectors that behave like Gaussian mixtures.
result Deep learning representations of GAN data can be fully described by their first two statistical moments.
Reduces data leakage in distributed deep learning models.
problem Prevents reconstruction of sensitive raw data patterns during client communications.
method Reduces distance correlation between raw data and learned representations.
result Resilient to reconstruction attacks while maintaining model accuracy.
Novel SVAE learns interpretable discrete data representations from deep learning.
problem Learning interpretable discrete data representations from deep learning.
method Structured variational autoencoder (SVAE) with novel optimization algorithms.
result First competitive comparisons with state-of-the-art time series models.
DeepMap learns deep graph representations via CNNs, improving graph classification performance.
problem Quantifying graph similarities for tasks like classification.
method Proposes DeepMap framework extending CNNs to arbitrary graphs, learning dense low-dimensional vectors.
result DeepMap achieves state-of-the-art performance on graph classification benchmarks.
DORA analyzes deep neural networks' internal representations to detect spurious correlations.
problem Detecting spurious correlations in deep neural networks' internal representations.
method DORA uses Extreme-Activation (EA) distance measure to assess representation similarities.
result Identifies internal representations capable of detecting spurious correlations.
Increasing volume of Electronic Health Records (EHR) in recent years provides great opportunities for data scientists to collaborate on different aspects of healthcare research by applying advanced analytics to these EHR clinical data. A key requirement however is obtaining meaningful insights from high dimensional, sp…
Increasing volume of Electronic Health Records (EHR) in recent years provides great opportunities for data scientists to collaborate on different aspects of healthcare research by applying advanced analytics to these EHR clinical data. A key requirement however is obtaining meaningful insights from high dimensional, sp…
Deep networks, composed of multiple layers of hierarchical distributed representations, tend to learn low-level features in initial layers and transition to high-level features towards final layers. Paradigms such as transfer learning, multi-task learning, and continual learning leverage this notion of generic hierarch…
Enhances RL agents with predictive internal representations.
problem Improving model-free reinforcement learning agents.
method Introduces Deep InfoMax (DIM) objective to train predictive internal representations.
result Successfully learned predictive representations in synthetic settings.
This paper evaluates fairness in deep metric learning and proposes a method to reduce subgroup performance gaps.
problem The negative impact of deep metric learning representations on minority subgroup performance in downstream tasks.
method Definition of fairness in DML through inter-class, intra-class, and uniformity properties; finDML benchmark; Partial Attribute De-correlation (PARADE) method.
result Bias in DML representations propagates to downstream tasks, even with balanced training data.
Deep RL approach improves MIS for complex environments.
problem Improving off-policy evaluation for complex environments.
method Uses successor representation from deep RL to decouple reward and dynamics.
result Empirically stable and applicable to high-dimensional domains.
In this paper, we aim at introducing a new machine learning model, namely reconciled polynomial machine, which can provide a unified representation of existing shallow and deep machine learning models. Reconciled polynomial machine predicts the output by computing the inner product of the feature kernel function and va…
Class imbalance is a pervasive issue among classification models including deep learning, whose capacity to extract task-specific features is affected in imbalanced settings. However, the challenges of handling imbalance among a large number of classes, commonly addressed by deep learning, have not received a significa…
In this work, we introduce a novel probabilistic representation of deep learning, which provides an explicit explanation for the Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in three aspects: (i) neurons define the energy of a Gibbs distribution; (ii) the hidden layers of DNNs formulate Gibbs distributions; and (iii) the whole architec…