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48 results for depth selection

Statistical depth metrics help identify risky power grid scenarios.

problem Identifying extreme scenarios for risk mitigation in power grid planning.
method Functional depth metrics for sub-selecting outlying scenarios.
result The proposed approach effectively identifies risky scenarios for operational risk mitigation.

New architectures improve KANs, making them more interpretable and accurate.

problem Improving Kolmogorov-Arnold networks while maintaining interpretability.
method Overprovisioned architectures combined with sparsification, deep supervision, and depth selection, optimized with a minimum description length objective.
result Combining sparsification with depth selection achieves competitive or superior accuracy while discovering smaller models.

Bayesian linear networks reveal optimal depth and width trade-offs.

problem Understanding how depth, width, and dataset size affect model quality in linear networks.
method Zero noise Bayesian inference with Gaussian weight priors and mean squared error.
result Optimal predictions at infinite depth and maximized Bayesian model evidence at infinite depth.

Researchers quantify the relationship between feature depth and performance in deep neural networks.

problem Understanding how depth affects feature extraction and generalization in deep neural networks.
method Adaptive analysis of feature-depth trade-offs in deep nets, proving optimal generalization performance.
result Optimal generalization performance achieved through empirical risk minimization on deep nets.

We develop a new density-based clustering algorithm named CRAD which is based on a new neighbor searching function with a robust data depth as the dissimilarity measure. Our experiments prove that the new CRAD is highly competitive at detecting clusters with varying densities, compared with the existing algorithms such…

2019-04-08abs ↗pdf ↗

A new data-level recombination strategy improves RGB-D salient object detection.

problem RGB-D salient object detection struggles with depth information.
method Proposes a novel data-level recombination strategy to fuse RGB and depth data before feature extraction.
result Achieves a new state-of-the-art performance in RGB-D salient object detection.

AdaEnsemble learns adaptive feature interactions for CTR prediction.

problem Learning feature interactions for CTR prediction in recommender systems and Ads ranking.
method AdaEnsemble is a Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts (SparseMoE) architecture that dynamically selects feature interaction depth.
result AdaEnsemble achieves better prediction accuracy and inference efficiency compared to state-of-the-art models.

Flexible deep learning framework controls FDR for feature selection.

problem Controlling Type-I error in feature selection for deep neural networks.
method Approximates FDR control for a wide range of deep architectures using gradient-based feature-importance vectors.
result Theoretical guarantee of FDR control for feature selection in deep learning models.

We develop a generic data-driven method for estimator selection in off-policy policy evaluation settings. We establish a strong performance guarantee for the method, showing that it is competitive with the oracle estimator, up to a constant factor. Via in-depth case studies in contextual bandits and reinforcement learn…

2020-02-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved graph neural networks by separating feature aggregation and depth.

problem Understanding feature importance in graph neural networks without prior information.
method Decoupling feature aggregation and depth, using softmax as a regularizer, and introducing 'Soft-Selector' and 'Hop-Normalization'.
result FSGNN model achieves up to 64% accuracy improvements in node classification tasks.

Quantum neural networks need both data-dependent and trainable unitaries for effective geometric deformation.

problem Quantum neural networks lack the geometric flexibility of classical networks due to limitations in state reachability.
method Viewing quantum states as embedded manifolds, we analyze infinitesimal unitary actions and introduce the CLA maps and aCLS criterion.
result Geometric flexibility in quantum neural networks requires a joint dependence on data and trainable weights.

Regression Prior Networks improve ensemble performance on regression tasks.

problem Improving ensemble performance on regression tasks.
method Extending Prior Networks and Ensemble Distribution Distillation (EnD2^2) to regression tasks using the Normal-Wishart distribution.
result Regression Prior Networks yield performance competitive with ensemble approaches on regression tasks.

JIT liquidity providers can sometimes reduce overall market liquidity by crowding out passive LPs.

problem JIT liquidity providers can reduce overall market liquidity by crowding out passive LPs.
method Game-theoretic model with asymmetrically informed agents to analyze JIT liquidity provision in blockchain-based decentralized exchanges.
result JIT LPs only provide liquidity to uninformed orders and crowd out passive LPs when order volume is not sufficiently elastic to pool depth, potentially reducing overall market liquidity.

RocketStack integrates predictions from multiple base learners using a recursive stacking architecture up to ten levels.

problem Feature redundancy, complexity, and computational burden in deep stacking.
method Level-aware recursive stacking with pruning and compression techniques.
result Increasing accuracy with depth and outperforming standalone ensembles at later levels.

Overparameterized transformer networks have obtained state of the art results in various natural language processing tasks, such as machine translation, language modeling, and question answering. These models contain hundreds of millions of parameters, necessitating a large amount of computation and making them prone t…

2019-09-25abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper studies randomized approximations of Tukey's depth for log-concave isotropic data.

problem The challenge of approximating Tukey's depth in high dimensions.
method The study examines randomized algorithms for approximating Tukey's depth for log-concave isotropic data.
result Randomized algorithms correctly approximate maximal depth and close to zero depths but not intermediate depths.

In the context of tree-search stochastic planning algorithms where a generative model is available, we consider on-line planning algorithms building trees in order to recommend an action. We investigate the question of avoiding re-planning in subsequent decision steps by directly using sub-trees as action recommender. …

2018-05-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Theory explains why DARTS favors deep architectures over shallow ones.

problem DARTS selects architectures with dominated skip connections, leading to performance degradation.
method Theoretical analysis of operations' effects on network optimization; introduces sparse binary gates and path-depth-wise regularization.
result Theoretical proof that architectures with more skip connections converge faster.

Bayesian framework selects features and lags for time series forecasting.

problem Variable selection and lagged error term identification in time series models.
method Hierarchical Bayesian models with spike-and-slab priors, two-stage MCMC algorithm.
result Posterior selection consistency under mild conditions, improved predictive performance.

Self-attention models benefit equally from width and depth, but beyond a certain point, depth becomes less efficient.

problem Understanding the optimal balance between depth and width in self-attention models.
method Theoretical predictions and empirical ablations on networks of varying depths and widths.
result An optimal width of 30K is recommended for a 1-Trillion parameter network, marking a significant width for self-attention models.

Algorithm learns optimal arm selection in unsupervised sequential selection with contextual information.

problem Learning optimal arm selection in unsupervised sequential selection with contextual information.
method Proposes an algorithm for the contextual USS problem under the CWD property, demonstrating sub-linear regret.
result Demonstrates sub-linear regret for the proposed algorithm.

Proves depth 2 neural networks can't approximate certain functions as well as depth 3 networks.

problem Approximating functions with depth 2 networks in high dimensions.
method Lower bound proof using worst-to-average-case random self-reducibility.
result Proves depth 2 networks can't approximate certain functions as well as depth 3 networks, resolving an open problem.

New findings on depth vs. width in neural networks, showing depth can improve learnability.

problem Understanding the role of depth in neural networks, especially when width is unbounded.
method Analyzing sample complexity for learnability in norm-controlled depth-2 and depth-3 ReLU networks.
result Depth can improve learnability of functions that are otherwise unlearnable with depth-2 networks.

Learning based methods have shown very promising results for the task of depth estimation in single images. However, most existing approaches treat depth prediction as a supervised regression problem and as a result, require vast quantities of corresponding ground truth depth data for training. Just recording quality d…

2016-09-13abs ↗pdf ↗

MLP residual networks implement a selective coarse-graining procedure governed by the spectral structure of the input distribution.

problem Understanding the coarse-graining procedure in MLP residual networks
method Analyzing a pure MLP residual stack on synthetic Markov chain sequences
result MLP residual networks implement a selective coarse-graining procedure governed by the spectral structure of the input distribution

Introduces Polar Depth for analyzing multivariate heavy-tailed data extremes.

problem Analyzing the behavior of extremes from multivariate heavy-tailed distributions.
method Introduces Polar Depth, a novel statistical depth function expressed in polar coordinates.
result The polar depth of the largest observations converges to the polar depth of the limiting distribution as the threshold increases.

Study on feature learning dynamics in infinite-depth neural networks, focusing on ResNets.

problem Understanding how features evolve during training in deep neural networks, especially in the large-depth limit.
method Conditional Gaussian representations and SDE system with decoupled backward weights.
result Depth-induced suppression of forward-backward coupling in infinite-depth networks, leading to a decoupled forward-backward SDE system.

Following the seminal idea of Tukey, data depth is a function that measures how close an arbitrary point of the space is located to an implicitly defined center of a data cloud. Having undergone theoretical and computational developments, it is now employed in numerous applications with classification being the most po…

2016-08-14abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper proves barriers to approximating functions with small weights and depth in neural networks.

problem Proving barriers to approximating functions with constant depth neural networks.
method Reduction to open problems and natural-proof barriers in circuit complexity, and a new approach to polynomially-bounded functions.
result There are fundamental barriers to proving results beyond depth 4 for constant-depth neural networks.

Proposes a new method to estimate Bayesian neural network depth.

problem Estimating the depth of Bayesian neural networks.
method Uses a discrete truncated normal distribution to learn depth mean and variance, inferring posterior distributions by minimizing variational free energy.
result Improves test accuracy and reduces posterior depth variance on the spiral dataset.