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48 results for direct discrimination

We present a novel approach to the formulation and the resolution of sparse Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). Our proposal, is based on penalized Optimal Scoring. It has an exact equivalence with penalized LDA, contrary to the multi-class approaches based on the regression of class indicator that have been proposed s…

2012-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Study reveals how neural network architectures bias their learning based on feature directions.

problem Understanding how neural network architectures bias their learning based on feature directions.
method Defined neural anisotropy directions (NADs) to encapsulate the directional inductive bias of architectures and provided an efficient method to identify them.
result NADs characterize the features used by CNNs to discriminate between different classes for the CIFAR-10 dataset.

Paper develops methods for fair insurance pricing without direct access to sensitive attributes.

problem Fairness in insurance pricing with restricted access to sensitive attributes.
method Develops statistical methods for estimating discrimination-free premiums using privatized sensitive attributes.
result The proposed methods enable fair insurance pricing while respecting privacy and regulatory constraints.

The study classifies points on ruled surfaces in 4-space based on geometric properties.

problem Characterizing points on smooth ruled surfaces in 4-space.
method Contact with transverse planes, binary differential equations, and projective transformations.
result Parabolic points on ruled surfaces in 4-space can be classified as butterfly hyperbolic, parabolic, or elliptic based on the discriminant of a binary differential equation.

Quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) is a standard tool for classification due to its simplicity and flexibility. Because the number of its parameters scales quadratically with the number of the variables, QDA is not practical, however, when the dimensionality is relatively large. To address this, we propose a novel p…

2015-10-01abs ↗pdf ↗

The two key players in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), the discriminator and generator, are usually parameterized as deep neural networks (DNNs). On many generative tasks, GANs achieve state-of-the-art performance but are often unstable to train and sometimes miss modes. A typical failure mode is the collapse o…

2019-01-30abs ↗pdf ↗

The discriminator from generative adversarial nets (GAN) has been used by researchers as a feature extractor in transfer learning and appeared worked well. However, there are also studies that believe this is the wrong research direction because intuitively the task of the discriminator focuses on separating the real s…

2019-12-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent studies in the literature have paid much attention to the sparsity in linear classification tasks. One motivation of imposing sparsity assumption on the linear discriminant direction is to rule out the noninformative features, making hardly contribution to the classification problem. Most of those work were focu…

2014-12-26abs ↗pdf ↗

New method reduces indirect discrimination in insurance risk models.

problem Indirect discrimination in insurance risk models using machine learning.
method Mathematical concepts of linear algebra to reduce indirect discrimination.
result Demonstrated promising performance in a concrete case of risk selection in life insurance.

The ability of a graph neural network (GNN) to leverage both the graph topology and graph labels is fundamental to building discriminative node and graph embeddings. Building on previous work, we theoretically show that edGNN, our model for directed labeled graphs, is as powerful as the Weisfeiler-Lehman algorithm for …

2019-04-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes improved classification via transfer learning with regularized linear discriminant analysis.

problem High dimensionality and small sample sizes lead to poor classification performance.
method Regularized random-effects linear discriminant analysis, combining ridge estimates from target and source models.
result Explicit derivation of asymptotic weights and classification error rates in high-dimensional settings.

In the context of recent deep clustering studies, discriminative models dominate the literature and report the most competitive performances. These models learn a deep discriminative neural network classifier in which the labels are latent. Typically, they use multinomial logistic regression posteriors and parameter re…

2018-10-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Extends Fisher's Discriminant Analysis for interval-valued data.

problem Classifying entities represented by intervals and histograms.
method Adapts Fisher's Discriminant Analysis using Moore's interval arithmetic and Mallows' distance.
result Discriminant directions for interval-valued data are numerically maximized.

Dimension reduction of multivariate data supervised by auxiliary information is considered. A series of basis for dimension reduction is obtained as minimizers of a novel criterion. The proposed method is akin to continuum regression, and the resulting basis is called continuum directions. With a presence of binary sup…

2016-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Predicting the direction of assets have been an active area of study and a difficult task. Machine learning models have been used to build robust models to model the above task. Ensemble methods is one of them showing results better than a single supervised method. In this paper, we have used generative and discriminat…

2019-02-21abs ↗pdf ↗

This is a detailed tutorial paper which explains the Fisher discriminant Analysis (FDA) and kernel FDA. We start with projection and reconstruction. Then, one- and multi-dimensional FDA subspaces are covered. Scatters in two- and then multi-classes are explained in FDA. Then, we discuss on the rank of the scatters and …

2019-06-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a framework to improve domain adaptation without labeled data.

problem Improving adaptability and preserving intrinsic data structure in unsupervised domain adaptation.
method Discriminative Manifold Propagation framework using soft labels and manifold metric alignment.
result The method achieves better transferability and discriminability compared to existing approaches.

Metric-based few-shot learning methods try to overcome the difficulty due to the lack of training examples by learning embedding to make comparison easy. We propose a novel algorithm to generate class representatives for few-shot classification tasks. As a probabilistic model for learned features of inputs, we consider…

2019-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Study local models for special Kähler metrics near discriminant locus components.

problem Analyzing singularities of special Kähler metrics along discriminant locus of SL2(C)\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{C}) Hitchin base.
method Computed Taylor expansion, defined subsystems, and analyzed asymptotics and convergence of metrics.
result Logarithmic asymptotics in transversal directions and convergence to a metric on strata.

This paper proposes an online knowledge distillation method that transfers feature map information in addition to class probabilities.

problem Previous online knowledge distillation methods only utilized class probabilities, missing feature map information.
method Adversarial training framework to transfer feature map information; multiple networks trained simultaneously with discriminators.
result Our method performs better than direct alignment methods and is more suitable for online distillation.

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) enforces supervised information only at the output layer, and hidden layers are trained by back propagating the prediction error from the output layer without explicit supervision. We propose a supervised feature learning approach, Label Consistent Neural Network, which enforces…

2016-02-03abs ↗pdf ↗

A new framework separates classifier calibration and discrimination.

problem Combining reliability and resolution in probabilistic predictions.
method Manokhin Probability Matrix separates reliability and resolution using Spiegelhalter Z-statistic and AUC-ROC.
result Classifiers are categorized into four archetypes: Eagle, Bull, Sloth, and Mole.

Unified view of contrastive and supervised learning improves model performance.

problem Improving model performance in classification, robustness, and detection.
method Hybrid discriminative-generative training of energy-based models.
result Improved performance on classification, robustness, out-of-distribution detection, and calibration.

In this paper, benefiting from the strong ability of deep neural network in estimating non-linear functions, we propose a discriminative embedding function to be used as a feature extractor for clustering tasks. The trained embedding function transfers knowledge from the domain of a labeled set of morphologically-disti…

2018-05-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs) represent an important milestone for effective generative models, which has inspired numerous variants seemingly different from each other. One of the main contributions of this paper is to reveal a unified geometric structure in GAN and its variants. Specifically, we show that the ad…

2017-05-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Researchers use information geometry to analyze and improve DRWs for node classification.

problem Lack of theoretical foundations for Discriminative Random Walks (DRWs).
method Revisit DRWs through information geometry, treating hitting-time laws as a statistical manifold. Derived closed-form expressions and introduced sensitivity scores.
result Introduced a sensitivity score that bounds maximal first-order change in DRW betweenness under unit Fisher perturbations.

A new method for analyzing high-dimensional time-series data using deep neural networks.

problem Challenges in modeling high-dimensional time-series data with explicit state and observation processes.
method Deep Direct Discriminative Decoders (D4) for high-dimensional observation processes.
result D4 outperforms traditional SSMs and RNNs in various time-series data applications.

A promising direction in deep learning research consists in learning representations and simultaneously discovering cluster structure in unlabeled data by optimizing a discriminative loss function. As opposed to supervised deep learning, this line of research is in its infancy, and how to design and optimize suitable l…

2019-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved SSD for faster and more accurate goodness-of-fit tests and model learning.

problem Optimal slicing directions for SSD are computationally expensive and sub-optimal.
method Relaxed optimal slicing requirement, active sub-space construction, spectral decomposition.
result 14-80x speed-up in goodness-of-fit tests compared to gradient-based alternatives.

Bayesian inference on structured models typically relies on the ability to infer posterior distributions of underlying hidden variables. However, inference in implicit models or complex posterior distributions is hard. A popular tool for learning implicit models are generative adversarial networks (GANs) which learn pa…

2016-12-15abs ↗pdf ↗