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48 results for direct importance

DEDACT breaks down feature importance into direct and associative components.

problem Lack of clear distinction between direct and associative feature importance.
method DEDACT framework to decompose direct and associative importance measures.
result Provides insight into sources of prediction-relevant information and feature pathways.

Despite their ability to memorize large datasets, deep neural networks often achieve good generalization performance. However, the differences between the learned solutions of networks which generalize and those which do not remain unclear. Additionally, the tuning properties of single directions (defined as the activa…

2018-03-19abs ↗pdf ↗

The \emph{World Trade Web} (WTW), the network defined by the international import/export trade relationships, has been recently shown to display some important topological properties which are tightly related to the Gross Domestic Product of world countries. While our previous analysis focused on the static, undirected…

2005-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

The modern data analyst must cope with data encoded in various forms, vectors, matrices, strings, graphs, or more. Consequently, statistical and machine learning models tailored to different data encodings are important. We focus on data encoded as normalized vectors, so that their "direction" is more important than th…

2016-05-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Researchers find a way to bound the complexity of certain subgroup geometric invariants.

problem Understanding the geometric invariants of subgroups of direct products of free groups.
method Generalizing techniques for 'pushing fillings' into normal subgroups.
result Finitely presented subgroups of direct products of three free groups and subgroups of finiteness type Fn1\mathcal{F}_{n-1} in a direct product of nn free groups have Dehn functions bounded above by N9N^9.

Proposes φφ-table for statistical SHAP explanations in regression models.

problem Lack of clear directional summaries, uncertainty, and fidelity in SHAP feature importance.
method SHAP importance selection, fitting a standardized linear surrogate, reporting coefficients, uncertainty, fidelity, and stability.
result Extends SHAP into a statistical global explanation with direction, uncertainty, fidelity, and stability.

We present a method to generate directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) using deep reinforcement learning, specifically deep Q-learning. Generating graphs with specified structures is an important and challenging task in various application fields, however most current graph generation methods produce graphs with undirected edg…

2019-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

New method clusters directed graphs using Koopman operators.

problem Challenges in clustering directed graphs, especially complex eigenvalues and lack of cluster definition.
method Relate graph Laplacians to transfer operators and metastable sets in stochastic systems, derive clustering algorithms for directed and time-evolving graphs.
result Clusters can be interpreted as coherent sets, useful for analyzing transport and mixing processes.

Estimates modes and ridges in mixed Euclidean and directional spaces.

problem Estimating local modes and density ridges in product spaces combining Euclidean and directional metrics.
method Extends mean shift algorithm to product spaces, addressing challenges in generalization.
result Established convergence of the proposed methods and demonstrated effectiveness on real-world datasets.

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 ↗

A goal in network science is the geometrical characterization of complex networks. In this direction, we have recently introduced Forman's discretization of Ricci curvature to the realm of undirected networks. Investigation of this edge-centric network measure, Forman-Ricci curvature, in diverse model and real-world un…

2018-09-15abs ↗pdf ↗

The recent successes of deep learning have led to a wave of interest from non-experts. Gaining an understanding of this technology, however, is difficult. While the theory is important, it is also helpful for novices to develop an intuitive feel for the effect of different hyperparameters and structural variations. We …

2017-08-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Using artificial neural network for the prediction of heat demand has attracted more and more attention. Weather conditions, such as ambient temperature, wind speed and direct solar irradiance, have been identified as key input parameters. In order to further improve the model accuracy, it is of great importance to und…

2018-08-02abs ↗pdf ↗

The classification of multivariate functional data is an important task in scientific research. Unlike point-wise data, functional data are usually classified by their shapes rather than by their scales. We define an outlyingness matrix by extending directional outlyingness, an effective measure of the shape variation …

2017-04-09abs ↗pdf ↗

ParPIC clusters directed graphs using random walks and diffusion operators.

problem Challenges in vertex-level clustering for directed graphs due to edge directionality.
method Parametrized Power-Iteration Clustering (ParPIC) based on reversible random walks and diffusion operators.
result ParPIC achieves competitive clustering accuracy with improved scalability compared to spectral and teleportation-based methods.

We develop a new method to estimate failure probabilities in complex systems.

problem Estimating failure probabilities in safety-critical autonomous systems is challenging due to the rarity of failures and large state spaces.
method We propose an adaptive importance sampling algorithm that minimizes forward Kullback-Leibler divergence and uses Markov score ascent methods.
result Our method provides more accurate failure probability estimates than existing techniques.

With the growth of deep learning, how to describe deep neural networks unifiedly is becoming an important issue. We first formalize neural networks mathematically with their directed graph representations, and prove a generation theorem about the induced networks of connected directed acyclic graphs. Then, we set up a …

2018-05-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph embedding algorithms are used to efficiently represent (encode) a graph in a low-dimensional continuous vector space that preserves the most important properties of the graph. One aspect that is often overlooked is whether the graph is directed or not. Most studies ignore the directionality, so as to learn high-q…

2020-01-30abs ↗pdf ↗

BICompFL tackles bi-directional compression challenges in stochastic FL, reducing communication costs by an order of magnitude.

problem Communication bottleneck in federated learning, especially with stochastic updates.
method Introduces BICompFL, a bi-directional compression approach for stochastic federated learning.
result Significantly reduces communication costs (by an order of magnitude) while maintaining accuracy.

We study the accuracy of estimating the covariance and the precision matrix of a DD-variate sub-Gaussian distribution along a prescribed subspace or direction using the finite sample covariance. Our results show that the estimation accuracy depends almost exclusively on the components of the distribution that correspo…

2019-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep generative networks can simulate from a complex target distribution, by minimizing a loss with respect to samples from that distribution. However, often we do not have direct access to our target distribution - our data may be subject to sample selection bias, or may be from a different but related distribution. W…

2018-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method optimizes projection directions for sliced Wasserstein distances.

problem Finding informative projecting directions for sliced Wasserstein distances is computationally expensive.
method Amortized projection optimization to predict directions efficiently.
result Proposed amortized models improve generative modeling performance.

Given a convex set and an interior point close to the boundary, we prove the existence of a supporting hyperplane whose distance to the point is controlled, in a dimensionally quantified way, by the thickness of the convex set in the orthogonal direction. This result has important applications in the regularity theory …

2011-07-06abs ↗pdf ↗

The aim of this text is to establish some relations between Markov chains in Dirichlet Environments on directed graphs and certain hypergeometric integrals associated with a particular arrangement of hyperplanes. We deduce from these relations and the computation of the connexion obtained by moving one hyperplane of th…

2005-10-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Graphical causal models are an important tool for knowledge discovery because they can represent both the causal relations between variables and the multivariate probability distributions over the data. Once learned, causal graphs can be used for classification, feature selection and hypothesis generation, while reveal…

2017-04-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Sampling is an important tool for estimating large, complex sums and integrals over high dimensional spaces. For instance, important sampling has been used as an alternative to exact methods for inference in belief networks. Ideally, we want to have a sampling distribution that provides optimal-variance estimators. In …

2013-01-16abs ↗pdf ↗

New autoencoder improves latent space learning by optimizing sliced Gromov-Wasserstein discrepancies.

problem Improving inner discrepancy between prior and posterior distributions in autoencoders.
method Proposed spherical sliced fused Gromov Wasserstein (SSFG) and variants (MSSFG, PSSFG) to find important directions.
result New autoencoders achieve favorable performance in latent manifold learning, image generation, and reconstruction.

A new method uses asymmetric Shapley values to assess gene importance in clinical prediction models.

problem Clinical prediction models struggle with assessing the importance of high-dimensional features like genomics.
method Derive efficient algorithms to compute local and global asymmetric Shapley values for a mixed-dimensional prediction model.
result Asymmetric Shapley values provide a more suitable alternative to quantify feature importance in clinical prediction models.

In this paper, in Euclidean n -space, we investigate the relation between slant helices and spherical helices. Moreover, in E n, we show that a slant helix and the tangent indicatrix of the slant helix have the same axis (or direction). Also, we give the important relations between slant helices, spherical helices in E…

2011-08-17abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper aims to classify the holonomy of the conformal Tractor connection, and relate these holonomies to the geometry of the underlying manifold. The conformally Einstein case is dealt with through the construction of metric cones, whose Riemmanian holonomy is the same as the Tractor holonomy of the underlying mani…

2005-03-18abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper compares gradient estimators in importance-weighted VI and justifies the superiority of DREP over REP.

problem Understanding the impact of gradient estimators on importance-weighted VI algorithms.
method Unified theoretical comparison of reparameterized and doubly-reparameterized gradient estimators tied to IWAE, VR, and VR-IWAE bounds.
result Formally justifies the superiority of doubly-reparameterized gradient estimators over reparameterized ones in importance-weighted VI.

Reasoning based on causality, instead of association has been considered as a key ingredient towards real machine intelligence. However, it is a challenging task to infer causal relationship/structure among variables. In recent years, an Independent Mechanism (IM) principle was proposed, stating that the mechanism gene…

2019-09-02abs ↗pdf ↗