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48 results for discriminative regions

The paper proposes a method to focus on discriminative regions for better unsupervised domain adaptation.

problem Unsupervised domain adaptation with limited target domain labels.
method Probabilistic certainty estimate of regions to focus on during classification.
result State-of-the-art results on various datasets compared to recent methods.

We introduce the "Energy-based Generative Adversarial Network" model (EBGAN) which views the discriminator as an energy function that attributes low energies to the regions near the data manifold and higher energies to other regions. Similar to the probabilistic GANs, a generator is seen as being trained to produce con…

2016-09-11abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a technique for making Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based models more transparent by visualizing input regions that are 'important' for predictions -- or visual explanations. Our approach, called Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM), uses class-specific gradient information to localize…

2016-11-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Inspired by the observation that humans are able to process videos efficiently by only paying attention where and when it is needed, we propose an interpretable and easy plug-in spatial-temporal attention mechanism for video action recognition. For spatial attention, we learn a saliency mask to allow the model to focus…

2018-10-01abs ↗pdf ↗

fMRI semantic category understanding using linguistic encoding models attempt to learn a forward mapping that relates stimuli to the corresponding brain activation. Classical encoding models use linear multi-variate methods to predict the brain activation (all voxels) given the stimulus. However, these methods essentia…

2018-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Representation and classification of Electroencephalography (EEG) brain signals are critical processes for their analysis in cognitive tasks. Particularly, extraction of discriminative features from raw EEG signals, without any pre-processing, is a challenging task. Motivated by nuclear norm, we observed that there is …

2019-04-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a method to interpret deep learning models by identifying key features.

problem Revealing the decision-making process of blackbox models from raw data to predictions.
method Adversarial attacks to localize discriminative features with statistical guarantees.
result Locally identified features are both biologically plausible and statistically significant.

Researchers in functional neuroimaging mostly use activation coordinates to formulate their hypotheses. Instead, we propose to use the full statistical images to define regions of interest (ROIs). This paper presents two machine learning approaches, transfer learning and selection transfer, that are compared upon their…

2012-09-07abs ↗pdf ↗

In this work, we develop a technique to produce counterfactual visual explanations. Given a 'query' image II for which a vision system predicts class cc, a counterfactual visual explanation identifies how II could change such that the system would output a different specified class cc'. To do this, we select a 'dis…

2019-04-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning identifies boundaries of real solutions in polynomial systems.

problem Locating boundaries in parameter space for real solutions of polynomial systems.
method Supervised machine learning approach using nearest neighbor and deep learning approximations.
result Efficiently approximates the real discriminant locus for multidimensional parameter spaces.

One of the founding paradigms of machine learning is that a small number of variables is often sufficient to describe high-dimensional data. The minimum number of variables required is called the intrinsic dimension (ID) of the data. Contrary to common intuition, there are cases where the ID varies within the same data…

2019-02-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Study identifies regions where scoring rules reliably detect forecast errors.

problem Insufficient reliability of scoring rules in evaluating multivariate probabilistic forecasts.
method Systematic finite-sample analysis of proper scoring rules on synthetic and real-world data.
result Identified regions of reliability for scoring rules in time-series forecasting.

The goal of this paper is to analyze the geometric properties of deep neural network classifiers in the input space. We specifically study the topology of classification regions created by deep networks, as well as their associated decision boundary. Through a systematic empirical investigation, we show that state-of-t…

2017-05-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Confidential Guardian prevents model abstention from being used to discriminate.

problem Dishonest institutions can exploit machine learning model abstention to unfairly deny services.
method Confidential Guardian uses zero-knowledge proofs to verify model confidence and detect suppression.
result Confidential Guardian effectively prevents the misuse of cautious predictions.

Computational identification of promoters is notoriously difficult as human genes often have unique promoter sequences that provide regulation of transcription and interaction with transcription initiation complex. While there are many attempts to develop computational promoter identification methods, we have no reliab…

2018-10-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Shapelet is a discriminative subsequence of time series. An advanced shapelet-based method is to embed shapelet into accurate and fast random forest. However, it shows several limitations. First, random shapelet forest requires a large training cost for split threshold searching. Second, a single shapelet provides limi…

2019-03-19abs ↗pdf ↗

The vast majority of real world classification problems are imbalanced, meaning there are far fewer data from the class of interest (the positive class) than from other classes. We propose two machine learning algorithms to handle highly imbalanced classification problems. The classifiers constructed by both methods ar…

2014-03-13abs ↗pdf ↗

High-dimensional linear classifiers, such as the support vector machine (SVM) and distance weighted discrimination (DWD), are commonly used in biomedical research to distinguish groups of subjects based on a large number of features. However, their use is limited to applications where a single vector of features is mea…

2016-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep metric learning algorithms have been utilized to learn discriminative and generalizable models which are effective for classifying unseen classes. In this paper, a novel noise tolerant deep metric learning algorithm is proposed. The proposed method, termed as Density Aware Metric Learning, enforces the model to le…

2019-04-08abs ↗pdf ↗

A hierarchy of GNNs based on learnable local features is proposed.

problem Limited understanding of GNN architectures and their systematic construction.
method A hierarchy of GNNs based on aggregation regions is derived, and theoretical results are provided.
result Simple GNN architecture exceeds Weisfeiler-Lehman graph isomorphism test.

Graph embedding improves fMRI classification and reveals brain region differences in ASD.

problem Difficult to embed informative brain fMRI representations due to high dimensionality and low SNR.
method Modelled fMRI as a graph, used GNN to learn from graph data, incorporated mutual information loss (Infomax).
result Infomax graph embedding improves classification performance and reveals separable nodal representations of ASD and HC groups.

Method uses aggregate crop statistics to improve satellite-based crop type mapping.

problem Limited field-level crop labels for training satellite-based maps.
method Corrects classifier by accounting for shifts in crop type composition and feature means.
result Substantial improvements in overall classification accuracy, reducing misclassifications by 21.9% on average.

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are a class of generative neural network that are typically trained to maximize a log-likelihood objective function. We argue that likelihood-based training strategies may fail because the objective does not sufficiently penalize models that place a high probability in regions where…

2018-04-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Spatially-aware metrics improve uncertainty evaluation in segmentation.

problem Uncertainty evaluation metrics treat voxels independently, ignoring spatial context.
method Proposed three spatially aware metrics incorporating structural and boundary information.
result Improved alignment with clinically important factors and better discrimination between uncertainty patterns.

Evaluating human brain potentials during watching different images can be used for memory evaluation, information retrieving, guilty-innocent identification and examining the brain response. In this study, the effects of watching images, with different levels of familiarity, on subjects' Electroencephalogram (EEG) have…

2017-10-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper tackles unsupervised learning under latent label shift across domains.

problem Discovering classes from unlabeled data with shifting label distributions.
method Introduces unsupervised learning under Latent Label Shift (LLS), leveraging domain-discriminative models.
result Proves that with domain information, unsupervised classification can improve upon standard methods.

SaliencyMix augments images with salient patches to improve model generalization.

problem Improving deep learning model generalization through better data augmentation.
method Carefully selects salient patches from images and mixes them with the target image.
result Achieves state-of-the-art top-1 error rates and robustness against adversarial attacks.

MDGCN improves hyperspectral image classification by dynamically updating graphs.

problem Traditional CNNs struggle with irregular image regions and class boundaries.
method MDGCN uses dynamic graph convolution on hyperspectral images, adapting to local regions.
result MDGCN outperforms state-of-the-art methods on benchmark datasets.

The study quantifies and compares aleatoric and epistemic discrimination in ML models.

problem Sources of discrimination in ML models and their impact on performance.
method Quantifying aleatoric and epistemic discrimination using statistical experiments and model accuracy.
result State-of-the-art fairness interventions are effective at removing epistemic discrimination but not aleatoric discrimination in datasets with missing values.

Discrimination-aware classification is receiving an increasing attention in data science fields. The pre-process methods for constructing a discrimination-free classifier first remove discrimination from the training data, and then learn the classifier from the cleaned data. However, they lack a theoretical guarantee f…

2017-02-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Discriminator guidance improves autoregressive diffusion models for generating molecular graphs.

problem Improving the accuracy of autoregressive diffusion models for generating molecular graphs.
method Deriving ways to use a discriminator with a pretrained generative model in the discrete case, including optimal and sub-optimal scenarios.
result Using a discriminator can correct pretrained models and improve exact sampling from the data distribution.