New model improves diversity in question generation over text.
problem Inadequate evaluation metrics for diverse questions.
method Proposed a variational encoder-decoder model and evaluation scheme.
result Improved diversity in generated questions without loss of quality.
How can we measure whether a natural language generation system produces both high quality and diverse outputs? Human evaluation captures quality but not diversity, as it does not catch models that simply plagiarize from the training set. On the other hand, statistical evaluation (i.e., perplexity) captures diversity b…
Paper explores how text generation quality and diversity metrics relate to distribution fitting.
problem Unclear relation between text generation quality and diversity metrics and distribution fitting.
method Theoretical approach to prove a linear combination of quality and diversity metrics can be a divergence metric.
result CR/NRR proposed as a better substitute for BLEU/Self-BLEU metrics.
Proposes Vendi Score for evaluating diversity in ML models.
problem Lack of flexible diversity evaluation metrics in ML.
method Integrates ecological and quantum statistical mechanics concepts to define Vendi Score.
result Vendi Score enables flexible diversity evaluation without requiring a reference dataset.
Proposes GM Score to evaluate GANs considering diversity, disentanglement, and discriminability.
problem Evaluation of GANs for sample quality and diversity.
method Integrates various factors including intra-class and inter-class diversity, disentanglement, and discriminability metrics.
result Demonstrates improved evaluation of GANs on MNIST dataset.
The need for diversification of recommendation lists manifests in a number of recommender systems use cases. However, an increase in diversity may undermine the utility of the recommendations, as relevant items in the list may be replaced by more diverse ones. In this work we propose a novel method for maximizing the u…
New measures quantify diversity of latent representations using metric space magnitude.
problem Evaluating the diversity of latent representations in machine learning models.
method Developed magnitude-based measures for latent representations, stable under data perturbations.
result Demonstrated superior performance across various domains and tasks.
New metric evaluates generative models across domains, diagnosing fidelity, diversity, and generalization.
problem Evaluating generative models in diverse domains with limited metrics.
method Introduces a 3D evaluation metric (α-Precision, β-Recall, Authenticity) for domain-agnostic diagnostics. result Unified metric characterizes fidelity, diversity, and generalization, diagnosing model performance.
SKADA-bench evaluates unsupervised DA methods across diverse modalities.
problem Evaluating unsupervised DA methods on diverse modalities with realistic validation.
method Nested cross-validation and unsupervised model selection scores.
result Highlights the importance of realistic validation and provides practical guidance.
The paper improves QD policy ensembles using distribution ratio estimators.
problem Training diverse and high-quality reinforcement learning agents.
method Using Stein variational gradient descent and distribution ratio estimators.
result The method generates diverse and high-quality reinforcement learning agents.
AIPS improves ranking policy evaluation by adapting to diverse user behavior.
problem Inaccurate Off-Policy Evaluation of ranking policies due to high variance under diverse user behavior.
method Developed Adaptive IPS (AIPS) that adapts to different user behaviors and minimizes MSE.
result AIPS achieves minimum variance among unbiased estimators and provides significant empirical accuracy improvement.
Post-hoc explanations of machine learning models are crucial for people to understand and act on algorithmic predictions. An intriguing class of explanations is through counterfactuals, hypothetical examples that show people how to obtain a different prediction. We posit that effective counterfactual explanations shoul…
Proposes MOGFNs for generating diverse Pareto optimal solutions in multi-objective optimization.
problem Generating diverse candidates in multi-objective optimization with conflicting objectives.
method Introduces MOGFNs based on GFlowNets, with two variants: MOGFN-PC and MOGFN-AL.
result Improved candidate diversity compared to existing methods.
Studies have shown that the people depicted in image search results tend to be of majority groups with respect to socially salient attributes. This skew goes beyond that which already exists in the world - e.g., Kay et al. showed that although 28% of CEOs in US are women, only 10% of the top 100 results for CEO in Goog…
AlphaEval evaluates alpha mining models efficiently and comprehensively.
problem Lack of systematic evaluation for alpha mining models.
method Unified, parallelizable evaluation framework assessing predictive power, stability, robustness, financial logic, and diversity.
result AlphaEval achieves evaluation consistency comparable to comprehensive backtesting, providing more comprehensive insights and higher efficiency.
Text generation is an important Natural Language Processing task with various applications. Although several metrics have already been introduced to evaluate the text generation methods, each of them has its own shortcomings. The most widely used metrics such as BLEU only consider the quality of generated sentences and…
GIFT-Eval benchmarks time series forecasting models across diverse datasets.
problem Lack of comprehensive benchmarks for evaluating time series foundation models.
method Developed GIFT-Eval, a benchmark with 23 datasets, 177 million data points, and 144,000 time series.
result Promotes evaluation of foundation models across various domains and frequencies.
Paper benchmarks mutual info estimators on diverse distributions.
problem Evaluating mutual information estimators on complex, real-world distributions.
method Constructs a diverse family of known-ground truth distributions, proposes a benchmark platform.
result Highlights differences in classical and neural estimators' performance across various conditions.
DIGEN benchmark provides synthetic datasets for ML algorithm evaluation.
problem Understanding and comparing machine learning algorithms' performance.
method Synthetic datasets generated using 40 mathematical functions to evaluate machine learning algorithms.
result DIGEN resource facilitates understanding why algorithms perform poorly and provides ideas for improvement.
The explosion of time series data in recent years has brought a flourish of new time series analysis methods, for forecasting, clustering, classification and other tasks. The evaluation of these new methods requires either collecting or simulating a diverse set of time series benchmarking data to enable reliable compar…
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been shown to produce realistically looking synthetic images with remarkable success, yet their performance seems less impressive when the training set is highly diverse. In order to provide a better fit to the target data distribution when the dataset includes many different…
SharpBalance improves deep ensemble performance by balancing sharpness and diversity.
problem Improving deep ensemble performance in both in-distribution and out-of-distribution scenarios.
method Introducing SharpBalance, a novel training approach that balances sharpness and diversity within ensembles.
result SharpBalance effectively improves the sharpness-diversity trade-off and ensemble performance in ID and OOD scenarios.
This research introduces a new strategy in cluster ensemble selection by using Independency and Diversity metrics. In recent years, Diversity and Quality, which are two metrics in evaluation procedure, have been used for selecting basic clustering results in the cluster ensemble selection. Although quality can improve …
OGB provides diverse graph datasets for robust ML research.
problem Challenges in scalable and robust graph machine learning.
method Unified evaluation protocol, diverse datasets, and automated pipeline.
result Significant scalability and generalization challenges identified.
Paper presents a deterministic method for diverse subset selection.
problem Diverse subset selection problems in recommendation, summarization, and search.
method Greedy deterministic adaptation of k-DPP for low-rank approximations and image search.
result The method yields low-rank approximations of kernel matrices and demonstrates effectiveness in image search.
Study flaws in generative model evaluation metrics, especially for diffusion models.
problem Flaws in existing metrics for evaluating generative models, particularly for diffusion models.
method Systematic study of generative models, human perception experiments, and analysis of feature extractors.
result State-of-the-art perceptual realism of diffusion models is not reflected in commonly reported metrics.
HEAR benchmark evaluates audio representations for diverse tasks.
problem Developing a general-purpose audio representation for various tasks.
method Evaluated 29 models across 19 tasks using 16 datasets.
result No single audio representation performs holistically.
New metrics improve reliability of image generation evaluation.
problem Lack of reliable metrics for evaluating fidelity and diversity in generative models.
method Proposed density and coverage metrics to diagnose fidelity and diversity separately.
result Density and coverage metrics provide more interpretable and reliable signals.
MosaicMRI expands public datasets for musculoskeletal MRI, revealing cross-anatomical correlations.
problem Limited diversity in public MRI datasets hinders model evaluation across different anatomical settings.
method Developed a large, diverse dataset (MosaicMRI) and conducted experiments on a baseline model (VarNet).
result Models trained on combined anatomies outperform anatomy-specific models in low-sample regimes.
DiwE uses regional distribution changes to create diverse ensemble classifiers for concept drift.
problem Handling concept drift in evolving data streams.
method DiwE measures diversity based on regional distribution disagreement and uses it to weight instances and select classifiers.
result DiwE outperforms other algorithms on various synthetic and real-world data stream benchmarks.
InvestorBench benchmarks LLM agents in financial tasks.
problem Lack of a comprehensive benchmark for LLM-based financial agents.
method Developed a benchmark with diverse financial tasks and datasets.
result Evaluated LLM agents' performance across various financial products and market environments.
The major challenge of learning from multi-label data has arisen from the overwhelming size of label space which makes this problem NP-hard. This problem can be alleviated by gradually involving easy to hard tags into the learning process. Besides, the utilization of a diversity maintenance approach avoids overfitting …
New method recovers diverse policies from expert data using state-action pair weighting.
problem Recovering diverse policies from expert trajectories.
method Pointwise mutual information weighted behavioral cloning.
result Effective in focusing on state-action pairs most representative of the style.
The Wisdom of Crowds is a phenomenon described in social science that suggests four criteria applicable to groups of people. It is claimed that, if these criteria are satisfied, then the aggregate decisions made by a group will often be better than those of its individual members. Inspired by this concept, we present a…
Hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) has recently shown promising advances on speeding up learning, improving the exploration, and discovering intertask transferable skills. Most recent works focus on HRL with two levels, i.e., a master policy manipulates subpolicies, which in turn manipulate primitive actions. Ho…
TimeMCL forecasts diverse time series futures using neural networks and WTA loss.
problem Forecasting multiple plausible time series futures.
method Multiple Choice Learning (MCL) framework with Winner-Takes-All (WTA) loss.
result TimeMCL efficiently predicts diverse time series futures at low computational cost.
New method detects out-of-distribution samples in regression tasks.
problem Detecting instances far from training data in regression models.
method Estimating predictor entropy based on nearest neighbors and generative models.
result A new method for robust OOD detection in regression tasks.
PerturBench benchmarks ML models for cellular perturbation analysis.
problem Standardizing benchmarking in modeling single cell transcriptomic responses to perturbations.
method Modular platform, diverse datasets, metrics, extensive evaluation, rank metrics.
result Simpler models are competitive and scale well with larger datasets.
There has been extensive research on developing defense techniques against adversarial attacks; however, they have been mainly designed for specific model families or application domains, therefore, they cannot be easily extended. Based on the design philosophy of ensemble of diverse weak defenses, we propose ATHENA---…
We study the classification performance of Kronecker-structured models in two asymptotic regimes and developed an algorithm for separable, fast and compact K-S dictionary learning for better classification and representation of multidimensional signals by exploiting the structure in the signal. First, we study the clas…
EDU method finds diverse optimal solutions for expensive simulators.
problem Optimizing expensive black-box simulators for diverse solutions.
method EDU method searches for diverse locally-optimal solutions within a tolerance level.
result EDU yields a closed-form acquisition function facilitating efficient sequential queries.
Self-distillation improves model performance by increasing teacher diversity and smoothing predictions.
problem Improving model generalization and performance through self-distillation.
method Interpreting self-distillation as MAP estimation and proposing instance-specific label smoothing.
result Self-distillation enhances model performance by increasing teacher diversity and smoothing predictions.
SplitNN-driven Vertical Partitioning enables distributed learning from diverse data sources.
problem Learning from vertically distributed features across institutions.
method A configuration of SplitNN that does not share raw data or model details.
result Flexibility in merging split model outputs and resource efficiency.
The MAP-Elites algorithm produces a set of high-performing solutions that vary according to features defined by the user. This technique has the potential to be a powerful tool for design space exploration, but is limited by the need for numerous evaluations. The Surrogate-Assisted Illumination algorithm (SAIL), introd…
Automatic program repair holds the potential of dramatically improving the productivity of programmers during the software development process and correctness of software in general. Recent advances in machine learning, deep learning, and NLP have rekindled the hope to eventually fully automate the process of repairing…
This paper improves ensemble learning for vision tasks by encouraging diversity in predictions.
problem Generating effective ensembles of neural networks for multi-modal data.
method Explicitly optimize a diversity inducing adversarial loss for learning stochastic latent variables.
result Significant improvements in classification accuracy and out-of-distribution detection compared to baselines.
Paper introduces OARF benchmark suite for federated learning systems.
problem Limited diversity in federated learning benchmarks.
method Characterizes OARF benchmark suite with diverse data and applications.
result Federated learning can effectively increase end-to-end throughput.
Ensemble learning is a very prevalent method employed in machine learning. The relative success of ensemble methods is attributed to their ability to tackle a wide range of instances and complex problems that require different low-level approaches. However, ensemble methods are relatively less popular in reinforcement …