Ensembles, as a widely used and effective technique in the machine learning community, succeed within a key element -- "diversity." The relationship between diversity and generalization, unfortunately, is not entirely understood and remains an open research issue. To reveal the effect of diversity on the generalization…
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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.
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.
MO-PaDGAN generates diverse, high-performance designs with multiple metrics.
problem Challenges in generating diverse, high-performance designs with multiple metrics.
method MO-PaDGAN uses a new Determinantal Point Processes based loss function for probabilistic modeling of diversity and performances.
result MO-PaDGAN expands the design space towards high-performance regions and generates new designs with high diversity and performances.
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.
PaDGAN generates diverse, high-quality designs with improved performance.
problem Lack of diversity and performance improvement in generated designs.
method Integrates Determinantal Point Processes for diversity and quality, using GAN framework.
result PaDGAN generates higher quality designs with better diversity and without mode collapse.
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 paper improves model generalization by integrating diverse pretrained models.
problem Leveraging diverse pretrained models for robust out-of-distribution generalization.
method Characterize and integrate diverse pretrained models based on diversity and correlation shifts.
result Demonstrates state-of-the-art out-of-distribution generalization performance.
Label-Based Diversity Measure Among Hidden Units of Deep Neural Networks: A Regularization Methodcs.LG
New method reduces overfitting in deep neural networks by measuring and regulating hidden unit diversity.
problem Overfitting in deep neural networks.
method Introduces a new redundancy measure based on mutual information to improve generalization.
result Reduction of redundancy improves generalization capacity, reducing overfitting.
Ensembles depend on diversity for improved performance. Many ensemble training methods, therefore, attempt to optimize for diversity, which they almost always define in terms of differences in training set predictions. In this paper, however, we demonstrate the diversity of predictions on the training set does not nece…
Generating molecules with desired chemical properties is important for drug discovery. The use of generative neural networks is promising for this task. However, from visual inspection, it often appears that generated samples lack diversity. In this paper, we quantify this internal chemical diversity, and we raise the …
Diversity or complementarity of experts in ensemble pattern recognition and information processing systems is widely-observed by researchers to be crucial for achieving performance improvement upon fusion. Understanding this link between ensemble diversity and fusion performance is thus an important research question. …
Heterogeneous Social Value Orientation Leads to Meaningful Diversity in Sequential Social Dilemmascs.MA
Heterogeneous SVO leads to diverse policies in sequential social dilemmas.
problem Understanding how diverse social value orientations affect behavior in sequential social dilemmas.
method Extending prior reinforcement learning studies, we instantiated heterogeneous SVO in a sequential social dilemma setting and measured task-specific diversity metrics.
result Heterogeneous SVO leads to meaningfully diverse policies across various incentive structures.
Diverse Beliefsq-fin.GN
This paper presents a general framework for studying diverse beliefs in dynamic economies. Within this general framework, the characterization of a central-planner general equilbrium turns out to be very easy to derive, and leads to a range of interesting applications. We show how for an economy with log investors hold…
We tackle the task of diverse 3D human motion prediction, that is, forecasting multiple plausible future 3D poses given a sequence of observed 3D poses. In this context, a popular approach consists of using a Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE). However, existing approaches that do so either fail to capture the …
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…
Ensemble learning is a methodology that integrates multiple DNN learners for improving prediction performance of individual learners. Diversity is greater when the errors of the ensemble prediction is more uniformly distributed. Greater diversity is highly correlated with the increase in ensemble accuracy. Another attr…
A new LLM-based method enhances diversity in oversampling for imbalanced classification.
problem Limited diversity in synthetic minority samples generated by current LLM-based approaches reduces robustness and generalizability.
method Condition synthetic sample generation on minority labels and features, use permutation strategy for fine-tuning, fine-tune on minority and interpolated samples.
result Significantly outperforms eight SOTA baselines in diverse synthetic sample generation and downstream classification tasks.
Proposes a method to generate diverse translations by conditioning on target domain.
problem NMT models lack diversity in translations, even with search algorithms.
method Condition the decoder on a latent variable representing target domain, generated by a target encoder.
result Generated diverse translations without affecting performance or training time.
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.
New method improves text classification without labeled target data.
problem Improving text classification under domain shift without labeled target data.
method Diversity-based generalization using multi-head attention with diversity constraints.
result Method matches state-of-the-art performance without labeled target data.
Ensemble of diverse CNNs detects and mitigates adversarial attacks.
problem Detecting and defending against adversarial attacks.
method An ensemble of specialized CNNs with a voting mechanism.
result Significant reduction in adversarial attack risk rate.
Continuous Parallel Relaxation for Finding Diverse Solutions in Combinatorial Optimization Problemsstat.ML
CPRA efficiently finds diverse solutions in CO problems using UL and parallelization.
problem Finding optimal solutions often requires diverse outcomes in real-world applications.
method CPRA, an UL-based framework, discovers shared representations to generate diverse solutions.
result CPRA outperforms existing UL-based solvers in generating diverse solutions.
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.
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.
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…
DASH improves ensemble generalizability by encouraging diverse, flat loss landscapes.
problem Improving generalization and robustness of deep ensembles.
method DASH promotes diversity and flatness in deep ensembles by encouraging base learners to move towards low-loss regions of minimal sharpness.
result DASH improves ensemble generalizability, as demonstrated by extensive empirical evidence.
MAP-Elites generates diverse trading strategies for improved execution performance.
problem Optimizing trading execution schedules in volatile market conditions.
method Quality-diversity algorithm (MAP-Elites) generating a portfolio of specialized strategies.
result Diverse strategies achieve 8-10% performance improvements, validating quality-diversity methods.
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…
SteinGen generates diverse graph samples from a single example.
problem Generating graphs with characteristic structures and diversity from a single example.
method Combines Stein's method and MCMC with Glauber dynamics and re-estimation of the Stein operator.
result High distributional similarity to the original data, combined with high sample diversity.
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.
Mixreg improves RL generalization by mixing diverse training environments.
problem Overfitting in RL agents trained in limited environments.
method Trains on a mixture of diverse observations and imposes linearity constraints.
result Mixreg outperforms baselines on unseen testing environments.
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.
Hypernetworks are neural networks that generate weights for another neural network. We formulate the hypernetwork training objective as a compromise between accuracy and diversity, where the diversity takes into account trivial symmetry transformations of the target network. We explain how this simple formulation gener…
We propose a simple yet highly effective method that addresses the mode-collapse problem in the Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN). Although conditional distributions are multi-modal (i.e., having many modes) in practice, most cGAN approaches tend to learn an overly simplified distribution where an input…
Sample Efficient Myopic Exploration Through Multitask Reinforcement Learning with Diverse Tasksstat.ML
This paper shows how diverse tasks can make inefficient exploration in MTRL efficient.
problem The challenge of efficient exploration in Multitask Reinforcement Learning.
method A generic policy-sharing algorithm with myopic exploration design trained on diverse tasks.
result A generic policy-sharing algorithm with myopic exploration design can be sample-efficient in MTRL.
We propose MAD-GAN, an intuitive generalization to the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and its conditional variants to address the well known problem of mode collapse. First, MAD-GAN is a multi-agent GAN architecture incorporating multiple generators and one discriminator. Second, to enforce that different gener…
DMNL bandits optimize assortment choices balancing relevance and diversity.
problem Balancing relevance-driven choice with within-assortment diversity.
method Augments MNL choice probabilities with a submodular diversity function, proposing a white-box UCB-based algorithm.
result Achieves at least a -approximate regret bound of $ ilde{O}\left(d \sqrt{T/K}
ight)$.
Training task diversity improves ICL with linear attention.
problem Understanding the impact of training task diversity on in-context learning.
method Modeling training task vectors as a mixture of low-rank Gaussians.
result Our model explains why training with task diversity shortens the ICL plateau and achieves out-of-distribution generalization.
New method improves neural architecture search by optimizing for both performance and diversity.
problem Traditional multi-objective NAS fails to address practical constraints and niches.
method Formulated as quality diversity optimization, introduces multifidelity optimizers.
result Quality diversity NAS outperforms multi-objective NAS in quality and efficiency.
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 (-Precision, -Recall, Authenticity) for domain-agnostic diagnostics.
result Unified metric characterizes fidelity, diversity, and generalization, diagnosing model performance.
PGEL learns embeddings to diversify protein motifs while maintaining biological function.
problem Generating diverse protein structures while preserving biological function.
method Embedding learning framework that enhances motif diversity in a diffusion model's frozen denoiser.
result PGEL achieves greater structural diversity, better designability, and improved self-consistency compared to partial diffusion.
Transformers learn to generalize out-of-distribution with diverse pretraining tasks.
problem Conditions for pretrained transformers to generalize out-of-distribution.
method Empirical study of task diversity and pretraining distribution.
result As task diversity increases, transformers transition from specialized to generalized solutions.
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…
We propose a new model for making generalizable and diverse retrosynthetic reaction predictions. Given a target compound, the task is to predict the likely chemical reactants to produce the target. This generative task can be framed as a sequence-to-sequence problem by using the SMILES representations of the molecules.…
An Analysis of the Effects of Decoding Algorithms on Fairness in Open-Ended Language Generationcs.CL
Study examines how decoding algorithms affect fairness in language generation models.
problem Impact of decoding algorithms on fairness in open-ended language generation.
method Systematic analysis of top-, top-, and temperature decoding algorithms.
result Decoding algorithms significantly impact fairness across demographic groups.
We study the problem of generating interesting endings for stories. Neural generative models have shown promising results for various text generation problems. Sequence to Sequence (Seq2Seq) models are typically trained to generate a single output sequence for a given input sequence. However, in the context of a story,…
Advances in Deep Reinforcement Learning have led to agents that perform well across a variety of sensory-motor domains. In this work, we study the setting in which an agent must learn to generate programs for diverse scenes conditioned on a given symbolic instruction. Final goals are specified to our agent via images o…