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48 results for domain divergence

Introduces Cauchy-Schwarz divergence for domain adaptation.

problem Evaluating discrepancy between source and target domains in unsupervised domain adaptation.
method Introduces Cauchy-Schwarz divergence as a measure for evaluating discrepancy between marginal and conditional distributions.
result CS divergence offers a tighter generalization error bound than Kullback-Leibler divergence.

New framework using Jensen-Shannon divergence improves domain adaptation theory.

problem Incoherence between empirical domain adversarial training and theoretical H\mathcal{H}-divergence.
method Established new theoretical framework based on Jensen-Shannon divergence, derived bi-directional upper bounds.
result Framework exhibits flexibilities for various transfer learning problems.

New metric and method for sEMG-based gesture recognition under domain shifts.

problem Measuring and adapting to domain divergence in sEMG-based gesture recognition.
method Probability distribution-based metric, 2-stage autoregressive RNN architecture.
result Improved autoregressive, RNN-based architecture enhances performance.

Paper tackles continuous transfer learning with evolving target domains.

problem Challenges of negative transfer in evolving target domains.
method Proposes label-informed C-divergence for measuring distribution shift and negative transfer.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of TransLATE framework in minimizing classification error and C-divergence.

Method generates intermediate domains to align source and target domains.

problem Challenges of domain adaptation with significant domain divergence.
method Progressive domain augmentation via domain interpolation and multiple subspace alignment.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple domain adaptation tasks.

New proof of Willmore inequality using geometric divergence inequality.

problem Proving the Willmore inequality for bounded domains.
method Using a parametric geometric inequality derived from a divergence form geometric differential inequality.
result New proofs of quantitative Willmore-type and weighted Minkowski inequalities.

This work improves transferability by considering conditional distributions in feature representations.

problem Improving transferability across multiple domains by considering conditional distributions.
method Introducing von Neumann conditional divergence to quantify the functional dependence between features and desired response.
result Favorable performance in terms of smaller generalization error and less catastrophic forgetting.

Rank-statistic method approximates ff-divergences without density-ratio estimation.

problem Approximating ff-divergences without explicit density-ratio estimation.
method Mapping distribution rank histograms to discrete ff-divergence and averaging over random projections.
result The rank-statistic estimator is a lower bound of the true ff-divergence and converges under mild conditions.

New framework for domain adaptation using hierarchical optimal transport.

problem Improving domain adaptation when source and target data distributions differ.
method Proposes a new theoretical framework and hierarchical Wasserstein distance.
result Provides more explicit generalization bounds and aligns specific structures for successful adaptation.

Proposes a new divergence measure for probability distributions.

problem Challenges in estimating divergences from empirical samples.
method Embeds data into RKHS, computes Jensen-Shannon divergence between covariance operators.
result Establishes RJSD as a lower bound on Jensen-Shannon divergence, enabling variational estimation.

Our main result is that if a generic convex domain in Rn\R^n collapses to a domain in Rn1\R^{n-1}, then the difference between the first two Dirichlet eigenvalues of the Euclidean Laplacian, known as the fundamental gap, diverges. The boundary of the domain need not be smooth, merely Lipschitz continuous. To motivate th…

2008-10-27abs ↗pdf ↗

TMDA aligns subdomain data distribution discrepancies across domains using manifold representations.

problem Transfer learning challenges due to domain divergence.
method TMDA uses low-dimensional manifolds to represent subdomains and aligns local data distribution discrepancies across domains using M3D.
result TMDA is a promising method for various transfer learning tasks.

Study improves density estimation for compact domains using hh-lifted KL divergence.

problem Estimating probability density functions on compact domains.
method Introduced hh-lifted Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence for risk minimization.
result Proved O(1/n)\mathcal{O}(1/{\sqrt{n}}) bound on estimation error.

We aim to analyze the relation between two random vectors that may potentially have both different number of attributes as well as realizations, and which may even not have a joint distribution. This problem arises in many practical domains, including biology and architecture. Existing techniques assume the vectors to …

2015-10-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper shows robust generative learning with minimal assumptions on target distributions.

problem Learning generative models with minimal assumptions on target distributions.
method Lipschitz-regularized αα-divergences with minimal assumptions.
result Stable learning across various target distributions with minimal assumptions.

The paper estimates eigenvalues for specific differential operators on curved spaces.

problem Estimating eigenvalues for a class of elliptic differential operators on Riemannian manifolds.
method Analyzes eigenvalue estimates for a broader class of elliptic differential operators in divergence form.
result Provides eigenvalue estimates for Gaussian shrinking solitons and specific domains.

Many text classification tasks are known to be highly domain-dependent. Unfortunately, the availability of training data can vary drastically across domains. Worse still, for some domains there may not be any annotated data at all. In this work, we propose a multinomial adversarial network (MAN) to tackle the text clas…

2018-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Domain adaptation (DA) is an important and emerging field of machine learning that tackles the problem occurring when the distributions of training (source domain) and test (target domain) data are similar but different. Current theoretical results show that the efficiency of DA algorithms depends on their capacity of …

2016-10-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Diverging Flows detects extrapolations in flow models, ensuring reliable predictions.

problem Flow models extrapolate into invalid data, leading to silent failures.
method Structurally enforce inefficient transport for off-manifold inputs.
result Effective detection of extrapolations without compromising predictive fidelity or inference latency.

Estimates KL divergence with fairness considerations for sub-populations.

problem Fairly estimate KL divergence between distributions considering sub-populations.
method Proposes multi-group attribution for KL divergence estimation, derived from multi-calibration.
result Shows multi-group attribution provides better KL divergence estimates conditioned on sub-populations.

Paper explores how generative models can be made more creative.

problem Limitation of generative models in diverging from original data distribution.
method Proposes a novel training objective called Bounded Adversarial Divergence (BAD) to enable creative divergence.
result Preliminary results suggest BAD can enable creative divergence in generative models.

The paper provides estimates for eigenvalues of elliptic differential problems.

problem Computing eigenvalue estimates for elliptic differential problems.
method Analytical computation of eigenvalues for specific types of elliptic differential equations.
result Universal estimates of eigenvalues and gaps between consecutive eigenvalues are derived.

Unified framework for distribution shift estimation, explanation, and improvement.

problem Estimating, explaining, and improving model performance on target domains with distribution shift.
method Entropic Projection Alignment (EPA) aligns source and target distributions by matching moments and minimizing KL divergence.
result EPA consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines while offering computational efficiency.

Paper connects rejection learning to Bhattacharyya divergence.

problem Learning models to abstain from predictions.
method Developed a link between rejection and thresholding different statistical divergences, focusing on Bhattacharyya divergence.
result Rejector obtained by joint ideal distribution corresponds to thresholding of skewed Bhattacharyya divergence.

New risk decompositions clarify domain adaptation issues.

problem Domain adaptation challenges with different training and test distributions.
method Representation Bayesian Risk Decompositions, hybrid argument.
result Clarifies factors (2) and (3) as reasons for generalization failure.

Reduced sample complexity for group-invariant distributions.

problem Improving sample complexity for estimating divergences of group-invariant distributions.
method Quantified reduction in sample complexity for Wasserstein-1 metric and Lipschitz-regularized α-divergences under finite and infinite groups.
result Sample complexity reduction proportional to group size for finite groups, and convergence rate depends on intrinsic dimension for infinite groups.

Efficiently visualizes uncertainty in local divergence of 2D vector fields.

problem Uncertainty in vector field data leads to inaccurate divergence computations.
method Closed-form approach for highly efficient and accurate uncertainty visualization of local divergence, assuming independently Gaussian-distributed vector uncertainties.
result Significantly enhanced efficiency and accuracy of our algorithms over classical MC approach.

The paper finds inequalities for eigenvalues of operators on immersed manifolds.

problem Finding inequalities for eigenvalues of operators on immersed manifolds.
method Computing inequalities for eigenvalues of operators in divergence form on Riemannian manifolds isometrically immersed in Euclidean space.
result Universal inequalities for eigenvalues of operators are computed.

Proposes a method to improve treatment policies in data-scarce clinical settings.

problem Improving treatment policies in data-scarce clinical settings with unobserved confounding.
method Uses a causal mechanism to model the underlying generative process and augments counterfactual trajectories with source domain priors.
result Significantly improves treatment policy performance in a simulated sepsis treatment task.

This paper is devoted to the study of convergence of sequences of solutions to the constant mean curvature H equation. The convergence domain is defined. The main Theorem characterizes the complement of this convergence domain: it shows that circle arcs of curvature 2H compose this complement. We then give results whic…

2005-09-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Can neural networks learn to compare graphs without feature engineering? In this paper, we show that it is possible to learn representations for graph similarity with neither domain knowledge nor supervision (i.e.\ feature engineering or labeled graphs). We propose Deep Divergence Graph Kernels, an unsupervised method …

2019-04-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper tackles backwards-compatible data adaptation for confounded covariate and label shifts.

problem Adapt covariates to predict labels confounded with covariate shifts.
method Proposes confounded shift framework based on minimizing divergence between source and target conditional distributions, conditioning on confounders.
result Demonstrates approach on synthetic and real datasets, achieving backwards-compatible data adaptation.

Proposes Infomax and Domain-Independent Representations for robust causal inference.

problem Handling treatment selection bias and domain imbalance in causal inference with real-world data.
method Utilizes mutual information to learn domain-invariant representations that maximize predictive common information.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on causal effect inference across various data distributions.

Selective removal of data subsets can efficiently unlearn unwanted distributions.

problem Efficiently removing unwanted data subsets without losing important information.
method Formalized as distributional unlearning, using Kullback-Leibler divergence constraints to select a small subset of data.
result Proposed method achieves corresponding log-loss bounds and is quadratically more sample-efficient than random removal.

Paper proposes a new ML framework to enhance creativity in music generation.

problem Current generative models struggle to produce music outside their training dataset.
method Develops a new ML objective to address creativity limitations.
result Proposed framework could improve generative models' creativity.

Multi-domain learning (MDL) aims at obtaining a model with minimal average risk across multiple domains. Our empirical motivation is automated microscopy data, where cultured cells are imaged after being exposed to known and unknown chemical perturbations, and each dataset displays significant experimental bias. This p…

2019-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗