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48 results for expert features

ExpCLR uses expert features to improve time-series representation learning.

problem Current representation learning approaches fail to ensure useful properties for time-series data.
method ExpCLR employs expert features to replace data transformations in contrastive learning, ensuring two useful properties for time-series representations.
result ExpCLR outperforms state-of-the-art methods on three real-world time-series datasets.

In this paper, we propose a hierarchical feature-aware tracking framework for efficient visual tracking. Recent years, ensembled trackers which combine multiple component trackers have achieved impressive performance. In ensembled trackers, the decision of results is usually a post-event process, i.e., tracking result …

2019-10-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Non-experts have long made important contributions to machine learning (ML) by contributing training data, and recent work has shown that non-experts can also help with feature engineering by suggesting novel predictive features. However, non-experts have only contributed features to prediction tasks already posed by e…

2018-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Expert-guided model improves seismic compliance monitoring.

problem Classifying seismic data with missingness and expert knowledge.
method Expert-guided class-conditional model with interpretable goodness-of-fit features.
result Interpretable classifier outperforms standard machine learning, especially with small training data.

AdaEnsemble learns adaptive feature interactions for CTR prediction.

problem Learning feature interactions for CTR prediction in recommender systems and Ads ranking.
method AdaEnsemble is a Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts (SparseMoE) architecture that dynamically selects feature interaction depth.
result AdaEnsemble achieves better prediction accuracy and inference efficiency compared to state-of-the-art models.

DeepSeekMoE improves language model efficiency with shared experts and normalized gating.

problem Improving sample efficiency in language model architectures.
method Theoretical and empirical analysis of shared experts and normalized sigmoid gating.
result Theoretical and empirical evidence of improved sample efficiency with shared experts and normalized gating.

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 ↗

We introduce a novel apprenticeship learning algorithm to learn an expert's underlying reward structure in off-policy model-free \emph{batch} settings. Unlike existing methods that require a dynamics model or additional data acquisition for on-policy evaluation, our algorithm requires only the batch data of observed ex…

2019-03-24abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper combines Bitcoin price models with expert corrections for better predictions.

problem Improving Bitcoin price predictions using statistical and expert insights.
method Linear regression models combined with expert corrections, utilizing Bayesian approach for fat-tailed distributions.
result Better price prediction results compared to using either model or expert opinion alone.

High-dimensional prediction is a challenging problem setting for traditional statistical models. Although regularization improves model performance in high dimensions, it does not sufficiently leverage knowledge on feature importances held by domain experts. As an alternative to standard regularization techniques, we p…

2019-12-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Estimating the intensity of emotion has gained significance as modern textual inputs in potential applications like social media, e-retail markets, psychology, advertisements etc., carry a lot of emotions, feelings, expressions along with its meaning. However, the approaches of traditional sentiment analysis primarily …

2019-03-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Quantitative CT predicts ILD patterns and prognosis.

problem Diagnosing and predicting prognosis of fibrosing ILD patterns.
method High-resolution CT texture features, TM model for classification and survival analysis.
result TM model outperforms histogram-based model in distinguishing UIP from non-UIP patterns and allows for survival group partitioning.

Proposes a FoE prior for improving CNN performance in distribution shifts.

problem Improving CNN performance in image analysis tasks with distribution shifts.
method Uses a field-of-experts (FoE) prior to match feature distributions of test and training images.
result Outperforms previous TTA methods in lesion segmentation and most healthy tissue segmentation tasks.

Adversarial MoE learns category-specific models for product search.

problem Variations in product features and importance across categories.
method Mixture of Experts with adversarial regularization and soft gating constraints.
result Improved clustering of gate output vectors and shared experts among similar categories.

Proposes GPHMEs using Gaussian processes for hierarchical expert models.

problem Hierarchical mixtures of experts with complex gating functions.
method Gaussian process-gated hierarchical mixtures of experts (GPHMEs) with non-linear gating and expert functions.
result Outperforms tree-based HMEs and achieves good performance with reduced complexity.

In recent work, it was shown that combining multi-kernel based support vector machines (SVMs) can lead to near state-of-the-art performance on an action recognition dataset (HMDB-51 dataset). This was 0.4\% lower than frameworks that used hand-crafted features in addition to the deep convolutional feature extractors. I…

2017-08-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the applications of the Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithm for Apprenticeship Learning (AL). In this setting, we are given a Markov Decision Process (MDP) without an explicit reward function. Instead, we observe an expert that acts according to some policy, and the goal is to find a policy whose feature expectation…

2019-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Product models of low dimensional experts are a powerful way to avoid the curse of dimensionality. We present the ``under-complete product of experts' (UPoE), where each expert models a one dimensional projection of the data. The UPoE is fully tractable and may be interpreted as a parametric probabilistic model for pro…

2012-10-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Sleep staging is a crucial task for diagnosing sleep disorders. It is tedious and complex as it can take a trained expert several hours to annotate just one patient's polysomnogram (PSG) from a single night. Although deep learning models have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in automating sleep staging, interp…

2019-10-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Reinforcement learning in complex environments is a challenging problem. In particular, the success of reinforcement learning algorithms depends on a well-designed reward function. Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) solves the problem of recovering reward functions from expert demonstrations. In this paper, we solve …

2019-11-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Framework uses expert intervention to solve long-horizon reinforcement learning tasks.

problem Long horizon robot learning tasks with sparse rewards.
method Option templates and expert intervention to enable high-level task understanding.
result Framework outperforms state-of-the-art approaches by two orders of magnitude.

End-to-end CAD system for thyroid nodule classification using multimodal data and expert guidance.

problem Improving accuracy in thyroid nodule classification for clinicians.
method Knowledge-driven DenseNet framework using multimodal ultrasound data and expert cues.
result The proposed system achieves relevant performances in thyroid nodule classification.

The paper develops methods to create reliable prediction sets for complex mixture models in high-dimensional data.

problem Building accurate prediction sets for high-dimensional mixture models with feature-dependent weights.
method The authors introduce a debiasing procedure and a novel interval combination strategy to construct valid prediction sets.
result The proposed method provides reliable coverage guarantees for prediction sets in high-dimensional mixture models.

CoCoAFusE fuses expert predictions to model complex patterns with interpretability and uncertainty.

problem Modeling complex patterns with interpretability and uncertainty quantification.
method Competitive/Collaborative Fusion of Experts (CoCoAFusE) that fuses expert distributions in addition to mixing.
result CoCoAFusE avoids multimodality artifacts and provides tighter credible bounds on the response variable.

PIMA autoencoders discover shared features in multimodal scientific data.

problem Discovering shared information in high-throughput scientific datasets.
method Physics-informed multimodal autoencoders (PIMA) with Gaussian mixture prior and product of experts formulation.
result Accurate cross-modal inference between images and mechanical stress-strain response in lattice metamaterials.

Adding uninformative labels improves tumor segmentation in low-data mammography.

problem Improving tumor segmentation in mammography with limited data.
method Used seemingly uninformative labels from non-expert annotators to turn a multi-label task into a multi-class problem.
result Performance gains in tumor segmentation are achieved in low-data settings with additional uninformative labels.

Novel CNN-based gaze scanpath comparison distinguishes experts from novices in dental radiograph interpretation.

problem Distinguishing expertise in dental radiograph interpretation based on gaze behavior.
method Convolutional neural networks (CNN) process scene information at the fixation level, using image patches as input to compare gaze scanpaths.
result 93% accuracy in distinguishing experts from novices using image patch features.

Combines neural networks and expert rules for concept-based learning.

problem Extending concept-based learning with machine learning models.
method Form constraints for joint probability distribution and represent feasible set as a convex polytope.
result Neural networks can be trained to satisfy expert rules without violating them.

Meta-learning, or learning to learn, is a machine learning approach that utilizes prior learning experiences to expedite the learning process on unseen tasks. As a data-driven approach, meta-learning requires meta-features that represent the primary learning tasks or datasets, and are estimated traditonally as engineer…

2019-05-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian Experience Reuse improves learning from multiple experts.

problem Learning from multiple experts with conflicting goals.
method Bayesian neural networks with shared features to model uncertainty and derive a probability distribution over expert models.
result BERS method effectively samples demonstrations from the derived distribution to reuse them in new tasks.

Semi-automatic data annotation helps experts label unlabeled samples based on feature space projection.

problem Laborious manual data annotation for machine learning.
method Interactive semi-automatic approach using feature space projection and semi-supervised learning.
result Reduces user annotation effort and improves classification accuracy.

STAR improves equivariant and invariant representation learning by routing projection heads.

problem Redundant feature learning in equivariant and invariant representation learning.
method Soft Task-Aware Routing (STAR) for projection heads specialization.
result Lower canonical correlations between invariant and equivariant embeddings.

The paper analyzes EM for Mixtures of Experts and shows its equivalence to projected Mirror Descent.

problem Training Mixtures of Experts (MoE) models.
method Rigorously analyzes Expectation Maximization (EM) for MoE models using a Mirror Descent perspective.
result Derives new convergence results and identifies conditions for local linear convergence.