Automates size normalization for fashion items.
problem Reduce merchandise returns in e-commerce.
method Uses sales data to automate size mapping.
result Automated size mappings comparable to human-generated ones.
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Bayesian model predicts fashion size recommendations and returns.
problem Predicting optimal fashion sizes and handling returns efficiently.
method Hierarchical Bayesian model for size and return events.
result Model incorporates domain expertise and article characteristics.
Deep learning predicts fit for fashion e-commerce.
problem Predicting correct fit for customer satisfaction and cost reduction.
method Deep learning content-collaborative approach using customer and article embeddings.
result Significant improvement over state-of-the-art methods.
We present Fashion-MNIST, a new dataset comprising of 28x28 grayscale images of 70,000 fashion products from 10 categories, with 7,000 images per category. The training set has 60,000 images and the test set has 10,000 images. Fashion-MNIST is intended to serve as a direct drop-in replacement for the original MNIST dat…
XceptionTime improves hand gesture recognition accuracy using novel deep learning.
problem Improving hand gesture recognition from sparse sEMG signals.
method Depthwise separable convolutions, adaptive pooling, non-linear normalization.
result Significantly improved accuracy (5.71% improvement) in hand gesture recognition.
The impact of the maximally possible batch size (for the better runtime) on performance of graphic processing units (GPU) and tensor processing units (TPU) during training and inference phases is investigated. The numerous runs of the selected deep neural network (DNN) were performed on the standard MNIST and Fashion-M…
FIS-GAN uses importance sampling in GANs to speed up training.
problem Efficiency in GAN training by focusing on hard-to-generate examples.
method Adapting importance sampling into GANs using normalizing flows.
result Significant acceleration in GAN optimization with improved fidelity.
This paper presents the recurrent estimation of distributions (RED) for modeling real-valued data in a semiparametric fashion. RED models make two novel uses of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for density estimation of general real-valued data. First, RNNs are used to transform input covariates into a latent space to …
We present the Integrated Size and Price Optimization Problem (ISPO) for a fashion discounter with many branches. Based on a two-stage stochastic programming model with recourse, we develop an exact algorithm and a production-compliant heuristic that produces small optimality gaps. In a field study we show that a distr…
Recommendation or Discrimination?: Quantifying Distribution Parity in Information Retrieval Systemsstat.ML
Test for fairness in IR systems based on protected variables.
problem Unfairness in IR systems due to correlation with protected variables.
method Statistical test for 'distribution parity' in top-K IR results.
result Ensures fairness in IR systems for all users.
Gradually Truncated Log-normal distribution - Size distribution of firmscond-mat.stat-mech
Gradually Truncated Log-normal distribution - Size distribution of firms Abstract Many natural and economical phenomena are described through power law or log- normal distributions. In these cases, probability decreases very slowly with step size compared to normal distribution. Thus it is essential to cut-off these di…
Firm size data usually do not show the normality that is often assumed in statistical analysis such as regression analysis. In this study we focus on two firm size data: the number of employees and sale. Those data deviate considerably from a normal distribution. To improve the normality of those data we transform them…
FRN layer eliminates batch dependence in deep learning, improving performance across various tasks.
problem Batch Normalization's dependency on mini-batch elements can degrade performance for small batches.
method Filter Response Normalization (FRN) operates independently on each activation channel of each batch element.
result FRN layer outperforms BN and other alternatives in various settings for all batch sizes.
A key component of most neural network architectures is the use of normalization layers, such as Batch Normalization. Despite its common use and large utility in optimizing deep architectures, it has been challenging both to generically improve upon Batch Normalization and to understand the circumstances that lend them…
Variational auto-encoders (VAE) are scalable and powerful generative models. However, the choice of the variational posterior determines tractability and flexibility of the VAE. Commonly, latent variables are modeled using the normal distribution with a diagonal covariance matrix. This results in computational efficien…
Deep Learning (DL) models can be used to tackle time series analysis tasks with great success. However, the performance of DL models can degenerate rapidly if the data are not appropriately normalized. This issue is even more apparent when DL is used for financial time series forecasting tasks, where the non-stationary…
With the rapid growth in fashion e-commerce and customer-friendly product return policies, the cost to handle returned products has become a significant challenge. E-tailers incur huge losses in terms of reverse logistics costs, liquidation cost due to damaged returns or fraudulent behavior. Accurate prediction of prod…
CBN improves batch normalization for small mini-batch sizes.
problem Reduced effectiveness of Batch Normalization in small mini-batch sizes.
method CBN uses statistics from multiple recent iterations, compensating for network weight changes via Taylor polynomials.
result CBN outperforms original batch normalization and direct iteration statistics in object detection and image classification.
Extended Deep Adaptive Input Normalization for Preprocessing Time Series Data for Neural Networkscs.LG
EDAIN layer normalizes time series data for neural networks, improving model performance.
problem Irregularities in time series data degrade model performance in neural networks.
method EDAIN layer learns adaptive normalization parameters during end-to-end training.
result EDAIN layer outperforms conventional normalization methods and adaptive layers.
Paper proposes MABN to stabilize BN in small batch sizes.
problem Weakness of BN in small batch sizes limits its use in tasks with small batch sizes.
method Identifies and addresses two extra batch statistics in BN's backward propagation.
result MABN completely restores BN's performance in small batch sizes without additional nonlinear operations.
A significant advance in accelerating neural network training has been the development of normalization methods, permitting the training of deep models both faster and with better accuracy. These advances come with practical challenges: for instance, batch normalization ties the prediction of individual examples with o…
We characterize convolutional neural networks with respect to the relative amount of features per layer. Using a skew normal distribution as a parametrized framework, we investigate the common assumption of monotonously increasing feature-counts with higher layers of architecture designs. Our evaluation on models with …
Neural planners for RDDL MDPs produce deep reactive policies in an offline fashion. These scale well with large domains, but are sample inefficient and time-consuming to train from scratch for each new problem. To mitigate this, recent work has studied neural transfer learning, so that a generic planner trained on othe…
The Effect of Network Width on Stochastic Gradient Descent and Generalization: an Empirical Studycs.LG
We investigate how the final parameters found by stochastic gradient descent are influenced by over-parameterization. We generate families of models by increasing the number of channels in a base network, and then perform a large hyper-parameter search to study how the test error depends on learning rate, batch size, a…
We consider the problem of providing nonparametric confidence guarantees for undirected graphs under weak assumptions. In particular, we do not assume sparsity, incoherence or Normality. We allow the dimension to increase with the sample size . First, we prove lower bounds that show that if we want accurate infe…
Evaluating accuracy of community detection using the relative normalized mutual informationphysics.soc-ph
The Normalized Mutual Information (NMI) has been widely used to evaluate the accuracy of community detection algorithms. However in this article we show that the NMI is seriously affected by systematic errors due to finite size of networks, and may give a wrong estimate of performance of algorithms in some cases. We gi…
Directed acyclic graph (DAG) models are popular for capturing causal relationships. From observational and interventional data, a DAG model can only be determined up to its \emph{interventional Markov equivalence class} (I-MEC). We investigate the size of MECs for random DAG models generated by uniformly sampling and o…
Re-examination of the size distribution of firmsphysics.soc-ph
In this paper we address the question of the size distribution of firms. To this aim, we use the Bloomberg database comprising multinational firms within the years 1995-2003, and analyze the data of the sales and the total assets of the separate financial statement of the Japanese and the US companies, and make a compa…
We address the problem of abnormal event detection from trajectory data. In this paper, a new adversarial approach is proposed for building a deep neural network binary classifier, trained in an unsupervised fashion, that can distinguish normal from abnormal trajectory-based events without the need for setting manual d…
NSMs use always-on stochasticity to normalize activations, improving convergence and performance.
problem Improving the robustness and generalizability of deep neural networks.
method Developed Neural Sampling Machines (NSMs) using always-on multiplicative stochasticity and simple threshold neurons.
result NSMs exhibit self-normalizing properties similar to Weight Normalization, speeding up convergence and preventing internal covariate shift.
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a class of deep generative models which aim to learn a target distribution in an unsupervised fashion. While they were successfully applied to many problems, training a GAN is a notoriously challenging task and requires a significant number of hyperparameter tuning, neural arc…
The fashion industry is establishing its presence on a number of visual-centric social media like Instagram. This creates an interesting clash as fashion brands that have traditionally practiced highly creative and editorialized image marketing now have to engage with people on the platform that epitomizes impromptu, r…
Complex architectures of biological neural circuits, such as parallel processing pathways, has been behaviorally implicated in many cognitive studies. However, the theoretical consequences of circuit complexity on neural computation have only been explored in limited cases. Here, we introduce a mechanism by which direc…
This study examines how fashion consumption affects self-confidence and buying behavior in Iranian consumers.
problem Understanding the role of self-confidence in fashion buying behavior.
method A questionnaire was used to collect data from 400 consumers in Tehran's clothing market. Structural equations and factor analysis were employed to test the model.
result Interest in fashion, personal taste, utilitarianism, and new products positively impact self-confidence, and self-confidence positively impacts fashion buying behavior.
Defense against small image patches using occlusions.
problem Vulnerability of deep learning to small adversarial patches.
method Partially occlude image around each patch location.
result Certified security against patch attacks of a certain size.
A new BN method corrects size mismatch in WLF for imbalanced data.
problem Learning from imbalanced datasets in neural networks.
method Proposes weighted batch normalization (WBN) to correct size mismatch between BN and WLF.
result WBN corrects size mismatch and improves classification performance in imbalanced datasets.
With the proliferation of social media, fashion inspired from celebrities, reputed designers as well as fashion influencers has shortened the cycle of fashion design and manufacturing. However, with the explosion of fashion related content and large number of user generated fashion photos, it is an arduous task for fas…
We add size factor to CAPM and normalize residuals by Volatility Index.
problem Capturing the size effect in CAPM and making residuals Gaussian.
method Insert size effect, normalize residuals by Volatility Index, and fit model to real-world data.
result The new model shows long-term stability and connects to Stochastic Portfolio Theory.
The paper strengthens the classical result of MLE convergence to a Gaussian distribution.
problem The classical result of MLE convergence to a Gaussian distribution.
method Sub-Gaussian concentration and entropic normality of the normalized MLE.
result Entropic central limit theorem for a smoothed version of the estimator.
Improved BN for better performance in imbalanced data.
problem Improving classification accuracy in imbalanced datasets.
method Combining weighted loss function with modified batch normalization.
result Modified batch normalization improves classification accuracy in imbalanced datasets.
We present a new similarity measure based on information theoretic measures which is superior than Normalized Compression Distance for clustering problems and inherits the useful properties of conditional Kolmogorov complexity. We show that Normalized Compression Dictionary Size and Normalized Compression Dictionary En…
Quant Bust 2020q-fin.PM
Quant strategies lost during market selloff.
problem Why equities Statistical Arbitrage strategies failed during the COVID-19 market downturn.
method Explains strategies' normal performance and market regimes, discusses their limitations.
result Quant strategies are vulnerable to extreme market events.
Robotic clothing manipulation improved with fashion image analysis techniques.
problem Automated identification of clothing categories and landmarks for robotic tasks.
method Training data augmentation methods and rotation invariant convolutions.
result Our approach outperforms state-of-the-art models on unseen datasets.
The paper applies Information Bottleneck theory to CNNs and finds compression phase not always present.
problem Understanding the behavior of convolutional neural networks.
method Employed Information Bottleneck theory to analyze CNNs.
result Compression phase not observed in all CNN cases.
We use customer demand data for fashion articles on Myntra, and derive a fashionability or style quotient, which represents customer demand for the stylistic content of a fashion article, decoupled with its commercials (price, offers, etc.). We demonstrate learning for assortment planning in fashion that would aim to k…
Adaptive step-size improves optimization in complex geometries.
problem Optimizing functions with non-Euclidean geometries.
method Adaptive step-size strategy for optimization algorithms.
result Guaranteed convergence for Adaptive Conditional Gradient Descent.
Many current approaches to the design of intrusion detection systems apply feature selection in a static, non-adaptive fashion. These methods often neglect the dynamic nature of network data which requires to use adaptive feature selection techniques. In this paper, we present a simple technique based on incremental le…
HERMES model predicts nonstationary fashion trends using social media data.
problem Forecasting nonstationary fashion time series for optimal inventory decisions.
method Hybrid model combining parametric models, seasonal components, and recurrent neural networks with external signals.
result State-of-the-art results on fashion dataset and M4 competition time series.