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Active feature selection uses mutual information to choose fewer labels for better feature selection.
We consider the problem of active feature acquisition, where we sequentially select the subset of features in order to achieve the maximum prediction performance in the most cost-effective way. In this work, we formulate this active feature acquisition problem as a reinforcement learning problem, and provide a novel fr…
EmbraceNet fusion model for multi-sensor activity recognition.
This research reverses feature visualization in neural networks to optimize for specific feature objectives.
New feature representation improves HAR model accuracy.
Feature missing is a serious problem in many applications, which may lead to low quality of training data and further significantly degrade the learning performance. While feature acquisition usually involves special devices or complex process, it is expensive to acquire all feature values for the whole dataset. On the…
Our research focuses on analysing human activities according to a known behaviorist scenario, in case of noisy and high dimensional collected data. The data come from the monitoring of patients with dementia diseases by wearable cameras. We define a structural model of video recordings based on a Hidden Markov Model. N…
AFA evaluates AI feature acquisition strategies in domains with high costs.
ContextBench benchmarks methods for generating linguistically fluent inputs that activate specific latent features in language models.
Regularization improves stability and consistency of sparse autoencoders.
Study improves feature acquisition for static settings in AFAPE.
In active learning, the user sequentially chooses values for feature and an oracle returns the corresponding label . In this paper, we consider the effect of feature noise in active learning, which could arise either because itself is being measured, or it is corrupted in transmission to the oracle, or the o…
Gradient descent aligns neural feature matrices with pre-activation tangent features.
Incremental methods for structure learning of pairwise Markov random fields (MRFs), such as grafting, improve scalability by avoiding inference over the entire feature space in each optimization step. Instead, inference is performed over an incrementally grown active set of features. In this paper, we address key compu…
This work presents deep asymmetric networks with a set of node-wise variant activation functions. The nodes' sensitivities are affected by activation function selections such that the nodes with smaller indices become increasingly more sensitive. As a result, features learned by the nodes are sorted by the node indices…
Recognizing group activities is challenging due to the difficulties in isolating individual entities, finding the respective roles played by the individuals and representing the complex interactions among the participants. Individual actions and group activities in videos can be represented in a common framework as the…
New sEMG dataset for ADL activities recognized with high accuracy.
VFDS selects dynamic features for efficient HAR tasks, optimizing performance-cost trade-offs.
The ubiquitous availability of wearable sensors is responsible for driving the Internet-of-Things but is also making an impact on sport sciences and precision medicine. While human activity recognition from smartphone data or other types of inertial measurement units (IMU) has evolved to one of the most prominent daily…
Discriminative active learning reduces data annotation costs for domain adaptation.
Classifies Bitcoin addresses based on their balance functions.
This paper proposes an active metric learning method for clustering with pairwise constraints.
Small sample size hinders accurate long-term COVID-19 case predictions.
Random feature maps improve forecasting of chaotic dynamical systems.
We present results from a set of experiments in this pilot study to investigate the causal influence of user activity on various environmental parameters monitored by occupant carried multi-purpose sensors. Hypotheses with respect to each type of measurements are verified, including temperature, humidity, and light lev…
ESE-FN improves elderly activity recognition accuracy.
We propose a sparse-coding framework for activity recognition in ubiquitous and mobile computing that alleviates two fundamental problems of current supervised learning approaches. (i) It automatically derives a compact, sparse and meaningful feature representation of sensor data that does not rely on prior expert know…
The paper analyzes the role of ReLU gates in deep learning networks.
modAL is a modular active learning framework for Python, aimed to make active learning research and practice simpler. Its distinguishing features are (i) clear and modular object oriented design (ii) full compatibility with scikit-learn models and workflows. These features make fast prototyping and easy extensibility p…
Machine learning is often used in virtual screening to find compounds that are pharmacologically active on a target protein. The weave module is a type of graph convolutional deep neural network that uses not only features focusing on atoms alone (atom features) but also features focusing on atom pairs (pair features);…
Capsule networks improve on traditional neural networks by using vector activations.
This paper explores adaptive neural activation in RNNs for better learning.
New method selects features for sequential decision making.
While neural networks are powerful approximators used to classify or embed data into lower dimensional spaces, they are often regarded as black boxes with uninterpretable features. Here we propose Graph Spectral Regularization for making hidden layers more interpretable without significantly impacting performance on th…
Optimal AFs minimize RFR test error and sensitivity.
DiAL uses Bayesian Dirichlet random fields for active learning with sparse labels.
In the last few years there has been a growing interest in Human Activity Recognition~(HAR) topic. Sensor-based HAR approaches, in particular, has been gaining more popularity owing to their privacy preserving nature. Furthermore, due to the widespread accessibility of the internet, a broad range of streaming-based app…
BatchTopK SAEs improve GPT-2 and Gemma activations with adjustable sparsity.
AL2 progressively penalizes network activations to prevent overfitting.
Enhances 2D face recognition with 3D features using active illumination.
NM-PPG optimizes adaptive feature acquisition in POMDPs for better predictions.
Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) is an optical amplifier/repeater device used to boost the intensity of optical signals being carried through a fiber optic communication system. A highly accurate EDFA model is important because of its crucial role in optical network management and optimization. The input channels of…
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…
Redundancy in deep neural network (DNN) models has always been one of their most intriguing and important properties. DNNs have been shown to overparameterize, or extract a lot of redundant features. In this work, we explore the impact of size (both width and depth), activation function, and weight initialization on th…
Labeled data used for training activity recognition classifiers are usually limited in terms of size and diversity. Thus, the learned model may not generalize well when used in real-world use cases. Semi-supervised learning augments labeled examples with unlabeled examples, often resulting in improved performance. Howe…
The problem of learning a sparse model is conceptually interpreted as the process of identifying active features/samples and then optimizing the model over them. Recently introduced safe screening allows us to identify a part of non-active features/samples. So far, safe screening has been individually studied either fo…
Activity recognition from sensor data deals with various challenges, such as overlapping activities, activity labeling, and activity detection. Although each challenge in the field of recognition has great importance, the most important one refers to online activity recognition. The present study tries to use online hi…
Study of urban lifestyles from mobility data of 1.2M people in 11 U.S. cities.