Recently, Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) obtained huge success in numerous vision tasks. In particular, DenseNets have demonstrated that feature reuse via dense skip connections can effectively alleviate the difficulty of training very deep networks and that reusing features generated by the initial layers in all s…
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An important research direction in machine learning has centered around developing meta-learning algorithms to tackle few-shot learning. An especially successful algorithm has been Model Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML), a method that consists of two optimization loops, with the outer loop finding a meta-initialization, f…
The paper analyzes MAML's representation using RSA, revealing that feature reuse is not the primary reason for its success.
problem Understanding why model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) works well in few-shot learning tasks.
method Representation similarity analysis (RSA) applied to MAML's few-shot learning instantiation.
result Feature reuse is not the primary reason for MAML's success; instead, it is the learning task itself that increases representation similarity.
The paper investigates what enables successful transfer learning and separates feature reuse from data statistics.
problem Understanding what enables successful transfer learning and identifying the responsible parts of the network.
method Analyzes transfer learning on block-shuffled images to distinguish feature reuse from data statistics.
result Some benefit of transfer learning comes from learning low-level statistics of data, not just feature reuse.
When there is a suspicious figure reuse case in science, research integrity investigators often find it difficult to rebut authors claiming that "it happened by chance". In other words, when there is a "collision" of image features, it is difficult to justify whether it appears rarely or not. In this article, we provid…
Study on feature learning dynamics in infinite-depth neural networks, focusing on ResNets.
problem Understanding how features evolve during training in deep neural networks, especially in the large-depth limit.
method Conditional Gaussian representations and SDE system with decoupled backward weights.
result Depth-induced suppression of forward-backward coupling in infinite-depth networks, leading to a decoupled forward-backward SDE system.
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.
The paper develops a theory linking pretraining and fine-tuning in neural networks.
problem Understanding how initialization choices impact feature learning and generalization in neural networks.
method Analytical theory of diagonal linear networks, deriving generalization error as a function of initialization parameters and task statistics.
result Different initialization choices place networks into four fine-tuning regimes with varying abilities to support feature learning and generalization.
Entity resolution (ER) is one of the fundamental problems in data integration, where machine learning (ML) based classifiers often provide the state-of-the-art results. Considerable human effort goes into feature engineering and training data creation. In this paper, we investigate a new problem: Given a dataset D_T fo…
Transfer learning from natural image datasets, particularly ImageNet, using standard large models and corresponding pretrained weights has become a de-facto method for deep learning applications to medical imaging. However, there are fundamental differences in data sizes, features and task specifications between natura…
The use of transfer learning with deep neural networks has increasingly become widespread for deploying well-tested computer vision systems to newer domains, especially those with limited datasets. We describe a transfer learning use case for a domain with a data-starved regime, having fewer than 100 labeled target sam…
In multi-label learning, each instance is associated with multiple labels and the crucial task is how to leverage label correlations in building models. Deep neural network methods usually jointly embed the feature and label information into a latent space to exploit label correlations. However, the success of these me…
Improved scaling laws in linear regression using data reuse.
problem Sustainability of neural scaling laws when running out of new data.
method Data reuse in multi-pass stochastic gradient descent (multi-pass SGD) for -dimensional linear models trained on data with sketched features.
result Multi-pass SGD achieves a test error of with , improving scaling laws in data-constrained regimes.
New insights into neural network feature learning through multi-step gradient descent.
problem Understanding feature learning in two-layer neural networks with limited width.
method Characterization of feature learning through two steps of gradient descent with specific step sizes.
result The second step of gradient descent reveals multiple learned directions, not limited to a single direction as in the first step.
Experience reuse is key to sample-efficient reinforcement learning. One of the critical issues is how the experience is represented and stored. Previously, the experience can be stored in the forms of features, individual models, and the average model, each lying at a different granularity. However, new tasks may requi…
Deep reinforcement learning algorithms have shown an impressive ability to learn complex control policies in high-dimensional tasks. However, despite the ever-increasing performance on popular benchmarks, policies learned by deep reinforcement learning algorithms can struggle to generalize when evaluated in remarkably …
Study on reliability of latent reuse in diffusion models under distribution shift.
problem When can latent spaces from a source dataset be reused for a target dataset with different distributions?
method Considered a source-target setting with approximately low-dimensional datasets near different subspaces. Analyzed the target-domain score error due to principal-angle misalignment and target ambient noise.
result Latent reuse is reliable only if the source and target subspaces are close and the target ambient noise is not too amplified.
An increasing number of well-trained deep networks have been released online by researchers and developers, enabling the community to reuse them in a plug-and-play way without accessing the training annotations. However, due to the large number of network variants, such public-available trained models are often of diff…
Improved ResNets and DenseNets models for better feature reuse.
problem Diminishing feature reuse in ResNets and DenseNets.
method ResNEsts and DenseNEsts are block-based DNN models with improved representation guarantees.
result Wide ResNEsts with bottleneck blocks can guarantee desirable training properties.
We propose several ways of reusing subword embeddings and other weights in subword-aware neural language models. The proposed techniques do not benefit a competitive character-aware model, but some of them improve the performance of syllable- and morpheme-aware models while showing significant reductions in model sizes…
AB-Cache: Training-Free Acceleration of Diffusion Models via Adams-Bashforth Cached Feature Reusestat.ML
New method speeds up diffusion models without sacrificing quality.
problem Slow inference in diffusion models.
method Adams-Bashforth method for caching and acceleration.
result Achieved nearly 3x speedup with maintained quality.
New RL algorithms improve control tasks with data reuse.
problem Real-world control requires performance guarantees and data efficiency.
method Generalized Policy Improvement combining on-policy guarantees and sample reuse.
result Extensive experimental analysis shows benefits of new algorithms.
Recently, Transformer has gained success in automatic speech recognition (ASR) field. However, it is challenging to deploy a Transformer-based end-to-end (E2E) model for online speech recognition. In this paper, we propose the Transformer-based online CTC/attention E2E ASR architecture, which contains the chunk self-at…
Hyperparameter tuning of multi-stage pipelines introduces a significant computational burden. Motivated by the observation that work can be reused across pipelines if the intermediate computations are the same, we propose a pipeline-aware approach to hyperparameter tuning. Our approach optimizes both the design and exe…
When concept drift is detected during classification in a data stream, a common remedy is to retrain a framework's classifier. However, this loses useful information if the classifier has learnt the current concept well, and this concept will recur again in the future. Some frameworks retain and reuse classifiers, but …
Deep learning methods have shown extraordinary potential for analyzing very diverse biomedical data, but their dissemination beyond developers is hindered by important computational hurdles. We introduce ImJoy (https://imjoy.io/), a flexible and open-source browser-based platform designed to facilitate widespread reuse…
A key question in Reinforcement Learning is which representation an agent can learn to efficiently reuse knowledge between different tasks. Recently the Successor Representation was shown to have empirical benefits for transferring knowledge between tasks with shared transition dynamics. This paper presents Model Featu…
In this work a new way to calculate the multivariate joint entropy is presented. This measure is the basis for a fast information-theoretic based evaluation of gene relevance in a Microarray Gene Expression data context. Its low complexity is based on the reuse of previous computations to calculate current feature rele…
In many real-world applications, data are often collected in the form of stream, and thus the distribution usually changes in nature, which is referred as concept drift in literature. We propose a novel and effective approach to handle concept drift via model reuse, leveraging previous knowledge by reusing models. Each…
Improves reinforcement learning stability and efficiency.
problem Combining stability and efficiency in reinforcement learning.
method Combines on-policy stability with off-policy sample reuse.
result Demonstrates improved performance in both theory and practice.
In order to meet the diverse challenges in solving many real-world problems, an intelligent agent has to be able to dynamically construct a model of its environment. Objects facilitate the modular reuse of prior knowledge and the combinatorial construction of such models. In this work, we argue that dynamically bound f…
VRER selectively reuses samples to improve policy optimization in complex systems.
problem Lack of effective reuse of historical samples in reinforcement learning.
method Variance reduction based experience replay (VRER) framework.
result VRER accelerates policy optimization and enhances performance.
This paper proposes reusing CNN layers to speed up hyperparameters tuning.
problem Time-consuming hyperparameters tuning in CNNs.
method Reuse trained convolutional layers among different trainings.
result Reduces training time and increases accuracy of neural networks.
New method uses rank-conditioned Horvitz-Thompson estimation for unbiased sample reuse in Plackett-Luce best-of-K objective.
problem Estimating the expected maximum reward in Plackett-Luce draws without replacement.
method Rank-conditioned Horvitz-Thompson estimation with joint-score REINFORCE for unbiased sample reuse.
result Unbiased estimation of the Plackett-Luce best-of-K objective with finite second moment guarantees.
We develop a data driven approach to perform clustering and end-to-end feature learning simultaneously for streaming data that can adaptively detect novel clusters in emerging data. Our approach, Adaptive Nonparametric Variational Autoencoder (AdapVAE), learns the cluster membership through a Bayesian Nonparametric (BN…
Excessive reuse of test data has become commonplace in today's machine learning workflows. Popular benchmarks, competitions, industrial scale tuning, among other applications, all involve test data reuse beyond guidance by statistical confidence bounds. Nonetheless, recent replication studies give evidence that popular…
Two-layer networks learn faster with batch reuse, overcoming information and leap exponents.
problem Limitations of gradient flow and single-pass GD in learning multi-index target functions.
method Multi-pass gradient descent that reuses batches, analyzed using Dynamical Mean-Field Theory.
result Two-time-step overlap with target subspace for non-staircase functions, overcoming information and leap exponents.
As an effective data preprocessing step, feature selection has shown its effectiveness to prepare high-dimensional data for many machine learning tasks. The proliferation of high di-mension and huge volume big data, however, has brought major challenges, e.g. computation complexity and stability on noisy data, upon exi…
KVCOMM: Online Cross-context KV-cache Communication for Efficient LLM-based Multi-agent Systemscs.MA
KVCOMM optimizes multi-agent LLM systems by reusing KV-caches, reducing redundant processing.
problem Substantial overhead from reprocessing overlapping contexts across multi-agent systems.
method KVCOMM reuses KV-caches and adjusts offsets for shared content using a pool of cached examples (anchors).
result Achieves over 70% reuse rate across diverse multi-agent tasks, up to 7.8x speedup.
PPG separates policy and value function training phases for better reinforcement learning efficiency.
problem Challenges in traditional reinforcement learning methods for policy and value function optimization.
method Integrates Phasic Policy Gradient framework that splits policy and value function training into distinct phases.
result Significantly improves sample efficiency on Procgen Benchmark compared to PPO.
Stabilizes policy optimization with off-policy data using divergence augmentation.
problem Premature convergence and instability in policy optimization with off-policy data.
method Incorporates Bregman divergence between behavior and current policies to ensure safe policy updates.
result Empirically shows better performance in data-scarce scenarios compared to other algorithms.
Recent work has shown that convolutional networks can be substantially deeper, more accurate, and efficient to train if they contain shorter connections between layers close to the input and those close to the output. In this paper, we embrace this observation and introduce the Dense Convolutional Network (DenseNet), w…
BOIL updates model body only, showing better few-shot learning performance.
problem Few-shot learning efficiency with model reuse vs. change.
method Proposes BOIL, updating only model body, freezing head.
result Significantly outperforms MAML on cross-domain tasks.
Modern audio source separation techniques rely on optimizing sequence model architectures such as, 1D-CNNs, on mixture recordings to generalize well to unseen mixtures. Specifically, recent focus is on time-domain based architectures such as Wave-U-Net which exploit temporal context by extracting multi-scale features. …
Excessive reuse of holdout data can lead to overfitting. However, there is little concrete evidence of significant overfitting due to holdout reuse in popular multiclass benchmarks today. Known results show that, in the worst-case, revealing the accuracy of adaptively chosen classifiers on a data set of size al…
To deal with the complexity of the new bigger and more complex generation of data, machine learning (ML) techniques are probably the first and foremost used. For ML algorithms to produce results in a reasonable amount of time, they need to be implemented efficiently. In this paper, we analyze one of the means to increa…
TorchKM: A GPU-Oriented Library for Kernel Learning and Model Selection
problem Kernel learning and model selection
method GPU acceleration
result Competitive predictive performance with speedups
VRER selectively reuses past observations to reduce variance in policy optimization.
problem Lack of effective experience replay for accelerating policy optimization in complex systems.
method Variance Reduction Experience Replay (VRER) framework that selectively reuses informative samples.
result VRER reduces gradient variance and improves policy learning over state-of-the-art algorithms.