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AeGAN improves speech clarity in noisy environments.
Paper introduces privacy-preserving inventory policy learning for feature-based newsvendor with unknown demand.
Recent work on discriminative segmental models has shown that they can achieve competitive speech recognition performance, using features based on deep neural frame classifiers. However, segmental models can be more challenging to train than standard frame-based approaches. While some segmental models have been success…
User and item features of side information are crucial for accurate recommendation. However, the large number of feature dimensions, e.g., usually larger than 10^7, results in expensive storage and computational cost. This prohibits fast recommendation especially on mobile applications where the computational resource …
The paper proposes criteria and methods for evaluating and aggregating feature-based model explanations.
Unified framework for feature-based explanations using ANOVA and game theory.
A new approach to newsvendor problems reduces loss by up to 40%.
Two algorithms achieve optimal logarithmic regret in feature-based dynamic pricing.
Machine learning improves EEG pathology classification.
Study agnostic feature-based dynamic pricing models with linear policies and noisy valuations.
New model combines shape and feature-based measures for better time series classification.
A new method uses Gaussian Processes for feature-based nonrigid image registration.
GRANITE unifies feature-based explanation methods to reduce disagreement.
In this paper we discuss policy iteration methods for approximate solution of a finite-state discounted Markov decision problem, with a focus on feature-based aggregation methods and their connection with deep reinforcement learning schemes. We introduce features of the states of the original problem, and we formulate …
Covariate shift relaxes the widely-employed independent and identically distributed (IID) assumption by allowing different training and testing input distributions. Unfortunately, common methods for addressing covariate shift by trying to remove the bias between training and testing distributions using importance weigh…
The paper presents a method for analyzing shape graphs using specific features.
Paper introduces new evaluation criteria for feature-based model explanations.
Rating Prediction is a basic problem in Recommender System, and one of the most widely used method is Factorization Machines(FM). However, traditional matrix factorization methods fail to utilize the benefit of implicit feedback, which has been proved to be important in Rating Prediction problem. In this work, we consi…
In this paper, we present a novel approach for incorporating external knowledge in Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). We propose the integration of lexicon features into the self-attention mechanism of RNN-based architectures. This form of conditioning on the attention distribution, enforces the contribution of the most…
Student-teacher learning improves generalization with noisy inputs.
In this paper, we focus on developing a novel mechanism to preserve differential privacy in deep neural networks, such that: (1) The privacy budget consumption is totally independent of the number of training steps; (2) It has the ability to adaptively inject noise into features based on the contribution of each to the…
Differentially private algorithms protect model explanations from leaking training data.
The task of determining a speaker's native language based only on his speeches in a second language is known as Native Language Identification or NLI. Due to its increasing applications in various domains of speech signal processing, this has emerged as an important research area in recent times. In this paper we have …
Perceptual capabilities of artificial systems have come a long way since the advent of deep learning. These methods have proven to be effective, however they are not as efficient as their biological counterparts. Visual attention is a set of mechanisms that are employed in biological visual systems to ease computationa…
In many modern image-classification applications, understanding the cause of model's prediction can be as critical as the prediction's accuracy itself. Various feature-based local explanations generation methods have been designed to give us more insights on the decision of complex classifiers. Nevertheless, there is n…
Domain adaptation has become a prominent problem setting in machine learning and related fields. This review asks the question: how can a classifier learn from a source domain and generalize to a target domain? We present a categorization of approaches, divided into, what we refer to as, sample-based, feature-based and…
A new method for dynamic feature selection outperforms existing approaches.
Survey on random features for kernel approximation, focusing on algorithms, theory, and practical applications.
Capturing the dynamical properties of time series concisely as interpretable feature vectors can enable efficient clustering and classification for time-series applications across science and industry. Selecting an appropriate feature-based representation of time series for a given application can be achieved through s…
Improves machine learning models by incorporating physical laws into feature maps.
Study shows increased precipitation variability in Paris area over years.
Energy-efficient detection of natural errors in deep networks.
Micro-panel data are collected and analysed in many research and industry areas. Cluster analysis of micro-panel data is an unsupervised learning exploratory method identifying subgroup clusters in a data set which include homogeneous objects in terms of the development dynamics of monitored variables. The supply of cl…
Privacy and transparency are two key foundations of trustworthy machine learning. Model explanations offer insights into a model's decisions on input data, whereas privacy is primarily concerned with protecting information about the training data. We analyze connections between model explanations and the leakage of sen…
To meet the standard of differential privacy, noise is usually added into the original data, which inevitably deteriorates the predicting performance of subsequent learning algorithms. In this paper, motivated by the success of improving predicting performance by ensemble learning, we propose to enhance privacy-preserv…
Pairwise Choice Markov Chains (PCMC) have been recently introduced to overcome limitations of choice models based on traditional axioms unable to express empirical observations from modern behavior economics like context effects occurring when a choice between two options is altered by adding a third alternative. The i…
Feature-based time series representations have attracted substantial attention in a wide range of time series analysis methods. Recently, the use of time series features for forecast model averaging has been an emerging research focus in the forecasting community. Nonetheless, most of the existing approaches depend on …
PLD distills knowledge using choice-theoretic Plackett-Luce model.
HRFA generates high-resolution, realistic adversarial examples for DNNs.
Cold-start is a very common and still open problem in the Recommender Systems literature. Since cold start items do not have any interaction, collaborative algorithms are not applicable. One of the main strategies is to use pure or hybrid content-based approaches, which usually yield to lower recommendation quality tha…
Study shows safely discarding features based on aggregate SHAP values is sound.
Network embedding has proved extremely useful in a variety of network analysis tasks such as node classification, link prediction, and network visualization. Almost all the existing network embedding methods learn to map the node IDs to their corresponding node embeddings. This design principle, however, hinders the ex…
The paper compares clustering methods for improving time series forecasting accuracy.
We propose a principled method for kernel learning, which relies on a Fourier-analytic characterization of translation-invariant or rotation-invariant kernels. Our method produces a sequence of feature maps, iteratively refining the SVM margin. We provide rigorous guarantees for optimality and generalization, interpret…
Herein, we generate pseudo-features based on the multivariate probability distributions obtained from the feature maps in layers of trained deep neural networks. Further, we augment the minor-class data based on these generated pseudo-features to overcome the imbalanced data problems. The proposed method, i.e., cavity …
mNARX+ creates accurate surrogate models for complex systems without requiring domain expertise.
Recommending new items to existing users has remained a challenging problem due to absence of user's past preferences for these items. The user personalized non-collaborative methods based on item features can be used to address this item cold-start problem. These methods rely on similarities between the target item an…
Neural collapse occurs in normalized features over a Riemannian manifold.