Shows flexible sheaves as fibrant objects for Gromov's h-principle.
problem Applying the h-principle to partial differential relations.
method Interprets flexible sheaves as fibrant objects in a model structure.
result Flexible sheaves can be understood as fibrant objects.
Many real world applications can be framed as multi-objective optimization problems, where we wish to simultaneously optimize for multiple criteria. Bayesian optimization techniques for the multi-objective setting are pertinent when the evaluation of the functions in question are expensive. Traditional methods for mult…
VOPy optimizes multiple objectives with flexible cone-based ordering.
problem Optimizing multiple objectives with partial order constraints.
method Flexible cone-based ordering, modular architecture, integration of existing and novel methods.
result Advances black-box vector optimization in noisy, discrete, or limited budget settings.
ANN with GA optimizes flexible disc design for lower mass and stress.
problem Design flexible disc elements for lower mass and stress without compromising torque transmission and misalignment.
method Artificial Neural Network (ANN) coupled with Genetic Algorithm (GA) for design exploration.
result Optimized designs meet specified criteria with minimum mass and stress.
BFPM improves machine learning accuracy by considering object types and memberships flexibly.
problem Inaccurate learning due to missing important parameters.
method BFPM relaxes fuzzy and possibilistic constraints, allowing arbitrary object memberships and movement analysis.
result BFPM enhances object movement analysis and provides flexible search space.
This paper presents a new mechanism for producing sanitized statistical summaries that achieve \emph{differential privacy}, called the \emph{K-Norm Gradient} Mechanism, or KNG. This new approach maintains the strong flexibility of the exponential mechanism, while achieving the powerful utility performance of objective …
Introduces BPEL for EL, enhancing flexibility and using MCMC for inference.
problem Computational challenges in EL methods.
method Bayesian Penalized Empirical Likelihood (BPEL) framework with MCMC sampling.
result Enhanced flexibility and practicality of EL methods with MCMC.
Paper tackles federated learning with personalised bandit algorithms.
problem Optimizing local and global objectives in a heterogeneous environment.
method Surrogate objective function combining client preferences and global knowledge; phase-based elimination algorithm.
result Achieves sublinear regret with logarithmic communication overhead.
Proposes a new method for continual learning in neural networks.
problem Challenges in applying sequential Bayesian inference to neural networks.
method Sequential function-space variational inference.
result Neural networks trained with the proposed method achieve better predictive accuracy.
A key advance in learning generative models is the use of amortized inference distributions that are jointly trained with the models. We find that existing training objectives for variational autoencoders can lead to inaccurate amortized inference distributions and, in some cases, improving the objective provably degra…
Despite significant recent progress, machine vision systems lag considerably behind their biological counterparts in performance, scalability, and robustness. A distinctive hallmark of the brain is its ability to automatically discover and model objects, at multiscale resolutions, from repeated exposures to unlabeled c…
Lo-Hp decouples weight generation into local and global policies to improve flexibility and efficiency.
problem Over-coupling and long-horizon issues in current optimization methods.
method Hybrid-Policy Sub-Trajectory Balance objective.
result Learning local optimization policies addresses long-horizon issues and enhances global weight generation.
Student-t processes have recently been proposed as an appealing alternative non-parameteric function prior. They feature enhanced flexibility and predictive variance. In this work the use of Student-t processes are explored for multi-objective Bayesian optimization. In particular, an analytical expression for the h…
Two flexible, degenerate constructions related to Thurston's theorem.
problem Understanding the structure and local non-rigidity of Teichmüller spaces and their representations.
method Constructing geodesic segments and open sets in Teichmüller spaces with specific properties.
result Geodesic segments and open sets with degenerate properties in Teichmüller spaces.
Improved object segmentation and tracking in video using optical flow and initial state conditioning.
problem Challenges in fully unsupervised object-centric learning from video data.
method Weakly-supervised approach using optical flow and initial state conditioning.
result Conditioning the model on simple object location cues significantly improves instance segmentation in realistic synthetic data.
Unified framework for learning flexible probabilistic programs using DPP and PAC-Bayes bounds.
problem Learning and generalizing from complex probabilistic models.
method Unified DPP representation and PAC-Bayes bounds for stochastic programs.
result Improved performance and generalization prediction using flexible DPP model representations and learned complexity measures.
Method cleans covariance matrices for better statistical inference.
problem Reducing estimation noise in covariance matrices for better statistical inference.
method Robust yet flexible hierarchical ansatz with bootstrap procedure.
result Lower realized risk in global minimum variance portfolios.
This work improves multi-modal generative models by using permutation-invariant neural networks.
problem Improving multi-modal generative models with tighter variational objectives.
method Developed more flexible aggregation schemes based on permutation-invariant neural networks.
result Our variational objective and flexible aggregation models can better approximate the true joint distribution.
Bayesian nonparametrics adapt model complexity to diverse datasets.
problem Complex challenges across statistics, computer science, and engineering.
method Flexible Bayesian nonparametric models that adapt model complexity.
result Bayesian nonparametrics offer innovative solutions to multi-object tracking.
Bayesian methods improve tracking multiple objects through dynamic dependencies.
problem Tracking multiple objects with time-varying cardinality and unordered measurements.
method Employing Bayesian nonparametric models, specifically dependent Dirichlet and Pitman-Yor processes, for state estimation and Monte Carlo sampling for trajectory learning.
result The proposed methods outperform existing algorithms in estimating the time-varying number of objects and identifying object associations.
While great progress has been made recently in automatic image manipulation, it has been limited to object centric images like faces or structured scene datasets. In this work, we take a step towards general scene-level image editing by developing an automatic interaction-free object removal model. Our model learns to …
PSI models and infers feature attributions efficiently and accurately.
problem Modeling and inferring feature attributions in flexible predictive models.
method Probabilistic Shapley inference (PSI) framework using latent random variables and a masking-based neural network architecture.
result PSI learns feature attribution distributions centered at Shapley values, revealing meaningful uncertainty.
BoTier optimizes experiments by balancing multiple objectives hierarchically.
problem Balancing multiple competing objectives in scientific experiments.
method Composite objective that flexibly represents a hierarchy of preferences over outcomes and parameters.
result Demonstrates robust applicability across various use cases and seamless integration.
Score matching provides an effective approach to learning flexible unnormalized models, but its scalability is limited by the need to evaluate a second-order derivative. In this paper, we present a scalable approximation to a general family of learning objectives including score matching, by observing a new connection …
This work improves policy-based training by proposing an evaluation balance objective for GFlowNets.
problem Reliable estimation of policy divergence under directed acyclic graphs remains challenging.
method Proposes an evaluation balance objective over partial episodes to measure policy divergence and improve policy-based training reliability.
result Evaluation balance strengthens policy-based training reliability and broadens its flexibility.
Hashing has been widely adopted for large-scale data retrieval in many domains, due to its low storage cost and high retrieval speed. Existing cross-modal hashing methods optimistically assume that the correspondence between training samples across modalities are readily available. This assumption is unrealistic in pra…
New MCFOs improve learning generative models and time series inference.
problem Challenges in learning generative models and inferring latent trajectories for time series.
method Proposed Monte Carlo filtering objectives (MCFOs) for joint learning and adaptive proposals.
result MCFOs lead to efficient and stable model learning and explain data well.
In recent years, multi object tracking (MOT) problem has drawn attention to it and has been studied in various research areas. However, some of the challenging problems including time dependent cardinality, unordered measurement set, and object labeling remain unclear. In this paper, we propose robust nonparametric met…
mFI-PSO generates effective adversarial images for DNNs.
problem Vulnerability of DNNs to small perturbations in images.
method Uses mFI for pixel selection and PSO for objective functions.
result mFI-PSO effectively designs flexible adversarial images.
ACE models allow flexible conditioning and prediction of latent variables.
problem Lack of flexibility in conditioning and prediction of latent variables in probabilistic models.
method Introduces Amortized Conditioning Engine (ACE) that explicitly represents latent variables and allows runtime conditioning and prediction.
result ACE models outperform existing methods in diverse tasks like image completion, classification, Bayesian optimization, and simulation-based inference.
Improved model for multivariate time series prediction with simpler architecture.
problem Multivariate probabilistic time series prediction challenges.
method Simplified transformer-based attentional copulas (TACTiS) with linearly scalable parameters.
result Significantly better training dynamics and state-of-the-art performance.
Proposes a new MOBO framework for better estimation of uncertain parameters in expensive black-box functions.
problem Estimating the unknown utopia in multi-objective optimization problems with expensive black-box functions.
method Nested weighted Tchebycheff Multi-objective Bayesian Optimization (WTB-MOBO) with ensemble model selection.
result Improves MOBO performance by selecting the best model from an ensemble of predictive models.
Imitation Learning (IL) is an appealing approach to learn desirable autonomous behavior. However, directing IL to achieve arbitrary goals is difficult. In contrast, planning-based algorithms use dynamics models and reward functions to achieve goals. Yet, reward functions that evoke desirable behavior are often difficul…
We propose a novel and flexible rank-breaking-then-composite-marginal-likelihood (RBCML) framework for learning random utility models (RUMs), which include the Plackett-Luce model. We characterize conditions for the objective function of RBCML to be strictly log-concave by proving that strict log-concavity is preserved…
Specialized Deep Learning (DL) acceleration stacks, designed for a specific set of frameworks, model architectures, operators, and data types, offer the allure of high performance while sacrificing flexibility. Changes in algorithms, models, operators, or numerical systems threaten the viability of specialized hardware…
Real-world dynamical systems often consist of multiple stochastic subsystems that interact with each other. Modeling and forecasting the behavior of such dynamics are generally not easy, due to the inherent hardness in understanding the complicated interactions and evolutions of their constituents. This paper introduce…
Novel framework for reliable long-tailed classification.
problem Challenges of long-tailed imbalance and specific error risks.
method Bayesian Decision Theory and variational optimization.
result Demonstrates reliability and flexibility in diverse tasks.
PDSketch enables flexible robot planning by learning from domain structures.
problem Building general robots with flexible planning.
method Exploiting locality and sparsity in environmental models, PDSketch defines high-level structures for trainable neural networks.
result PDSketch automatically generates planning heuristics without additional training.
Paper compares semi-supervised training for differentiable particle filters.
problem Lack of labelled data in real-world applications.
method Compares two semi-supervised training objectives.
result Improved performance in environments with scarce labelled data.
Local surrogate explainers vary in objectives, leading to incomparable explanations.
problem Variability in objectives among local surrogate explainers.
method Review of multiple local surrogate explainers, focusing on extracted information.
result Diverse explanations from similar methods due to differing objectives.
Gradient Boosted Normalizing Flows improve flexibility of NFs without increasing complexity.
problem Improving flexibility of normalizing flows without increasing complexity.
method Gradient Boosting applied to normalizing flows to create a mixture model structure.
result GBNFs outperform non-boosted NFs and produce better results with simpler components.
Goal-directed manipulation of representations is a key element of human flexible behaviour, while consciousness is often related to several aspects of higher-order cognition and human flexibility. Currently these two phenomena are only partially integrated (e.g., see Neurorepresentationalism) and this (a) limits our un…
Paper proposes energy objective for training normalizing flows without determinants.
problem Challenges in training normalizing flows due to Jacobian determinants.
method Introduces energy objective based on proper scoring rules, determinant-free.
result Energy objective supports novel model families and competitive performance.
Automated machine learning has gained a lot of attention recently. Building and selecting the right machine learning models is often a multi-objective optimization problem. General purpose machine learning software that simultaneously supports multiple objectives and constraints is scant, though the potential benefits …
Symile learns joint representations across multiple modalities, outperforming pairwise CLIP.
problem Pairwise contrastive learning fails to capture joint information between multiple modalities.
method Symile uses a flexible, architecture-agnostic objective to learn modality-specific representations by deriving a lower bound on total correlation.
result Symile outperforms pairwise CLIP on cross-modal classification and retrieval across various datasets.
Maximum entropy modeling is a flexible and popular framework for formulating statistical models given partial knowledge. In this paper, rather than the traditional method of optimizing over the continuous density directly, we learn a smooth and invertible transformation that maps a simple distribution to the desired ma…
SC-InfoNCE improves InfoNCE for feature clustering in contrastive learning.
problem Lack of theoretical understanding of InfoNCE's feature clustering mechanism.
method Introduced a transition probability matrix to model data augmentation dynamics and optimize feature similarity.
result SC-InfoNCE achieves strong performance across diverse domains, aligning feature similarity with downstream data.
Introduces a new geometric method for optimal experimental design.
problem Restrictive invariance properties of traditional OED approaches based on probability densities.
method Mutual transport dependence (MTD) using optimal transport theory.
result Demonstrates high-quality designs and flexibility compared to standard methods.