Gradual ML improves ALSA with less manual labeling.
problem Lack of high-quality labeled data for ALSA.
method Gradual machine learning for automatic labeling of ALSA tasks.
result Performance surpasses unsupervised and supervised alternatives.
Usually considered as a classification problem, entity resolution (ER) can be very challenging on real data due to the prevalence of dirty values. The state-of-the-art solutions for ER were built on a variety of learning models (most notably deep neural networks), which require lots of accurately labeled training data.…
IUPM monitors machine learning models under gradual shifts using optimal transport and active labeling.
problem Gradual distribution shifts lead to unnoticed accuracy declines in machine learning models.
method Incremental Uncertainty-aware Performance Monitoring (IUPM) using optimal transport and active labeling.
result IUPM outperforms existing baselines in gradual shift scenarios and guides label acquisition more effectively.
Self-training improves gradual domain adaptation with unlabeled data.
problem Improving machine learning models' adaptability to gradually shifting data distributions.
method Proved upper bounds on self-training error, highlighted the importance of regularization and label sharpening, and demonstrated algorithmic insights.
result Self-training works well for gradual shifts, especially with small Wasserstein-infinity distance.
New method optimizes unknown functions adaptively.
problem Tuning hyperparameters in machine learning.
method Gradually and adaptively optimizing an unknown function using estimated gradients.
result Advantages for tuning high dimensional hyperparameters in machine learning.
We propose a clustering-based iterative algorithm to solve certain optimization problems in machine learning, where we start the algorithm by aggregating the original data, solving the problem on aggregated data, and then in subsequent steps gradually disaggregate the aggregated data. We apply the algorithm to common m…
New algorithm for ML models in gradually adapting data settings.
problem Training models when data distribution reacts to the model over time.
method Stateful Performative Gradient Descent (Stateful PerfGD)
result Stateful PerfGD minimizes performative loss in gradually adapting data settings.
A new method uses normalizing flows for gradual domain adaptation.
problem Difficulty in domain adaptation when source and target domains have a large gap.
method Proposes using normalizing flows to learn a transformation from target to Gaussian mixture distribution.
result Improves classification performance and mitigates the problem of gradual self-training failure.
Study proposes a new approval policy for ML-based medical devices to prevent gradual performance degradation.
problem Gradual deterioration in machine learning model performance over time in medical devices.
method Formulated an automatic algorithmic change protocol (aACP) as an online hypothesis testing problem, considering both error-rate guarantees and non-guaranteed policies.
result Controlled the rate of gradual deterioration (biocreep) in machine learning models without significantly impacting approval of beneficial modifications.
New model detects gradual changes in processes more accurately.
problem Traditional change-point models fail to identify gradual changes effectively.
method Introduces a Bayesian change-dynamic model using hierarchical models for gradual change detection.
result The model identifies gradual changes faster and more accurately than traditional models.
A cost-effective framework for gradual domain adaptation using multifidelity.
problem Degrading prediction performance due to large domain distance.
method Combines multifidelity and active domain adaptation.
result Improves prediction performance with reduced sample cost.
Scales gradual pattern discovery from imprecise data.
problem Managing large collections of gradual patterns from imprecise data.
method Introduces gradualness thresholds and considers attribute value distribution.
result Eliminates noise patterns, showing a smaller set of meaningful patterns.
Gradual domain adaptation improves model transfer between domains with intermediate training.
problem Challenges in unsupervised domain adaptation when distribution shifts are large.
method Gradual self-training using intermediate domains along the Wasserstein geodesic.
result GOAT framework generates intermediate domains for improved adaptation.
Humans are the final decision makers in critical tasks that involve ethical and legal concerns, ranging from recidivism prediction, to medical diagnosis, to fighting against fake news. Although machine learning models can sometimes achieve impressive performance in these tasks, these tasks are not amenable to full auto…
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…
Auto-ML framework tackles data drift using GBDT and incremental learning.
problem Data distribution changes over time, reducing model performance.
method GBDT and Incremental learning for handling data drift.
result Effective solution for data drift with robust performance.
This paper explores how deep learning models can fit data exactly and why this is important.
problem Understanding why deep learning models can fit data exactly and generalize well.
method Interpolation and over-parameterization as key themes to understand deep learning.
result Interpolation and over-parameterization are crucial for deep learning models to fit data exactly and generalize well.
BRPC online Bayesian calibration handles gradual and abrupt system changes.
problem Aligning model outputs with field observations in evolving systems.
method Bayesian Recursive Projected Calibration (BRPC) for streaming data under simulator mismatch and nonstationarity.
result Improves calibration accuracy under gradual changes and robustness under abrupt regime shifts.
GROVER improves word representations by gradually adding random noises during training.
problem Improving word representations for better model performance.
method Gradually adding random noises to word embeddings during training.
result GROVER improves model performances on most text classification datasets.
New algorithms sample from complex path measures using neural networks.
problem Sampling from posterior path measures under a general prior process.
method Combines controlled equilibrium dynamics and optimization in infinite-dimensional probability space.
result The algorithms can be integrated with neural networks for learning target trajectory ensembles.
Paper proposes a method to design molecules with specific properties.
problem Designing molecules with desired chemical and biological properties.
method Energy-based model in latent space, SGDS algorithm for gradual distribution shifting.
result Method achieves strong performances on various molecule design tasks.
It is challenging for stochastic optimizations to handle large-scale sensitive data safely. Recently, Duchi et al. proposed private sampling strategy to solve privacy leakage in stochastic optimizations. However, this strategy leads to robustness degeneration, since this strategy is equal to the noise injection on each…
Computational efficiency is an important consideration for deploying machine learning models for time series prediction in an online setting. Machine learning algorithms adjust model parameters automatically based on the data, but often require users to set additional parameters, known as hyperparameters. Hyperparamete…
Sparse Transformers degrade semantic information first, with early layers encoding more.
problem Understanding how sparse Transformers affect learned representations and semantic information.
method Probed Transformers with progressively pruned weights to observe changes in semantic information and model behavior.
result Complex semantic information is first to degrade in sparse Transformers, with early layers encoding more.
American options in a multi-asset market model with proportional transaction costs are studied in the case when the holder of an option is able to exercise it gradually at a so-called mixed (randomised) stopping time. The introduction of gradual exercise leads to tighter bounds on the option price when compared to the …
Recommendation systems and computing advertisements have gradually entered the field of academic research from the field of commercial applications. Click-through rate prediction is one of the core research issues because the prediction accuracy affects the user experience and the revenue of merchants and platforms. Fe…
Algorithm learns to solve tasks by gradually expanding policy space.
problem Reinforcement learning difficulty progression.
method Decreasingly constrained policy space expansion.
result Superior learning rate in Tetris tasks.
Graph autoencoders enable ML across diverse sensor networks.
problem Deploying ML across different sensor networks with varying types or layouts.
method Graph Autoencoders for activity recognition across heterogeneous sensor networks.
result Transferable activity classifiers achieve 75% accuracy on unseen sensor layouts.
Paper proposes an adaptive gradient method for federated learning.
problem Communication efficiency in federated learning.
method Adaptive gradient method for federated learning.
result Guaranteed convergence and communication efficiency in federated learning.
Zoetrope Genetic Programming improves symbolic regression performance.
problem Evolutionary symbolic regression for complex mathematical expressions.
method Zoetropic representation, repeated fusion operations, linear combination, crossover, mutation, selection.
result Zoetrope Genetic Programming achieves state-of-the-art performance and low computational time.
Deep neural network detects changepoints at multiple scales in multivariate time series.
problem Detecting gradual and abrupt changes in multivariate time series data.
method Proposed a pyramid recurrent neural network (PRN) for multi-scale changepoint detection.
result PRN outperforms state-of-the-art methods in detecting changepoints at multiple scales.
New method rebalances evolving data streams incrementally.
problem Incremental rebalancing of evolving data streams.
method Proposes a new streaming approach for rebalancing data streams online.
result Outperforms existing approaches in rebalancing data streams.
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) achieve state-of-the-art results in many sequence-to-sequence modeling tasks. However, RNNs are difficult to train and tend to suffer from overfitting. Motivated by the Data Processing Inequality (DPI), we formulate the multi-layered network as a Markov chain, introducing a training met…
SelectNet selectively adds unlabelled data to balance imbalanced training data.
problem Training from imbalanced data in machine learning.
method SelectNet trains a deep neural network to add unlabelled data with predicted labels to the training dataset.
result SelectNet effectively balances imbalanced training data, improving classifier performance.
Study when to replace machine learning models with new data.
problem When to switch machine learning models with new data sources.
method Unified economic and statistical framework linking learning-curve dynamics, data-acquisition, and retraining costs.
result Look-ahead sequential method outperforms other methods and approaches optimal value.
Improved analysis of gradual domain adaptation with better generalization bounds.
problem Improving generalization in target domain through intermediate unlabeled domains.
method Analyzed gradual self-training under more general assumptions, proving a new generalization bound.
result Proved a significantly improved generalization bound of ε0 + O(TΔ + T/√n) + ˜O(1/√nT).
Study shows more data improves model explanations, aiding reliable knowledge extraction.
problem Challenges in deriving reliable knowledge from machine learning models due to the Rashōmon effect.
method Examined the influence of sample size on explanations from models in a Rashōmon set using SHAP.
result Explanations from <128 samples are highly variable, but agreement improves with more data.
In (\cite{zhang2014nonlinear,zhang2014nonlinear2}), we have viewed machine learning as a coding and dimensionality reduction problem, and further proposed a simple unsupervised dimensionality reduction method, entitled deep distributed random samplings (DDRS). In this paper, we further extend it to supervised learning …
Improves deep RL agents' generalization to unseen environments.
problem Deep RL agents struggle to adapt to new environments.
method Information Bottleneck regularization and annealing-based optimization.
result Agents can generalize to test parameters more than 10 standard deviations away from training.
Improves model accuracy in medical imaging with small datasets using transfer learning.
problem Challenges in training neural networks on small medical imaging datasets.
method Comparison of current techniques, proposing one cycle training, discriminative learning rates, gradual freezing, and parameter modification.
result Transfer learning is crucial for small datasets, especially when images from the same part of the body are available.
Random Function Descent improves optimization in high dimensions.
problem Lack of effective optimization methods in high-dimensional spaces.
method Introducing a 'random function' framework to optimize classical optimization problems.
result Random Function Descent (RFD) is a scalable optimization method that bridges Bayesian and classical optimization.
Solving different types of optimization models (including parameters fitting) for support vector machines on large-scale training data is often an expensive computational task. This paper proposes a multilevel algorithmic framework that scales efficiently to very large data sets. Instead of solving the whole training s…
STL-SGD accelerates Local SGD by gradually increasing communication periods.
problem Reducing communication complexity in distributed SGD.
method Gradually increasing communication periods while decreasing learning rate.
result Significant reduction in communication complexity with improved convergence rates.
This paper describes audEERING's submissions as well as additional evaluations for the One-Minute-Gradual (OMG) emotion recognition challenge. We provide the results for audio and video processing on subject (in)dependent evaluations. On the provided Development set, we achieved 0.343 Concordance Correlation Coefficien…
Paper detects gradual changes in cluster structure using MC fusion.
problem Detecting gradual changes in cluster structure over time.
method MC fusion for multiple mixture numbers, examining MC transition.
result Accurately captures cluster structure during transitional periods.
The paper tackles gradual domain adaptation with manifold-constrained DRO, showing error bounds across distributions.
problem Gradual domain adaptation challenge with manifold-constrained data distributions.
method Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) with an adaptive Wasserstein radius.
result Theoretical bounds on classification error across distributions, demonstrating error propagation dynamics.
Game (Israeli) options in a multi-asset market model with proportional transaction costs are studied in the case when the buyer is allowed to exercise the option and the seller has the right to cancel the option gradually at a mixed (or randomised) stopping time, rather than instantly at an ordinary stopping time. Allo…
Co-designing efficient machine learning based systems across the whole hardware/software stack to trade off speed, accuracy, energy and costs is becoming extremely complex and time consuming. Researchers often struggle to evaluate and compare different published works across rapidly evolving software frameworks, hetero…