New method improves ensemble inference for high-class tasks.
problem High inference costs for ensemble models.
method Proxy-Dirichlet target to minimize reverse KL-divergence.
result Resolves gradient issues for large-scale classification tasks.
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On a theorem of Goussarovmath.GT
In this paper, the easier methods of my thesis are applied to give a simple proof of a theorem of Goussarov. The theorem relates two possible notions of finite type equivalence of knots, links or string links, showing that the resulting filtrations are the same up to a degree shift by a factor of two. This is then appl…
A geometric characterization of the Arf invariant of a knot in the 3-sphere is given in terms of two kinds of 4-dimensional bordisms, half-gropes and Whitney towers. These types of bordisms have associated complexities class and order which filter the condition of bordism by an embedded annulus, i.e. knot concordance, …
Paper introduces a fraud detection dataset benchmark.
problem Unique challenges in fraud detection datasets.
method Compilation of publicly available fraud datasets.
result Demonstrates applications of the Fraud Dataset Benchmark.
Unsupervised model detects healthcare fraud from patient visit data.
problem Detecting fraudulent healthcare bills from patient visit data.
method Uses LSTM and seq2seq models for anomaly detection, normalizes scores with EDF.
result Improves anomaly detection for high class imbalance problems.
This paper addresses the general problem of accurate identification of oil reservoirs. Recent improvements in well or borehole logging technology have resulted in an explosive amount of data available for processing. The traditional methods of analysis of the logs characteristics by experts require significant amount o…
Missing Data Imputation With Granular Semantics and AI-driven Pipeline for Bankruptcy Predictioncs.LG
New method predicts bankruptcy by imputing missing data with granular semantics.
problem Missing data, high dimensional data, and class imbalance in bankruptcy prediction.
method Granular computing for missing data imputation with feature semantics and AI-driven pipeline.
result Efficient solution for big datasets with high imputation rates.
We consider multi-label classification where the goal is to annotate each data point with the most relevant of labels from an extremely large label set. Efficient annotation can be achieved with balanced tree predictors, i.e. trees with logarithmic-depth in the label complexity, whose leaves correspon…
Metric learning for classification has been intensively studied over the last decade. The idea is to learn a metric space induced from a normed vector space on which data from different classes are well separated. Different measures of the separation thus lead to various designs of the objective function in the metric …
Churn Prediction in Mobile Social Games: Towards a Complete Assessment Using Survival Ensemblesstat.ML
Reducing user attrition, i.e. churn, is a broad challenge faced by several industries. In mobile social games, decreasing churn is decisive to increase player retention and rise revenues. Churn prediction models allow to understand player loyalty and to anticipate when they will stop playing a game. Thanks to these pre…
This paper reviews dMTL and methods for selecting auxiliary tasks.
problem Improving model performance for multiple tasks.
method Review of dMTL approaches and methods for selecting auxiliary tasks.
result Methods for selecting auxiliary tasks can improve dMTL performance.
APT-Gen generates tasks to help RL learn in hard problems.
problem Learning in hard exploration problems.
method APT-Gen uses a task generator to create tasks from a parameterized space, balancing performance and similarity to target tasks.
result APT-Gen outperforms baselines in grid world and robotic manipulation tasks.
OCEAN infers online task identities from context variables.
problem Online task inference for compositional tasks with context adaptation.
method Variational inference framework OCEAN models global and local context variables in a joint latent space.
result OCEAN provides more effective task inference with sequential context adaptation.
Sharing information between multiple tasks enables algorithms to achieve good generalization performance even from small amounts of training data. However, in a realistic scenario of multi-task learning not all tasks are equally related to each other, hence it could be advantageous to transfer information only between …
Proposes a new method for clustering tasks in multi-task learning.
problem Improving performance of multiple related prediction tasks.
method Semisoft task clustering approach with a three-step algorithm.
result Validation of the proposed approach on synthetic and real-world datasets.
Multi-task learning is a learning paradigm which seeks to improve the generalization performance of a learning task with the help of some other related tasks. In this paper, we propose a regularization formulation for learning the relationships between tasks in multi-task learning. This formulation can be viewed as a n…
HydaLearn dynamically adjusts task weights for better MTL performance.
problem Constant loss weights in MTL lead to poor results due to drifting relevance and varying mini-batch composition.
method HydaLearn uses mini-batch gradients to dynamically adjust task weights.
result HydaLearn improves performance on synthetic and real-world data.
New distance metric for neural architecture search reduces search space complexity.
problem Reducing the complexity of neural architecture search.
method Fisher task distance for measuring task similarity and online neural architecture search.
result Reduced search space complexity for task-specific architectures.
We investigate task clustering for deep-learning based multi-task and few-shot learning in a many-task setting. We propose a new method to measure task similarities with cross-task transfer performance matrix for the deep learning scenario. Although this matrix provides us critical information regarding similarity betw…
ST-MAML tackles task ambiguity in meta-learning by encoding tasks with stochastic representations.
problem Handling tasks from multiple distributions is challenging for meta-learning due to task ambiguity.
method ST-MAML uses a stochastic neural network module to encode tasks and propagate task representations to revise input variable encoding.
result ST-MAML matches or outperforms state-of-the-art methods on various tasks.
New algorithm combines curriculum learning with HER for complex object manipulation tasks.
problem Learning complex sequential object manipulation tasks from scratch is challenging.
method Curriculum learning with Hindsight Experience Replay (HER) for recurrent object manipulation tasks.
result Significant improvement in learning sequential object manipulation tasks compared to vanilla-HER.
Transformers infer tasks from context via two modes, geometrically shaped task vectors explain their behavior.
problem Understanding how transformers infer tasks from context and the geometric properties of task vectors.
method Synthetic setting to train small transformers, mathematical characterization of task-vector geometry and inference modes.
result Task-vector geometry shapes in-distribution and out-of-distribution behavior of transformers.
MTL-NAS combines NAS with GP-MTL for task-agnostic multi-task learning.
problem Designing architectures for diverse tasks with varying priors.
method Disentangled GP-MTL networks, hierarchical feature sharing, and gradient-based search.
result General-purpose model trained once can adapt to multiple tasks.
Meta-learning framework uses task similarity through nonparametric kernel regression.
problem Limited tasks and outliers/dissimilar tasks hinder meta-learning performance.
method Nonparametric kernel regression to quantify and use task similarity.
result Meta-learning algorithm outperforms existing methods in task-limited settings.
Deep multi-task learning attracts much attention in recent years as it achieves good performance in many applications. Feature learning is important to deep multi-task learning for sharing common information among tasks. In this paper, we propose a Hierarchical Graph Neural Network (HGNN) to learn augmented features fo…
Novel meta-RL strategy improves efficiency in learning novel tasks.
problem Efficiency in learning novel tasks using deep RL.
method Decomposes meta-RL into task-exploration, task-inference, and task-fulfillment; uses deep networks and a task encoder.
result Improves sample efficiency and mitigates meta-overfitting.
RTE enables extrapolation to new tasks by learning task transformations.
problem Learning systems struggle to generalize to unseen tasks.
method Relational Task Extrapolator (RTE) learns task transformations to enable extrapolation.
result RTE substantially outperforms existing approaches on extrapolation tasks.
In this paper we investigate two hypothesis regarding the use of deep reinforcement learning in multiple tasks. The first hypothesis is driven by the question of whether a deep reinforcement learning algorithm, trained on two similar tasks, is able to outperform two single-task, individually trained algorithms, by more…
Multi-task learning (MTL) has recently contributed to learning better representations in service of various NLP tasks. MTL aims at improving the performance of a primary task, by jointly training on a secondary task. This paper introduces automated tasks, which exploit the sequential nature of the input data, as second…
Robot learns multiple tasks hierarchically by transferring knowledge.
problem Learning multiple complex tasks in open-ended environments.
method Task-oriented procedures, goal-babbling, imitation learning, active learning, intrinsic motivation.
result Robots can learn complex tasks more efficiently by transferring knowledge from simpler ones.
Multi-task learning (MTL) has achieved success over a wide range of problems, where the goal is to improve the performance of a primary task using a set of relevant auxiliary tasks. However, when the usefulness of the auxiliary tasks w.r.t. the primary task is not known a priori, the success of MTL models depends on th…
In the paradigm of multi-task learning, mul- tiple related prediction tasks are learned jointly, sharing information across the tasks. We propose a framework for multi-task learn- ing that enables one to selectively share the information across the tasks. We assume that each task parameter vector is a linear combi- nat…
Transformers can generalize to a large task family with only a few demonstrations.
problem Can learning from a small set of tasks generalize to a large task family?
method Investigating autoregressive compositional structure where each task is a composition of operations, each from a finite family of subtasks.
result Transformers can generalize to tasks with only demonstrations.
Tool manipulation is vital for facilitating robots to complete challenging task goals. It requires reasoning about the desired effect of the task and thus properly grasping and manipulating the tool to achieve the task. Task-agnostic grasping optimizes for grasp robustness while ignoring crucial task-specific constrain…
Framework adapts to new tasks based on prior knowledge.
problem Models struggle to adapt to novel tasks without direct experience.
method Learned task representations and meta-mappings to transform them.
result Meta-mapping achieves 80-90% performance on novel tasks.
Top-down attention allows people to focus on task-relevant visual information. Is the resulting perceptual boost task-dependent in naturalistic settings? We aim to answer this with a large-scale computational experiment. First, we design a collection of visual tasks, each consisting of classifying images from a chosen …
Despite significant progress, deep reinforcement learning (RL) suffers from data-inefficiency and limited generalization. Recent efforts apply meta-learning to learn a meta-learner from a set of RL tasks such that a novel but related task could be solved quickly. Though specific in some ways, different tasks in meta-RL…
We tackle the Multi-task Batch Reinforcement Learning problem. Given multiple datasets collected from different tasks, we train a multi-task policy to perform well in unseen tasks sampled from the same distribution. The task identities of the unseen tasks are not provided. To perform well, the policy must infer the tas…
Method reweights auxiliary tasks to reduce data need for main task.
problem Limited labeled data for supervised learning.
method Formulates weighted likelihood function as surrogate prior, minimizing divergence to true prior.
result Effective use of limited labeled data with auxiliary tasks, improving performance.
SON-GOKU uses graph coloring to improve multi-task learning by partitioning tasks into compatible groups.
problem Gradient interference between conflicting multi-task learning objectives slows convergence and model performance.
method SON-GOKU computes gradient interference, constructs an interference graph, and applies greedy graph-coloring to partition tasks.
result SON-GOKU consistently outperforms baselines and state-of-the-art multi-task optimizers on six datasets.
Optimal task order improves continual learning performance.
problem Challenges in neural networks learning multiple tasks in sequence.
method Linear teacher-student model with latent factors, derived analytical expression.
result Two principles for optimal task order: least representative first and dissimilar adjacent tasks.
Replay-and-Forget-Free Graph Class-Incremental Learning: A Task Profiling and Prompting Approachcs.LG
Paper tackles graph class-incremental learning with task profiling and prompting.
problem Challenges in separating classes from different tasks in graph CIL.
method Laplacian smoothing-based task profiling and graph prompting approach.
result 100% task ID prediction accuracy and significant performance improvement.
Paper presents IMRCs for evolving tasks with forward and backward learning.
problem Incremental learning of evolving tasks with few samples per task.
method Incremental minimax risk classifiers (IMRCs) that exploit forward and backward learning.
result IMRCs provide significant performance improvement, especially with reduced sample sizes.
Small parameterized towers improve multi-task learning efficiency and generalization.
problem Balancing Pareto efficiency and generalization in multi-task learning.
method Under-parameterized self-auxiliaries for multi-task models.
result Small parameterized towers enhance Pareto efficiency in various multi-task applications.
Single neural network learns multiple tasks from combined data.
problem Can a single neural network learn multiple unrelated tasks?
method Investigates how task representations affect joint learning; uses various task encoding methods.
result Single neural network can learn multiple tasks from combined data, even when tasks are unrelated and different.
Sequential learning of multiple tasks in artificial neural networks using gradient descent leads to catastrophic forgetting, whereby previously learned knowledge is erased during learning of new, disjoint knowledge. Here, we propose a new approach to sequential learning which leverages the recent discovery of adversari…
MT-HAL learns features and task associations for multiple tasks with a shared sparse structure.
problem Learning features and task associations for multiple tasks with shared structure.
method Fully nonparametric approach that learns features, samples, and task associations with a shared sparse structure.
result MT-HAL achieves a powerful convergence rate and outperforms other methods across various simulation settings.
FedGTEA learns new tasks in federated learning with task embeddings and alignment.
problem Federated class-incremental learning with task-specific knowledge and model uncertainty.
method Cardinality-Agnostic Task Encoder (CATE) for Gaussian task embeddings, 2-Wasserstein distance for inter-task alignment.
result FedGTEA achieves superior classification performance and mitigates forgetting.