A new method improves adversarial robustness by optimizing importance weights.
problem Adversarial training's non-uniform robustness across different data points.
method Doubly-robust instance reweighted adversarial training using distributionally robust optimization.
result Improves robustness against attacks on the weakest data points.
Q-MMR evaluates policies using reweighted rewards and moment matching.
problem Off-policy evaluation in finite-horizon MDPs.
method Q-MMR learns scalar weights for data points via a moment matching objective against a value-function discriminator class.
result Data-dependent finite-sample guarantee with a dimension-free error bound.
Method reweights instances and classes to improve robustness in noisy data.
problem Improving deep learning performance in the presence of label noise.
method Formulates constrained optimization problems to assign importance weights to instances and class labels.
result Significant performance gains observed in benchmark datasets with label noise.
New loss function restores importance weighting in overparameterized models.
problem Restoring importance weighting in overparameterized neural networks.
method Introduced polynomially-tailed losses to restore effects of importance weighting.
result Polynomially-tailed losses improve performance in correcting distribution shift.
New loss function handles uncertain constraints in CSLO problems.
problem Handling uncertain inequality constraints in CSLO with machine learning predictions.
method Introduces SPO-RC loss and SPO-RC+ surrogate, trains on truncated datasets, corrects bias.
result SPO-RC+ effectively manages constraint uncertainty and improves performance.
Paper identifies problematic baselines in Shapley value explanations and proposes a reweighting mechanism.
problem Identifying and addressing the suboptimality of baselines in Shapley value feature importance analysis.
method Analyzed suboptimality of baselines, identified problematic baseline, generalized uninformativeness, and designed a reweighting mechanism.
result Proposed uncertainty-based reweighting mechanism effectively accelerates computation and improves explanation quality.
A bilevel optimization method for reweighting data leads to suboptimal results.
problem Reweighting data for better model performance on a different distribution.
method Formalizes data reweighting as a bilevel optimization problem and analyzes the limitations of classical solvers.
result The final data weights are often very sparse, indicating suboptimal solutions.
Importance sampling (IS) is a common reweighting strategy for off-policy prediction in reinforcement learning. While it is consistent and unbiased, it can result in high variance updates to the weights for the value function. In this work, we explore a resampling strategy as an alternative to reweighting. We propose Im…
Study enhances classifier robustness against noisy labels.
problem Impact of label noise on model performance in real-world scenarios.
method Integrates adversarial machine learning and importance reweighting techniques with CNN.
result Improved model resilience against noisy data.
Biases in observational data of treatments pose a major challenge to estimating expected treatment outcomes in different populations. An important technique that accounts for these biases is reweighting samples to minimize the discrepancy between treatment groups. We present a novel reweighting approach that uses bi-le…
In the early history of positive-unlabeled (PU) learning, the sample selection approach, which heuristically selects negative (N) data from U data, was explored extensively. However, this approach was later dominated by the importance reweighting approach, which carefully treats all U data as N data. May there be a new…
Massively parallel RWS improves inference in complex models.
problem Exponential sample requirement for effective importance weighting.
method Draws K samples of all n latent variables and individually reasons through all combinations. result Significant improvements over standard RWS.
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.
A new estimator combines KMM and NR to robustly correct covariate shift.
problem Correcting sampling biases in learning problems with different distributions.
method Integrates residuals of nonparametric regression with kernel mean matching reweighting.
result Proposed estimator outperforms or matches existing rates for KMM and NR.
Iterative reweighted algorithms, as a class of algorithms for sparse signal recovery, have been found to have better performance than their non-reweighted counterparts. However, for solving the problem of multiple measurement vectors (MMVs), all the existing reweighted algorithms do not account for temporal correlation…
SRG improves optimization efficiency with reduced memory and computation overhead.
problem Limited applicability of variance-reduced optimization algorithms.
method SRG (stochastic reweighted gradient) using importance sampling.
result SRG outperforms SGD and provably improves convergence in strongly-convex cases.
Boosts causal discovery by dynamically reweighting samples to learn better DAGs.
problem Overfitting to easier-to-fit samples and violating homogeneity assumptions in causal discovery.
method Adaptive sample reweighting via ReScore function to upweight and downweight samples based on fitting quality.
result Consistent and significant boosts in structure learning performance on synthetic and real-world datasets.
Federated learning is protected against adversarial attacks with residual-based reweighting.
problem Adversarial attacks on federated learning's aggregation process.
method Residual-based reweighting combined with iteratively reweighted least squares.
result Our aggregation algorithm outperforms other methods in label-flipping and backdoor attacks.
Recent work shows GRW approaches do not improve over ERM in distributional shift.
problem Improving robustness to distributional shift in machine learning models.
method Generalized Reweighting (GRW) algorithms, which iteratively update model parameters based on reweighting of training samples.
result GRW approaches do not significantly improve over ERM in real applications with distribution shift.
Support vector machines (SVMs) are an important tool in modern data analysis. Traditionally, support vector machines have been fitted via quadratic programming, either using purpose-built or off-the-shelf algorithms. We present an alternative approach to SVM fitting via the majorization--minimization (MM) paradigm. Alg…
This paper develops a novel deep recurrent neural network for sequential signal reconstruction.
problem Sequential signal reconstruction from low-dimensional measurements.
method Unfolding a reweighted ℓ1-ℓ1 minimization algorithm to design a deep recurrent neural network. result The proposed reweighted-RNN significantly outperforms existing RNN models in sequential frame reconstruction.
CG-BGs combine flow-based models with PMFs to sample large systems efficiently.
problem Sampling equilibrium molecular configurations from the Boltzmann distribution is challenging.
method Coarse-grained Boltzmann Generators (CG-BGs) use flow-based models and learned PMFs for efficient sampling.
result CG-BGs provide a practical route for sampling larger molecular systems efficiently.
Improved matching for multiple objects using a novel reweighting method.
problem Current multi-object matching methods have limitations and are not robust.
method Proposes a novel iterative reweighting strategy using the graph connection Laplacian.
result Demonstrates superior performance over state-of-the-art methods.
Reweighted l1-algorithms have attracted a lot of attention in the field of applied mathematics. A unified framework of such algorithms has been recently proposed by Zhao and Li. In this paper we construct a few new examples of reweighted l1-methods. These functions are certain concave approximations of the l0-norm func…
Proposes a new method to improve regression models with reweighted samples.
problem Improves regression models' performance under low sample sizes and covariate perturbations.
method Reparametrizes sample weights using a doubly non-negative matrix and solves the reweighted estimate efficiently.
result Adversarial reweighting strategy delivers promising results on various datasets.
Improved learning to reweight using deep interactions between student and teacher models.
problem Limitation of existing learning to reweight methods in utilizing student model's internal states.
method Proposes an algorithm that uses the student model's internal states to the teacher model, which returns adaptive weights to enhance student model training.
result Significant improvement over previous methods in image classification and neural machine translation experiments.
Paper proposes a method to learn cluster structured sparsity using adaptive reweighting.
problem Learning sparsity constraints from data without prior knowledge.
method Adapting IRL1 algorithm into a deep learning architecture with adaptive reweighting.
result Proposed method outperforms classical and learning-based algorithms on various tasks.
Stochastic control-flow models (SCFMs) are a class of generative models that involve branching on choices from discrete random variables. Amortized gradient-based learning of SCFMs is challenging as most approaches targeting discrete variables rely on their continuous relaxations---which can be intractable in SCFMs, as…
In this paper, we study a classification problem in which sample labels are randomly corrupted. In this scenario, there is an unobservable sample with noise-free labels. However, before being observed, the true labels are independently flipped with a probability ρ∈[0,0.5), and the random label noise can be class-co…
Defense against user shilling attacks in collaborative filtering using edge reweighting.
problem Vulnerability of collaborative filtering to profile injection attacks.
method Adversarial robustness based edge reweighting to attenuate non-robust edges.
result Effective defense against various types of attacks demonstrated through experiments.
In this paper, a new descriptor selection method for selecting an optimal combination of important descriptors of sulfonamide derivatives data, named self tuned reweighted sampling (STRS), is developed. descriptors are defined as the descriptors with large absolute coefficients in a multivariate linear regression model…
We analyze a reweighted version of the Kikuchi approximation for estimating the log partition function of a product distribution defined over a region graph. We establish sufficient conditions for the concavity of our reweighted objective function in terms of weight assignments in the Kikuchi expansion, and show that a…
CurveRL optimizes large model reasoning by reweighting prompts based on their rank and density.
problem Improving large language model reasoning through context reweighting.
method Formulated prompt reweighting as a functional derivative, proposing CurveRL based on quantile coordinate transform.
result CurveRL consistently outperforms existing methods across multiple benchmarks.
Reweighting training data to better represent new tasks.
problem Deploying machine learning models to new tasks is challenging due to training data distribution.
method Formulate an exponential tilt distribution shift model and learn train data importance weights to minimize KL divergence.
result The learned train data weights improve target performance evaluation, fine-tuning, and model selection.
Unified analysis of reweighted least-squares algorithms for linear models.
problem Recovering unknown signals from linear measurements using reweighted least squares.
method Unified asymptotic analysis of IRLS, lin-RFM, and alternating minimization algorithms.
result The algorithms can achieve favorable performance in a few iterations with appropriate reweighting.
New reweighted losses improve diffusion model training and image quality.
problem Training and improving diffusion models for image generation.
method Constructing a cascade of time-dependent variational lower bounds.
result Significant improvements in pixel-space image modeling quality.
QEM uses parallel importance weighting for fast approximate Bayesian inference.
problem Bayesian inference challenges in large models with many observations and latent variables.
method Expectation Maximization (EM) with massively parallel importance weighting.
result QEM is faster and more scalable than RWS and VI.
Domain adaptation provides a powerful set of model training techniques given domain-specific training data and supplemental data with unknown relevance. The techniques are useful when users need to develop models with data from varying sources, of varying quality, or from different time ranges. We build CrossTrainer, a…
Shrinkage algorithms are of great importance in almost every area of statistics due to the increasing impact of big data. Especially time series analysis benefits from efficient and rapid estimation techniques such as the lasso. However, currently lasso type estimators for autoregressive time series models still focus …
Reweighting improves GAN accuracy without sacrificing statistical power.
problem Improving the fidelity of generative models.
method Post-hoc reweighting function applied to generated examples.
result Weighted GAN examples significantly improve accuracy.
New algorithm improves online binary classification with constant time complexity.
problem Online binary classification with rebalancing.
method Non-iteratively reweighted recursive least-squares.
result Exacts converges to batch formulation and outperforms existing algorithms.
Resampling outperforms reweighting for correcting biased data in machine learning models.
problem Correcting sampling bias in machine learning models trained on biased data sets.
method Compared resampling and reweighting techniques, focusing on their performance with stochastic gradient algorithms.
result Resampling outperforms reweighting when combined with stochastic gradient algorithms.
Least squares kernel based methods have been widely used in regression problems due to the simple implementation and good generalization performance. Among them, least squares support vector regression (LS-SVR) and extreme learning machine (ELM) are popular techniques. However, the noise sensitivity is a major bottlene…
Reduces bias in linear models by reweighting samples.
problem Bias in linear models due to collinearity among input variables.
method Sample reweighting to reduce collinearity.
result Improves stability of prediction results across different data distributions.
Toy model study shows resampling/reweighting can improve feature learning in imbalanced classification.
problem Improving feature learning in imbalanced classification problems.
method High-dimensional toy model with replica method, class-wise resampling/reweighting, and simplified model.
result No resampling/reweighting can sometimes give best feature learning performance.
Machine learning tools are commonly used in modern high energy physics (HEP) experiments. Different models, such as boosted decision trees (BDT) and artificial neural networks (ANN), are widely used in analyses and even in the software triggers. In most cases, these are classification models used to select the "signal"…
We explore the possibilities of importance sampling in the Monte Carlo pricing of a structured credit derivative referred to as Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO). Modeling a CDO contract is challenging, since it depends on a pool of (typically about 100) assets, Monte Carlo simulations are often the only feasible ap…
Precise scientific analysis in collider-based particle physics is possible because of complex simulations that connect fundamental theories to observable quantities. The significant computational cost of these programs limits the scope, precision, and accuracy of Standard Model measurements and searches for new phenome…