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On Conditional Independence Graph Learning From Multi-Attribute Gaussian Dependent Time Seriesstat.ML
Unified analysis for graph learning from multi-attribute Gaussian time series.
problem Estimating conditional independence graph from multi-attribute Gaussian time series data.
method Unified theoretical analysis using a penalized log-likelihood objective function in the frequency domain.
result Established sufficient conditions for consistency and graph recovery in high-dimensional settings.
A new copula model for multi-attribute data using optimal transport.
problem Relaxing the Gaussian assumption for multi-attribute graphical models.
method Introducing a new copula (Cyclically Monotone Copula) and using optimal transport theory.
result The model allows arbitrary continuous distributions and is more flexible than classical methods.
In this paper, we study the problem of transfer learning with the attribute data. In the transfer learning problem, we want to leverage the data of the auxiliary and the target domains to build an effective model for the classification problem in the target domain. Meanwhile, the attributes are naturally stable cross d…
Generic generation and manipulation of text is challenging and has limited success compared to recent deep generative modeling in visual domain. This paper aims at generating plausible natural language sentences, whose attributes are dynamically controlled by learning disentangled latent representations with designated…
This paper significantly improves on, and finishes to validate, an approach proposed in previous research in which safety outcomes were predicted from attributes with machine learning. Like in the original study, we use Natural Language Processing (NLP) to extract fundamental attributes from raw incident reports and ma…
Paper tackles embedding attributed sequences in unsupervised learning.
problem Mining tasks over attributed sequences with dependencies between sequences and attributes.
method Proposes a deep multimodal learning framework, NAS, for unsupervised learning of attributed sequences.
result NAS produces task-independent embeddings for various mining tasks on real-world datasets.
New method learns fair representations by separating out protected attributes.
problem Learning fair representations invariant to protected attributes.
method FD-VAE: disentangles latent space into target, protected, and mutual attributes.
result FD-VAE outperforms previous methods in fairness metrics.
Attribution methods have been developed to explain the decision of a machine learning model on a given input. We use the Integrated Gradient method for finding attributions to define the causal neighborhood of an input by incrementally masking high attribution features. We study the robustness of machine learning model…
In many networks, vertices have hidden attributes, or types, that are correlated with the networks topology. If the topology is known but these attributes are not, and if learning the attributes is costly, we need a method for choosing which vertex to query in order to learn as much as possible about the attributes of …
We develop a theory of higher-order feature attribution for complex models.
problem Interpreting feature contributions in models with interactions is challenging.
method We extend Integrated Gradients (IG) to higher-order feature attributions.
result We establish natural connections to statistics and topological signal processing.
Proposes new attribution methods for trees with regularization.
problem Feature attribution for trees trained with regularization.
method Prediction Decomposition Attribution (PreDecomp) and TreeInner.
result TreeInner shows state-of-the-art feature selection performance.
Nonparametric method measures influence of training images on diffusion model outputs.
problem Quantifying influence of individual training examples on diffusion model outputs.
method Patch-level similarity between generated and training images, using optimal score function.
result Strong attribution performance, matching gradient-based approaches and outperforming baselines.
Integrated gradients are widely employed to evaluate the contribution of input features in classification models because it satisfies the axioms for attribution of prediction. This method, however, requires an appropriate baseline for reliable determination of the contributions. We propose a compensated integrated grad…
A-DOGE embeds attributed graphs efficiently using density of states.
problem Efficiently represent node-attributed graphs with few numerical features.
method A-DOGE uses density of states to blend topology and attributes, leveraging efficient approximation algorithms.
result A-DOGE achieves competitive performance with modern supervised GNNs while being significantly faster.
Proposes a block-based model for attributed network embedding.
problem Handles both assortative and disassortative networks.
method Assigns nodes to blocks based on similar linkage patterns, using neural networks to preserve attribute information.
result Consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods on disassortative networks.
New framework for fair ranking with noisy protected attributes.
problem Errors in socially-salient attributes undermine fairness guarantees.
method Modeling perturbations in protected attributes and incorporating probabilistic information.
result Framework provides provable guarantees on fairness and utility.
Method detects anomalies on attributed graphs with few labeled instances.
problem Detecting anomalies on connected instances (attributed graphs) with limited labeled data.
method Embed nodes in latent space using GCNs, training to distinguish normal and anomalous nodes.
result Method outperforms existing methods on real-world attributed graph datasets.
Attributing forecast gaps to component models in complex model suites
problem Attributing forecast gaps between model-suite forecasts and realized outcomes
method Formalizing walk analysis and adapting order-independent attribution frameworks
result Deriving efficient formulas for elementwise and vectorized gap attribution
The paper tackles attributing forecast gaps in complex model suites.
problem Attributing forecast gaps to individual component models in complex model suites.
method Formalized walk analysis, adapted LMDI and Shapley value approaches.
result Developed efficient formulas for gap attribution in practical portfolio-scale examples.
New method R-LOCO improves local feature importance analysis.
problem Local attribution methods fail to accurately identify important features.
method R-LOCO segments input space into regions and applies global methods within.
result R-LOCO delivers more accurate local attributions.
New method optimizes fairness in predictive models for continuous sensitive attributes.
problem Enforcing full statistical independence on continuous sensitive attributes is too restrictive.
method Functional bilevel optimization (FBO) and ITD algorithms.
result Achieves lowest or near-lowest fairness-accuracy regret on synthetic and real datasets.
Robustly detects and attributes climate change impacts under interventions.
problem Detect and attribute climate change impacts from observations robustly.
method Supervised learning with anchor regression for robust predictions under interventions.
result CO2 forcing can be robustly predicted from temperature patterns under strong solar forcing interventions.
A method for inferring graph from multivariate time series using ADMM.
problem Inferring conditional independence graph from multivariate Gaussian time series.
method Formulated as multi-attribute graph estimation, used ADMM to minimize penalized negative log-likelihood.
result Proposed method outperforms existing frequency-domain approaches in graph edge detection.
Study shows adversarial robustness and common perturbation robustness are independent.
problem Understanding the relationship between adversarial robustness and common perturbation robustness in neural networks.
method Conducted experiments to benchmark neural network robustness to common perturbations and adversarial examples.
result Adversarial robustness and common perturbation robustness are independent attributes.
New technique clusters and classifies datasets with missing attributes.
problem Clustering and classification issues with incomplete data.
method Modified K-MEANS++, Scalable K-MEANS++, and kNN algorithms using Sentenced Discrepancy Measure (AWPD).
result New algorithms show better results on datasets with missing attributes.
Unified analysis of multi-attribute graph learning with non-convex penalties.
problem Graph inference from multi-attribute data.
method Penalized log-likelihood objective function with ADMM and local linear approximation.
result Local consistency in support recovery and precision matrix estimation for non-convex penalties.
Efficiently explains model outputs using HSIC, a dependence measure.
problem Efficiently explain model outputs for various architectures.
method HSIC, RKHS, Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces, black-box attribution.
result Up to 8 times faster than previous methods while maintaining fidelity.
Paper introduces EO_k for quantifying accuracy-fairness trade-offs in FRL.
problem Tackles the trade-off between accuracy and fairness in FRL.
method Kernel-based formulation of EO criterion for FRL.
result Offers a unified analytical characterization of fairness tradeoffs.
New framework for fairness in continuous protected attributes.
problem Inherited biases in AI predictions with continuous protected attributes.
method Formalizes SP and PP through path-specific partial derivatives, introduces a fair tuning algorithm.
result Existence and construction of fair predictors that satisfy SP along not-allowed paths and PP along allowed paths.
Algorithm uncovers latent attribute graph from molecular data.
problem Learning latent representations and interpreting them for limited data.
method Perturbation experiments on latent codes of a generative autoencoder.
result Effective graphical model of latent codes and attributes.
A method for authorship attribution based on function word adjacency networks (WANs) is introduced. Function words are parts of speech that express grammatical relationships between other words but do not carry lexical meaning on their own. In the WANs in this paper, nodes are function words and directed edges stand in…
Recognizing apparel attributes has recently drawn great interest in the computer vision community. Methods based on various deep neural networks have been proposed for image classification, which could be applied to apparel attributes recognition. An interesting problem raised is how to ensemble these methods to furthe…
Adaptive framework improves NB accuracy by fusing two index categories.
problem Challenges in attribute weighted NB, especially fusion of two indexes.
method Proposes ATFNB framework using switching factor to fuse two index categories.
result ATFNB outperforms basic NB and state-of-the-art models.
DFI maps covariates to latent representations for feature importance.
problem Feature importance when predictors are statistically dependent.
method Disentangled Feature Importance (DFI) using entropic optimal transport.
result DFI yields stable, interpretable, uncertainty-quantified attributions of shared predictive signal.
New framework for fair classification in adversarial settings with provable guarantees.
problem Fairness in classification with adversarial perturbations of protected attributes.
method Optimization framework for learning fair classifiers with provable guarantees.
result Near-tightness of accuracy and fairness guarantees for multiple protected attributes and various hypothesis classes.
Proposes counterfactual explainability for causal attribution, extending variance analysis methods.
problem Lack of mechanistic understanding in existing tools for explaining complex models.
method Extends global sensitivity analysis methods to causal explanations using directed acyclic graphs.
result Developed methods to estimate counterfactual explainability and applied to income inequality analysis.
Modified BP attribution methods often ignore later layers' information, leading to misleading explanations.
problem Misleading explanations from modified BP methods ignoring later layers' information.
method Analysis of 9 modified BP methods including Deep Taylor Decomposition, LRP, Excitation BP, PatternAttribution, DeepLIFT, Deconv, RectGrad, Guided BP.
result Only DeepLIFT does not ignore later layers' information, providing a faithful explanation.
Develops algorithm to make fair decisions from biased data.
problem Ethical concerns in machine learning fairness.
method Fair Learning through Data Preprocessing (FLAP) algorithm.
result Counterfactual fairness equivalent to conditional independence.
We introduce several techniques for sampling and visualizing the latent spaces of generative models. Replacing linear interpolation with spherical linear interpolation prevents diverging from a model's prior distribution and produces sharper samples. J-Diagrams and MINE grids are introduced as visualizations of manifol…
We consider a Bayesian method for learning the Bayesian network structure from complete data. Recently, Koivisto and Sood (2004) presented an algorithm that for any single edge computes its marginal posterior probability in O(n 2^n) time, where n is the number of attributes; the number of parents per attribute is bound…
Proposes a VAE with Student- mixture model for authorship attribution.
problem Traditional authorship attribution in closed-set scenarios.
method Extends variational autoencoder with embedded Student- mixture model.
result Superior performance over existing methods on Amazon review dataset.
Automated decision making systems are increasingly being used in real-world applications. In these systems for the most part, the decision rules are derived by minimizing the training error on the available historical data. Therefore, if there is a bias related to a sensitive attribute such as gender, race, religion, e…
R package innsight interprets deep neural networks predictions.
problem Interpreting predictions of deep neural networks.
method Unified and user-friendly framework implementing feature attribution methods for neural networks, independent of deep learning library.
result Offers a variety of visualization tools for tabular, signal, image data or a combination.
X-Caps improves medical diagnosis explainability by encoding visual attributes in capsules.
problem Uninterpretable predictions from deep neural networks in healthcare.
method Teaches a novel multi-task capsule network to encode high-level visual attributes and malignancy scores.
result X-Caps outperforms state-of-the-art deep dense 3D CNNs in capturing visually interpretable attributes and malignancy prediction.
The paper uses distance covariance to improve fairness in machine learning models.
problem Improving fairness in machine learning models.
method Using conditional and distance covariance statistics to assess independence and add a penalty for fairness.
result The method effectively reduces the fairness gap in machine learning models.
Model infers functions for attributes using multi-aggregate datasets with knowledge transfer.
problem Modeling aggregate data with varying granularities and spatial supports.
method Multi-output Gaussian process (MoGP) with linear mixing of independent latent GPs, aggregation process, and prior distribution of mixing weights.
result Proposed model outperforms in refining coarse-grained aggregate data.
Despite its simplicity, the naive Bayes classifier has surprised machine learning researchers by exhibiting good performance on a variety of learning problems. Encouraged by these results, researchers have looked to overcome naive Bayes primary weakness - attribute independence - and improve the performance of the algo…