Likelihood-based generative models are a promising resource to detect out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs which could compromise the robustness or reliability of a machine learning system. However, likelihoods derived from such models have been shown to be problematic for detecting certain types of inputs that significant…
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We investigate the complexity of logistic regression models which is defined by counting the number of indistinguishable distributions that the model can represent (Balasubramanian, 1997). We find that the complexity of logistic models with binary inputs does not only depend on the number of parameters but also on the …
Deep neural networks are over-parameterized, which implies that the number of parameters are much larger than the number of samples used to train the network. Even in such a regime deep architectures do not overfit. This phenomenon is an active area of research and many theories have been proposed trying to understand …
This thesis investigates unsupervised time series representation learning for sequence prediction problems, i.e. generating nice-looking input samples given a previous history, for high dimensional input sequences by decoupling the static input representation from the recurrent sequence representation. We introduce thr…
This paper studies the generalization error of invariant classifiers. In particular, we consider the common scenario where the classification task is invariant to certain transformations of the input, and that the classifier is constructed (or learned) to be invariant to these transformations. Our approach relies on fa…
Aims to optimize complex multivariate systems with constraints.
TOQ-Nets learn to recognize complex temporal events with varying objects and sequences.
New framework interprets deep neural networks through input structure.
Many random processes can be simulated as the output of a deterministic model accepting random inputs. Such a model usually describes a complex mathematical or physical stochastic system and the randomness is introduced in the input variables of the model. When the statistics of the output event are known, these input …
Easy conditions found for simplifying complex systems.
Previous studies have found that an adversary attacker can often infer unintended input information from intermediate-layer features. We study the possibility of preventing such adversarial inference, yet without too much accuracy degradation. We propose a generic method to revise the neural network to boost the challe…
The sparse pseudo-input Gaussian process (SPGP) is a new approximation method for speeding up GP regression in the case of a large number of data points N. The approximation is controlled by the gradient optimization of a small set of M `pseudo-inputs', thereby reducing complexity from N^3 to NM^2. One limitation of th…
Neural networks learn to mimic brain neurons with two-input activation functions, improving performance and robustness.
Poor economies not only produce less; they typically produce things that involve fewer inputs and fewer intermediate steps. Yet the supply chains of poor countries face more frequent disruptions---delivery failures, faulty parts, delays, power outages, theft, government failures---that systematically thwart the product…
Diffusion models learn simple statistics before complex ones, revealing a sample complexity exponent.
Lower bounds and upper bounds on sample complexity for identifying linear dynamical systems.
We consider reinforcement learning in input-driven environments, where an exogenous, stochastic input process affects the dynamics of the system. Input processes arise in many applications, including queuing systems, robotics control with disturbances, and object tracking. Since the state dynamics and rewards depend on…
Transformers show strengths and weaknesses in complexity analysis.
In practice it is often found that large over-parameterized neural networks generalize better than their smaller counterparts, an observation that appears to conflict with classical notions of function complexity, which typically favor smaller models. In this work, we investigate this tension between complexity and gen…
Study Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand complexes on Lipschitz domains, computing cohomology and applying to elasticity models.
ASADG improves data generation for accurate surrogate modeling of complex physical problems.
New method uses spherical harmonics to simplify learning single-index models.
New method distinguishes predictive distribution estimators in high-dimensional inputs.
ICA reveals deep learning's feature learning mechanisms from non-Gaussian data.
We consider a set of probabilistic functions of some input variables as a representation of the inputs. We present bounds on how informative a representation is about input data. We extend these bounds to hierarchical representations so that we can quantify the contribution of each layer towards capturing the informati…
Neural networks benefit from intermediate representations, reducing sample complexity.
Complex nonlinear models such as deep neural network (DNNs) have become an important tool for image classification, speech recognition, natural language processing, and many other fields of application. These models however lack transparency due to their complex nonlinear structure and to the complex data distributions…
CVNNs improve performance in tasks with complex-valued inputs.
Methods for combining predictions from different models in a supervised learning setting must somehow estimate/predict the quality of a model's predictions at unknown future inputs. Many of these methods (often implicitly) make the assumption that the test inputs are identical to the training inputs, which is seldom re…
We present a novel method for exact hierarchical sparse polynomial regression. Our regressor is that degree polynomial which depends on at most inputs, counting at most monomial terms, which minimizes the sum of the squares of its prediction errors. The previous hierarchical sparse specification aligns w…
A new model predicts spatially varying inland flooding from time-varying inputs.
Deep neural networks with more parameters and FLOPs have higher capacity and generalize better to diverse domains. But to be deployed on edge devices, the model's complexity has to be constrained due to limited compute resource. In this work, we propose a method to improve the model capacity without increasing inferenc…
Neural networks are usually not the tool of choice for nonparametric high-dimensional problems where the number of input features is much larger than the number of observations. Though neural networks can approximate complex multivariate functions, they generally require a large number of training observations to obtai…
Centroid Transformers reduce memory and computation by summarizing inputs into centroids.
Self-attention prefers sparse functions of input sequences, reducing sample complexity.
When simulating a complex stochastic system, the behavior of output response depends on input parameters estimated from finite real-world data, and the finiteness of data brings input uncertainty into the system. The quantification of the impact of input uncertainty on output response has been extensively studied. Most…
New findings show learning deeper neural networks is hard even with Gaussian inputs and non-degenerate weights.
Aux-Net model handles dynamic systems with inconsistent inputs.
Algorithm classifies surface homeomorphisms with polynomial time complexity.
New algorithm adds Hessian regularization to improve neural network robustness.
We consider the problem of training input-output recurrent neural networks (RNN) for sequence labeling tasks. We propose a novel spectral approach for learning the network parameters. It is based on decomposition of the cross-moment tensor between the output and a non-linear transformation of the input, based on score …
Generative models can approximate high-dimensional data from lower dimensions without needing a latent dimension equal to or greater than the data's intrinsic dimension.
A new method warps inputs to learn nonstationary kernels efficiently.
This work investigates how gradient-based learning performs with structured data, revealing issues and improvements.
For any ReLU network there is a representation in which the sum of the absolute values of the weights into each node is exactly , and the input layer variables are multiplied by a value coinciding with the total variation of the path weights. Implications are given for Gaussian complexity, Rademacher complexity,…
We propose reinforcement learning on simple networks consisting of random connections of spiking neurons (both recurrent and feed-forward) that can learn complex tasks with very little trainable parameters. Such sparse and randomly interconnected recurrent spiking networks exhibit highly non-linear dynamics that transf…
Complex embeddings handle non-metric proximity data better than traditional methods.
In this paper, we present a new explainability formalism designed to shed light on how each input variable of a test set impacts the predictions of machine learning models. Hence, we propose a group explainability formalism for trained machine learning decision rules, based on their response to the variability of the i…