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48 results for instance weighting

Not all instances in a data set are equally beneficial for inducing a model of the data. Some instances (such as outliers or noise) can be detrimental. However, at least initially, the instances in a data set are generally considered equally in machine learning algorithms. Many current approaches for handling noisy and…

2014-06-09abs ↗pdf ↗

BetaDataWeighter learns weights for unlabelled data to improve self-supervised learning accuracy.

problem Improving unsupervised representations with domain shift between unlabelled and target data.
method Learning Bayesian instance weights for unlabelled data to prioritize useful instances.
result BetaDataWeighter achieves highest average accuracy and prunes up to 78% of images without significant loss in accuracy.

DiwE uses regional distribution changes to create diverse ensemble classifiers for concept drift.

problem Handling concept drift in evolving data streams.
method DiwE measures diversity based on regional distribution disagreement and uses it to weight instances and select classifiers.
result DiwE outperforms other algorithms on various synthetic and real-world data stream benchmarks.

G-FIGS uses instance weights to create interpretable models from diverse data.

problem Generalizing to diverse data distributions while maintaining interpretability.
method Estimates group membership probabilities, uses as instance weights in FIGS to grow decision trees.
result Achieves state-of-the-art prediction performance and maintains interpretability.

A new algorithm enhances minority class representation in imbalanced datasets.

problem Improving classification performance on imbalanced datasets.
method PO-QG algorithm using Proxima-Orion neighbors and q-Gaussian weighting.
result The PO-QG algorithm improves overall classification performance.

Mitigates bias in text classification by weighting instances.

problem Unintended biases in text classification datasets based on demographic terms.
method Instance weighting to recover non-discrimination distribution.
result Effective mitigation of unintended biases without sacrificing generalization.

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.

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.

Vote-boosting is a sequential ensemble learning method in which the individual classifiers are built on different weighted versions of the training data. To build a new classifier, the weight of each training instance is determined in terms of the degree of disagreement among the current ensemble predictions for that i…

2016-06-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Online learning makes sequence of decisions with partial data arrival where next movement of data is unknown. In this paper, we have presented a new technique as multiple times weight updating that update the weight iteratively forsame instance. The proposed technique analyzed with popular state-of-art algorithms from …

2018-10-26abs ↗pdf ↗

UCRL-WVTR tackles long-term reinforcement learning with general approximations, achieving horizon-free and instance-dependent regret bounds.

problem Long-term reinforcement learning with general function approximations.
method UCRL-WVTR proposes a novel algorithm, UCRL-WVTR, with weighted value-targeted regression and a high-order moment estimator.
result Achieves horizon-free and instance-dependent regret bounds matching minimax lower bounds up to logarithmic factors.

A modification of the confidence screening mechanism based on adaptive weighing of every training instance at each cascade level of the Deep Forest is proposed. The idea underlying the modification is very simple and stems from the confidence screening mechanism idea proposed by Pang et al. to simplify the Deep Forest …

2019-01-04abs ↗pdf ↗

The conjecture of Kosniowski asserts that if the circle acts on a compact unitary manifold MM with a non-empty fixed point set and MM does not bound a unitary manifold equivariantly, then the dimension of the manifold is bounded above by a linear function on the number of fixed points. We confirm the conjecture for a…

2018-12-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent advances in deep learning have achieved impressive gains in classification accuracy on a variety of types of data, including images and text. Despite these gains, however, concerns have been raised about the calibration, robustness, and interpretability of these models. In this paper we propose a simple way to m…

2018-11-06abs ↗pdf ↗

NetFuse merges different DNN models with varying weights for faster inference.

problem Inference speed of DNN models with different weights cannot be improved using existing techniques.
method NetFuse merges models with the same architecture but different weights and inputs, replacing operations with more general ones.
result NetFuse can speed up DNN inference time up to 3.6x on a NVIDIA V100 GPU.

Modern instance-based model-agnostic explanation methods (LIME, SHAP, L2X) are of great use in data-heavy industries for model diagnostics, and for end-user explanations. These methods generally return either a weighting or subset of input features as an explanation of the classification of an instance. An alternative …

2019-12-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Multi-label classification is a type of supervised learning where an instance may belong to multiple labels simultaneously. Predicting each label independently has been criticized for not exploiting any correlation between labels. In this paper we propose a novel approach, Nearest Labelset using Double Distances (NLDD)…

2017-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

A study on optimizing data augmentation weights for improved test-time predictions.

problem Improving robustness of predictions during testing with data augmentation methods.
method A weighted Test-Time Augmentation (TTA) approach based on variational Bayesian framework to optimize weights.
result Optimizing weights suppresses unwanted data augmentations and improves prediction performance.

DW-KNN improves KNN by integrating distance and neighbor reliability for better prediction accuracy.

problem Standard KNN assumes all neighbors are equally reliable, leading to unreliable predictions in heterogeneous feature spaces.
method DW-KNN integrates exponential distance with neighbor validity, providing instance-level interpretability and reducing hyperparameter sensitivity.
result DW-KNN achieves 0.8988 average accuracy, ranks 2nd among six methods, and has the lowest cross-validation variance.

A biclustering algorithm finds dense disjoint subgraphs in weighted bipartite graphs.

problem Finding dense disjoint bicliques in a weighted bipartite graph.
method Semidefinite programming-based branch-and-cut algorithm with upper and lower bounds.
result The algorithm can solve much larger instances than general-purpose solvers.

Paper develops a framework to optimize neural networks using weighted metrics.

problem Discrepancy between maximizing weighted classification scores and minimizing loss function.
method Formalizes weighted classification metrics and constructs corresponding losses.
result Framework includes well-established approaches like cost-sensitive learning and weighted cross entropy.

Recent work used importance sampling ideas for better variational bounds on likelihoods. We clarify the applicability of these ideas to pure probabilistic inference, by showing the resulting Importance Weighted Variational Inference (IWVI) technique is an instance of augmented variational inference, thus identifying th…

2018-08-27abs ↗pdf ↗

The deployment of deep neural networks in real-world applications is mostly restricted by their high inference costs. Extensive efforts have been made to improve the accuracy with expert-designed or algorithm-searched architectures. However, the incremental improvement is typically achieved with increasingly more expen…

2019-05-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Multi-instance learning (MIL) deals with tasks where data is represented by a set of bags and each bag is described by a set of instances. Unlike standard supervised learning, only the bag labels are observed whereas the label for each instance is not available to the learner. Previous MIL studies typically follow the …

2019-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Nowadays, multi-view clustering has attracted more and more attention. To date, almost all the previous studies assume that views are complete. However, in reality, it is often the case that each view may contain some missing instances. Such incompleteness makes it impossible to directly use traditional multi-view clus…

2019-03-07abs ↗pdf ↗

The solution path of the 1D fused lasso for an nn-dimensional input is piecewise linear with O(n)\mathcal{O}(n) segments (Hoefling et al. 2010 and Tibshirani et al 2011). However, existing proofs of this bound do not hold for the weighted fused lasso. At the same time, results for the generalized lasso, of which the wei…

2018-01-15abs ↗pdf ↗

An intrinsic problem of classifiers based on machine learning (ML) methods is that their learning time grows as the size and complexity of the training dataset increases. For this reason, it is important to have efficient computational methods and algorithms that can be applied on large datasets, such that it is still …

2013-04-12abs ↗pdf ↗

We tackle imbalanced classification by weighting losses and derive robust risks.

problem Imbalanced classification where a label has low marginal probability.
method We examine convergence rates of weighted risks, define robust risks, and derive new robust risk problems.
result We show that particular weightings lead to conditional value at risk (CVaR) and derive new robust risk problems.

Imbalanced data sets containing much more background than signal instances are very common in particle physics, and will also be characteristic for the upcoming analyses of LHC data. Following up the work presented at ACAT 2008, we use the multivariate technique presented there (a rule growing algorithm with the meta-m…

2010-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

The aggregation of k-ary preferences is a historical and important problem, since it has many real-world applications, such as peer grading, presidential elections and restaurant ranking. Meanwhile, variants of Plackett-Luce model has been applied to aggregate k-ary preferences. However, there are two urgent issues sti…

2018-12-14abs ↗pdf ↗

A standard introduction to online learning might place Online Gradient Descent at its center and then proceed to develop generalizations and extensions like Online Mirror Descent and second-order methods. Here we explore the alternative approach of putting Exponential Weights (EW) first. We show that many standard meth…

2018-02-21abs ↗pdf ↗

In recent years, supervised machine learning models have demonstrated tremendous success in a variety of application domains. Despite the promising results, these successful models are data hungry and their performance relies heavily on the size of training data. However, in many healthcare applications it is difficult…

2018-12-03abs ↗pdf ↗

A novel Bayesian computation method using importance weighting improves numerical stability and performance.

problem Bayesian computation stability and performance issues.
method Nonparametric approach via feature means, importance weighting, and kernel Bayes' rule.
result Importance weighted kernel Bayes' rule yields superior numerical stability and performance.

A new PLL method uses class activation values to improve robustness.

problem Weakly supervised learning with noisy data and adversarial perturbations.
method Subjective logic with class activation values for uncertainty representation and label weight re-distribution.
result More robust predictions under high noise levels, out-of-distribution examples, and adversarial perturbations.