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48 results for instance-level reweighting

Paper tackles open set domain adaptation by detecting unknown classes.

problem Adapting to target domains with unknown classes when label spaces partially overlap.
method Instance-level reweighting strategy combined with Extreme Value Theory for unknown class detection.
result Proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art models on conventional datasets.

\textit{Multiple Instance Learning} (MIL) is concerned with learning from bags of instances, where only bag labels are given and instance labels are unknown. Existent approaches in this field were mainly designed for the bag-level label prediction (predict labels for bags) but not the instance-level (predict labels for…

2019-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

ISAHP discovers instance-level causal structures in event sequences.

problem Discovering fine-grained causal relationships in asynchronous, interdependent event sequences.
method ISAHP, a novel deep learning framework using self-attention mechanism.
result ISAHP meets Granger causality requirements and discovers complex causal structures.

Loss functions play a crucial role in deep metric learning thus a variety of them have been proposed. Some supervise the learning process by pairwise or tripletwise similarity constraints while others take advantage of structured similarity information among multiple data points. In this work, we approach deep metric l…

2019-11-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)has received a great deal of attention recently. Explainability is being presented as a remedy for the distrust of complex and opaque models. Model agnostic methods such as LIME, SHAP, or Break Down promise instance-level interpretability for any complex machine learning model. …

2019-03-27abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper presents a normalization mechanism called Instance-Level Meta Normalization (ILM~Norm) to address a learning-to-normalize problem. ILM~Norm learns to predict the normalization parameters via both the feature feed-forward and the gradient back-propagation paths. ILM~Norm provides a meta normalization mechanis…

2019-04-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper improves deep learning for instance-level classification from label proportions.

problem Dealing with noisy pseudo-labeling and high-entropy class distributions in LLP.
method Introducing a two-stage training approach with constrained optimization and mixup strategy.
result Significant performance improvement in instance-level classification.

The paper analyzes how deep neural networks handle noisy labels and finds disparate impacts.

problem Disparate impacts of noisy labels on instances with different representation frequencies.
method Quantifying harms, analyzing solutions, and comparing their impacts on different frequency instances.
result Existing solutions lead to disparate treatments, benefiting higher-frequency instances more.

Fraud detection is a difficult problem that can benefit from predictive modeling. However, the verification of a prediction is challenging; for a single insurance policy, the model only provides a prediction score. We present a case study where we reflect on different instance-level model explanation techniques to aid …

2018-06-19abs ↗pdf ↗

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 1\ell_1-1\ell_1 minimization algorithm to design a deep recurrent neural network.
result The proposed reweighted-RNN significantly outperforms existing RNN models in sequential frame reconstruction.

Easyllp simplifies LLP, achieving low task loss at individual instance level.

problem Weakly supervised classification with label proportions.
method Flexible debiasing approach based on aggregate labels, operating on arbitrary loss functions.
result Accurately estimates expected loss at individual level, with provable guarantees.

This paper compares two loss functions for learning from aggregated responses and introduces an interpolating estimator.

problem Learning from aggregated responses in privacy-sensitive settings.
method Investigates bag-level and instance-level loss functions, and introduces an interpolating estimator.
result Instance-level loss can be seen as a regularized form of bag-level loss, leading to improved estimators.

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.

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.

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.

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…

2014-10-26abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Bayesian algorithms improve crowdsourcing with label and instance constraints.

problem Efficiently labeling large datasets with additional human annotator information.
method Developed Bayesian algorithms for semi-supervised crowdsourced classification under label and instance constraints.
result Improved performance compared to unsupervised crowdsourcing on various datasets.

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.

Federated learning has a variety of applications in multiple domains by utilizing private training data stored on different devices. However, the aggregation process in federated learning is highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks so that the global model may behave abnormally under attacks. To tackle this challenge, …

2019-12-24abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2019-05-07abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Recently, the paradigm of unfolding iterative algorithms into finite-length feed-forward neural networks has achieved a great success in the area of sparse recovery. Benefit from available training data, the learned networks have achieved state-of-the-art performance in respect of both speed and accuracy. However, the …

2019-10-11abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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"…

2016-08-20abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2019-07-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Algorithm samples polygons of fixed edge lengths in any dimension.

problem Sampling random closed polygons with fixed edge lengths in any dimension.
method Weighted edge vectors on unit sphere, Möbius transformation, reweighting factors.
result Algorithm samples polygons according to standard probability measures efficiently.

The paper improves sample reweighting methods for adapting to covariate shifts.

problem Improving accuracy in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces when data distributions differ.
method Combining known error bounds for reweighted kernel regression in RKHS to show reduced sample size needed for accuracy.
result Under weak smoothness conditions, fewer samples are needed for the same accuracy as standard supervised learning.

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.

Optimizes sample reweighting to match laws under covariate shift using Wasserstein distance.

problem Matching laws of samples with different distributions under covariate shift.
method Minimizes Wasserstein distance between empirical measures of samples using Nearest Neighbors weights.
result Consistent reweighting leads to asymptotic convergence of empirical measures.

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.

Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is a well-known method for dimensionality reduction and classification. Previous studies have also extended the binary-class case into multi-classes. However, many applications, such as object detection and keyframe extraction cannot provide consistent instance-label pairs, while LDA …

2013-09-21abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

ARL improves fairness without protected features, showing AUC improvements for worst-case groups.

problem Training fairness in ML without known protected features.
method Adversarially Reweighted Learning (ARL) using non-protected features and task labels.
result ARL improves Rawlsian Max-Min fairness with notable AUC improvements for worst-case groups.