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Paper proposes distributed sparse multicategory discriminant analysis for classification.

problem Sparse multicategory classification with distributed data.
method Convex formulation, distributed setting, invariant discriminant subspace recovery.
result Distributed sparse multicategory linear discriminant analysis performs as good as centralized version after a few rounds of communications.

Interventional domain adaptation improves feature transferability by removing spurious correlations.

problem Improper feature transferability due to spurious correlations in domain adaptation.
method Intervention strategy using unlabeled target data to generate counterfactual features and train discriminability invariance.
result Consistent performance improvements over state-of-the-art approaches in various domain adaptation tasks.

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are pow- erful generative models based on providing feed- back to a generative network via a discriminator network. However, the discriminator usually as- sesses individual samples. This prevents the dis- criminator from accessing global distributional statistics of generated samp…

2018-06-19abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we construct the space of smooth 4-manifolds and find the homotopy model for the connected components of the complement to the discriminant. The discriminant of this space is a singular hypersurface and its generic points correspond to manifolds with isolated Morse singularities. These spaces can be consi…

2007-10-19abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper focuses on the discrimination capacity of aggregation functions: these are the permutation invariant functions used by graph neural networks to combine the features of nodes. Realizing that the most powerful aggregation functions suffer from a dimensionality curse, we consider a restricted setting. In partic…

2019-05-31abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper analyzes implicit bias in Deep Linear Discriminant Analysis.

problem The implicit bias of Deep Linear Discriminant Analysis.
method Analyzing gradient flow on a L-layer diagonal linear network.
result Under balanced initialization, the network transforms additive updates into multiplicative updates, conserving the (2/L) quasi-norm.

New method trains generative models without discriminators, improving stability and accuracy.

problem Training implicit generative models with adversarial discriminators leads to instability and mode-dropping.
method Invariant statistical loss function, avoiding discriminators.
result Successfully trains generative models for various complex distributions without mode-dropping.

New method improves unsupervised feature learning for natural data.

problem Natural data's correlated and long-tail distribution challenges instance-level contrastive learning.
method Cross-level instance-group discrimination (CLD) to integrate between-instance similarity.
result CLD achieves new state-of-the-art performance on various datasets.

We prove a reciprocity formula between Gauss sums that is used in the computation of certain quantum invariants of 3-manifolds. Our proof uses the discriminant construction applied to the tensor product of lattices.

2005-12-02abs ↗pdf ↗

For germs of subanalytic sets, we define two finite sequences of new numerical invariants. The first one is obtained by localizing the classical Lipschitz-Killing curvatures, the second one is the real analogue of the evanescent characteristics introduced by M. Kashiwara. We show that each invariant of one sequence is …

2007-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Permutation of Weierstrass points on Veech surfaces in H(2)\mathcal{H}(2) classified by discriminant.

problem Classifying permutations of Weierstrass points on Veech surfaces in H(2)\mathcal{H}(2) based on discriminant.
method Analyzing the permutation group induced by the affine group on Weierstrass points, considering both affine and Dehn multitwists.
result The permutation group is Dih4\mathrm{Dih}_4, Dih5\mathrm{Dih}_5, or Dih6\mathrm{Dih}_6 depending on the discriminant value.

Proposes TFDF to learn transferable and discriminative features for unsupervised domain adaptation.

problem Difficult to induce supervised classifier without labeled data in unsupervised domain adaptation.
method TFDF optimizes transferability and discriminability by aligning distributions and minimizing class confusion.
result TFDF achieves better performance on real-world datasets compared to existing methods.

A new nonparametric test measures dependence between variables using decision trees.

problem Measuring statistical dependence between two variables robustly and efficiently.
method An ensemble of decision trees discriminates between observed and permuted samples without generating the latter.
result The method effectively detects complex relationships from noisy data.

Incorporating feature selection into a classification or regression method often carries a number of advantages. In this paper we formalize feature selection specifically from a discriminative perspective of improving classification/regression accuracy. The feature selection method is developed as an extension to the r…

2013-01-16abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper calculates the Saito determinant for Coxeter discriminant strata.

problem Calculating the Saito determinant for specific geometric strata.
method Using the Saito flat metric and Lie derivatives, the paper finds the determinant of the metric restricted to Coxeter discriminant strata.
result The determinant of the Saito metric on Coxeter discriminant strata is proportional to a product of linear factors in flat coordinates.

Given a surface F, we are interested in Z/2 valued invariants of immersions of F into R^3, which are constant on each connected component of the complement of the quadruple point discriminant in Imm(F,R^3). Such invariants will be called ``q-invariants.'' Given a regular homotopy class A in Imm(F,R^3), we denote by V_n…

1999-03-28abs ↗pdf ↗

MetFA aligns source and target domains for cross-device image classification.

problem Learning discriminative class boundaries across different domains.
method Distance metric guided feature alignment (MetFA) for domain-invariant and discriminative feature extraction.
result MetFA outperforms state-of-the-art methods in cross-device image classification.

Unsupervised domain adaptation seeks to learn an invariant and discriminative representation for an unlabeled target domain by leveraging the information of a labeled source dataset. We propose to improve the discriminative ability of the target domain representation by simultaneously learning tightly clustered target …

2019-05-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhances model's ability to distinguish target domain by adding a new class.

problem Improving unsupervised domain adaptation models' discriminative power.
method Training model on data from a new class generated by GAN, repositioning current class data.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance in various unsupervised domain adaptation scenarios.

Representing examples in a way that is compatible with the underlying classifier can greatly enhance the performance of a learning system. In this paper we investigate scalable techniques for inducing discriminative features by taking advantage of simple second order structure in the data. We focus on multiclass classi…

2013-10-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Adversarial domain-invariant training (ADIT) proves to be effective in suppressing the effects of domain variability in acoustic modeling and has led to improved performance in automatic speech recognition (ASR). In ADIT, an auxiliary domain classifier takes in equally-weighted deep features from a deep neural network …

2019-04-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Finite-order invariants of knots in arbitrary 3-manifolds (including non-orientable ones) are constructed and studied by methods of the topology of discriminant sets. Obstructions to the integrability of admissible weight systems to well-defined knot invariants are identified as 1-dimensional cohomology classes of gene…

1997-03-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We prove finiteness of hyperkaehler Lagrangian fibrations in any fixed dimension with fixed Fujiki constant and discriminant of the Beauville-Bogomolov-Fujiki lattice, up to deformation. We also prove finiteness of hyperkähler Lagrangian fibrations with an ample line bundle of a given degree on the general fiber of the…

2015-09-07abs ↗pdf ↗

In the present paper, we construct an invariant for virtual knots in the thickened sphere with g handles; this invariant is a Laurent polynomial in 2g+3 variables. To this end, we use a modification of the Wirtinger presentation of the knot group and the concept of parity introduced by V.O.Manturov. The section 4 of th…

2013-05-09abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper is devoted to the classification of connected components of Prym eigenform loci in the strata H(2,2)^odd and H(1,1,2) in the Abelian differentials bundle in genus 3. These loci, discovered by McMullen are GL^+(2,R)-invariant submanifolds (of complex dimension 3) that project to the locus of Riemann surfaces …

2014-08-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops RES metrics for stable rare-event forecasting evaluation.

problem Challenges in evaluating forecasts of rare events.
method Rare-event-stable (RES) metrics designed to maintain stable thresholds under extreme rarity.
result RES metrics maintain stable thresholds, consistent model rankings, and near-complete prevalence invariance.

Domain generalization (DG) aims to incorporate knowledge from multiple source domains into a single model that could generalize well on unseen target domains. This problem is ubiquitous in practice since the distributions of the target data may rarely be identical to those of the source data. In this paper, we propose …

2019-07-25abs ↗pdf ↗

In this study, a novel feature coding method that exploits invariance for transformations represented by a finite group of orthogonal matrices is proposed. We prove that the group-invariant feature vector contains sufficient discriminative information when learning a linear classifier using convex loss minimization. Ba…

2019-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

We connect the algebraic geometry and representation theory associated to Freudenthal's magic square. We give unified geometric descriptions of several classes of orbit closures, describing their hyperplane sections and desingularizations, and interpreting them in terms of composition algebras. In particular, we show h…

1999-08-10abs ↗pdf ↗

We construct an inverse system of unstable Vassiliev spectral sequences on the spaces of plumbers' knots, which model the homotopy type of the space of long knots, and show that the limit of these sequences contains the finite type invariants in their usual complexity. Utilizing the cell structure on the discriminant o…

2011-07-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The study quantifies and compares aleatoric and epistemic discrimination in ML models.

problem Sources of discrimination in ML models and their impact on performance.
method Quantifying aleatoric and epistemic discrimination using statistical experiments and model accuracy.
result State-of-the-art fairness interventions are effective at removing epistemic discrimination but not aleatoric discrimination in datasets with missing values.

Fisher loss improves deep domain adaptation by learning discriminative within-class compact and between-class separable representations.

problem Improving deep domain adaptation performance by learning discriminative representations.
method Proposes a Fisher loss to learn discriminative representations that are within-class compact and between-class separable.
result Noticeable improvements in deep domain adaptation performance, e.g., 6.67% absolute improvement in mean accuracy on the Office-Home dataset.

Study reveals how features influence deep network decision boundaries.

problem Understanding the role of features in neural network decision boundaries.
method Adopted adversarial robustness tools to measure changes in CNN decision boundaries.
result Neural networks exhibit high invariance to non-discriminative features and are sensitive to small perturbations of training samples.

Discriminative active learning reduces data annotation costs for domain adaptation.

problem Conditional shift problem hinders domain adaptation between related but different domains.
method Three-stage active adversarial training: invariant feature space learning, uncertainty and diversity criteria, re-training with queried labels.
result Empirical comparisons show the proposed approach is more effective than existing methods.

Representations in the auditory cortex might be based on mechanisms similar to the visual ventral stream; modules for building invariance to transformations and multiple layers for compositionality and selectivity. In this paper we propose the use of such computational modules for extracting invariant and discriminativ…

2014-04-01abs ↗pdf ↗