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48 results for label characteristics

CCVAE captures label characteristics in VAEs for better representation learning.

problem Capturing rich label characteristics in VAEs without conflating them with label values.
method Developed CCVAE, a novel VAE model that explicitly captures label characteristics in latent space.
result CCVAE allows for effective and general interventions like smooth traversals and diverse conditional generation.

New method corrects biased predictions and uncertainty estimates in classification with nuisance parameters.

problem Tackles biased predictions and invalid uncertainty estimates in classification with nuisance parameters.
method Proposes a method that estimates ROC across the entire nuisance parameter space to devise invariant cutoffs.
result Demonstrates effective domain adaptation and valid prediction sets with high power.

Disease phenotyping algorithms process observational clinical data to identify patients with specific diseases. Supervised phenotyping methods require significant quantities of expert-labeled data, while unsupervised methods may learn non-disease phenotypes. To address these limitations, we propose the Semi-Supervised …

2018-12-07abs ↗pdf ↗

A method for clustering using transfer learning from similar labeled data.

problem Clustering with datasets having different features and labeled data.
method Constructing meta-features to describe structural characteristics of data and transferring them between source and target domains.
result The method is efficient and works under arbitrary feature descriptions of source and target domains with smaller complexity.

The ability of learning from noisy labels is very useful in many visual recognition tasks, as a vast amount of data with noisy labels are relatively easy to obtain. Traditionally, the label noises have been treated as statistical outliers, and approaches such as importance re-weighting and bootstrap have been proposed …

2017-03-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes methods to improve multi-label learning by addressing local label imbalance.

problem Local label imbalance within minority class examples degrades multi-label learning performance.
method Introduces a measure to assess local label imbalance and two sampling approaches (MLSOL, MLUL) to address it.
result Experimental results show MLSOL and MLUL improve performance on multi-label datasets.

This supplementary material aims to describe the proposed multi-label classification (MLC) search spaces based on the MEKA and WEKA softwares. First, we overview 26 MLC algorithms and meta-algorithms in MEKA, presenting their main characteristics, such as hyper-parameters, dependencies and constraints. Second, we revie…

2018-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

A new sampling method balances multi-label datasets by preserving category frequency order.

problem Sampling challenges in multi-label datasets with varying label frequencies.
method Uses multivariate Bernoulli distribution and label dependencies to estimate and weight label combinations.
result Produces a more balanced sub-sample with enhanced representation of minority categories.

Class imbalance is an intrinsic characteristic of multi-label data. Most of the labels in multi-label data sets are associated with a small number of training examples, much smaller compared to the size of the data set. Class imbalance poses a key challenge that plagues most multi-label learning methods. Ensemble of Cl…

2018-07-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper improves speaker verification with federated learning and differential privacy.

problem Improving speaker verification accuracy using private data.
method Combining federated learning and differential privacy to train an auxiliary model that predicts vocal characteristics.
result 6% relative improvement in equal error rate over a baseline system.

In this paper, we propose a new wrapper feature selection approach with partially labeled training examples where unlabeled observations are pseudo-labeled using the predictions of an initial classifier trained on the labeled training set. The wrapper is composed of a genetic algorithm for proposing new feature subsets…

2019-11-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian method improves deep learning for noisy EEG seizure detection.

problem Label noise in scalp EEG data hinders deep learning performance.
method Integrates domain knowledge into a Bayesian framework to inform deep learning models of label ambiguities.
result BUNDL enhances robustness of seizure detection systems under noisy label conditions.

In this paper we propose a domain adaptation algorithm designed for graph domains. Given a source graph with many labeled nodes and a target graph with few or no labeled nodes, we aim to estimate the target labels by making use of the similarity between the characteristics of the variation of the label functions on the…

2019-11-07abs ↗pdf ↗

As a new approach to train generative models, \emph{generative adversarial networks} (GANs) have achieved considerable success in image generation. This framework has also recently been applied to data with graph structures. We propose labeled-graph generative adversarial networks (LGGAN) to train deep generative model…

2019-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

We show how to define and count lattice points in the moduli space $\modm_{g,n}$ of genus g curves with n labeled points. This produces a polynomial with coefficients that include the Euler characteristic of the moduli space, and tautological intersection numbers on the compactified moduli space.

2008-01-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Method estimates noise transition matrix from noisy labels without relying on unreliable class-posterior estimation.

problem Estimating noise transition matrix from noisy data.
method Total variation regularization to encourage distinguishable predicted probabilities.
result Consistent estimator of the noise transition matrix under mild assumptions.

In this paper we propose a measure of clustering quality or accuracy that is appropriate in situations where it is desirable to evaluate a clustering algorithm by somehow comparing the clusters it produces with ``ground truth' consisting of classes assigned to the patterns by manual means or some other means in whose v…

2012-12-12abs ↗pdf ↗

In the recent years, we have witnessed the development of multi-label classification methods which utilize the structure of the label space in a divide and conquer approach to improve classification performance and allow large data sets to be classified efficiently. Yet most of the available data sets have been provide…

2017-04-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Multi-label learning is concerned with the classification of data with multiple class labels. This is in contrast to the traditional classification problem where every data instance has a single label. Due to the exponential size of output space, exploiting intrinsic information in feature and label spaces has been the…

2018-12-24abs ↗pdf ↗

NetRCA algorithm locates network faults by analyzing derived features and leveraging unlabeled data.

problem Locating the true root cause of network faults is challenging due to complex architectures and limited labeled data.
method NetRCA algorithm extracts derived features, generates new training data, and combines multiple models to enhance performance.
result NetRCA outperforms existing methods in fault cause localization on real-world data.

This work improves deep learning from noisy crowdsourced labels.

problem Learning label correction and neural classifier from noisy crowdsourced data.
method Coupled Cross-Entropy Minimization (CCEM) with identifiability and regularization.
result The CCEM criterion correctly identifies annotators' confusion and neural classifier under realistic conditions.

VAEs struggle with surjective multimodal data, especially class labels describing images.

problem VAEs struggle to capture variability in surjective multimodal data.
method Theoretical and empirical demonstration of VAEs with a mixture of experts posterior.
result VAEs with a mixture of experts posterior can disregard variation in surjective multimodal data.

The paper proposes a deep learning technique for structured and composable representations.

problem Learning structured and composable representations from input images and discrete labels.
method End-to-end deep learning to learn representations based on distance estimates between class label and contextual information.
result The representations have a clear structure allowing for class and environment decomposition.

This paper aims to provide a better understanding of a symmetric loss. First, we emphasize that using a symmetric loss is advantageous in the balanced error rate (BER) minimization and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) maximization from corrupted labels. Second, we prove general theoretical p…

2019-01-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Let S be a surface of genus g with p punctures with negative Euler characteristic. We study the diameter of the εε-thick part of moduli space of S equipped with the Teichmüller or Thurston's Lipschitz metric. We show that the asymptotic behaviors in both metrics are of order logg+pε\log \frac{g+p}ε. The same result also ho…

2011-08-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Large-scale datasets may contain significant proportions of noisy (incorrect) class labels, and it is well-known that modern deep neural networks (DNNs) poorly generalize from such noisy training datasets. To mitigate the issue, we propose a novel inference method, termed Robust Generative classifier (RoG), applicable …

2019-01-31abs ↗pdf ↗

UREs lead to overfitting in complex models, especially in complementary label learning.

problem Overfitting in weakly supervised learning with complementary labels.
method Proposed a surrogate complementary loss (SCL) framework to reduce gradient variance.
result SCL mitigates overfitting and improves URE-based methods.

We propose a neural architecture with the main characteristics of the most successful neural models of the last years: bidirectional RNNs, encoder-decoder, and the Transformer model. Evaluation on three sequence labelling tasks yields results that are close to the state-of-the-art for all tasks and better than it for s…

2019-09-16abs ↗pdf ↗

GGAN improves audio representation learning with fewer labels.

problem Learning representations for specific tasks from unlabelled data.
method Guided Generative Adversarial Neural Network (GGAN).
result GGAN learns better representations with fewer labelled data.

The paper proposes a method to reliably select design algorithms for machine learning-guided design tasks.

problem Choosing the right design algorithm for machine learning-guided design tasks.
method Combining designs' predicted property values with held-out labeled data to reliably forecast characteristics of the label distributions produced by different design algorithms.
result The method is guaranteed to return design algorithms that yield successful label distributions.

Proposes a new approach to MSDA by introducing latent covariate shift to handle varying label distributions.

problem Challenges of conventional MSDA approaches in real-world settings where label distributions vary across domains.
method Introduces latent covariate shift (LCS) and a causal generative model with latent noises, latent content variable, and latent style variable.
result Identifies latent content variable up to block identifiability, enabling more nuanced label distribution recovery.

Deep learning has significant potential for medical imaging. However, since the incident rate of each disease varies widely, the frequency of classes in a medical image dataset is imbalanced, leading to poor accuracy for such infrequent classes. One possible solution is data augmentation of infrequent classes using syn…

2018-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

A common approach in positive-unlabeled learning is to train a classification model between labeled and unlabeled data. This strategy is in fact known to give an optimal classifier under mild conditions; however, it results in biased empirical estimates of the classifier performance. In this work, we show that the typi…

2017-02-02abs ↗pdf ↗