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48 results for label-shift

ELSA efficiently adapts to label shift without post-prediction calibrations.

problem Domain adaptation with label shift across training and testing datasets.
method Moment-matching framework based on influence function geometry; solves linear systems for adaptation weights.
result ELSA estimator is n\sqrt{n}-consistent and asymptotically normal, achieving state-of-the-art estimation performance.

New framework optimizes label shift adaptation using aligned distribution mixture.

problem Label shift where source and target label distributions differ.
method Aligned Distribution Mixture (ADM) framework, incorporating insights from generalization theory.
result The ADM framework improves four typical label shift methods and introduces a one-step approach.

This paper introduces LR-FFS for robust feature screening in federated learning under label shift.

problem Label shift challenges in federated learning for high-dimensional classification.
method Unified feature screening framework, label-shift robust federated feature screening (LR-FFS), federated estimation procedure.
result LR-FFS outperforms existing methods in diverse client environments with varying class distributions, sample sizes, and missing data.

Study reveals differences in label shift problem difficulty in supervised vs. unsupervised settings.

problem Label shift problem in non-parametric classification.
method Analysis of minimax rates in supervised and unsupervised settings, focusing on class conditional distributions estimation.
result A class proportion estimation approach is minimax rate-optimal in the unsupervised setting.

The paper tackles uncertainty quantification for classification under label shift without assuming i.i.d. data.

problem Uncertainty quantification for classification under label shift in non-i.i.d. settings.
method The paper uses conformal prediction and post-hoc binning for distribution-free UQ, and reweights these methods for label shift.
result The reweighted methods improve UQ performance under label shift, preserving coverage and calibration.

Paper quantifies label shift with robustness guarantees using distribution feature matching.

problem Estimating target label distribution under label shift.
method Distribution feature matching (DFM) framework and robustness analysis.
result General performance bound and robustness analysis in misspecified settings.

Bayesian framework estimates label shift for improved classifier performance.

problem Label shift in supervised learning leading to degraded classifier performance.
method Bayesian framework with dynamic Dirichlet priors and online EM algorithms.
result Significant improvements in classifier accuracy over state-of-the-art methods.

New federated conformal prediction method addresses label shift for uncertainty quantification.

problem Label shift in federated learning and its impact on uncertainty quantification.
method Quantile regression-based federated conformal prediction method with privacy constraints.
result Method provides valid coverage of prediction sets and differential privacy guarantees.

Paper tackles dynamic label shift in online learning, achieving optimal performance.

problem Adapting to changing class marginals in online supervised and unsupervised learning.
method Develops novel algorithms reducing adaptation to online regression, achieving optimal dynamic regret.
result Achieves superior performance in various online label shift scenarios.

Paper tackles backwards-compatible data adaptation for confounded covariate and label shifts.

problem Adapt covariates to predict labels confounded with covariate shifts.
method Proposes confounded shift framework based on minimizing divergence between source and target conditional distributions, conditioning on confounders.
result Demonstrates approach on synthetic and real datasets, achieving backwards-compatible data adaptation.

Estimates calibration error under label shift without labels.

problem Ensuring model reliability in the face of dataset shift without access to labels.
method Importance re-weighting of the labeled source distribution to estimate calibration error under label shift.
result Effective and reliable CE estimation with respect to the shifted target distribution.

TTLSA adapts models to label shifts across domains with nuisance factors.

problem Adapting models to changes in label distributions with nuisance factors.
method TTLSA uses EM on unlabeled samples to adapt a trained model to new label distributions.
result TTLSA improves model performance over invariance methods and baseline methods.

Discrepancy between training and testing domains is a fundamental problem in the generalization of machine learning techniques. Recently, several approaches have been proposed to learn domain invariant feature representations through adversarial deep learning. However, label shift, where the percentage of data in each …

2019-03-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Two approaches improve conformal Bayes for label shift, one post-hoc and one in-training.

problem Improving prediction sets for target domain under label shift.
method Two complementary approaches: post-hoc calibration and in-training adaptation.
result In-training adaptation achieves up to 43% width reduction at unchanged coverage.

New method for estimating class proportions in open-set label shift data.

problem Estimating class proportions and distributions when test data includes novel classes.
method Semiparametric density ratio model framework with maximum empirical likelihood estimators and confidence intervals.
result Improved estimation accuracy and classification performance compared to existing methods.

Estimates disease prevalence using non-ignorable missing data in health surveys.

problem Estimating disease prevalence in non-representative samples with non-ignorable missing data.
method Connects auxiliary proxy variable framework to label shift setting, uses high-dimensional covariates without generative models.
result Fails to account for non-ignorable missingness can lead to significant misestimations.

Algorithm constructs prediction sets with PAC guarantees in label shift settings.

problem Reliable uncertainty quantification in the face of distribution shift.
method Estimates predicted probabilities and confusion matrix, then propagates uncertainty through Gaussian elimination to compute confidence intervals and construct prediction sets.
result Satisfies PAC guarantees and produces smaller, more informative prediction sets.

In safety-critical applications of machine learning, it is often important to abstain from making predictions on low confidence examples. Standard abstention methods tend to be focused on optimizing top-k accuracy, but in many applications, accuracy is not the metric of interest. Further, label shift (a shift in class …

2018-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

RLSbench benchmarks domain adaptation under label proportion shifts, revealing widespread failures and proposing a two-step meta-algorithm.

problem Domain adaptation under label proportion shifts is poorly understood and inconsistent across methods.
method RLSbench introduces a large-scale benchmark with 500 distribution shift pairs. It proposes a two-step meta-algorithm to improve domain adaptation methods under label proportion shifts.
result The two-step meta-algorithm improves domain adaptation methods by 2-10% accuracy points under large label proportion shifts.

New approach improves domain adaptation with label shift assumptions.

problem Improving domain adaptation when label distributions differ between source and target domains.
method Proposes generalized label shift (GLSGLS) and modifies three DA algorithms (JAN, DANN, CDAN) to handle label distribution mismatches.
result Modified DA algorithms outperform base versions, especially with large label distribution mismatches.

Paper proposes SJS model to estimate model performance under covariate and label shifts.

problem Estimating model performance when both covariates and labels shift.
method Sparse Joint Shift (SJS) model and SEES algorithm.
result SEES achieves significant shift estimation error improvements over existing approaches.

Extends FJS analysis to general label spaces, including classification and regression.

problem Distribution shift in general label spaces, including covariate and label shifts.
method Proposes a framework for analyzing FJS in general label spaces and generalizes existing results.
result Generalizes FJS analysis to general label spaces, including classification and regression.

We propose Regularized Learning under Label shifts (RLLS), a principled and a practical domain-adaptation algorithm to correct for shifts in the label distribution between a source and a target domain. We first estimate importance weights using labeled source data and unlabeled target data, and then train a classifier …

2019-03-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimal transport aligns source and target distributions for domain adaptation.

problem Unsupervised domain adaptation with joint class-conditional and label shifts.
method Minimizes importance weighted loss and Wasserstein distance for aligned marginals and class-conditional distributions.
result Our method outperforms competitors on various domain adaptation tasks.

GS-B3^3SE improves label shift estimation by smoothing priors on a graph.

problem Label shift adaptation when source and target distributions share conditional but not marginal probabilities.
method Graph-Smoothed Bayesian Black-Box Shift Estimator (GS-B3^3SE) places Laplacian-Gaussian priors on log-priors and confusion-matrix columns tied by a label-similarity graph.
result GS-B3^3SE produces a tractable posterior with HMC or Newton-CG schemes, proving identifiability, contraction, and robustness.

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.

Paper tackles unsupervised learning under latent label shift across domains.

problem Discovering classes from unlabeled data with shifting label distributions.
method Introduces unsupervised learning under Latent Label Shift (LLS), leveraging domain-discriminative models.
result Proves that with domain information, unsupervised classification can improve upon standard methods.

Layer normalization improves federated learning with skewed labels.

problem Label skewness in federated learning datasets.
method Identified feature normalization as key mechanism; applied to latent features before classifier.
result Normalization accelerates global training and improves convergence under extreme label shift.

Undersampling often outperforms other methods in nonparametric classification.

problem Distribution shift challenges in nonparametric binary classification.
method Proved undersampling is minimax optimal in worst-case scenarios.
result Undersampling is a robustness intervention with theoretical guarantees.

New loss function restores importance weighting in overparameterized models.

problem Restoring importance weighting in overparameterized neural networks.
method Introduced polynomially-tailed losses to restore effects of importance weighting.
result Polynomially-tailed losses improve performance in correcting distribution shift.

This paper introduces minimum-risk recalibration for probabilistic classifiers, improving their reliability and accuracy.

problem Improving the reliability and accuracy of probabilistic classifiers.
method Minimum-risk recalibration within the MSE decomposition framework, analyzing UMB method and label shift adaptation.
result The optimal number of bins for UMB scales with n1/3n^{1/3}, resulting in a risk bound of approximately O(n2/3)O(n^{-2/3}).

Friedman's method performs well for estimating class distributions.

problem Estimating prior class probabilities without label observations.
method Friedman's method and DeBias method for designing linear equation systems.
result Friedman's method performs well for binary and multi-class quantification.

Faced with distribution shift between training and test set, we wish to detect and quantify the shift, and to correct our classifiers without test set labels. Motivated by medical diagnosis, where diseases (targets) cause symptoms (observations), we focus on label shift, where the label marginal p(y)p(y) changes but the …

2018-02-12abs ↗pdf ↗

New CPS model tackles conditional probability shift in machine learning.

problem Discrepancy between source and target distributions in machine learning.
method Conditional Probability Shift Model (CPSM) using multinomial regression and EM algorithm.
result Superior balanced classification accuracy on target data compared to existing methods.