Concept Factorization (CF) and its variants may produce inaccurate representation and clustering results due to the sensitivity to noise, hard constraint on the reconstruction error and pre-obtained approximate similarities. To improve the representation ability, a novel unsupervised Robust Flexible Auto-weighted Local…
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LI-ITR combines flexible ML with interpretable approximations for personalized treatment rules.
problem Combining flexibility and interpretability in personalized treatment rules.
method Uses variational autoencoders and a mixture of interpretable experts.
result Accurately recovers true local coefficients and optimal treatment strategies.
Establishes jet transversality for regular maps from flexible manifolds.
problem Transversality for regular maps in algebraic geometry.
method Algebraic version of Forstnerič's theorem for holomorphic maps.
result Genericity theorems for regular maps of maximal ranks.
Lo-Hp decouples weight generation into local and global policies to improve flexibility and efficiency.
problem Over-coupling and long-horizon issues in current optimization methods.
method Hybrid-Policy Sub-Trajectory Balance objective.
result Learning local optimization policies addresses long-horizon issues and enhances global weight generation.
Groups of importance in group theory have flexible stability properties.
problem Stability and flexibility of groups in geometric and combinatorial group theory.
method Establishing Kirchberg's Local Lifting Property and Lubotzky--Shalom's Property FD for specific groups.
result Groups like -manifold groups, limit groups, and certain one-relator groups are very flexibly stable.
Neural Local Wasserstein Regression models distribution-on-distribution regression with flexible, localized transport maps.
problem Estimating distribution-on-distribution regression with global optimal transport maps or linearization limitations.
method Proposes Neural Local Wasserstein Regression, a flexible nonparametric framework using locally defined transport maps in Wasserstein space.
result Demonstrates effective capture of nonlinear and high-dimensional distributional relationships.
The authors characterize flexibility in power and energy markets considering time, spatiality, resource, and risk.
problem Evaluating and maximizing flexibility in power systems and markets.
method Characterization of flexibility dimensions (time, spatiality, resource, risk) and their interrelations with flexibility assets, products, and services.
result Flexibility should be evaluated based on multiple dimensions for efficient power systems and markets.
In this note, we study deformations of quaternionic hyperbolic lattices in larger quaternionic hyperbolic spaces and prove local rigidity results. On the other hand, surface groups are shown to be more flexible in quaternionic hyperbolic plane than in complex hyperbolic plane.
Flexible Kernels for Protein Property Prediction
problem Predicting protein properties from sparse experimental data
method Sequence kernels using evolutionary substitution matrices and local linearity
result Data-efficient models of protein property landscapes
Localized Debiased Machine Learning: Efficient Inference on Quantile Treatment Effects and Beyondstat.ML
Localized debiased machine learning simplifies estimating quantile treatment effects.
problem Estimating quantile treatment effects in causal inference with many covariates and flexible relationships.
method Localized debiased machine learning (LDML) avoids learning the full nuisance function by estimating only at a single initial guess.
result LDML enables practically-feasible and theoretically-grounded efficient estimation of quantile treatment effects.
Flexible outlier detection using graph communities for robust performance.
problem Outlier detection in small sample size unbalanced problems.
method Local measure of label heterogeneity in a weighted graph topology.
result Overall outperforms local and global strategies in multi and single view settings.
We present a method to derive local estimates for some classes of fully nonlinear elliptic equations. The advantage of our method is that we derive Hessian estimates directly from estimates. Also, the method is flexible and can be applied to a large class of equations.
Two flexible, degenerate constructions related to Thurston's theorem.
problem Understanding the structure and local non-rigidity of Teichmüller spaces and their representations.
method Constructing geodesic segments and open sets in Teichmüller spaces with specific properties.
result Geodesic segments and open sets with degenerate properties in Teichmüller spaces.
We introduce a new model-agnostic explanation technique which explains the prediction of any classifier called CLE. CLE gives an faithful and interpretable explanation to the prediction, by approximating the model locally using an interpretable model. We demonstrate the flexibility of CLE by explaining different models…
We show that given a point on a Finsler surface, one can always find a neighborhood of the point and isometrically embed this neighborhood into a Finsler torus without conjugate points.
Various valuation adjustments, or XVAs, can be written in terms of non-linear PIDEs equivalent to FBSDEs. In this paper we develop a Fourier-based method for solving FBSDEs in order to efficiently and accurately price Bermudan derivatives, including options and swaptions, with XVA under the flexible dynamics of a local…
Unified approach for interpretable regression with flexible modeling.
problem Combining predictive adaptivity with interpretability in heterogeneous data.
method Combining random Fourier features, spectral feature map, principal component analysis, Gaussian mixture model, and cluster-specific generalized additive models.
result Consistently improves upon classical and black-box models across benchmark datasets.
Copula-based normalizing flows improve flexibility and stability for heavy-tailed data.
problem Limited expressive power of vanilla normalizing flows.
method Generalize base distribution to copula for more accurate representation of target distribution.
result Copula-based normalizing flows improve flexibility, stability, and effectiveness for heavy-tailed data.
Researchers prove spaces of positive scalar curvature metrics are contractible with symmetry.
problem Contractibility of spaces of invariant positive scalar curvature metrics.
method Combining equivariant Morse theory with conformal deformations and local flexibility properties.
result Spaces of invariant positive scalar curvature metrics are contractible.
We propose a flexible method for estimating value functions in reinforcement learning without parametric assumptions.
problem Lack of interpretability in reinforcement learning models, especially in healthcare applications.
method Nonparametric additive model using local kernel regression and basis expansion.
result Personalized, adaptive recommendations for postoperative recovery.
LOV model calibrates European and American options with path-dependent volatility.
problem Calibrating European and American options with path-dependent volatility.
method Designing a local volatility model that incorporates path-dependent shocks through an occupation sensitivity function.
result LOV model successfully calibrates options chains with automatic European vanilla option calibration and path-dependent flexibility.
Natural graph networks are a new class of graph neural networks that are more flexible and scalable.
problem Traditional graph neural networks are limited by equivariance to node permutations.
method Introduced natural graph networks, which are more flexible and scalable than conventional graph neural networks.
result Natural graph networks are as scalable as conventional message passing graph neural networks but more flexible.
Enhances content moderation with culturally-aware models.
problem Global content moderation policies miss local cultural nuances.
method Fine-tuning encoder-decoder models on media-diet data.
result Improved accuracy in local violation detection and cultural alignment.
Deep learning has shown its great promise in various biomedical image segmentation tasks. Existing models are typically based on U-Net and rely on an encoder-decoder architecture with stacked local operators to aggregate long-range information gradually. However, only using the local operators limits the efficiency and…
We investigate a local reparameterizaton technique for greatly reducing the variance of stochastic gradients for variational Bayesian inference (SGVB) of a posterior over model parameters, while retaining parallelizability. This local reparameterization translates uncertainty about global parameters into local noise th…
Flexible spatial models improve predictive performance over nonstationary alternatives.
problem Improving predictive performance in nonstationary spatial modeling.
method Introduces a modular parametric covariance function that extends nonstationary spatial models.
result The proposed covariance function outperforms nonparametric methods in predictive performance.
PDSketch enables flexible robot planning by learning from domain structures.
problem Building general robots with flexible planning.
method Exploiting locality and sparsity in environmental models, PDSketch defines high-level structures for trainable neural networks.
result PDSketch automatically generates planning heuristics without additional training.
Forest Guided Smoothingstat.ML
Forest-guided smoothing uses random forest outputs for interpretable local smoothers.
problem Creating interpretable local smoothers from complex random forest outputs.
method Uses random forest outputs to define spatially adaptive bandwidth matrices for a linear smoother.
result Improves interpretability and applicability of random forest outputs for various analyses.
Bayesian approach for estimating heterogeneous treatment effects in RDD designs.
problem Heterogeneity in treatment effects in RDD designs can lead to misleading conclusions.
method Direct Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) for modeling heterogeneous treatment effects.
result Flexibly captures complicated structures of heterogeneous treatment effects as a function of covariates.
Geodesic curves improve flexibility in covariance estimation.
problem Inflexible covariance families limit spatiotemporal modeling.
method Use geodesic curves to build more flexible covariance families.
result Natural projection minimizes geodesic distance to sample covariance.
Point clouds, as a form of Lagrangian representation, allow for powerful and flexible applications in a large number of computational disciplines. We propose a novel deep-learning method to learn stable and temporally coherent feature spaces for points clouds that change over time. We identify a set of inherent problem…
The paper offers a unified approach to the study of three locally adaptive estimation methods in the context of univariate time series from both theoretical and empirical points of view. A general procedure for the computation of critical values is given. The underlying model encompasses all distributions from the expo…
This work improves Gaussian process inference using mixtures of experts and nested SMC samplers.
problem High computational and memory costs of Gaussian processes.
method Mixtures of Gaussian process experts with nested SMC samplers.
result Significantly improved inference compared to importance sampling.
Real-world measurement noise in applications like robotics is often correlated in time, but we typically assume i.i.d. Gaussian noise for filtering. We propose general Gaussian Processes as a non-parametric model for correlated measurement noise that is flexible enough to accurately reflect correlation in time, yet sim…
GIST adapts HMC by tuning parameters based on position and momentum.
problem Locally adaptive sampling in Hamiltonian Monte Carlo.
method GIST uses Gibbs sampling to adaptively tune HMC parameters.
result GIST improves sampling efficiency for high-dimensional models.
We give a new proof for the existence of mean curvature flow with surgery of 2-convex hypersurfaces in , as announced in arXiv:1304.0926. Our proof works for all , including mean convex surfaces in . We also derive a priori estimates for a more general class of flows in a local and flexible setting.
New method improves feature selection in tree-based models.
problem Previous feature selection methods in tree-based models lack sufficient regularization and sub-optimal performance.
method Developed a new gain penalization approach for tree-based models that allows for flexible feature-specific importance weights.
result The new method improves out-of-sample performance, especially with correlated features.
SimFBO simplifies FBO, making it more efficient and flexible.
problem Complex nested optimization in machine learning and edge computing.
method Proposes SimFBO, a simple and flexible FBO framework with improved communication efficiency.
result SimFBO and ShroFBO achieve linear convergence speedup and improved sample and communication complexities.
Adaptive transfer learningstat.ML
Flexible framework for transfer learning with optimal rates.
problem Inference about a target population using related source data.
method Adaptive transfer learning framework allowing covariate-dependent relationships.
result Achieves minimax optimal rates of convergence by adapting to transfer relationship.
Enhances speech emotion recognition by adapting to varying time scales.
problem Robust emotion recognition from speech audio with temporal variations.
method Introduces multi-time-scale (MTS) convolutional layers to CNNs.
result MTS layers improve generalization, especially on smaller datasets.
Readouts for Echo-state Networks Built using Locally Regularized Orthogonal Forward Regressionstat.ML
Echo state network (ESN) is viewed as a temporal non-orthogonal expansion with pseudo-random parameters. Such expansions naturally give rise to regressors of various relevance to a teacher output. We illustrate that often only a certain amount of the generated echo-regressors effectively explain the variance of the tea…
Prediction markets show considerable promise for developing flexible mechanisms for machine learning. Here, machine learning markets for multivariate systems are defined, and a utility-based framework is established for their analysis. This differs from the usual approach of defining static betting functions. It is sho…
Local surrogate explainers vary in objectives, leading to incomparable explanations.
problem Variability in objectives among local surrogate explainers.
method Review of multiple local surrogate explainers, focusing on extracted information.
result Diverse explanations from similar methods due to differing objectives.
We propose a new algorithm for solving the graph-fused lasso (GFL), a method for parameter estimation that operates under the assumption that the signal tends to be locally constant over a predefined graph structure. Our key insight is to decompose the graph into a set of trails which can then each be solved efficientl…
Generalizes machine learning models using localization kernels and local means.
problem Understanding and unifying diverse machine learning models.
method Formal definition of localization method through localization kernels and local means.
result Unified theoretical lens and new methodological tools for designing flexible learning systems.
We show that local deformations, near closed subsets, of solutions to open partial differential relations can be extended to global deformations, provided all but the highest derivatives stay constant along the subset. The applicability of this general result is illustrated by a number of examples, dealing with convex …
A statistical test controls false positives in anomaly localization using diffusion models.
problem Uncertainty and bias in generative models for anomaly localization.
method Selective inference to quantify significance and control false positives.
result The method effectively controls false positive detection rates.
A fast method combines deep mixtures of sparse GPs for flexible modeling.
problem Flexible modeling with changing output densities.
method Designing gating network with DNN for selecting sparse GPs, using CCR algorithm.
result The method outperforms competing methods in accuracy and uncertainty quantification.