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Paper proposes a new method for WDRO with local perturbations, achieving better accuracy.

problem Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization's theoretical understanding needs improvement.
method Develops a new approximation theorem and risk consistency results for WDRO.
result The proposed method achieves significantly higher accuracy on noisy datasets.

Purpose: Lung nodules have very diverse shapes and sizes, which makes classifying them as benign/malignant a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a novel method to predict the malignancy of nodules that have the capability to analyze the shape and size of a nodule using a global feature extractor, as well as …

2019-04-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a continuous, differentiable model from local adaptive models.

problem Inadequate continuity and differentiability in over-parameterized models.
method A global continuous and differentiable model constructed from weighted averages of locally learned models.
result Achieves faster statistical convergence and improved performance in various settings.

Proposes new Monte Carlo methods for calibrating local volatility models with stochastic components.

problem Calibrating local volatility models with stochastic drift and diffusion.
method Developed Monte Carlo algorithms for three models: local volatility with stochastic interest rates, stochastic local volatility with deterministic interest rates, and stochastic local volatility with stochastic interest rates.
result Conditions for the existence of local volatility given European option prices, stochastic interest rate model parameters, and correlations.

Paper proposes a federated learning method for quantile inference with local differential privacy.

problem Federated learning of quantile inference under local differential privacy constraints.
method Local stochastic gradient descent with randomized mechanism for privacy and efficiency.
result Asymptotic normality and functional central limit theorem for the proposed estimator.

Proposes a new random forest weighted local Fréchet regression method.

problem Complex metric space valued responses and curse of dimensionality in Fréchet regression.
method Locally adaptive kernel generated by random forests for local average and local linear Fréchet regression.
result Significantly improves existing Fréchet regression methods with theoretical guarantees.

The excellent performance of representation learning of autoencoders have attracted considerable interest in various applications. However, the structure and multi-local collaborative relationships of unlabeled data are ignored in their encoding procedure that limits the capability of feature extraction. This paper pre…

2019-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

New methods identify local clusters in graphs with few labels.

problem Identifying specific substructures in large graphs without additional structural information.
method Random sampling, diffusion, and overlap analysis of local clusters.
result Proves the correctness of the proposed methods and achieves state-of-the-art results.

Paper proposes faster method to find local minima in nonconvex optimization.

problem Escaping saddle points and finding local minima in nonconvex optimization.
method LENA (Last stEp shriNkAge) framework for faster perturbed stochastic gradient methods.
result LENA finds (ε,εH)(ε, ε_{H})-approximate local minima within ildeO(ε3+εH6) ilde O(ε^{-3} + ε_{H}^{-6}) evaluations.

SVM with local features improves human action recognition.

problem Improving human action recognition in videos.
method Local appearance and motion features extracted using CNNs, concatenated, and used with SVM for classification.
result SVM with local features outperforms previous methods on benchmark datasets.

Local adaptive methods in FL can accelerate convergence but introduce bias, which is corrected.

problem The effect of using adaptive optimization methods for local updates in federated learning.
method Proposed correction techniques to overcome the bias introduced by local adaptive methods.
result Correction techniques can achieve faster convergence and higher test accuracy than baseline methods.

A new model detects and localizes anomalies in multivariate time series data.

problem Anomaly diagnosis in multivariate time series data, especially localization.
method Attention Low-Rank Transformer (ALoRa-T) with low-rank regularization and Attention Low-Rank score.
result The proposed method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in anomaly detection and localization.

Proposes dynamic model type recommendation for OLP technique.

problem Limited local competence of base-classifiers in uneven data distributions.
method Builds a multi-label meta-classifier to recommend model types based on local data complexity.
result Statistically similar performance to original OLP with fixed base-classifier model.

Proposes a new quasi-local mass for timelike 2-surfaces in spacetimes.

problem Need a mass definition for 2-surfaces with timelike mean curvature.
method Adopts Wang-Yau's quasi-local energy framework, modifies for timelike mean curvature.
result Yields a positive definite surface energy density and divergence-free current.

Pointwise localization allows more precise localization and accurate interpretability, compared to bounding box, in applications where objects are highly unstructured such as in medical domain. In this work, we focus on weakly supervised localization (WSL) where a model is trained to classify an image and localize regi…

2019-07-25abs ↗pdf ↗

A method to visualize multidimensional local subspaces using implicit differentiation.

problem Understanding the effect of multidimensional projection on local subspaces.
method Implicit function differentiation to analyze local subspaces shaped by multidimensional ellipses.
result Visualization of local subspaces provides insights into the global structure of data.

Proposes a method to identify causal relationships using background knowledge.

problem Identifying causal relationships in the presence of background knowledge.
method Learning local structure using all types of causal background knowledge (direct, non-ancestral, ancestral). Criteria for identifying causal relationships based on local structure.
result Effective and efficient method for local structure learning and causal relationship identification.

We study the pricing and hedging of derivatives in incomplete financial markets by considering the local risk-minimization method in the context of the benchmark approach, which will be called benchmarked local risk-minimization. We show that the proposed benchmarked local risk-minimization allows to handle under extre…

2012-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Understanding black-box machine learning models is crucial for their widespread adoption. Learning globally interpretable models is one approach, but achieving high performance with them is challenging. An alternative approach is to explain individual predictions using locally interpretable models. For locally interpre…

2019-09-26abs ↗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.

We present an alternative local definition of the writhe of a self-avoiding closed loop which differs from the traditional non-local definition by an integer. When studying dynamics this difference is immaterial. We employ a formula due to Aldinger, Klapper and Tabor for the change in writhe and propose a set of local,…

1997-03-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Decision making based on behavioral and neural observations of living systems has been extensively studied in brain science, psychology, and other disciplines. Decision-making mechanisms have also been experimentally implemented in physical processes, such as single photons and chaotic lasers. The findings of these exp…

2018-04-12abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a definition of quasi-local mass based on the Penrose Inequality. Two further definitions are given by measuring distortions of the exponential map.

2012-01-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning and especially deep learning have garneredtremendous popularity in recent years due to their increased performanceover other methods. The availability of large amount of data has aidedin the progress of deep learning. Nevertheless, deep learning models areopaque and often seen as black boxes. Thus, the…

2019-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2018-12-10abs ↗pdf ↗