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48 results for maximum weighted loss discrepancy

Introduces MWLD to measure loss inequality across groups.

problem Machine learning's focus on average loss can lead to large group loss discrepancies.
method Defines MWLD, relates it to fairness and robustness, and provides estimation methods.
result MWLD can be estimated efficiently under certain weighting functions and reduces loss variance without significant accuracy loss.

A new ensemble filter uses transport maps and MMD optimization for high-dimensional data assimilation.

problem High-dimensional data assimilation challenges in ensemble filtering.
method Optimized Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) for transport map construction.
result Significant improvement in robustness and posterior approximation.

A new metric DJP-MMD improves domain adaptation by balancing transferability and discriminability.

problem Improving domain adaptation performance by balancing transferability and discriminability.
method Discriminative Joint Probability Maximum Mean Discrepancy (DJP-MMD) replaces the traditional joint MMD.
result DJP-MMD outperforms traditional MMDs in image classification tasks.

In this paper, we bound the error induced by using a weighted skeletonization of two data sets for computing a two sample test with kernel maximum mean discrepancy. The error is quantified in terms of the speed in which heat diffuses from those points to the rest of the data, as well as how at the weights on the refere…

2018-12-11abs ↗pdf ↗

CO2 algorithm creates coresets for generic smooth divergences efficiently.

problem Efficiently creating coresets for generic smooth divergences.
method CO2 algorithm using functional Taylor expansion and maximum mean discrepancy minimization.
result Poly-logarithmically many data points suffice for Sinkhorn divergence approximation.

Quantum models face barren plateaus, but specific losses can be trainable.

problem Barren plateaus and loss concentration in quantum generative models.
method Investigated explicit and implicit losses, and their interplay.
result Explicit losses lead to new barren plateaus, while implicit losses can be trainable.

Enhances generative models stability and accuracy with BNPL, WMMD, and triple model.

problem Overfitting in GANs and noisy samples in VAEs.
method Bayesian non-parametric learning framework, integrating Wasserstein distance and maximum mean discrepancy.
result Superior performance across various generative tasks.

Paper proposes MMD-Bayes for robust Bayesian estimation in misspecified models.

problem Inconsistent estimates in Bayesian statistics due to model misspecification.
method Uses Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) to create a robust pseudo-likelihood.
result MMD-Bayes posterior is consistent and robust to model misspecification.

Improved MMD estimator for likelihood-free inference.

problem Computational challenges in estimating MMD for likelihood-free inference.
method Optimally-weighted MMD estimator with improved sample complexity.
result Significantly improved sample complexity for accurate MMD estimation.

New method constructs synthetic treatment groups without mean exchangeability assumption.

problem Violations of mean exchangeability assumption in randomized controlled trials.
method Weighted mixture of treatment groups from source populations, minimizing conditional maximum mean discrepancy.
result Asymptotic normality of synthetic treatment group estimator established.

A new deep generative model uses BSDEs for high-dimensional data generation.

problem Generating high-dimensional complex data, especially images.
method Combines BSDEs with deep neural networks for training with MMD loss.
result BSDE-Gen effectively generates high-dimensional data with stochasticity.

CoSCA improves unsupervised domain adaptation by better aligning ambiguous target samples.

problem Missing alignment of ambiguous target samples in unsupervised domain adaptation.
method CoSCA explicitly incorporates intra- and inter-class domain discrepancy, estimating label hypotheses and optimizing a contrastive loss with MMD for better global alignment.
result CoSCA outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in producing more discriminative features.

This paper refines MMD for domain adaptation by balancing intra-class and inter-class distances.

problem Balancing intra-class and inter-class distances for better feature discriminability in domain adaptation.
method The paper theoretically proves two facts about MMD and proposes a novel discriminative MMD method to balance intra-class and inter-class distances.
result The proposed method improves feature discriminability and outperforms state-of-the-art methods.

We study minimax convergence rates of nonparametric density estimation under a large class of loss functions called "adversarial losses", which, besides classical Lp\mathcal{L}^p losses, includes maximum mean discrepancy (MMD), Wasserstein distance, and total variation distance. These losses are closely related to the …

2018-05-22abs ↗pdf ↗

DPC uses physics and neural nets to solve SDEs.

problem Solving stochastic differential equations with missing physics.
method Physics-data fusion with conditional maximum mean discrepancy (CMMD) loss.
result DPC achieves highly accurate solutions on benchmark examples.

Paper improves MMD estimation for analytical mean embeddings.

problem Improving MMD estimation for distributions with analytical mean embeddings.
method Proposes a tighter concentration result for MMD estimation under semi-explicit settings and extends to unbounded kernels.
result Demonstrates efficiency in real-world applications like index replication and calibration.

Paper develops a framework to optimize neural networks using weighted metrics.

problem Discrepancy between maximizing weighted classification scores and minimizing loss function.
method Formalizes weighted classification metrics and constructs corresponding losses.
result Framework includes well-established approaches like cost-sensitive learning and weighted cross entropy.

Study finds polynomial convergence rate for Farey sequences linked to Riemann hypothesis.

problem Understanding convergence rates of maximum mean discrepancies for Farey sequences.
method Identifying positive-semidefinite kernels and their polynomial convergence rates.
result Polynomial convergence rate of maximum mean discrepancies of Farey sequences is equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis.

Active learning algorithms propose which unlabeled objects should be queried for their labels to improve a predictive model the most. We study active learners that minimize generalization bounds and uncover relationships between these bounds that lead to an improved approach to active learning. In particular we show th…

2017-06-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Framework learns to transform majority to minority samples for balanced classification.

problem Imbalanced classification leading to biased predictions.
method Minimizes MMD and uses triplet loss for global alignment and boundary awareness.
result Consistent improvements over classical and generative baselines in AUROC, G-mean, F1-score, and MCC.

A new method uses characteristic functions to improve GANs.

problem Improving the stability and efficiency of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs).
method Formulating IGM learning as minimizing characteristic function distance, using linear-time CFD computation.
result The proposed method outperforms existing GAN variants on image generation benchmarks.

The paper proposes a method to produce well-calibrated predictions in regression tasks using maximum mean discrepancy.

problem The need for accurate uncertainty quantification in machine learning predictions.
method The method uses maximum mean discrepancy to minimize the kernel embedding measure and calibrate predictions.
result The method produces well-calibrated and sharp prediction intervals, outperforming state-of-the-art methods.

Optimal model averaging for conditional generative models improves performance across various data types.

problem Multiple plausible generators for conditional distributions can vary in performance.
method Sample-based maximum mean discrepancy, static model averaging, and mixture-of-experts model averaging.
result MoEMA improves over competing baselines across various data types.

AGMMNs improve learning of copula models by adaptively selecting kernels.

problem Learning dependence structures in copula models.
method Adaptive bandwidth selection for MMD in GMMNs, increasing kernels based on validation loss.
result AGMMNs significantly improve training performance over GMMNs and parametric models.

A new MMD-based test combines kernels for two-sample testing without splitting data.

problem Efficiently testing if two datasets come from the same distribution without splitting data.
method Proposes a novel statistic based on Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) that combines kernels, proving concentration bounds and showing data-dependent kernel selection.
result Exponential concentration bounds and improved test power compared to existing methods.

Maximum likelihood training improves the performance of score-based diffusion models.

problem Training score-based diffusion models with maximum likelihood.
method Trained by minimizing a weighted combination of score matching losses, with a specific weighting scheme that bounds negative log-likelihood.
result Maximum likelihood training improves the log-likelihood of score-based diffusion models across multiple datasets.

Proposes PI-VAE for solving SDEs with limited measurements.

problem Solving SDEs with limited measurements of system parameters.
method Physics-informed Variational Autoencoder (PI-VAE) integrating VAE and governing equations.
result Satisfactory accuracy and efficiency compared to PI-WGAN.

New metrics improve quantum ensemble learning efficiency and power.

problem Quantum ensembles' distances poorly understood due to measurement constraints.
method Introduce MMD-kk hierarchy of integral probability metrics for quantum ensembles.
result MMD-kk requires fewer samples for full discriminative power at higher kk.

TMDA aligns subdomain data distribution discrepancies across domains using manifold representations.

problem Transfer learning challenges due to domain divergence.
method TMDA uses low-dimensional manifolds to represent subdomains and aligns local data distribution discrepancies across domains using M3D.
result TMDA is a promising method for various transfer learning tasks.

PIE-PINN estimates elastic properties from noisy, low-res displacement data.

problem Estimating heterogeneous elastic properties from low-resolution, noisy data.
method Probabilistic Physics-Informed Neural Network (PIE-PINN) framework combining B-spline and hierarchical scale model.
result Robust estimation of Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio from noisy, low-resolution displacement data.

The paper analyzes mean-field variational Bayes for complex models and proposes new uncertainty quantification methods.

problem Approximating posterior distributions in complex Bayesian models with latent variables.
method Non-asymptotic analysis on mean-field variational inference, showing that a normal distribution with the MLE center approximates the posterior well.
result The mean-field approximation matches the MLE up to higher-order terms and is essentially efficient for regular parametric models.

We propose a principled method for gradient-based regularization of the critic of GAN-like models trained by adversarially optimizing the kernel of a Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD). We show that controlling the gradient of the critic is vital to having a sensible loss function, and devise a method to enforce exact, ana…

2018-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper introduces methods to identify key variables discriminating between two datasets.

problem Identifying variables that distinguish between two datasets.
method Introduces a mathematical notion of discriminating variables and proposes two methods for their selection.
result Proposed methods improve upon existing techniques in two-sample variable selection.

We unify f-divergences, Bregman divergences, surrogate loss bounds (regret bounds), proper scoring rules, matching losses, cost curves, ROC-curves and information. We do this by systematically studying integral and variational representations of these objects and in so doing identify their primitives which all are rela…

2009-01-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Innovative game theory approach optimizes survival analysis metrics.

problem Survival analysis models trained with maximum likelihood do not directly optimize criteria like Brier score or Bernoulli log likelihood.
method Inverse-Weighted Survival Games: Construct objectives from re-weighted estimates featuring the other model, holding the latter fixed during training.
result Games optimize Brier score on simulations and real-world data.

A new gradient flow for MMD with closed-form implementation.

problem Existing gradient flows either lack tractable numerical implementation or require strong assumptions.
method Introduces a (de)-regularized Maximum Mean Discrepancy (DrMMD) and its gradient flow.
result Guarantees near-global convergence for a broad class of targets in both continuous and discrete time.