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48 results for mode finding

The paper finds shape modes for vortices in a specific sigma model.

problem Existence of internal modes in CP1\mathbb{C}P^1 vortices.
method Developed a geometric formalism based on the Bogomol'nyi decomposition of the energy functional.
result Proved the existence of at least one shape mode for a general CP1\mathbb{C}P^1 vortex solution.

Develops an MS-inspired algorithm for regression mode finding and space partitioning.

problem Finding local modes of regression functions and partitioning input space.
method Mean-shift-inspired algorithm for iterative gradient ascent.
result Proves convergence and rates of convergence for estimated local modes.

A new, efficient kk-modes algorithm improves clustering of categorical data.

problem Clustering categorical data using existing methods like kk-means is inefficient.
method Developed a novel kk-modes algorithm called OTQT, which improves on existing methods.
result OTQT finds more accurate clusters per iteration and is faster overall.

New method for k-modes algorithm improves clustering performance.

problem Improving initial solution selection for k-modes algorithm.
method Uses Hospital-Resident Assignment Problem to find initial cluster centroids.
result Outperforms other initialisations in most cases, especially for low-density data.

Multimodal clustering is an unsupervised technique for mining interesting patterns in nn-adic binary relations or nn-mode networks. Among different types of such generalized patterns one can find biclusters and formal concepts (maximal bicliques) for 2-mode case, triclusters and triconcepts for 3-mode case, closed $n…

2017-02-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Predicting transportation modes from GPS (Global Positioning System) records is a hot topic in the trajectory mining domain. Each GPS record is called a trajectory point and a trajectory is a sequence of these points. Trajectory mining has applications including but not limited to transportation mode detection, tourism…

2018-07-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Theoretical work on mode collapse in variational inference models.

problem Mode collapse in variational inference models, where models focus on a few modes instead of all possible ones.
method Theoretical investigation of mode collapse in Gaussian mixture models, identifying key low-dimensional statistics and equations governing their evolution.
result Mode collapse is present even in favorable scenarios, driven by mean alignment and vanishing weight mechanisms.

We propose an estimation method for the conditional mode when the conditioning variable is high-dimensional. In the proposed method, we first estimate the conditional density by solving quantile regressions multiple times. We then estimate the conditional mode by finding the maximum of the estimated conditional density…

2017-12-23abs ↗pdf ↗

A new online method estimates mode from samples using ODE analysis.

problem Estimating mode from samples when analytical density is unknown.
method Online iterative algorithm using ODE analysis for asymptotic convergence and stability.
result Asymptotic convergence and stability of estimates demonstrated.

New tools for constructing disintegrations and studying their modes.

problem Difficulty in constructing disintegrations and understanding their modes.
method Developed comprehensive mathematical tools for constructing disintegrations and analyzing their modes.
result Disagreement between restricted density and disintegration density in certain cases.

Proposes neuron alignment to optimize mode connectivity in neural networks.

problem Understanding and optimizing mode connectivity in deep neural networks.
method Introduces neuron alignment to approximate optimal weight permutations and improve mode connectivity.
result Neuron alignment significantly alleviates robust loss barriers and improves model robustness and accuracy.

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) often suffer from unpredictable mode-collapsing during training. We study the issue of mode collapse of Boundary Equilibrium Generative Adversarial Network (BEGAN), which is one of the state-of-the-art generative models. Despite its potential of generating high-quality images, we …

2018-08-22abs ↗pdf ↗

VINNAS uses variational inference to avoid mode collapse in neural architecture search.

problem Mode collapse in gradient-based NAS methods, leading to suboptimal architectures.
method Differentiable variational inference with variational dropout and automatic relevance determination.
result State-of-the-art accuracy with up to twice fewer non-zero parameters.

Mode connectivity is a recently introduced frame- work that empirically establishes the connected- ness of minima by finding a high accuracy curve between two independently trained models. To investigate the limits of this setup, we examine the efficacy of this technique in extreme cases where the input models are trai…

2018-06-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We revisit the index leverage effect, that can be decomposed into a volatility effect and a correlation effect. We investigate the latter using a matrix regression analysis, that we call `Principal Regression Analysis' (PRA) and for which we provide some analytical (using Random Matrix Theory) and numerical benchmarks.…

2010-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

A time schedule simplifies learning in flow-based models for high-dimensional data.

problem Disappearance of relative probability phase in high-dimensional Gaussian mixture sampling.
method Introduces a time dilation schedule to characterize phases of learning.
result Autoencoder learns to simplify by focusing on relevant parameters for each phase.

In addition to finding meaningful clusters, centroid-based clustering algorithms such as K-means or mean-shift should ideally find centroids that are valid patterns in the input space, representative of data in their cluster. This is challenging with data having a nonconvex or manifold structure, as with images or text…

2014-06-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Study reveals issues with neural autoregressive models and proposes mode recovery cost.

problem Unreasonable affinity of neural autoregressive models to short and long sequences.
method Investigates modes of ground-truth, empirical, and decoding-induced distributions via mode recovery cost.
result Mode recovery cost varies depending on ground-truth distribution and impacts decoding-induced distribution.

We analyze the statistics of daily price change of stock market in the framework of a statistical physics model for the collective fluctuation of stock portfolio. In this model the time series of price changes are coded into the sequences of up and down spins, and the Hamiltonian of the system is expressed by spin-spin…

2001-10-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Many clustering algorithms exist that estimate a cluster centroid, such as K-means, K-medoids or mean-shift, but no algorithm seems to exist that clusters data by returning exactly K meaningful modes. We propose a natural definition of a K-modes objective function by combining the notions of density and cluster assignm…

2013-04-24abs ↗pdf ↗

We advocate Laplacian K-modes for joint clustering and density mode finding, and propose a concave-convex relaxation of the problem, which yields a parallel algorithm that scales up to large datasets and high dimensions. We optimize a tight bound (auxiliary function) of our relaxation, which, at each iteration, amounts…

2018-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Learning an optimal policy from a multi-modal reward function is a challenging problem in reinforcement learning (RL). Hierarchical RL (HRL) tackles this problem by learning a hierarchical policy, where multiple option policies are in charge of different strategies corresponding to modes of a reward function and a gati…

2017-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Study identifies transitions between traffic modes on Cologne motorways.

problem Understanding transitions between different traffic modes.
method Constructed state transition network, identified dominant states using PageRank algorithm.
result Identified seasonal dependence in traffic modes.

A natural way to characterize the cluster structure of a dataset is by finding regions containing a high density of data. This can be done in a nonparametric way with a kernel density estimate, whose modes and hence clusters can be found using mean-shift algorithms. We describe the theory and practice behind clustering…

2015-03-02abs ↗pdf ↗

FlowVAT improves variational inference for multi-modal distributions.

problem Mode-seeking behavior and collapse in variational inference for complex posteriors.
method Conditional tempering approach for normalizing flow variational inference.
result FlowVAT outperforms traditional and adaptive annealing methods in multi-modal distributions, finding more modes and achieving better ELBO values.

The paper reveals surprising star-shaped connectivity in neural networks.

problem Understanding mode connectivity in neural network landscapes.
method Fine-grained analysis of connectivity in overparameterized and finite minima cases.
result Star-shaped connectivity exists in neural network landscapes, suggesting near convexity.

Improved RL training for DMs reduces mode collapse and preserves diversity.

problem Mode collapse and training instability in RL fine-tuned diffusion models.
method Dynamic hierarchical RL training with sliding-window parameter regularisation.
result Models trained with HRF achieve better preservation of diversity in downstream tasks.

New method decomposes KL error using refined information and mode interactions.

problem Learning probability distributions over discrete variables with higher-order interactions.
method Using information geometry, refined mode interactions, and a novel Monte-Carlo sampling technique.
result Complete decomposition of KL error and efficient data use.