Dependent MMD coresets help compare multiple related datasets.
problem Comparing multiple related datasets for insights into model generalization.
method Dependent MMD coresets for collections of datasets.
result Dependent MMD coresets facilitate comparison and understanding of multiple related datasets.
Improved text-to-image and multimodal understanding through adaptive generation order optimization.
problem Determining optimal generation sequences in text-to-image synthesis and multimodal understanding.
method Introduced a learnable control module trained via Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to determine the generation order.
result Learning the control block substantially improves text-to-image alignment and multimodal understanding in DLMs.
In an attempt to gather a deeper understanding of how convolutional neural networks (CNNs) reason about human-understandable concepts, we present a method to infer labeled concept data from hidden layer activations and interpret the concepts through a shallow decision tree. The decision tree can provide information abo…
Although deep learning techniques have been successfully applied to many tasks, interpreting deep neural network models is still a big challenge to us. Recently, many works have been done on visualizing and analyzing the mechanism of deep neural networks in the areas of image processing and natural language processing.…
Proposes a supervised VAE to reveal model invariances for interpretability.
problem Understanding and interpreting complex supervised models.
method Supervised variational auto-encoders (VAEs) with latent space invariances.
result Reveals model invariances through sampling nuisance dimensions.
ZeroSCROLLS benchmarks zero-shot natural language understanding over long texts.
problem Evaluate natural language understanding models over long texts without training data.
method Adapt six tasks from SCROLLS benchmark and add four new datasets, including novel aggregation tasks.
result Claude outperforms ChatGPT, and GPT-4 achieves highest average score.
Adapts large transformer model for search query intent understanding.
problem Understanding and predicting user intents from search queries.
method Adapts BERT-like architecture for search queries, accounts for query noisiness and sparseness.
result Builds a shareable deep learning model for query intent identification.
This is a lecture note for the course DS-GA 3001 <Natural Language Understanding with Distributed Representation> at the Center for Data Science , New York University in Fall, 2015. As the name of the course suggests, this lecture note introduces readers to a neural network based approach to natural language understand…
Linear models can grok without understanding, improving generalization.
problem Understanding the phenomenon of grokking in linear models.
method Analytical and numerical derivation of training and generalization dynamics in linear networks.
result Grokking can occur in linear networks without reaching understanding, and its timing depends on various parameters.
The paper uses DNN for electricity price forecasting and XAI for understanding the factors.
problem Complex interactions and dependencies in electricity markets make it hard to understand price dynamics.
method Used DNN for forecasting and XAI (SHAP, Gradient, heatmaps) for understanding factors.
result Introduced novel concepts SSHAP values and SSHAP lines for enhanced representation of high-dimensional tabular models.
Language model benchmarks often misrepresent true understanding, revealing vulnerabilities in evaluation methods.
problem Language model benchmarks fail to accurately reflect true language understanding and adaptability.
method Systematic analysis of NLP evaluation frameworks, identifying vulnerabilities in static benchmarks, human evaluation protocols, and LLM-as-judge frameworks.
result Current evaluation methods are unreliable and need improvement to accurately assess LLM performance.
Cyclic Boosting offers detailed prediction understanding for machine learning models.
problem Complex machine learning models are often black boxes, making individual predictions hard to understand.
method Cyclic Boosting is a novel machine learning algorithm that provides detailed understanding of predictions.
result Cyclic Boosting enables detailed understanding of how predictions are made, even for complex models.
Understanding optimal prompts for binary sequence predictors is challenging.
problem Finding good prompts for binary sequence predictors is difficult.
method Viewing prompting as finding the best conditioning sequence on a near-optimal sequence predictor, using empirical and statistical analysis.
result Optimal prompts can be better understood given the pretraining distribution, which is not usually available.
CERT improves language understanding by contrastively learning sentence-level semantics.
problem Lack of sentence-level semantics in existing pretraining tasks.
method Contrastive self-supervised learning at the sentence level using back-translation augmentations.
result CERT outperforms BERT on 7 out of 11 GLUE benchmark tasks, achieving the same performance as BERT on 2 tasks.
With online calendar services gaining popularity worldwide, calendar data has become one of the richest context sources for understanding human behavior. However, event scheduling is still time-consuming even with the development of online calendars. Although machine learning based event scheduling models have automate…
This paper introduces the YouTube-8M Video Understanding Challenge hosted as a Kaggle competition and also describes my approach to experimenting with various models. For each of my experiments, I provide the score result as well as possible improvements to be made. Towards the end of the paper, I discuss the various e…
The paper extends explainability methods to uncertainty-aware models, revealing feature impacts on predictive entropy and likelihood.
problem Understanding the factors contributing to uncertainty in probabilistic models.
method Adapting permutation feature importance, partial dependence plots, and individual conditional expectation plots to measure feature impacts on predictive entropy and likelihood.
result Novel insights into model behaviour and feature impacts on uncertainty are obtained.
Zero-shot understanding of accidents from surveillance videos using vision-language models
problem Accident understanding from surveillance videos
method Three-stage pipeline with vision-language similarity, metadata-driven multi-prompt reasoning, and entropy-gated pairwise adjudicator
result Substantial improvement in harmonic-mean score over baseline
Understanding large, structured documents like scholarly articles, requests for proposals or business reports is a complex and difficult task. It involves discovering a document's overall purpose and subject(s), understanding the function and meaning of its sections and subsections, and extracting low level entities an…
Genomic models learn DNA sequences to predict functions.
problem Understanding complex genetic interactions.
method Training LLMs on DNA sequences to predict functions.
result gLMs can predict functions of DNA elements.
PyFi uses adversarial agents to train VLMs on financial image understanding.
problem Training VLMs to understand complex financial questions.
method PyFi-600K dataset and adversarial MCTS mechanism.
result Fine-tuned VLMs improve by 19.52% and 8.06% on financial question accuracy.
Research aims to bridge statistical learning to causal models in AI.
problem Challenges in machine learning and AI related to causality.
method Transition from statistical learning to causal models.
result Progress in AI may require advances in causal modeling.
This paper provides a guide to feature importance methods for better scientific inference.
problem Limited understanding of data-generating process due to opaque ML model mechanisms.
method Comprehensive review and new proofs of global feature importance methods.
result Facilitates a thorough understanding and concrete recommendations for FI methods.
Meta learning works well with overparameterized models, a phenomenon called 'benign overfitting'.
problem Understanding why overparameterized models perform well in few-shot learning.
method Analyzed the generalization performance of gradient-based meta learning with an overparameterized meta linear regression model.
result Demonstrated that overparameterized meta learning can still generalize well, a phenomenon called 'benign overfitting'.
Image understanding is an important research domain in the computer vision due to its wide real-world applications. For an image understanding framework that uses the Bag-of-Words model representation, the visual codebook is an essential part. Random forest (RF) as a tree-structure discriminative codebook has been a po…
In this chapter, we provide a brief overview of applying machine learning techniques for clinical prediction tasks. We begin with a quick introduction to the concepts of machine learning and outline some of the most common machine learning algorithms. Next, we demonstrate how to apply the algorithms with appropriate to…
With the growing adoption of machine learning techniques, there is a surge of research interest towards making machine learning systems more transparent and interpretable. Various visualizations have been developed to help model developers understand, diagnose, and refine machine learning models. However, a large numbe…
This work proposes xGEMs or manifold guided exemplars, a framework to understand black-box classifier behavior by exploring the landscape of the underlying data manifold as data points cross decision boundaries. To do so, we train an unsupervised implicit generative model -- treated as a proxy to the data manifold. We …
lamBERT learns language and actions using multimodal BERT.
problem Learning language and actions in complex environments.
method Extending BERT to multimodal representation and integrating with reinforcement learning.
result lamBERT model achieved higher rewards in multitask and transfer settings.
A stochastic model with hidden discrete Markov processes is constructed to understand the behavior of debtors.
Study identifies negative data externalities affecting model performance on specific groups.
problem Negative data externalities on group performance in machine learning models.
method Characterized and detected data-model inefficiencies, focusing on specific types of externalities.
result Negative data externalities can lower model performance on specific sub-groups, even with larger datasets.
Gaussian process models simplify neural network behavior for easier understanding.
problem Understanding and predicting the behavior of deep learning systems.
method Constructing surrogate models using Gaussian processes from finite neural networks.
result Surrogate models capture phenomena like spectral bias and predict generalization well.
MCD offers a complete model understanding for high-stake decisions.
problem Local model understanding in XAI methods is not sufficient for high-stake decisions.
method MCD extends concept-based methods to ensure global model understanding via multi-dimensional subspaces.
result MCD provides a complete model understanding, ensuring the model reasoning is related to the actual model.
Evolutionary methods improve understanding of LLMs and their relationships.
problem Improving understanding of LLMs and their relationships.
method Relating weights to genotypes and output text to phenotypes using evolutionary methods.
result Estimated evolutionary trees reliably recover the topology of the ground-truth training tree.
Study finds transparency and model performance metrics increase trust in AutoML systems.
problem Understanding what information influences trust in AutoML systems.
method Three studies: qualitative interviews, controlled experiment, and card-sorting task.
result Transparency and model performance metrics are most important for establishing trust in AutoML systems.
Survey on making machine learning models more understandable.
problem Making predictions from machine learning models transparent and understandable for humans.
method Conducts a survey on explainable supervised machine learning approaches.
result Classifies explainable SML approaches and discusses future directions.
This paper explores how MoE layers improve deep learning performance.
problem Understanding the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) layer in deep learning.
method Formal study of MoE layer's effectiveness and mechanism.
result MoE layer improves performance by leveraging cluster structure and non-linearity.
SLT explains neural network success by closing theory-practice gap.
problem Failure of classical inference and learning theory in modern neural networks.
method Physics-inspired Singular Learning Theory (SLT) applied to neural networks.
result SLT recovers known and novel scaling laws for neural network phase transitions.
Joint scene understanding and segmentation for automotive applications is a challenging problem in two key aspects:- (1) classifying every pixel in the entire scene and (2) performing this task under unstable weather and illumination changes (e.g. foggy weather), which results in poor outdoor scene visibility. This poo…
Improves understanding of stochastic NGVI convergence rates.
problem Lack of knowledge about non-asymptotic convergence rates in stochastic NGVI.
method Proved non-asymptotic convergence rates for conjugate likelihoods and showed implicit optimization for non-conjugate likelihoods.
result First O(T1) non-asymptotic convergence rate for stochastic NGVI in conjugate likelihoods. New text-to-image diffusion models improve scene understanding for AI agents.
problem Fine-grained scene understanding for AI agents from text and images.
method Pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models optimized for generating images from text prompts.
result Policies learned with Stable Control Representations outperform state-of-the-art approaches on various control tasks.
Interpretable machine learning tackles the important problem that humans cannot understand the behaviors of complex machine learning models and how these models arrive at a particular decision. Although many approaches have been proposed, a comprehensive understanding of the achievements and challenges is still lacking…
Gaining a better understanding of how and what machine learning systems learn is important to increase confidence in their decisions and catalyze further research. In this paper, we analyze the predictions made by a specific type of recurrent neural network, mixture density RNNs (MD-RNNs). These networks learn to model…
Improved financial sentiment analysis using simple instruction tuning of LLMs.
problem Lack of accurate financial sentiment analysis by large language models.
method Instruction tuning of general-purpose LLMs with a small portion of financial sentiment data.
result Significant improvement in financial sentiment analysis, especially in complex scenarios.
Study uses EEG and ML to predict movie ratings with 72% accuracy.
problem Predicting consumer preferences for movie trailers.
method EEG and machine learning techniques to analyze brain responses to movie trailers.
result Predicted movie ratings with 72% accuracy.
Macroscopic price evolution models are commonly used for investment strategies. There are first promising achievements in defining microscopic agent based models for the same purpose. Microscopic models allow a deeper understanding of mechanisms in the market than the purely phenomenological macroscopic models, and thu…
Interactive model analysis, the process of understanding, diagnosing, and refining a machine learning model with the help of interactive visualization, is very important for users to efficiently solve real-world artificial intelligence and data mining problems. Dramatic advances in big data analytics has led to a wide …
Machine learning (ML) algorithms and machine learning based software systems implicitly or explicitly involve complex flow of information between various entities such as training data, feature space, validation set and results. Understanding the statistical distribution of such information and how they flow from one e…