A locally-built, LLM-digested index of recent arXiv papers in quant finance, geometry/topology, and statistical ML — keyword search served straight from SQLite on this machine.
New method uses Multiple Choice Learning for speech separation.
rMCL improves on MCL by preserving diversity in predictions for regression problems.
Ensemble methods are arguably the most trustworthy techniques for boosting the performance of machine learning models. Popular independent ensembles (IE) relying on naive averaging/voting scheme have been of typical choice for most applications involving deep neural networks, but they do not consider advanced collabora…
Deviation-based learning improves recommender systems by abstaining from recommending choices users might follow.
aMCL uses annealing to improve hypothesis diversity in ambiguous tasks.
LoRA-MCL improves language models by generating diverse sentence continuations.
TimeMCL forecasts diverse time series futures using neural networks and WTA loss.
In this paper, we propose an active learning algorithm and models which can gradually learn individual's preference through pairwise comparisons. The active learning scheme aims at finding individual's most preferred choice with minimized number of pairwise comparisons. The pairwise comparisons are encoded into probabi…
Study presents MMC model for better fitting multiple choice data.
Revealed preference theory studies the possibility of modeling an agent's revealed preferences and the construction of a consistent utility function. However, modeling agent's choices over preference orderings is not always practical and demands strong assumptions on human rationality and data-acquisition abilities. Th…
We present a novel method for obtaining high-quality, domain-targeted multiple choice questions from crowd workers. Generating these questions can be difficult without trading away originality, relevance or diversity in the answer options. Our method addresses these problems by leveraging a large corpus of domain-speci…
Model improves BERT for answering multiple-choice questions in large texts.
This paper tackles the problem of selecting among several linear estimators in non-parametric regression; this includes model selection for linear regression, the choice of a regularization parameter in kernel ridge regression, spline smoothing or locally weighted regression, and the choice of a kernel in multiple kern…
Simplified feature selection using a single agent with restructured choice strategy.
Node2vec embeddings are unstable and unstable with parameter choices.
In discrete choice modeling (DCM), model misspecifications may lead to limited predictability and biased parameter estimates. In this paper, we propose a new approach for estimating choice models in which we divide the systematic part of the utility specification into (i) a knowledge-driven part, and (ii) a data-driven…
Recent character and phoneme-based parametric TTS systems using deep learning have shown strong performance in natural speech generation. However, the choice between character or phoneme input can create serious limitations for practical deployment, as direct control of pronunciation is crucial in certain cases. We dem…
New method quantifies uncertainty in fine-tuned LLMs using LoRA ensembles.
While a user's preference is directly reflected in the interactive choice process between her and the recommender, this wealth of information was not fully exploited for learning recommender models. In particular, existing collaborative filtering (CF) approaches take into account only the binary events of user actions …
This paper presents the current state of a work in progress, whose objective is to better understand the effects of factors that significantly influence the performance of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). A difficult task, which consists in answering (French) biology Multiple Choice Questions, is used to test the semant…
We propose a generic model for multiple choice situations in the presence of herding and compare it with recent empirical results from a Web-based music market experiment. The model predicts a phase transition between a weak imitation phase and a strong imitation, `fashion' phase, where choices are driven by peer press…
Paper tackles RLHF with DCPPO method, proving near-optimal suboptimality.
CROQ optimizes LLM decision-making by narrowing down choices and improving accuracy.
The paper classifies symmetric triads with multiplicities and their applications.
This work uses conformal prediction to quantify uncertainty in large language models for multiple-choice questions.
Consensus dimension reduction combines multiple visualizations to identify shared patterns.
PVI combines federated learning and variational inference for probabilistic model training.
New reward function improves GAIL performance in task-based environments.
We consider the problem of identifying patterns in a data set that exhibit anomalous behavior, often referred to as anomaly detection. In most anomaly detection algorithms, the dissimilarity between data samples is calculated by a single criterion, such as Euclidean distance. However, in many cases there may not exist …
Optimizes control of hybrid systems with multiple switching processes.
New method uses multiple kernels to improve SVGD performance.
Motivated by the observation that overexposure to unwanted marketing activities leads to customer dissatisfaction, we consider a setting where a platform offers a sequence of messages to its users and is penalized when users abandon the platform due to marketing fatigue. We propose a novel sequential choice model to ca…
Novel optimization method detects change points in Gaussian data.
Tutorials on preference learning with Gaussian Processes.
The paper studies how regularization parameters affect sparsity in deep neural networks.
Specifying utility functions is a key step towards applying the discrete choice framework for understanding the behaviour processes that govern user choices. However, identifying the utility function specifications that best model and explain the observed choices can be a very challenging and time-consuming task. This …
New model reveals significant impact of data and parameter variations on machine learning benchmarks.
The data scarcity of user preferences and the cold-start problem often appear in real-world applications and limit the recommendation accuracy of collaborative filtering strategies. Leveraging the selections of social friends and foes can efficiently face both problems. In this study, we propose a strategy that perform…
The Rashomon effect shows many models can perform similarly, explored in this paper.
Learning linear combinations of multiple kernels is an appealing strategy when the right choice of features is unknown. Previous approaches to multiple kernel learning (MKL) promote sparse kernel combinations to support interpretability and scalability. Unfortunately, this 1-norm MKL is rarely observed to outperform tr…
We investigate the learning rate of multiple kernel learning (MKL) with and elastic-net regularizations. The elastic-net regularization is a composition of an -regularizer for inducing the sparsity and an -regularizer for controlling the smoothness. We focus on a sparse setting where the total …
Active learning method for ABC statistics selection reduces expert work and improves posterior estimates.
Develops UKP for comparing feature representations in multitask learning.
Oja's algorithm has been the cornerstone of streaming methods in Principal Component Analysis (PCA) since it was first proposed in 1982. However, Oja's algorithm does not have a standardized choice of learning rate (step size) that both performs well in practice and truly conforms to the online streaming setting. In th…
An increasing number of datasets contain multiple views, such as video, sound and automatic captions. A basic challenge in representation learning is how to leverage multiple views to learn better representations. This is further complicated by the existence of a latent alignment between views, such as between speech a…
Kernel methods are among the most popular techniques in machine learning. From a frequentist/discriminative perspective they play a central role in regularization theory as they provide a natural choice for the hypotheses space and the regularization functional through the notion of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. F…
Missing data is a significant problem impacting all domains. State-of-the-art framework for minimizing missing data bias is multiple imputation, for which the choice of an imputation model remains nontrivial. We propose a multiple imputation model based on overcomplete deep denoising autoencoders. Our proposed model is…
This article is the term paper of the course Investments. We mainly focus on modeling long-term investment decisions of a typical utility-maximizing individual, with features of Chinese stock market in perspective. We adopt an OR based methodology with market information as input parameters to carry out the solution. T…