Solves GAN mode collapse by assigning minibatches to multiple discriminators.
problem Mode collapse in GANs where models generate similar samples.
method Multiple discriminators, microbatching, and changing tasks.
result Promotes sample diversity in generated sets.
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can successfully approximate a probability distribution and produce realistic samples. However, open questions such as sufficient convergence conditions and mode collapse still persist. In this paper, we build on existing work in the area by proposing a novel framework for trainin…
New technique for multiple-source adaptation without density estimation.
problem Multiple-source adaptation problem.
method Discriminative technique that uses conditional probabilities from unlabeled data.
result Our technique outperforms previous generative solutions and other domain adaptation baselines.
DoPaNet uses multiple discriminators to prevent mode collapse in GANs.
problem Mode collapse in adversarial training.
method Employing multiple discriminators and a classifier to guide the generator.
result DoPaNet effectively covers the target distribution and outperforms competing methods.
Principal component analysis (PCA) is widely used for feature extraction and dimensionality reduction, with documented merits in diverse tasks involving high-dimensional data. Standard PCA copes with one dataset at a time, but it is challenged when it comes to analyzing multiple datasets jointly. In certain data scienc…
We study the interplay between sequential decision making and avoiding discrimination against protected groups, when examples arrive online and do not follow distributional assumptions. We consider the most basic extension of classical online learning: "Given a class of predictors that are individually non-discriminato…
Recent literature has demonstrated promising results for training Generative Adversarial Networks by employing a set of discriminators, in contrast to the traditional game involving one generator against a single adversary. Such methods perform single-objective optimization on some simple consolidation of the losses, e…
Proposes KMvDA for object recognition from multi-view data.
problem Recognizing objects from different views, even when views are heterogeneous.
method Introduces kernel multi-view discriminant analysis (KMvDA) and uses random Fourier features (RFF) for large-scale learning.
result KMvDA and RFF approximation improve object recognition from multi-view data.
Explains LDA and QDA for binary and multiple classes.
problem Classification methods in statistical and probabilistic learning.
method Optimization of decision boundaries, estimation of parameters, relation to other methods.
result Equivalence of LDA and Fisher discriminant analysis.
Paper proposes distributed sparse multicategory discriminant analysis for classification.
problem Sparse multicategory classification with distributed data.
method Convex formulation, distributed setting, invariant discriminant subspace recovery.
result Distributed sparse multicategory linear discriminant analysis performs as good as centralized version after a few rounds of communications.
Hashing techniques have been applied broadly in retrieval tasks due to their low storage requirements and high speed of processing. Many hashing methods based on a single view have been extensively studied for information retrieval. However, the representation capacity of a single view is insufficient and some discrimi…
The paper shows FtU can reduce discrimination without sacrificing accuracy.
problem Discrimination in machine learning predictions.
method Theoretical and empirical analysis of FtU, connecting with Model Multiplicity.
result FtU can reduce discrimination without reducing accuracy.
A variety of real-world tasks involve the classification of images into pre-determined categories. Designing image classification algorithms that exhibit robustness to acquisition noise and image distortions, particularly when the available training data are insufficient to learn accurate models, is a significant chall…
IMKPL learns interpretable prototypes for better classification.
problem Efficient trade-offs between interpretability and prediction accuracy in kernel-based data.
method Local discrimination in feature space, condensed class-homogeneous neighborhoods, combined embedding.
result IMKPL achieves better interpretability and discriminative representation.
A new method learns multiple subspaces from data.
problem Learning discriminative representations for data on multiple subspaces.
method Sequential game using CTRL framework to solve linear subspaces.
result Equilibrium solutions provide correct representations.
The paper calculates the Saito determinant for Coxeter discriminant strata.
problem Calculating the Saito determinant for specific geometric strata.
method Using the Saito flat metric and Lie derivatives, the paper finds the determinant of the metric restricted to Coxeter discriminant strata.
result The determinant of the Saito metric on Coxeter discriminant strata is proportional to a product of linear factors in flat coordinates.
Proposes a curriculum-based dropout discriminator for domain adaptation.
problem Improving domain adaptation using deep learning networks trained on large labeled datasets.
method Introduces a curriculum-based dropout discriminator that gradually increases sample variance and uses reverse gradients to align source and target feature representations.
result The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art results in domain adaptation tasks.
Improves MKL for multi-class classification with better feature selection and representation.
problem Real-world multi-class classification problems with non-linear separations.
method Large-margin multiple kernel learning (LMMK) with sparsity term for discriminative feature selection.
result Competitive classification accuracy and sparse non-zero kernel weights.
This paper analyzes implicit bias in Deep Linear Discriminant Analysis.
problem The implicit bias of Deep Linear Discriminant Analysis.
method Analyzing gradient flow on a L-layer diagonal linear network.
result Under balanced initialization, the network transforms additive updates into multiplicative updates, conserving the (2/L) quasi-norm.
We introduce a graphical framework for multiple instance learning (MIL) based on Markov networks. This framework can be used to model the traditional MIL definition as well as more general MIL definitions. Different levels of ambiguity -- the portion of positive instances in a bag -- can be explored in weakly supervise…
Generalized dual discriminator GANs improve upon traditional GANs by using two discriminators and a flexible loss function.
problem Mode collapse in GANs.
method Introducing dual discriminator α-GANs and extending the approach to arbitrary functions. result The approach reduces the optimization problem to a linear combination of an f-divergence and a reverse f-divergence. Developed a multiway classification method for sparse data.
problem Classification of multiway arrays with sparsity.
method Extended Distance Weighted Discrimination (DWD) to multiway context, accounting for sparsity.
result Improves classification accuracy in multiway structured data.
New initialization techniques improve the performance and speed of EMI sensor-based object discrimination.
problem Improving the performance and speed of EMI sensor-based object discrimination.
method Proposed and evaluated new initialization techniques for MI-ACE.
result Comparison of initialization approaches shows improved performance and speed.
Designs an MLP from LDA for multi-Gaussian class classification.
problem Classifying inputs with multiple Gaussian distributions.
method Interprets MLP as generalized LDA, using LDAs for half-space partitioning, neurons for subspace isolation, and merging for class-wise representation.
result Automatic feedforward design for MLP architecture and weights.
Automatic image annotation (AIA) raises tremendous challenges to machine learning as it requires modeling of data that are both ambiguous in input and output, e.g., images containing multiple objects and labeled with multiple semantic tags. Even more challenging is that the number of candidate tags is usually huge (as …
Learning multimodal representations is a fundamentally complex research problem due to the presence of multiple heterogeneous sources of information. Although the presence of multiple modalities provides additional valuable information, there are two key challenges to address when learning from multimodal data: 1) mode…
We propose a penalized likelihood method to jointly estimate multiple precision matrices for use in quadratic discriminant analysis and model based clustering. A ridge penalty and a ridge fusion penalty are used to introduce shrinkage and promote similarity between precision matrix estimates. Block-wise coordinate desc…
Discovers discriminative patterns in two-class datasets.
problem Discovering patterns that occur more frequently in one class than the other.
method Proposes SSDPS algorithm with an original enumeration strategy exploiting anti-monotonicity.
result SSDPS outperforms other algorithms in terms of efficiency and pattern generation.
A new method quantifies feature-map discriminativeness for efficient pruning of deep neural networks.
problem Efficiently pruning deep neural networks to reduce computation while maintaining accuracy.
method Presented a novel mathematical formulation (Discriminant Information, DI) to quantify feature-map discriminativeness, enabling efficient pruning and intra-layer mixed precision quantization.
result Our pruned ResNet50 achieves 44% FLOPs reduction without any Top-1 accuracy loss.
We describe a novel weakly supervised deep learning framework that combines both the discriminative and generative models to learn meaningful representation in the multiple instance learning (MIL) setting. MIL is a weakly supervised learning problem where labels are associated with groups of instances (referred as bags…
We introduce the Metropolis-Hastings generative adversarial network (MH-GAN), which combines aspects of Markov chain Monte Carlo and GANs. The MH-GAN draws samples from the distribution implicitly defined by a GAN's discriminator-generator pair, as opposed to standard GANs which draw samples from the distribution defin…
Proposes improved classification via transfer learning with regularized linear discriminant analysis.
problem High dimensionality and small sample sizes lead to poor classification performance.
method Regularized random-effects linear discriminant analysis, combining ridge estimates from target and source models.
result Explicit derivation of asymptotic weights and classification error rates in high-dimensional settings.
Mining discriminative subgraph patterns from graph data has attracted great interest in recent years. It has a wide variety of applications in disease diagnosis, neuroimaging, etc. Most research on subgraph mining focuses on the graph representation alone. However, in many real-world applications, the side information …
Paper explores combining auto-encoder representations to fool adversarial discriminators.
problem Combining auto-encoder representations to fool adversarial discriminators.
method Mixing function to produce interpolations of hidden states or masked combinations of latent representations.
result Shows that mixing function can produce interpolations consistent with a conditioned class label.
Multi-output Gaussian processes (MOGP) are probability distributions over vector-valued functions, and have been previously used for multi-output regression and for multi-class classification. A less explored facet of the multi-output Gaussian process is that it can be used as a generative model for vector-valued rando…
Paper proposes SDRL to improve continual learning with less computational cost.
problem Catastrophic forgetting in continual learning.
method SDRL method that refines gradients from memorized samples to reduce gradient diversity.
result SDRL shows better performance than state-of-the-art methods on multiple benchmark tasks.
Recent work has shown that state-of-the-art models are highly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations of the input. We propose cowboy, an approach to detecting and defending against adversarial attacks by using both the discriminator and generator of a GAN trained on the same dataset. We show that the discriminator con…
New method improves GANs by estimating density ratios in feature space with SP loss.
problem Filtering out unrealistic images from GANs trained with suboptimal discriminators.
method Develops DRE-F-SP method based on Softplus loss for density ratio estimation in feature space, and proposes three subsampling methods.
result Empirically shows substantial improvement over existing methods on synthetic and CIFAR-10 datasets.
Paper introduces negative margin loss for better few-shot classification accuracy.
problem Improving few-shot classification accuracy with metric learning.
method Introduces negative margin loss and analyzes its impact on feature discriminability.
result Negative margin loss outperforms regular softmax loss on few-shot classification benchmarks.
We introduce a new method of performing high dimensional discriminant analysis, which we call multiDA. We achieve this by constructing a hybrid model that seamlessly integrates a multiclass diagonal discriminant analysis model and feature selection components. Our feature selection component naturally simplifies to wei…
Develops MGQDA for multi-group classification with theoretical guarantees and practical applications.
problem Complex multi-group classification problems with nonlinear decision boundaries and group-specific covariance patterns.
method MGQDA, a method based on quadratic discriminant analysis that projects predictors onto a lower-dimensional subspace.
result MGQDA achieves competitive or improved predictive performance compared to existing methods.
Proposes a falsification framework to test algorithmic discriminant validity.
problem Unintended model behavior in predictive algorithms.
method Falsification framework based on statistical tests comparing prediction losses across outcomes.
result Establishes discriminant validity for some outcomes but not others.
EPEM efficiently estimates parameters for monotone missing data.
problem Efficiently estimating parameters for monotone missing data.
method Derive exact formulas and propose EPEM algorithm for multiple class, monotone missing datasets.
result EPEM reduces error rates significantly and is faster than other methods.
Improves GAN performance without changing network architecture.
problem Discriminator fails to guide generator effectively.
method Cascading Rejection (CR) module for discriminator.
result Significantly improves GAN performance in terms of FID.
Proposes a test to ensure predictive algorithms predict intended outcomes better than unintended ones.
problem Unintended model behavior leading to prediction of unintended outcomes.
method Falsification framework using nonparametric hypothesis testing to compare prediction losses across outcomes.
result Establishes discriminant validity with respect to gender but not race in an admissions setting.
The paper integrates statistical significance and discriminative power in pattern discovery.
problem Discovering actionable patterns that meet rigorous statistical significance and discriminative power criteria.
method Integrates statistical significance and discriminative power criteria into state-of-the-art algorithms.
result Improves discriminative power and statistical significance of discovered patterns without quality deterioration.
MDA learns domain-invariant features for better target domain classification.
problem Improving model performance on unseen target domains using multiple source domains.
method MDA learns a domain-invariant feature transformation with minimal divergence, maximal separability, and compactness.
result MDA achieves better generalization on unseen target domains compared to existing methods.
We propose a modification of linear discriminant analysis, referred to as compressive regularized discriminant analysis (CRDA), for analysis of high-dimensional datasets. CRDA is specially designed for feature elimination purpose and can be used as gene selection method in microarray studies. CRDA lends ideas from $\el…