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48 results for multiplicative mechanisms

New DP mechanisms improve ML privacy-utility-computational tradeoffs.

problem Improving privacy in machine learning with multiple passes over data.
method Formalized DP for adaptive streams, extended matrix factorization techniques, Fourier-transform-based mechanism.
result Substantial improvements in privacy-utility-computational tradeoffs over previous methods.

Some online advertising offers pay only when an ad elicits a response. Randomness and uncertainty about response rates make showing those ads a risky investment for online publishers. Like financial investors, publishers can use portfolio allocation over multiple advertising offers to pursue revenue while controlling r…

2015-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

CICME estimates common and domain-specific causal mechanisms from multi-sensor data.

problem Inferring causal mechanisms from heterogeneous multi-sensor data across multiple domains.
method Three-step approach using Causal Transfer Learning (CTL).
result CICME reliably detects domain-invariant causal mechanisms and guides individual domain causal mechanism estimation.

Unified framework for subsampling mechanisms with tighter privacy guarantees.

problem Improving privacy in machine learning models through subsampling.
method Conditional optimal transport for deriving mechanism-specific subsampling guarantees.
result Tighter privacy bounds for subsampled mechanisms compared to traditional methods.

Modeling student behaviors and multiple predictions for early intervention.

problem Predicting student outcomes and interactions among multiple tasks.
method Proposes a variant of LSTM and soft-attention mechanism for heterogeneous behaviors, and co-attention mechanism for task interactions.
result Demonstrated effectiveness in predicting student outcomes and interactions.

Study investigates OOD generalization methods for mechanics problems.

problem Real-world mechanics problems with unknown test environments and data distribution shifts.
method Investigates OOD generalization methods for regression problems in mechanics.
result OOD generalization methods perform better than traditional ML methods on mechanics-specific regression problems.

Detect hidden confounding in observational data using multiple environments.

problem Detect hidden confounding in observational data.
method Theoretical framework and simulation studies to test for hidden confounding.
result The proposed procedure correctly predicts hidden confounding, especially when bias is large.

A neural network predicts drug interactions using attention mechanisms.

problem Predicting drug-drug interactions from massive combinations of drugs.
method Siamese self-attention multi-modal neural network integrating drug characteristics.
result The model achieves AUPR scores ranging from 0.77 to 0.92 on various benchmark datasets.

A new Gaussian mechanism for differential privacy in the shuffle model is introduced.

problem Improving differential privacy in distributed learning environments.
method Characterization and upper-bounding of Rényi differential privacy (RDP) for the shuffle Gaussian mechanism.
result The shuffle Gaussian mechanism provides improved privacy guarantees compared to existing methods.

New mechanisms from primate vision improve neural network robustness.

problem Demonstrating robust neural networks to small adversarial perturbations.
method Investigated two biologically plausible mechanisms: non-uniform retina sampling and receptive field diversity.
result Non-uniform retina sampling and receptive field diversity improve adversarial robustness.

New RL approach learns dynamic VCG mechanisms in unknown MDP environments.

problem Learning dynamic VCG mechanisms in unknown MDP environments.
method Reward-free online RL for exploration, combined with function approximation.
result Regret bound of O~(T2/3)\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(T^{2/3}) for dynamic VCG mechanism learning.

This paper solves optimal market making for multiple goods, including bundling, under adverse selection.

problem Designing optimal market making mechanisms for multiple goods and adverse selection.
method Formulated as an optimal transport problem with geometric constraints, using differentiable economics.
result Optimal market making mechanisms can exploit bundling to improve prices and accept payments in kind.

The field of fluid mechanics is rapidly advancing, driven by unprecedented volumes of data from field measurements, experiments and large-scale simulations at multiple spatiotemporal scales. Machine learning offers a wealth of techniques to extract information from data that could be translated into knowledge about the…

2019-05-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Agents learn and control complex mechanical systems through shared memories.

problem Controlling multi-joint dynamical systems.
method Coupled autoregressive active inference agents using Bayesian filtering and minimizing expected free energy.
result Demonstrated learning and control of a double mass-spring-damper system.

Paper proposes mechanism learning to reverse causal inference in ML.

problem Machine learning models learn associational, not causal, relationships.
method Causally weighted Gaussian mixture models (CW-GMMs).
result CW-GMMs can deconfound observational data for reverse causal inference.

This work generalizes Hamiltonian mechanics using closed differential forms.

problem Hidden invariants in classical Hamiltonian mechanics.
method Establishes a novel correspondence between generalized Hamiltonian mechanics and multisymplectic geometry.
result Key theorems linking classical and generalized Hamiltonian systems.

MIMONets speed up neural network inference by processing multiple inputs in parallel.

problem Reducing computational cost in neural network inference for large datasets.
method Proposes MIMONets, which augment neural network architectures with variable binding mechanisms to handle multiple inputs in superposition.
result Achieves significant speedups (2-4x) with minimal accuracy loss, demonstrating adaptability across different architectures.

Algorithm learns optimal dynamic mechanisms from data.

problem Designing optimal mechanisms for dynamic settings with unknown reward functions.
method Offline reinforcement learning with pessimism principle.
result Learned mechanisms are efficient, individually rational, and truthful.

Two environments are enough to infer causal graphs and counterfactuals.

problem Inferring causal relations from multiple environments, especially for nonlinear mechanisms.
method Using structural causal models and the invariance principle, the study shows that only two auxiliary environments are sufficient for causal graph inference and counterfactual inference.
result Two auxiliary environments are sufficient for identifying causal graphs and counterfactuals.

Prediction markets show considerable promise for developing flexible mechanisms for machine learning. Here, machine learning markets for multivariate systems are defined, and a utility-based framework is established for their analysis. This differs from the usual approach of defining static betting functions. It is sho…

2011-06-22abs ↗pdf ↗

The one-class kernel spectral regression (OC-KSR), the regression-based formulation of the kernel null-space approach has been found to be an effective Fisher criterion-based methodology for one-class classification (OCC), achieving state-of-the-art performance in one-class classification while providing relatively hig…

2019-05-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Learning modular structures which reflect the dynamics of the environment can lead to better generalization and robustness to changes which only affect a few of the underlying causes. We propose Recurrent Independent Mechanisms (RIMs), a new recurrent architecture in which multiple groups of recurrent cells operate wit…

2019-09-24abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce the stochastic multiplicative point process modelling trading activity of financial markets. Such a model system exhibits power-law spectral density S(f) ~ 1/f**beta, scaled as power of frequency for various values of beta between 0.5 and 2. Furthermore, we analyze the relation between the power-law autoco…

2004-12-28abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we seek to demonstrate the predictability of stock market returns and explain the nature of this return predictability. To this end, we introduce investors with different investment horizons into the news-driven, analytic, agent-based market model developed in Gusev et al. (2015). This heterogeneous frame…

2015-08-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Building machine translation (MT) test sets is a relatively expensive task. As MT becomes increasingly desired for more and more language pairs and more and more domains, it becomes necessary to build test sets for each case. In this paper, we investigate using Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to make MT test sets chea…

2014-10-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Sensors are an integral part of modern Internet of Things (IoT) applications. There is a critical need for the analysis of heterogeneous multivariate temporal data obtained from the individual sensors of these systems. In this paper we particularly focus on the problem of the scarce amount of training data available pe…

2019-05-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Investigates the benefits of multi-head attention in Transformers, deriving convergence and generalization guarantees.

problem Underexplored dynamics of multi-head attention in Transformer training and generalization.
method Derives convergence and generalization guarantees for gradient-descent training of a multi-head self-attention model.
result Establishes conditions for initialization that ensure multi-head attention's realizability.

Automation of machine learning model development is increasingly becoming an established research area. While automated model selection and automated data pre-processing have been studied in depth, there is, however, a gap concerning automated model adaptation strategies when multiple strategies are available. Manually…

2018-12-27abs ↗pdf ↗

New method estimates causal effects of multiple versions of treatment.

problem Ignoring multiple versions of treatment leads to biased causal effect estimates.
method Mixture-of-Experts framework for estimating version-specific causal effects.
result Effective method for estimating causal effects of latent versions.