Improves natural accuracy of deep learning models by combining robust predictions and features.
problem Maintaining natural accuracy while resisting adversarial attacks.
method Ensemble methods combining robust and standard models.
result Optimized natural accuracy through ensemble of robust models.
Deep semi-supervised learning identifies tree species from natural images.
problem Identifying tree species in natural settings with limited labeled data.
method Two-fold approach using deep semi-supervised learning.
result Achieves 94.04% top-5 accuracy for leaves and 83.04% for bark.
Empirical adversarial risk minimization (EARM) is a widely used mathematical framework to robustly train deep neural nets (DNNs) that are resistant to adversarial attacks. However, both natural and robust accuracies, in classifying clean and adversarial images, respectively, of the trained robust models are far from sa…
SONet stabilizes ODE networks for robustness without adversarial training.
problem Improving adversarial robustness of neural networks without sacrificing natural accuracy.
method SONet uses skew-symmetric ODE blocks and DOPRI5 solver for robustness.
result SONet achieves comparable robustness to adversarial defense methods without trade-off.
Learning a natural language interface for database tables is a challenging task that involves deep language understanding and multi-step reasoning. The task is often approached by mapping natural language queries to logical forms or programs that provide the desired response when executed on the database. To our knowle…
Many machine learning problems can be expressed as the optimization of some cost functional over a parametric family of probability distributions. It is often beneficial to solve such optimization problems using natural gradient methods. These methods are invariant to the parametrization of the family, and thus can yie…
VB approach for dynamic network models improves efficiency and accuracy.
problem Estimating dynamic network models in large-scale systems.
method Variational Bayesian inference for network autoregression.
result VB approach detects proper active structures and achieves similar or better accuracy.
Improving the accuracy and robustness of deep neural nets (DNNs) and adapting them to small training data are primary tasks in deep learning research. In this paper, we replace the output activation function of DNNs, typically the data-agnostic softmax function, with a graph Laplacian-based high dimensional interpolati…
Score-based generative models achieve state-of-the-art classification accuracy on CIFAR-10.
problem Improving classification accuracy on natural image datasets.
method Score-based generative models applied to CIFAR-10.
result Score-based models achieve state-of-the-art classification accuracy on CIFAR-10.
Enhances neural network solvers for PDEs with complex boundary conditions.
problem Challenges in solving PDEs with high accuracy and complex boundary conditions.
method Integrates natural gradient optimization with numerical time-stepping schemes to enforce Dirichlet boundary conditions.
result Superior accuracy and computational efficiency of the proposed methods for solving PDEs.
Machine learning and C-NLP improve emergency department triage accuracy.
problem Improving accuracy in emergency department triage to manage increased volume.
method Historical EHR data, clinical natural language processing, and ML algorithms (KATE).
result KATE predicts ESI acuity assignments 75.9% of the time, significantly better than nurses.
MANO normalizes logits to estimate test accuracy without labels.
problem Estimating test accuracy of OOD samples without labels.
method Applies Lp norm to normalized logits. result Achieves state-of-the-art performance across various architectures.
Is cognition a collection of loosely connected functions tuned to different tasks, or can there be a general learning algorithm? If such an hypothetical general algorithm did exist, tuned to our world, could it adapt seamlessly to a world with different laws of nature? We consider the theory that predictive coding is s…
AOPU stabilizes NN training by approximating natural gradient, improving stability and convergence.
problem Stability and interpretability in online NN training for industrial soft sensors.
method AOPU truncates gradient backpropagation, optimizing trackable parameters, and approximating natural gradient.
result AOPU achieves stable convergence and superior performance on chemical process datasets.
SSMBA generates synthetic data to improve robustness in natural language tasks.
problem Improving out-of-domain generalization of models trained on natural language data.
method SSMBA uses corruption and reconstruction functions to generate synthetic data points on the manifold assumption.
result SSMBA consistently outperforms existing methods on robustness benchmarks across multiple tasks and datasets.
Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) based adversarial training has become one of the most prominent methods for building robust deep neural network models. However, the computational complexity associated with this approach, due to the maximization of the loss function when finding adversaries, is a longstanding problem a…
Calibrated ensembles improve both ID and OOD accuracy in distribution shift.
problem Desired balance between in-distribution and out-of-distribution accuracy.
method Ensemble standard and robust models, calibrating on ID data only.
result ID-calibrated ensembles outperform state-of-the-art methods on multiple datasets.
Post-estimation smoothing improves prediction accuracy with structural indices.
problem Using natural structural indices in machine learning without losing robustness.
method A post-estimation smoothing operator that separates from the original predictor.
result Post-estimation smoothing improves accuracy over original predictors under simple conditions.
This paper introduces a method to make deep neural networks more robust to adversarial attacks.
problem Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, leading to incorrect classifications.
method Introduces sensible adversarial learning to balance robustness and natural accuracy.
result Demonstrates that the Bayes classifier is the most robust multi-class classifier under sensible adversarial learning.
Activation functions play a key role in providing remarkable performance in deep neural networks, and the rectified linear unit (ReLU) is one of the most widely used activation functions. Various new activation functions and improvements on ReLU have been proposed, but each carry performance drawbacks. In this paper, w…
Graph Attention Networks predict power outage durations from natural disasters.
problem Accurately predicting power outage durations from geospatial and weather data.
method Graph Attention Networks (GAT) for semi-supervised learning.
result GAT model outperforms existing methods by 2% - 15% in accuracy.
This paper identifies duplicate questions on Quora using machine and deep learning models.
problem Detecting semantically identical questions on Quora to improve user experience.
method Applied machine learning and deep learning techniques on Quora's dataset.
result Xgboost model with character level term frequency and inverse term frequency achieved 85.82% accuracy.
Natural experiment dataset reveals inconsistent treatment effect estimators.
problem Inconsistent results from over 20 estimators on a new dataset.
method Created a benchmark to evaluate estimator accuracy, derived variance formula, introduced new estimator.
result Doubly robust estimators outperform others by orders of magnitude.
Today's state-of-the-art image classifiers fail to correctly classify carefully manipulated adversarial images. In this work, we develop a new, localized adversarial attack that generates adversarial examples by imperceptibly altering the backgrounds of normal images. We first use this attack to highlight the unnecessa…
Wider networks improve natural accuracy but worsen perturbation stability, affecting overall robustness.
problem Understanding the tradeoff between natural accuracy and perturbation stability in wider neural networks for adversarial robustness.
method Careful examination of the relationship between network width, robust regularization parameter λ, and perturbation stability using neural tangent kernels.
result Wider networks can achieve better natural accuracy but worse perturbation stability, leading to potentially worse overall model robustness.
Removing spurious features can hurt model accuracy and disproportionately affect different groups.
problem Interference from spurious features in robust model performance across different groups.
method Characterization and analysis of spurious feature removal in noiseless overparameterized linear regression.
result Removal of spurious features can decrease accuracy and disproportionately affect different groups, even in balanced datasets.
FADE framework improves fairness and accuracy in ensemble learning.
problem Improving fairness in existing models without sacrificing accuracy.
method Flexible fair ensemble learning framework targeting multiple fairness criteria.
result Multiple unfairness measures can be minimized simultaneously with little impact on accuracy.
While generalizing well over natural inputs, neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial inputs. Existing defenses against adversarial inputs have largely been detached from the real world. These defenses also come at a cost to accuracy. Fortunately, there are invariances of an object that are its salient features; w…
Selective classification can worsen accuracy disparities between groups.
problem Selective classification can magnify existing accuracy disparities between various groups.
method Study of margin distribution and distributionally-robust models.
result Selective classification can uniformly improve each group on distributionally-robust models.
Machine learning is currently dominated by largely experimental work focused on improvements in a few key tasks. However, the impressive accuracy numbers of the best performing models are questionable because the same test sets have been used to select these models for multiple years now. To understand the danger of ov…
Cryptonite tests NLP models with cryptic crossword clues.
problem Ambiguity in language poses a challenge for NLP models.
method Cryptic crossword dataset based on cryptic clues.
result Fine-tuning T5-Large on Cryptonite achieves only 7.6% accuracy.
Deploying machine learning systems in the real world requires both high accuracy on clean data and robustness to naturally occurring corruptions. While architectural advances have led to improved accuracy, building robust models remains challenging. Prior work has argued that there is an inherent trade-off between robu…
New metrics needed for streaming ML due to delayed labels.
problem Streaming ML evaluation fails to identify unexpected performance.
method Recommend additional metrics for streaming ML performance.
result New metrics are needed for streaming ML due to delayed labels.
WeSinger improves singing voice synthesis with data augmentation and specialized modules.
problem Improving the accuracy and naturalness of synthesized singing voices.
method Developed a multi-singer Chinese neural singing voice synthesis system with deep bi-directional LSTM, Transformer, LPCNet, and data augmentation.
result WeSinger achieves state-of-the-art performance on the Opencpop corpus.
Paper uses 'manifold attack' to improve model accuracy and robustness.
problem Improving model performance with limited training data and large model parameters.
method Enforces manifold preservation from original data into latent space using adversarial learning.
result Improves accuracy rate and robustness to adversarial examples.
JTT improves model worst-group accuracy without group annotations.
problem Low worst-group accuracy in standard ERM models with spurious correlations.
method Two-stage approach: first ERM, then upweight misclassified examples.
result JTT closes 75% of the gap in worst-group accuracy compared to group DRO.
Range penalization enhances statistical accuracy and resource efficiency in federated learning.
problem Statistical accuracy and resource efficiency in federated learning.
method Range regularization and polar clustering.
result Enhanced statistical accuracy and reduced iteration complexity.
High-dimensional spectroscopy data makes ML models achieve near-perfect accuracy, even when chemical distinctions are absent.
problem Why machine learning models achieve near-perfect accuracy in spectroscopic classification tasks without chemically meaningful features.
method Theoretical analysis grounded in the Feldman-Hajek theorem and concentration of measure, combined with specific experiments on synthetic and real fluorescence spectra.
result Infinitesimal distributional differences in high-dimensional spaces can lead to perfect separability, making models achieve near-perfect accuracy in spectroscopy.
Adversarial training can lead to unfair accuracy disparities between different groups.
problem Adversarial training algorithms introduce unfair accuracy disparities between different groups of data.
method Propose a Fair-Robust-Learning (FRL) framework to mitigate unfairness in adversarial defenses.
result Empirical and theoretical validation of FRL's effectiveness in mitigating unfairness.
Study develops a new algorithm for assessing clinical trial abstracts.
problem Limited tools for assessing qualitative statements in clinical research.
method Developed a three-class sentiment classification algorithm using BERT model.
result Algorithm achieved 91.3% classification accuracy and 0.92 macro F1-Score.
The practical success of widely used machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) algorithms in Artificial Intelligence (AI) community owes to availability of large datasets for training and huge computational resources. Despite the enormous practical success of AI, these algorithms are only loosely inspired from the b…
New algorithms improve causal direction inference accuracy using parallel ensemble methods.
problem Stability of causal direction inference results from observational data.
method Parallel ensemble frameworks to map and improve inference accuracy.
result Significant improvement in accuracy of causal direction inference.
The paper analyzes adversarial training effects on classification accuracy.
problem Understanding adversarial training's impact on standard and robust accuracy.
method Derived precise statistical analysis for binary classification problems with Gaussian data.
result Theoretical explanation of standard and robust accuracy trends for adversarial training.
We show that there may exist an inherent tension between the goal of adversarial robustness and that of standard generalization. Specifically, training robust models may not only be more resource-consuming, but also lead to a reduction of standard accuracy. We demonstrate that this trade-off between the standard accura…
Improved chemical reaction prediction using augmented NLP models.
problem Predicting chemical reactions from text representations.
method Data augmentation and Transformer architecture for SMILES representation.
result Significantly improved accuracy in predicting chemical reactions.
We consider the problem of maximizing a non-concave Lipschitz multivariate function over a compact domain by sequentially querying its (possibly perturbed) values. We study a natural algorithm designed originally by Piyavskii and Shubert in 1972, for which we prove new bounds on the number of evaluations of the functio…
Gradient boosting for spatial regression models improves prediction accuracy.
problem Spatial data with autoregressive disturbances.
method Model-based gradient boosting algorithm for spatial regression models.
result Improves prediction accuracy on out-of-sample spatial data.
Paper introduces hierarchical softmax for global hierarchical classification tasks.
problem Improving classification accuracy in tasks with class hierarchies.
method Global hierarchical neural networks using hierarchical softmax.
result Hierarchical softmax outperforms regular softmax in multiple datasets.