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SNG-DBSCAN clusters data faster with subsampled similarity queries.

This paper proposes an active metric learning method for clustering with pairwise constraints.

$\newcommand{\ball}{\mathbb{B}}\newcommand{\dsQ}{\mathcal{Q}}\newcommand{\dsS}{\mathcal{S}}$In this work we study a fair variant of the near neighbor problem. Namely, given a set of $n$ points $P$ and a parameter $r$, the goal is to preprocess the points, such that given a query point $q$, any point in the $r$-neighbor…

Study exact community recovery in noisy SBM with limited queries.

Recently, several studies have explored methods for using KG embedding to answer logical queries. These approaches either treat embedding learning and query answering as two separated learning tasks, or fail to deal with the variability of contributions from different query paths. We proposed to leverage a graph attent…

Bagging reduces variance in LID estimation by preserving local distribution of NN distances.

The paper analyzes how noise affects distances in high-dimensional data and when they remain useful.

New algorithm finds corrupted vertices in graphs with few queries.

The problem of building a coherent and non-monotonous conversational agent with proper discourse and coverage is still an area of open research. Current architectures only take care of semantic and contextual information for a given query and fail to completely account for syntactic and external knowledge which are cru…

SOCP uses SOM to find groups and local calibration buffers for better regional coverage.

The paper analyzes how much data points can be altered to change their rank in nearest neighbor searches.

Word embedding, which encodes words into vectors, is an important starting point in natural language processing and commonly used in many text-based machine learning tasks. However, in most current word embedding approaches, the similarity in embedding space is not optimized in the learning. In this paper we propose a …

We introduce a variant of the $k$-nearest neighbor classifier in which $k$ is chosen adaptively for each query, rather than supplied as a parameter. The choice of $k$ depends on properties of each neighborhood, and therefore may significantly vary between different points. (For example, the algorithm will use larger $k…

Having a regression model, we are interested in finding two-sided intervals that are guaranteed to contain at least a desired proportion of the conditional distribution of the response variable given a specific combination of predictors. We name such intervals predictive intervals. This work presents a new method to fi…

We derive spectral sequences for the intersection homology of stratified fibrations and approximate tubular neighborhoods in manifold stratified spaces. These neighborhoods include regular neighborhoods in PL stratified spaces.

Making an adaptive prediction based on one's input is an important ability for general artificial intelligence. In this work, we step forward in this direction and propose a semi-parametric method, Meta-Neighborhoods, where predictions are made adaptively to the neighborhood of the input. We show that Meta-Neighborhood…

Solves TOD systems' query annotation problem without explicit annotations.

Data-driven neighborhood definitions and graph constructions are often used in machine learning and signal processing applications. k-nearest neighbor~(kNN) and $ε$-neighborhood methods are among the most common methods used for neighborhood selection, due to their computational simplicity. However, the choice of param…

Study geodesics entering a fixed cusp neighborhood multiple times.

Urban2Vec combines street view imagery and POIs for better urban neighborhood embeddings.

Efficiently classifies binary labels with XOR queries, even under noisy conditions.

We consider the problem of learning multi-ridge functions of the form f(x) = g(Ax) from point evaluations of f. We assume that the function f is defined on an l_2-ball in R^d, g is twice continuously differentiable almost everywhere, and A \in R^{k \times d} is a rank k matrix, where k << d. We propose a randomized, po…

Proposes a new query autocompletion method that maximizes retrieval performance.

Adapts large transformer model for search query intent understanding.

A new method for private query release using Johnson-Lindenstrauss projection.

LAZO reduces query complexity and variance in ZO methods.

We consider the problem of adaptively PAC-learning a probability distribution $\mathcal{P}$'s mode by querying an oracle for information about a sequence of i.i.d. samples $X_1, X_2, \ldots$ generated from $\mathcal{P}$. We consider two different query models: (a) each query is an index $i$ for which the oracle reveals…

Estimates heavy hitters in data streams with queries, balancing accuracy and efficiency.

Skeleta and other pure subsets of manifold stratified spaces are shown to have neighborhoods which are teardrops of stratified approximate fibrations (under dimension and compactness assumptions). In general, the stratified approximate fibrations cannot be replaced by bundles, and the teardrops cannot be replaced by ma…

Query2box embeds complex queries as boxes to handle logical operations in large KGs.

New framework distinguishes knots via neighborhood invariants.

This paper tackles selection bias in recommender systems by considering the neighborhood effect.

Survey of statistical queries and their applications.

Maximally hyperbolic solutions contain future neighborhoods of intersecting hypersurfaces.

We study the query complexity of a learner-private sequential learning problem, motivated by the privacy and security concerns due to eavesdropping that arise in practical applications such as pricing and Federated Learning. A learner tries to estimate an unknown scalar value, by sequentially querying an external datab…

Many prediction problems can be phrased as inferences over local neighborhoods of graphs. The graph represents the interaction between entities, and the neighborhood of each entity contains information that allows the inferences or predictions. We present an approach for applying machine learning directly to such graph…

Source coding is the canonical problem of data compression in information theory. In a locally encodable source coding, each compressed bit depends on only few bits of the input. In this paper, we show that a recently popular model of semi-supervised clustering is equivalent to locally encodable source coding. In this …

Proposes a new NMF method incorporating neighborhood structure for better anomaly detection.

A new query embedding method improves KB performance on complex queries.

Study on transverse knots and their neighborhoods, proving unique standard neighborhoods and destabilization results.

In this paper we study the adaptive learnability of decision trees of depth at most $d$ from membership queries. This has many applications in automated scientific discovery such as drugs development and software update problem. Feldman solves the problem in a randomized polynomial time algorithm that asks $\tilde O(2^…

We study black-box attacks on machine learning classifiers where each query to the model incurs some cost or risk of detection to the adversary. We focus explicitly on minimizing the number of queries as a major objective. Specifically, we consider the problem of attacking machine learning classifiers subject to a budg…

Fairly allocate items with noisy queries, reducing envy.

This paper models the crowdsourced labeling/classification problem as a sparsely encoded source coding problem, where each query answer, regarded as a code bit, is the XOR of a small number of labels, as source information bits. In this paper we leverage the connections between this problem and well-studied codes with …

In query learning, the goal is to identify an unknown object while minimizing the number of "yes" or "no" questions (queries) posed about that object. A well-studied algorithm for query learning is known as generalized binary search (GBS). We show that GBS is a greedy algorithm to optimize the expected number of querie…

Revises GNN neighborhood aggregation for more accurate node classification.

The study proves a neighborhood theorem for mean curvature flow in higher dimensions.

A neighborhood homotopy is an equivalence relation on spatial graphs which is generated by crossing changes on the same component and neighborhood equivalence. We give a complete classification of all 2-component spatial graphs up to neighborhood homotopy by the elementary divisor of a linking matrix with respect to th…