Improves neural relational inference for dynamic multi-agent trajectories.
problem Limited accuracy of NRI in short output sequences for relational inference in multi-agent trajectories.
method Proposes DYnamic multi-AgentRelational Inference (DYARI) model to handle changing interactions over time.
result DYARI model outperforms NRI in dynamic relational inference tasks.
New benchmarks improve model performance by accounting for isomorphism classes in multi-relational datasets.
problem Synthetic multi-relational datasets lack isomorphism class awareness, leading to overestimation of model performance.
method Proposed isomorphism-aware synthetic benchmarks and a prioritisation scheme to improve model performance and stability.
result Isomorphism classes can be utilised to improve model performance, stability during training, and reduce training time.
Neural-symbolic model improves link prediction in knowledge graphs.
problem Effective relational learning and reasoning for AI systems.
method Neural-symbolic graph neural network that learns over all paths in knowledge graphs.
result Neural-symbolic model outperforms path-based approaches in link prediction.
Graph neural networks help infer causal effects from partially observable data.
problem Inferring causal effects from partially observable data.
method Theoretical analysis of GNN and SCM connections.
result Established a new model class for GNN-based causal inference.
Over 50 million scholarly articles have been published: they constitute a unique repository of knowledge. In particular, one may infer from them relations between scientific concepts, such as synonyms and hyponyms. Artificial neural networks have been recently explored for relation extraction. In this work, we continue…
Proposes a new method for continual learning in neural networks.
problem Challenges in applying sequential Bayesian inference to neural networks.
method Sequential function-space variational inference.
result Neural networks trained with the proposed method achieve better predictive accuracy.
Proposes a graph dynamics prior for more accurate relational inference.
problem Identifying interactions in dynamical systems from observed dynamics.
method Graph Dynamics Prior (GDP) that uses error amplification in non-local polynomial filters.
result Reconstructs graphs more accurately than previous methods, robust to under-sampling.
Combines neural networks and probabilistic graphical models for efficient higher-order inference.
problem Lack of efficient higher-order relational information in graph neural networks and probabilistic graphical models.
method Derives efficient approximate sum-product loopy belief propagation for higher-order PGMs, embeds into neural network, proposes methods for constructing higher-order factors.
result Substantially outperforms state-of-the-art k-order graph neural networks in molecular datasets.
Interacting systems are prevalent in nature, from dynamical systems in physics to complex societal dynamics. The interplay of components can give rise to complex behavior, which can often be explained using a simple model of the system's constituent parts. In this work, we introduce the neural relational inference (NRI…
Bayesian neural networks improve likelihood-free inference efficiency.
problem Efficient parameter inference from simulation models with uncertainty.
method Bayesian neural networks for summary statistics, adaptive sampling.
result More robust and efficient posterior estimation.
Interpretable model for Granger causality using neural networks.
problem Inferring Granger causality in complex dynamical systems.
method Extension of self-explaining neural networks for multivariate Granger causality.
result Framework performs on par with baseline methods and better at inferring interaction signs.
The paper extends a neural model to estimate uncertainty in multi-interaction trajectory reconstruction.
problem Lack of uncertainty estimation in neural models for multi-interaction trajectory reconstruction.
method Extended Factorised Neural Relational Inference model to output mean and standard deviation for each component of the phase space vector, using various loss functions.
result Demonstrated the importance of physical meaning of variables and existence of local minima during training.
Recent studies have suggested that the cognitive process of the human brain is realized as probabilistic inference and can be further modeled by probabilistic graphical models like Markov random fields. Nevertheless, it remains unclear how probabilistic inference can be implemented by a network of spiking neurons in th…
Meta-learn Bayesian inference for task-specific BNNs using amortised inference.
problem Efficiently learning Bayesian inference for small-scale probabilistic meta-learning.
method Replace global inducing points with actual data to create a set of approximate likelihoods, train a meta-model to learn these parameters across related datasets.
result Meta-learned inference can be applied to task-specific BNNs, improving efficiency and scalability.
Memory-augmented neural networks (MANNs) are designed for question-answering tasks. It is difficult to run a MANN effectively on accelerators designed for other neural networks (NNs), in particular on mobile devices, because MANNs require recurrent data paths and various types of operations related to external memory a…
LambdaNet infers TypeScript types using graph neural networks.
problem Automatic inference of TypeScript type annotations.
method Graph Neural Network for type dependency graph analysis.
result LambdaNet outperforms existing methods by 14%.
We propose a new Bayesian Neural Net formulation that affords variational inference for which the evidence lower bound is analytically tractable subject to a tight approximation. We achieve this tractability by (i) decomposing ReLU nonlinearities into the product of an identity and a Heaviside step function, (ii) intro…
Graph Neural Network improves causal inference in dynamic systems.
problem Identifying causal relations among multi-variate time series.
method Graph Neural Network approach with score-based method.
result Graph Neural Network significantly outperformed other methods in dynamic Bayesian network inference.
Knowledge base (KB) completion adds new facts to a KB by making inferences from existing facts, for example by inferring with high likelihood nationality(X,Y) from bornIn(X,Y). Most previous methods infer simple one-hop relational synonyms like this, or use as evidence a multi-hop relational path treated as an atomic f…
We present Sequential Neural Likelihood (SNL), a new method for Bayesian inference in simulator models, where the likelihood is intractable but simulating data from the model is possible. SNL trains an autoregressive flow on simulated data in order to learn a model of the likelihood in the region of high posterior dens…
We propose to study the problem of few-shot learning with the prism of inference on a partially observed graphical model, constructed from a collection of input images whose label can be either observed or not. By assimilating generic message-passing inference algorithms with their neural-network counterparts, we defin…
Deep neural networks (DNN) and Gaussian processes (GP) are two powerful models with several theoretical connections relating them, but the relationship between their training methods is not well understood. In this paper, we show that certain Gaussian posterior approximations for Bayesian DNNs are equivalent to GP post…
Proposes a novel deep DL approach for inference tasks.
problem Improvements needed in Deep DL methods for inference tasks and denoising.
method Combines DL layers with RNNs to learn a deep transform and metric.
result Outperforms existing DDL and state-of-the-art CNNs in inference applications.
The Internet has rich and rapidly increasing sources of high quality educational content. Inferring prerequisite relations between educational concepts is required for modern large-scale online educational technology applications such as personalized recommendations and automatic curriculum creation. We present PREREQ,…
Sparse hypergraph neural networks improve reasoning in large knowledge graphs.
problem Reasoning about relationships in large, real-world domains using sparse and local inferences.
method Sparse and local hypergraph neural networks (SpaLoc) exploiting relational inferences that are usually local and sparse.
result State-of-the-art performance on real-world knowledge graph reasoning benchmarks.
Enhances GNN robustness during inference using Conditional Random Fields.
problem Vulnerability of GNNs to adversarial attacks.
method Post-hoc approach using Conditional Random Fields (CRF).
result Improves robustness of GNNs across various models.
We propose a generic framework to calibrate accuracy and confidence of a prediction in deep neural networks through stochastic inferences. We interpret stochastic regularization using a Bayesian model, and analyze the relation between predictive uncertainty of networks and variance of the prediction scores obtained by …
Estimates causal effects using neural autoregressive density estimators.
problem Estimating causal effects in non-linear systems.
method Neural autoregressive density estimators within Pearl's do-calculus framework.
result Retrieves causal effects from non-linear systems without explicit modeling.
Proposes Causal Loss to improve machine learning models' causal inference.
problem Machine learning algorithms often fail to capture causal relationships when data is inconsistent.
method Introduces Causal Loss, a model-agnostic loss function that enhances interventional capabilities.
result Causal Loss improves non-causal associative models to have interventional capabilities.
DiBS learns Bayesian network structure and parameters efficiently.
problem Bayesian structure learning with uncertainty reasoning.
method Differentiable framework for continuous latent graph representation, agnostic to local conditional distributions.
result Significantly outperforms related approaches in posterior inference.
Bayesian inference improves neural network predictions by separating aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties.
problem Improving prediction accuracy of neural networks by quantifying and separating uncertainties.
method Approximated posterior distributions using deep ensembles for various neural network architectures.
result Prediction accuracy depends on both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties, not just marginalized uncertainty.
A scalable framework uses Langevin sampling to approximate neural network models of evolving processes.
problem Uncertainty quantification in neural network models of dynamic systems.
method Flexible data model based on NODE, joint learning of data model and posterior parameters, Langevin sampling.
result Demonstrated performance on chemical reaction and material physics data, compared favorably to variational inference.
Efficiently estimates neural connectivity using ensemble stimulation.
problem Estimating functional connectivity in large, behaving neural populations.
method Noisy group testing combined with convex optimization and Bayesian inference.
result Connectivity can be inferred with logarithmic growth in tests, even for large networks.
The paper develops a method to infer model parameters and shared dynamics from related physical systems using data.
problem Calibrating models to match data when detailed system properties and laws are unknown.
method Hierarchical Bayesian framework, adaptive surrogate models, bilevel optimization.
result Joint estimation of individual model parameters and shared dynamics using data from related systems.
Learned factor graphs improve inference from time sequences using neural networks.
problem Inference from time sequences with limited labeled data.
method Combines model-based algorithms and data-driven ML tools for stationary time sequences.
result Learned factor graphs can accurately infer from small training sets.
RCNPs extend equivariant neural processes to higher dimensions, improving performance on tasks with inherent symmetries.
problem Inherently equivariant tasks in spatio-temporal modeling, Bayesian Optimization, and continuous control.
method Relational Conditional Neural Processes (RCNPs) that extend equivariances to higher dimensions.
result Empirically competitive performance on tasks with equivariances.
One-bit quantization improves inference speed for Random Features models.
problem Efficient inference on resource-constrained devices.
method Analysis of one-bit quantization in Random Features model.
result Asymptotically, quantizing weights except the last incurs no loss in generalization error.
Conventional Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims at finding a single architecture that achieves the best performance, which usually optimizes task related learning objectives such as accuracy. However, a single architecture may not be representative enough for the whole dataset with high diversity and variety. Intuit…
Extends neural diffusion processes for multi-task regression.
problem Limited to single-task inference, existing formulations cannot capture dependencies across related tasks.
method Introduces a task encoder to condition diffusion model on low-dimensional representations of context observations.
result Improves predictive performance and uncertainty calibration across related functions.
New method uses neural exponential families for likelihood-free inference.
problem Bayesian Likelihood-Free Inference with intractable likelihood.
method Score Matching neural conditional exponential families for approximate likelihood.
result State-of-the-art performance in posterior sampling for intractable likelihood models.
We propose a method to infer stochastic low-rank RNNs from neural data.
problem Fitting low-rank RNNs to noisy, stochastic neural data.
method Variational sequential Monte Carlo methods for stochastic low-rank RNNs.
result Lower dimensional latent dynamics compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Novel TRI-GNN framework improves graph classification robustness.
problem Graph neural networks suffer from over-smoothing and vulnerability to graph perturbations.
method Integrates higher-order graph information via persistent homology and local graph structure learning.
result TRI-GNN outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on node classification tasks.
DISTANA improves weather prediction by inferring hidden factors from temperature data.
problem Inferring hidden factors in spatiotemporal processes without supervision.
method Enhanced DISTANA architecture for spatiotemporal data, active tuning for latent state inference.
result DISTANA achieves more accurate predictions than other methods, inferring hidden factors from temperature data.
Neural network feature optimization for causal inference.
problem Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects from data.
method Genetic algorithm optimization of intermediate neural network layers for feature representations.
result Retains useful features for outcome prediction even if related to treatment assignment.
DeepONet accelerates nuclear DT inference with high accuracy and efficiency.
problem Real-time prediction and model evaluation in nuclear systems.
method Deep Neural Operator (DeepONet) for surrogate modeling.
result DeepONet outperforms traditional ML methods in accuracy and speed.
Neural attention has become central to many state-of-the-art models in natural language processing and related domains. Attention networks are an easy-to-train and effective method for softly simulating alignment; however, the approach does not marginalize over latent alignments in a probabilistic sense. This property …
The paper uses neural networks to estimate treatment effects even with many confounders.
problem Estimating treatment effects with a growing number of confounders.
method General optimization framework using neural networks to approximate nuisance functions.
result Neural networks can handle a diverging number of confounders and alleviate the curse of dimensionality.
Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful in data representation inference, but it cannot learn relations between features with its vanilla form and common variations. The ability to capture relations within data can provide the much needed inductive bias necessary for building more robust Machine Learning algorithm…