Noise enhancement improves generalization in training.
problem Improving generalization in training with controlled noise.
method Noise enhancement method to control SGD noise without changing learning rate or minibatch size.
result Noise enhancement improves generalization for real datasets.
Enhanced consistency bounds derived for classification under a new noise condition.
problem Enhanced consistency bounds for classification under a new noise condition.
method Model Margin Noise (MM noise) assumption, derived enhanced H-consistency bounds.
result Enhanced H-consistency bounds under MM noise condition, interpolates between linear and square-root regimes.
Enhanced financial forecasting using supervised autoencoders with noise augmentation and triple labeling.
problem Improving investment strategy performance on noisy financial data.
method Supervised autoencoders with noise augmentation and triple barrier labeling.
result Supervised autoencoders with balanced noise augmentation and bottleneck size significantly boost strategy effectiveness.
New method enhances neural network robustness against adversarial attacks.
problem Enhancing neural network robustness against adversarial attacks.
method Variational framework with per-sample noise level selector.
result Enhanced empirical robustness and certified robustness.
Batch Normalization (BN)(Ioffe and Szegedy 2015) normalizes the features of an input image via statistics of a batch of images and hence BN will bring the noise to the gradient of the training loss. Previous works indicate that the noise is important for the optimization and generalization of deep neural networks, but …
Real-time speech enhancement model removes various noises and reverb.
problem Real-time speech enhancement in noisy environments.
method Causal speech enhancement model using encoder-decoder architecture with skip-connections, optimized in time and frequency domains.
result The model matches state-of-the-art performance while working directly on raw waveform.
We address the problem of speech enhancement generalisation to unseen environments by performing two manipulations. First, we embed an additional recording from the environment alone, and use this embedding to alter activations in the main enhancement subnetwork. Second, we scale the number of noise environments presen…
As all physical adaptive quantum-enhanced metrology schemes operate under noisy conditions with only partially understood noise characteristics, so a practical control policy must be robust even for unknown noise. We aim to devise a test to evaluate the robustness of AQEM policies and assess the resource used by the po…
Paper explores using EEG for better speaker identification, even in noisy environments.
problem Speaker identification performance degrades in background noise.
method Uses EEG signals to enhance speaker identification systems, comparing with acoustic features.
result Speaker identification system using only EEG features outperforms one using only acoustic features in high background noise.
Diffusion models enhance speech without supervision.
problem Challenges in generalizing supervised speech enhancement methods to unseen conditions.
method Unsupervised speech enhancement using diffusion-based generative models.
result Demonstrates promising results compared to supervised and unsupervised baselines.
Enhances network intrusion detection in noisy data.
problem Robustness against contaminated and noisy data inputs in network intrusion detection.
method Probabilistic Temporal Graph Network Support Vector Data Description (TGN-SVDD) model.
result Significant improvements in detection performance with synthetic noise.
We study a generalization of the Heston model, which consists of two coupled stochastic differential equations, one for the stock price and the other one for the volatility. We consider a cubic nonlinearity in the first equation and a correlation between the two Wiener processes, which model the two white noise sources…
Enhances deep learning robustness to noise without sacrificing clean data accuracy.
problem Robustness of deep neural networks to input noise.
method Discriminative loss at penultimate layer and class-wise feature alignment with Gaussian noise.
result Improves robustness to various perturbations without degrading clean data accuracy.
Study enhances classifier robustness against noisy labels.
problem Impact of label noise on model performance in real-world scenarios.
method Integrates adversarial machine learning and importance reweighting techniques with CNN.
result Improved model resilience against noisy data.
Enhances UPSA to reduce noise in financial data.
problem Noise in financial data affects UPSA's performance.
method Time-averaging optimal penalty weights and using Average Oracle correlation eigenvalues.
result Combining time-averaging and Average Oracle correlation eigenvalues improves UPSA's performance.
Method matches noisy remote sensing images robustly.
problem Matching noisy remote sensing images.
method Combining attention mechanism with feature enhancement.
result More efficient and accurate matches achieved.
Self-supervised method enhances ultrasound images without needing clean targets.
problem Multiplicative speckle, acquisition blur, and scanner artifacts hamper ultrasound interpretation.
method Physics-guided degradation model trained on rotated/cropped patches with synthesized inputs.
result Achieves highest PSNR/SSIM across Gaussian and speckle noise levels, with significant improvements in heavy noise conditions.
This paper focuses on single-channel semi-supervised speech enhancement. We learn a speaker-independent deep generative speech model using the framework of variational autoencoders. The noise model remains unsupervised because we do not assume prior knowledge of the noisy recording environment. In this context, our con…
Noise-resilient method improves Hurst exponent estimation accuracy in noisy data.
problem Noise degrades accuracy of Hurst exponent estimation methods.
method Noise-Controlled ALPHEE (NC-ALPHEE) using wavelet multi-scale analysis and neural network combination.
result NC-ALPHEE consistently outperforms existing techniques in noisy conditions.
Deep-learning improves 6x6-mm OCTA angiograms by reducing noise and artifacts.
problem Reduced scan quality in 6x6-mm OCTA angiograms due to undersampling.
method Deep-learning-based high-resolution angiogram reconstruction network (HARNet) trained on 3x3-mm and 6x6-mm angiogram data.
result Reconstructed 6x6-mm angiograms have lower noise and better vascular connectivity.
Standard ChIP-seq peak calling pipelines seek to differentiate biochemically reproducible signals of individual genomic elements from background noise. However, reproducibility alone does not imply functional regulation (e.g., enhancer activation, alternative splicing). Here we present a general-purpose, interpretable …
SpecGrad improves neural vocoder sound quality by adapting diffusion noise to log-mel spectrogram.
problem Improving neural vocoder sound quality, especially in high-frequency bands.
method Adapting the diffusion noise distribution to the conditioning log-mel spectrogram through time-varying filtering.
result SpecGrad generates higher-fidelity speech waveform than conventional DDPM-based neural vocoders.
In this paper we demonstrate spoken speech enhancement using electroencephalography (EEG) signals using a generative adversarial network (GAN) based model, gated recurrent unit (GRU) regression based model, temporal convolutional network (TCN) regression model and finally using a mixed TCN GRU regression model. We comp…
Improved self-distillation reduces label noise and enhances model accuracy.
problem Label noise in multi-class classification.
method Label averaging and refined partial labels.
result Single-round self-distillation achieves comparable performance to multi-round distillation.
Enhanced financial forecasting with supervised autoencoders for S&P 500 and cryptocurrencies.
problem Improving investment strategy performance in financial markets.
method Supervised autoencoders with noise augmentation and triple barrier labeling.
result Supervised autoencoders with balanced parameters significantly boost strategy effectiveness.
Improved speech separation and enhancement using neural beamforming.
problem Challenging speech separation and enhancement in reverberant environments.
method Sequential neural beamforming combining spectral and spatial separation methods.
result Average improvement of 2.75 dB in scale-invariant signal-to-noise ratio and 14.2% absolute reduction in speech recognition metric.
Study optimizes resource allocation in noisy systems for better control.
problem Limited attention in stochastic systems with multiplicative noise.
method Analytical and numerical methods for optimal attention allocation.
result Effective resource allocation enhances noise estimation and control decisions.
Nowadays, machine learning based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technique has widely spread in smartphones, home devices, and public facilities. As convenient as this technology can be, a considerable security issue also raises -- the users' speech content might be exposed to malicious ASR monitoring and cause seve…
Recently, deep neural network (DNN) has made a breakthrough in monaural source enhancement. Through a training step by using a large amount of data, DNN estimates a mapping between mixed signals and clean signals. At this time, we use an objective function that numerically expresses the quality of a mapping by DNN. In …
This paper describes multichannel speech enhancement for improving automatic speech recognition (ASR) in noisy environments. Recently, the minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamforming has widely been used because it works well if the steering vector of speech and the spatial covariance matrix (SCM) of no…
Unified diffusion framework enhances generative models flexibility.
problem Improving generative models' design freedom and efficiency.
method Unified framework incorporating choice of representation, prior distribution, and noise scheduling.
result Enhanced flexibility leading to more efficient training and data generation.
SAD-DPSGD improves model performance on imbalanced medical datasets like HAM10000.
problem Data leakage and imbalanced distribution in medical image classification datasets.
method SAD-DPSGD uses a linear decaying mechanism for noise and clipping thresholds to enhance performance.
result SAD-DPSGD outperforms Auto-DPSGD on HAM10000, improving accuracy by 2.15%.
Improved noise estimation in latent neural SDEs enhances model accuracy.
problem Latent neural SDEs underestimate noise, limiting their stochastic dynamics modeling.
method Explicit additional noise regularization in the loss function.
result Model accurately captures diffusion component of stochastic time series data.
Improved speech enhancement using diffusion models with MSE loss.
problem Efficient incorporation of noisy speech in generative speech enhancement.
method Augmented diffusion-based generative model with a MSE loss for enhanced speech.
result Proposed method improves speech enhancement performance compared to original diffusion model.
This paper connects noise injection to Bayesian inference for neural networks, improving model uncertainty.
problem Improving the reliability and confidence of neural network predictions through uncertainty quantification.
method Introducing noise into neural network parameters during training and inference to estimate prediction uncertainty.
result The MCNI method outperforms baseline models in regression and classification tasks.
Enhances DSN with multi-family wavelet transforms and sparsity.
problem Improving interpretability and expressive power of DSN.
method Multi-family wavelet transforms and optimal thresholding.
result Enhanced robustness and diversity of scattering coefficients.
Paper tackles noisy neural networks and proposes a method to enhance their robustness.
problem Noisy neural networks struggle with random continuous noise in weights.
method Knowledge distillation combined with noise injection during training.
result Models achieve up to twice greater noise tolerance.
SmoothGrad and VarGrad are techniques that enhance the empirical quality of standard saliency maps by adding noise to input. However, there were few works that provide a rigorous theoretical interpretation of those methods. We analytically formalize the result of these noise-adding methods. As a result, we observe two …
CutMix enhances feature learning in neural networks, improving test accuracy.
problem Understanding and improving feature learning in neural networks using patch-level augmentation.
method Three distinct methods: vanilla training, Cutout training, and CutMix training were studied.
result CutMix training yields the highest test accuracy and learns all features and noise vectors evenly.
Enhanced stability improves privacy in machine learning.
problem Improving privacy in machine learning training while maintaining accuracy.
method Study of stability in private empirical risk minimization, focusing on strongly-convex loss functions and uniform stability.
result An algorithm with uniform stability of β implies a bound of O(√β) on the scale of noise required for differential privacy.
Geometry-aware noise improves model generalization on complex manifolds.
problem Improving model generalization on highly curved data manifolds.
method Add geometry-aware noise to input space, projecting Gaussian noise onto tangent space of manifold and mapping it via geodesic curve.
result Geometry-aware noise leads to improved generalization and robustness on highly curved manifolds.
A two-stage optimization framework reduces label noise in federated learning.
problem Label noise from noisy clients degrades federated learning model performance.
method MaskedOptim framework: detects noisy clients, corrects labels, and aggregates models robustly.
result Our framework improves model robustness and data quality in federated learning.
A new hybrid framework reduces quantum runtime and noise effects.
problem Challenges in deploying deep QFMs on real quantum hardware.
method Iterative Quantum Feature Maps (IQFMs) combining shallow QFMs and classical augmentation weights.
result Numerical experiments show IQFMs outperforming quantum convolutional neural networks.
STAG injects noise into graph neural networks to improve performance.
problem Graph neural networks suffer from over-smoothing and limited discrimination.
method Introduces a stochastic aggregation framework (STAG) with adaptive noise injection.
result STAG models correct both over-smoothing and discrimination issues.
Enhances financial data signal-to-noise ratio using auto-encoders and mutual regularization.
problem Improving signal-to-noise ratio in financial data.
method Combining target and context variables, using auto-encoders with mutual regularization to learn common ground.
result Discover new regularities in financial time-series data.
BeGIN benchmarks GNNs for instance-dependent label noise in graphs.
problem Instance-dependent label noise in graph data.
method BeGIN introduces a benchmark with various noise types and evaluates noise-handling strategies across GNN architectures.
result Challenges of instance-dependent noise, especially LLM-based corruption, and the importance of node-specific parameterization.
This paper proposes a deep speech enhancement method which exploits the high potential of residual connections in a wide neural network architecture, a topology known as Wide Residual Network. This is supported on single dimensional convolutions computed alongside the time domain, which is a powerful approach to proces…
DA-GNN improves robustness of GNNs by modeling noise dependencies.
problem Real-world graph node features often contain noise, leading to performance degradation in GNNs.
method DA-GNN captures noise dependencies using variational inference and new benchmark datasets.
result DA-GNN consistently outperforms existing baselines across various noise scenarios.