Proposes robust graph embedding with noisy link weights.
problem Learning feature vectors from noisy link weights.
method β-graph embedding with empirical moment β-score.
result Computational tractability and local minimization of β-score.
Study tackles nonlinear factor models with unknown monotone links from incomplete and noisy data.
problem Learning nonlinear factor models with unknown monotone links from incomplete and noisy data.
method Formulated as joint recovery of low-rank factors, loadings, and nonlinear link function; proposed BCD algorithm with regularization.
result Established convergence guarantees and sublinear regret bounds for link-function updates.
FUNSD dataset tackles noisy scanned forms, offering comprehensive annotations.
problem Extracting and structuring textual content from noisy scanned documents.
method Comprehensive dataset with real, fully annotated forms, including text detection, OCR, layout analysis, and entity linking.
result First publicly available dataset for form understanding, addressing challenges in noisy scanned documents.
PGMs and GNNs differ in capturing network data; PGMs outperform GNNs in noisy and heterophily scenarios.
problem Comparing PGMs and GNNs in network data.
method Link prediction task with synthetic and real networks; three experiments on input features, noise, and heterophily.
result PGMs outperform GNNs in noisy and heterophily scenarios.
Paper benchmarks real-world noisy labels and proposes a method to improve deep learning performance.
problem Understanding deep learning with real-world noisy labels.
method Develops a simple method to handle both synthetic and real noisy labels.
result Method achieves best results on benchmark datasets and web noise.
Bayesian approach learns linear operators from noisy data.
problem Learning linear operators from noisy data in infinite-dimensional spaces.
method Bayesian approach with Gaussian priors.
result Establishes posterior contraction rates and generalization error guarantees.
Study rates of convergence for approximate solutions to linear ill-posed problems in Hilbert scales.
problem Linear ill-posed inverse problems with noisy data.
method Approximate reconstructions from random noisy data using regularization schemes in Hilbert scale.
result Explicitly established error bounds for smooth regression functions.
Deep learning models can overfit noisy data without losing generalization.
problem Understanding the generalization of deep learning models in noisy data.
method Empirical investigation of epoch-wise double descent in fully connected neural networks trained on CIFAR-10 with 30% label noise.
result The model achieves strong re-generalization on test data after overfitting noisy training data, corresponding to a 'benign overfitting' state.
Entity linking is the task of mapping potentially ambiguous terms in text to their constituent entities in a knowledge base like Wikipedia. This is useful for organizing content, extracting structured data from textual documents, and in machine learning relevance applications like semantic search, knowledge graph const…
New algorithm for identifying Condorcet team in noisy comparisons.
problem Online learning with noisy comparisons of teams.
method Formalized dueling teams problem, developed algorithms for stochastic and deterministic settings.
result Identifies Condorcet winning team with reduced number of duels.
In this paper we are interested in the prediction of preterm birth based on diagnosis codes from longitudinal EHR. We formulate the prediction problem as a supervised classification with noisy labels. Our base classifier is a Recurrent Neural Network with an attention mechanism. We assume the availability of a data sub…
Online knowledge repositories typically rely on their users or dedicated editors to evaluate the reliability of their content. These evaluations can be viewed as noisy measurements of both information reliability and information source trustworthiness. Can we leverage these noisy evaluations, often biased, to distill a…
Develops a method for causal inference with noisy confounders.
problem Noisy measurements of confounders in treatment effects models.
method Local principal subspace approximation combining K-nearest neighbors matching and PCA.
result Estimators of treatment effects and counterfactual distributions are constructed.
Study detects boundaries in unlabeled noisy images without labels.
problem Detecting boundaries in unlabeled noisy images without labels.
method Proposed a continuous hinge-type surrogate loss for boundary detection, combined with deep neural networks.
result Deep neural network achieves minimax-optimal boundary recovery rate under piecewise smooth boundary model.
The possibility of latency arbitrage in financial markets has led to the deployment of high-speed communication links between distant financial centers. These links are noisy and so there is a need for coding. In this paper, we develop a gametheoretic model of trading behavior where two traders compete to capture laten…
This paper improves matrix completion by estimating uncertainty and performing inference.
problem Estimating a low-rank matrix with noisy and incomplete data and assessing uncertainty.
method Developed a de-biased estimator procedure to compensate for bias in convex and nonconvex estimators.
result Achieved nearly precise non-asymptotic distributional characterizations for de-biased estimators, enabling valid confidence intervals.
We present the Infinite Latent Events Model, a nonparametric hierarchical Bayesian distribution over infinite dimensional Dynamic Bayesian Networks with binary state representations and noisy-OR-like transitions. The distribution can be used to learn structure in discrete timeseries data by simultaneously inferring a s…
Graph Denoising Policy Network learns robust representations from noisy graphs.
problem Noise sensitivity in graph representation learning.
method Reinforcement learning to select signal neighborhoods and aggregate features.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on node classification tasks.
Record linkage involves merging records in large, noisy databases to remove duplicate entities. It has become an important area because of its widespread occurrence in bibliometrics, public health, official statistics production, political science, and beyond. Traditional linkage methods directly linking records to one…
In this work, we provide a new formulation for Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNNs) for link prediction on graph data that addresses common challenges for biomedical knowledge graphs (KGs). We introduce a regularized attention mechanism to GCNNs that not only improves performance on clean datasets, but also favo…
SGATs learn sparse attention coefficients to improve graph learning tasks on large, noisy graphs.
problem Overfitting and noisy edges in GNNs on large, noisy graphs.
method Sparse Graph Attention Networks (SGATs) learn sparse attention coefficients under L0-norm regularization. result SGATs can remove 50%-80% edges from large graphs while maintaining similar classification accuracies.
SoulMate links short texts through multi-aspect embeddings.
problem Linking authors of noisy, ambiguous short texts.
method Neural network-based temporal-textual framework generating author subgraphs.
result Higher performance in linking short-text authors compared to competitors.
Matrix factorization is a well-studied task in machine learning for compactly representing large, noisy data. In our approach, instead of using the traditional concept of matrix rank, we define a new notion of link-rank based on a non-linear link function used within factorization. In particular, by applying the round …
Score matching is a recently developed parameter learning method that is particularly effective to complicated high dimensional density models with intractable partition functions. In this paper, we study two issues that have not been completely resolved for score matching. First, we provide a formal link between maxim…
Study recovers Riemannian quantities from noisy data densities.
problem Recovering geometric structure from noisy data on submanifolds.
method Derive uniform small-noise expansions of noisy density and its derivatives; construct estimators for tangent spaces, intrinsic dimension, and second fundamental form.
result Fundamental Riemannian quantities identifiable from density derivatives.
Study finds strong link between crypto narratives and prices.
problem Understanding the impact of crypto narratives on prices.
method Topic modeling of Twitter data combined with sentiment analysis.
result Strong correlation between narratives and crypto prices.
PGD algorithms solve nonlinear inverse problems with generative priors using noisy measurements.
problem Signal estimation from noisy nonlinear measurements with generative priors.
method Projected gradient descent algorithms for two cases: unknown and known nonlinearity.
result PGD algorithms converge linearly to optimal statistical rates using arbitrary initialization.
Paper shows noisy labels can improve PLR variable selection.
problem Variable selection in PLR is challenging due to noisy labels.
method Proposes a novel ADMM-based algorithm to fuse noisy labels.
result Fused noisy labels improve PLR performance in estimation and classification.
Bayesian graph learning improves graph representation accuracy.
problem Inaccurate graph construction from noisy data.
method Non-parametric Bayesian graph model for posterior inference of graph adjacency matrices.
result Model scales well to large graphs and improves node classification, link prediction, and recommendation tasks.
Optimizes noisy IS with better proposal densities.
problem Improving IS estimators with noisy data.
method Derives optimal proposal densities considering noise variance.
result Optimal proposals enhance IS estimators by focusing on noisy regions.
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…
DSGC improves graph representation learning by modeling object links and attribute relations.
problem Limited modeling capability of existing GCN variants on noisy and sparse real-world networks.
method Dimensionwise separable 2-D graph convolution (DSGC) that filters node features.
result DSGC achieves significant performance gain over state-of-the-art methods for node classification and clustering.
We propose an algorithm to impute and forecast a time series by transforming the observed time series into a matrix, utilizing matrix estimation to recover missing values and de-noise observed entries, and performing linear regression to make predictions. At the core of our analysis is a representation result, which st…
Paper proposes Pcomp classification for binary classification with pairwise confidence comparisons.
problem Lack of pointwise labels due to privacy, confidentiality, or security reasons.
method Developed Pcomp classification, derived an unbiased risk estimator (URE), and improved it using correction functions and consistency regularization.
result Demonstrated the effectiveness of Pcomp classification methods.
Establishes a link between heat diffusion and manifold distances in data.
problem No theoretical link between diffusion-based manifold learning and geodesic distances.
method Formulates heat geodesic embeddings based on Riemannian geometry.
result Method outperforms state-of-the-art in preserving manifold distances and cluster structure.
Three DP variants linked, improving SGD privacy bounds.
problem Relating different DP variants for tighter privacy bounds.
method Developed machinery to relate approximate DP to RDP and hypothesis test DP.
result Improved privacy guarantees for noisy SGD.
Class2Simi reduces noise in noisy label learning by transforming noisy class labels into noisy similarity labels.
problem Learning with noisy labels in supervised and unsupervised settings.
method Transforming noisy class labels into noisy similarity labels, training DNNs from noisy data pairs.
result The noise rate reduction is theoretically guaranteed, making it easier to handle noisy similarity labels.
Quantum neural networks can approximate noisy functions accurately.
problem Approximating noisy functions with quantum neural networks.
method Universal approximation theorem with error bounds for noisy quantum neural networks.
result Quantum neural networks can approximate noisy functions with precise error bounds.
The seemingly stochastic transient dynamics of neocortical circuits observed in vivo have been hypothesized to represent a signature of ongoing stochastic inference. In vitro neurons, on the other hand, exhibit a highly deterministic response to various types of stimulation. We show that an ensemble of deterministic le…
Paper improves ℓ0-SSC for noisy data by proving SDP and proposing Noisy-DR-ℓ0-SSC.
problem Noisy data and less restrictive subspace affinity in sparse subspace clustering.
method Proposes Noisy-DR-ℓ0-SSC, which projects data onto a lower dimensional space and then applies noisy ℓ0-SSC. result Theoretical guarantee on the correctness of noisy ℓ0-SSC in terms of SDP on noisy data. The paper analyzes network models with binary values and sub-Gamma noise, deriving asymptotic properties.
problem Analyzing network models with binary values and sub-Gamma noise.
method Derives asymptotic properties of network models with binary values and sub-Gamma noise.
result Established asymptotic consistency and normality of parameter estimators in network models.
Method detects and relabels noisy image labels to improve DNN performance.
problem Label noise in training images harms DNN generalization.
method Identifies noisy labels based on predictive uncertainty changes over training.
result Iterative relabeling of noisy labels improves DNN performance.
We study the problem of demixing a pair of sparse signals from noisy, nonlinear observations of their superposition. Mathematically, we consider a nonlinear signal observation model, yi=g(aiTx)+ei, i=1,…,m, where x=Φw+Ψz denotes the superposition signal, Φ and Ψ are orthonormal bases in $\mathb…
Networks play a central role in modern data analysis, enabling us to reason about systems by studying the relationships between their parts. Most often in network analysis, the edges are given. However, in many systems it is difficult or impossible to measure the network directly. Examples of latent networks include ec…
Simple method improves deep learning with noisy labels.
problem Deep learning's overfitting to noisy labels.
method Adds a variance regularization term to penalize neural network's Jacobian norm.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance with high noise tolerance.
ExpertNet uses noisy labels to improve deep learning robustness.
problem Improving deep learning robustness against noisy labels.
method ExpertNet framework combining Amateur and Expert models, iteratively learning from noisy labels and images.
result ExpertNet achieves robust classification with as little as 20-50% training data, outperforming state-of-the-art models.
Paper tackles noisy similarity labels for multi-class classification.
problem Learning multi-class classifiers from noisy similarity-labeled data.
method Proposes a method using a noise transition matrix to learn from noisy data.
result Demonstrates superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Proposes coreset method for robust training of neural networks with noisy labels.
problem Overfitting of neural networks trained with noisy labels.
method Selects weighted subsets (coresets) of clean data points to approximate low-rank Jacobian matrix.
result Gradient descent applied to coreset subsets does not overfit noisy labels.