Efficient algorithm removes redundant nodes and obsolete samples in machine learning.
problem Pruning redundant nodes and removing obsolete training samples in machine learning.
method Deduced decremented learning algorithms from incremental learning algorithms, using inverse Cholesterol factor and unitary transformation.
result Proposed decremented learning algorithms efficiently prune redundant nodes and remove obsolete training samples.
It is understood now that all projective (and conformal) invariants of Riemannian metrics can be found by a transparent construction based on representation theory. So this article with a partial and quite cumbersome construction of projective invariants become obsolete.
This paper has been withdrawn by the authors, because it has been made obsolete by the detailed expositions in our papers in arXiv:0812.4885 (the mathematics part) and arXiv:0812.4737 (the economics part).
Statistical methods remain relevant for ODE inverse problems, especially with sparse data.
problem The relevance of statistical methods in the era of deep learning for ODE inverse problems.
method Employed physics-informed neural networks (PINN) and manifold-constrained Gaussian process inference (MAGI) to compare statistical and deep learning approaches.
result Statistically principled methods outperform deep learning models in tasks like parameter inference and trajectory reconstruction.
New winsorized mean improves robustness to up to 50% contamination.
problem Improving robustness of mean estimation in the presence of outliers.
method Outlyingness-induced winsorized mean approach.
result Achieves up to 50% contamination robustness with sub-Gaussian performance.
Network operators are generally aware of common attack vectors that they defend against. For most networks the vast majority of traffic is legitimate. However new attack vectors are continually designed and attempted by bad actors which bypass detection and go unnoticed due to low volume. One strategy for finding such …
This study improves scalability of randomized smoothing for certifying classifier robustness.
problem Certifying machine learning classifiers against adversarial attacks is challenging and scalable solutions are needed.
method The study reviews and explores randomized smoothing and its derivatives, focusing on scalability.
result The study provides theoretical guarantees and discusses scalability challenges of randomized smoothing.
NESYM combines AI and Earth models for new climate insights.
problem Replacing traditional Earth models with AI.
method Neural Earth System Modelling (NESYM) integrating AI and climate models.
result Artificial intelligence may render traditional models obsolete.
This article proposes a biologically inspired neurocomputational architecture which learns associations between words and referents in different contexts, considering evidence collected from the literature of Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics. The multi-layered architecture takes as input raw images of objects (re…
ADER addresses continual learning in session-based recommendation by periodically replaying exemplars with adaptive distillation.
problem Catastrophic forgetting in continual learning of session-based recommenders.
method Periodically replaying previous training samples (exemplars) with an adaptive distillation loss.
result ADER consistently outperforms other continual learning techniques and even all historical data at every update cycle.
New algorithm tackles non-stationary delayed feedback in recommender systems.
problem Challenges in learning from delayed feedback in non-stationary environments.
method Developed a UCRL-based algorithm for non-stationary, delayed bandits with intermediate observations.
result Sublinear regret guarantees for the proposed algorithm in non-stationary delayed environments.
Bayesian method improves grid admittance matrix estimation from noisy data.
problem Accurate estimation of power grid admittance matrix in dynamic systems.
method Data-driven identification using voltage and current measurements, Bayesian approach.
result Significantly greater accuracy in admittance matrix estimation compared to existing methods.
Gray-box attack improves on white-box methods for trading agents.
problem Robustness of Deep RL trading agents against adversarial attacks.
method Hybrid Deep Neural Network policy for gray-box adversarial attack.
result Adversary can reduce trading agent's reward by 214.17%.
Dynamic memory prevents forgetting in continuous learning of medical images.
problem Catastrophic forgetting in machine learning models over time due to domain shifts.
method Dynamic memory to store and replay diverse training data subsets.
result Dynamic memory mitigates forgetting without knowing when shifts occur.
Classifiers deployed in the real world operate in a dynamic environment, where the data distribution can change over time. These changes, referred to as concept drift, can cause the predictive performance of the classifier to drop over time, thereby making it obsolete. To be of any real use, these classifiers need to d…
Historically, the banking multiplier has been in a range of 4 to 100, with 25% to 1% reserve ratios at most layers of the banking system encompassing the majority of its range in recent centuries. Here it is shown that multipliers over 1 000 can occur from a new mechanism in banking. This new multiplier uses a default …
Adaptive filtering algorithms operating in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces have demonstrated superiority over their linear counterpart for nonlinear system identification. Unfortunately, an undesirable characteristic of these methods is that the order of the filters grows linearly with the number of input data. This …
Online learning improves traffic congestion prediction over time.
problem Model degradation due to concept drift in traffic data.
method Incremental learning from non-stationary time series data.
result Performance of models degrades with increased prediction horizon.
The Android operating system has been the most popular for smartphones and tablets since 2012. This popularity has led to a rapid raise of Android malware in recent years. The sophistication of Android malware obfuscation and detection avoidance methods have significantly improved, making many traditional malware detec…
Scaling feature values is an important step in numerous machine learning tasks. Different features can have different value ranges and some form of a feature scaling is often required in order to learn an accurate classifier. However, feature scaling is conducted as a preprocessing task prior to learning. This is probl…
Trading strategies evolve in a simulated market to outperform real data.
problem Creating profitable trading strategies in diverse market conditions.
method Agent-based model of heterogeneous agents evolving deep neural networks.
result Elite trading algorithms outperform in real high-frequency foreign exchange data.
Spectral clustering has become one of the most widely used clustering techniques when the structure of the individual clusters is non-convex or highly anisotropic. Yet, despite its immense popularity, there exists fairly little theory about performance guarantees for spectral clustering. This issue is partly due to the…
A framework monitors and diagnoses concept drift in supervised learning models.
problem Changes in predictive relationships over time render models suboptimal.
method Score vector monitoring using exponentially weighted moving average.
result Score-based approach detects concept drift more effectively than error-based methods.
A new type of distributional regression tree uses soft split rules for better predictive performance.
problem Estimating complete conditional distributions in regression.
method Distributional adaptive soft regression trees using multivariate soft split rules.
result The method outperforms various benchmark methods, especially in complex non-linear interactions.
CODA simulates future data to generalize models across different datasets.
problem Concept drift in real-world machine learning models.
method CODA framework using a predicted feature correlation matrix to simulate future data.
result CODA effectively achieves temporal domain generalization across different model architectures.
AI enhances cancer diagnostics using spectroscopy.
problem Early and accurate cancer diagnosis.
method Combining AI with spectroscopy-based techniques.
result AI improves cancer diagnostics speed and safety.
Group convolutional neural networks (G-CNNs) can be used to improve classical CNNs by equipping them with the geometric structure of groups. Central in the success of G-CNNs is the lifting of feature maps to higher dimensional disentangled representations, in which data characteristics are effectively learned, geometri…
CDLEEDS detects local changes in evolving data streams for accurate feature attributions.
problem Local feature attributions become obsolete in evolving data streams.
method CDLEEDS, a flexible framework for detecting local change and concept drift.
result CDLEEDS reliably detects both local and global concept drift.
Enhanced Sampling Scheme improves masked generative modeling.
problem Limitations of existing sampling schemes in masked non-autoregressive generative modeling.
method ESS consists of three stages: Naive Iterative Decoding, Critical Reverse Sampling, and Critical Resampling.
result ESS achieves significant performance gains in unconditional and class-conditional sampling.
PRS improves rejection sampling by learning better proposals.
problem High rejection rate in traditional rejection sampling.
method PRS uses a kernel estimator to learn better sampling proposals.
result PRS guarantees a low number of accepted samples.
This paper reviews various sampling methods from statistics and machine learning.
problem Addressing sampling methods in statistics and machine learning.
method Explains and reviews simple random sampling, bootstrapping, stratified sampling, cluster sampling, multistage sampling, network sampling, snowball sampling, and sampling from cumulative distribution function.
result Summarizes characteristics, pros, and cons of different sampling methods.
RISA improves VFL by using imputed samples with low uncertainty.
problem Limited overlapping samples constrain VFL performance.
method Imputing non-overlapping samples and using evidence theory to select reliable imputed samples.
result Significant performance gains achieved, especially with limited overlapping samples.
Improved privacy-preserving methods for estimating multiple samples from distributions.
problem Estimating multiple samples from distributions while maintaining privacy.
method Developed new multi-sampling techniques for differentially private data estimation.
result Achieved significant reduction in sample complexity for multi-sampling from finite domains and Gaussian distributions.
Paper introduces a new sampling method combining Consistency Models with importance sampling.
problem Inherent errors in samples and high NFEs for high-quality samples in Boltzmann distributions.
method Combines Consistency Models with importance sampling to produce unbiased samples with minimal NFEs.
result Produces unbiased samples using only 6-25 NFEs, comparable to 100 NFEs for DDPMs.
Neural network accuracy improves with denser training samples.
problem Improving neural network accuracy on unseen test samples.
method Bounding empirical training error smoothed across activation regions and using it to discard high-risk test samples.
result Discarding high-risk test samples based on error bounds improves prediction accuracy by up to 20%.
Wedge Sampling improves tensor completion with nearly-linear sample complexity.
problem Efficiently completing low-rank tensors from a subset of entries.
method Non-adaptive wedge sampling to promote structured connections in tensor completion.
result Polynomial-time algorithms achieve weak and exact recovery with nearly linear sample complexity.
Algorithm samples constrained stochastic differential equations.
problem Sampling stochastic differential equations with complex constraints.
method Pathspace Metropolis-adjusted manifold sampling.
result Demonstrated effectiveness in various constrained conditions.
In modern data analysis, random sampling is an efficient and widely-used strategy to overcome the computational difficulties brought by large sample size. In previous studies, researchers conducted random sampling which is according to the input data but independent on the response variable, however the response variab…
Generative models map simple samples to complex target samples.
problem Improving Monte-Carlo sampling techniques.
method Variational learning of dynamical maps between base and target measures.
result Improved sampling efficiency through feedback loops.
Sampling is a fundamental problem in computer science and statistics. However, for a given task and stream, it is often not possible to choose good sampling probabilities in advance. We derive a general framework for adaptively changing the sampling probabilities via a collection of thresholds.In general, adaptive samp…
New sampling algorithm for non-smooth potentials.
problem Sampling from non-smooth potentials.
method Proximal algorithm based on rejection sampling.
result Achieves better complexity than existing methods.
Efficiently samples sequences without replacement for machine learning models.
problem Generating diverse outputs from sequential models without duplicates.
method Incremental sampling procedure for randomized programs, including neural models.
result Efficacy and flexibility of incremental sampling for large output spaces.
Ensemble sampling approximates Thompson sampling for complex models.
problem Computational intractability of exact posterior distributions.
method Thompson sampling approximation with information-theoretic concepts.
result Established a first rigorous regret bound for ensemble sampling.
Optimizes biomolecular simulations by ranking adaptive sampling policies.
problem Efficiently sampling biomolecular systems to capture complex dynamical behaviors.
method Metric-driven ranking of adaptive sampling policies to identify the optimal policy for each round.
result Different adaptive sampling policies lead to faster convergence and improved sampling performance.
Optimizes sample and round complexity in adaptive sampling from multiple distributions.
problem Adaptive sampling from multiple distributions with limited rounds and samples.
method Introduces OODS framework and analyzes tradeoffs between sample and round complexity.
result Achieves near-optimal sample complexity and sub-polynomial round complexity.
Meta-learners improve causal effect estimation in small samples.
problem Estimating causal effects using machine learning methods.
method Sample-splitting and cross-fitting to reduce overfitting bias.
result Meta-learners' performance depends on sample size and estimation procedure.
REP-GAN improves GANs by reparameterizing proposals for better sample quality and efficiency.
problem Poor sample efficiency in GANs due to independent proposal sampling.
method REParameterizing Markov chains into the latent space of the generator to create dependent proposals.
result Empirically shows significant improvement in sample efficiency and quality.
Unified framework for model-based RL with sample complexity guarantees.
problem Designing efficient posterior sampling methods for model-based RL.
method Optimistic posterior sampling, Hellinger distance reduction, data likelihood measurement.
result Unified algorithms with state-of-the-art sample complexity guarantees.