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48 results for overlap assessment

The study simplifies assessing overlap in logistic regression models using empirical likelihood.

problem Assessing overlap in multidimensional logistic regression models.
method Translation of Silvapulle's condition to empirical likelihood maximization, mechanized with R code.
result Minimal overlapping structures are cataloged in dimensions less than four, providing rules for higher dimensions.

Proposes a sensitivity framework to handle limited overlap in causal inference.

problem Limited overlap between treated and control groups in observational studies.
method Sensitivity framework based on worst-case confidence bounds on bias introduced by trimming.
result Protects against spurious findings by quantifying uncertainty in regions with limited overlap.

Deconfounding scores improve causal effect estimation with weak overlap.

problem Challenges in causal treatment effect estimation due to weak overlap in high-dimensional data.
method Propose deconfounding scores to preserve identification and target estimation while improving overlap.
result Prognostic scores are overlap-optimal under a broad family of generalized linear models with Gaussian features.

New methods resolve conflicting treatment effect estimates in health tech assessments.

problem Conflicting conclusions from different sponsors analyzing the same data.
method Arbitrated indirect treatment comparisons (ArMAIC) targeting a common target population.
result Estimates treatment effects in a common target population, resolving the MAIC paradox.

Improved retinal vessel segmentation with topology preservation trade-off.

problem Retinal vessel segmentation accuracy and topology preservation trade-off.
method Topology preserving term in the loss function and orientation score guided convolutional module.
result Model achieves higher topological accuracy at the expense of lower overlap metrics.

Common asset holding by financial institutions, namely portfolio overlap, is nowadays regarded as an important channel for financial contagion with the potential to trigger fire sales and thus severe losses at the systemic level. In this paper we propose a method to assess the statistical significance of the overlap be…

2016-03-18abs ↗pdf ↗

PQMass assesses generative model quality using chi-squared tests.

problem Assessing the quality of generative models without density assumptions.
method Divides sample space into regions, applies chi-squared tests to p-values.
result Effectively assesses generative model quality, novelty, and diversity.

Overlapping clustering problem is an important learning issue in which clusters are not mutually exclusive and each object may belongs simultaneously to several clusters. This paper presents a kernel based method that produces overlapping clusters on a high feature space using mercer kernel techniques to improve separa…

2012-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method speeds up overlapping group lasso computations.

problem Time-consuming optimization of overlapping group lasso on large-scale problems.
method Non-overlapping statistical approximation to overlapping group lasso.
result The proposed penalty is statistically equivalent to overlapping group lasso.

Producing overlapping schemes is a major issue in clustering. Recent proposed overlapping methods relies on the search of an optimal covering and are based on different metrics, such as Euclidean distance and I-Divergence, used to measure closeness between observations. In this paper, we propose the use of another meas…

2012-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper presents a new approach for filter design based on stochastic distances and tests between distributions. A window is defined around each pixel, overlapping samples are compared and only those which pass a goodness-of-fit test are used to compute the filtered value. The technique is applied to intensity SAR d…

2013-08-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Recently, to solve large-scale lasso and group lasso problems, screening rules have been developed, the goal of which is to reduce the problem size by efficiently discarding zero coefficients using simple rules independently of the others. However, screening for overlapping group lasso remains an open challenge because…

2014-10-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Study tests financial market efficiency using random number generator tests.

problem Check for informational efficiencies in financial markets.
method Analysed binary daily returns as random number generators, split analysis by annual and company levels, investigated longer-term efficiency over Nasdaq-listed companies.
result Information efficiency varies across years and reflects large-scale market impacts.

Community detection is a fundamental problem in network analysis which is made more challenging by overlaps between communities which often occur in practice. Here we propose a general, flexible, and interpretable generative model for overlapping communities, which can be thought of as a generalization of the degree-co…

2014-12-10abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Overlap-Local-SGD improves distributed SGD by overlapping communication and computation.

problem High communication delay and node slowdown in distributed SGD.
method Adding an anchor model to synchronize local updates and pull them towards the anchor model.
result Overlap-Local-SGD speeds up distributed training and mitigates straggler effects.

New LT-O-learners improve HLTE estimation with low overlap.

problem Challenges in estimating heterogeneous long-term treatment effects due to limited overlap.
method Introduces LT-O-learners that use custom overlap weights to downweight low-overlap samples.
result LT-O-learners provide robust HLTE estimates with lower variance in low-overlap regimes.

Overlap between treatment groups is required for non-parametric estimation of causal effects. If a subgroup of subjects always receives the same intervention, we cannot estimate the effect of intervention changes on that subgroup without further assumptions. When overlap does not hold globally, characterizing local reg…

2019-07-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on Langevin dynamics for recovering planted signals in spiked matrix models.

problem Recovering a planted signal in spiked matrix models.
method Path-wise characterization of overlap using integro-differential equations and explicit formula derivation.
result Sharp phase transition in limiting overlap: positive in one regime, zero in another due to injected noise.

K-fold Cross Validation is commonly used to evaluate classifiers and tune their hyperparameters. However, it assumes that data points are Independent and Identically Distributed (i.i.d.) so that samples used in the training and test sets can be selected randomly and uniformly. In Human Activity Recognition datasets, we…

2019-04-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on overlaps of singular vectors in Gaussian matrix submatrices.

problem Analyzing overlaps of singular vectors in submatrices of Gaussian matrices.
method Utilizes dynamics of singular vectors and specific resolvents for Brownian trajectories.
result Explicit forms for limiting rescaled mean squared overlaps in the bulk of spectra.

Deconfounding scores improve causal effect estimation with weak overlap.

problem Poor overlap in treatment and control groups makes causal effect estimators brittle.
method Introduces feature representations that improve overlap without introducing bias.
result Deconfounding scores satisfy a zero-covariance condition that is identifiable in observed data.

Improved off-policy evaluation for MDPs with weak distributional overlap.

problem Evaluation of policies when target and data-collection distributions are not strongly overlapping.
method Truncated Doubly Robust (TDR) estimators for off-policy evaluation in MDPs under weak distributional overlap.
result TDR estimators can recover large-sample behavior and are consistent even when distribution ratios are not square-integrable.

A new overlapping space solves the configuration search problem for graph embeddings.

problem Configuring product spaces for graph embeddings is resource-intensive and impractical.
method Introducing overlapping spaces that share subsets of coordinates between different types of spaces (Euclidean, hyperbolic, spherical).
result Overlapping spaces achieve nearly optimal results without configuration tuning, reducing training time.

Sliced inverse regression (SIR) is a pioneer tool for supervised dimension reduction. It identifies the effective dimension reduction space, the subspace of significant factors with intrinsic lower dimensionality. In this paper, we propose to refine the SIR algorithm through an overlapping slicing scheme. The new algor…

2018-06-23abs ↗pdf ↗

CnGAN generates synthetic user preferences for non-overlapped users in cross-network recommender systems.

problem Cross-network recommender solutions ignore non-overlapped users, limiting their applicability.
method Multi-task learning, encoder-GAN architecture, user-based pairwise loss function.
result Generated user preferences improve recommendations for non-overlapped users, achieving superior performance.

A new method optimizes anomaly scoring from score distribution to improve AD performance.

problem Vulnerability to anomaly contamination and lack of adaptability in existing AD methods.
method Optimizes anomaly scoring function from score distribution perspective, using Overlap loss.
result Overlap loss-based AD models significantly outperform state-of-the-art methods.