VFDS selects dynamic features for efficient HAR tasks, optimizing performance-cost trade-offs.
problem Optimizing feature selection for varying costs and dynamic contexts in machine learning tasks.
method Bayesian learning framework with variational dynamic selection policy.
result VFDS selects different features under changing contexts, saving sensory costs while maintaining HAR accuracy.
This paper benchmarks monotone-constrained models for credit PD across datasets and finds constraints are mostly costless.
problem Aligning machine learning model behavior with domain knowledge in credit risk.
method Benchmarked monotone-constrained versus unconstrained gradient boosting models across five datasets and three libraries, defining the Price of Monotonicity (PoM) as the relative change in AUC.
result Monotonicity constraints are almost costless on large datasets and most costly on smaller datasets, with PoM ranging from essentially zero to about 2.9 percent.
New sampling scheme improves ML accuracy in physics simulations.
problem Improving accuracy of ML models in physics simulations.
method Taylor-based data sampling scheme for DNNs.
result Reduces error in DNN solutions of ODE systems.
Embedding layers are commonly used to map discrete symbols into continuous embedding vectors that reflect their semantic meanings. Despite their effectiveness, the number of parameters in an embedding layer increases linearly with the number of symbols and poses a critical challenge on memory and storage constraints. I…
Wide adoption of complex RNN based models is hindered by their inference performance, cost and memory requirements. To address this issue, we develop AntMan, combining structured sparsity with low-rank decomposition synergistically, to reduce model computation, size and execution time of RNNs while attaining desired ac…
New mechanisms from primate vision improve neural network robustness.
problem Demonstrating robust neural networks to small adversarial perturbations.
method Investigated two biologically plausible mechanisms: non-uniform retina sampling and receptive field diversity.
result Non-uniform retina sampling and receptive field diversity improve adversarial robustness.
Recurrent convolution (RC) shares the same convolutional kernels and unrolls them multiple steps, which is originally proposed to model time-space signals. We argue that RC can be viewed as a model compression strategy for deep convolutional neural networks. RC reduces the redundancy across layers. However, the perform…
ComEx protocol reduces communication costs in cooperative bandits.
problem Minimizing communication costs in cooperative bandits while maintaining optimal performance.
method Developed ComEx protocol to reduce communication from Θ(T) to O(logT) messages. result Achieves state-of-the-art performance with significantly reduced communication cost.
Privacy can be achieved without cost in overparameterized models.
problem Understanding the performance cost of differentially private gradient descent in overparameterized settings.
method Random features model with quadratic loss.
result Privacy can be obtained for free in the overparameterized regime, not dependent on privacy parameter ε.
A new AI framework reduces costs and improves performance.
problem High costs and over-confidence in AI models.
method Entropy-optimizing reformulation of Boltzmann machines.
result Cheaper, more performant AI models with validated reliability.
We provide a general framework for characterizing the trade-off between accuracy and robustness in supervised learning. We propose a method and define quantities to characterize the trade-off between accuracy and robustness for a given architecture, and provide theoretical insight into the trade-off. Specifically we in…
A new framework enables real-time task trade-off control.
problem Conflict between multiple related tasks in a fixed model capacity.
method Formulates MTL as a preference-conditioned multiobjective optimization problem; uses a hypernetwork-based neural network.
result A single model can handle different trade-off preferences among multiple tasks.
New trade-off found between accuracy and adversarial robustness in regression.
problem Finding a balance between accuracy and robustness in regression models.
method Deriving a fundamental trade-off between standard and adversarial risk in regression with polynomial ridge functions.
result A necessary condition for achieving adversarial robustness without significant accuracy loss.
Paper explores robust regression methods and their bias-variance trade-off.
problem Understanding the trade-off between robust estimation and optimization methods.
method Examines traditional outlier-resistant robust estimation and robust optimization.
result Both methods follow converse strategies due to a bias-variance trade-off.
This paper studies trade-offs in private prediction methods.
problem Leakage of training data information in machine learning predictions.
method Private training and private prediction methods with trade-offs.
result Private training methods outperform private prediction methods in various settings.
Efficiently approximates fairness-accuracy trade-offs for diverse datasets.
problem Inherent trade-off between fairness and accuracy in machine learning models.
method You-Only-Train-Once (YOTO) framework for computationally efficient approximation.
result Robust methodology for auditing model fairness with statistical guarantees.
New insights into convergence and accuracy trade-offs in federated and meta-learning.
problem Understanding the trade-offs between convergence and accuracy in federated and meta-learning.
method Generalized local update methods, proving equivalence to first-order optimization on a surrogate loss.
result Novel convergence rates and insights into the importance of algorithmic choices in communication-limited settings.
We empirically investigate the best trade-off between sparse and uniformly-weighted multiple kernel learning (MKL) using the elastic-net regularization on real and simulated datasets. We find that the best trade-off parameter depends not only on the sparsity of the true kernel-weight spectrum but also on the linear dep…
Proposes FACT, a diagnostic for understanding group fairness trade-offs.
problem Group fairness notions often conflict with each other, requiring a cost in model performance.
method Characterizes trade-offs via the fairness-confusion tensor and optimizes accuracy and fairness objectives.
result Demonstrates the use of FACT on synthetic and real datasets to understand accuracy-fairness trade-offs.
Pareto MTL finds optimal solutions for multiple tasks with different trade-offs.
problem Finding a single optimal solution for multiple conflicting tasks.
method Formulate multi-task learning as multiobjective optimization, decompose into subproblems, solve in parallel.
result Generates well-representative Pareto optimal solutions for different trade-offs.
Study shows exponential error reduction in multiclass classification without bias-variance trade-off.
problem Multiclass classification with margin conditions.
method Analysis of classification error under hard-margin conditions.
result Exponential decrease in classification error without bias-variance trade-off.
A trade-off between accuracy and fairness is almost taken as a given in the existing literature on fairness in machine learning. Yet, it is not preordained that accuracy should decrease with increased fairness. Novel to this work, we examine fair classification through the lens of mismatched hypothesis testing: trying …
Vecchia approximations provide the best accuracy-runtime trade-off for Gaussian process approximations.
problem High computational cost of Gaussian processes for large data sets.
method Systematic comparison of different Gaussian process approximations.
result Vecchia approximations consistently provide the best accuracy-runtime trade-off.
The paper explores the trade-off between bias and variance in high-dimensional models.
problem Understanding the unavoidable trade-off between bias and variance in high-dimensional statistical models.
method Proposes a general strategy to obtain lower bounds on the variance of estimators with a specified bias, and applies it to various statistical models.
result Shows the extent to which the bias-variance trade-off is unavoidable and quantifies the performance loss for methods that do not balance it.
Fine-tuning LLMs improves capability but harms safety, study finds.
problem Balancing capability and safety in LLM fine-tuning.
method Theoretical framework and numerical experiments for two safety-aware fine-tuning strategies.
result Characterization of fundamental limits of safety-capability trade-off in LLM fine-tuning.
This paper analyzes the trade-off between accuracy and communication in personalized federated learning.
problem The accuracy-communication trade-off in personalized federated learning.
method The paper provides a quantitative characterization of the personalization degree on the trade-off, establishing minimax optimality.
result The paper offers theoretical insights for choosing the personalization degree and validates the results on synthetic and real-world datasets.
SCORE resolves the robustness vs accuracy trade-off by redefining robust error.
problem The inherent trade-off between robustness and accuracy in adversarial training.
method SCORE defines local equivariance as the ideal robust behavior, leading to a new robust error metric.
result SCORE reconciles robustness and accuracy, improving model performance on RobustBench.
Two Fisher information matrix estimators are analyzed for neural networks, focusing on their variances and trade-offs.
problem Estimating the Fisher information matrix in neural networks due to its high computational cost.
method Examined two popular diagonal Fisher information matrix estimators and their variances in neural networks for regression and classification.
result The variances of the estimators depend on the non-linearity with respect to different parameter groups and should not be neglected.
Method orders Pareto solutions using transformed objective scores.
problem Lack of orderability in multi-objective optimization solutions.
method Probability integral transform to map objectives to scores.
result Pareto efficient solutions can be ordered in score space.
Differential privacy is a mathematical framework for privacy-preserving data analysis. Changing the hyperparameters of a differentially private algorithm allows one to trade off privacy and utility in a principled way. Quantifying this trade-off in advance is essential to decision-makers tasked with deciding how much p…
SharpBalance improves deep ensemble performance by balancing sharpness and diversity.
problem Improving deep ensemble performance in both in-distribution and out-of-distribution scenarios.
method Introducing SharpBalance, a novel training approach that balances sharpness and diversity within ensembles.
result SharpBalance effectively improves the sharpness-diversity trade-off and ensemble performance in ID and OOD scenarios.
Research explores the trade-off between multi-task learning and multitasking in deep neural networks.
problem Trade-off between multi-task learning and multitasking in deep neural networks.
method Meta-learning algorithm to manage the trade-off between shared and separated representations.
result Agent successfully optimizes training strategy based on environment.
New method optimizes privacy and compute trade-offs for deep learning.
problem Privacy and compute trade-offs in deep learning training.
method Decoupling privacy analysis and experimental behavior, using TAN and scaling laws for DP-SGD.
result Stronger privacy guarantees with significant reduction in computational budget.
We propose a new PAC-Bayesian bound and a way of constructing a hypothesis space, so that the bound is convex in the posterior distribution and also convex in a trade-off parameter between empirical performance of the posterior distribution and its complexity. The complexity is measured by the Kullback-Leibler divergen…
Paper develops a dynamic Bayesian approach for active learning that optimizes exploration-exploitation balance.
problem Balancing exploration and exploitation in active learning for unknown functions.
method Develops BHEEM, a Bayesian hierarchical approach with approximate Bayesian computation for sampling trade-off parameters.
result BHEEM achieves at least 21% and 11% improvement over pure exploration and exploitation strategies respectively.
Study tests whether trade-off functions are above or below benchmarks using finite samples.
problem Testing trade-off functions between unknown distributions.
method Identifies a condition for nontrivial testing, constructs a test with error guarantees, and inverts the test for confidence bands.
result Finite-sample testing is possible under specific structural assumptions about rejection regions.
Study on trade-offs between accuracy and interpretability in machine learning.
problem Lack of formal study on statistical cost of interpretability.
method Modeling interpretability as a constraint in empirical risk minimization for binary classification.
result Explains conditions under which accuracy trade-off occurs with interpretability constraints.
New insights into neural network forgetting reveal a trade-off between node activation and re-use.
problem Challenges in maintaining performance on old tasks while learning new ones.
method Theoretical analysis of synthetic and real data setups, focusing on node activation vs re-use.
result Worst forgetting occurs in an intermediate similarity regime between learned tasks.
Bayesian optimization offers the possibility of optimizing black-box operations not accessible through traditional techniques. The success of Bayesian optimization methods such as Expected Improvement (EI) are significantly affected by the degree of trade-off between exploration and exploitation. Too much exploration c…
Learning algorithms need bias to generalize and perform better than random guessing. We examine the flexibility (expressivity) of biased algorithms. An expressive algorithm can adapt to changing training data, altering its outcome based on changes in its input. We measure expressivity by using an information-theoretic …
Improved Bayesian optimisation method using randomised Gaussian process UCB.
problem Improving performance in Bayesian optimisation.
method Developed a modified Gaussian process upper confidence bound (GP-UCB) acquisition function.
result The method achieves better performance than GP-UCB in various problems.
Meta-learning balances task-specific modeling and optimization complexity.
problem Balancing accurate task-specific modeling with ease of optimization in meta-learning.
method Theoretical and empirical analysis of trade-off between modeling and optimization in meta-learning.
result Explicit bounds on modeling and optimization errors for non-convex and linear regression problems.
Unified four trade-off curves for assessing generative model proximity.
problem Quantitative assessment of proximity between two probability distributions.
method Unified four existing curves: PR, Lorenz, ROC, and Rényi divergence frontiers.
result Explicit relationship between PR and Lorenz curves with domain adaptation bounds.
Crowdsourced data used in machine learning services might carry sensitive information about attributes that users do not want to share. Various methods have been proposed to minimize the potential information leakage of sensitive attributes while maximizing the task accuracy. However, little is known about the theory b…
Study finds more flood risk strategies can improve outcomes in NYC.
problem Managing future flood risks with complex models.
method Used an intermediate complexity model to analyze flood risk strategies.
result More combinations of risk mitigation strategies expand the solution set and improve outcomes.
The study finds a trade-off between model size, test loss, and training loss for linear predictors.
problem Finding the optimal balance between model size, test loss, and training loss for linear predictors.
method Established an algorithm and distribution-independent trade-off using non-asymptotic analysis.
result Models with low test loss are either classical (close to noise level training loss) or modern (large number of parameters).
We develop a coherent framework for integrative simultaneous analysis of the exploration-exploitation and model order selection trade-offs. We improve over our preceding results on the same subject (Seldin et al., 2011) by combining PAC-Bayesian analysis with Bernstein-type inequality for martingales. Such a combinatio…
This paper considers generalized linear models using rule-based features, also referred to as rule ensembles, for regression and probabilistic classification. Rules facilitate model interpretation while also capturing nonlinear dependences and interactions. Our problem formulation accordingly trades off rule set comple…