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48 results for quality estimation

Optimizes treatment duration to maximize quality-adjusted lifetime.

problem Balancing risks and benefits in clinical decision making.
method Proposes a weighted estimating equation to adjust for confounding and informative censoring, and a nonparametric estimator for mean counterfactual quality-adjusted lifetime.
result Shows the optimal time for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy insertion in ALS patients.

The paper assesses quality measures for machine learning models using cross-validation.

problem Evaluating the accuracy and robustness of quality measures for machine learning models.
method Cross-validation approach to estimate prediction error and quantify explained variation. Confidence bounds and local quality measures derived from residuals.
result The reliability and robustness of quality measures are assessed through numerical examples and confidence bounds.

The quality of an induced model by a learning algorithm is dependent on the quality of the training data and the hyper-parameters supplied to the learning algorithm. Prior work has shown that improving the quality of the training data (i.e., by removing low quality instances) or tuning the learning algorithm hyper-para…

2014-03-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Improves image quality in generative models by estimating pixel-wise aleatoric uncertainty.

problem Lack of quantitative assessment of image quality in diffusion models.
method Estimate pixel-wise aleatoric uncertainty during sampling phase using a perturbation scheme designed for diffusion models.
result Uncertainty-guided sampling leads to better sample generation quality as shown by FID scores.

The paper improves QD policy ensembles using distribution ratio estimators.

problem Training diverse and high-quality reinforcement learning agents.
method Using Stein variational gradient descent and distribution ratio estimators.
result The method generates diverse and high-quality reinforcement learning agents.

The paper presents a method for generating well-calibrated prediction intervals using quality-driven deep ensembles.

problem Generating reliable prediction intervals for regression analysis.
method A multi-objective loss function combining quality measures for prediction intervals and point estimates, with a penalty function to ensure semantic integrity and stability.
result The method produces well-calibrated prediction intervals and point estimates, capturing both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty.

The paper proposes using density ratio estimation to evaluate synthetic data quality.

problem Improving the quality and utility of synthetic data for analysis.
method Density ratio estimation to measure synthetic data quality.
result Density ratio estimation yields more accurate global utility estimates than existing methods.

New methods correct bias in LLM-as-a-Judge evaluations, but reliability depends on judge quality and model calibration.

problem Systematic bias in LLM-as-a-Judge evaluations using naive estimators.
method Analytical results, simulations, and real-data case study to diagnose reliability of corrected estimates.
result Corrected estimates, especially shared-calibration comparisons, can be unreliable under certain conditions.

Paper introduces ρρ-Perfect to estimate model-human correlation in subjective datasets.

problem Inherent noise in subjective ratings limits model-human correlation quantification.
method Defines ρρ-Perfect as highest achievable correlation between perfect predictor and human ratings. Estimates based on heteroscedastic noise scenarios.
result Demonstrates ρρ-Perfect can distinguish model limitations from data quality issues.

Study evaluates quality of uncertainty estimates for neural networks.

problem Lack of principled assessment methods for evaluating uncertainty quality in deep learning.
method Statistical methods of frequentist interval coverage, interval width, and expected calibration error.
result Different UQ methods produce markedly different quality uncertainty estimates.

New methods reduce bias in estimating optimality gaps for risk-averse stochastic programs.

problem Optimality gap estimation bias in risk-averse stochastic programs.
method Two independent samples, each estimating a different component of the optimality gap.
result Our method reduces bias in estimating optimality gaps for risk-averse problems.

Crowdsourcing is a relatively economic and efficient solution to collect annotations from the crowd through online platforms. Answers collected from workers with different expertise may be noisy and unreliable, and the quality of annotated data needs to be further maintained. Various solutions have been attempted to ob…

2019-12-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Cluster analysis is widely used in the areas of machine learning and data mining. Fuzzy clustering is a particular method that considers that a data point can belong to more than one cluster. Fuzzy clustering helps obtain flexible clusters, as needed in such applications as text categorization. The performance of a clu…

2018-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

By seeking the narrowest prediction intervals (PIs) that satisfy the specified coverage probability requirements, the recently proposed quality-based PI learning principle can extract high-quality PIs that better summarize the predictive certainty in regression tasks, and has been widely applied to solve many practical…

2019-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved autoregressive models generate higher quality images and are more robust to noise.

problem Generating high-quality images from autoregressive models.
method Noise conditional maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) with score-based sampling.
result Models trained with noise conditional MLE achieve better test likelihoods and generate higher quality images.

In this paper we address cardinality estimation problem which is an important subproblem in query optimization. Query optimization is a part of every relational DBMS responsible for finding the best way of the execution for the given query. These ways are called plans. The execution time of different plans may differ b…

2017-11-22abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper uses Monte Carlo simulation to value quality options in agricultural futures contracts.

problem Valuation of quality options in agricultural futures to prevent manipulation and improve hedging performance.
method Monte Carlo simulation with antithetic variables for efficiency.
result Demonstrates a method to estimate the value of quality options in agricultural futures contracts.

Perceptual Kalman filters maintain human-perceptual quality while processing data.

problem Maintaining human-perceptual quality in signal processing under temporal constraints.
method An optimal causal filtering approach under a perfect perceptual-quality constraint.
result Adding perceptual quality constraints introduces a dilemma that requires sacrificing MSE for temporal consistency.

The paper proposes methods to estimate MCMC quality with couplings, bounding Wasserstein distance.

problem Improving MCMC efficiency without sacrificing asymptotic consistency.
method Estimators based on couplings of Markov chains to assess quality of asymptotically biased sampling methods.
result Empirical upper bounds of Wasserstein distance for assessing MCMC quality.

A new model shows fairness mechanisms can improve selection utility even without implicit bias.

problem Improving selection fairness without introducing a utility trade-off.
method A model with latent quality and group-dependent variance, comparing fairness mechanisms to group-oblivious selection.
result Demographic parity always increases selection utility, while γγ-rules weakly increase it.

Spinal cord stimulation has enabled humans with motor complete spinal cord injury (SCI) to independently stand and recover some lost autonomic function. Quantifying the quality of bipedal standing under spinal stimulation is important for spinal rehabilitation therapies and for new strategies that seek to combine spina…

2017-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Gibbs sampling is a workhorse for Bayesian inference but has several limitations when used for parameter estimation, and is often much slower than non-sampling inference methods. SAME (State Augmentation for Marginal Estimation) \cite{Doucet99,Doucet02} is an approach to MAP parameter estimation which gives improved pa…

2014-09-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce a novel Deep Learning framework, which quantitatively estimates image segmentation quality without the need for human inspection or labeling. We refer to this method as a Quality Assurance Network -- QANet. Specifically, given an image and a `proposed' corresponding segmentation, obtained by any method inc…

2019-04-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes diagnostics for error and variance estimation in randomized matrix computations.

problem Safe use of randomized matrix algorithms in applications.
method Leave-one-out error estimator and jackknife resampling method.
result Provides rapid diagnostics to assess quality of randomized matrix computations.

DCK improves air quality index prediction with probabilistic spatial models.

problem Non-Gaussian, complex spatial structure of air quality index.
method Deep classifier kriging (DCK) for non-Gaussian, nonlinear spatial prediction.
result DCK outperforms conventional methods in predictive accuracy and uncertainty quantification.

Hutch++ optimizes trace estimation for generative models, reducing variance and improving quality.

problem High variance and scalability issues in Hutchinson estimators for generative models.
method Hutch++ is an optimal stochastic trace estimator designed to minimize training variance while maintaining transport optimality.
result Hutch++ leads to higher quality generations and effective variance reduction in various applications.