Railway points are among the key components of railway infrastructure. As a part of signal equipment, points control the routes of trains at railway junctions, having a significant impact on the reliability, capacity, and punctuality of rail transport. Traditionally, maintenance of points is based on a fixed time inter…
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Paper proposes a dataset quality process for ML systems.
problem Inadequate standards for ML datasets in safety-critical systems.
method Proposes a dataset specification and verification process.
result Demonstrates the process on a railway signal recognition system.
Conformal prediction improves signal detection accuracy in railway images.
problem Improving the reliability of machine learning models for railway signal detection.
method Applying conformal prediction to a novel dataset of train operator perspective images.
result The approach enhances the reliability of machine learning models for detecting railway signals.
Bayesian model predicts crack evolution on rails with uncertainties.
problem Predicting crack evolution on railways due to complex interactions and uncertainties.
method Robust Bayesian multi-horizon approach with constraints.
result Trade-off between prediction accuracy and constraint compliance.
The paper uses conformal prediction to detect railway signals with confidence.
problem Deploying deep learning models in certified systems requires accurate uncertainty estimates.
method The paper uses conformal prediction and risk control to detect railway signals.
result The conformal prediction framework provides reliable and trustworthy uncertainty estimates for model performance.
India runs the fourth largest railway transport network size carrying over 8 billion passengers per year. However, the travel experience of passengers is frequently marked by delays, i.e., late arrival of trains at stations, causing inconvenience. In a first, we study the systemic delays in train arrivals using n-order…
Transformer model predicts train axle vibrations for safer maintenance.
problem Prevent mechanical failures in railway axles.
method Integrates Deep Autoregressive solution with spectral methods and observation models.
result Transformer model (ShaftFormer) improves predictive maintenance for railway axles.
Deep neural networks predict CVCM track circuit failures early.
problem Subtle anomalies in CVCM track circuits lead to failures, causing disruptions.
method Deep neural networks classify anomalies before they escalate.
result Deep neural networks achieve 99.31% overall accuracy in detecting CVCM failures.
Automatic understanding of domain specific texts in order to extract useful relationships for later use is a non-trivial task. One such relationship would be between railroad accidents' causes and their correspondent descriptions in reports. From 2001 to 2016 rail accidents in the U.S. cost more than $4.6B. Railroads i…
Time series are used in many domains including finance, engineering, economics and bioinformatics generally to represent the change of a measurement over time. Modeling techniques may then be used to give a synthetic representation of such data. A new approach for time series modeling is proposed in this paper. It cons…
A new approach for functional data description is proposed in this paper. It consists of a regression model with a discrete hidden logistic process which is adapted for modeling curves with abrupt or smooth regime changes. The model parameters are estimated in a maximum likelihood framework through a dedicated Expectat…
Model-based clustering with Hidden Markov Model regression for time series with regime changesstat.ML
This paper introduces a novel model-based clustering approach for clustering time series which present changes in regime. It consists of a mixture of polynomial regressions governed by hidden Markov chains. The underlying hidden process for each cluster activates successively several polynomial regimes during time. The…
Keynesian Economics After Allq-fin.GN
It is demonstrated that the US economy has on the long-term in reality been governed by the Keynesian approach to economics independent of the current official economical policy. This is done by calculating the two-point correlation function between the fluctuations of the DJIA and the US public debt. We find that the …
After September 2008, the advanced economies severe decline caused demand for emerging economies' exports to drop and the crisis became truly global, much deeper and broader than expected. In these times of global depression, most countries and companies are affected, some more than others. The financial crisis has tur…
Automated suggestions help train technicians diagnose incidents faster.
problem Manual and time-consuming incident diagnosis by train maintenance technicians.
method Developed and deployed a learning machine to suggest diagnostics to technicians.
result The model refines its accuracy through feedback from experts and uses feature engineering.
Mixture model-based clustering, usually applied to multidimensional data, has become a popular approach in many data analysis problems, both for its good statistical properties and for the simplicity of implementation of the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm. Within the context of a railway application, this pape…
Develops a framework to assess infrastructure reliability under natural and malicious events.
problem Assessing reliability and costs of infrastructure under various hazards.
method Coupling mechanical reliability analyses with economical reliability analyses using probabilistic considerations.
result Indicators of probable cost of failure for infrastructure, aiding safety investments.
Parking, matching, scheduling, and routing are common problems in train maintenance. In particular, train units are commonly maintained and cleaned at dedicated shunting yards. The planning problem that results from such situations is referred to as the Train Unit Shunting Problem (TUSP). This problem involves matching…
Study analyzes how discounts affect train ticket purchases and rescheduling in Switzerland.
problem Understanding how discounts influence train ticket buying and rescheduling behavior.
method Machine learning techniques, including causal machine learning, to analyze survey data.
result Increasing a discount rate by 1% increases the rescheduled trip share by 0.16% among always buyers.
Method generates intermediate domains to align source and target domains.
problem Challenges of domain adaptation with significant domain divergence.
method Progressive domain augmentation via domain interpolation and multiple subspace alignment.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple domain adaptation tasks.
Aims to eliminate domain bias in authentication without domain labels.
problem Authentication models are biased due to domain differences.
method Discover latent domains and eliminate domain difference alternately, using a meta-learning framework.
result Eliminates domain difference in authentication without domain labels.
Complementary Domain Adaptation and Generalization for Unsupervised Continual Domain Shift Learningcs.LG
CoDAG combines domain adaptation and generalization for unsupervised continual domain shift learning.
problem Acquiring knowledge in unsupervised continual domain shift learning.
method Complementary Domain Adaptation and Generalization (CoDAG) framework.
result CoDAG outperforms state-of-the-art models in all datasets and evaluation metrics.
DCASE 2022 Task 2 tackles domain shifts in ASD for machine condition monitoring.
problem Domain shifts change acoustic characteristics, affecting ASD performance.
method Domain generalization techniques to detect anomalies across unknown domains.
result Two types of domain generalization techniques were identified and analyzed.
Extends polydisk theorem to Hartogs domains over symmetric domains.
problem Rigidity phenomena in Riemannian manifolds.
method Extension of polydisk theorem to Hartogs domains over arbitrary symmetric domains.
result Dual of a Hartogs domain over a bounded symmetric domain admits no totally geodesic immersion into any compact Riemannian manifold.
Adaptive multi-domain learning reduces parameter count for efficient deep learning.
problem Different domains have varying complexity, leading to inefficient model training.
method Proposes adaptive parameterization to reduce model complexity without sacrificing performance.
result Efficient multi-domain learning solutions with far fewer parameters.
Recently multi-domain recommender systems have received much attention from researchers because they can solve cold-start problem as well as support for cross-selling. However, when applying into multi-domain items, although algorithms specifically addressing a single domain have many difficulties in capturing the spec…
Proposes novel losses for fine-grained categorical domain adaptation.
problem Fine-grained alignment of categories across domains in unsupervised domain adaptation.
method Joint category-domain classifier with adversarial training losses for both domain and category levels, and vicinal domain adaptation.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on benchmark datasets.
Improves unsupervised domain adaptation by mixing source and target domains.
problem Improves unsupervised domain adaptation by mixing source and target domains.
method Enforces training constraints across domains using mixup formulation and feature-level consistency regularizer.
result Significantly improves state-of-the-art performance on image classification and human activity recognition tasks.
We address the problem of domain generalization where a decision function is learned from the data of several related domains, and the goal is to apply it on an unseen domain successfully. It is assumed that there is plenty of labeled data available in source domains (also called as training domain), but no labeled dat…
MetFA aligns source and target domains for cross-device image classification.
problem Learning discriminative class boundaries across different domains.
method Distance metric guided feature alignment (MetFA) for domain-invariant and discriminative feature extraction.
result MetFA outperforms state-of-the-art methods in cross-device image classification.
In this paper, we propose a simple model referred as Contradistinguisher (CTDR) for unsupervised domain adaptation whose objective is to jointly learn to contradistinguish on unlabeled target domain in a fully unsupervised manner along with prior knowledge acquired by supervised learning on an entirely different domain…
CSD learns a common component for domain generalization, outperforming existing methods.
problem Training models to generalize across unseen domains.
method CSD decomposes the model into a common and specific component, discarding the latter.
result CSD outperforms state-of-the-art domain generalization methods.
Method learns domain-specific representations without supervision.
problem Domain generalization without labeled data.
method Hierarchical variational autoencoder approach.
result Model generalizes to unseen domains without domain supervision.
A new method uses normalizing flows for gradual domain adaptation.
problem Difficulty in domain adaptation when source and target domains have a large gap.
method Proposes using normalizing flows to learn a transformation from target to Gaussian mixture distribution.
result Improves classification performance and mitigates the problem of gradual self-training failure.
We propose a method to infer domain-specific models such as classifiers for unseen domains, from which no data are given in the training phase, without domain semantic descriptors. When training and test distributions are different, standard supervised learning methods perform poorly. Zero-shot domain adaptation attemp…
Study shows how many domains are needed for generalization, using a new measure called domain shattering dimension.
problem How many domains are needed for domain generalization?
method Introduced a new combinatorial measure called the domain shattering dimension to model domain sample complexity.
result Established a tight quantitative relationship between domain shattering dimension and classic VC dimension.
TAROT enhances robustness and domain adaptability with domain-invariant features.
problem Developing models robust to adversarial attacks across diverse domains.
method Derives a new generalization bound and proposes TAROT algorithm.
result TAROT outperforms state-of-the-art methods in accuracy and robustness.
A new model for imputing missing values in time series data across domains.
problem Imputing missing values in time series data across domains with domain shifts and high missing rates.
method A diffusion-based imputation model that integrates shared spectral components and domain-specific temporal structures, with cross-domain consistency alignment.
result Our model effectively handles missing values and domain shifts, outperforming existing methods.
We present CROSSGRAD, a method to use multi-domain training data to learn a classifier that generalizes to new domains. CROSSGRAD does not need an adaptation phase via labeled or unlabeled data, or domain features in the new domain. Most existing domain adaptation methods attempt to erase domain signals using technique…
We define self-adjoint extensions of the Hodge Laplacian on Lipschitz domains in Riemannian manifolds, corresponding to either the absolute or the relative boundary condition, and examine regularity properties of these operators' domains and form domains. We obtain results valid for general Lipschitz domains, and stron…
Graph-Relational Domain Adaptation (GRDA) adapts domains based on their graph structure.
problem Uniform alignment of domains ignores topological structures.
method Uses a domain graph to encode adjacency and a novel graph discriminator.
result Empirically shows improved generalization and domain information incorporation.
A cost-effective framework for gradual domain adaptation using multifidelity.
problem Degrading prediction performance due to large domain distance.
method Combines multifidelity and active domain adaptation.
result Improves prediction performance with reduced sample cost.
Proposes first method for continuously indexed domain adaptation.
problem Challenges of transferring knowledge between continuously indexed domains.
method Combines adversarial adaptation with a novel discriminator.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art methods on synthetic and real-world datasets.
Dynamic residual adapters improve performance across multiple latent domains without domain labels.
problem Overfitting to large domains and ignoring smaller ones in multi-domain learning.
method Dynamic residual adapters and augmentation strategies inspired by style transfer.
result Dynamic residual adapters significantly outperform standard models on multiple latent domains.
New method removes pseudo-label bias for unsupervised domain adaptation.
problem Class imbalance and distribution shift between domains.
method Implicit class-conditioned domain alignment without explicit pseudo-label optimization.
result Effective in handling within-domain class imbalance and between-domain class distribution shift.
Paper proposes MDAT to stabilize domain alignment in label-scarce settings.
problem Stable and comprehensive domain alignment in label-scarce settings.
method Max-margin Domain-Adversarial Training (MDAT) with Adversarial Reconstruction Network (ARN).
result MDAT stabilizes gradient reversing and achieves strong robustness to hyper-parameters.
Paper tackles robust domain adaptation without target domain data.
problem Learning domain invariant representations without target domain data.
method Integrates deep autoencoder and causal structure learning into a unified model.
result CAE learns causal representations using only source domain data.
Interventional domain adaptation improves feature transferability by removing spurious correlations.
problem Improper feature transferability due to spurious correlations in domain adaptation.
method Intervention strategy using unlabeled target data to generate counterfactual features and train discriminability invariance.
result Consistent performance improvements over state-of-the-art approaches in various domain adaptation tasks.