Framework for fair predictive models using resampled sensitive attributes.
problem Achieving fair predictions in machine learning models.
method Introducing a discrepancy functional and resampling sensitive attributes.
result Improved performance and equitable uncertainty quantification.
ART adapts class-wise resampling to improve imbalanced classification performance.
problem Class imbalance in classification tasks limits model performance.
method ART uses adaptive resampling based on class-wise performance metrics.
result ART consistently outperforms other methods on diverse benchmarks.
Kernel-based test detects differences between two conditional distributions efficiently.
problem Detecting differences between two conditional distributions efficiently.
method Kernel-based measure using nearest-neighbor graphs, consistent estimate with Gaussian limit.
result Asymptotic level control and universal consistency for detecting differences.
MULTIFIT tests independence between two random vectors using multiscale Fisher's test.
problem Detecting local dependence between two random vectors.
method MULTIFIT uses a resampling-free approach to test independence.
result MULTIFIT can easily handle large sample sizes and interpret dependency nature.
A new method reduces hyperparameter tuning evaluations by using sequential tests.
problem Time-consuming hyperparameter tuning in machine learning.
method Sequential Random Search (SQRS) extending regular random search.
result SQRS finds similarly well-performing parameter settings with fewer evaluations.
Study uses stacked generalization to improve fraud detection algorithms.
problem Improving performance of algorithms in imbalanced fraud data sets.
method Two-step process combining machine learning methods and cross-validation.
result Improved performance metrics on resampled fraud data sets.
This paper investigates bias in resampled backtests for financial portfolios, finding it often negligible.
problem Bias in resampled backtests for financial portfolio evaluation.
method Investigation of bias in rolling-window mean-variance portfolios using resampling techniques.
result The bias in Sharpe Ratio estimates from IID resampling is often a fraction of estimation noise, making it tolerable.
A new test method improves goodness-of-fit tests for copulas.
problem Developing robust tests for copula goodness-of-fit.
method Binary Expansion Approximation of UniformiTY (BEAUTY) and Binary Expansion Adaptive Symmetry Test (BEAST).
result The BEAST method improves empirical power against various alternatives.
This paper addresses GE estimation in non-standard settings using various resampling methods.
problem Biased GE estimates in non-standard settings like clustered data and concept drift.
method Tailored resampling methods for clustered, spatial, unequal sampling, concept drift, and hierarchically structured outcomes.
result Standard resampling methods often yield biased GE estimates in non-standard settings.
A common issue for classification in scientific research and industry is the existence of imbalanced classes. When sample sizes of different classes are imbalanced in training data, naively implementing a classification method often leads to unsatisfactory prediction results on test data. Multiple resampling techniques…
Identifying dependency in multivariate data is a common inference task that arises in numerous applications. However, existing nonparametric independence tests typically require computation that scales at least quadratically with the sample size, making it difficult to apply them to massive data. Moreover, resampling i…
The infinitesimal jackknife (IJ) has recently been applied to the random forest to estimate its prediction variance. These theorems were verified under a traditional random forest framework which uses classification and regression trees (CART) and bootstrap resampling. However, random forests using conditional inferenc…
We revisit resampling procedures for error estimation in binary classification in terms of U-statistics. In particular, we exploit the fact that the error rate estimator involving all learning-testing splits is a U-statistic. Thus, it has minimal variance among all unbiased estimators and is asymptotically normally dis…
Improved Lasso estimator speeds up variable selection.
problem Efficient variable selection in high-dimensional data.
method Stability principle-based generalized debiased Lasso.
result Significantly reduces computational cost of resampling-based methods.
Confidence measures for the generalization error are crucial when small training samples are used to construct classifiers. A common approach is to estimate the generalization error by resampling and then assume the resampled estimator follows a known distribution to form a confidence set [Kohavi 1995, Martin 1996,Yang…
Proposes a method combining CNFs and rejection-resampling for sampling from unnormalized densities.
problem Sampling from unnormalized probability densities, especially multimodal ones.
method Combines continuous normalizing flows with rejection-resampling steps based on importance weights.
result The method improves sampling accuracy and performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.
The paper develops methods for constructing confidence regions for regression functions in binary classification.
problem Building distribution-free confidence regions for regression functions in binary classification.
method Resampling test and empirical risk minimization approach for model classes with finite pseudo-dimensions and inverse Lipschitz parameterizations.
result Strong uniform consistency and exponential probably approximately correct bounds on the L2 sizes of the regions. Differentiable resampling improves particle filter performance.
problem Non-differentiability of traditional resampling in particle filters.
method Introduced a neural network resampler (particle transformer) trained with a likelihood-based loss function.
result Learned resampling outperforms traditional methods on synthetic and real-world tasks.
Reshuffling splits improves hyperparameter optimization's generalization performance.
problem Improving peak performance of machine learning models through better hyperparameter optimization.
method Reshuffling splits for every hyperparameter configuration improves generalization performance.
result Reshuffling leads to better generalization performance compared to fixed splits.
FSR efficiently discovers significant patterns with few resampled datasets.
problem Mining significant patterns in transactional data, especially subgroups.
method FSR uses resampling to bound the supremum deviation of quality statistics, providing rigorous guarantees on false discoveries.
result FSR effectively discovers significant subgroups with a small number of resampled datasets.
A new differentiable resampling method for Monte Carlo simulations.
problem Improving the efficiency and differentiability of resampling in Monte Carlo simulations.
method Proposes a diffusion model surrogate for resampling, proving consistency and outperforming existing methods.
result The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art differentiable resampling methods on various benchmarks.
In real-world classification problems, the class balance in the training dataset does not necessarily reflect that of the test dataset, which can cause significant estimation bias. If the class ratio of the test dataset is known, instance re-weighting or resampling allows systematical bias correction. However, learning…
A common question being raised in automatic speech recognition (ASR) evaluations is how reliable is an observed word error rate (WER) improvement comparing two ASR systems, where statistical hypothesis testing and confidence interval (CI) can be utilized to tell whether this improvement is real or only due to random ch…
Develops methods to learn centre groupings from summary statistics in multi-centre studies.
problem Violation of homogeneity of parameters across centres in multi-centre studies.
method Clusters-of-Centres (CoC) algorithm that merges centres based on multivariate Cochran-type tests.
result Golden-partition recovery as the number of rounds grows with sample size.
The abstract explores connections between reinforcement learning, scaling, and diffusion.
problem Aligning reinforcement learning with human feedback and scaling techniques.
method Clarifying connections between reinforcement learning, scaling, and diffusion.
result Introducing a resampling approach for alignment and reward-directed diffusion models.
In many real-world binary classification tasks (e.g. detection of certain objects from images), an available dataset is imbalanced, i.e., it has much less representatives of a one class (a minor class), than of another. Generally, accurate prediction of the minor class is crucial but it's hard to achieve since there is…
This chapter is dedicated to the assessment and performance estimation of machine learning (ML) algorithms, a topic that is equally important to the construction of these algorithms, in particular in the context of cyberphysical security design. The literature is full of nonparametric methods to estimate a statistic fr…
We introduce Universum learning for multiclass problems and propose a novel formulation for multiclass universum SVM (MU-SVM). We also propose an analytic span bound for model selection with almost 2-4x faster computation times than standard resampling techniques. We empirically demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed…
A new method improves super learner validation efficiency.
problem Improving the efficiency of super learner validation.
method Bootstrap Bias Corrected Cross Validation applied to Super Learning.
result Bootstrap Bias Corrected Cross Validation proved efficient and cost-effective.
A new method uses denoising diffusion models to improve seismic data interpolation.
problem Improving the accuracy of seismic data interpolation to enhance imaging and interpretation.
method The approach combines denoising diffusion probabilistic models with coherence-corrected resampling strategies.
result The proposed method achieves superior performance and generalization to various missing patterns and noise levels.
fastml guards against data leakage in automated machine learning.
problem Data leakage during preprocessing before resampling inflates apparent performance.
method fastml uses guarded resampling to re-estimate preprocessing inside each resample.
result Guarded resampling reduces apparent performance compared to global preprocessing.
Efficiently clusters survival curves without computationally intensive resampling.
problem Identifying clusters of survival curves efficiently and scalably.
method Log-rank test combined with k-means clustering.
result Achieves comparable results to bootstrap-based methods but with improved efficiency.
New law predicts first extinction in resampling processes.
problem Intractable extinction times in resampling processes.
method Modeling multinomial updates as independent square-root diffusions.
result Closed-form law for first-extinction time with linear cost.
This paper tackles noisy multi-objective optimization with adaptive resampling using bootstrapping.
problem Challenges in optimizing noisy multi-objective problems, especially trade-offs between exploration and exploitation.
method Adaptive resampling with bootstrapping to estimate probability of dominance and improve precision.
result Demonstrates the efficiency of the resampling approach in NSGA-II algorithm under multiple noise variations.
This work proves convergence of adaptive resampling for random Fourier features.
problem Sampling Fourier frequencies well for high-dimensional data.
method Data adaptive resampling of Fourier frequencies, asymptotically optimal.
result Proves convergence of adaptive resampling method for regression and classification problems.
Class imbalance problem is commonly faced while developing machine learning models for real-life issues. Due to this problem, the fitted model tends to be biased towards the majority class data, which leads to lower precision, recall, AUC, F1, G-mean score. Several researches have been done to tackle this problem, most…
Generates diverse images by resampling specific parts while maintaining global consistency.
problem Creating diverse images while maintaining global consistency in certain parts.
method Developed a new network architecture, training procedure, and resampling algorithm.
result Achieved low distortion block-resampling with spatially stochastic networks.
New tests for binary classification regression functions without distribution assumptions.
problem Testing regression functions in binary classification without distributional assumptions.
method Conditional kernel mean embeddings and resampling-based framework.
result Distribution-free hypothesis tests with exact type I error control.
DAIS improves AIS by resampling, avoiding gradient issues.
problem Low effective sample size in DAIS.
method DAIS with resampling step to improve efficiency.
result Resampling step avoids gradient variance issues.
Study shows resampling can drastically alter PCA results.
problem Stability and sensitivity of PCA under data resampling.
method Analyzed resampling sensitivity of high-dimensional PCA.
result PCA's principal components become asymptotically orthogonal when resampling is significant.
Study compares resampling methods for rare event prediction in longitudinal studies.
problem Predicting rare events in longitudinal follow-up studies.
method Comparison of resampling methods to improve standard regression models.
result Effect of sampling rate on model predictive performance.
Toy model study shows resampling/reweighting can improve feature learning in imbalanced classification.
problem Improving feature learning in imbalanced classification problems.
method High-dimensional toy model with replica method, class-wise resampling/reweighting, and simplified model.
result No resampling/reweighting can sometimes give best feature learning performance.
Graphical lasso models ASR utterance dependencies for consistent WER estimation.
problem Modeling dependent structure among ASR utterances for accurate significance analysis.
method Graphical lasso for dependency modeling, followed by blockwise bootstrap resampling.
result Statistically consistent variance estimator of WER under mild conditions.
Resampling outperforms reweighting for correcting biased data in machine learning models.
problem Correcting sampling bias in machine learning models trained on biased data sets.
method Compared resampling and reweighting techniques, focusing on their performance with stochastic gradient algorithms.
result Resampling outperforms reweighting when combined with stochastic gradient algorithms.
We propose a test of independence of two multivariate random vectors, given a sample from the underlying population. Our approach, which we call MINT, is based on the estimation of mutual information, whose decomposition into joint and marginal entropies facilitates the use of recently-developed efficient entropy estim…
Improved particle filters for estimating model parameters using differentiable resampling.
problem Inability to differentiate sampling and resampling steps in particle filters.
method Extended reparameterisation trick to include stochastic input, enabling differentiation. Used p-MCMC and NUTS for parameter estimation.
result NUTS improves mixing of Markov chain and produces more accurate results in less time.
Bayesian neural networks improve reliability in multimedia forensics.
problem Challenges with out-of-distribution data in multimedia authentication.
method Proposes Bayesian neural networks (BNN) for forensic tasks.
result BNNs provide distributions for better reliability and out-of-distribution detection.
An approximate method for conducting resampling in Lasso, the ℓ1 penalized linear regression, in a semi-analytic manner is developed, whereby the average over the resampled datasets is directly computed without repeated numerical sampling, thus enabling an inference free of the statistical fluctuations due to sam…