SMART-FAN-Lasso fine-tunes neural networks for high-dimensional nonparametric regression.
problem Fine-tuning neural networks for high-dimensional nonparametric regression with variable selection.
method Source-model-augmented residual tuning (SMART) framework for neural Lasso.
result SMART-FAN-Lasso achieves statistical acceleration over single-task learning under precise conditions.
We prove that the n th pure braid group of a nonorientable surface (closed or with boundary, but different from RP2) is residually 2-finite. Consequently, this group is residually nilpotent. The key ingredient in the closed case is the notion of p-almost direct product, which is a generalization of the notion of almost…
Residual networks (ResNets) have recently achieved state-of-the-art on challenging computer vision tasks. We introduce Resnet in Resnet (RiR): a deep dual-stream architecture that generalizes ResNets and standard CNNs and is easily implemented with no computational overhead. RiR consistently improves performance over R…
Deep learning for HJB PDEs using synthetic data and residual minimization.
problem Solving Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDEs for optimal control problems.
method Gradient-augmented synthetic dataset for supervised learning, residual minimization.
result Improves accuracy and efficiency of deep learning for HJB PDEs.
New method learns PDE solutions from low-fidelity data.
problem Challenges in learning PDE surrogates with scarce data.
method Flow matching in infinite-dimensional space with conditional neural operators.
result Accurately learns PDE solutions across different resolutions and fidelities.
New attacks show data augmentation may not improve privacy.
problem Measuring privacy risk in models trained with data augmentation.
method Formulated membership inference as a set classification problem, designed input permutation invariant features.
result Proposed approach universally outperforms original methods on models trained with data augmentation.
ResMem improves model generalization by explicitly memorizing residuals.
problem Improving model generalization in neural networks.
method ResMem algorithm that augments a model with a k-nearest neighbor based regressor fitted to residuals.
result ResMem consistently improves test set generalization across various benchmarks.
Enhances anomaly detection in high dimensions with pretrained networks.
problem Difficult to characterize anomaly in high-dimensional data.
method Residual adaptation to adjust pretrained networks for anomaly detection.
result Significantly outperforms existing methods on anomaly detection benchmarks.
We present the Video Ladder Network (VLN) for efficiently generating future video frames. VLN is a neural encoder-decoder model augmented at all layers by both recurrent and feedforward lateral connections. At each layer, these connections form a lateral recurrent residual block, where the feedforward connection repres…
GT-DDP optimizer trains residual networks using game theory.
problem Applying DDP to residual networks.
method Game-theoretic DDP optimizer for residual networks.
result Improved training convergence and variance reduction.
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.
Paraphrasing exemplifies the ability to abstract semantic content from surface forms. Recent work on automatic paraphrasing is dominated by methods leveraging Machine Translation (MT) as an intermediate step. This contrasts with humans, who can paraphrase without being bilingual. This work proposes to learn paraphrasin…
Enhances feature augmentation for high-dimensional learning.
problem Correlated high-dimensional measurements require dimensionality reduction.
method Augment features with factors extracted from design matrices and their transformations.
result Significantly weakens correlations between input variables, improving interpretability and numerical stability.
Synthetic augmentation helps but not always in imbalanced learning.
problem Imbalanced learning causes poor performance on rare classes.
method Developed a statistical framework for synthetic augmentation in imbalanced learning.
result Synthetic augmentation is not always beneficial and depends on the imbalance regime.
Deep learning models brain deformations based on atrophy and growth data.
problem Simulating brain deformations due to atrophy and growth.
method Differentiable biomechanical model using deep learning.
result Trained model can rapidly simulate new brain deformations with minimal residuals.
Text embedding representing natural language documents in a semantic vector space can be used for document retrieval using nearest neighbor lookup. In order to study the feasibility of neural models specialized for retrieval in a semantically meaningful way, we suggest the use of the Stanford Question Answering Dataset…
The paper proves geometric and spectral alignment for deep neural networks.
problem Understanding the singular spectra of deep neural network layers.
method Proves deterministic quotient-geometric estimates for singular spectra of Frobenius-normalized layer factors.
result Exact power-law spectra form a trace-normalized Cartan orbit under Frobenius normalization.
A GPU-based workflow for building physics emulators of hypersonic flows
problem Resolving complex physical phenomena in hypersonic flows
method Fully GPU-based workflow integrating accelerated data generation and neural emulators
result Physics emulators remain reliable beyond their training distribution
Hybrid method improves SABR implied volatility approximation.
problem Improving SABR implied volatility approximation.
method Combining analytical structure with machine learning, using geometric features and residual correction.
result Hybrid model improves accuracy and robustness compared to analytical and neural-network approaches.
A method for estimating nonlinear regression errors and their distributions without performing regression is presented. Assuming continuity of the modeling function the variance is given in terms of conditional probabilities extracted from the data. For N data points the computational demand is N2. Comparing the predic…
A simple strategy prevents negative transfer in transfer learning.
problem Negative transfer in transfer learning where source representations harm target performance.
method Residual feature integration with a trainable target-side encoder.
result The method provably prevents negative transfer with theoretical guarantees.
RFC enhances humanoid control to imitate complex human motions.
problem Dynamics mismatch between humanoid models and real humans.
method Residual Force Control (RFC) augments control policies with external forces.
result RFC outperforms state-of-the-art methods in convergence speed and motion quality.
Accurate on-device keyword spotting (KWS) with low false accept and false reject rate is crucial to customer experience for far-field voice control of conversational agents. It is particularly challenging to maintain low false reject rate in real world conditions where there is (a) ambient noise from external sources s…
Improved ResNets and DenseNets models for better feature reuse.
problem Diminishing feature reuse in ResNets and DenseNets.
method ResNEsts and DenseNEsts are block-based DNN models with improved representation guarantees.
result Wide ResNEsts with bottleneck blocks can guarantee desirable training properties.
A new training method speeds up ResNet training by 3x with minimal accuracy loss.
problem Training ResNets is slow due to dependencies between modules.
method Serial-parallel hybrid training strategy with data augmentation and downsampling.
result Significant speedup over traditional methods with comparable accuracy.
Recent studies on automatic neural architectures search have demonstrated significant performance, competitive to or even better than hand-crafted neural architectures. However, most of the existing network architecture tend to use residual, parallel structures and concatenation block between shallow and deep features …
Noisy Feature Mixup improves model robustness with noise-perturbed convex combinations.
problem Improving model robustness against data perturbations.
method Noise-perturbed convex combinations of pairs of data points in input and feature space.
result Improved model robustness and favorable trade-offs between accuracy and robustness.
Method solves nonconvex constrained optimization problems with a new augmented Lagrangian approach.
problem Nonconvex composite functional constraints with inequality constraints.
method First-order augmented Lagrangian method with smoothed prox-linear reformulation.
result Explicit convergence rates for the proposed method in terms of KKT residual.
We present a primal-dual algorithmic framework to obtain approximate solutions to a prototypical constrained convex optimization problem, and rigorously characterize how common structural assumptions affect the numerical efficiency. Our main analysis technique provides a fresh perspective on Nesterov's excessive gap te…
Heavy Lasso improves robustness in high-dimensional linear regression with heavy-tailed errors.
problem Challenges of classical Lasso in handling heavy-tailed noise and outliers.
method Data-augmented soft-thresholding with Student's t-distribution loss.
result Heavy Lasso achieves comparable rates to Huber loss under theoretical bounds.
Scattering GCN improves graph neural networks by filtering oversmoothing.
problem Oversmoothing in GCNs limits their ability to distinguish graph nodes.
method Augmenting GCNs with geometric scattering transforms and residual convolutions.
result Scattering GCN outperforms GAT in semi-supervised node classification.
We focus on solving the univariate times series point forecasting problem using deep learning. We propose a deep neural architecture based on backward and forward residual links and a very deep stack of fully-connected layers. The architecture has a number of desirable properties, being interpretable, applicable withou…
New algorithm tackles stochastic optimization with inequality constraints.
problem Stochastic optimization with inequality constraints in various applications.
method Active-set stochastic sequential quadratic programming (StoSQP) with a differentiable exact augmented Lagrangian.
result Global convergence for any initialization, KKT residuals converge to zero almost surely.
Proposes a new model to identify unknown counterfactual outcomes for continuous variables.
problem Counterfactual inference for continuous outcomes with strong assumptions.
method Curvature Sensitivity Model to relax assumptions and provide informative bounds.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of the Curvature Sensitivity Model in identifying counterfactual outcomes.
Paper defines AI-specific loss reconstruction problem and introduces CER framework.
problem Reconstructing AI-generated losses, especially in agentic systems.
method CER framework: C (control boundary), E (evidence reconstruction), R (insurance response).
result Defines AI-specific reconstruction problem and operationalizes it.
New methods use ML predictions to improve statistical inference.
problem Improving statistical inference using machine learning predictions.
method Prediction-Augmented Trees (PART, PAQ) for reliable statistical analysis.
result PART and PAQ outperform existing methods in various datasets.
Abstract: Non-residually finite hyperbolic groups imply non-residually finite rigid hyperbolic groups.
problem Existence of non-residually finite hyperbolic groups
method Direct implication
result Existence of non-residually finite rigid hyperbolic groups
Residual finiteness is known to be an important property of groups appearing in combinatorial group theory and low dimensional topology. In a recent work [2] residual finiteness of quandles was introduced, and it was proved that free quandles and knot quandles are residually finite. In this paper, we extend these resul…
In this note, residual finiteness of quandles is defined and investigated. It is proved that free quandles and knot quandles of tame knots are residually finite and Hopfian. Residual finiteness of quandles arising from residually finite groups (conjugation, core and Alexander quandles) is established. Further, residual…
Every non-trivial knot group is fully residually perfect.
problem Understanding the residual properties of knot groups.
method Analyzing the residual properties of knot groups using group theory.
result Every non-trivial knot group is fully residually perfect.
New methods for convex optimization with locally Lipschitz gradient, achieving faster convergence.
problem Optimization problems with locally Lipschitz continuous gradient.
method Accelerated proximal gradient (APG) methods and proximal augmented Lagrangian method.
result Achieved faster convergence rates for convex optimization problems with locally Lipschitz gradient.
Residual flows are shown to approximate MMD well.
problem Lack of theoretical understanding of normalizing flows' expressiveness.
method Proved residual flows are universal approximators in MMD.
result Residual flows can approximate MMD with a bounded number of blocks.
Let p be a prime. In this paper, we classify the geometric 3-manifolds whose fundamental groups are virtually residually p. Let M=M3 be a virtually fibered 3-manifold. It is well-known that G=π1(M) is residually solvable and even residually finite solvable. We prove that G is always virtually residually p…
Heart disease is one of the most common diseases causing morbidity and mortality. Electrocardiogram (ECG) has been widely used for diagnosing heart diseases for its simplicity and non-invasive property. Automatic ECG analyzing technologies are expected to reduce human working load and increase diagnostic efficacy. Howe…
Researchers identify critical protein residues using advanced graph theory.
problem Identifying essential residues in proteins for function.
method Learning Random Geometric Graphs (RGG) with Cramer's V correlation and organic thresholding.
result Advanced RGG methods accurately identify critical residues compared to existing techniques.
Defines Wodzicki residue using groupoids and fibered distributions.
problem Defining and understanding the Wodzicki residue in noncommutative geometry.
method Using groupoid language and filtered manifolds, defining the residue and showing its properties.
result The groupoidal residue is a trace on pseudodifferential operators and matches the usual residue in certain cases.
In this work we prove a Baum-Bott type residue theorem for flags of holomorphic foliations. We prove some relations between the residues of the flag and the residues of their correspondent foliations. We define the Nash residue for flags and we give a partial answer to the Baum-Bott type rationality conjecture in this …
We revisit residual algorithms in both model-free and model-based reinforcement learning settings. We propose the bidirectional target network technique to stabilize residual algorithms, yielding a residual version of DDPG that significantly outperforms vanilla DDPG in the DeepMind Control Suite benchmark. Moreover, we…