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48 results for search recall

Face recall is a basic human cognitive process performed routinely, e.g., when meeting someone and determining if we have met that person before. Assisting a subject during face recall by suggesting candidate faces can be challenging. One of the reasons is that the search space - the face space - is quite large and lac…

2016-04-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Efficiently selects nearest neighbors for labeling to speed up active learning.

problem Intractable active learning and search for large-scale unlabeled data.
method Restricts candidate pool to nearest neighbors of labeled set.
result Achieved similar performance to global approach but reduced computational cost by up to 3 orders of magnitude.

New algorithm improves similarity graph construction for nearest neighbor search.

problem Improving nearest neighbor search performance with more effective similarity graphs.
method Probabilistic model of a similarity graph learned through reinforcement learning.
result Higher recall rates achieved for the same number of distance computations.

A new method improves maximum inner product search by locally decomposing residual vectors.

problem Maximum inner product search efficiency and accuracy.
method Local Orthogonal Decomposition (LOD) combined with multiscale quantization.
result LOD consistently achieves higher recall than previous methods under the same bitrates.

DIAL learns embeddings to maximize recall and accuracy for entity resolution.

problem Low resource settings for entity resolution with large Cartesian product search space.
method DIAL uses an Index-By-Committee framework with pre-trained transformer language models to jointly learn embeddings for recall and accuracy.
result DIAL achieves high precision, recall, and efficiency on benchmark datasets.

SessionPath improves category suggestions in type-ahead search.

problem Improving precision and recall in eCommerce type-ahead suggestions.
method SessionPath uses session embeddings and a probability distribution model to predict facets.
result SessionPath outperforms count-based and neural models in eCommerce shops.

Improved person detection in occluded conditions with AOS images.

problem Inaccurate classification of partially occluded people, animals, or objects.
method Combining multi-perspective images captured by Airborne Optical Sectioning (AOS) to achieve better precision and recall.
result Precision/recall of 96/93% for automated person detection.

Study compares variable selection methods for model evaluation and search.

problem Understanding underlying mechanisms in scientific questions through variable selection.
method Comprehensive comparison of BIC and AIC for model evaluation and various search methods (exhaustive, greedy, LASSO path, stochastic search) for model space exploration.
result Exhaustive search BIC and stochastic search BIC outperform other methods in small and large model spaces, respectively, improving correct identification rate and reducing false discovery rate.

CwA optimizes search performance by jointly learning a balanced database partition and a neural probing function.

problem Suboptimal search performance due to mismatched database and query distributions.
method CwA jointly learns a balanced database partition and a neural probing function to optimize search performance directly for the query distribution.
result CwA achieves up to 4.7x throughput over state-of-the-art methods at equal recall.

Norm-range partition improves MIPS search efficiency by reducing query complexity.

problem Efficiently searching for maximum inner product in large datasets.
method Norm-range partition technique that divides datasets into sub-datasets with similar norms and builds independent hash indexes.
result Significantly reduces the number of probed buckets for LSH-based MIPS algorithms.

OASIS optimizes ER evaluation by reducing labelling needs with optimal sampling.

problem Extreme class imbalance in ER leads to high labelling costs.
method OASIS uses a biased instrumental distribution and Bayesian updates to focus on unlabelled items.
result OASIS estimates F-measure, precision, recall converge to true values with significant labelling reductions.

Develops a method to find costly high-confidence errors in black box models.

problem Finding rare high-confidence errors missed by random sampling.
method Adversarial perturbation-guided search technique to find errors at rates greater than expected given model confidence.
result Our Adversarial Distance search discovers high-confidence errors at a rate greater than expected given model confidence.

An attractive approach for fast search in image databases is binary hashing, where each high-dimensional, real-valued image is mapped onto a low-dimensional, binary vector and the search is done in this binary space. Finding the optimal hash function is difficult because it involves binary constraints, and most approac…

2015-01-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Producing overlapping schemes is a major issue in clustering. Recent proposed overlapping methods relies on the search of an optimal covering and are based on different metrics, such as Euclidean distance and I-Divergence, used to measure closeness between observations. In this paper, we propose the use of another meas…

2012-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Sublinear memory sketch finds nearest neighbors in streaming data.

problem Finding nearest neighbors in large datasets with limited memory.
method Combines LSH, online kernel density estimation, and compressed sensing to achieve sublinear memory.
result Achieves sublinear memory performance on stable queries, reporting nearest neighbors efficiently.

This paper introduces a new method to train normalizing flows using precision-recall divergences.

problem Training generative models with mode dropping and low-quality samples.
method Introduces PR-divergences and proposes a novel generative model to minimize precision-recall trade-offs.
result Normalizing flows can be trained to achieve specific precision-recall trade-offs using PR-divergences.

SOLAR improves search efficiency and accuracy with sparse, orthogonal embeddings.

problem Bottleneck of indexing large dense vectors and NNS for query efficiency and accuracy.
method Proposes SOLAR embeddings: sparse, orthogonal, learned, and random vectors across multiple GPUs.
result Successfully trains 500K dimensional SOLAR embeddings for 1.6M books and multi-label classification.

DINOSAUR improves retrieval by accounting for embedding uncertainty in recommender systems.

problem Retrieval bias towards popular items due to noisy embeddings.
method Samples multiple embeddings per item and queries with sampled embeddings to account for uncertainty.
result Improves coverage of long-tail niche content without sacrificing recall.

Revises precision-recall curves for generative models.

problem Improves evaluation of generative models by distinguishing mode-collapse and quality issues.
method Generalizes PR curve formulation to arbitrary measures, exposes a bridge to error rates, proposes a new algorithm to approximate precision-recall curves.
result Demonstrates the interest of the new formulation over the original approach on multi-modal datasets.

Recommender system improves recall of omitted foods in online dietary surveys.

problem Improving accuracy of online dietary assessment surveys through recall assistance.
method Developed a recommender algorithm to remind respondents of omitted foods based on past survey data.
result The recommender system captures more omitted foods than hand-coded prompts, but with lower precision.

The study formalizes temporal precision and recall for anomaly detection in sequences.

problem Insufficient understanding of precision and recall in sequential anomaly detection.
method Formalized temporal precision and recall measures, developed time-tolerant confusion matrices, and demonstrated statistical significance.
result Precision and recall may overestimate performance with temporal tolerance.

Transformers can store facts efficiently using associative memories.

problem Understanding how transformers store and recall factual information.
method Proved linear scaling of storage capacities for linear and MLP associative memories, introduced a synthetic task, and analyzed gradient flow.
result Shallow transformers can achieve near optimal storage capacity for factual recall tasks using associative memories.

Paper tackles imbalanced binary classification by optimizing precision and recall directly.

problem Imbalanced binary classification where standard accuracy is misleading.
method Exact constrained reformulations for precision and recall optimization.
result ERO framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods on multiple datasets.

LLMs can memorize economic data and recall exact values before their training cutoff.

problem Evaluating the trustworthiness of LLMs' economic forecasts during their training period.
method Demonstrated through counterfactual forecasting and analysis of LLMs' recall ability.
result LLMs have memorized economic and financial data, leading to recall-level accuracy before their knowledge cutoff.

RAGuard improves safety in LLMs for offshore wind maintenance.

problem Conventional LLMs fail with specialised or unexpected scenarios in offshore wind maintenance.
method Integrates safety-critical documents alongside technical manuals in RAG framework.
result RAGuard increases safety recall from almost 0% to over 50% while maintaining technical recall above 60%.

Binary hashing is a well-known approach for fast approximate nearest-neighbor search in information retrieval. Much work has focused on affinity-based objective functions involving the hash functions or binary codes. These objective functions encode neighborhood information between data points and are often inspired by…

2016-02-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a human-algorithm approach to reduce medical device recall risk and workload.

problem High recall rate and regulatory workload in FDA's 510(k) pathway.
method Developed machine learning models to estimate recall risk and proposed a data-driven clearance policy.
result Conservative evaluation of policy shows a 32.9% improvement in recall rate and 40.5% reduction in workload.

Framework for precise recall control in spatial conflation tasks.

problem Precise recall control in large-scale spatial conflation tasks to avoid downstream analytics failures and excessive manual review.
method End-to-end framework using equigrid bounding-box filter, CSR representation, neural ranker, and inverse-variance weighted ensemble of threshold estimators.
result Achieves exact recall with sub-percent variance over tens of millions of geometry pairs, runs on a single TPU v3 core.

A new method for generating replay samples on the fly, optimizing for not forgetting.

problem Addressing the issue of forgetting in neural networks.
method Generates auxiliary samples on the fly using the model's implicit memory, specialized to each real training batch.
result Optimizing for not forgetting leads to more efficient and scalable generation of specialized samples.

ARMS automates fraud detection rules to improve efficiency and accuracy.

problem Maintaining effective fraud detection rules over time and reducing manual review.
method ARMS uses heuristic search and a user-defined loss-function to optimize and manage rules.
result ARMS can maintain original systems' performance with only a fraction of the rules.

The paper critiques and expands on common evaluation metrics in machine learning.

problem The common evaluation metrics like Precision, Recall, F-Measure, and Rand Accuracy are biased and misleading.
method The paper introduces new measures like Informedness, Markedness, and Correlation to better reflect the quality of predictions.
result A system that performs worse in terms of Informedness can appear better using common measures like Precision and Recall.

Paper introduces a new evaluation framework for generative models using Rényi divergences.

problem Lack of tools to diagnose and assess generative models' performance.
method Develops a general evaluation framework using Rényi divergences to measure precision and recall.
result Extends existing techniques to continuous and discrete models with efficient algorithms.