A new method accelerates deep neural network training using minimal margin score.
problem Training deep neural networks is computationally expensive.
method Introduces minimal margin score (MMS) for selecting samples.
result Significant acceleration in training deep neural networks.
This paper improves volatility forecasting using dynamic subset selection in genetic programming.
problem Improving accuracy of implied volatility forecasting.
method Dynamic training-subset selection methods applied to genetic programming.
result Dynamic subset selection improves predictive accuracy of genetic programming models.
SIFT reduces training time by selecting samples with approximate losses.
problem Reducing training time by selecting samples with large approximate losses.
method Developed SIFT which uses early exiting to obtain approximate losses with intermediate layer representations for sample selection.
result SIFT achieves significant gains in training time and number of backpropagation steps without optimized implementation.
MICO uses mutual information co-training to improve selective search efficiency.
problem Efficiently search and route unseen queries in large-scale search systems.
method Mutual Information Co-training framework for selective search with minimal supervision.
result Significantly improves performance on multiple metrics of selective search.
PINNACLE optimizes point selection for PINNs, improving accuracy.
problem Challenges in selecting points for training Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs).
method Introduces PINNACLE, an algorithm that jointly optimizes collocation and experimental points selection, adjusting point proportions dynamically.
result PINNACLE outperforms existing methods in forward, inverse, and transfer learning problems.
A new method selects clean samples to train DNNs with noisy labels.
problem Training deep neural networks with noisy labeled data.
method Adaptive k-set selection to choose clean samples at each epoch.
result The method guarantees performance with a theoretical bound on regret.
Unified Bayesian Optimization framework for model selection balancing effectiveness and training efficiency.
problem Balancing model effectiveness and training efficiency in machine learning model selection.
method Proposes a unified Bayesian Optimization framework to jointly optimize model effectiveness and training efficiency.
result Models selected using the proposed framework significantly improve training efficiency while maintaining strong effectiveness.
Data selection methods, such as active learning and core-set selection, are useful tools for machine learning on large datasets. However, they can be prohibitively expensive to apply in deep learning because they depend on feature representations that need to be learned. In this work, we show that we can greatly improv…
DRCS selects a subset of data to minimize worst-case test error under covariate shift.
problem Selecting a subset of data that performs well across different deployment scenarios when data distributions differ.
method DRCS derives an upper bound for the worst-case test error assuming covariate shift and selects instances to minimize this bound.
result DRCS achieves distributionally robust training instance selection.
Proposes a Siamese NN for algorithm selection focusing on alike performing instances.
problem Lack of effective meta-features for algorithm selection via meta-learning.
method Siamese Neural Network architecture with 'Algorithm-Performance Personas' concept.
result Proposed metric outperforms standard performance metrics in training sample selection.
The paper develops an algorithm to select a subset of training data for efficient regression models.
problem Designing an efficient algorithm for selecting a subset of training data to train regression models quickly without sacrificing accuracy.
method The paper tackles this problem by formulating it as a minimization of training loss with respect to both trainable parameters and subset of training data, subject to error bounds on the validation set. They use a novel problem formulation and represent it with simplified constraints using the dual of the original training problem. They then develop SELCON, an efficient majorization-minimization algorithm for data subset selection, which admits an approximation guarantee.
result The experiments show that SELCON trades off accuracy and efficiency more effectively than the current state-of-the-art.
BWS selects best window subsets for efficient data pruning.
problem Challenges in selecting subsets of large datasets for neural network training.
method Best Window Selection (BWS) by choosing optimal window intervals from ordered sample scores.
result BWS outperforms other methods across various selection ratios and datasets.
Measuring domain relevance of data and identifying or selecting well-fit domain data for machine translation (MT) is a well-studied topic, but denoising is not yet. Denoising is concerned with a different type of data quality and tries to reduce the negative impact of data noise on MT training, in particular, neural MT…
Prophet predicts device qualities for FL to reduce training latency.
problem Bad candidate-selection leads to large training and reporting latency in FL.
method Each device predicts its own training and reporting phases using LSTM. The algorithm is implemented with DRL.
result The proposed approach outperforms reactive algorithms in real-world experiments.
ES improves training efficiency by dynamically selecting data samples.
problem Efficiently selecting informative data samples for faster learning.
method Evolved Sampling (ES) dynamically selects data samples based on loss dynamics and differences.
result ES achieves significant training acceleration without compromising model performance.
Proposes a sample selection algorithm for fair and robust AI training.
problem Balancing fairness and robustness in AI models, especially with corrupted data.
method Formulates and solves a combinatorial optimization problem for unbiased sample selection, proposing a greedy algorithm.
result Improves fairness and robustness compared to state-of-the-art techniques, both synthetically and on real datasets.
A new method selects the best feature selection technique for datasets.
problem Selecting the best feature selection method for unseen datasets.
method Data synthesis, meta features, fuzzy similarity, classification model training.
result Successfully recommended the best feature selection method for five out of eight datasets.
New method selects data points for better model performance.
problem Balancing input coverage and model utility in selective prediction.
method Study training dynamics to reject inputs with unstable predictions.
result State-of-the-art selective prediction performance achieved without model modifications.
CAMS selects best pre-trained model for unlabeled data points.
problem Efficiently utilizing pre-trained models and unlabeled data.
method Contextual active model selection algorithm with two components: contextual model selection and active query.
result CAMS requires less than 10% labeling effort compared to existing methods, achieving similar or better accuracy.
Supervised machine learning based state-of-the-art computer vision techniques are in general data hungry and pose the challenges of not having adequate computing resources and of high costs involved in human labeling efforts. Training data subset selection and active learning techniques have been proposed as possible s…
A new method selects training samples for fine-tuning using validation set inference.
problem Selecting training examples for fine-tuning with limited target data.
method Invert train-validation roles; select samples affecting most predictions.
result Our method achieves lower test log-loss than state-of-the-art approaches.
PEAKS selects key training examples incrementally based on prediction error and kernel similarity.
problem Dynamic data selection in deep learning models.
method Prediction Error Anchored by Kernel Similarity (PEAKS) for incremental data selection.
result PEAKS outperforms existing selection strategies and yields better performance returns as training data size grows.
Designs an online selective sampling approach for choosing which model to use.
problem Active model selection for pre-trained classifiers in unlabeled data streams.
method Online selective sampling approach to query and label examples.
result High probability of outputting the best model with minimal label queries.
In Dynamic Ensemble Selection (DES) techniques, only the most competent classifiers are selected to classify a given query sample. Hence, the key issue in DES is how to estimate the competence of each classifier in a pool to select the most competent ones. In order to deal with this issue, we proposed a novel dynamic e…
Spectrum selectively trains LLMs based on SNR to save resources.
problem Efficiently training large language models with limited resources.
method Targeting layer modules based on SNR for selective training.
result Spectrum achieves similar performance to full fine-tuning but with reduced VRAM usage.
FairBatch optimizes model fairness without changing data or model training.
problem Improving model fairness without altering data or model training.
method Bilevel optimization with an outer optimizer for adaptive batch selection.
result FairBatch improves model fairness without changing data or model training.
A new feature selection method for semi-supervised learning with imperfect labels.
problem Feature selection for semi-supervised learning with imperfectly labeled data.
method Genetic algorithm for proposing feature subsets, probabilistic error model for mislabeling, multi-class C-bound selection criterion.
result Empirical results show the effectiveness of the proposed framework compared to state-of-the-art approaches.
Data selection boosts fact memorization in language models.
problem Language models struggle to accurately memorize factual knowledge.
method Formalizes fact memorization, proposes data selection schemes based on training loss.
result Data selection boosts fact accuracy to model capacity and improves performance.
New method stabilizes model selection with theoretical guarantees.
problem Stability of model selection methods in the face of noisy or incomplete data.
method Combines bagging with an 'inflated' argmax operation to select a stable set of models.
result Stable model selection with high probability of overlap after removing any data point.
This work improves Gaussian process model selection for large datasets.
problem Prohibitively high computational cost in Gaussian process model selection.
method Linear-time scaling and computational uncertainty tradeoff.
result Computation-aware Gaussian processes can be trained on large datasets efficiently.
Scalable feature selection improves GBDT model training speed.
problem Efficiently selecting features for GBDT models in high-dimensional settings.
method Developed a scalable forward feature selection method using group testing.
result Significant speedups in training time with competitive model performance.
Improves GAN sample quality by refining the training dataset.
problem GANs generate unrealistic samples outside the data manifold.
method Instance selection to improve sample quality and reduce training time.
result Significantly reduces training time and improves sample fidelity.
Modyn automates continuous ML model training on growing datasets.
problem Continuous model retraining is costly and impractical.
method Data-centric ML platform with policies for continuous training.
result Modyn enables high throughput training with sample-level data selection.
The paper improves self-training in semi-supervised learning by selecting more robust pseudo-labeled data.
problem Improving the reliability of pseudo-labeled data selection in self-training for semi-supervised learning.
method Proposes a multi-objective utility function to select pseudo-labeled data that maximizes reliability, considering model selection, accumulation of errors, and covariate shift uncertainties.
result Robustness towards model choice can lead to substantial accuracy gains in self-training.
Recency Bias selects recent uncertain samples for faster, more accurate deep learning.
problem Improving the accuracy of deep neural networks through better mini-batch selection.
method Uses historical label predictions to evaluate predictive uncertainty and selects samples proportionally.
result Reduces test error by up to 20.97% compared to existing methods in the same training time.
Optimizes model training efficiency with core subset selection.
problem Escalating computational costs in large dataset training.
method Core subset selection for reweighting.
result Efficiently minimizes computational time and improves model performance.
A new data augmentation method selects mixed classes based on class distances for better performance.
problem Improving recognition accuracy in object recognition using deep learning.
method Calculates class distances and selects mixed data from suitable classes dynamically.
result Improves recognition performance on general and long-tailed image recognition datasets.
AFS-BM improves model accuracy by dynamically selecting features.
problem Feature selection challenges in ML, especially scalability and adaptability.
method Joint optimization for feature selection and model training with binary masking.
result AFS-BM achieves significant improvements in model accuracy and computational efficiency.
GP-TS optimizes TLM pre-training hyperparameters efficiently.
problem Resource inefficiency in TLM pre-training.
method Bayesian optimization with Thompson sampling and Gaussian process.
result GP-TS achieves lower MLM loss in fewer epochs.
This paper connects masked pre-training to Bayesian model selection.
problem Understanding the success of masked pre-training and its generalization.
method The paper shows masked pre-training corresponds to maximizing the marginal likelihood.
result Masked pre-training with a suitable scoring function maximizes the marginal likelihood.
Improved CAEs reduce training time and enhance generalization.
problem Stability issues in Concrete Autoencoders (CAEs) for feature selection.
method Indirectly Parameterized Concrete Autoencoders (IP-CAEs) learn parameters of Gumbel-Softmax distributions.
result IP-CAEs achieve significant improvements in generalization and training time.
Support vector machine (SVM) training is an active research area since the dawn of the method. In recent years there has been increasing interest in specialized solvers for the important case of linear models. The algorithm presented by Hsieh et al., probably best known under the name of the "liblinear" implementation,…
IWeS selects examples by entropy-based importance sampling for subset selection.
problem Efficiently selecting examples for model training in batch settings.
method IWeS uses importance sampling based on model entropy to select examples.
result IWeS outperforms other subset selection algorithms on seven datasets.
D3M debiases models by selectively removing problematic examples.
problem Model failures on underrepresented subgroups.
method Isolates and removes specific training examples that cause failures.
result Efficiently trains debiased classifiers with minimal example removal.
Subset selection improves weak supervision performance.
problem Optimizing the use of weakly-labeled data.
method Combining pretrained data representations with the cut statistic for subset selection.
result Subset selection improves weak supervision performance by up to 19%.
Fine-tuning with pre-training data improves performance.
problem Limited training data for tasks.
method Theoretical analysis of excess risk bound and selection of pre-training data subset.
result Improvement in generalization performance with pre-training data.
This paper introduces Selective-Backprop, a technique that accelerates the training of deep neural networks (DNNs) by prioritizing examples with high loss at each iteration. Selective-Backprop uses the output of a training example's forward pass to decide whether to use that example to compute gradients and update para…
A new method for dynamic feature selection outperforms existing approaches.
problem Sequentially selecting features based on current information in machine learning.
method Greedy selection of features based on conditional mutual information, combined with a learning approach for optimization.
result The method outperforms existing feature selection methods in experiments.