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48 results for semantic filtering

Hybrid method uses LLM to filter lead-lag relationships in prediction markets.

problem Challenges in discovering robust lead-lag relationships in prediction markets due to spurious correlations.
method Two-stage approach: statistical Granger causality followed by LLM semantic re-ranking.
result LLM-based method outperforms statistical baseline, increasing win rate and reducing average loss magnitude.

In this paper we explore the "vector semantics" problem from the perspective of "almost orthogonal" property of high-dimensional random vectors. We show that this intriguing property can be used to "memorize" random vectors by simply adding them, and we provide an efficient probabilistic solution to the set membership …

2018-02-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis is a novel statistical technique for the analysis of two-mode and co-occurrence data, which has applications in information retrieval and filtering, natural language processing, machine learning from text, and in related areas. Compared to standard Latent Semantic Analysis which s…

2013-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

MCFNet recovers spatial detail and fuses it with semantic information for real-time segmentation.

problem Recovering spatial detail information and fusing it with semantic information in real-time.
method Proposes a new architecture (MCFNet) with feature refinement and fusion modules, and a gating unit.
result Achieves competitive performance with high speed (75.5% mIOU, 151.3 FPS on Cityscapes).

This paper proposes a generic method to learn interpretable convolutional filters in a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) for object classification, where each interpretable filter encodes features of a specific object part. Our method does not require additional annotations of object parts or textures for supervi…

2019-01-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Real-time semantic segmentation for autonomous vehicles on FPGA reduces latency and power consumption.

problem Efficient real-time semantic segmentation for autonomous vehicles.
method Compressed ENet architecture, FPGA deployment, batch processing, filter reduction, quantization-aware training.
result Reduced latency to 3 ms per image with batch size of ten and 40% resource utilization.

The aim of this paper is to present a new method for visual place recognition. Our system combines global image characterization and visual words, which allows to use efficient Bayesian filtering methods to integrate several images. More precisely, we extend the classical HMM model with techniques inspired by the field…

2014-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

The topic modeling discovers the latent topic probability of the given text documents. To generate the more meaningful topic that better represents the given document, we proposed a new feature extraction technique which can be used in the data preprocessing stage. The method consists of three steps. First, it generate…

2018-04-11abs ↗pdf ↗

DeepUnHide uses deep learning to reveal hidden demographic features in recommender systems.

problem Extracting hidden demographic features from recommender systems factors.
method Gradient-based localization in deep learning for feature extraction.
result DeepUnHide outperforms state-of-the-art feature selection methods.

The paper proposes a method to detect and filter noisy or mislabeled data using pointwise mutual information.

problem Detecting and filtering noisy or mislabeled data in deep learning models.
method A mutual information-based framework quantifying statistical dependencies between inputs and labels.
result The method effectively filters low-quality samples, improving classification accuracy by up to 15%.

Develops a framework for quantifying agentic AI model risk using LLM-inferred Bayesian state filters.

problem Quantifying the risk of agentic AI systems due to uncertain beliefs and actions.
method Representing the system as a partially observed Markov decision process with latent states, Bayesian belief updates, control-dependent losses, and tail-risk functionals.
result Develops a rigorous framework for separating uncertainty quantification from risk measurement.

Bayesian EnKF improves sentence comprehension uncertainty modeling.

problem Uncertainty in human language comprehension, especially with ambiguous inputs.
method Bayesian framework using ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) for uncertainty quantification.
result Enhanced model's ability to approximate human cognitive processing with linguistic ambiguities.

Paper uses CNNs for eye tracking data segmentation, generation, and reconstruction.

problem Semantic segmentation and reconstruction of raw eye tracking data.
method Fully convolutional neural networks (FCNNs) for data segmentation and generation, variational auto-encoder for data generation.
result FCNNs can process any input size directly without preprocessing, generating raw eye tracking data.

Trade-R1 bridges verifiable rewards to stochastic financial markets via process-level reasoning verification.

problem Extending RL to financial markets where rewards are verifiable but noisy.
method A verification method that transforms reasoning over financial documents into a structured RAG task, using a triangular consistency metric.
result DSR achieves superior cross-market generalization while maintaining reasoning consistency.

Study assesses deep neural networks' robustness in mammogram images.

problem Understanding deep neural networks' robustness in mammogram images for breast cancer screening.
method Measuring sensitivity to four perturbations and analyzing low-pass filtering effects.
result Mammogram image classifiers are sensitive to perturbations similar to natural images, but low-pass filtering degrades clinically meaningful features.

In this work, we contribute a new multi-layer neural network architecture named ONCF to perform collaborative filtering. The idea is to use an outer product to explicitly model the pairwise correlations between the dimensions of the embedding space. In contrast to existing neural recommender models that combine user em…

2018-08-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Corpus poisoning can manipulate word meanings in word embeddings, affecting natural language processing tasks.

problem Controlling word meanings via corpus modifications.
method Developed an explicit expression over corpus features to control word embeddings.
result Demonstrated the ability to manipulate word meanings in word embeddings, affecting various downstream tasks.

S2OSC improves OSC by filtering and re-training models with out-of-class instances.

problem Difficulty in classifying out-of-class instances during inference.
method S2OSC combines semi-supervised learning, out-of-class instance filtering, and model re-training.
result S2OSC achieves state-of-the-art performance in various OSC tasks.

Semantic TrueLearn uses semantic graphs to improve educational recommendation systems.

problem Challenges in handling semantic and hierarchical structure in knowledge areas.
method Introduces a novel learner model that exploits semantic relatedness between knowledge components using a Wikipedia link graph.
result Achieves statistically significant improvements in predictive performance for educational engagement.

We present a probabilistic language model for time-stamped text data which tracks the semantic evolution of individual words over time. The model represents words and contexts by latent trajectories in an embedding space. At each moment in time, the embedding vectors are inferred from a probabilistic version of word2ve…

2017-02-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Transfer learning aims at building robust prediction models by transferring knowledge gained from one problem to another. In the semantic Web, learning tasks are enhanced with semantic representations. We exploit their semantics to augment transfer learning by dealing with when to transfer with semantic measurements an…

2019-05-31abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper shows how integrating categorical semantics can enhance unsupervised domain translation.

problem Improving unsupervised domain translation between perceptually different domains.
method Learning invariant categorical semantic features in an unsupervised manner and conditioning them on the style encoder.
result Conditioning the style encoder on learned categorical semantics improves translation and stylization.

This work provides uncertainty intervals for semantic latent variables in disentangled latent spaces.

problem Challenges in providing meaningful uncertainty quantification for semantic information in disentangled latent spaces.
method Uses quantile regression to output heuristic uncertainty intervals, calibrates these intervals to contain true latent values, and propagates them through the generator.
result Reliably communicates semantically meaningful, principled, and instance-adaptive uncertainty in image super-resolution and image completion.

Semantify-NN verifies neural network robustness against semantic perturbations.

problem Verifying robustness of neural networks against semantic adversarial attacks.
method Inserting semantic perturbation layers (SP-layers) into neural networks to verify robustness.
result Semantify-NN significantly improves robustness verification performance over p\ell_p-norm-based methods.

New diffusion models improve counterfactual image generation with semantic control.

problem Challenges in preserving identity, maintaining quality, and ensuring causal model faithfulness in counterfactual image generation.
method Integrates semantic representations into diffusion models through Pearlian causality, introducing spatial, semantic, and dynamic abduction.
result Demonstrates high-level semantic identity preservation and principled trade-offs between faithful causal control and identity preservation.

New approach uses SPG for semantic communication without a known channel model.

problem Designing efficient semantic communication systems without a known channel model.
method Applying Stochastic Policy Gradient (SPG) for reinforcement learning.
result Achieves comparable performance to model-aware approaches with a decreased convergence rate.

Unsupervised scheme ranks sentences in text documents based on semantic importance.

problem Ranking sentences in text documents without labeled data.
method Extracts essential words and phrases, constructs semantic phrase and sentence graphs, applies PageRank, combines scores, and optimizes for topic diversity.
result SSR outperforms individual judges and compares favorably with combined rankings on benchmarks.

SPAT improves adversarial robustness by preserving semantics in adversarial training.

problem Adversarial examples often have different semantics than original data, introducing unintended biases.
method Semantics-preserving adversarial training (SPAT) that encourages pixel perturbation shared among all classes.
result SPAT improves adversarial robustness and achieves state-of-the-art results in CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100.

Proposes CSG model to separate semantic and variation factors for OOD prediction.

problem Out-of-distribution examples cause conventional models to mix semantic and variation factors, leading to poor performance.
method Causal Semantic Generative model (CSG) based on causal reasoning, using variational Bayes for efficient learning and prediction.
result CSG can identify semantic factor and improve OOD prediction performance.

Building deep reinforcement learning agents that can generalize and adapt to unseen environments remains a fundamental challenge for AI. This paper describes progresses on this challenge in the context of man-made environments, which are visually diverse but contain intrinsic semantic regularities. We propose a hybrid …

2018-09-28abs ↗pdf ↗

New framework detects near vs. far out-of-distribution samples for AI safety.

problem Binary OOD detection fails to distinguish between semantically close and distant unknown risks.
method Ternary classification based on Low-Entropy Semantic Manifolds and Semantic Surprise Vector.
result Framework achieves state-of-the-art performance on ternary OOD detection task.