Research improves open-set learning by leveraging unlabelled data.
problem Learning between observed and unobserved novel categories.
method Unified policy of positive and unlabelled learning, semi-supervised learning, and open-set recognition.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results in open-set learning.
In open set learning, a model must be able to generalize to novel classes when it encounters a sample that does not belong to any of the classes it has seen before. Open set learning poses a realistic learning scenario that is receiving growing attention. Existing studies on open set learning mainly focused on detectin…
FedOS tackles challenges in federated learning by using open-set learning.
problem Challenges in federated learning due to data locality and privacy constraints.
method Introduces open-set learning to stabilize training in federated learning.
result Demonstrates improved model performance through open-set learning.
SVH-PSL uses Stein Variational Gradient Descent and Hypernetworks to improve Pareto set learning for expensive MOO.
problem Fragmented surrogate models and pseudo-local optima in expensive multi-objective optimization problems.
method SVH-PSL integrates Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD) with Hypernetworks to address fragmentation and pseudo-local optima.
result SVH-PSL significantly improves the quality of the learned Pareto set, offering a promising solution for expensive MOO.
Study on diagnosing unseen medical conditions using open-set learning.
problem Training models for unseen medical conditions is impractical.
method Frame diagnosis as an open-set learning problem, compare state-of-the-art approaches, and experiment with distributed training data.
result Explicitly modeling unseen conditions leads to consistent gains, but optimal training strategy varies.
Deep Sets approximates functions on sets with high-dimensional latent space.
problem Modeling functions of sets (permutation-invariant functions).
method Deep Sets, a method known to be a universal approximator for continuous set functions.
result Deep Sets' universal approximation property is only guaranteed with a sufficiently high-dimensional latent space.
Recently, it has been shown that many functions on sets can be represented by sum decompositions. These decompositons easily lend themselves to neural approximations, extending the applicability of neural nets to set-valued inputs---Deep Set learning. This work investigates a core component of Deep Set architecture: ag…
Reduces function approximation dimensions from high to low with sparse data.
problem Function approximation from sparse data.
method Nonlinear Level Set Learning (NLL) with geometric information.
result Reduces input dimension to theoretical lower bound with minor accuracy loss.
Paper introduces Deep Sets for Symmetric Elements (DSS) layers for learning sets of symmetric elements.
problem Learning sets of symmetric elements is underexplored.
method Characterized equivariant layers, showed DSS layers are universal approximators, and demonstrated their effectiveness.
result DSS layers improve set-learning architectures across various data types.
We adopt a multi-view approach for analyzing two knowledge transfer settings---learning using privileged information (LUPI) and distillation---in a common framework. Under reasonable assumptions about the complexities of hypothesis spaces, and being optimistic about the expected loss achievable by the student (in disti…
In this paper, we propose a simple, versatile model for learning the structure and parameters of multivariate distributions from a data set. Learning a Markov network from a given data set is not a simple problem, because Markov networks rigorously represent Markov properties, and this rigor imposes complex constraints…
In structured prediction problems where we have indirect supervision of the output, maximum marginal likelihood faces two computational obstacles: non-convexity of the objective and intractability of even a single gradient computation. In this paper, we bypass both obstacles for a class of what we call linear indirectl…
The goal of confidence-set learning in the binary classification setting is to construct two sets, each with a specific probability guarantee to cover a class. An observation outside the overlap of the two sets is deemed to be from one of the two classes, while the overlap is an ambiguity region which could belong to e…
Proposes KIL-AdaVAE for fault detection and segmentation of unknown fault types.
problem Lack of labeled data for fault types in safety-critical systems.
method Implicit supervision with Deep Variational Autoencoders (VAE).
result Significant performance improvements in fault detection and segmentation.
This paper demonstrates dynamic hyper-parameter setting, for deep neural network training, using Mutual Information (MI). The specific hyper-parameter studied in this paper is the learning rate. MI between the output layer and true outcomes is used to dynamically set the learning rate of the network through the trainin…
In this paper, we introduce the first method that (1) can complete kernel matrices with completely missing rows and columns as opposed to individual missing kernel values, (2) does not require any of the kernels to be complete a priori, and (3) can tackle non-linear kernels. These aspects are necessary in practical app…
New algorithm closes empirical gap in PFSGD performance.
problem Empirical performance gap between tuned SGD and PFSGD.
method Parameter-free algorithm based on Coin-Betting ODE updates.
result New algorithm outperforms tuned baselines and matches optimal performance.
LSTM model predicts climate impacts on floods and droughts.
problem Predicting climate impacts on individual watersheds is challenging.
method Large-scale LSTM training on extensive data sets.
result LSTM model outperforms state-of-the-art models in predicting extreme flows.
Mathematical analysis shows annealing prevents mode collapse in Gaussian mixtures.
problem Mode collapse in variational inference for multimodal distributions.
method Analyzed annealing strategies for Gaussian mixtures, derived formulas, and tested on neural networks.
result Appropriately chosen annealing schemes can robustly prevent mode collapse.
This paper benchmarks batch RL algorithms on Atari, finding DQN and partially-trained policies perform best.
problem Deep RL algorithms fail in batch setting.
method Benchmarked batch RL algorithms on Atari using a single partially-trained policy.
result Many batch RL algorithms underperform DQN and partially-trained policies.
There are many forms of feature information present in video data. Principle among them are object identity information which is largely static across multiple video frames, and object pose and style information which continuously transforms from frame to frame. Most existing models confound these two types of represen…
NetRCA algorithm locates network faults by analyzing derived features and leveraging unlabeled data.
problem Locating the true root cause of network faults is challenging due to complex architectures and limited labeled data.
method NetRCA algorithm extracts derived features, generates new training data, and combines multiple models to enhance performance.
result NetRCA outperforms existing methods in fault cause localization on real-world data.
Proposes a method to ensure accurate estimation of rare events in AI systems.
problem Lack of efficiency guarantees in black-box systems for rare-event simulation.
method Integrates deep learning with importance sampling to create a statistically guaranteed estimator.
result Demonstrates effective estimation of rare-event probabilities in AI systems.
In this work we propose a model that can manipulate individual visual attributes of objects in a real scene using examples of how respective attribute manipulations affect the output of a simulation. As an example, we train our model to manipulate the expression of a human face using nonphotorealistic 3D renders of a f…
New framework for learning from various weak supervision types.
problem Scarcity of labeled data in real-world problems.
method Probabilistic framework based on maximum likelihood principle for deep neural networks.
result General method for learning from noisy labels, complementary labels, and coarse-grained labels.
A new method automatically and dynamically sets learning rates in deep learning.
problem Determining the appropriate learning rate in deep learning tasks is challenging and often subjective.
method Local Quadratic Approximation (LQA) to automatically and dynamically set learning rates.
result The proposed method leads to nearly optimal learning rates in a computationally efficient way.
Fishnets improve set and graph learning with scalable, robust aggregation.
problem Learning informative embeddings for sets and graphs with scalable and robust aggregation.
method Proposes Fishnets, a new aggregation strategy for set-based learning.
result Fishnets achieve state-of-the-art performance on graph datasets with fewer parameters and faster training.
A determinantal point process (DPP) is a probabilistic model of set diversity compactly parameterized by a positive semi-definite kernel matrix. To fit a DPP to a given task, we would like to learn the entries of its kernel matrix by maximizing the log-likelihood of the available data. However, log-likelihood is non-co…
A new method for diverse Pareto solutions in multi-objective learning.
problem Maximizing diversity while maximizing hypervolume in Pareto solutions.
method Annealed Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD) with diverse gradient directions.
result SVH-MOL achieves superior performance in multi-objective and multi-task learning.
Deep-PrAE improves rare-event simulation for black-box systems.
problem Evaluating rare safety-critical events in learning-based systems.
method Combines deep neural networks with IS to create statistically guaranteed estimations.
result Deep-PrAE provides accurate bounds on safety-critical event probabilities.
This work tackles real-world robotic reinforcement learning challenges.
problem Limited success of reinforcement learning in real-world robotics.
method Proposes a system for autonomous real-world learning without instrumentation.
result Demonstrates a complete system that learns without human intervention.
Safe-DRFS selects features robust to covariate shifts for reliable performance.
problem Feature selection fails in diverse deployment environments.
method Safe-DRFS extends safe screening to distributionally robust settings under covariate shift.
result Safe-DRFS identifies a feature subset encompassing optimal subsets across distribution shifts.
The high-dimensional data setting, in which p >> n, is a challenging statistical paradigm that appears in many real-world problems. In this setting, learning a compact, low-dimensional representation of the data can substantially help distinguish signal from noise. One way to achieve this goal is to perform subspace le…
Automatic recognition of human activities from time-series sensor data (referred to as HAR) is a growing area of research in ubiquitous computing. Most recent research in the field adopts supervised deep learning paradigms to automate extraction of intrinsic features from raw signal inputs and addresses HAR as a multi-…
Consequential decisions are increasingly informed by sophisticated data-driven predictive models. However, to consistently learn accurate predictive models, one needs access to ground truth labels. Unfortunately, in practice, labels may only exist conditional on certain decisions---if a loan is denied, there is not eve…
In this paper, we consider the problem of learning functions over sets, i.e., functions that are invariant to permutations of input set items. Recent approaches of pooling individual element embeddings can necessitate extremely large embedding sizes for challenging functions. We address this challenge by allowing stand…
New scalable variational Bayes methods for Hawkes processes.
problem Computational intractability of Bayesian estimation for generalised nonlinear Hawkes processes.
method Unified variational Bayes framework, adaptive mean-field approximation, sparsity-inducing procedure.
result Adaptive mean-field variational algorithm for sigmoid Hawkes processes is scalable and robust.
Paper generalizes teacher-student model for realistic data.
problem Capturing learning curves for realistic datasets.
method Introduces a Gaussian covariate generalization of the teacher-student model.
result Generalized model captures learning curves for various realistic data sets.
This paper develops a method to approximate the whole Pareto set for expensive multi-objective optimization.
problem Finding an approximate Pareto front with limited expensive evaluations.
method A novel learning-based method to approximate the whole Pareto set for multi-objective Bayesian optimization (MOBO).
result The method approximates the whole Pareto set, not just a finite set, for MOBO.
Study neural networks learning from noisy examples via reverberation.
problem Learning from noisy examples in neural networks.
method Adapted Guerra's interpolation technique to provide statistical mechanics of supervised and unsupervised learning.
result Full phase diagrams and thresholds for learning are analytically obtained.
LoRA fine-tuning explained with gradient dynamics for low-rank perturbations.
problem Understanding why gradient descent converges to useful low-rank perturbations in LoRA fine-tuning.
method Generalized student-teacher setting with i.i.d. samples and online gradient descent.
result Gradient descent converges to the teacher model in dkO(1) iterations under certain conditions. CILF learns adaptive embeddings for class-incremental learning with novel class detection and model update.
problem Handling unknown classes and model update in streaming data with new classes.
method CILF uses decoupled prototype based loss for intra-class and inter-class structure improvement, and a learnable curriculum clustering operator for adaptive embedding.
result CILF effectively detects multiple novel classes and mitigates embedding confusion, while updating the model without catastrophic forgetting.
This paper bridges offline and online RL by studying policy finetuning with a reference policy.
problem Sample-efficient reinforcement learning in online and offline settings.
method Design of policy finetuning algorithms and analysis of sample complexity.
result Theoretical analysis shows that the optimal policy finetuning algorithm is either offline reduction or purely online RL.