Neural networks can learn kernel machines with a data-dependent kernel.
problem Can neural networks in the rich feature learning regime learn a kernel machine?
method Demonstrated silent alignment effect in neural networks, showing they can learn a kernel machine with a data-dependent kernel.
result Neural networks in the rich feature learning regime can learn a kernel machine with a data-dependent kernel due to silent alignment.
Feedback alignment methods need to be evaluated for accuracy and gradient cosine similarity.
problem Evaluating feedback alignment methods
method Proposed diagnostic evaluation protocol
result Identified silent failures in standard reporting pair
In this paper we explore continuous silent speech recognition using electroencephalography (EEG) signals. We implemented a connectionist temporal classification (CTC) automatic speech recognition (ASR) model to translate EEG signals recorded in parallel while subjects were reading English sentences in their mind withou…
Silent abandonment reduces contact center efficiency by 5%-15%.
problem Measuring customer abandonment and patience in text-based contact centers is challenging due to uncertainty.
method Developed methodologies to identify silent-abandonment customers and estimate customer patience using text analysis and queueing models.
result Silent abandonment accounts for 30%-67% of customer abandonments and reduces system efficiency by 5%-15%.
We address the problem of severe class imbalance in unsupervised domain adaptation, when the class spaces in source and target domains diverge considerably. Till recently, domain adaptation methods assumed the aligned class spaces, such that reducing distribution divergence makes the transfer between domains easier. Su…
This paper maps the insurability of AI risks across various insurance products.
problem Emerging AI risks and their implications for insurance coverage.
method Coding 55 AI threat classes against 26 insurance products using public carrier materials and threat catalogs.
result Identification of a four-tier insurability frontier: affirmatively insured, silent-AI exposures, actively excluded, and unstructured perils.
Lipreading has a lot of potential applications such as in the domain of surveillance and video conferencing. Despite this, most of the work in building lipreading systems has been limited to classifying silent videos into classes representing text phrases. However, there are multiple problems associated with making lip…
The wave trace of certain convex domains can be smooth near some points in the length spectrum.
problem Understanding the relationship between the wave trace and the length spectrum of convex domains.
method Constructing silent periodic billiard orbits with the same length but different Maslov indices, using a microlocal parametrix for wave invariants.
result The wave trace can be smooth near some points in the length spectrum, showing potential limitations for inverse spectral problems.
New algorithm estimates eigenspace with faulty nodes, matching performance of existing methods.
problem Estimating eigenspace in distributed systems with node failures.
method Develops an eigenspace estimation algorithm for distributed environments with arbitrary node failures.
result Matches performance of existing non-robust estimator up to an additive error.
The increasing popularity of cell phones has made them the most personal and ubiquitous communication devices nowadays. Typically, the ringing notifications of mobile phones are used to inform the users about the incoming calls. However, the notifications of inappropriate incoming calls sometimes cause interruptions no…
Diverging Flows detects extrapolations in flow models, ensuring reliable predictions.
problem Flow models extrapolate into invalid data, leading to silent failures.
method Structurally enforce inefficient transport for off-manifold inputs.
result Effective detection of extrapolations without compromising predictive fidelity or inference latency.
Develops geometric framework for analyzing big bang singularities without symmetry assumptions.
problem Analyzing big bang singularities without symmetry constraints.
method Geometric framework combined with Einstein's equations.
result Partial improvements of assumptions on expansion normalised Weingarten map and convergence of K. Unified framework detects overfitting in crash classification models.
problem Evaluation metrics fail to detect overfitting in crash classification models.
method Random Matrix Theory and Heavy-Tailed Self-Regularization framework applied to various model types.
result Power-law exponent α reliably distinguishes well-regularized from overfit models.
Deep learning maps tongue movements to speech sounds for voiceless individuals.
problem Developing silent speech interfaces for individuals without a larynx.
method Hybrid spatio-temporal 3D convolutions and feature shuffling for formant estimation and tracking from ultrasound tongue images.
result Best model achieves R-squared of 99.96% for vowel formant regression.
Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms are a workhorse of probabilistic modeling and inference, but are difficult to debug, and are prone to silent failure if implemented naively. We outline several strategies for testing the correctness of MCMC algorithms. Specifically, we advocate writing code in a modular way, w…
The study proposes a framework to accept OOD data based on competence scores.
problem Silent failures in Domain Generalization where models reject OOD data without proper justification.
method A learning to reject framework using proxy incompetence scores to predict trustworthiness.
result Increasing incompetence scores are predictive of reduced accuracy, but not always favorable for accuracy/rejection trade-off.
Deep learning methods continue to have a decided impact on machine learning, both in theory and in practice. Statistical theoretical developments have been mostly concerned with approximability or rates of estimation when recovering infinite dimensional objects (curves or densities). Despite the impressive array of ava…
We might hope that when faced with unexpected inputs, well-designed software systems would fire off warnings. Machine learning (ML) systems, however, which depend strongly on properties of their inputs (e.g. the i.i.d. assumption), tend to fail silently. This paper explores the problem of building ML systems that fail …
This paper surveys scalable automated alignment methods for LLMs.
problem Scalability issues in traditional human-annotated alignment methods for LLMs.
method Categorizes and discusses various automated alignment methods.
result Emerging automated alignment methods are effective and scalable.
Inference-aware meta-alignment of LLMs reduces computational cost.
problem Aligning LLMs to diverse human preferences is challenging due to conflicting criteria.
method IAMA trains a base model to be aligned to multiple tasks via different inference-time alignment algorithms, using non-linear GRPO for optimization.
result IAMA enables effective alignment of LLMs to multiple criteria with limited computational budget.
Conformal Alignment ensures trustworthy outputs from foundation models.
problem Ensuring outputs from foundation models align with human values in high-stakes tasks.
method A framework that trains an alignment predictor using reference data to select trustworthy outputs.
result Conformal Alignment accurately identifies trustworthy outputs via lightweight training over moderate reference data.
LPL optimizes embeddings to align local neighborhoods, improving cross-lingual word alignment.
problem Aligning embeddings across different datasets and languages.
method Locality Preserving Loss (LPL) optimizes model to project embeddings while maintaining local neighborhoods and aligning them.
result LPL-based alignment leads to better and consistent accuracy, especially in small training set settings.
Extends reinforcement learning alignment to scalar rewards, improving math reasoning.
problem Designing reinforcement learning algorithms for general LLM alignment.
method Introduces f-GRPO and f-HAL, estimating f-divergences between reward-aligned and unaligned distributions.
result Improves math reasoning RLVR tasks and mitigates reward hacking.
The paper proposes a learning-theoretic perspective on representation alignment.
problem Understanding how AI models' representations become aligned as they scale.
method Reviewing and connecting different notions of alignment, focusing on stitching.
result Relating properties of stitching to kernel alignment of representations.
Survey of alignment techniques for large language models.
problem Ensuring large language models align with human values.
method Analysis of diverse alignment methods and training paradigms.
result Preference-based methods offer more flexibility for nuanced alignment.
Study uses machine learning and survival analysis to predict CKD progression.
problem Early detection and management of CKD to reduce ESRD risk.
method Combines machine learning and classical statistical models to identify novel CKD progression predictors.
result Deep learning models outperform other methods in predicting CKD progression.
The paper addresses rigid alignment of noisy patches, providing a polynomial time algorithm and convergence conditions.
problem Finding a rigid alignment of overlapping local views (patches) that minimizes alignment error in a noisy setting.
method Characterizes non-degeneracy based on kernel and positivity of a matrix, provides polynomial time algorithm for testing non-degeneracy, and uses Riemannian gradient descent for alignment.
result The algorithm converges locally linearly to a non-degenerate perfect alignment under certain conditions.
Study connects database alignment and planted matching using Gaussian features.
problem Identify matching between correlated user features in anonymized databases.
method Derived results for database alignment and planted matching, showing connections and thresholds.
result Performance thresholds for database alignment converge to planted matching when feature dimensionality is sufficiently high.
Semi-supervised learning algorithms typically construct a weighted graph of data points to represent a manifold. However, an explicit graph representation is problematic for neural networks operating in the online setting. Here, we propose a feed-forward neural network capable of semi-supervised learning on manifolds w…
Bayesian framework proves thresholds for multi-graph alignment feasibility.
problem Determining when multi-graph alignment is statistically possible.
method Developed a Bayesian estimation framework over metric spaces.
result Identified thresholds for Gaussian and sparse Erdős-Rényi models.
SMAI framework tests and integrates single-cell data alignability.
problem Lack of a rigorous statistical test for alignability and distortion during alignment.
method Spectral manifold alignment and inference (SMAI) framework.
result SMAI outperforms existing methods in alignability testing and integration.
New method aligns brain data across individuals for better brain decoding.
problem Inter-individual variability in brain response patterns limits decoder generalization.
method SpectralOT method that embeds cortical geometry into Laplace-Beltrami eigenmodes.
result SpectralOT strikes balance between aligning functional features and preserving anatomical structure.
Method aligns multilingual news for better stock return prediction.
problem Losing nuances in multilingual news translations.
method Optimal transport for sentence alignment.
result Aligned sentences correlate better with stock returns.
We study the problem of source separation for music using deep learning with four known sources: drums, bass, vocals and other accompaniments. State-of-the-art approaches predict soft masks over mixture spectrograms while methods working on the waveform are lagging behind as measured on the standard MusDB benchmark. Ou…
This paper studies aligning knowledge graphs from different sources or languages. Most existing methods train supervised methods for the alignment, which usually require a large number of aligned knowledge triplets. However, such a large number of aligned knowledge triplets may not be available or are expensive to obta…
Hölder-DPO aligns models robustly with noisy human feedback.
problem No existing alignment methods can handle severe label noise.
method Proposes Hölder-DPO, a principled alignment loss with provable redescending property.
result Hölder-DPO enables scalable human feedback valuation and improves model alignment.
This paper improves cross-domain learning using random forests for manifold alignment.
problem Improving cross-domain learning and feature integration.
method Semi-supervised manifold alignment using random forest proximities.
result Random forest proximities enhance downstream classification accuracy.
Detecting correlated trees helps align sparse graphs.
problem Detecting correlation between trees for sparse random graphs.
method MPAlign message-passing algorithm for graph alignment.
result MPAlign succeeds in polynomial time for partial alignment.
We study alignment in linear neural networks and its relation to gradient descent.
problem Understanding alignment in linear neural networks and its impact on training.
method Defined alignment for fully connected networks, analyzed alignment under gradient descent, and compared gradient descent to projected gradient descent for layer-constrained networks.
result Gradient descent can converge linearly to a global minimum when alignment is invariant, and alignment is impossible with large datasets in layer-constrained networks.
Proposes ACCA for better alignment of multiple data perspectives.
problem Unclear alignment between multiple data perspectives.
method Iteratively solves alignment and multi-view embedding.
result Improved alignment and embedding of multiple data perspectives.
Unified framework for aligning and composing diffusion models to satisfy multiple constraints.
problem Improving quality and compliance of generated samples from diffusion models.
method Constrained optimization framework that unifies alignment and composition of diffusion models.
result Proposed framework effectively satisfies multiple constraints in image generation.
Study improves understanding and performance of FA learning rules in neural networks.
problem Lack of theoretical understanding and limited applications of Feedback Alignment (FA) methods.
method Introduces a unified framework linking synaptic weight changes to implicit regularization, providing convergence conditions and empirical evidence.
result Better alignment can enhance FA performance on complex multi-class tasks.
DFA trains deep networks by aligning weights then memorizing data.
problem Understanding why DFA works for some networks but not others.
method Two-step learning process: alignment followed by memorization.
result DFA aligns weights to maximize gradient alignment, breaking degeneracy.
The study explains how neural networks align their kernels to target functions during training.
problem Understanding how neural networks align their kernels to target functions during training.
method Theoretical analysis of kernel evolution in toy models and deep networks.
result Kernel alignment naturally emerges during training to accelerate convergence and improve generalization.
We consider the problem of aligning a pair of databases with jointly Gaussian features. We consider two algorithms, complete database alignment via MAP estimation among all possible database alignments, and partial alignment via a thresholding approach of log likelihood ratios. We derive conditions on mutual informatio…
We present Manifold Alignment Determination (MAD), an algorithm for learning alignments between data points from multiple views or modalities. The approach is capable of learning correspondences between views as well as correspondences between individual data-points. The proposed method requires only a few aligned exam…
LLM safety alignment explained as divergence estimation.
problem Aligning large language models to avoid harmful outputs.
method Presented a theoretical framework showing alignment methods as divergence estimators.
result KLDO method improves safety alignment using compliance-refusal datasets.
This study presents the results of a series of simulation experiments that evaluate and compare four different manifold alignment methods under the influence of noise. The data was created by simulating the dynamics of two slightly different double pendulums in three-dimensional space. The method of semi-supervised fea…