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48 results for small gains

A new protocol evaluates small machine learning improvements conservatively.

problem Uncertainty in small gains reported in machine learning papers.
method Paired bootstrap protocol with BCa confidence intervals and sign-flip permutation tests.
result Conservative evaluation reduces over-claiming of small improvements.

Eluder dimension and information gain are equivalent for reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces.

problem Complexity measures in bandit and reinforcement learning.
method Equivalence of eluder dimension and information gain for reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces.
result Eluder dimension and information gain are equivalent for reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces.

Framework for few-shot relation classification with minimal training data.

problem Few-shot relation classification with limited training data.
method Meta-learning framework that combines instance and support knowledge.
result Framework outperforms state-of-the-art results and achieves competitive performance with large training data.

We solve exactly a simple model of trend following strategy, and obtain the analytical shape of the profit per trade distribution. This distribution is non trivial and has an option like, asymmetric structure. The degree of asymmetry depends continuously on the parameters of the strategy and on the volatility of the tr…

2005-08-16abs ↗pdf ↗

FedFaiREE addresses fairness in decentralized learning with small samples.

problem Ensuring fairness in decentralized federated learning with limited data.
method FedFaiREE is a post-processing algorithm for distribution-free fair learning in decentralized settings with small samples.
result FedFaiREE provides theoretical guarantees for both fairness and accuracy in decentralized environments.

Active learning is a powerful approach to analyzing data effectively. We show that the feasibility of active learning depends crucially on the choice of measure with respect to which the query is being optimized. The standard information gain, for example, does not permit an accurate evaluation with a small committee, …

2012-12-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Geodesic spheres in certain symmetric spaces are quantitatively stable under small perturbations.

problem Stability of geodesic spheres in symmetric spaces under perturbations.
method Quantitative stability analysis using spectral gap of the Laplacian on geodesic spheres.
result Geodesic spheres are uniformly stable with respect to small C1C^1-volume preserving perturbations.

The scalability of submodular optimization methods is critical for their usability in practice. In this paper, we study the reducibility of submodular functions, a property that enables us to reduce the solution space of submodular optimization problems without performance loss. We introduce the concept of reducibility…

2016-01-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper explores understanding of neural source code embeddings.

problem Lack of understanding of contents and characteristics of code2vec embeddings.
method Small case study using code2vec embeddings to create binary SVM classifiers and compare performance with handcrafted features.
result Code2vec embeddings perform similarly to handcrafted features and have more evenly distributed information gains.

A model of open economics composed of producers and speculators is investigated by numerical simulations. The capital flows from the environment to the producers and from them to the speculators. The price fluctuations are suppressed by the speculators. When the aggressivity of the speculators grows, there is a transit…

1999-06-16abs ↗pdf ↗

In the Minority, Majority and Dollar Games (MG, MAJG, $G), synthetic agents compete for rewards, at each time-step acting in accord with the previously best-performing of their limited sets of strategies. Different components and/or aspects of real-world financial markets are modelled by these games. In the MG, agents …

2008-02-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops methods to estimate gradient of EIG for Bayesian Experimental Design.

problem Optimizing Bayesian inference through efficient experimental design.
method Introduces UEEG-MCMC and BEEG-AP methods for estimating EIG gradient.
result Both methods improve upon existing benchmarks in EIG optimization.

We present an extension of the Johansen-Ledoit-Sornette (JLS) model to include an additional pricing factor called the "Zipf factor", which describes the diversification risk of the stock market portfolio. Keeping all the dynamical characteristics of a bubble described in the JLS model, the new model provides additiona…

2011-07-05abs ↗pdf ↗

In standard graph clustering/community detection, one is interested in partitioning the graph into more densely connected subsets of nodes. In contrast, the "search" problem of this paper aims to only find the nodes in a "single" such community, the target, out of the many communities that may exist. To do so , we are …

2018-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes neural network dynamics after weights escape the origin.

problem Understanding gradient flow dynamics of neural networks after the origin.
method Analyzes gradient flow of homogeneous neural networks with locally Lipschitz gradients.
result Characterizes the first saddle point encountered after escaping the origin.

Delayed rejection HMC improves sampling efficiency for multiscale distributions.

problem Hamiltonian Monte Carlo struggles with wide-ranging distributions, especially in high-curvature areas.
method Introduces a delayed rejection variant of HMC, using geometrically smaller step sizes for retries.
result Up to five-fold performance gains in effective sample size per gradient evaluation.

We address the efficiency issue for the construction of a deep graph neural network (GNN). The approach exploits the idea of representing each input graph as a fixed point of a dynamical system (implemented through a recurrent neural network), and leverages a deep architectural organization of the recurrent units. Effi…

2019-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Introduces relative information gain for improving Gaussian process regression rates.

problem Improving the sample complexity of estimating or maximizing unknown functions.
method Introduces relative information gain, interpolates between effective dimension and information gain, and proves PAC-Bayesian bounds.
result Obtains minimax-optimal rates of convergence through the relative information gain.

The paper introduces a method to improve adversarial robustness in neural networks using randomized perturbations.

problem Deep neural networks are sensitive to small perturbations on correctly classified examples, leading to erroneous predictions.
method The approach uses randomized perturbations to optimize the worst case loss function over all possible substitutions of training examples, ensuring that substitution likelihood is weighted by the proximity to the original word.
result The method achieves performance gains and differentially-private model training, improving robustness against adversarial attacks.

The application of deep recurrent networks to audio transcription has led to impressive gains in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Many have demonstrated that small adversarial perturbations can fool deep neural networks into incorrectly predicting a specified target with high confidence. Current work on fool…

2018-05-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep learning has gained great popularity due to its widespread success on many inference problems. We consider the application of deep learning to the sparse linear inverse problem encountered in compressive sensing, where one seeks to recover a sparse signal from a small number of noisy linear measurements. In this p…

2016-07-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Efficient EP algorithm improves smoothing distribution inference in financial models.

problem Computational intractability of smoothing distribution in high dimensions.
method Adapted expectation propagation (EP) algorithms for the unified skew-normal family.
result Accuracy gains in financial illustrations over existing approximate algorithms.

Building on similarities between earthquakes and extreme financial events, we use a self-organized criticality-generating model to study herding and avalanche dynamics in financial markets. We consider a community of interacting investors, distributed on a small-world network, who bet on the bullish (increasing) or bea…

2013-09-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimizes K inner simulations for least-square Monte Carlo to reduce computational cost.

problem Computing conditional expectation E[f (Y)|X] with limited samples.
method Determines optimal number of Y samples (K) for given computational budget.
result Computational gain is maximized when sampling Y given X is inexpensive.

Introduces q-paths for generalizing geometric annealing paths in machine learning.

problem Limited applicability of existing path methods in machine learning.
method Develops a family of paths derived from a generalized mean, including geometric and arithmetic mixtures.
result Empirical gains in Bayesian inference and generative model evaluation.

Proposes a VAE for HDLSS data augmentation.

problem Data augmentation in HDLSS settings with small sample sizes.
method Geometry-based variational autoencoder with latent space modeling.
result Significant improvement in classification metrics (e.g., balanced accuracy from 66.3% to 74.3%).

Improved neural quantization reduces accuracy loss to less than 1% with 4-bit weights.

problem Reducing accuracy loss in neural quantization below 8-bits.
method Layer-wise calibration and integer programming to optimize bit-width allocation.
result Less than 1% accuracy degradation with 4-bit weights and activations.

A key component of most neural network architectures is the use of normalization layers, such as Batch Normalization. Despite its common use and large utility in optimizing deep architectures, it has been challenging both to generically improve upon Batch Normalization and to understand the circumstances that lend them…

2019-06-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep networks and forests perform differently with small samples.

problem Comparing deep networks and decision forests for small sample sizes.
method Unified view of both methods as partition and vote schemes, empirical comparison on various datasets.
result Forests excel with small tabular and structured data, deep nets better with larger samples.

The gain-loss ratio is known to enjoy very good properties from a normative point of view. As a confirmation, we show that the best market gain-loss ratio in the presence of a random endowment is an acceptability index and we provide its dual representation for general probability spaces. However, the gain-loss ratio w…

2012-09-28abs ↗pdf ↗