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Backdoors can be implanted in neural models of source code, and we detect and remove them.

problem Vulnerability of neural models to backdoors in source code.
method Defined and implemented various backdoor classes, adapted robust statistics algorithms, and detected poisoned data through spectral signatures.
result Demonstrated the ease of injecting and removing backdoors in neural models of source code.

Study homotopy groups of spaces of long links and knots, finding new generators.

problem Understanding homotopy groups of spaces of long links and knots.
method Graphing map increases dimensions, split injections from homotopy groups of spheres, and analyzing knotting effects.
result Generators for homotopy groups in a new degree for spaces of equidimensional long links.

pLSTM tackles long-range language modeling and computer vision tasks with parallelizable linear source transition mark networks.

problem Challenges of existing recurrent architectures in handling sequences and multi-dimensional data.
method Introduces pLSTM, a parallelizable linear source transition mark network for linear graphs and DAGs, addressing vanishing/exploding activation/gradient issues.
result pLSTM outperforms Transformers in long-range tasks like arrow-pointing extrapolation and image size extrapolation.

Prototype extraction framework for domain adaptation.

problem Statistical distance minimization issues in unsupervised domain adaptation.
method Memory and computation-efficient probabilistic framework for class prototype extraction and feature alignment.
result Competitive performance with state-of-the-art methods, no additional model parameters required.

AutoML serves as the bridge between varying levels of expertise when designing machine learning systems and expedites the data science process. A wide range of techniques is taken to address this, however there does not exist an objective comparison of these techniques. We present a benchmark of current open source Aut…

2018-08-17abs ↗pdf ↗

MFNets constructs efficient multifidelity surrogates from diverse information sources.

problem Creating accurate surrogates from multiple, potentially costly or inaccurate data sources.
method Directed acyclic graph of connections, gradient-based minimization of least squares objective, flexible information source structure.
result Error reduction by orders-of-magnitude, especially in low-data scenarios.

New WildMix dataset and Spectro-Temporal Transformer model for better monoaural audio source separation.

problem Challenging monoaural audio source separation.
method Introducing WildMix dataset and Spectro-Temporal Transformer model (STT) with Spectro-Temporal Encoder (STE).
result STT outperforms previous baselines on the WildMix dataset.

Apache Spark is a popular open-source platform for large-scale data processing that is well-suited for iterative machine learning tasks. In this paper we present MLlib, Spark's open-source distributed machine learning library. MLlib provides efficient functionality for a wide range of learning settings and includes sev…

2015-05-26abs ↗pdf ↗

MULTIPOLAR aggregates diverse source policies for efficient transfer RL.

problem Efficiently transfer knowledge between different environmental dynamics.
method Adaptive action aggregation and residual prediction network.
result Demonstrated effectiveness across diverse simulated environments.

Sparse Blind Source Separation (sparse BSS) is a key method to analyze multichannel data in fields ranging from medical imaging to astrophysics. However, since it relies on seeking the solution of a non-convex penalized matrix factorization problem, its performances largely depend on the optimization strategy. In this …

2018-12-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Study analyzes foreign exchange rates using MFDFA, revealing multifractality and its sources.

problem Analyzing multifractality in foreign exchange rates.
method Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (MFDFA) applied to shuffled and phase-randomized return series.
result Sources of multifractality differ among currencies: US dollar fat tails, British Pound and Euro long-range correlations, Japanese Yen broad tails.

Proposes a transfer learning framework for sparse SIMs without raw source data.

problem Lack of direct access to raw source data and known link functions in transfer learning.
method Source-data-free framework based on SIM, using summary statistics and a multilayer perceptron.
result Consistent improvements over existing approaches in synthetic and real-world data.

New algorithm identifies best target arm with known additive relationship between source and target MAB instances.

problem Identifying the best arm in a target MAB instance when only source arms can be pulled and there's a known additive relationship between the two.
method Proposes an LUCB-style algorithm to identify an ε-optimal target arm with high probability.
result Theoretical analysis highlights aspects of the transfer learning problem and recovers the LUCB algorithm for single domain BAI as a special case.

Enhances source domain knowledge with target data for transfer learning.

problem Limited data in target domains and rigid model assumptions in transfer learning.
method Transfer learning through Enhanced Sufficient Representation (TESR).
result TESR enhances source domain knowledge with target data, improving transfer learning performance.

When labeled data is scarce for a specific target task, transfer learning often offers an effective solution by utilizing data from a related source task. However, when transferring knowledge from a less related source, it may inversely hurt the target performance, a phenomenon known as negative transfer. Despite its p…

2018-11-24abs ↗pdf ↗

New method improves multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization by accounting for local correlations and varying noise.

problem Existing multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization methods assume global correlation and constant noise, which limits performance.
method Proposes an MF emulation method that learns noise models for each data source and leverages locally correlated LF sources.
result Improves performance of multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization by accounting for local correlations and varying noise.

SimTensor is a multi-platform, open-source software for generating artificial tensor data (either with CP/PARAFAC or Tucker structure) for reproducible research on tensor factorization algorithms. SimTensor is a stand-alone application based on MATALB. It provides a wide range of facilities for generating tensor data w…

2016-12-09abs ↗pdf ↗

TransNet improves community detection on target networks using privacy-preserved source networks.

problem Community detection on sensitive network data with privacy constraints.
method Spectral clustering framework leveraging locally distributed privacy-preserved auxiliary networks via randomized response and adaptive weighting.
result TransNet delivers strong gains in community detection across various privacy levels and heterogeneity patterns.

We propose an optimum mechanism for providing monetary incentives to the data sources of a statistical estimator such as linear regression, so that high quality data is provided at low cost, in the sense that the sum of payments and estimation error is minimized. The mechanism applies to a broad range of estimators, in…

2014-08-11abs ↗pdf ↗

We test for departures from normal and independent and identically distributed (NIID) returns, when returns under the alternative hypothesis are self-affine. Self-affine returns are either fractionally integrated and long-range dependent, or drawn randomly from an L-stable distribution with infinite higher-order moment…

2014-01-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning detects subhalos in lensed images with high accuracy and low false positives.

problem Detecting substructure in strongly lensed images.
method Developed a neural network for image segmentation to locate and mass estimate subhalos.
result The network can detect subhalos with masses m108.5Mm\gtrsim 10^{8.5} M_{\odot} and measure the subhalo mass function.

A framework helps reinforcement learning agents understand and decompose tasks from human demonstrations.

problem Sparse-reward tasks where demonstrations are used as sources of causal knowledge.
method Develops causal models through observation and reasons from this knowledge to decompose tasks.
result A basic implementation of Reasoning from Demonstration (RfD) is effective in sparse-reward tasks.

We propose a new blind source separation algorithm based on mixtures of alpha-stable distributions. Complex symmetric alpha-stable distributions have been recently showed to better model audio signals in the time-frequency domain than classical Gaussian distributions thanks to their larger dynamic range. However, infer…

2017-11-13abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper examines multifractal dynamics in cryptocurrencies using two methodologies.

problem Understanding the multifractal nature of cryptocurrencies and their stochastic processes.
method Two alternative multi-scaling methodologies applied to 84 cryptocurrencies.
result Cryptocurrencies exhibit different degrees of long-range dependence and stochastic processes.

In this paper we study deep learning-based music source separation, and explore using an alternative loss to the standard spectrogram pixel-level L2 loss for model training. Our main contribution is in demonstrating that adding a high-level feature loss term, extracted from the spectrograms using a VGG net, can improve…

2019-01-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural language models are a powerful tool to embed words into semantic vector spaces. However, learning such models generally relies on the availability of abundant and diverse training examples. In highly specialised domains this requirement may not be met due to difficulties in obtaining a large corpus, or the limit…

2015-10-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper develops estimators for unbounded density ratios with applications in error control.

problem Estimating density ratios with unbounded domains and ranges.
method Least squares and logistic regression loss functions for density ratio estimation.
result Established upper bounds on estimation errors with optimal rates for unbounded density ratios.

mlpy is a Python Open Source Machine Learning library built on top of NumPy/SciPy and the GNU Scientific Libraries. mlpy provides a wide range of state-of-the-art machine learning methods for supervised and unsupervised problems and it is aimed at finding a reasonable compromise among modularity, maintainability, repro…

2012-02-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Unsupervised domain adaptation techniques have been successful for a wide range of problems where supervised labels are limited. The task is to classify an unlabeled `target' dataset by leveraging a labeled `source' dataset that comes from a slightly similar distribution. We propose metric-based adversarial discriminat…

2018-07-06abs ↗pdf ↗

New seq2seq model can copy entire spans, outperforming simpler models in editing tasks.

problem Editing documents or source code using seq2seq models with explicit token copying.
method Extended seq2seq model capable of copying entire input spans to output in one step, new training and inference methods.
result New model consistently outperforms simpler baselines in editing tasks of natural language and source code.