Sparse coding approximates the data sample as a sparse linear combination of some basic codewords and uses the sparse codes as new presentations. In this paper, we investigate learning discriminative sparse codes by sparse coding in a semi-supervised manner, where only a few training samples are labeled. By using the m…
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Improves NILM with multi-label SRC, outperforming state-of-the-art.
problem Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) for energy disaggregation.
method Modified multi-label sparse representation based classification (SRC).
result Significant improvement over state-of-the-art techniques with minimal training data.
New method finds sparse networks without labels, improving performance.
problem Sparse connectivity in neural networks to reduce memory and energy demands.
method Neural Tangent Transfer method to find sparse networks without labels.
result Sparse networks achieve higher classification performance and faster convergence.
This paper investigates the computational complexity of sparse label propagation which has been proposed recently for processing network structured data. Sparse label propagation amounts to a convex optimization problem and might be considered as an extension of basis pursuit from sparse vectors to network structured d…
New method estimates graph compatibility from sparse labels.
problem Estimating graph compatibility from sparse labeled data.
method Factorized graph representations and algebraic amplification.
result End-to-end classification accuracy comparable to gold standard.
HopGAT improves node classification in sparsely labeled graphs by learning from distant neighbors.
problem Classifying nodes in sparsely labeled graphs with limited labeled data.
method Hop-aware supervision mechanism and simulated annealing learning strategy.
result The model achieves high accuracy even with 40% labeled data, reducing performance loss to 3.9%.
New method improves deep learning models robustness to label noise.
problem Improving deep learning models' robustness to corrupted labels.
method Sparse over-parameterization and implicit regularization.
result State-of-the-art test accuracy against label noise on various datasets.
HERA: Partial Label Learning by Combining Heterogeneous Loss with Sparse and Low-Rank Regularizationcs.LG
Partial Label Learning (PLL) aims to learn from the data where each training instance is associated with a set of candidate labels, among which only one is correct. Most existing methods deal with such problem by either treating each candidate label equally or identifying the ground-truth label iteratively. In this pap…
Efficiently learns sparse halfspaces with noisy labels.
problem Learning sparse halfspaces with arbitrary bounded noise.
method Polynomial time algorithm for active learning with improved label complexity.
result First efficient algorithm with label complexity polynomial in .
Study improves model robustness in noisy datasets.
problem Instance-specific label noise in robust classification tasks.
method Coordinated Sparse Recovery (CSR) method introduces a collaboration matrix and confidence weights to reduce generalization error.
result CSR and CSR+ significantly reduce generalization error compared to existing methods.
A fast method for discrete OT with group-sparse regularization for class label preservation.
problem Efficiently measuring the distance between two discrete distributions with class labels.
method Fast discrete OT with group-sparse regularizers using gradient-based algorithms.
result Up to 8.6 times faster than original method without degrading accuracy.
In semi-supervised learning for classification, it is assumed that every ground truth class of data is present in the small labelled dataset. Many real-world sparsely-labelled datasets are plausibly not of this type. It could easily be the case that some classes of data are found only in the unlabelled dataset -- perha…
Machine learning has played an important role in information retrieval (IR) in recent times. In search engines, for example, query keywords are accepted and documents are returned in order of relevance to the given query; this can be cast as a multi-label ranking problem in machine learning. Generally, the number of ca…
SJS model predicts label shifts in multinomial datasets.
problem Predicting label shifts in multinomial datasets.
method Sparse joint shift model for dataset shift.
result Valid predictions and class prior probabilities estimates.
This paper proposes a method to select relevant features for multi-label learning.
problem Feature selection in multi-label learning to retain important information with minimal features.
method Random manifold sampling and joint sparse regularization to solve multicollinearity and obtain sparse feature sets.
result The proposed method outperforms other methods in selecting relevant features for multi-label learning.
Paper tackles noisy labels in deep learning networks.
problem Learning with noisy labels in deep neural networks.
method Sparse regularization strategy to approximate one-hot constraint.
result Improves performance of commonly-used loss functions in noisy labels and class imbalance.
Visual reranking is effective to improve the performance of the text-based video search. However, existing reranking algorithms can only achieve limited improvement because of the well-known semantic gap between low level visual features and high level semantic concepts. In this paper, we adopt interactive video search…
Rotation invariant algorithms fail with hard labels sampled from sparse targets.
problem Rotation invariant algorithms fail to learn from hard labels sampled from sparse targets.
method Proving the excess risk of rotation invariant algorithms and proposing a simple non-rotation invariant algorithm.
result Rotation invariant algorithms incur an excess risk of $Ω\left(\frac{d-1}{n}
ight)$, while non-rotation invariant algorithms have an excess risk of $O\left(\frac{s\log d}{n}
ight).
In multi-label learning, each sample is associated with several labels. Existing works indicate that exploring correlations between labels improve the prediction performance. However, embedding the label correlations into the training process significantly increases the problem size. Moreover, the mapping of the label …
An efficient algorithm identifies labels from sparse pooled data.
problem Identify unknown labels from condensed measurements of items.
method Design an efficient algorithm based on novel pooling scheme.
result Resolves statistical-to-computational gap in minimum pools needed.
In this paper we formally analyse the use of sparse filtering algorithms to perform covariate shift adaptation. We provide a theoretical analysis of sparse filtering by evaluating the conditions required to perform covariate shift adaptation. We prove that sparse filtering can perform adaptation only if the conditional…
Paper tackles sparse recovery with shuffled labels, establishing statistical and computational limits.
problem Sparse recovery with shuffled labels, focusing on permutation matrix and sparse signal reconstruction.
method Statistical and computational analysis, including minimax lower bounds and exhaustive-search based estimator.
result Established statistical and computational limits for correct recovery of permutation matrix and support set.
This paper models the crowdsourced labeling/classification problem as a sparsely encoded source coding problem, where each query answer, regarded as a code bit, is the XOR of a small number of labels, as source information bits. In this paper we leverage the connections between this problem and well-studied codes with …
Sparse coding has been popularly used as an effective data representation method in various applications, such as computer vision, medical imaging and bioinformatics, etc. However, the conventional sparse coding algorithms and its manifold regularized variants (graph sparse coding and Laplacian sparse coding), learn th…
Efficient algorithms recover two sparse models from a mix of linear queries.
problem Recovering two sparse models from a mix of linear queries.
method Efficient algorithms for query complexity problem.
result Improved query complexity for model recovery.
New algorithms detect communities in sparse graphs with labeled data.
problem Detecting communities in sparse graphs with limited labeled data.
method Introduces two algorithms: combinatorial and optimization-based, to integrate labeled data with graph structures.
result Detection of communities is feasible throughout the parameter domain with arbitrary labeled data.
We study the problem of efficient PAC active learning of homogeneous linear classifiers (halfspaces) in , where the goal is to learn a halfspace with low error using as few label queries as possible. Under the extra assumption that there is a -sparse halfspace that performs well on the data ()…
SOLAR improves search efficiency and accuracy with sparse, orthogonal embeddings.
problem Bottleneck of indexing large dense vectors and NNS for query efficiency and accuracy.
method Proposes SOLAR embeddings: sparse, orthogonal, learned, and random vectors across multiple GPUs.
result Successfully trains 500K dimensional SOLAR embeddings for 1.6M books and multi-label classification.
Sparse Mixed Linear Regression with Guarantees: Taming an Intractable Problem with Invex Relaxationcs.LG
Paper solves NP-hard sparse mixed linear regression problem with provable guarantees.
problem Sparse mixed linear regression on unlabeled data.
method Invex relaxation for intractable problem with theoretical guarantees.
result Exact recovery of data labels and close approximation of regression parameters.
There has been a recent interest in understanding the power of local algorithms for optimization and inference problems on sparse graphs. Gamarnik and Sudan (2014) showed that local algorithms are weaker than global algorithms for finding large independent sets in sparse random regular graphs. Montanari (2015) showed t…
MILCCI integrates labels across categories for better understanding of multi-trial data.
problem Understanding how labels encode multi-trial observations and disentangling their effects.
method Sparse per-trial decomposition leveraging label similarities within each category.
result MILCCI identifies interpretable components and integrates label information.
Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) with group sparsity constraints is formulated as a probabilistic graphical model and, assuming some observed data have been generated by the model, a feasible variational Bayesian algorithm is derived for learning model parameters. When used in a supervised learning scenario, NMF …
Semi-supervised learning improves classification in high dimensions.
problem Combining labeled and unlabeled data for high-dimensional classification.
method Information theoretic and computational lower bounds analysis for feature selection.
result Semi-supervised learning is advantageous for classification in high dimensions.
Paper proposes SJS model to estimate model performance under covariate and label shifts.
problem Estimating model performance when both covariates and labels shift.
method Sparse Joint Shift (SJS) model and SEES algorithm.
result SEES achieves significant shift estimation error improvements over existing approaches.
Unified framework for clustering with sparse convex combinations.
problem Challenges in subspace clustering with limited labelled data.
method Spectral-based sparse subspace representation with extensions to constrained and active learning.
result Effective and competitive clustering results on simulated and real data.
Extreme multi-label classification refers to supervised multi-label learning involving hundreds of thousands or even millions of labels. Datasets in extreme classification exhibit fit to power-law distribution, i.e. a large fraction of labels have very few positive instances in the data distribution. Most state-of-the-…
SDSPCAAN combines supervised and local data structures for better dimensionality reduction.
problem Preserving both global and local data structures for noisy high-dimensional data.
method Supervised discriminative sparse PCA with adaptive neighbors (SDSPCAAN).
result SDSPCAAN improves classification accuracy on high-dimensional datasets.
This paper tackles multilabel classification by exploiting label sparsity and hierarchy.
problem Sparse label vectors and unknown label hierarchy in large-scale multilabel classification problems.
method Data-dependent grouping and hierarchical partitioning to solve multilabel classification problems in a lower-dimensional space.
result Our methods achieve competitive accuracy with significantly lower computational costs compared to other methods.
This work proposes a novel method for semi-supervised learning from partially labeled massive network-structured datasets, i.e., big data over networks. We model the underlying hypothesis, which relates data points to labels, as a graph signal, defined over some graph (network) structure intrinsic to the dataset. Follo…
Dirichlet Active Learningstat.ML
DiAL uses Bayesian Dirichlet random fields for active learning with sparse labels.
problem Active learning with limited labeled data.
method Bayesian Dirichlet random field for feature-conditional class probabilities, calibrating with graph Laplacian.
result Competitive performance in low-label rate graph learning tasks.
New approach uses unlabeled prior data to accelerate exploration in sparse reward tasks.
problem Sparse reward tasks in reinforcement learning.
method Learn reward model from online experience, label prior data, and use concurrently.
result Rapid exploration in challenging sparse-reward domains.
It is well-known that exploiting label correlations is crucially important to multi-label learning. Most of the existing approaches take label correlations as prior knowledge, which may not correctly characterize the real relationships among labels. Besides, label correlations are normally used to regularize the hypoth…
Improves key instance detection in MIL models by using neural network inversion with sparseness constraint.
problem Limited key instance detection performance in attention-based deep MIL models due to skewed attention scores.
method Sparse network inversion with a sparseness constraint incorporated into neural network inversion, solved by proximal gradient method.
result Significantly improved key instance detection performance while maintaining bag-level prediction performance.
In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised dictionary learning method that uses both the information in labelled and unlabelled data and jointly trains a linear classifier embedded on the sparse codes. The manifold structure of the data in the sparse code space is preserved using the same approach as the Locally Linea…
Inducing sparseness while training neural networks has been shown to yield models with a lower memory footprint but similar effectiveness to dense models. However, sparseness is typically induced starting from a dense model, and thus this advantage does not hold during training. We propose techniques to enforce sparsen…
Proposes a semi-supervised K-Means algorithm for better feature selection.
problem Data clustering with unknown feature quality and limited labelled data.
method Combines unsupervised sparse clustering and semi-supervised learning with labelled data.
result The algorithm identifies informative features and maintains high performance.
Sparse coding has shown its power as an effective data representation method. However, up to now, all the sparse coding approaches are limited within the single domain learning problem. In this paper, we extend the sparse coding to cross domain learning problem, which tries to learn from a source domain to a target dom…
We present a method for training multi-label, massively multi-class image classification models, that is faster and more accurate than supervision via a sigmoid cross-entropy loss (logistic regression). Our method consists in embedding high-dimensional sparse labels onto a lower-dimensional dense sphere of unit-normed …