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48 results for statistical cleaning

Improved robust regression with clean covariates achieves better rates than Huber's model.

problem Robust regression under adaptive contamination of responses with clean covariates.
method Exploiting clean covariates to construct an estimator achieving better rates than Huber's model.
result Improved estimation rate even with constant contamination, achieving consistency.

The US Census Bureau corrupts data to protect privacy, but we show how to clean and analyze it effectively.

problem Analyzing Census data with intentional corruption to maintain privacy.
method Formulated a semiparametric model, proposed data cleaning, estimation, and inference procedures.
result Demonstrated that data cleaning can maintain precision and provided theoretical and empirical support.

We apply basic statistical reasoning to signal reconstruction by machine learning -- learning to map corrupted observations to clean signals -- with a simple and powerful conclusion: it is possible to learn to restore images by only looking at corrupted examples, at performance at and sometimes exceeding training using…

2018-03-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper tackles label noise in large datasets, purifying noisy data with a nonparametric framework.

problem Label noise in large-scale datasets with coarse labels.
method Develops a model-agnostic nonparametric framework for classification.
result Framework purifies noisy data using a small clean dataset and manages ambiguous samples.

Study connects covariance cleaning theory to information theory for heavy-tailed distributions.

problem Optimizing covariance matrices for heavy-tailed distributions using information theory.
method Minimizing Frobenius norm and information loss between true and estimated covariance matrices.
result Asymptotic regime of large matrices minimizes information loss for Student's t distributions.

Deep learning models are vulnerable to various adversarial manipulations of their training data, parameters, and input sample. In particular, an adversary can modify the training data and model parameters to embed backdoors into the model, so the model behaves according to the adversary's objective if the input contain…

2019-05-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural networks learn clean data patterns first, then noisy data, leading to improved performance initially but deteriorating later.

problem Improvement in prediction error on clean data during early training of neural networks with noisy labels.
method Theoretical analysis and experiments to explore the dynamics of gradient descent and the impact of clean and noisy data.
result Neural networks prioritize learning clean data patterns first, leading to improved performance initially but deteriorating later due to diminishing gradient dominance of clean samples over noisy ones.

The paper cleans label noise in supervised classification using Bernoulli sampling.

problem Label noise degrades supervised classifier performance.
method Proposes a label noise cleaning method based on Bernoulli random sampling.
result The method separates clean and noisy observations without prior label information.

SPECTRE defends against backdoor attacks by amplifying corrupted data's spectral signature.

problem Backdoor attacks that change model behavior with specific triggers.
method Robust covariance estimation to amplify spectral signature of poisoned data.
result Clean model is completely removed from backdoor, even in hard-to-detect cases.

PClean automates Bayesian data cleaning for specific datasets.

problem Bayesian inference for diverse and complex data cleaning.
method Domain-specific probabilistic programming language with custom models and inference.
result PClean programs outperform general-purpose PPLs in accuracy and runtime.

It is known that evaluating a certain approximation to the Jones polynomial for the plat closure of a braid is a BQP-complete problem. That is, this problem exactly captures the power of the quantum circuit model. The one clean qubit model is a model of quantum computation in which all but one qubit starts in the maxim…

2007-07-19abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes how conformal prediction works with contaminated reference data.

problem The impact of contamination on the validity and power of conformal prediction methods.
method The paper analyzes the impact of contamination on the validity of conformal methods and proposes a data-cleaning framework to enhance power.
result The proposed data-cleaning framework can effectively enhance power while maintaining type-I error control.

Study improves resilience against adversarial clean-label attacks in real and noisy settings.

problem Ensuring accurate predictions in the presence of adversarial clean-label samples.
method Sequential learning from a stream of i.i.d. data, allowing abstention for uncertain predictions.
result Theoretical analysis and adaptations for the agnostic setting with a clean-label adversary and noise.

Trimming helps in conformal prediction when it separates anomaly scores.

problem Effectiveness of trimming in conformal prediction under contamination.
method Analyse fixed-threshold trimming as a replacement of the contaminated calibration law with a retained law.
result Trimming helps when it separates anomaly scores, reducing clean-target coverage to a one-dimensional score-CDF transfer problem.

New image restoration method using localized patches and external databases.

problem Image restoration challenges.
method Localized structured prediction and non-linear multi-task learning for optimizing a penalized energy function.
result Strong statistical guarantees and practical effectiveness demonstrated on various image restoration problems.

New method improves false-/true-positive-rate estimation in fraud detection with noisy labels.

problem Estimating FPR/TPR in fraud detection with class-conditional label noise.
method Directly cleaning model's validation data to de-correlate cleaning error with model scores.
result Improves accuracy of FPR/TPR estimates, especially in asymmetric label noise scenarios.

Improved portfolio optimization method yields better risk-adjusted returns.

problem Optimizing global minimum variance portfolios with reduced risk.
method k-fold boosted kk-BAHC covariance cleaning procedure for correlation matrices.
result Our method outperforms other filtering methods in Sharpe ratios, despite higher turnover.

SSMs can be poisoned with clean labels, leading to generalization failure.

problem The implicit bias of SSMs can be manipulated by including special training examples with clean labels.
method Formal proof and empirical demonstration of the phenomenon.
result SSMs can fail to generalize even with clean labels, due to the inclusion of special training examples.

Cincer cleans both new and past data by identifying and relabeling suspicious and counter-examples.

problem Sequential learning under label noise, especially in applications with human supervision.
method Cincer uses example-based explanations to identify and relabel suspicious and counter-examples, leveraging Fisher information matrix approximation.
result Cincer achieves better data and models by clarifying the model's suspicions, especially with FIM approximation.

In this paper, we present a reverberation removal approach for speaker verification, utilizing dual-label deep neural networks (DNNs). The networks perform feature mapping between the spectral features of reverberant and clean speech. Long short term memory recurrent neural networks (LSTMs) are trained to map corrupted…

2018-09-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Adversarial training leads to clean data generalization with significant robust overfitting gap.

problem Significant robust generalization gap in adversarial training.
method Two theoretical views: representation complexity and training dynamics.
result ReLU nets with O(ND)O(N D) extra parameters can achieve CGRO.

Self-supervised method predicts clean signal and noise distribution from noisy images.

problem Blind denoising and noise estimation in biomedical images with limited clean data.
method Two neural networks jointly predict clean signal and noise distribution from noisy observations.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms on six biomedical image datasets.

New findings explain why online methods outperform offline methods in noisy expert feedback settings.

problem The challenge of learning from imperfect expert feedback in sequential decision-making systems.
method Introduced a noisy expert model and a novel variant of on-policy distillation (OPD) to address the gap between offline and online imitation learning.
result Online interaction with a noisy expert via OPD enables polynomial dependence on the horizon, unlike offline methods which require exponential growth in sample complexity.

For a real valued periodic smooth function u on R, n0n\ge 0, one defines the osculating polynomial φsφ_s (of order 2n+1) at a point sRs\in R to be the unique trigonometric polynomial of degree n, whose value and first 2n derivatives at s coincide with those of u at s. We will say that a point s is a clean maximal flex …

2001-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhances deep learning robustness to noise without sacrificing clean data accuracy.

problem Robustness of deep neural networks to input noise.
method Discriminative loss at penultimate layer and class-wise feature alignment with Gaussian noise.
result Improves robustness to various perturbations without degrading clean data accuracy.

Image classification problems are typically addressed by first collecting examples with candidate labels, second cleaning the candidate labels manually, and third training a deep neural network on the clean examples. The manual labeling step is often the most expensive one as it requires workers to label millions of im…

2019-10-20abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method aggregates generative classifiers to resist adversarial attacks.

problem Adversarial attacks on deep neural networks.
method Rank-aggregating ensemble of generative classifiers trained on intermediate layer responses.
result The ensemble of generative classifiers shows robustness to adversarial attacks.

New method generates clean data from corrupted observations.

problem Generating clean data from corrupted observations.
method Iterative update of a transport map using black-box corruption channel access.
result Converges to a self-consistent transport map that effectively inverts the corruption channel.

Study proposes a clustering and logistic regression algorithm for PU classification under Non-SCAR.

problem PU classification under Non-SCAR condition when SCAR condition is unsatisfied.
method 2-means clustering followed by logistic regression.
result Efficacy of the proposed algorithm demonstrated on 11 real data sets and a synthetic set.

CROP verifies clean prefixes in reasoning traces, improving downstream repair accuracy.

problem Uncertainty in reasoning traces prevents full certification of entire responses.
method CROP selects a calibrated threshold to certify the longest prefix with low risk proxies.
result CROP improves downstream repair accuracy by preserving valid reasoning and discarding misleading suffixes.

Label noise may affect the generalization of classifiers, and the effective learning of main patterns from samples with noisy labels is an important challenge. Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks tend to prioritize the learning of simple patterns over the memorization of noise patterns. This suggests a …

2018-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper explores the following question: what kind of statistical guarantees can be given when doing variable selection in high-dimensional models? In particular, we look at the error rates and power of some multi-stage regression methods. In the first stage we fit a set of candidate models. In the second stage we s…

2007-04-09abs ↗pdf ↗