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48 results for support learning

A new method combines online and offline learning to tackle contextual bandits with missing action support.

problem Learning optimal policies with logged data when the logging policy has deficient support.
method Hybrid approach using online exploration to exploit supported actions and offline learning to avoid unnecessary explorations.
result Determines an optimal policy with theoretical guarantees using minimal online explorations.

The paper improves support recovery in high-dimensional precision matrix estimation using meta learning.

problem Support recovery in high-dimensional precision matrix estimation with reduced sample complexity.
method Pooling samples from different tasks and using an improper 1\ell_1-regularized log-determinant Bregman divergence to estimate a single precision matrix.
result The support of the improperly estimated single precision matrix is equal to the true support union with high probability.

Neural networks learn the support of the target function through SGD's implicit regularization effect.

problem Learning the support of the target function in neural networks.
method Investigation of mini-batch SGD's ability to learn the support in the first layer of a neural network.
result Mini-batch SGD effectively learns the support in the first layer by shrinking irrelevant weights, while vanilla GD requires an explicit regularization term.

Federated learning supports exact support recovery with minimal communication.

problem Learning the exact support of sparse linear regression in federated learning.
method One-shot communication algorithm for exact support recovery without optimization.
result Polynomial sample complexity and logarithmic number of clients required.

Dictionary learning is a popular approach for inferring a hidden basis or dictionary in which data has a sparse representation. Data generated from the dictionary A (an n by m matrix, with m > n in the over-complete setting) is given by Y = AX where X is a matrix whose columns have supports chosen from a distribution o…

2018-04-23abs ↗pdf ↗

DeepSupp detects financial support levels using attention mechanisms.

problem Traditional SR identification methods fail to adapt to modern markets.
method Multi-head attention mechanisms, dynamic correlation matrices, DBSCAN clustering.
result DeepSupp outperforms six baseline methods across six financial metrics.

Support vector machines have attracted much attention in theoretical and in applied statistics. Main topics of recent interest are consistency, learning rates and robustness. In this article, it is shown that support vector machines are qualitatively robust. Since support vector machines can be represented by a functio…

2009-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Adversarial Imitation Learning (AIL) is a broad family of imitation learning methods designed to mimic expert behaviors from demonstrations. While AIL has shown state-of-the-art performance on imitation learning with only small number of demonstrations, it faces several practical challenges such as potential training i…

2020-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

In this short note we observe that the sample complexity of PAC machine learning of various concepts, including learning the maximum (EMX), can be exactly determined when the support of the probability measures considered as models satisfies an a-priori bound. This result contrasts with the recently discovered undecida…

2020-02-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Support vector data description (SVDD) is a machine learning technique that is used for single-class classification and outlier detection. The idea of SVDD is to find a set of support vectors that defines a boundary around data. When dealing with online or large data, existing batch SVDD methods have to be rerun in eac…

2017-09-01abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method improves few-shot learning by combining ProtoNet with LFD.

problem Few-shot learning struggles with high variance support sets.
method Combines ProtoNet with Local Fisher Discriminant Analysis.
result Superior classification accuracy on miniImageNet and tieredImageNet.

New models automate support group formation in online health communities.

problem Challenges in traditional support group formation methods for scalability, static categorization, and insufficient personalization.
method Two novel machine learning models: gDMR and gSTM, integrating user content, demographics, and network data.
result Models outperform baselines in predictive accuracy, semantic coherence, and internal group consistency.

IllinoisSL is a Java library for learning structured prediction models. It supports structured Support Vector Machines and structured Perceptron. The library consists of a core learning module and several applications, which can be executed from command-lines. Documentation is provided to guide users. In Comparison to …

2015-09-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Integrating causal machine learning with inherently interpretable models for decision support.

problem Providing causal insights and decision support through machine learning models.
method Proposing an approach that integrates causal machine learning with inherently interpretable models.
result The proposed approach achieves competitive performance in prediction and what-if analysis while offering transparency on the system structure, causal relationships among variables, and functional forms connecting them.

We propose an efficient distributed online learning protocol for low-latency real-time services. It extends a previously presented protocol to kernelized online learners that represent their models by a support vector expansion. While such learners often achieve higher predictive performance than their linear counterpa…

2019-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Framework for AI customer support that protects privacy and reduces costs.

problem Privacy risks and compliance challenges in AI customer support.
method Zero-shot learning with large language models, real-time data anonymization, retrieval-augmented generation, robust post-processing.
result Reduces privacy risks and compliance costs while maintaining accuracy.

We study a regularizer which is defined as a parameterized infimum of quadratics, and which we call the box-norm. We show that the k-support norm, a regularizer proposed by [Argyriou et al, 2012] for sparse vector prediction problems, belongs to this family, and the box-norm can be generated as a perturbation of the fo…

2015-12-27abs ↗pdf ↗

The main goal of statistical learning theory is to provide a fundamental framework for the problem of decision making and model construction based on sets of data. Here, we present a brief introduction to the fundamentals of statistical learning theory, in particular the difference between empirical and structural risk…

2019-02-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Tuning SVM and boosting models using optimization algorithms.

problem Tuning parameters for SVM and boosting models across various datasets.
method Used grid search to identify parameter ranges and optimization algorithms to select models.
result Optimization algorithms outperformed grid search in selecting well-performing models.

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms allow artificial agents to improve their selection of actions to increase rewarding experiences in their environments. Temporal Difference (TD) Learning -- a model-free RL method -- is a leading account of the midbrain dopamine system and the basal ganglia in reinforcement learnin…

2019-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

MPWTSVM improves multi-view learning by reducing redundancy and enhancing accuracy.

problem Improving multi-view learning models for better accuracy and efficiency.
method Proposes MPWTSVM, which combines WLTSVM's strengths with multi-view learning principles.
result Demonstrates better accuracy and efficiency compared to existing multi-view classification models.

There has been growing interest in extending traditional vector-based machine learning techniques to their tensor forms. An example is the support tensor machine (STM) that utilizes a rank-one tensor to capture the data structure, thereby alleviating the overfitting and curse of dimensionality problems in the conventio…

2018-04-17abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper presents a kernel-based discriminative learning framework on probability measures. Rather than relying on large collections of vectorial training examples, our framework learns using a collection of probability distributions that have been constructed to meaningfully represent training data. By representing …

2012-02-29abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper improves support recovery in universal one-bit compressed sensing with fewer measurements.

problem Support recovery in universal one-bit compressed sensing.
method Developed algorithms to recover the support of sparse signals with a small number of false positives.
result Support recovery with ildeO(k3/2) ilde{O}(k^{3/2}) measurements, improving to ildeO(k) ilde{O}(k) with known dynamic range.

Reconstructing polytopes with fixed facet directions from support function evaluations.

problem Reconstructing polytopes with known facet directions from limited data.
method Least-squares estimate via convex quadratic program, combinatorial characterization for uniqueness, algorithm convergence.
result The least-squares estimate for a fixed simplicial normal fan is a convex quadratic program, and the solution is unique under certain conditions.

Flexible tree ensemble learning framework supports arbitrary loss functions and multi-task learning.

problem Limited modeling capabilities of existing tree ensemble learning toolkits.
method Differentiable tree ensembles with tensor-based formulation for efficient training.
result Our framework leads to 100x more compact and 23% more expressive tree ensembles.

A new method enhances signal recovery with FDR control.

problem Challenging signal recovery in compressive sensing.
method Knockoff-guided compressive sensing framework with FDR control.
result Guaranteed FDR control leads to more accurate signal reconstruction.

We consider the problem of learning a classifier from observed functional data. Here, each data-point takes the form of a single time-series and contains numerous features. Assuming that each such series comes with a binary label, the problem of learning to predict the label of a new coming time-series is considered. H…

2020-02-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Sparse Gaussian processes with compact kernels for faster inference.

problem Efficient Gaussian process inference with high computational complexity.
method Parametric families of compactly-supported kernels for sparse matrix representations.
result Sub-quadratic inference complexity and improved performance on real-world tasks.