arXiv research

Study predicts academic achievement using students' support networks.

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

BDSG generates samples on distribution boundaries, improving anomaly detection.

Single ReLU neuron's gradient dynamics reveal support vectors as key to generalization.

Theory for deep neural network approximation of score function and its derivatives.

Study examines how bank holding structures affect financial stress spread.

Even though Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely celebrated for their practical performance, they possess many intriguing properties related to depth that are difficult to explain both theoretically and intuitively. Understanding how weights in deep networks coordinate together across layers to form useful learners h…

Neural networks perform differently when regression is treated as classification.

We propose Radial Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs): a variational approximate posterior for BNNs which scales well to large models while maintaining a distribution over weight-space with full support. Other scalable Bayesian deep learning methods, like MC dropout or deep ensembles, have discrete support-they assign zero…

We introduce a new, systematic framework for visualizing information flow in deep networks. Specifically, given any trained deep convolutional network model and a given test image, our method produces a compact support in the image domain that corresponds to a (high-resolution) feature that contributes to the given exp…

Morse neural networks improve uncertainty quantification and detection.

New models automate support group formation in online health communities.

We consider the problem of sparse phase retrieval from Fourier transform magnitudes to recover the $k$-sparse signal vector and its support $\mathcal{T}$. We exploit extended support estimate $\mathcal{E}$ with size larger than $k$ satisfying $\mathcal{E} \supseteq \mathcal{T}$ and obtained by a trained deep neural net…

Generative model uses random weighted support points for interpretable data sampling.

Amortizes MIPS by training neural networks to predict optimal keys.

Graph convolutional networks adapt the architecture of convolutional neural networks to learn rich representations of data supported on arbitrary graphs by replacing the convolution operations of convolutional neural networks with graph-dependent linear operations. However, these graph-dependent linear operations are d…

In this paper, we consider modelling interaction between a set of variables in the context of time series and high dimension. We suggest two approaches. The first is similar to the neighborhood lasso when the lasso model is replaced by a support vector machine (SVMs). The second is a restricted Bayesian network adapted…

Paper tackles efficient SVM classification over decentralized networks.

Unified approach to multiclass classification using Gabriel graphs.

Deep Learning Library (DLL) is a new library for machine learning with deep neural networks that focuses on speed. It supports feed-forward neural networks such as fully-connected Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). It also has very comprehensive support for Restricted Boltzmann …

Due to the extremely volatile nature of financial markets, it is commonly accepted that stock price prediction is a task full of challenge. However in order to make profits or understand the essence of equity market, numerous market participants or researchers try to forecast stock price using various statistical, econ…

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

Deep learning using multi-layer neural networks (NNs) architecture manifests superb power in modern machine learning systems. The trained Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are typically large. The question we would like to address is whether it is possible to simplify the NN during training process to achieve a reasonable pe…

The R package abn is designed to fit additive Bayesian models to observational datasets. It contains routines to score Bayesian networks based on Bayesian or information theoretic formulations of generalized linear models. It is equipped with exact search and greedy search algorithms to select the best network. It supp…

Hybrid Bayesian neural networks use function uncertainty for probabilistic inference.

Supporting evidence for adaptive feature program across diverse models.

A framework for transformer attention layers derived from SVR.

Recently, graph neural networks have been adopted in a wide variety of applications ranging from relational representations to modeling irregular data domains such as point clouds and social graphs. However, the space of graph neural network architectures remains highly fragmented impeding the development of optimized …

Deep RNNs excel at capturing long-term dependencies in sequential data.

We stabilize the Kumaraswamy distribution for efficient sampling and differentiation.

Deep, wide ConvResNets can approximate functions and their smoothness.

We introduce a novel generative autoencoder network model that learns to encode and reconstruct images with high quality and resolution, and supports smooth random sampling from the latent space of the encoder. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are known for their ability to simulate random high-quality images, bu…

Bayesian Optimization improves machine learning for detecting network attacks.

This work establishes the equivalence between neural networks and support vector machines.

Bayesian network (BN) modelling is extensively used in systems epidemiology. Usually it consists in selecting and reporting the best-fitting structure conditional to the data. A major practical concern is avoiding overfitting, on account of its extreme flexibility and its modelling richness. Many approaches have been p…

Can engineering neural networks be approached in a disciplined way similar to how engineers build software for civil aircraft? We present nn-dependability-kit, an open-source toolbox to support safety engineering of neural networks for autonomous driving systems. The rationale behind nn-dependability-kit is to consider…

Most recent semi-supervised deep learning (deep SSL) methods used a similar paradigm: use network predictions to update pseudo-labels and use pseudo-labels to update network parameters iteratively. However, they lack theoretical support and cannot explain why predictions are good candidates for pseudo-labels. In this p…

Decision tool helps manage biofouling risks for ships in the Baltic Sea.

Learning the influence structure of multiple time series data is of great interest to many disciplines. This paper studies the problem of recovering the causal structure in network of multivariate linear Hawkes processes. In such processes, the occurrence of an event in one process affects the probability of occurrence…

A family of recent successful approaches to few-shot learning relies on learning an embedding space in which predictions are made by computing similarities between examples. This corresponds to combining information between support and query examples at a very late stage of the prediction pipeline. Inspired by this obs…

T-SVM improves learning in spiking neurons by maximizing dynamical margin.

Gradient descent with large momentum finds flatter minima.

Future wireless networks have a substantial potential in terms of supporting a broad range of complex compelling applications both in military and civilian fields, where the users are able to enjoy high-rate, low-latency, low-cost and reliable information services. Achieving this ambitious goal requires new radio techn…

We show that gradient descent on full-width linear convolutional networks of depth $L$ converges to a linear predictor related to the $\ell_{2/L}$ bridge penalty in the frequency domain. This is in contrast to linearly fully connected networks, where gradient descent converges to the hard margin linear support vector m…

In recent years, neural networks have been extensively deployed for computer vision tasks, particularly visual classification problems, where new algorithms reported to achieve or even surpass the human performance. Recent studies have shown that they are all vulnerable to the attack of adversarial examples. Small and …

Proposes OCGNN for detecting anomalies in graph data.

This paper describes and evaluates the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for path planning in support of smart mobility applications such as indoor and outdoor navigation applications, individualized wayfinding for people with disabilities (e.g., vision impairments, physical disabilities, etc.), path planni…

Exact bounds derived for neural network outputs with noisy inputs.