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48 results for target information

This paper improves error estimation in covariate shift by incorporating target information.

problem Error estimation is inaccurate in covariate shift scenarios.
method Proposes a redefinition of importance using target information for better error estimation.
result Incorporating target information leads to more accurate error estimation, especially with KLIEP.

A new pricing controller handles resource constraints to infer target prices effectively.

problem Resource constraints prevent fixed-price inference, leading to support exclusion.
method Formalizes support-exclusion failure, designs a target-aware controller, and uses a realized information clock.
result The controller can certify feasible target bands and log continuous local densities, leading to polynomial rates of inference.

This paper investigates the equilibrium interactions between trading targets and private information in a multi-period Kyle (1985) market. There are two investors who each follow dynamic trading strategies: A strategic portfolio rebalancer who engages in order splitting to reach a cumulative trading target and an uncon…

2015-02-07abs ↗pdf ↗

HiGraphDTI learns drug and target representations from molecular graphs to predict DTIs.

problem Inaccurate drug-target interaction prediction due to insufficient chemical information extraction.
method Hierarchical graph representation learning to extract chemical information from atoms, motifs, and molecules.
result HiGraphDTI outperforms state-of-the-art methods in DTI prediction and interaction interpretation.

Improves unsupervised domain adaptation by enforcing feature extractor to focus on task-relevant information.

problem Leveraging label information from source domain for accurate target domain models without labels.
method Variational Information Bottleneck (VBDA) method that explicitly enforces feature extractor to ignore irrelevant task factors.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods across three domain adaptation benchmark datasets.

AMI framework improves text generation by optimizing mutual information between source and target.

problem Previous MI approaches ignored the backward network, leading to loose variational bounds.
method AMI is a saddle point optimization framework that iteratively promotes and demotes generated instances.
result AMI significantly outperforms baselines on various text generation tasks.

In standard graph clustering/community detection, one is interested in partitioning the graph into more densely connected subsets of nodes. In contrast, the "search" problem of this paper aims to only find the nodes in a "single" such community, the target, out of the many communities that may exist. To do so , we are …

2018-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper analyzes the difficulty of unsupervised domain adaptation using information theory.

problem The challenge of unsupervised domain adaptation under covariate shift.
method Formulates the problem using a distribution π in the ground-truth triples (p, q, f), defines optimal learner performance, and introduces PTLU for quantifying difficulty.
result Characterizes the optimal learner and introduces PTLU as a measure of UDA difficulty.

Study suggests using information flow measures to target interventions in neural networks.

problem Identifying neural network edges that can be pruned to reduce bias.
method Used MM-information flow framework to measure and compare information flows about true labels and protected attributes, and evaluated pruning effects on bias reduction.
result Pruning edges with larger information flows about protected attributes reduces bias at the output.

HTAD predicts diagnoses from EHRs using target-aware attention.

problem Lack of specificity in aggregating clinical records for diagnosis prediction.
method Hierarchical target-attentive mechanism for EHRs.
result Target-aware attention significantly improves diagnosis prediction performance.

New method quantifies redundant information using information bottleneck.

problem Quantifying redundant information among multiple sources.
method Formulated as an information bottleneck problem, termed redundancy bottleneck.
result Extracts information that best predicts the target without revealing source identity.

This paper studies the problem of optimally allocating treatments in the presence of spillover effects, using information from a (quasi-)experiment. I introduce a method that maximizes the sample analog of average social welfare when spillovers occur. I construct semi-parametric welfare estimators with known and unknow…

2019-06-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Transfer learning is a very important tool in deep learning as it allows propagating information from one "source dataset" to another "target dataset", especially in the case of a small number of training examples in the latter. Yet, discrepancies between the underlying distributions of the source and target data are c…

2019-04-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhanced Bayesian target encoding uses sampling techniques to improve model performance.

problem Improving target encoding for better model performance in machine learning.
method Using sampling techniques in Bayesian target encoding to extract intra-category distribution information.
result Improves generalization and reduces target leakage in machine learning models.

This paper presents novel mixed-type Bayesian optimization (BO) algorithms to accelerate the optimization of a target objective function by exploiting correlated auxiliary information of binary type that can be more cheaply obtained, such as in policy search for reinforcement learning and hyperparameter tuning of machi…

2019-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a framework to identify and obfuscate sensitive features via information density estimation.

problem Identifying and protecting sensitive attributes from leakage in obfuscation mechanisms.
method Information density estimation to identify leaking features, followed by a targeted obfuscation mechanism.
result Proven leakage guarantee in terms of Eγ\mathsf{E}_γ-divergence for the obfuscation mechanism.

A new method improves target selection for manipulating complex systems like the brain.

problem Improper incorporation of low-variance outcomes into latent space of predictive models.
method Developed a novel objective based on supervised variational autoencoders (SVAEs) for PPCA (Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis).
result gPCR (Generative Principal Component Regression) dramatically improves target selection in manipulation compared to standard PCR and SVAEs.

CIB compresses variables causally, preserving key causal interactions.

problem Constructing causal variable abstractions in complex systems.
method Causal Information Bottleneck (CIB) method, extending IB to include causal structures.
result CIB produces causally interpretable abstractions that accurately capture causal relations.

Deep generative model discovers inhibitors for unknown targets.

problem Discovering novel inhibitor molecules for unknown drug targets.
method Deep generative framework trained on protein sequences, small molecules, and interactions.
result Micromolar-level inhibition observed for two out of four synthesized candidates, including activity against SARS-CoV-2 variants.

ICYM2I corrects missingness bias in multimodal learning.

problem Missingness patterns between source and target environments affect multimodal learning performance.
method ICYM2I uses inverse probability weighting to correct missingness bias in predictive performance and information gain.
result ICYM2I improves multimodal learning performance by accounting for missingness.

CONCERT improves transfer learning by borrowing partial information from auxiliary datasets.

problem Inefficiency of global similarity measures in transfer learning for high-dimensional data.
method Conditional spike-and-slab prior with covariate-specific priors for robust partial information transfer.
result CONCERT achieves variable selection and information transfer simultaneously, improving performance on the target.

The AAA credit rating may have been overly precise given available data.

problem The feasibility of achieving high reliability targets for structured credit products.
method Bayes' theorem and historical data analysis.
result High reliability targets for structured products require substantial statistical discrimination, which was not achievable with available data.

We propose an efficient transfer Bayesian optimization method, which finds the maximum of an expensive-to-evaluate black-box function by using data on related optimization tasks. Our method uses auxiliary information that represents the task characteristics to effectively transfer knowledge for estimating a distributio…

2019-09-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Study optimal bidding strategies for digital ads targeting purchases and health campaigns.

problem Optimizing advertising strategies in digital channels.
method Continuous-time models encoding user behavior and auction mechanisms, semi-explicit formulas for optimal bidding.
result Semi-explicit formulas for optimal value and bidding policy for different types of advertising.

Bayesian method mitigates negative transfer in unknown source data.

problem Negative transfer in transfer learning where target performance worsens after source data consideration.
method Proxy-informed robust method for probabilistic transfer learning (PROMPT).
result Negative transfer can be mitigated without prior knowledge of source data.

SIXO improves inference by learning smoothing distributions from all observations.

problem Inference limitations due to ignoring future observations in filtering distributions.
method Density ratio estimation to warp filtering distributions into smoothing distributions, then use SMC with learned targets.
result Proves tighter log marginal lower bounds and more accurate inferences and estimates.

Note that this paper is superceded by "Black-Box Adversarial Attacks with Limited Queries and Information." Current neural network-based image classifiers are susceptible to adversarial examples, even in the black-box setting, where the attacker is limited to query access without access to gradients. Previous methods -…

2017-12-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Matched filters reveal optimal normalization methods for different market participants.

problem Optimizing signal extraction from order flow for market microstructure analysis.
method General matched filter principle applied to normalization strategies.
result Optimal normalization methods (e.g., SMCS^{MC} and STVS^{TV}) differ based on trader types.

A Kernel Adaptive Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is introduced, for the purpose of sampling from a target distribution with strongly nonlinear support. The algorithm embeds the trajectory of the Markov chain into a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), such that the feature space covariance of the samples informs the…

2013-07-19abs ↗pdf ↗

A multi-step framework tackles online unsupervised domain adaptation with novel mean-target subspace computation.

problem Online unsupervised domain adaptation with unlabelled target data arriving sequentially.
method Multi-step framework with a novel mean-target subspace computation and temporal coherency consideration.
result Improved performance over previous approaches on four datasets.

In few-shot learning, a machine learning system learns from a small set of labelled examples relating to a specific task, such that it can generalize to new examples of the same task. Given the limited availability of labelled examples in such tasks, we wish to make use of all the information we can. Usually a model le…

2019-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a method to select features for subgroup datasets with systematic missing data.

problem Feature selection for datasets with subgroup structure and systematic missing data.
method Develops a heterogeneous graph neural network to propagate information between feature-subgroup-target variable connections.
result Demonstrates improved feature selection performance and scalability.

Malware detection is a popular application of Machine Learning for Information Security (ML-Sec), in which an ML classifier is trained to predict whether a given file is malware or benignware. Parameters of this classifier are typically optimized such that outputs from the model over a set of input samples most closely…

2019-03-13abs ↗pdf ↗