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48 results for unseen conditions

A deep generative model learns from seen and unseen classes without explicit training data.

problem Overcoming zero-shot learning with unseen classes.
method Variational auto-encoder with class-specific multi-modal prior, iteratively generating and learning unseen data.
result Outperforms models trained only on seen classes and state-of-the-art methods.

New model generates unseen attribute combinations from limited data.

problem Lack of generalization in deep generative models for unseen attribute combinations.
method Introduces multilinear latent conditioning to capture multiplicative interactions.
result Demonstrates effectiveness on MNIST, Fashion-MNIST, and CelebA datasets.

Study on diagnosing unseen medical conditions using open-set learning.

problem Training models for unseen medical conditions is impractical.
method Frame diagnosis as an open-set learning problem, compare state-of-the-art approaches, and experiment with distributed training data.
result Explicitly modeling unseen conditions leads to consistent gains, but optimal training strategy varies.

We present a simple generative framework for learning to predict previously unseen classes, based on estimating class-attribute-gated class-conditional distributions. We model each class-conditional distribution as an exponential family distribution and the parameters of the distribution of each seen/unseen class are d…

2017-07-25abs ↗pdf ↗

MIRRAMS framework tackles robust tabular learning under unseen missingness shifts.

problem Challenges in achieving robust predictive performance due to shifts in missingness distribution between training and test inputs.
method Introduces MI robustness conditions and MIRRAMS framework to enforce these conditions without specific missingness assumptions.
result Consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art baselines and maintains stable performance under diverse missingness conditions.

OwMatch improves open-world semi-supervised learning by self-labeling and consistency.

problem Misclassification of unseen classes in open-world semi-supervised learning.
method Conditional self-labeling and open-world hierarchical thresholding.
result OwMatch enhances performance across known and unknown classes.

Neural network models that are not conditioned on class identities were shown to facilitate knowledge transfer between classes and to be well-suited for one-shot learning tasks. Following this motivation, we further explore and establish such models and present a novel neural network architecture for the task of weakly…

2018-01-10abs ↗pdf ↗

In this work we present a technique to use natural language to help reinforcement learning generalize to unseen environments. This technique uses neural machine translation, specifically the use of encoder-decoder networks, to learn associations between natural language behavior descriptions and state-action informatio…

2017-07-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Concept modulation models unify identifiability and extrapolation in conditional latent variable models.

problem Reliable generalization in conditional latent variable models
method Concept modulation models (CMMs) with structure AoΛoCoXA o Λ o C o X
result Lifts identifiability to conditional settings and controls extrapolation through attribute potentials.

Learning to classify unseen class samples at test time is popularly referred to as zero-shot learning (ZSL). If test samples can be from training (seen) as well as unseen classes, it is a more challenging problem due to the existence of strong bias towards seen classes. This problem is generally known as \emph{generali…

2019-09-10abs ↗pdf ↗

HGKT transfers knowledge from seen to unseen classes in GZSL without prior unseen class info.

problem Learning to classify unseen classes in GZSL.
method Structured heterogeneous graph with graph neural network for knowledge transfer.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results on public benchmark datasets.

SURGIN uses generative models to infer subsurface flow data efficiently.

problem Inefficient and task-specific inversion methods for subsurface multiphase flow.
method SURGIN integrates U-FNO surrogate with SGM for zero-shot conditional generation.
result Decent inference of heterogeneous geological fields and flow dynamics with uncertainty quantification.

CNNs improve generalization to unseen audio devices with increased width, not depth.

problem CNNs are sensitive to specific audio recording devices in acoustic scene classification.
method Investigated the relationship between over-parameterization and generalization in CNNs for audio classification.
result Increasing width improves generalization to unseen devices without increasing the number of parameters.

Many problems in image processing and computer vision (e.g. colorization, style transfer) can be posed as 'manipulating' an input image into a corresponding output image given a user-specified guiding signal. A holy-grail solution towards generic image manipulation should be able to efficiently alter an input image wit…

2017-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Effective implementations of sampling-based probabilistic inference often require manually constructed, model-specific proposals. Inspired by recent progresses in meta-learning for training learning agents that can generalize to unseen environments, we propose a meta-learning approach to building effective and generali…

2017-08-21abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper explores conditions for neural networks to extrapolate to new domains.

problem Understanding when neural networks can extrapolate to unseen domains.
method Analyzes conditions for nonlinear models to extrapolate under specific distribution shifts.
result Neural networks of the form f(x)=fi(xi)f(x)=\sum f_i(x_i) can extrapolate if feature covariance is well-conditioned.

Paper introduces effect-invariance for better policy generalization.

problem Adapting policies to unseen environments efficiently.
method Introduces effect-invariance, a relaxation of full invariance, and develops testing procedures to test e-invariance directly from data.
result Effect-invariance enables zero-shot and few-shot policy generalization without assuming a causal graph.

This paper studies how gradient descent in control systems can perform well on unseen data.

problem The extent of a learned controller's ability to extrapolate to unseen initial states.
method Theoretical study of policy gradient in Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problems, focusing on the role of exploration.
result The performance of a learned controller on unseen initial states depends on the degree of exploration induced by the system.

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a framework to classify images belonging to unseen classes based on solely semantic information about these unseen classes. In this paper, we propose a new ZSL algorithm using coupled dictionary learning. The core idea is that the visual features and the semantic attributes of an image can s…

2019-06-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent metric-based meta-learning approaches, which learn a metric space that generalizes well over combinatorial number of different classification tasks sampled from a task distribution, have been shown to be effective for few-shot classification tasks of unseen classes. They are often trained with episodic training …

2019-08-05abs ↗pdf ↗

GEN tackles few-shot out-of-graph link prediction in evolving multi-relational graphs.

problem Predicting links between unseen nodes in evolving multi-relational graphs with few edges per node.
method Transductive meta-learning framework (GEN) for inductive and transductive inference.
result GEN significantly outperforms relevant baselines for out-of-graph link prediction tasks.

HiDe learns hierarchical control for complex tasks by separating planning and control.

problem Solving long horizon control tasks with generalization to unseen scenarios.
method Functional decomposition of state-action spaces, RL-based planner, modular transfer of policy layers.
result Generalizes across unseen test environments and scales to longer horizons.

Low-dimensional embeddings of nodes in large graphs have proved extremely useful in a variety of prediction tasks, from content recommendation to identifying protein functions. However, most existing approaches require that all nodes in the graph are present during training of the embeddings; these previous approaches …

2017-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

HCNAF models complex conditional distributions for probabilistic occupancy forecasting.

problem Modeling complex conditional probability density functions for occupancy forecasting.
method Hyper-Conditioned Neural Autoregressive Flow (HCNAF) combining AF and hyper-network.
result HCNAF achieves state-of-the-art performance in self-driving datasets.

We present a generative framework for generalized zero-shot learning where the training and test classes are not necessarily disjoint. Built upon a variational autoencoder based architecture, consisting of a probabilistic encoder and a probabilistic conditional decoder, our model can generate novel exemplars from seen/…

2017-12-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Given samples from a distribution, how many new elements should we expect to find if we continue sampling this distribution? This is an important and actively studied problem, with many applications ranging from unseen species estimation to genomics. We generalize this extrapolation and related unseen estimation proble…

2017-07-12abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a novel framework for multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL). Using a variational inference formulation, we learn policies that generalize across both changing dynamics and goals. The resulting policies are parametrized by shared parameters that allow for transfer between different dynamics and goal condit…

2019-06-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Improves speech recognition in noisy environments using robust acoustic models.

problem Adverse environments with significant mismatch between training and test conditions.
method Theoretical analysis of data augmentation as vicinal risk minimization, using mixture of Gaussians to incorporate robust inductive bias.
result Waveform-based approach shows 150% relative improvement in out-of-distribution generalization.

Proposes DFDG for robust domain generalization without source domain labels.

problem Robustness of deep learning models in real-world applications where train and test distributions differ.
method Model-agnostic, class-aware alignment of class relationships through saliency maps.
result Competitive performance on time series sensor and image classification datasets.

Image captioning models are usually evaluated on their ability to describe a held-out set of images, not on their ability to generalize to unseen concepts. We study the problem of compositional generalization, which measures how well a model composes unseen combinations of concepts when describing images. State-of-the-…

2019-09-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Zero-shot and few-shot learning aim to improve generalization to unseen concepts, which are promising in many realistic scenarios. Due to the lack of data in unseen domain, relation modeling between seen and unseen domains is vital for knowledge transfer in these tasks. Most existing methods capture seen-unseen relatio…

2019-08-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Speaker embedding models that utilize neural networks to map utterances to a space where distances reflect similarity between speakers have driven recent progress in the speaker recognition task. However, there is still a significant performance gap between recognizing speakers in the training set and unseen speakers. …

2019-02-06abs ↗pdf ↗