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48 results for weighted sum

Paper introduces new approximations for lognormal sums, matching comonotonicity and moments.

problem Approximating sums of lognormal random variables accurately.
method Introduces new approximations based on weighted distribution theory, emphasizing comonotonicity and moment matching.
result Approximations perform better than classical methods, especially in the right tail of the distribution.

The paper develops concentration inequalities for structured random data, extending beyond independent terms.

problem Developing concentration inequalities for structured weighted sums of random data, including tensors and matrix-valued data.
method The paper develops Hoeffding and Bernstein bounds for structured weighted sums under exchangeability, extending beyond the classical framework of independent terms.
result The paper develops a sharper concentration bound for combinatorial sums of matrix arrays.

Sharp bounds for Dirichlet sums lead to improved Bayesian algorithm analysis.

problem Improving Bayesian algorithm performance through precise deviation bounds.
method Novel integral representation of Dirichlet sum density, Gaussian approximation, complex analysis.
result Significantly sharpened regret bounds for Multinomial Thompson Sampling.

ZeroS improves Transformers by adding negative weights, matching or beating softmax attention.

problem Limited performance of linear attention methods, especially in long context sequences.
method Proposes Zero-Sum Linear Attention (ZeroS) that removes the zero-order term and reweights zero-sum softmax residuals.
result ZeroS matches or exceeds standard softmax attention across various benchmarks, theoretically expanding representable functions.

Develops a Bayesian non-parametric approach for signal separation with varying components.

problem Signal separation with varying components across different input locations.
method Augments Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models with weighted sums of pure component signals and incorporates priors for linear weights.
result Framework allows for non-linear variations in signals and incorporates useful priors for linear weights.

G-FIGS uses instance weights to create interpretable models from diverse data.

problem Generalizing to diverse data distributions while maintaining interpretability.
method Estimates group membership probabilities, uses as instance weights in FIGS to grow decision trees.
result Achieves state-of-the-art prediction performance and maintains interpretability.

New method preserves privacy by aggregating feature-vectors with weighted sums, ensuring label differential privacy.

problem Ensuring privacy in training data aggregation for sensitive labels.
method Learning from bag aggregates (LBA) with weighted Gaussian sums, preserving label differential privacy (label-DP).
result Weighted LBA using iid Gaussian weights with mm randomly sampled disjoint kk-sized bags provides (ε,δ)(\varepsilon, δ)-label-DP.

In this paper, we present NESTA, a specialized Neural engine that significantly accelerates the computation of convolution layers in a deep convolutional neural network, while reducing the computational energy. NESTA reformats Convolutions into 3×33 \times 3 batches and uses a hierarchy of Hamming Weight Compressors to …

2019-10-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Spectral clustering is a celebrated algorithm that partitions objects based on pairwise similarity information. While this approach has been successfully applied to a variety of domains, it comes with limitations. The reason is that there are many other applications in which only \emph{multi}-way similarity measures ar…

2018-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a new time series prediction method using weighted past data and optimization.

problem Predicting time series data with improved accuracy considering both deterministic and stochastic assumptions.
method The approach uses a weighted sum of past data, solving a constrained linear optimization problem to minimize an outer bound of prediction error.
result The method can outperform existing non-parametric methods in short-term forecasts.

A new type of quadrature is developed. The Gaussian quadrature, for a given measure, finds optimal values of a function's argument (nodes) and the corresponding weights. In contrast, the Lebesgue quadrature developed in this paper, finds optimal values of function (value-nodes) and the corresponding weights. The Gaussi…

2018-07-17abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper certifies cluster assignments from sum-of-norms clustering algorithms.

problem Certifying the correct cluster assignments from approximate solutions of sum-of-norms clustering.
method Presented a clustering test that identifies and certifies the correct cluster assignment from an approximate solution.
result The correct cluster assignment is guaranteed to be certified by a primal-dual path following algorithm after sufficient iterations.

Let G be a torus and M a G-Hamiltonian manifold with Kostant line bundle L and proper moment map. Let P be the weight lattice of G. We consider a parameter k and the multiplicity m(λ,k)m(λ,k) of the quantized representation associated to M and the k-th power of L . We prove that the weighted sum m(λ,k)f(λ/k)\sum m(λ,k) f(λ/k) of the…

2016-12-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Sum-of-norms clustering is a method for assigning nn points in Rd\mathbb{R}^d to KK clusters, 1Kn1\le K\le n, using convex optimization. Recently, Panahi et al.\ proved that sum-of-norms clustering is guaranteed to recover a mixture of Gaussians under the restriction that the number of samples is not too large. The pu…

2019-02-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Weil-Petersson volumes vary continuously with weighted points on a projective line.

problem Continuity of Weil-Petersson volumes in moduli space with weighted points.
method Localization and geometric computation methods.
result CM volume converges to geometric volume as weights approach Calabi-Yau geometry.

We speed up marginal inference by ignoring factors that do not significantly contribute to overall accuracy. In order to pick a suitable subset of factors to ignore, we propose three schemes: minimizing the number of model factors under a bound on the KL divergence between pruned and full models; minimizing the KL dive…

2012-03-15abs ↗pdf ↗

AB-SAGA optimizes distributed optimization over directed graphs using variance reduction and stochastic weights.

problem Optimizing distributed stochastic optimization over directed graphs with stochastic weights.
method AB-SAGA combines variance reduction and network-level gradient tracking, using both row and column stochastic weights.
result AB-SAGA converges linearly to the global optimal with a constant step-size and achieves a linear speed-up over centralized methods.

This work improves graph inference using the degree-4 sum-of-squares hierarchy.

problem Recovering ground-truth binary labelings from corrupted edge observations.
method Apply the degree-4 sum-of-squares hierarchy to a quadratic combinatorial optimization problem.
result The solution of the dual problem is related to edge weights of Johnson and Kneser graphs.

The paper computes characteristic classes for Lie group representations.

problem Computing characteristic classes for Lie group representations.
method The paper outlines a procedure to compute characteristic classes of irreducible representations of Lie groups, expressing them as polynomial functions in the highest weight.
result The paper expresses characteristic classes of Lie group representations as polynomial functions in the highest weight.

This work studies the problem of stochastic dynamic filtering and state propagation with complex beliefs. The main contribution is GP-SUM, a filtering algorithm tailored to dynamic systems and observation models expressed as Gaussian Processes (GP), and to states represented as a weighted sum of Gaussians. The key attr…

2017-09-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Summing over 3-manifolds using TQFT partition functions.

problem Summing over all 3-manifolds with fixed boundary.
method Rewriting the sum over 3-manifolds as a sum over homology groups, using TQFT partition functions and topological boundary conditions.
result Existence of a distribution of 2d TQFTs whose ensemble average equals the sum over 3-manifolds.

In this paper, we are interested in constructing general graph-based regularizers for multiple kernel learning (MKL) given a structure which is used to describe the way of combining basis kernels. Such structures are represented by sum-product networks (SPNs) in our method. Accordingly we propose a new convex regulariz…

2014-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

BGNN improves GNN by modeling interactions between neighbor nodes.

problem Existing GNN models fail to capture interactions between neighbor nodes, leading to suboptimal performance.
method Proposes a new graph convolution operator that augments the weighted sum with pairwise interactions of neighbor nodes.
result Empirical results show BGNN models outperform traditional GNN models in node classification accuracy.

Study evaluates thresholds for removing noise from DNN weights using random matrix theory.

problem Removing noise from deep neural network weights for better approximation.
method Model weights as signal + noise, use random matrix theory to estimate thresholds, evaluate using cosine similarity.
result Proposed threshold estimation method improves approximation quality.

In previous work, we have constructed diagrammatic idempotents in an affine extension of the Temperley-Lieb category, which describe extremal weight projectors for sl(2), and which categorify Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind. In this paper, we generalize the construction of extremal weight projectors to the case…

2018-03-27abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we study the functional $\SW_{λ_1,λ_2}$, which is the the sum of the Willmore energy, λ1λ_1-weighted surface area, and λ2λ_2-weighted volume, for surfaces immersed in R3\R^3. This coincides with the Helfrich functional with zero `spontaneous curvature'. Our main result is a complete classification of all …

2012-01-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Let G=(V,E,w)G=(V,E,w) be a finite, connected graph with weighted edges. We are interested in the problem of finding a subset WVW \subset V of vertices and weights awa_w such that 1VvVf(v)wWawf(w) \frac{1}{|V|}\sum_{v \in V}^{}{f(v)} \sim \sum_{w \in W}{a_w f(w)} for functions f:VRf:V \rightarrow \mathbb{R} that are `smooth' with respect t…

2018-03-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Algorithm minimizes regret and converges to equilibria in Markov games.

problem Regret minimization and convergence to equilibria in general-sum Markov games under adversarial opponents.
method Decentralized algorithm that uses policy optimization and controls path length to achieve sublinear regret.
result Sublinear regret guarantees for convergence to correlated equilibrium in Markov games.

We consider framed chord diagrams, i.e. chord diagrams with chords of two types. It is well known that chord diagrams modulo 4T-relations admit Hopf algebra structure, where the multiplication is given by any connected sum with respect to the orientation. But in the case of framed chord diagrams a natural way to define…

2015-06-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Minimizing the nuclear norm of a matrix has been shown to be very efficient in reconstructing a low-rank sampled matrix. Furthermore, minimizing the sum of nuclear norms of matricizations of a tensor has been shown to be very efficient in recovering a low-Tucker-rank sampled tensor. In this paper, we propose to recover…

2017-07-25abs ↗pdf ↗

We compute the average Tristram---Levine signature of any graph link with positive weights in a three sphere, generalizing the results of Kirby and Melvin. The main tools are the Neumann's algorithm for computing the equivariant signatures of graph links and the Reciprocity Law for Dedekind sums.

2013-05-07abs ↗pdf ↗

A method interprets black-box models using an ensemble of gradient boosting machines.

problem Local and global interpretation of black-box models.
method An ensemble of gradient boosting machines (GBMs) to form a generalized additive model.
result Efficiency and properties demonstrated on synthetic and real datasets.