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Orthogonal Random Features Felix Xinnan Yu Ananda Theertha Suresh Krzysztof Choromanski Daniel Holtmann-Rice Sanjiv Kumar Google Research, New York {felixyu, theertha, kchoro, dhr, sanjivk}@google.com Abstract We present an intriguing discovery related to Random Fourier Features: in Gaussian kernel ...
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Coevolutionary Latent Feature Processes for Continuous-Time User-Item Interactions Yichen Wang⇧, Nan Du⇤, Rakshit Trivedi⇧, Le Song⇧ ⇤Google Research ⇧College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology {yichen.wang, rstrivedi}@gatech.edu, dunan@google.com lsong@cc.gatech.edu Abstract Matching users t...
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Convex Two-Layer Modeling with Latent Structure Vignesh Ganapathiraman†, Xinhua Zhang†, Yaoliang Yu∗, Junfeng Wen♯ †University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA ∗University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, ♯University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada {vganap2, zhangx}@uic.edu, yaoliang.yu@uwate...
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Online Convex Optimization with Unconstrained Domains and Losses Ashok Cutkosky Department of Computer Science Stanford University ashokc@cs.stanford.edu Kwabena Boahen Department of Bioengineering Stanford University boahen@stanford.edu Abstract We propose an online convex optimization algorithm ...
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A Locally Adaptive Normal Distribution Georgios Arvanitidis, Lars Kai Hansen and Søren Hauberg Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark DTU Compute, Section for Cognitive Systems {gear,lkai,sohau}@dtu.dk Abstract The multivariate normal density is a monotonic function of the distance to the mean, ...
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Automatic Neuron Detection in Calcium Imaging Data Using Convolutional Networks Noah J. Apthorpe1∗ Alexander J. Riordan2∗ Rob E. Aguilar1 Jan Homann2 Yi Gu2 David W. Tank2 H. Sebastian Seung12 1Computer Science Department 2Princeton Neuroscience Institute Princeton University {apthorpe, ariordan...
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GAP Safe Screening Rules for Sparse-Group Lasso Eugene Ndiaye, Olivier Fercoq, Alexandre Gramfort, Joseph Salmon LTCI, CNRS, Télécom ParisTech Université Paris-Saclay 75013 Paris, France first.last@telecom-paristech.fr Abstract For statistical learning in high dimension, sparse regularizations have proven...
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Local Similarity-Aware Deep Feature Embedding Chen Huang Chen Change Loy Xiaoou Tang Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong {chuang,ccloy,xtang}@ie.cuhk.edu.hk Abstract Existing deep embedding methods in vision tasks are capable of learning a compact Euclidean space f...
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Following the Leader and Fast Rates in Linear Prediction: Curved Constraint Sets and Other Regularities Ruitong Huang Department of Computing Science University of Alberta, AB, Canada ruitong@ualberta.ca Tor Lattimore School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University, IN, USA tor.lattimore@gmai...
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Learning Multiagent Communication with Backpropagation Sainbayar Sukhbaatar Dept. of Computer Science Courant Institute, New York University sainbar@cs.nyu.edu Arthur Szlam Facebook AI Research New York aszlam@fb.com Rob Fergus Facebook AI Research New York robfergus@fb.com Abstract Many t...
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Sub-sampled Newton Methods with Non-uniform Sampling Peng Xu† Jiyan Yang† Farbod Roosta-Khorasani‡ Christopher Ré† Michael W. Mahoney‡ † Stanford University ‡ University of California at Berkeley pengxu@stanford.edu jiyan@stanford.edu farbod@icsi.berkeley.edu chrismre@cs.stanford.edu mmahoney@stat.berkeley....
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Examples are not Enough, Learn to Criticize! Criticism for Interpretability Been Kim⇤ Allen Institute for AI beenkim@csail.mit.edu Rajiv Khanna UT Austin rajivak@utexas.edu Oluwasanmi Koyejo UIUC sanmi@illinois.edu Abstract Example-based explanations are widely used in the effort to improve the ...
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R-FCN: Object Detection via Region-based Fully Convolutional Networks Jifeng Dai Microsoft Research Asia Yi Li∗ Tsinghua University Kaiming He Microsoft Research Jian Sun Microsoft Research Abstract We present region-based, fully convolutional networks for accurate and efficient object detection...
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Exploiting Tradeoffs for Exact Recovery in Heterogeneous Stochastic Block Models Amin Jalali Department of Electrical Engineering University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 amjalali@uw.edu Qiyang Han Department of Statistics University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 royhan@uw.edu Ioana Dumitriu...
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A Powerful Generative Model Using Random Weights for the Deep Image Representation Kun He∗, Yan Wang † Department of Computer Science and Technology Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China brooklet60@hust.edu.cn, yanwang@hust.edu.cn John Hopcroft Department of Computer Science...
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Privacy Odometers and Filters: Pay-as-you-Go Composition Ryan Rogers∗ Aaron Roth† Jonathan Ullman‡ Salil Vadhan§ Abstract In this paper we initiate the study of adaptive composition in differential privacy when the length of the composition, and the privacy parameters themselves can be chosen adaptive...
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Convolutional Neural Fabrics Shreyas Saxena Jakob Verbeek INRIA Grenoble – Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann Abstract Despite the success of CNNs, selecting the optimal architecture for a given task remains an open problem. Instead of aiming to select a single optimal architecture, we propose a “fabric” that emb...
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More Supervision, Less Computation: Statistical-Computational Tradeoffs in Weakly Supervised Learning Xinyang Yi†∗ Zhaoran Wang‡∗ Zhuoran Yang‡∗ Constantine Caramanis† Han Liu‡ †The University of Texas at Austin ‡Princeton University †{yixy,constantine}@utexas.edu ‡{zhaoran,zy6,hanliu}@princeton.e...
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On statistical learning via the lens of compression Ofir David Department of Mathematics Technion - Israel Institute of Technology ofirdav@tx.technion.ac.il Shay Moran Department of Computer Science Technion - Israel Institute of Technology shaymrn@cs.technion.ac.il Amir Yehudayoff Department of Math...
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Sparse Support Recovery with Non-smooth Loss Functions Kévin Degraux ISPGroup/ICTEAM, FNRS Université catholique de Louvain Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 1348 kevin.degraux@uclouvain.be Gabriel Peyré CNRS, DMA École Normale Supérieure Paris, France 75775 gabriel.peyre@ens.fr Jalal M. Fadili Norman...
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Tractable Operations for Arithmetic Circuits of Probabilistic Models Yujia Shen and Arthur Choi and Adnan Darwiche Computer Science Department University of California Los Angeles, CA 90095 {yujias,aychoi,darwiche}@cs.ucla.edu Abstract We consider tractable representations of probability distributions a...
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Dual Learning for Machine Translation Di He1,∗, Yingce Xia2,∗, Tao Qin3, Liwei Wang1, Nenghai Yu2, Tie-Yan Liu3, Wei-Ying Ma3 1Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (MOE), School of EECS, Peking University 2University of Science and Technology of China 3Microsoft Research 1{dih,wanglw}@cis.pku.edu.cn; 2xiaying...
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Solving Random Systems of Quadratic Equations via Truncated Generalized Gradient Flow Gang Wang∗,† and Georgios B. Giannakis† ∗ECE Dept. and Digital Tech. Center, Univ. of Minnesota, Mpls, MN 55455, USA † School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China {gangwang, georgios}@umn.edu...
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Phased LSTM: Accelerating Recurrent Network Training for Long or Event-based Sequences Daniel Neil, Michael Pfeiffer, and Shih-Chii Liu Institute of Neuroinformatics University of Zurich and ETH Zurich Zurich, Switzerland 8057 {dneil, pfeiffer, shih}@ini.uzh.ch Abstract Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) ...
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Launch and Iterate: Reducing Prediction Churn Q. Cormier ENS Lyon 15 parvis René Descartes Lyon, France quentin.cormier@ens-lyon.fr M. Milani Fard, K. Canini, M. R. Gupta Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 {mmilanifard,canini,mayagupta}@google.com Abstract Practical ap...
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Stochastic Three-Composite Convex Minimization Alp Yurtsever, B`˘ang Công V˜u, and Volkan Cevher Laboratory for Information and Inference Systems (LIONS) École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland alp.yurtsever@epfl.ch, bang.vu@epfl.ch, volkan.cevher@epfl.ch Abstract We propose a stochastic optimiza...
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Synthesizing the preferred inputs for neurons in neural networks via deep generator networks Anh Nguyen anguyen8@uwyo.edu Alexey Dosovitskiy dosovits@cs.uni-freiburg.de Jason Yosinski jason@geometric.ai Thomas Brox brox@cs.uni-freiburg.de Jeff Clune jeffclune@uwyo.edu Abstract Deep neural netw...
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Budgeted stream-based active learning via adaptive submodular maximization Kaito Fujii Kyoto University JST, ERATO, Kawarabayashi Large Graph Project fujii@ml.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Hisashi Kashima Kyoto University kashima@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Abstract Active learning enables us to reduce the annotation cos...
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Bayesian Optimization with a Finite Budget: An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach Remi R. Lam Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA rlam@mit.edu Karen E. Willcox Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA kwillcox@mit.edu David H. Wolpert Santa Fe Institute Santa Fe,...
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Gaussian Process Bandit Optimisation with Multi-fidelity Evaluations Kirthevasan Kandasamy ♮, Gautam Dasarathy ♦, Junier Oliva ♮, Jeff Schneider ♮, Barnabás Póczos ♮ ♮Carnegie Mellon University, ♦Rice University {kandasamy, joliva, schneide, bapoczos}@cs.cmu.edu, gautamd@rice.edu Abstract In many sci...
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Learning Parametric Sparse Models for Image Super-Resolution Yongbo Li, Weisheng Dong∗, Xuemei Xie, Guangming Shi1, Xin Li2, Donglai Xu3 State Key Lab. of ISN, School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, China 1Key Lab. of IPIU (Chinese Ministry of Education), Xidian University, China 2Lane Dep. of C...
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Mutual information for symmetric rank-one matrix estimation: A proof of the replica formula Jean Barbier, Mohamad Dia and Nicolas Macris Laboratoire de Théorie des Communications, Faculté Informatique et Communications, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015, Suisse. firstname.lastname@epfl.ch Flore...
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Large Margin Discriminant Dimensionality Reduction in Prediction Space Mohammad Saberian Netflix esaberian@netflix.com Jose Costa Pereira INESCTEC jose.c.pereira@inesctec.pt Can Xu Google canxu@google.com Jian Yang Yahoo Research jianyang@yahoo-inc.com Nuno Vasconcelos UC San Diego nvasco...
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Fast learning rates with heavy-tailed losses Vu Dinh1 Lam Si Tung Ho2 Duy Nguyen3 Binh T. Nguyen4 1Program in Computational Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 2Department of Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles 3Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison 4Depa...
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Dynamic matrix recovery from incomplete observations under an exact low-rank constraint Liangbei Xu Mark A. Davenport Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30318 lxu66@gatech.edu mdav@gatech.edu Abstract Low-rank matrix factorizations arise in ...
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Tight Complexity Bounds for Optimizing Composite Objectives Blake Woodworth Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago Chicago, IL, 60637 blake@ttic.edu Nathan Srebro Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago Chicago, IL, 60637 nati@ttic.edu Abstract We provide tight upper and lower bounds on the c...
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A Forward Model at Purkinje Cell Synapses Facilitates Cerebellar Anticipatory Control Ivan Herreros-Alonso SPECS lab Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain ivan.herreros@upf.edu Xerxes D. Arsiwalla SPECS lab Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain Paul F.M.J. Verschure SPECS, UPF Catalan ...
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Verification Based Solution for Structured MAB Problems Zohar Karnin Yahoo Research New York, NY 10036 zkarnin@ymail.com Abstract We consider the problem of finding the best arm in a stochastic Multi-armed Bandit (MAB) game and propose a general framework based on verification that applies to multiple we...
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An equivalence between high dimensional Bayes optimal inference and M-estimation Madhu Advani Surya Ganguli Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University msadvani@stanford.edu and sganguli@stanford.edu Abstract When recovering an unknown signal from noisy measurements, the computational difficul...
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SURGE: Surface Regularized Geometry Estimation from a Single Image Peng Wang1 Xiaohui Shen2 Bryan Russell2 Scott Cohen2 Brian Price2 Alan Yuille3 1University of California, Los Angeles 2Adobe Research 3Johns Hopkins University Abstract This paper introduces an approach to regularize 2.5D surface normal an...
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CliqueCNN: Deep Unsupervised Exemplar Learning Miguel A. Bautista∗, Artsiom Sanakoyeu∗, Ekaterina Sutter, Björn Ommer Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing IWR, Heidelberg University, Germany firstname.lastname@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de Abstract Exemplar learning is a powerful paradigm for discovering v...
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Computing and maximizing influence in linear threshold and triggering models Justin Khim Department of Statistics The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104 jkhim@wharton.upenn.edu Varun Jog Electrical & Computer Engineering Department University of Wisconsin - Madison Mad...
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Data Programming: Creating Large Training Sets, Quickly Alexander Ratner, Christopher De Sa, Sen Wu, Daniel Selsam, Christopher Ré Stanford University {ajratner,cdesa,senwu,dselsam,chrismre}@stanford.edu Abstract Large labeled training sets are the critical building blocks of supervised learning methods a...
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Flexible Models for Microclustering with Application to Entity Resolution Giacomo Zanella∗ Department of Decision Sciences Bocconi University giacomo.zanella@unibocconi.it Brenda Betancourt∗ Department of Statistical Science Duke University bb222@stat.duke.edu Hanna Wallach Microsoft Research ha...
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Blind Regression: Nonparametric Regression for Latent Variable Models via Collaborative Filtering Christina E. Lee Yihua Li Devavrat Shah Dogyoon Song Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology {celee,...
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An Ensemble Diversity Approach to Supervised Binary Hashing Miguel ´A. Carreira-Perpi˜n´an EECS, University of California, Merced mcarreira-perpinan@ucmerced.edu Ramin Raziperchikolaei EECS, University of California, Merced rraziperchikolaei@ucmerced.edu Abstract Binary hashing is a well-known approac...
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Learning Influence Functions from Incomplete Observations Xinran He Ke Xu David Kempe Yan Liu University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 {xinranhe, xuk, dkempe, yanliu.cs}@usc.edu Abstract We study the problem of learning influence functions under incomplete observations of node activation...
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Backprop KF: Learning Discriminative Deterministic State Estimators Tuomas Haarnoja, Anurag Ajay, Sergey Levine, Pieter Abbeel {haarnoja, anuragajay, svlevine, pabbeel}@berkeley.edu Department of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley Abstract Generative state estimators based on probabilistic...
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On the Recursive Teaching Dimension of VC Classes Xi Chen Department of Computer Science Columbia University xichen@cs.columbia.edu Yu Cheng Department of Computer Science University of Southern California yu.cheng.1@usc.edu Bo Tang Department of Computer Science Oxford University tangbonk1@gm...
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A Sparse Interactive Model for Matrix Completion with Side Information Jin Lu Guannan Liang Jiangwen Sun Jinbo Bi University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269 {jin.lu, guannan.liang, jiangwen.sun, jinbo.bi}@uconn.edu Abstract Matrix completion methods can benefit from side information besides the parti...
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Generalized Correspondence-LDA Models (GC-LDA) for Identifying Functional Regions in the Brain Timothy N. Rubin SurveyMonkey Oluwasanmi Koyejo Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Michael N. Jones Indiana University Tal Yarkoni University of Texas at Austin Abstract This paper presents Generalized ...
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Fast ϵ-free Inference of Simulation Models with Bayesian Conditional Density Estimation George Papamakarios School of Informatics University of Edinburgh g.papamakarios@ed.ac.uk Iain Murray School of Informatics University of Edinburgh i.murray@ed.ac.uk Abstract Many statistical models can be simu...
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Ladder Variational Autoencoders Casper Kaae Sønderby⇤ casperkaae@gmail.com Tapani Raiko† tapani.raiko@aalto.fi Lars Maaløe‡ larsma@dtu.dk Søren Kaae Sønderby⇤ skaaesonderby@gmail.com Ole Winther⇤,‡ olwi@dtu.dk Abstract Variational autoencoders are powerful models for unsupervised learning. Howev...
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Improved Deep Metric Learning with Multi-class N-pair Loss Objective Kihyuk Sohn NEC Laboratories America, Inc. ksohn@nec-labs.com Abstract Deep metric learning has gained much popularity in recent years, following the success of deep learning. However, existing frameworks of deep metric learning based ...
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Learning Sparse Gaussian Graphical Models with Overlapping Blocks Mohammad Javad Hosseini1 Su-In Lee1,2 1Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle 2Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle {hosseini, suinlee}@cs.washington.edu Abstract We pre...
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Probabilistic Inference with Generating Functions for Poisson Latent Variable Models Kevin Winner1 and Daniel Sheldon1,2 {kwinner,sheldon}@cs.umass.edu 1 College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst 2 Department of Computer Science, Mount Holyoke College Abstract Graph...
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Achieving the KS threshold in the general stochastic block model with linearized acyclic belief propagation Emmanuel Abbe Applied and Computational Mathematics and EE Dept. Princeton University eabbe@princeton.edu Colin Sandon Department of Mathematics Princeton University sandon@princeton.edu Abstr...
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A Unified Approach for Learning the Parameters of Sum-Product Networks Han Zhao Machine Learning Dept. Carnegie Mellon University han.zhao@cs.cmu.edu Pascal Poupart School of Computer Science University of Waterloo ppoupart@uwaterloo.ca Geoff Gordon Machine Learning Dept. Carnegie Mellon Universi...
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The Multiscale Laplacian Graph Kernel Risi Kondor Department of Computer Science Department of Statistics University of Chicago Chicago, IL 60637 risi@cs.uchicago.edu Horace Pan Department of Computer Science University of Chicago Chicago, IL 60637 hopan@uchicago.edu Abstract Many real world g...
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Learning the Number of Neurons in Deep Networks Jose M. Alvarez∗ Data61 @ CSIRO Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia jose.alvarez@data61.csiro.au Mathieu Salzmann CVLab, EPFL CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland mathieu.salzmann@epfl.ch Abstract Nowadays, the number of layers and of neurons in each layer of a dee...
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Bi-Objective Online Matching and Submodular Allocations Hossein Esfandiari University of Maryland College Park, MD 20740 hossein@cs.umd.edu Nitish Korula Google Research New York, NY 10011 nitish@google.com Vahab Mirrokni Google Research New York, NY 10011 mirrokni@google.com Abstract Onli...
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Deep Alternative Neural Network: Exploring Contexts as Early as Possible for Action Recognition Jinzhuo Wang, Wenmin Wang, Xiongtao Chen, Ronggang Wang, Wen Gao† School of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Peking University †School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University jzwang@...
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Online ICA: Understanding Global Dynamics of Nonconvex Optimization via Diffusion Processes Chris Junchi Li Zhaoran Wang Han Liu Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University {junchil, zhaoran, hanliu}@princeton.edu Abstract Solving statistical learning problems often...
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Spatio–Temporal Hilbert Maps for Continuous Occupancy Representation in Dynamic Environments Ransalu Senanayake University of Sydney rsen4557@uni.sydney.edu.au Lionel Ott University of Sydney lionel.ott@sydney.edu.au Simon O’Callaghan Data61/CSIRO, Australia simon.ocallaghan@data61.csiro.au Fabio ...
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CRF-CNN: Modeling Structured Information in Human Pose Estimation Xiao Chu The Chinese University of Hong Kong xchu@ee.cuhk.edu.hk Wanli Ouyang The Chinese University of Hong Kong wlouyang@ee.cuhk.edu.hk Hongsheng Li The Chinese University of Hong Kong hsli@ee.cuhk.edu.hk Xiaogang Wang The Chine...
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Bayesian latent structure discovery from multi-neuron recordings Scott W. Linderman Columbia University swl2133@columbia.edu Ryan P. Adams Harvard University and Twitter rpa@seas.harvard.edu Jonathan W. Pillow Princeton University pillow@princeton.edu Abstract Neural circuits contain heterogeneo...
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Latent Attention For If-Then Program Synthesis Xinyun Chen∗ Shanghai Jiao Tong University Chang Liu Richard Shin Dawn Song UC Berkeley Mingcheng Chen† UIUC Abstract Automatic translation from natural language descriptions into programs is a longstanding challenging problem. In this work, we consider...
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Understanding Probabilistic Sparse Gaussian Process Approximations Matthias Bauer†‡ Mark van der Wilk† Carl Edward Rasmussen† †Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK ‡Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, T¨ubingen, Germany {msb55, mv310, cer54}@cam.ac.uk Abstract Go...
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Wasserstein Training of Restricted Boltzmann Machines Grégoire Montavon Technische Universität Berlin gregoire.montavon@tu-berlin.de Klaus-Robert Müller∗ Technische Universität Berlin klaus-robert.mueller@tu-berlin.de Marco Cuturi CREST, ENSAE, Université Paris-Saclay marco.cuturi@ensae.fr Abstrac...
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A primal-dual method for conic constrained distributed optimization problems Necdet Serhat Aybat Department of Industrial Engineering Penn State University University Park, PA 16802 nsa10@psu.edu Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani Department of Industrial Engineering Penn State University University Park, P...
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Path-Normalized Optimization of Recurrent Neural Networks with ReLU Activations Behnam Neyshabur∗ Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago bneyshabur@ttic.edu Yuhuai Wu∗ University of Toronto ywu@cs.toronto.edu Ruslan Salakhutdinov Carnegie Mellon University rsalakhu@cs.cmu.edu Nathan Srebro To...
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Interpretable Distribution Features with Maximum Testing Power Wittawat Jitkrittum, Zoltán Szabó, Kacper Chwialkowski, Arthur Gretton wittawatj@gmail.com zoltan.szabo.m@gmail.com kacper.chwialkowski@gmail.com arthur.gretton@gmail.com Gatsby Unit, University College London Abstract Two semimetric...
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Communication-Optimal Distributed Clustering∗ Jiecao Chen Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47401 jiecchen@indiana.edu He Sun University of Bristol Bristol, BS8 1UB, UK h.sun@bristol.ac.uk David P. Woodruff IBM Research Almaden San Jose, CA 95120 dpwoodru@us.ibm.com Qin Zhang Indiana Univer...
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Boosting with Abstention Corinna Cortes Google Research New York, NY 10011 corinna@google.com Giulia DeSalvo Courant Institute New York, NY 10012 desalvo@cims.nyu.edu Mehryar Mohri Courant Institute and Google New York, NY 10012 mohri@cims.nyu.edu Abstract We present a new boosting algorithm...
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Linear dynamical neural population models through nonlinear embeddings Yuanjun Gao⇤1 , Evan Archer⇤12, Liam Paninski12, John P. Cunningham12 Department of Statistics1 and Grossman Center2 Columbia University New York, NY, United States yg2312@columbia.edu, evan@stat.columbia.edu, liam@stat.columbia.edu, j...
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Rényi Divergence Variational Inference Yingzhen Li University of Cambridge Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK yl494@cam.ac.uk Richard E. Turner University of Cambridge Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK ret26@cam.ac.uk Abstract This paper introduces the variational Rényi bound (VR) that extends traditional variational infe...
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Stochastic Gradient Geodesic MCMC Methods Chang Liu†, Jun Zhu†, Yang Song‡∗ † Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Tech., TNList Lab; Center for Bio-Inspired Computing Research † State Key Lab for Intell. Tech. & Systems, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China ‡ Dept. of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China {chang-li14...
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A Posteriori Error Bounds for Joint Matrix Decomposition Problems Nicolò Colombo Department of Statistical Science University College London nicolo.colombo@ucl.ac.uk Nikos Vlassis Adobe Research San Jose, CA vlassis@adobe.com Abstract Joint matrix triangularization is often used for estimating the...
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Global Analysis of Expectation Maximization for Mixtures of Two Gaussians Ji Xu Columbia University jixu@cs.columbia.edu Daniel Hsu Columbia University djhsu@cs.columbia.edu Arian Maleki Columbia University arian@stat.columbia.edu Abstract Expectation Maximization (EM) is among the most popular ...
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Stochastic Structured Prediction under Bandit Feedback Artem Sokolov⋄,∗, Julia Kreutzer∗, Christopher Lo†,∗, Stefan Riezler‡,∗ ∗Computational Linguistics & ‡IWR, Heidelberg University, Germany {sokolov,kreutzer,riezler}@cl.uni-heidelberg.de †Department of Mathematics, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA chris...
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Estimating the class prior and posterior from noisy positives and unlabeled data Shantanu Jain, Martha White, Predrag Radivojac Department of Computer Science Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA {shajain, martha, predrag}@indiana.edu Abstract We develop a classification algorithm for estimating p...
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A Minimax Approach to Supervised Learning Farzan Farnia∗ farnia@stanford.edu David Tse∗ dntse@stanford.edu Abstract Given a task of predicting Y from X, a loss function L, and a set of probability distributions Γ on (X, Y ), what is the optimal decision rule minimizing the worstcase expected loss over Γ? ...
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Finding significant combinations of features in the presence of categorical covariates Laetitia Papaxanthos∗, Felipe Llinares-López∗, Dean Bodenham, Karsten Borgwardt Machine Learning and Computational Biology Lab D-BSSE, ETH Zurich *Equally contributing authors. Abstract In high-dimensional settings, wher...
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Blazing the trails before beating the path: Sample-efficient Monte-Carlo planning Jean-Bastien Grill Michal Valko SequeL team, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France jean-bastien.grill@inria.fr michal.valko@inria.fr Rémi Munos Google DeepMind, UK∗ munos@google.com Abstract You are a robot and you live i...
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Scaling Factorial Hidden Markov Models: Stochastic Variational Inference without Messages Yin Cheng Ng Dept. of Statistical Science University College London y.ng.12@ucl.ac.uk Pawel Chilinski Dept. of Computing Science University College London ucabchi@ucl.ac.uk Ricardo Silva Dept. of Statistical ...
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Improved Dropout for Shallow and Deep Learning Zhe Li1, Boqing Gong2, Tianbao Yang1 1The University of Iowa, Iowa city, IA 52245 2University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816 {zhe-li-1,tianbao-yang}@uiowa.edu bgong@crcv.ucf.edu Abstract Dropout has been witnessed with great success in training deep ne...
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Clustering Signed Networks with the Geometric Mean of Laplacians Pedro Mercado1, Francesco Tudisco2 and Matthias Hein1 1Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany 2University of Padua, Padua, Italy Abstract Signed networks allow to model positive and negative relationships. We analyze existing extensions o...
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Consistent Estimation of Functions of Data Missing Non-Monotonically and Not at Random Ilya Shpitser Department of Computer Science Johns Hopkins University ilyas@cs.jhu.edu Abstract Missing records are a perennial problem in analysis of complex data of all types, when the target of inference is some fu...
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Discriminative Gaifman Models Mathias Niepert NEC Labs Europe Heidelberg, Germany mathias.niepert@neclabs.eu Abstract We present discriminative Gaifman models, a novel family of relational machine learning models. Gaifman models learn feature representations bottom up from representations of locally con...
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Selective inference for group-sparse linear models Fan Yang Department of Statistics University of Chicago fyang1@uchicago.edu Rina Foygel Barber Department of Statistics University of Chicago rina@uchicago.edu Prateek Jain Microsoft Research India prajain@microsoft.com John Lafferty Depts. of...
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InfoGAN: Interpretable Representation Learning by Information Maximizing Generative Adversarial Nets Xi Chen†‡, Yan Duan†‡, Rein Houthooft†‡, John Schulman†‡, Ilya Sutskever‡, Pieter Abbeel†‡ † UC Berkeley, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences ‡ OpenAI Abstract This paper describes Inf...
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Automated scalable segmentation of neurons from multispectral images Uygar Sümbül Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind and Dept. of Statistics, Columbia University Douglas Roossien Jr. University of Michigan Medical School Fei Chen MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute Nicholas Barry MIT Media ...
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Robustness of classifiers: from adversarial to random noise Alhussein Fawzi∗, Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli∗, Pascal Frossard École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland {alhussein.fawzi, seyed.moosavi, pascal.frossard} at epfl.ch Abstract Several recent works have shown that state-of-th...
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A Non-convex One-Pass Framework for Generalized Factorization Machine and Rank-One Matrix Sensing Ming Lin University of Michigan linmin@umich.edu Jieping Ye University of Michigan jpye@umich.edu Abstract We develop an efficient alternating framework for learning a generalized version of Factorizatio...
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Composing graphical models with neural networks for structured representations and fast inference Matthew James Johnson Harvard University mattjj@seas.harvard.edu David Duvenaud Harvard University dduvenaud@seas.harvard.edu Alexander B. Wiltschko Harvard University, Twitter awiltsch@fas.harvard.edu ...
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SoundNet: Learning Sound Representations from Unlabeled Video Yusuf Aytar∗ MIT yusuf@csail.mit.edu Carl Vondrick∗ MIT vondrick@mit.edu Antonio Torralba MIT torralba@mit.edu Abstract We learn rich natural sound representations by capitalizing on large amounts of unlabeled sound data collected i...
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Dual Decomposed Learning with Factorwise Oracles for Structural SVMs of Large Output Domain Ian E.H. Yen † Xiangru Huang ‡ Kai Zhong ‡ Ruohan Zhang ‡ Pradeep Ravikumar † Inderjit S. Dhillon ‡ † Carnegie Mellon University ‡ University of Texas at Austin Abstract Many applications of machine learnin...
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Deep Learning for Predicting Human Strategic Behavior Jason Hartford, James R. Wright, Kevin Leyton-Brown Department of Computer Science University of British Columbia {jasonhar, jrwright, kevinlb}@cs.ubc.ca Abstract Predicting the behavior of human participants in strategic settings is an important pro...
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Online and Differentially-Private Tensor Decomposition Yining Wang Machine Learning Department Carnegie Mellon University yiningwa@cs.cmu.edu Animashree Anandkumar Department of EECS University of California, Irvine a.anandkumar@uci.edu Abstract Tensor decomposition is an important tool for big data...
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Multivariate tests of association based on univariate tests Ruth Heller Department of Statistics and Operations Research Tel-Aviv University Tel-Aviv, Israel 6997801 ruheller@gmail.com Yair Heller heller.yair@gmail.com Abstract For testing two vector random variables for independence, we propose tes...
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