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A bio-inspired image coder with temporal scalability
cs.CV
We present a novel bio-inspired and dynamic coding scheme for static images. Our coder aims at reproducing the main steps of the visual stimulus processing in the mammalian retina taking into account its time behavior. The main novelty of this work is to show how to exploit the time behavior of the retina cells to ensu...
computer science
5,101
An Application of Backpropagation Artificial Neural Network Method for Measuring The Severity of Osteoarthritis
cs.NE
The examination of Osteoarthritis disease through X-ray by rheumatology can be classified into four grade of severity. This paper discusses about the application of artificial neural network backpropagation method for measuring the severity of the disease, where the observed X-ray range from wrist to fingers. The main ...
computer science
5,102
Learning to See by Moving
cs.CV
The dominant paradigm for feature learning in computer vision relies on training neural networks for the task of object recognition using millions of hand labelled images. Is it possible to learn useful features for a diverse set of visual tasks using any other form of supervision? In biology, living organisms develope...
computer science
5,103
Efficient Large Scale Video Classification
cs.CV
Video classification has advanced tremendously over the recent years. A large part of the improvements in video classification had to do with the work done by the image classification community and the use of deep convolutional networks (CNNs) which produce competitive results with hand- crafted motion features. These ...
computer science
5,104
Texture Synthesis Using Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Here we introduce a new model of natural textures based on the feature spaces of convolutional neural networks optimised for object recognition. Samples from the model are of high perceptual quality demonstrating the generative power of neural networks trained in a purely discriminative fashion. Within the model, textu...
computer science
5,105
PoseNet: A Convolutional Network for Real-Time 6-DOF Camera Relocalization
cs.CV
We present a robust and real-time monocular six degree of freedom relocalization system. Our system trains a convolutional neural network to regress the 6-DOF camera pose from a single RGB image in an end-to-end manner with no need of additional engineering or graph optimisation. The algorithm can operate indoors and o...
computer science
5,106
A robust autoassociative memory with coupled networks of Kuramoto-type oscillators
nlin.AO
Uncertain recognition success, unfavorable scaling of connection complexity or dependence on complex external input impair the usefulness of current oscillatory neural networks for pattern recognition or restrict technical realizations to small networks. We propose a new network architecture of coupled oscillators for ...
computer science
5,107
Computing With Contextual Numbers
cs.CE
Self Organizing Map (SOM) has been applied into several classical modeling tasks including clustering, classification, function approximation and visualization of high dimensional spaces. The final products of a trained SOM are a set of ordered (low dimensional) indices and their associated high dimensional weight vect...
computer science
5,108
Automated Classification of L/R Hand Movement EEG Signals using Advanced Feature Extraction and Machine Learning
cs.NE
In this paper, we propose an automated computer platform for the purpose of classifying Electroencephalography (EEG) signals associated with left and right hand movements using a hybrid system that uses advanced feature extraction techniques and machine learning algorithms. It is known that EEG represents the brain act...
computer science
5,109
Pixels to Voxels: Modeling Visual Representation in the Human Brain
cs.CV
The human brain is adept at solving difficult high-level visual processing problems such as image interpretation and object recognition in natural scenes. Over the past few years neuroscientists have made remarkable progress in understanding how the human brain represents categories of objects and actions in natural sc...
computer science
5,110
Spectral classification using convolutional neural networks
cs.CV
There is a great need for accurate and autonomous spectral classification methods in astrophysics. This thesis is about training a convolutional neural network (ConvNet) to recognize an object class (quasar, star or galaxy) from one-dimension spectra only. Author developed several scripts and C programs for datasets pr...
computer science
5,111
A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style
cs.CV
In fine art, especially painting, humans have mastered the skill to create unique visual experiences through composing a complex interplay between the content and style of an image. Thus far the algorithmic basis of this process is unknown and there exists no artificial system with similar capabilities. However, in oth...
computer science
5,112
Applying deep learning to classify pornographic images and videos
cs.CV
It is no secret that pornographic material is now a one-click-away from everyone, including children and minors. General social media networks are striving to isolate adult images and videos from normal ones. Intelligent image analysis methods can help to automatically detect and isolate questionable images in media. U...
computer science
5,113
YodaNN: An Architecture for Ultra-Low Power Binary-Weight CNN Acceleration
cs.AR
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have revolutionized the world of computer vision over the last few years, pushing image classification beyond human accuracy. The computational effort of today's CNNs requires power-hungry parallel processors or GP-GPUs. Recent developments in CNN accelerators for system-on-chip int...
computer science
5,114
Artificial Neural Networks for Detection of Malaria in RBCs
cs.CV
Malaria is one of the most common diseases caused by mosquitoes and is a great public health problem worldwide. Currently, for malaria diagnosis the standard technique is microscopic examination of a stained blood film. We propose use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) for the diagnosis of the disease in the red blood...
computer science
5,115
A Large Contextual Dataset for Classification, Detection and Counting of Cars with Deep Learning
cs.CV
We have created a large diverse set of cars from overhead images, which are useful for training a deep learner to binary classify, detect and count them. The dataset and all related material will be made publically available. The set contains contextual matter to aid in identification of difficult targets. We demonstra...
computer science
5,116
Deep Convolutional Networks as Models of Generalization and Blending Within Visual Creativity
cs.NE
We examine two recent artificial intelligence (AI) based deep learning algorithms for visual blending in convolutional neural networks (Mordvintsev et al. 2015, Gatys et al. 2015). To investigate the potential value of these algorithms as tools for computational creativity research, we explain and schematize the essent...
computer science
5,117
Multiple Instance Fuzzy Inference Neural Networks
cs.NE
Fuzzy logic is a powerful tool to model knowledge uncertainty, measurements imprecision, and vagueness. However, there is another type of vagueness that arises when data have multiple forms of expression that fuzzy logic does not address quite well. This is the case for multiple instance learning problems (MIL). In MIL...
computer science
5,118
Sparsey: Event Recognition via Deep Hierarchical Spare Distributed Codes
cs.CV
Visual cortex's hierarchical, multi-level organization is captured in many biologically inspired computational vision models, the general idea being that progressively larger scale, more complex spatiotemporal features are represented in progressively higher areas. However, most earlier models use localist representati...
computer science
5,119
Deep Tensor Convolution on Multicores
cs.CV
Deep convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) of 3-dimensional kernels allow joint modeling of spatiotemporal features. These networks have improved performance of video and volumetric image analysis, but have been limited in size due to the low memory ceiling of GPU hardware. Existing CPU implementations overcome this...
computer science
5,120
A Radically New Theory of how the Brain Represents and Computes with Probabilities
cs.CV
The brain is believed to implement probabilistic reasoning and to represent information via population, or distributed, coding. Most previous population-based probabilistic (PPC) theories share several basic properties: 1) continuous-valued neurons; 2) fully(densely)-distributed codes, i.e., all(most) units participate...
computer science
5,121
Stable and Controllable Neural Texture Synthesis and Style Transfer Using Histogram Losses
cs.GR
Recently, methods have been proposed that perform texture synthesis and style transfer by using convolutional neural networks (e.g. Gatys et al. [2015,2016]). These methods are exciting because they can in some cases create results with state-of-the-art quality. However, in this paper, we show these methods also have l...
computer science
5,122
Large-scale image analysis using docker sandboxing
cs.CV
With the advent of specialized hardware such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), large scale image localization, classification and retrieval have seen increased prevalence. Designing scalable software architecture that co-evolves with such specialized hardware is a challenge in the commercial setting. In this paper, ...
computer science
5,123
Weakly supervised training of deep convolutional neural networks for overhead pedestrian localization in depth fields
cs.CV
Overhead depth map measurements capture sufficient amount of information to enable human experts to track pedestrians accurately. However, fully automating this process using image analysis algorithms can be challenging. Even though hand-crafted image analysis algorithms are successful in many common cases, they fail f...
computer science
5,124
SideEye: A Generative Neural Network Based Simulator of Human Peripheral Vision
cs.NE
Foveal vision makes up less than 1% of the visual field. The other 99% is peripheral vision. Precisely what human beings see in the periphery is both obvious and mysterious in that we see it with our own eyes but can't visualize what we see, except in controlled lab experiments. Degradation of information in the periph...
computer science
5,125
Learned Primal-dual Reconstruction
math.OC
We propose the Learned Primal-Dual algorithm for tomographic reconstruction. The algorithm accounts for a (possibly non-linear) forward operator in a deep neural network by unrolling a proximal primal-dual optimization method, but where the proximal operators have been replaced with convolutional neural networks. The a...
computer science
5,126
Model based learning for accelerated, limited-view 3D photoacoustic tomography
cs.CV
Recent advances in deep learning for tomographic reconstructions have shown great potential to create accurate and high quality images with a considerable speed-up. In this work we present a deep neural network that is specifically designed to provide high resolution 3D images from restricted photoacoustic measurements...
computer science
5,127
MUFold-SS: Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Using Deep Inception-Inside-Inception Networks
cs.CV
Motivation: Protein secondary structure prediction can provide important information for protein 3D structure prediction and protein functions. Deep learning, which has been successfully applied to various research fields such as image classification and voice recognition, provides a new opportunity to significantly im...
computer science
5,128
A self-organizing neural network architecture for learning human-object interactions
cs.NE
The visual recognition of transitive actions comprising human-object interactions is a key component for artificial systems operating in natural environments. This challenging task requires jointly the recognition of articulated body actions as well as the extraction of semantic elements from the scene such as the iden...
computer science
5,129
Vector Quantization using the Improved Differential Evolution Algorithm for Image Compression
cs.CV
Vector Quantization, VQ is a popular image compression technique with a simple decoding architecture and high compression ratio. Codebook designing is the most essential part in Vector Quantization. LindeBuzoGray, LBG is a traditional method of generation of VQ Codebook which results in lower PSNR value. A Codebook aff...
computer science
5,130
Phase Transitions in Image Denoising via Sparsely Coding Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.NE
Neural networks are analogous in many ways to spin glasses, systems which are known for their rich set of dynamics and equally complex phase diagrams. We apply well-known techniques in the study of spin glasses to a convolutional sparsely encoding neural network and observe power law finite-size scaling behavior in the...
computer science
5,131
Convolutional Drift Networks for Video Classification
cs.CV
Analyzing spatio-temporal data like video is a challenging task that requires processing visual and temporal information effectively. Convolutional Neural Networks have shown promise as baseline fixed feature extractors through transfer learning, a technique that helps minimize the training cost on visual information. ...
computer science
5,132
Compact Neural Networks based on the Multiscale Entanglement Renormalization Ansatz
cs.NE
The goal of this paper is to demonstrate a method for tensorizing neural networks based upon an efficient way of approximating scale invariant quantum states, the Multi-scale Entanglement Renormalization Ansatz (MERA). We employ MERA as a replacement for linear layers in a neural network and test this implementation on...
computer science
5,133
A General Neural Network Hardware Architecture on FPGA
cs.CV
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) plays an increasingly important role in data sampling and processing industries due to its highly parallel architecture, low power consumption, and flexibility in custom algorithms. Especially, in the artificial intelligence field, for training and implement the neural networks an...
computer science
5,134
Neural Network Reinforcement Learning for Audio-Visual Gaze Control in Human-Robot Interaction
cs.RO
This paper introduces a novel neural network-based reinforcement learning approach for robot gaze control. Our approach enables a robot to learn and adapt its gaze control strategy for human-robot interaction without the use of external sensors or human supervision. The robot learns to focus its attention on groups of ...
computer science
5,135
WSNet: Compact and Efficient Networks with Weight Sampling
cs.CV
We present a new approach and a novel architecture, termed WSNet, for learning compact and efficient deep neural networks. Existing approaches conventionally learn full model parameters independently at first and then compress them via ad hoc processing like model pruning or filter factorization. Different from them, W...
computer science
5,136
Triagem virtual de imagens de imuno-histoquímica usando redes neurais artificiais e espectro de padrões
cs.CV
The importance of organizing medical images according to their nature, application and relevance is increasing. Furhermore, a previous selection of medical images can be useful to accelerate the task of analysis by pathologists. Herein this work we propose an image classifier to integrate a CBIR (Content-Based Image Re...
computer science
5,137
Dialectical Multispectral Classification of Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Images as an Alternative to Apparent Diffusion Coefficients Maps to Perform Anatomical Analysis
cs.CV
Multispectral image analysis is a relatively promising field of research with applications in several areas, such as medical imaging and satellite monitoring. A considerable number of current methods of analysis are based on parametric statistics. Alternatively, some methods in Computational Intelligence are inspired b...
computer science
5,138
Detection and classification of masses in mammographic images in a multi-kernel approach
cs.CV
According to the World Health Organization, breast cancer is the main cause of cancer death among adult women in the world. Although breast cancer occurs indiscriminately in countries with several degrees of social and economic development, among developing and underdevelopment countries mortality rates are still high,...
computer science
5,139
An Incremental Self-Organizing Architecture for Sensorimotor Learning and Prediction
cs.CV
During visuomotor tasks, robots must compensate for temporal delays inherent in their sensorimotor processing systems. Delay compensation becomes crucial in a dynamic environment where the visual input is constantly changing, e.g., during the interacting with a human demonstrator. For this purpose, the robot must be eq...
computer science
5,140
A tutorial on conformal prediction
cs.LG
Conformal prediction uses past experience to determine precise levels of confidence in new predictions. Given an error probability $\epsilon$, together with a method that makes a prediction $\hat{y}$ of a label $y$, it produces a set of labels, typically containing $\hat{y}$, that also contains $y$ with probability $1-...
computer science
5,141
Learning Balanced Mixtures of Discrete Distributions with Small Sample
cs.LG
We study the problem of partitioning a small sample of $n$ individuals from a mixture of $k$ product distributions over a Boolean cube $\{0, 1\}^K$ according to their distributions. Each distribution is described by a vector of allele frequencies in $\R^K$. Given two distributions, we use $\gamma$ to denote the average...
computer science
5,142
Exploring Large Feature Spaces with Hierarchical Multiple Kernel Learning
cs.LG
For supervised and unsupervised learning, positive definite kernels allow to use large and potentially infinite dimensional feature spaces with a computational cost that only depends on the number of observations. This is usually done through the penalization of predictor functions by Euclidean or Hilbertian norms. In ...
computer science
5,143
Matrix Completion from a Few Entries
cs.LG
Let M be a random (alpha n) x n matrix of rank r<<n, and assume that a uniformly random subset E of its entries is observed. We describe an efficient algorithm that reconstructs M from |E| = O(rn) observed entries with relative root mean square error RMSE <= C(rn/|E|)^0.5 . Further, if r=O(1), M can be reconstructed ex...
computer science
5,144
Model-Consistent Sparse Estimation through the Bootstrap
cs.LG
We consider the least-square linear regression problem with regularization by the $\ell^1$-norm, a problem usually referred to as the Lasso. In this paper, we first present a detailed asymptotic analysis of model consistency of the Lasso in low-dimensional settings. For various decays of the regularization parameter, w...
computer science
5,145
Tree Exploration for Bayesian RL Exploration
stat.ML
Research in reinforcement learning has produced algorithms for optimal decision making under uncertainty that fall within two main types. The first employs a Bayesian framework, where optimality improves with increased computational time. This is because the resulting planning task takes the form of a dynamic programmi...
computer science
5,146
Induction of High-level Behaviors from Problem-solving Traces using Machine Learning Tools
stat.ML
This paper applies machine learning techniques to student modeling. It presents a method for discovering high-level student behaviors from a very large set of low-level traces corresponding to problem-solving actions in a learning environment. Basic actions are encoded into sets of domain-dependent attribute-value patt...
computer science
5,147
The Infinite Hierarchical Factor Regression Model
cs.LG
We propose a nonparametric Bayesian factor regression model that accounts for uncertainty in the number of factors, and the relationship between factors. To accomplish this, we propose a sparse variant of the Indian Buffet Process and couple this with a hierarchical model over factors, based on Kingman's coalescent. We...
computer science
5,148
Streamed Learning: One-Pass SVMs
cs.LG
We present a streaming model for large-scale classification (in the context of $\ell_2$-SVM) by leveraging connections between learning and computational geometry. The streaming model imposes the constraint that only a single pass over the data is allowed. The $\ell_2$-SVM is known to have an equivalent formulation in ...
computer science
5,149
Learning Exponential Families in High-Dimensions: Strong Convexity and Sparsity
cs.LG
The versatility of exponential families, along with their attendant convexity properties, make them a popular and effective statistical model. A central issue is learning these models in high-dimensions, such as when there is some sparsity pattern of the optimal parameter. This work characterizes a certain strong conve...
computer science
5,150
How to Explain Individual Classification Decisions
stat.ML
After building a classifier with modern tools of machine learning we typically have a black box at hand that is able to predict well for unseen data. Thus, we get an answer to the question what is the most likely label of a given unseen data point. However, most methods will provide no answer why the model predicted th...
computer science
5,151
Gaussian Process Structural Equation Models with Latent Variables
cs.LG
In a variety of disciplines such as social sciences, psychology, medicine and economics, the recorded data are considered to be noisy measurements of latent variables connected by some causal structure. This corresponds to a family of graphical models known as the structural equation model with latent variables. While ...
computer science
5,152
Exploratory Analysis of Functional Data via Clustering and Optimal Segmentation
stat.ML
We propose in this paper an exploratory analysis algorithm for functional data. The method partitions a set of functions into $K$ clusters and represents each cluster by a simple prototype (e.g., piecewise constant). The total number of segments in the prototypes, $P$, is chosen by the user and optimally distributed am...
computer science
5,153
Generative and Latent Mean Map Kernels
cs.LG
We introduce two kernels that extend the mean map, which embeds probability measures in Hilbert spaces. The generative mean map kernel (GMMK) is a smooth similarity measure between probabilistic models. The latent mean map kernel (LMMK) generalizes the non-iid formulation of Hilbert space embeddings of empirical distri...
computer science
5,154
A Unifying View of Multiple Kernel Learning
stat.ML
Recent research on multiple kernel learning has lead to a number of approaches for combining kernels in regularized risk minimization. The proposed approaches include different formulations of objectives and varying regularization strategies. In this paper we present a unifying general optimization criterion for multip...
computer science
5,155
Context models on sequences of covers
stat.ML
We present a class of models that, via a simple construction, enables exact, incremental, non-parametric, polynomial-time, Bayesian inference of conditional measures. The approach relies upon creating a sequence of covers on the conditioning variable and maintaining a different model for each set within a cover. Infere...
computer science
5,156
Using a Kernel Adatron for Object Classification with RCS Data
cs.LG
Rapid identification of object from radar cross section (RCS) signals is important for many space and military applications. This identification is a problem in pattern recognition which either neural networks or support vector machines should prove to be high-speed. Bayesian networks would also provide value but requi...
computer science
5,157
Online Learning via Sequential Complexities
cs.LG
We consider the problem of sequential prediction and provide tools to study the minimax value of the associated game. Classical statistical learning theory provides several useful complexity measures to study learning with i.i.d. data. Our proposed sequential complexities can be seen as extensions of these measures to ...
computer science
5,158
Fast ABC-Boost for Multi-Class Classification
cs.LG
Abc-boost is a new line of boosting algorithms for multi-class classification, by utilizing the commonly used sum-to-zero constraint. To implement abc-boost, a base class must be identified at each boosting step. Prior studies used a very expensive procedure based on exhaustive search for determining the base class at ...
computer science
5,159
Approximate Inference and Stochastic Optimal Control
cs.LG
We propose a novel reformulation of the stochastic optimal control problem as an approximate inference problem, demonstrating, that such a interpretation leads to new practical methods for the original problem. In particular we characterise a novel class of iterative solutions to the stochastic optimal control problem ...
computer science
5,160
Regularization Strategies and Empirical Bayesian Learning for MKL
stat.ML
Multiple kernel learning (MKL), structured sparsity, and multi-task learning have recently received considerable attention. In this paper, we show how different MKL algorithms can be understood as applications of either regularization on the kernel weights or block-norm-based regularization, which is more common in str...
computer science
5,161
Classifying Clustering Schemes
stat.ML
Many clustering schemes are defined by optimizing an objective function defined on the partitions of the underlying set of a finite metric space. In this paper, we construct a framework for studying what happens when we instead impose various structural conditions on the clustering schemes, under the general heading of...
computer science
5,162
The Sample Complexity of Dictionary Learning
stat.ML
A large set of signals can sometimes be described sparsely using a dictionary, that is, every element can be represented as a linear combination of few elements from the dictionary. Algorithms for various signal processing applications, including classification, denoising and signal separation, learn a dictionary from ...
computer science
5,163
In All Likelihood, Deep Belief Is Not Enough
stat.ML
Statistical models of natural stimuli provide an important tool for researchers in the fields of machine learning and computational neuroscience. A canonical way to quantitatively assess and compare the performance of statistical models is given by the likelihood. One class of statistical models which has recently gain...
computer science
5,164
Split Bregman Method for Sparse Inverse Covariance Estimation with Matrix Iteration Acceleration
stat.ML
We consider the problem of estimating the inverse covariance matrix by maximizing the likelihood function with a penalty added to encourage the sparsity of the resulting matrix. We propose a new approach based on the split Bregman method to solve the regularized maximum likelihood estimation problem. We show that our m...
computer science
5,165
Shaping Level Sets with Submodular Functions
cs.LG
We consider a class of sparsity-inducing regularization terms based on submodular functions. While previous work has focused on non-decreasing functions, we explore symmetric submodular functions and their \lova extensions. We show that the Lovasz extension may be seen as the convex envelope of a function that depends ...
computer science
5,166
Concentration-Based Guarantees for Low-Rank Matrix Reconstruction
cs.LG
We consider the problem of approximately reconstructing a partially-observed, approximately low-rank matrix. This problem has received much attention lately, mostly using the trace-norm as a surrogate to the rank. Here we study low-rank matrix reconstruction using both the trace-norm, as well as the less-studied max-no...
computer science
5,167
Sparse Signal Recovery with Temporally Correlated Source Vectors Using Sparse Bayesian Learning
stat.ML
We address the sparse signal recovery problem in the context of multiple measurement vectors (MMV) when elements in each nonzero row of the solution matrix are temporally correlated. Existing algorithms do not consider such temporal correlations and thus their performance degrades significantly with the correlations. I...
computer science
5,168
Multi-label Learning via Structured Decomposition and Group Sparsity
cs.LG
In multi-label learning, each sample is associated with several labels. Existing works indicate that exploring correlations between labels improve the prediction performance. However, embedding the label correlations into the training process significantly increases the problem size. Moreover, the mapping of the label ...
computer science
5,169
Generalization error bounds for stationary autoregressive models
stat.ML
We derive generalization error bounds for stationary univariate autoregressive (AR) models. We show that imposing stationarity is enough to control the Gaussian complexity without further regularization. This lets us use structural risk minimization for model selection. We demonstrate our methods by predicting interest...
computer science
5,170
A note on active learning for smooth problems
cs.LG
We show that the disagreement coefficient of certain smooth hypothesis classes is $O(m)$, where $m$ is the dimension of the hypothesis space, thereby answering a question posed in \cite{friedman09}.
computer science
5,171
Clustered regression with unknown clusters
cs.LG
We consider a collection of prediction experiments, which are clustered in the sense that groups of experiments ex- hibit similar relationship between the predictor and response variables. The experiment clusters as well as the regres- sion relationships are unknown. The regression relation- ships define the experiment...
computer science
5,172
Classification of Sets using Restricted Boltzmann Machines
cs.LG
We consider the problem of classification when inputs correspond to sets of vectors. This setting occurs in many problems such as the classification of pieces of mail containing several pages, of web sites with several sections or of images that have been pre-segmented into smaller regions. We propose generalizations o...
computer science
5,173
Rapid Learning with Stochastic Focus of Attention
cs.LG
We present a method to stop the evaluation of a decision making process when the result of the full evaluation is obvious. This trait is highly desirable for online margin-based machine learning algorithms where a classifier traditionally evaluates all the features for every example. We observe that some examples are e...
computer science
5,174
Pruning nearest neighbor cluster trees
stat.ML
Nearest neighbor (k-NN) graphs are widely used in machine learning and data mining applications, and our aim is to better understand what they reveal about the cluster structure of the unknown underlying distribution of points. Moreover, is it possible to identify spurious structures that might arise due to sampling va...
computer science
5,175
Generalized Boosting Algorithms for Convex Optimization
cs.LG
Boosting is a popular way to derive powerful learners from simpler hypothesis classes. Following previous work (Mason et al., 1999; Friedman, 2000) on general boosting frameworks, we analyze gradient-based descent algorithms for boosting with respect to any convex objective and introduce a new measure of weak learner p...
computer science
5,176
PAC-Bayesian Analysis of Martingales and Multiarmed Bandits
cs.LG
We present two alternative ways to apply PAC-Bayesian analysis to sequences of dependent random variables. The first is based on a new lemma that enables to bound expectations of convex functions of certain dependent random variables by expectations of the same functions of independent Bernoulli random variables. This ...
computer science
5,177
PAC-Bayesian Analysis of the Exploration-Exploitation Trade-off
cs.LG
We develop a coherent framework for integrative simultaneous analysis of the exploration-exploitation and model order selection trade-offs. We improve over our preceding results on the same subject (Seldin et al., 2011) by combining PAC-Bayesian analysis with Bernstein-type inequality for martingales. Such a combinatio...
computer science
5,178
Rademacher complexity of stationary sequences
stat.ML
We show how to control the generalization error of time series models wherein past values of the outcome are used to predict future values. The results are based on a generalization of standard i.i.d. concentration inequalities to dependent data without the mixing assumptions common in the time series setting. Our proo...
computer science
5,179
Optimal Reinforcement Learning for Gaussian Systems
stat.ML
The exploration-exploitation trade-off is among the central challenges of reinforcement learning. The optimal Bayesian solution is intractable in general. This paper studies to what extent analytic statements about optimal learning are possible if all beliefs are Gaussian processes. A first order approximation of learn...
computer science
5,180
Hashing Algorithms for Large-Scale Learning
stat.ML
In this paper, we first demonstrate that b-bit minwise hashing, whose estimators are positive definite kernels, can be naturally integrated with learning algorithms such as SVM and logistic regression. We adopt a simple scheme to transform the nonlinear (resemblance) kernel into linear (inner product) kernel; and hence...
computer science
5,181
Using More Data to Speed-up Training Time
cs.LG
In many recent applications, data is plentiful. By now, we have a rather clear understanding of how more data can be used to improve the accuracy of learning algorithms. Recently, there has been a growing interest in understanding how more data can be leveraged to reduce the required training runtime. In this paper, we...
computer science
5,182
Large-Scale Convex Minimization with a Low-Rank Constraint
cs.LG
We address the problem of minimizing a convex function over the space of large matrices with low rank. While this optimization problem is hard in general, we propose an efficient greedy algorithm and derive its formal approximation guarantees. Each iteration of the algorithm involves (approximately) finding the left an...
computer science
5,183
Efficient Transductive Online Learning via Randomized Rounding
cs.LG
Most traditional online learning algorithms are based on variants of mirror descent or follow-the-leader. In this paper, we present an online algorithm based on a completely different approach, tailored for transductive settings, which combines "random playout" and randomized rounding of loss subgradients. As an applic...
computer science
5,184
From Bandits to Experts: On the Value of Side-Observations
cs.LG
We consider an adversarial online learning setting where a decision maker can choose an action in every stage of the game. In addition to observing the reward of the chosen action, the decision maker gets side observations on the reward he would have obtained had he chosen some of the other actions. The observation str...
computer science
5,185
Robust Bayesian reinforcement learning through tight lower bounds
cs.LG
In the Bayesian approach to sequential decision making, exact calculation of the (subjective) utility is intractable. This extends to most special cases of interest, such as reinforcement learning problems. While utility bounds are known to exist for this problem, so far none of them were particularly tight. In this pa...
computer science
5,186
Learning with the Weighted Trace-norm under Arbitrary Sampling Distributions
cs.LG
We provide rigorous guarantees on learning with the weighted trace-norm under arbitrary sampling distributions. We show that the standard weighted trace-norm might fail when the sampling distribution is not a product distribution (i.e. when row and column indexes are not selected independently), present a corrected var...
computer science
5,187
Tight Measurement Bounds for Exact Recovery of Structured Sparse Signals
stat.ML
Standard compressive sensing results state that to exactly recover an s sparse signal in R^p, one requires O(s. log(p)) measurements. While this bound is extremely useful in practice, often real world signals are not only sparse, but also exhibit structure in the sparsity pattern. We focus on group-structured patterns ...
computer science
5,188
A General Framework for Structured Sparsity via Proximal Optimization
cs.LG
We study a generalized framework for structured sparsity. It extends the well-known methods of Lasso and Group Lasso by incorporating additional constraints on the variables as part of a convex optimization problem. This framework provides a straightforward way of favouring prescribed sparsity patterns, such as orderin...
computer science
5,189
Ensemble Risk Modeling Method for Robust Learning on Scarce Data
cs.LG
In medical risk modeling, typical data are "scarce": they have relatively small number of training instances (N), censoring, and high dimensionality (M). We show that the problem may be effectively simplified by reducing it to bipartite ranking, and introduce new bipartite ranking algorithm, Smooth Rank, for robust lea...
computer science
5,190
Stability Conditions for Online Learnability
cs.LG
Stability is a general notion that quantifies the sensitivity of a learning algorithm's output to small change in the training dataset (e.g. deletion or replacement of a single training sample). Such conditions have recently been shown to be more powerful to characterize learnability in the general learning setting und...
computer science
5,191
Structured Sparsity and Generalization
cs.LG
We present a data dependent generalization bound for a large class of regularized algorithms which implement structured sparsity constraints. The bound can be applied to standard squared-norm regularization, the Lasso, the group Lasso, some versions of the group Lasso with overlapping groups, multiple kernel learning a...
computer science
5,192
Group Lasso with Overlaps: the Latent Group Lasso approach
stat.ML
We study a norm for structured sparsity which leads to sparse linear predictors whose supports are unions of prede ned overlapping groups of variables. We call the obtained formulation latent group Lasso, since it is based on applying the usual group Lasso penalty on a set of latent variables. A detailed analysis of th...
computer science
5,193
Efficient Latent Variable Graphical Model Selection via Split Bregman Method
stat.ML
We consider the problem of covariance matrix estimation in the presence of latent variables. Under suitable conditions, it is possible to learn the marginal covariance matrix of the observed variables via a tractable convex program, where the concentration matrix of the observed variables is decomposed into a sparse ma...
computer science
5,194
A Reliable Effective Terascale Linear Learning System
cs.LG
We present a system and a set of techniques for learning linear predictors with convex losses on terascale datasets, with trillions of features, {The number of features here refers to the number of non-zero entries in the data matrix.} billions of training examples and millions of parameters in an hour using a cluster ...
computer science
5,195
An Optimal Algorithm for Linear Bandits
cs.LG
We provide the first algorithm for online bandit linear optimization whose regret after T rounds is of order sqrt{Td ln N} on any finite class X of N actions in d dimensions, and of order d*sqrt{T} (up to log factors) when X is infinite. These bounds are not improvable in general. The basic idea utilizes tools from con...
computer science
5,196
Kernel Topic Models
cs.LG
Latent Dirichlet Allocation models discrete data as a mixture of discrete distributions, using Dirichlet beliefs over the mixture weights. We study a variation of this concept, in which the documents' mixture weight beliefs are replaced with squashed Gaussian distributions. This allows documents to be associated with e...
computer science
5,197
Revisiting k-means: New Algorithms via Bayesian Nonparametrics
cs.LG
Bayesian models offer great flexibility for clustering applications---Bayesian nonparametrics can be used for modeling infinite mixtures, and hierarchical Bayesian models can be utilized for sharing clusters across multiple data sets. For the most part, such flexibility is lacking in classical clustering methods such a...
computer science
5,198
The Graphical Lasso: New Insights and Alternatives
stat.ML
The graphical lasso \citep{FHT2007a} is an algorithm for learning the structure in an undirected Gaussian graphical model, using $\ell_1$ regularization to control the number of zeros in the precision matrix ${\B\Theta}={\B\Sigma}^{-1}$ \citep{BGA2008,yuan_lin_07}. The {\texttt R} package \GL\ \citep{FHT2007a} is popul...
computer science
5,199
Learning a Factor Model via Regularized PCA
cs.LG
We consider the problem of learning a linear factor model. We propose a regularized form of principal component analysis (PCA) and demonstrate through experiments with synthetic and real data the superiority of resulting estimates to those produced by pre-existing factor analysis approaches. We also establish theoretic...
computer science