Unnamed: 0
int64
0
41k
title
stringlengths
4
274
category
stringlengths
5
18
summary
stringlengths
22
3.66k
theme
stringclasses
8 values
7,500
Deeper Insights into Graph Convolutional Networks for Semi-Supervised Learning
cs.LG
Many interesting problems in machine learning are being revisited with new deep learning tools. For graph-based semisupervised learning, a recent important development is graph convolutional networks (GCNs), which nicely integrate local vertex features and graph topology in the convolutional layers. Although the GCN mo...
computer science
7,501
Drug Selection via Joint Push and Learning to Rank
cs.LG
Selecting the right drugs for the right patients is a primary goal of precision medicine. In this manuscript, we consider the problem of cancer drug selection in a learning-to-rank framework. We have formulated the cancer drug selection problem as to accurately predicting 1). the ranking positions of sensitive drugs an...
computer science
7,502
Deep Learning for Electromyographic Hand Gesture Signal Classification by Leveraging Transfer Learning
cs.LG
In recent years, the use of deep learning algorithms has become increasingly more prominent. Within the field of electromyography-based gesture recognition however, deep learning algorithms are seldom employed. This is due in part to the large quantity of data required for the network to train on. The data sparsity ari...
computer science
7,503
Semi-Supervised Convolutional Neural Networks for Human Activity Recognition
cs.LG
Labeled data used for training activity recognition classifiers are usually limited in terms of size and diversity. Thus, the learned model may not generalize well when used in real-world use cases. Semi-supervised learning augments labeled examples with unlabeled examples, often resulting in improved performance. Howe...
computer science
7,504
A Theoretical Investigation of Graph Degree as an Unsupervised Normality Measure
cs.LG
For a graph representation of a dataset, a straightforward normality measure for a sample can be its graph degree. Considering a weighted graph, degree of a sample is the sum of the corresponding row's values in a similarity matrix. The measure is intuitive given the abnormal samples are usually rare and they are dissi...
computer science
7,505
Training Set Debugging Using Trusted Items
cs.LG
Training set bugs are flaws in the data that adversely affect machine learning. The training set is usually too large for man- ual inspection, but one may have the resources to verify a few trusted items. The set of trusted items may not by itself be adequate for learning, so we propose an algorithm that uses these ite...
computer science
7,506
DKN: Deep Knowledge-Aware Network for News Recommendation
stat.ML
Online news recommender systems aim to address the information explosion of news and make personalized recommendation for users. In general, news language is highly condensed, full of knowledge entities and common sense. However, existing methods are unaware of such external knowledge and cannot fully discover latent k...
computer science
7,507
Transparent Model Distillation
stat.ML
Model distillation was originally designed to distill knowledge from a large, complex teacher model to a faster, simpler student model without significant loss in prediction accuracy. We investigate model distillation for another goal -- transparency -- investigating if fully-connected neural networks can be distilled ...
computer science
7,508
PDNet: Semantic Segmentation integrated with a Primal-Dual Network for Document binarization
stat.ML
Binarization of digital documents is the task of classifying each pixel in an image of the document as belonging to the background (parchment/paper) or foreground (text/ink). Historical documents are often subject to degradations, that make the task challenging. In the current work a deep neural network architecture is...
computer science
7,509
Improving Bi-directional Generation between Different Modalities with Variational Autoencoders
stat.ML
We investigate deep generative models that can exchange multiple modalities bi-directionally, e.g., generating images from corresponding texts and vice versa. A major approach to achieve this objective is to train a model that integrates all the information of different modalities into a joint representation and then t...
computer science
7,510
Classification of sparsely labeled spatio-temporal data through semi-supervised adversarial learning
stat.ML
In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have emerged as a powerful method for learning the mapping from noisy latent spaces to realistic data samples in high-dimensional space. So far, the development and application of GANs have been predominantly focused on spatial data such as images. In this project,...
computer science
7,511
Multivariate normal mixture modeling, clustering and classification with the rebmix package
stat.ML
The rebmix package provides R functions for random univariate and multivariate finite mixture model generation, estimation, clustering and classification. The paper is focused on multivariate normal mixture models with unrestricted variance-covariance matrices. The objective is to show how to generate datasets for a kn...
computer science
7,512
Correlated Components Analysis --- Extracting Reliable Dimensions in Multivariate Data
stat.ML
How does one find data dimensions that are reliably expressed across repetitions? For example, in neuroscience one may want to identify combinations of brain signals that are reliably activated across multiple trials or subjects. For a clinical assessment with multiple ratings, one may want to identify an aggregate sco...
computer science
7,513
Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction on Graphs
cs.LG
In this era of data deluge, many signal processing and machine learning tasks are faced with high-dimensional datasets, including images, videos, as well as time series generated from social, commercial and brain network interactions. Their efficient processing calls for dimensionality reduction techniques capable of p...
computer science
7,514
Discrete Autoencoders for Sequence Models
cs.LG
Recurrent models for sequences have been recently successful at many tasks, especially for language modeling and machine translation. Nevertheless, it remains challenging to extract good representations from these models. For instance, even though language has a clear hierarchical structure going from characters throug...
computer science
7,515
Robustness of classification ability of spiking neural networks
stat.ML
It is well-known that the robustness of artificial neural networks (ANNs) is important for their wide ranges of applications. In this paper, we focus on the robustness of the classification ability of a spiking neural network which receives perturbed inputs. Actually, the perturbation is allowed to be arbitrary styles....
computer science
7,516
Fast Power system security analysis with Guided Dropout
stat.ML
We propose a new method to efficiently compute load-flows (the steady-state of the power-grid for given productions, consumptions and grid topology), substituting conventional simulators based on differential equation solvers. We use a deep feed-forward neural network trained with load-flows precomputed by simulation. ...
computer science
7,517
Links: A High-Dimensional Online Clustering Method
stat.ML
We present a novel algorithm, called Links, designed to perform online clustering on unit vectors in a high-dimensional Euclidean space. The algorithm is appropriate when it is necessary to cluster data efficiently as it streams in, and is to be contrasted with traditional batch clustering algorithms that have access t...
computer science
7,518
Spherical CNNs
cs.LG
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the method of choice for learning problems involving 2D planar images. However, a number of problems of recent interest have created a demand for models that can analyze spherical images. Examples include omnidirectional vision for drones, robots, and autonomous cars, mo...
computer science
7,519
DeepDTA: Deep Drug-Target Binding Affinity Prediction
stat.ML
The identification of novel drug-target (DT) interactions is a substantial part of the drug discovery process. Most of the computational methods that have been proposed to predict DT interactions have focused on binary classification, where the goal is to determine whether a DT pair interacts or not. However, protein-l...
computer science
7,520
Low-rank Bandit Methods for High-dimensional Dynamic Pricing
cs.LG
We consider high dimensional dynamic multi-product pricing with an evolving but low-dimensional linear demand model. Assuming the temporal variation in cross-elasticities exhibits low-rank structure based on fixed (latent) features of the products, we show that the revenue maximization problem reduces to an online band...
computer science
7,521
Kernel Distillation for Gaussian Processes
stat.ML
Gaussian processes (GPs) are flexible models that can capture complex structure in large-scale dataset due to their non-parametric nature. However, the usage of GPs in real-world application is limited due to their high computational cost at inference time. In this paper, we introduce a new framework, \textit{kernel di...
computer science
7,522
Deep Multi-view Learning to Rank
cs.LG
We study the problem of learning to rank from multiple sources. Though multi-view learning and learning to rank have been studied extensively leading to a wide range of applications, multi-view learning to rank as a synergy of both topics has received little attention. The aim of the paper is to propose a composite ran...
computer science
7,523
DxNAT - Deep Neural Networks for Explaining Non-Recurring Traffic Congestion
cs.LG
Non-recurring traffic congestion is caused by temporary disruptions, such as accidents, sports games, adverse weather, etc. We use data related to real-time traffic speed, jam factors (a traffic congestion indicator), and events collected over a year from Nashville, TN to train a multi-layered deep neural network. The ...
computer science
7,524
Fusarium Damaged Kernels Detection Using Transfer Learning on Deep Neural Network Architecture
cs.LG
The present work shows the application of transfer learning for a pre-trained deep neural network (DNN), using a small image dataset ($\approx$ 12,000) on a single workstation with enabled NVIDIA GPU card that takes up to 1 hour to complete the training task and archive an overall average accuracy of $94.7\%$. The DNN ...
computer science
7,525
Incremental kernel PCA and the Nyström method
stat.ML
Incremental versions of batch algorithms are often desired, for increased time efficiency in the streaming data setting, or increased memory efficiency in general. In this paper we present a novel algorithm for incremental kernel PCA, based on rank one updates to the eigendecomposition of the kernel matrix, which is mo...
computer science
7,526
Optimizing Non-decomposable Measures with Deep Networks
stat.ML
We present a class of algorithms capable of directly training deep neural networks with respect to large families of task-specific performance measures such as the F-measure and the Kullback-Leibler divergence that are structured and non-decomposable. This presents a departure from standard deep learning techniques tha...
computer science
7,527
A Modified Sigma-Pi-Sigma Neural Network with Adaptive Choice of Multinomials
cs.LG
Sigma-Pi-Sigma neural networks (SPSNNs) as a kind of high-order neural networks can provide more powerful mapping capability than the traditional feedforward neural networks (Sigma-Sigma neural networks). In the existing literature, in order to reduce the number of the Pi nodes in the Pi layer, a special multinomial P_...
computer science
7,528
Alternating Multi-bit Quantization for Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.LG
Recurrent neural networks have achieved excellent performance in many applications. However, on portable devices with limited resources, the models are often too large to deploy. For applications on the server with large scale concurrent requests, the latency during inference can also be very critical for costly comput...
computer science
7,529
One-class Collective Anomaly Detection based on Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.LG
Intrusion detection for computer network systems has been becoming one of the most critical tasks for network administrators today. It has an important role for organizations, governments and our society due to the valuable resources hosted on computer networks. Traditional misuse detection strategies are unable to det...
computer science
7,530
Dual Memory Neural Computer for Asynchronous Two-view Sequential Learning
cs.LG
One of the core tasks in multi-view learning is to capture relations among views. For sequential data, the relations not only span across views, but also extend throughout the view length to form long-term intra-view and inter-view interactions. In this paper, we present a new memory augmented neural network model that...
computer science
7,531
Joint Binary Neural Network for Multi-label Learning with Applications to Emotion Classification
cs.LG
Recently the deep learning techniques have achieved success in multi-label classification due to its automatic representation learning ability and the end-to-end learning framework. Existing deep neural networks in multi-label classification can be divided into two kinds: binary relevance neural network (BRNN) and thre...
computer science
7,532
Multi-task Learning for Continuous Control
cs.LG
Reliable and effective multi-task learning is a prerequisite for the development of robotic agents that can quickly learn to accomplish related, everyday tasks. However, in the reinforcement learning domain, multi-task learning has not exhibited the same level of success as in other domains, such as computer vision. In...
computer science
7,533
Deep Temporal Clustering : Fully Unsupervised Learning of Time-Domain Features
cs.LG
Unsupervised learning of time series data, also known as temporal clustering, is a challenging problem in machine learning. Here we propose a novel algorithm, Deep Temporal Clustering (DTC), to naturally integrate dimensionality reduction and temporal clustering into a single end-to-end learning framework, fully unsupe...
computer science
7,534
Hierarchical Adversarially Learned Inference
stat.ML
We propose a novel hierarchical generative model with a simple Markovian structure and a corresponding inference model. Both the generative and inference model are trained using the adversarial learning paradigm. We demonstrate that the hierarchical structure supports the learning of progressively more abstract represe...
computer science
7,535
Task-Aware Compressed Sensing with Generative Adversarial Networks
cs.LG
In recent years, neural network approaches have been widely adopted for machine learning tasks, with applications in computer vision. More recently, unsupervised generative models based on neural networks have been successfully applied to model data distributions via low-dimensional latent spaces. In this paper, we use...
computer science
7,536
To understand deep learning we need to understand kernel learning
stat.ML
Generalization performance of classifiers in deep learning has recently become a subject of intense study. Heavily over-parametrized deep models tend to fit training data exactly. Despite overfitting, they perform well on test data, a phenomenon not yet fully understood. The first point of our paper is that strong pe...
computer science
7,537
The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning
cs.LG
This paper is an attempt to explain all the matrix calculus you need in order to understand the training of deep neural networks. We assume no math knowledge beyond what you learned in calculus 1, and provide links to help you refresh the necessary math where needed. Note that you do not need to understand this materia...
computer science
7,538
Deep Learning with a Rethinking Structure for Multi-label Classification
cs.LG
Multi-label classification (MLC) is an important learning problem that expects the learning algorithm to take the hidden correlation of the labels into account. Extracting the hidden correlation is generally a challenging task. In this work, we propose a novel deep learning framework to better extract the hidden correl...
computer science
7,539
Training Generative Adversarial Networks via Primal-Dual Subgradient Methods: A Lagrangian Perspective on GAN
cs.LG
We relate the minimax game of generative adversarial networks (GANs) to finding the saddle points of the Lagrangian function for a convex optimization problem, where the discriminator outputs and the distribution of generator outputs play the roles of primal variables and dual variables, respectively. This formulation ...
computer science
7,540
Spectral Learning of Binomial HMMs for DNA Methylation Data
cs.LG
We consider learning parameters of Binomial Hidden Markov Models, which may be used to model DNA methylation data. The standard algorithm for the problem is EM, which is computationally expensive for sequences of the scale of the mammalian genome. Recently developed spectral algorithms can learn parameters of latent va...
computer science
7,541
Cadre Modeling: Simultaneously Discovering Subpopulations and Predictive Models
stat.ML
We consider the problem in regression analysis of identifying subpopulations that exhibit different patterns of response, where each subpopulation requires a different underlying model. Unlike statistical cohorts, these subpopulations are not known a priori; thus, we refer to them as cadres. When the cadres and their a...
computer science
7,542
Transductive Adversarial Networks (TAN)
stat.ML
Transductive Adversarial Networks (TAN) is a novel domain-adaptation machine learning framework that is designed for learning a conditional probability distribution on unlabelled input data in a target domain, while also only having access to: (1) easily obtained labelled data from a related source domain, which may ha...
computer science
7,543
A Game-Theoretic Approach to Design Secure and Resilient Distributed Support Vector Machines
stat.ML
Distributed Support Vector Machines (DSVM) have been developed to solve large-scale classification problems in networked systems with a large number of sensors and control units. However, the systems become more vulnerable as detection and defense are increasingly difficult and expensive. This work aims to develop secu...
computer science
7,544
Learning Sparse Wavelet Representations
cs.LG
In this work we propose a method for learning wavelet filters directly from data. We accomplish this by framing the discrete wavelet transform as a modified convolutional neural network. We introduce an autoencoder wavelet transform network that is trained using gradient descent. We show that the model is capable of le...
computer science
7,545
Statistical Learnability of Generalized Additive Models based on Total Variation Regularization
stat.ML
A generalized additive model (GAM, Hastie and Tibshirani (1987)) is a nonparametric model by the sum of univariate functions with respect to each explanatory variable, i.e., $f({\mathbf x}) = \sum f_j(x_j)$, where $x_j\in\mathbb{R}$ is $j$-th component of a sample ${\mathbf x}\in \mathbb{R}^p$. In this paper, we introd...
computer science
7,546
Thompson Sampling for Dynamic Pricing
stat.ML
In this paper we apply active learning algorithms for dynamic pricing in a prominent e-commerce website. Dynamic pricing involves changing the price of items on a regular basis, and uses the feedback from the pricing decisions to update prices of the items. Most popular approaches to dynamic pricing use a passive learn...
computer science
7,547
Learning Latent Representations in Neural Networks for Clustering through Pseudo Supervision and Graph-based Activity Regularization
cs.LG
In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised clustering approach exploiting the hidden information that is indirectly introduced through a pseudo classification objective. Specifically, we randomly assign a pseudo parent-class label to each observation which is then modified by applying the domain specific transforma...
computer science
7,548
Relational Autoencoder for Feature Extraction
cs.LG
Feature extraction becomes increasingly important as data grows high dimensional. Autoencoder as a neural network based feature extraction method achieves great success in generating abstract features of high dimensional data. However, it fails to consider the relationships of data samples which may affect experimental...
computer science
7,549
Adversarial Metric Learning
cs.LG
In the past decades, intensive efforts have been put to design various loss functions and metric forms for metric learning problem. These improvements have shown promising results when the test data is similar to the training data. However, the trained models often fail to produce reliable distances on the ambiguous te...
computer science
7,550
Self-Bounded Prediction Suffix Tree via Approximate String Matching
cs.LG
Prediction suffix trees (PST) provide an effective tool for sequence modelling and prediction. Current prediction techniques for PSTs rely on exact matching between the suffix of the current sequence and the previously observed sequence. We present a provably correct algorithm for learning a PST with approximate suffix...
computer science
7,551
Curve Registered Coupled Low Rank Factorization
stat.ML
We propose an extension of the canonical polyadic (CP) tensor model where one of the latent factors is allowed to vary through data slices in a constrained way. The components of the latent factors, which we want to retrieve from data, can vary from one slice to another up to a diffeomorphism. We suppose that the diffe...
computer science
7,552
Deep clustering of longitudinal data
stat.ML
Deep neural networks are a family of computational models that have led to a dramatical improvement of the state of the art in several domains such as image, voice or text analysis. These methods provide a framework to model complex, non-linear interactions in large datasets, and are naturally suited to the analysis of...
computer science
7,553
Bayesian inference for bivariate ranks
stat.ML
A recommender system based on ranks is proposed, where an expert's ranking of a set of objects and a user's ranking of a subset of those objects are combined to make a prediction of the user's ranking of all objects. The rankings are assumed to be induced by latent continuous variables corresponding to the grades assig...
computer science
7,554
Learning Localized Spatio-Temporal Models From Streaming Data
stat.ML
We address the problem of predicting spatio-temporal processes with temporal patterns that vary across spatial regions, when data is obtained as a stream. That is, when the training dataset is augmented sequentially. Specifically, we develop a localized spatio-temporal covariance model of the process that can capture s...
computer science
7,555
Information Planning for Text Data
stat.ML
Information planning enables faster learning with fewer training examples. It is particularly applicable when training examples are costly to obtain. This work examines the advantages of information planning for text data by focusing on three supervised models: Naive Bayes, supervised LDA and deep neural networks. We s...
computer science
7,556
Predicting University Students' Academic Success and Choice of Major using Random Forests
stat.ML
In this paper, a large data set containing every course taken by every undergraduate student in a major university in Canada over 10 years is analyzed. Modern machine learning algorithms can use large data sets to build useful tools for the data provider, in this case, the university. In this article, two classifiers a...
computer science
7,557
Generalization of an Upper Bound on the Number of Nodes Needed to Achieve Linear Separability
stat.ML
An important issue in neural network research is how to choose the number of nodes and layers such as to solve a classification problem. We provide new intuitions based on earlier results by An et al. (2015) by deriving an upper bound on the number of nodes in networks with two hidden layers such that linear separabili...
computer science
7,558
Modeling Dynamics with Deep Transition-Learning Networks
cs.LG
Markov processes, both classical and higher order, are often used to model dynamic processes, such as stock prices, molecular dynamics, and Monte Carlo methods. Previous works have shown that an autoencoder can be formulated as a specific type of Markov chain. Here, we propose a generative neural network known as a tra...
computer science
7,559
Enhanced version of AdaBoostM1 with J48 Tree learning method
stat.ML
Machine Learning focuses on the construction and study of systems that can learn from data. This is connected with the classification problem, which usually is what Machine Learning algorithms are designed to solve. When a machine learning method is used by people with no special expertise in machine learning, it is im...
computer science
7,560
Bayesian Optimization Using Monotonicity Information and Its Application in Machine Learning Hyperparameter
cs.LG
We propose an algorithm for a family of optimization problems where the objective can be decomposed as a sum of functions with monotonicity properties. The motivating problem is optimization of hyperparameters of machine learning algorithms, where we argue that the objective, validation error, can be decomposed as mono...
computer science
7,561
Critères de qualité d'un classifieur généraliste
stat.ML
This paper considers the problem of choosing a good classifier. For each problem there exist an optimal classifier, but none are optimal, regarding the error rate, in all cases. Because there exists a large number of classifiers, a user would rather prefer an all-purpose classifier that is easy to adjust, in the hope t...
computer science
7,562
Distributed One-class Learning
cs.LG
We propose a cloud-based filter trained to block third parties from uploading privacy-sensitive images of others to online social media. The proposed filter uses Distributed One-Class Learning, which decomposes the cloud-based filter into multiple one-class classifiers. Each one-class classifier captures the properties...
computer science
7,563
Learning Correlation Space for Time Series
cs.LG
We propose an approximation algorithm for efficient correlation search in time series data. In our method, we use Fourier transform and neural network to embed time series into a low-dimensional Euclidean space. The given space is learned such that time series correlation can be effectively approximated from Euclidean ...
computer science
7,564
Learning to Recommend via Inverse Optimal Matching
stat.ML
We consider recommendation in the context of optimal matching, i.e., we need to pair or match a user with an item in an optimal way. The framework is particularly relevant when the supply of an individual item is limited and it can only satisfy a small number of users even though it may be preferred by many. We leverag...
computer science
7,565
Deep learning with t-exponential Bayesian kitchen sinks
cs.LG
Bayesian learning has been recently considered as an effective means of accounting for uncertainty in trained deep network parameters. This is of crucial importance when dealing with small or sparse training datasets. On the other hand, shallow models that compute weighted sums of their inputs, after passing them throu...
computer science
7,566
Differentiable Dynamic Programming for Structured Prediction and Attention
stat.ML
Dynamic programming (DP) solves a variety of structured combinatorial problems by iteratively breaking them down into smaller subproblems. In spite of their versatility, DP algorithms are usually non-differentiable, which hampers their use as a layer in neural networks trained by backpropagation. To address this issue,...
computer science
7,567
On the Rates of Convergence from Surrogate Risk Minimizers to the Bayes Optimal Classifier
stat.ML
We study the rates of convergence from empirical surrogate risk minimizers to the Bayes optimal classifier. Specifically, we introduce the notion of \emph{consistency intensity} to characterize a surrogate loss function and exploit this notion to obtain the rate of convergence from an empirical surrogate risk minimizer...
computer science
7,568
Dual Control Memory Augmented Neural Networks for Treatment Recommendations
cs.LG
Machine-assisted treatment recommendations hold a promise to reduce physician time and decision errors. We formulate the task as a sequence-to-sequence prediction model that takes the entire time-ordered medical history as input, and predicts a sequence of future clinical procedures and medications. It is built on the ...
computer science
7,569
On the Generalization of Equivariance and Convolution in Neural Networks to the Action of Compact Groups
stat.ML
Convolutional neural networks have been extremely successful in the image recognition domain because they ensure equivariance to translations. There have been many recent attempts to generalize this framework to other domains, including graphs and data lying on manifolds. In this paper we give a rigorous, theoretical t...
computer science
7,570
Nearly Optimal Adaptive Procedure for Piecewise-Stationary Bandit: a Change-Point Detection Approach
stat.ML
Multi-armed bandit (MAB) is a class of online learning problems where a learning agent aims to maximize its expected cumulative reward while repeatedly selecting to pull arms with unknown reward distributions. In this paper, we consider a scenario in which the arms' reward distributions may change in a piecewise-statio...
computer science
7,571
PCA-Based Missing Information Imputation for Real-Time Crash Likelihood Prediction Under Imbalanced Data
cs.LG
The real-time crash likelihood prediction has been an important research topic. Various classifiers, such as support vector machine (SVM) and tree-based boosting algorithms, have been proposed in traffic safety studies. However, few research focuses on the missing data imputation in real-time crash likelihood predictio...
computer science
7,572
Optimizing Neural Networks in the Equivalent Class Space
stat.ML
It has been widely observed that many activation functions and pooling methods of neural network models have (positive-) rescaling-invariant property, including ReLU, PReLU, max-pooling, and average pooling, which makes fully-connected neural networks (FNNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) invariant to (positi...
computer science
7,573
On the Latent Space of Wasserstein Auto-Encoders
stat.ML
We study the role of latent space dimensionality in Wasserstein auto-encoders (WAEs). Through experimentation on synthetic and real datasets, we argue that random encoders should be preferred over deterministic encoders. We highlight the potential of WAEs for representation learning with promising results on a benchmar...
computer science
7,574
Distributed Stochastic Multi-Task Learning with Graph Regularization
stat.ML
We propose methods for distributed graph-based multi-task learning that are based on weighted averaging of messages from other machines. Uniform averaging or diminishing stepsize in these methods would yield consensus (single task) learning. We show how simply skewing the averaging weights or controlling the stepsize a...
computer science
7,575
Quadrature-based features for kernel approximation
cs.LG
We consider the problem of improving kernel approximation via randomized feature maps. These maps arise as Monte Carlo approximation to integral representations of kernel functions and scale up kernel methods for larger datasets. We propose to use more efficient numerical integration technique to obtain better estimate...
computer science
7,576
Random Hinge Forest for Differentiable Learning
stat.ML
We propose random hinge forests, a simple, efficient, and novel variant of decision forests. Importantly, random hinge forests can be readily incorporated as a general component within arbitrary computation graphs that are optimized end-to-end with stochastic gradient descent or variants thereof. We derive random hinge...
computer science
7,577
Consistent Individualized Feature Attribution for Tree Ensembles
cs.LG
Interpreting predictions from tree ensemble methods such as gradient boosting machines and random forests is important, yet feature attribution for trees is often heuristic and not individualized for each prediction. Here we show that popular feature attribution methods are inconsistent, meaning they can lower a featur...
computer science
7,578
Unsupervised Anomaly Detection via Variational Auto-Encoder for Seasonal KPIs in Web Applications
cs.LG
To ensure undisrupted business, large Internet companies need to closely monitor various KPIs (e.g., Page Views, number of online users, and number of orders) of its Web applications, to accurately detect anomalies and trigger timely troubleshooting/mitigation. However, anomaly detection for these seasonal KPIs with va...
computer science
7,579
Assessing the Utility of Weather Data for Photovoltaic Power Prediction
stat.ML
Photovoltaic systems have been widely deployed in recent times to meet the increased electricity demand as an environmental-friendly energy source. The major challenge for integrating photovoltaic systems in power systems is the unpredictability of the solar power generated. In this paper, we analyze the impact of havi...
computer science
7,580
Revisiting the Vector Space Model: Sparse Weighted Nearest-Neighbor Method for Extreme Multi-Label Classification
stat.ML
Machine learning has played an important role in information retrieval (IR) in recent times. In search engines, for example, query keywords are accepted and documents are returned in order of relevance to the given query; this can be cast as a multi-label ranking problem in machine learning. Generally, the number of ca...
computer science
7,581
Latent variable time-varying network inference
stat.ML
In many applications of finance, biology and sociology, complex systems involve entities interacting with each other. These processes have the peculiarity of evolving over time and of comprising latent factors, which influence the system without being explicitly measured. In this work we present latent variable time-va...
computer science
7,582
Efficient Bias-Span-Constrained Exploration-Exploitation in Reinforcement Learning
cs.LG
We introduce SCAL, an algorithm designed to perform efficient exploration-exploitation in any unknown weakly-communicating Markov Decision Process (MDP) for which an upper bound c on the span of the optimal bias function is known. For an MDP with S states, A actions and Gamma <= S possible next states, we prove a regre...
computer science
7,583
Practical Evaluation and Optimization of Contextual Bandit Algorithms
stat.ML
We study and empirically optimize contextual bandit learning, exploration, and problem encodings across 500+ datasets, creating a reference for practitioners and discovering or reinforcing a number of natural open problems for researchers. Across these experiments we show that minimizing the amount of exploration is a ...
computer science
7,584
Predicting short-term Bitcoin price fluctuations from buy and sell orders
stat.ML
Bitcoin is the first decentralized digital cryptocurrency, which has showed significant market capitalization growth in last few years. It is important to understand what drives the fluctuations of the Bitcoin exchange price and to what extent they are predictable. In this paper, we study the ability to make short-term...
computer science
7,585
client2vec: Towards Systematic Baselines for Banking Applications
stat.ML
The workflow of data scientists normally involves potentially inefficient processes such as data mining, feature engineering and model selection. Recent research has focused on automating this workflow, partly or in its entirety, to improve productivity. We choose the former approach and in this paper share our experie...
computer science
7,586
Fast Interactive Image Retrieval using large-scale unlabeled data
cs.LG
An interactive image retrieval system learns which images in the database belong to a user's query concept, by analyzing the example images and feedback provided by the user. The challenge is to retrieve the relevant images with minimal user interaction. In this work, we propose to solve this problem by posing it as a ...
computer science
7,587
Augment and Reduce: Stochastic Inference for Large Categorical Distributions
stat.ML
Categorical distributions are ubiquitous in machine learning, e.g., in classification, language models, and recommendation systems. They are also at the core of discrete choice models. However, when the number of possible outcomes is very large, using categorical distributions becomes computationally expensive, as the ...
computer science
7,588
A Fast Proximal Point Method for Wasserstein Distance
stat.ML
Wasserstein distance plays increasingly important roles in machine learning, stochastic programming and image processing. Major efforts have been under way to address its high computational complexity, some leading to approximate or regularized variations such as Sinkhorn distance. However, as we will demonstrate, seve...
computer science
7,589
Stochastic quasi-Newton with adaptive step lengths for large-scale problems
stat.ML
We provide a numerically robust and fast method capable of exploiting the local geometry when solving large-scale stochastic optimisation problems. Our key innovation is an auxiliary variable construction coupled with an inverse Hessian approximation computed using a receding history of iterates and gradients. It is th...
computer science
7,590
Hybrid Decision Making: When Interpretable Models Collaborate With Black-Box Models
cs.LG
Interpretable machine learning models have received increasing interest in recent years, especially in domains where humans are involved in the decision-making process. However, the possible loss of the task performance for gaining interpretability is often inevitable. This performance downgrade puts practitioners in a...
computer science
7,591
On the Sample Complexity of Learning from a Sequence of Experiments
cs.LG
We analyze the sample complexity of a new problem: learning from a sequence of experiments. In this problem, the learner should choose a hypothesis that performs well with respect to an infinite sequence of experiments, and their related data distributions. In practice, the learner can only perform m experiments with a...
computer science
7,592
Few-Shot Learning with Metric-Agnostic Conditional Embeddings
cs.LG
Learning high quality class representations from few examples is a key problem in metric-learning approaches to few-shot learning. To accomplish this, we introduce a novel architecture where class representations are conditioned for each few-shot trial based on a target image. We also deviate from traditional metric-le...
computer science
7,593
Adversarially Regularized Graph Autoencoder
cs.LG
Graph embedding is an effective method to represent graph data in a low dimensional space for graph analytics. Most existing embedding algorithms typically focus on preserving the topological structure or minimizing the reconstruction errors of graph data, but they have mostly ignored the data distribution of the laten...
computer science
7,594
Towards Understanding the Generalization Bias of Two Layer Convolutional Linear Classifiers with Gradient Descent
cs.LG
A major challenge in understanding the generalization of deep learning is to explain why (stochastic) gradient descent can exploit the network architecture to find solutions that have good generalization performance when using high capacity models. We find simple but realistic examples showing that this phenomenon exis...
computer science
7,595
Detecting Spacecraft Anomalies Using LSTMs and Nonparametric Dynamic Thresholding
cs.LG
As spacecraft send back increasing amounts of telemetry data, improved anomaly detection systems are needed to lessen the monitoring burden placed on operations engineers and reduce operational risk. Current spacecraft monitoring systems only target a subset of anomaly types and often require costly expert knowledge to...
computer science
7,596
Predicting Adversarial Examples with High Confidence
cs.LG
It has been suggested that adversarial examples cause deep learning models to make incorrect predictions with high confidence. In this work, we take the opposite stance: an overly confident model is more likely to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. This work is one of the most proactive approaches taken to date, as...
computer science
7,597
Legendre Tensor Decomposition
stat.ML
We present a novel nonnegative tensor decomposition method, called Legendre decomposition, which factorizes an input tensor into a multiplicative combination of parameters. Thanks to the well-developed theory of information geometry, the reconstructed tensor is unique and always minimizes the KL divergence from an inpu...
computer science
7,598
Tighter Variational Bounds are Not Necessarily Better
stat.ML
We provide theoretical and empirical evidence that using tighter evidence lower bounds (ELBOs) can be detrimental to the process of learning an inference network by reducing the signal-to-noise ratio of the gradient estimator. Our results call into question common implicit assumptions that tighter ELBOs are better vari...
computer science
7,599
First Order Generative Adversarial Networks
cs.LG
GANs excel at learning high dimensional distributions, but they can update generator parameters in directions that do not correspond to the steepest descent direction of the objective. Prominent examples of problematic update directions include those used in both Goodfellow's original GAN and the WGAN-GP. To formally d...
computer science