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A Gaussian Particle Filter Approach for Sensors to Track Multiple Moving Targets
cs.LG
In a variety of problems, the number and state of multiple moving targets are unknown and are subject to be inferred from their measurements obtained by a sensor with limited sensing ability. This type of problems is raised in a variety of applications, including monitoring of endangered species, cleaning, and surveill...
computer science
32,703
Learning a Fuzzy Hyperplane Fat Margin Classifier with Minimum VC dimension
cs.LG
The Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension measures the complexity of a learning machine, and a low VC dimension leads to good generalization. The recently proposed Minimal Complexity Machine (MCM) learns a hyperplane classifier by minimizing an exact bound on the VC dimension. This paper extends the MCM classifier to the ...
computer science
32,704
Max-Cost Discrete Function Evaluation Problem under a Budget
cs.LG
We propose novel methods for max-cost Discrete Function Evaluation Problem (DFEP) under budget constraints. We are motivated by applications such as clinical diagnosis where a patient is subjected to a sequence of (possibly expensive) tests before a decision is made. Our goal is to develop strategies for minimizing max...
computer science
32,705
Deep Learning with Nonparametric Clustering
cs.LG
Clustering is an essential problem in machine learning and data mining. One vital factor that impacts clustering performance is how to learn or design the data representation (or features). Fortunately, recent advances in deep learning can learn unsupervised features effectively, and have yielded state of the art perfo...
computer science
32,706
Classification with Low Rank and Missing Data
cs.LG
We consider classification and regression tasks where we have missing data and assume that the (clean) data resides in a low rank subspace. Finding a hidden subspace is known to be computationally hard. Nevertheless, using a non-proper formulation we give an efficient agnostic algorithm that classifies as good as the b...
computer science
32,707
A Proximal Approach for Sparse Multiclass SVM
cs.LG
Sparsity-inducing penalties are useful tools to design multiclass support vector machines (SVMs). In this paper, we propose a convex optimization approach for efficiently and exactly solving the multiclass SVM learning problem involving a sparse regularization and the multiclass hinge loss formulated by Crammer and Sin...
computer science
32,708
Multi-view learning for multivariate performance measures optimization
cs.LG
In this paper, we propose the problem of optimizing multivariate performance measures from multi-view data, and an effective method to solve it. This problem has two features: the data points are presented by multiple views, and the target of learning is to optimize complex multivariate performance measures. We propose...
computer science
32,709
Generalised Random Forest Space Overview
cs.LG
Assuming a view of the Random Forest as a special case of a nested ensemble of interchangeable modules, we construct a generalisation space allowing one to easily develop novel methods based on this algorithm. We discuss the role and required properties of modules at each level, especially in context of some already pr...
computer science
32,710
Comment on "Clustering by fast search and find of density peaks"
cs.LG
In [1], a clustering algorithm was given to find the centers of clusters quickly. However, the accuracy of this algorithm heavily depend on the threshold value of d-c. Furthermore, [1] has not provided any efficient way to select the threshold value of d-c, that is, one can have to estimate the value of d_c depend on o...
computer science
32,711
Regularized maximum correntropy machine
cs.LG
In this paper we investigate the usage of regularized correntropy framework for learning of classifiers from noisy labels. The class label predictors learned by minimizing transitional loss functions are sensitive to the noisy and outlying labels of training samples, because the transitional loss functions are equally ...
computer science
32,712
Extreme Entropy Machines: Robust information theoretic classification
cs.LG
Most of the existing classification methods are aimed at minimization of empirical risk (through some simple point-based error measured with loss function) with added regularization. We propose to approach this problem in a more information theoretic way by investigating applicability of entropy measures as a classific...
computer science
32,713
Deep Transductive Semi-supervised Maximum Margin Clustering
cs.LG
Semi-supervised clustering is an very important topic in machine learning and computer vision. The key challenge of this problem is how to learn a metric, such that the instances sharing the same label are more likely close to each other on the embedded space. However, little attention has been paid to learn better rep...
computer science
32,714
On a Family of Decomposable Kernels on Sequences
cs.LG
In many applications data is naturally presented in terms of orderings of some basic elements or symbols. Reasoning about such data requires a notion of similarity capable of handling sequences of different lengths. In this paper we describe a family of Mercer kernel functions for such sequentially structured data. The...
computer science
32,715
Compressed Support Vector Machines
cs.LG
Support vector machines (SVM) can classify data sets along highly non-linear decision boundaries because of the kernel-trick. This expressiveness comes at a price: During test-time, the SVM classifier needs to compute the kernel inner-product between a test sample and all support vectors. With large training data sets,...
computer science
32,716
Novel Approaches for Predicting Risk Factors of Atherosclerosis
cs.LG
Coronary heart disease (CHD) caused by hardening of artery walls due to cholesterol known as atherosclerosis is responsible for large number of deaths world-wide. The disease progression is slow, asymptomatic and may lead to sudden cardiac arrest, stroke or myocardial infraction. Presently, imaging techniques are being...
computer science
32,717
Per-Block-Convex Data Modeling by Accelerated Stochastic Approximation
cs.LG
Applications involving dictionary learning, non-negative matrix factorization, subspace clustering, and parallel factor tensor decomposition tasks motivate well algorithms for per-block-convex and non-smooth optimization problems. By leveraging the stochastic approximation paradigm and first-order acceleration schemes,...
computer science
32,718
Efficient Divide-And-Conquer Classification Based on Feature-Space Decomposition
cs.LG
This study presents a divide-and-conquer (DC) approach based on feature space decomposition for classification. When large-scale datasets are present, typical approaches usually employed truncated kernel methods on the feature space or DC approaches on the sample space. However, this did not guarantee separability betw...
computer science
32,719
Representing Objects, Relations, and Sequences
cs.LG
Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) are high-dimensional vector representations of objects (eg., words, image parts), relations (eg., sentence structures), and sequences for use with machine learning algorithms. They consist of a vector addition operator for representing a collection of unordered objects, a Binding op...
computer science
32,720
Unsupervised Feature Selection with Adaptive Structure Learning
cs.LG
The problem of feature selection has raised considerable interests in the past decade. Traditional unsupervised methods select the features which can faithfully preserve the intrinsic structures of data, where the intrinsic structures are estimated using all the input features of data. However, the estimated intrinsic ...
computer science
32,721
The Child is Father of the Man: Foresee the Success at the Early Stage
cs.LG
Understanding the dynamic mechanisms that drive the high-impact scientific work (e.g., research papers, patents) is a long-debated research topic and has many important implications, ranging from personal career development and recruitment search, to the jurisdiction of research resources. Recent advances in characteri...
computer science
32,722
EM-Based Channel Estimation from Crowd-Sourced RSSI Samples Corrupted by Noise and Interference
cs.LG
We propose a method for estimating channel parameters from RSSI measurements and the lost packet count, which can work in the presence of losses due to both interference and signal attenuation below the noise floor. This is especially important in the wireless networks, such as vehicular, where propagation model change...
computer science
32,723
PASSCoDe: Parallel ASynchronous Stochastic dual Co-ordinate Descent
cs.LG
Stochastic Dual Coordinate Descent (SDCD) has become one of the most efficient ways to solve the family of $\ell_2$-regularized empirical risk minimization problems, including linear SVM, logistic regression, and many others. The vanilla implementation of DCD is quite slow; however, by maintaining primal variables whil...
computer science
32,724
Autonomous CRM Control via CLV Approximation with Deep Reinforcement Learning in Discrete and Continuous Action Space
cs.LG
The paper outlines a framework for autonomous control of a CRM (customer relationship management) system. First, it explores how a modified version of the widely accepted Recency-Frequency-Monetary Value system of metrics can be used to define the state space of clients or donors. Second, it describes a procedure to de...
computer science
32,725
Data Mining for Prediction of Human Performance Capability in the Software-Industry
cs.LG
The recruitment of new personnel is one of the most essential business processes which affect the quality of human capital within any company. It is highly essential for the companies to ensure the recruitment of right talent to maintain a competitive edge over the others in the market. However IT companies often face ...
computer science
32,726
Maximum Entropy Linear Manifold for Learning Discriminative Low-dimensional Representation
cs.LG
Representation learning is currently a very hot topic in modern machine learning, mostly due to the great success of the deep learning methods. In particular low-dimensional representation which discriminates classes can not only enhance the classification procedure, but also make it faster, while contrary to the high-...
computer science
32,727
A Deep Embedding Model for Co-occurrence Learning
cs.LG
Co-occurrence Data is a common and important information source in many areas, such as the word co-occurrence in the sentences, friends co-occurrence in social networks and products co-occurrence in commercial transaction data, etc, which contains rich correlation and clustering information about the items. In this pap...
computer science
32,728
Classification with Extreme Learning Machine and Ensemble Algorithms Over Randomly Partitioned Data
cs.LG
In this age of Big Data, machine learning based data mining methods are extensively used to inspect large scale data sets. Deriving applicable predictive modeling from these type of data sets is a challenging obstacle because of their high complexity. Opportunity with high data availability levels, automated classifica...
computer science
32,729
Convex Learning of Multiple Tasks and their Structure
cs.LG
Reducing the amount of human supervision is a key problem in machine learning and a natural approach is that of exploiting the relations (structure) among different tasks. This is the idea at the core of multi-task learning. In this context a fundamental question is how to incorporate the tasks structure in the learnin...
computer science
32,730
Regret vs. Communication: Distributed Stochastic Multi-Armed Bandits and Beyond
cs.LG
In this paper, we consider the distributed stochastic multi-armed bandit problem, where a global arm set can be accessed by multiple players independently. The players are allowed to exchange their history of observations with each other at specific points in time. We study the relationship between regret and communica...
computer science
32,731
Scale Up Nonlinear Component Analysis with Doubly Stochastic Gradients
cs.LG
Nonlinear component analysis such as kernel Principle Component Analysis (KPCA) and kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis (KCCA) are widely used in machine learning, statistics and data analysis, but they can not scale up to big datasets. Recent attempts have employed random feature approximations to convert the proble...
computer science
32,732
Linear Maximum Margin Classifier for Learning from Uncertain Data
cs.LG
In this paper, we propose a maximum margin classifier that deals with uncertainty in data input. More specifically, we reformulate the SVM framework such that each training example can be modeled by a multi-dimensional Gaussian distribution described by its mean vector and its covariance matrix -- the latter modeling t...
computer science
32,733
The Nataf-Beta Random Field Classifier: An Extension of the Beta Conjugate Prior to Classification Problems
cs.LG
This paper presents the Nataf-Beta Random Field Classifier, a discriminative approach that extends the applicability of the Beta conjugate prior to classification problems. The approach's key feature is to model the probability of a class conditional on attribute values as a random field whose marginals are Beta distri...
computer science
32,734
Performance Evaluation of Machine Learning Algorithms in Post-operative Life Expectancy in the Lung Cancer Patients
cs.LG
The nature of clinical data makes it difficult to quickly select, tune and apply machine learning algorithms to clinical prognosis. As a result, a lot of time is spent searching for the most appropriate machine learning algorithms applicable in clinical prognosis that contains either binary-valued or multi-valued attri...
computer science
32,735
Instance Optimal Learning
cs.LG
We consider the following basic learning task: given independent draws from an unknown distribution over a discrete support, output an approximation of the distribution that is as accurate as possible in $\ell_1$ distance (i.e. total variation or statistical distance). Perhaps surprisingly, it is often possible to "de-...
computer science
32,736
Effective Discriminative Feature Selection with Non-trivial Solutions
cs.LG
Feature selection and feature transformation, the two main ways to reduce dimensionality, are often presented separately. In this paper, a feature selection method is proposed by combining the popular transformation based dimensionality reduction method Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and sparsity regularization. We...
computer science
32,737
Temporal-Difference Networks
cs.LG
We introduce a generalization of temporal-difference (TD) learning to networks of interrelated predictions. Rather than relating a single prediction to itself at a later time, as in conventional TD methods, a TD network relates each prediction in a set of predictions to other predictions in the set at a later time. TD ...
computer science
32,738
Discriminative Switching Linear Dynamical Systems applied to Physiological Condition Monitoring
cs.LG
We present a Discriminative Switching Linear Dynamical System (DSLDS) applied to patient monitoring in Intensive Care Units (ICUs). Our approach is based on identifying the state-of-health of a patient given their observed vital signs using a discriminative classifier, and then inferring their underlying physiological ...
computer science
32,739
Online Convex Optimization Using Predictions
cs.LG
Making use of predictions is a crucial, but under-explored, area of online algorithms. This paper studies a class of online optimization problems where we have external noisy predictions available. We propose a stochastic prediction error model that generalizes prior models in the learning and stochastic control commun...
computer science
32,740
Random Forest for the Contextual Bandit Problem - extended version
cs.LG
To address the contextual bandit problem, we propose an online random forest algorithm. The analysis of the proposed algorithm is based on the sample complexity needed to find the optimal decision stump. Then, the decision stumps are assembled in a random collection of decision trees, Bandit Forest. We show that the pr...
computer science
32,741
Accelerated kernel discriminant analysis
cs.LG
In this paper, using a novel matrix factorization and simultaneous reduction to diagonal form approach (or in short simultaneous reduction approach), Accelerated Kernel Discriminant Analysis (AKDA) and Accelerated Kernel Subclass Discriminant Analysis (AKSDA) are proposed. Specifically, instead of performing the simult...
computer science
32,742
Surrogate regret bounds for generalized classification performance metrics
cs.LG
We consider optimization of generalized performance metrics for binary classification by means of surrogate losses. We focus on a class of metrics, which are linear-fractional functions of the false positive and false negative rates (examples of which include $F_{\beta}$-measure, Jaccard similarity coefficient, AM meas...
computer science
32,743
Or's of And's for Interpretable Classification, with Application to Context-Aware Recommender Systems
cs.LG
We present a machine learning algorithm for building classifiers that are comprised of a small number of disjunctions of conjunctions (or's of and's). An example of a classifier of this form is as follows: If X satisfies (x1 = 'blue' AND x3 = 'middle') OR (x1 = 'blue' AND x2 = '<15') OR (x1 = 'yellow'), then we predict...
computer science
32,744
Evaluation of Explore-Exploit Policies in Multi-result Ranking Systems
cs.LG
We analyze the problem of using Explore-Exploit techniques to improve precision in multi-result ranking systems such as web search, query autocompletion and news recommendation. Adopting an exploration policy directly online, without understanding its impact on the production system, may have unwanted consequences - th...
computer science
32,745
Learning Contextualized Music Semantics from Tags via a Siamese Network
cs.LG
Music information retrieval faces a challenge in modeling contextualized musical concepts formulated by a set of co-occurring tags. In this paper, we investigate the suitability of our recently proposed approach based on a Siamese neural network in fighting off this challenge. By means of tag features and probabilistic...
computer science
32,746
Note on Equivalence Between Recurrent Neural Network Time Series Models and Variational Bayesian Models
cs.LG
We observe that the standard log likelihood training objective for a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) model of time series data is equivalent to a variational Bayesian training objective, given the proper choice of generative and inference models. This perspective may motivate extensions to both RNNs and variational Baye...
computer science
32,747
Copeland Dueling Bandits
cs.LG
A version of the dueling bandit problem is addressed in which a Condorcet winner may not exist. Two algorithms are proposed that instead seek to minimize regret with respect to the Copeland winner, which, unlike the Condorcet winner, is guaranteed to exist. The first, Copeland Confidence Bound (CCB), is designed for sm...
computer science
32,748
Unsupervised Learning on Neural Network Outputs: with Application in Zero-shot Learning
cs.LG
The outputs of a trained neural network contain much richer information than just an one-hot classifier. For example, a neural network might give an image of a dog the probability of one in a million of being a cat but it is still much larger than the probability of being a car. To reveal the hidden structure in them, ...
computer science
32,749
Global and Local Structure Preserving Sparse Subspace Learning: An Iterative Approach to Unsupervised Feature Selection
cs.LG
As we aim at alleviating the curse of high-dimensionality, subspace learning is becoming more popular. Existing approaches use either information about global or local structure of the data, and few studies simultaneously focus on global and local structures as the both of them contain important information. In this pa...
computer science
32,750
On bicluster aggregation and its benefits for enumerative solutions
cs.LG
Biclustering involves the simultaneous clustering of objects and their attributes, thus defining local two-way clustering models. Recently, efficient algorithms were conceived to enumerate all biclusters in real-valued datasets. In this case, the solution composes a complete set of maximal and non-redundant biclusters....
computer science
32,751
Towards Structured Deep Neural Network for Automatic Speech Recognition
cs.LG
In this paper we propose the Structured Deep Neural Network (Structured DNN) as a structured and deep learning algorithm, learning to find the best structured object (such as a label sequence) given a structured input (such as a vector sequence) by globally considering the mapping relationships between the structure ra...
computer science
32,752
Unsupervised Feature Analysis with Class Margin Optimization
cs.LG
Unsupervised feature selection has been always attracting research attention in the communities of machine learning and data mining for decades. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised feature selection method seeking a feature coefficient matrix to select the most distinctive features. Specifically, our proposed alg...
computer science
32,753
Exploiting an Oracle that Reports AUC Scores in Machine Learning Contests
cs.LG
In machine learning contests such as the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge and the KDD Cup, contestants can submit candidate solutions and receive from an oracle (typically the organizers of the competition) the accuracy of their guesses compared to the ground-truth labels. One of the most commonly used...
computer science
32,754
Semidefinite and Spectral Relaxations for Multi-Label Classification
cs.LG
In this paper, we address the problem of multi-label classification. We consider linear classifiers and propose to learn a prior over the space of labels to directly leverage the performance of such methods. This prior takes the form of a quadratic function of the labels and permits to encode both attractive and repuls...
computer science
32,755
Learning Multiple Tasks with Multilinear Relationship Networks
cs.LG
Deep networks trained on large-scale data can learn transferable features to promote learning multiple tasks. Since deep features eventually transition from general to specific along deep networks, a fundamental problem of multi-task learning is how to exploit the task relatedness underlying parameter tensors and impro...
computer science
32,756
A Recurrent Latent Variable Model for Sequential Data
cs.LG
In this paper, we explore the inclusion of latent random variables into the dynamic hidden state of a recurrent neural network (RNN) by combining elements of the variational autoencoder. We argue that through the use of high-level latent random variables, the variational RNN (VRNN)1 can model the kind of variability ob...
computer science
32,757
Efficient Learning of Ensembles with QuadBoost
cs.LG
We first present a general risk bound for ensembles that depends on the Lp norm of the weighted combination of voters which can be selected from a continuous set. We then propose a boosting method, called QuadBoost, which is strongly supported by the general risk bound and has very simple rules for assigning the voters...
computer science
32,758
On Convergence of Emphatic Temporal-Difference Learning
cs.LG
We consider emphatic temporal-difference learning algorithms for policy evaluation in discounted Markov decision processes with finite spaces. Such algorithms were recently proposed by Sutton, Mahmood, and White (2015) as an improved solution to the problem of divergence of off-policy temporal-difference learning with ...
computer science
32,759
Optimal Sparse Kernel Learning for Hyperspectral Anomaly Detection
cs.LG
In this paper, a novel framework of sparse kernel learning for Support Vector Data Description (SVDD) based anomaly detection is presented. In this work, optimal sparse feature selection for anomaly detection is first modeled as a Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) problem. Due to the prohibitively high computational comp...
computer science
32,760
On the Interpretability of Conditional Probability Estimates in the Agnostic Setting
cs.LG
We study the interpretability of conditional probability estimates for binary classification under the agnostic setting or scenario. Under the agnostic setting, conditional probability estimates do not necessarily reflect the true conditional probabilities. Instead, they have a certain calibration property: among all d...
computer science
32,761
Max-Entropy Feed-Forward Clustering Neural Network
cs.LG
The outputs of non-linear feed-forward neural network are positive, which could be treated as probability when they are normalized to one. If we take Entropy-Based Principle into consideration, the outputs for each sample could be represented as the distribution of this sample for different clusters. Entropy-Based Prin...
computer science
32,762
Margin-Based Feed-Forward Neural Network Classifiers
cs.LG
Margin-Based Principle has been proposed for a long time, it has been proved that this principle could reduce the structural risk and improve the performance in both theoretical and practical aspects. Meanwhile, feed-forward neural network is a traditional classifier, which is very hot at present with a deeper architec...
computer science
32,763
On the Equivalence of CoCoA+ and DisDCA
cs.LG
In this document, we show that the algorithm CoCoA+ (Ma et al., ICML, 2015) under the setting used in their experiments, which is also the best setting suggested by the authors that proposed this algorithm, is equivalent to the practical variant of DisDCA (Yang, NIPS, 2013).
computer science
32,764
Multi-class SVMs: From Tighter Data-Dependent Generalization Bounds to Novel Algorithms
cs.LG
This paper studies the generalization performance of multi-class classification algorithms, for which we obtain, for the first time, a data-dependent generalization error bound with a logarithmic dependence on the class size, substantially improving the state-of-the-art linear dependence in the existing data-dependent ...
computer science
32,765
Localized Multiple Kernel Learning---A Convex Approach
cs.LG
We propose a localized approach to multiple kernel learning that can be formulated as a convex optimization problem over a given cluster structure. For which we obtain generalization error guarantees and derive an optimization algorithm based on the Fenchel dual representation. Experiments on real-world datasets from t...
computer science
32,766
A Fast Incremental Gaussian Mixture Model
cs.LG
This work builds upon previous efforts in online incremental learning, namely the Incremental Gaussian Mixture Network (IGMN). The IGMN is capable of learning from data streams in a single-pass by improving its model after analyzing each data point and discarding it thereafter. Nevertheless, it suffers from the scalabi...
computer science
32,767
Dual Memory Architectures for Fast Deep Learning of Stream Data via an Online-Incremental-Transfer Strategy
cs.LG
The online learning of deep neural networks is an interesting problem of machine learning because, for example, major IT companies want to manage the information of the massive data uploaded on the web daily, and this technology can contribute to the next generation of lifelong learning. We aim to train deep models fro...
computer science
32,768
Learning Deep Generative Models with Doubly Stochastic MCMC
cs.LG
We present doubly stochastic gradient MCMC, a simple and generic method for (approximate) Bayesian inference of deep generative models (DGMs) in a collapsed continuous parameter space. At each MCMC sampling step, the algorithm randomly draws a mini-batch of data samples to estimate the gradient of log-posterior and fur...
computer science
32,769
Latent Regression Bayesian Network for Data Representation
cs.LG
Deep directed generative models have attracted much attention recently due to their expressive representation power and the ability of ancestral sampling. One major difficulty of learning directed models with many latent variables is the intractable inference. To address this problem, most existing algorithms make assu...
computer science
32,770
Cheap Bandits
cs.LG
We consider stochastic sequential learning problems where the learner can observe the \textit{average reward of several actions}. Such a setting is interesting in many applications involving monitoring and surveillance, where the set of the actions to observe represent some (geographical) area. The importance of this s...
computer science
32,771
Online Gradient Boosting
cs.LG
We extend the theory of boosting for regression problems to the online learning setting. Generalizing from the batch setting for boosting, the notion of a weak learning algorithm is modeled as an online learning algorithm with linear loss functions that competes with a base class of regression functions, while a strong...
computer science
32,772
Learning with Clustering Structure
cs.LG
We study supervised learning problems using clustering constraints to impose structure on either features or samples, seeking to help both prediction and interpretation. The problem of clustering features arises naturally in text classification for instance, to reduce dimensionality by grouping words together and ident...
computer science
32,773
Numeric Input Relations for Relational Learning with Applications to Community Structure Analysis
cs.LG
Most work in the area of statistical relational learning (SRL) is focussed on discrete data, even though a few approaches for hybrid SRL models have been proposed that combine numerical and discrete variables. In this paper we distinguish numerical random variables for which a probability distribution is defined by the...
computer science
32,774
On the Depth of Deep Neural Networks: A Theoretical View
cs.LG
People believe that depth plays an important role in success of deep neural networks (DNN). However, this belief lacks solid theoretical justifications as far as we know. We investigate role of depth from perspective of margin bound. In margin bound, expected error is upper bounded by empirical margin error plus Radema...
computer science
32,775
Gradient Estimation Using Stochastic Computation Graphs
cs.LG
In a variety of problems originating in supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning, the loss function is defined by an expectation over a collection of random variables, which might be part of a probabilistic model or the external world. Estimating the gradient of this loss function, using samples, lies at th...
computer science
32,776
Scalable Semi-Supervised Aggregation of Classifiers
cs.LG
We present and empirically evaluate an efficient algorithm that learns to aggregate the predictions of an ensemble of binary classifiers. The algorithm uses the structure of the ensemble predictions on unlabeled data to yield significant performance improvements. It does this without making assumptions on the structure...
computer science
32,777
The Extreme Value Machine
cs.LG
It is often desirable to be able to recognize when inputs to a recognition function learned in a supervised manner correspond to classes unseen at training time. With this ability, new class labels could be assigned to these inputs by a human operator, allowing them to be incorporated into the recognition function --- ...
computer science
32,778
Strategic Classification
cs.LG
Machine learning relies on the assumption that unseen test instances of a classification problem follow the same distribution as observed training data. However, this principle can break down when machine learning is used to make important decisions about the welfare (employment, education, health) of strategic individ...
computer science
32,779
Unconfused ultraconservative multiclass algorithms
cs.LG
We tackle the problem of learning linear classifiers from noisy datasets in a multiclass setting. The two-class version of this problem was studied a few years ago where the proposed approaches to combat the noise revolve around a Per-ceptron learning scheme fed with peculiar examples computed through a weighted averag...
computer science
32,780
Flexible Multi-layer Sparse Approximations of Matrices and Applications
cs.LG
The computational cost of many signal processing and machine learning techniques is often dominated by the cost of applying certain linear operators to high-dimensional vectors. This paper introduces an algorithm aimed at reducing the complexity of applying linear operators in high dimension by approximately factorizin...
computer science
32,781
Splash: User-friendly Programming Interface for Parallelizing Stochastic Algorithms
cs.LG
Stochastic algorithms are efficient approaches to solving machine learning and optimization problems. In this paper, we propose a general framework called Splash for parallelizing stochastic algorithms on multi-node distributed systems. Splash consists of a programming interface and an execution engine. Using the progr...
computer science
32,782
Conservativeness of untied auto-encoders
cs.LG
We discuss necessary and sufficient conditions for an auto-encoder to define a conservative vector field, in which case it is associated with an energy function akin to the unnormalized log-probability of the data. We show that the conditions for conservativeness are more general than for encoder and decoder weights to...
computer science
32,783
Occam's Gates
cs.LG
We present a complimentary objective for training recurrent neural networks (RNN) with gating units that helps with regularization and interpretability of the trained model. Attention-based RNN models have shown success in many difficult sequence to sequence classification problems with long and short term dependencies...
computer science
32,784
Non-convex Regularizations for Feature Selection in Ranking With Sparse SVM
cs.LG
Feature selection in learning to rank has recently emerged as a crucial issue. Whereas several preprocessing approaches have been proposed, only a few works have been focused on integrating the feature selection into the learning process. In this work, we propose a general framework for feature selection in learning to...
computer science
32,785
Optimal Transport for Domain Adaptation
cs.LG
Domain adaptation from one data space (or domain) to another is one of the most challenging tasks of modern data analytics. If the adaptation is done correctly, models built on a specific data space become more robust when confronted to data depicting the same semantic concepts (the classes), but observed by another ob...
computer science
32,786
Combining Models of Approximation with Partial Learning
cs.LG
In Gold's framework of inductive inference, the model of partial learning requires the learner to output exactly one correct index for the target object and only the target object infinitely often. Since infinitely many of the learner's hypotheses may be incorrect, it is not obvious whether a partial learner can be mod...
computer science
32,787
A Simple Algorithm for Maximum Margin Classification, Revisited
cs.LG
In this note, we revisit the algorithm of Har-Peled et. al. [HRZ07] for computing a linear maximum margin classifier. Our presentation is self contained, and the algorithm itself is slightly simpler than the original algorithm. The algorithm itself is a simple Perceptron like iterative algorithm. For more details and b...
computer science
32,788
A Bayesian Approach for Online Classifier Ensemble
cs.LG
We propose a Bayesian approach for recursively estimating the classifier weights in online learning of a classifier ensemble. In contrast with past methods, such as stochastic gradient descent or online boosting, our approach estimates the weights by recursively updating its posterior distribution. For a specified clas...
computer science
32,789
An Empirical Study on Budget-Aware Online Kernel Algorithms for Streams of Graphs
cs.LG
Kernel methods are considered an effective technique for on-line learning. Many approaches have been developed for compactly representing the dual solution of a kernel method when the problem imposes memory constraints. However, in literature no work is specifically tailored to streams of graphs. Motivated by the fact ...
computer science
32,790
Extending local features with contextual information in graph kernels
cs.LG
Graph kernels are usually defined in terms of simpler kernels over local substructures of the original graphs. Different kernels consider different types of substructures. However, in some cases they have similar predictive performances, probably because the substructures can be interpreted as approximations of the sub...
computer science
32,791
Utility-based Dueling Bandits as a Partial Monitoring Game
cs.LG
Partial monitoring is a generic framework for sequential decision-making with incomplete feedback. It encompasses a wide class of problems such as dueling bandits, learning with expect advice, dynamic pricing, dark pools, and label efficient prediction. We study the utility-based dueling bandit problem as an instance o...
computer science
32,792
Spectral Smoothing via Random Matrix Perturbations
cs.LG
We consider stochastic smoothing of spectral functions of matrices using perturbations commonly studied in random matrix theory. We show that a spectral function remains spectral when smoothed using a unitarily invariant perturbation distribution. We then derive state-of-the-art smoothing bounds for the maximum eigenva...
computer science
32,793
A new boosting algorithm based on dual averaging scheme
cs.LG
The fields of machine learning and mathematical optimization increasingly intertwined. The special topic on supervised learning and convex optimization examines this interplay. The training part of most supervised learning algorithms can usually be reduced to an optimization problem that minimizes a loss between model ...
computer science
32,794
Cluster-Aided Mobility Predictions
cs.LG
Predicting the future location of users in wireless net- works has numerous applications, and can help service providers to improve the quality of service perceived by their clients. The location predictors proposed so far estimate the next location of a specific user by inspecting the past individual trajectories of t...
computer science
32,795
Ordered Decompositional DAG Kernels Enhancements
cs.LG
In this paper, we show how the Ordered Decomposition DAGs (ODD) kernel framework, a framework that allows the definition of graph kernels from tree kernels, allows to easily define new state-of-the-art graph kernels. Here we consider a fast graph kernel based on the Subtree kernel (ST), and we propose various enhanceme...
computer science
32,796
Training artificial neural networks to learn a nondeterministic game
cs.LG
It is well known that artificial neural networks (ANNs) can learn deterministic automata. Learning nondeterministic automata is another matter. This is important because much of the world is nondeterministic, taking the form of unpredictable or probabilistic events that must be acted upon. If ANNs are to engage such ph...
computer science
32,797
Towards Predicting First Daily Departure Times: a Gaussian Modeling Approach for Load Shift Forecasting
cs.LG
This work provides two statistical Gaussian forecasting methods for predicting First Daily Departure Times (FDDTs) of everyday use electric vehicles. This is important in smart grid applications to understand disconnection times of such mobile storage units, for instance to forecast storage of non dispatchable loads (e...
computer science
32,798
Upper-Confidence-Bound Algorithms for Active Learning in Multi-Armed Bandits
cs.LG
In this paper, we study the problem of estimating uniformly well the mean values of several distributions given a finite budget of samples. If the variance of the distributions were known, one could design an optimal sampling strategy by collecting a number of independent samples per distribution that is proportional t...
computer science
32,799
Maximum Entropy Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learning
cs.LG
This paper presents a general framework for exploiting the representational capacity of neural networks to approximate complex, nonlinear reward functions in the context of solving the inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) problem. We show in this context that the Maximum Entropy paradigm for IRL lends itself naturally ...
computer science
32,800
Lower Bounds for Multi-armed Bandit with Non-equivalent Multiple Plays
cs.LG
We study the stochastic multi-armed bandit problem with non-equivalent multiple plays where, at each step, an agent chooses not only a set of arms, but also their order, which influences reward distribution. In several problem formulations with different assumptions, we provide lower bounds for regret with standard asy...
computer science
32,801
2 Notes on Classes with Vapnik-Chervonenkis Dimension 1
cs.LG
The Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension is a combinatorial parameter that reflects the "complexity" of a set of sets (a.k.a. concept classes). It has been introduced by Vapnik and Chervonenkis in their seminal 1971 paper and has since found many applications, most notably in machine learning theory and in computational geome...
computer science