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Prototype-driven text generation uses non-parametric models that first choose from a library of sentence "prototypes" and then modify the prototype to generate the output text. While effective, these methods are inefficient at test time as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Junxian He , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Graham Neubig

Increasingly large datasets are rapidly driving up the computational costs of machine learning. Prototype generation methods aim to create a small set of synthetic observations that accurately represent a training dataset but greatly reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Ilia Sucholutsky , Nam-Hwui Kim , Ryan P. Browne , Matthias Schonlau

We propose prototypical networks for the problem of few-shot classification, where a classifier must generalize to new classes not seen in the training set, given only a small number of examples of each new class. Prototypical networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Jake Snell , Kevin Swersky , Richard S. Zemel

Prototypical networks aim to build intrinsically explainable models based on the linear summation of concepts. Concepts are coherent entities that we, as humans, can recognize and associate with a certain object or entity. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Hugues Turbé , Mina Bjelogrlic , Gianmarco Mengaldo , Christian Lovis

We introduce ProtoSeg, a novel model for interpretable semantic image segmentation, which constructs its predictions using similar patches from the training set. To achieve accuracy comparable to baseline methods, we adapt the mechanism of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Mikołaj Sacha , Dawid Rymarczyk , Łukasz Struski , Jacek Tabor , Bartosz Zieliński

As data sets continue to grow in size and complexity, effective and efficient techniques are needed to target important features in the variable space. Many of the variable selection techniques that are commonly used alongside clustering…

Computation · Statistics 2013-03-22 Jeffrey L. Andrews , Paul D. McNicholas

Almost every software system provides configuration options to tailor the system to the target platform and application scenario. Often, this configurability renders the analysis of every individual system configuration infeasible. To…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Flávio Medeiros , Christian Kästner , Márcio Ribeiro , Rohit Gheyi , Sven Apel

Although interpretable prototype networks have improved the transparency of deep learning image classification, the need for multiple prototypes in collaborative decision-making increases cognitive complexity and hinders user understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Yitao Peng , Lianghua He , Hongzhou Chen

Approximate inference in dynamic systems is the problem of estimating the state of the system given a sequence of actions and partial observations. High precision estimation is fundamental in many applications like diagnosis, natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Eyal Amir

This paper proposes an efficient example sampling method for example-based word sense disambiguation systems. To construct a database of practical size, a considerable overhead for manual sense disambiguation (overhead for supervision) is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Atsushi Fujii , Kentaro Inui , Takenobu Tokunaga , Hozumi Tanaka

Learning interpretable models has become a major focus of machine learning research, given the increasing prominence of machine learning in socially important decision-making. Among interpretable models, rule lists are among the best-known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Leonardo Pellegrina , Fabio Vandin

Selecting relevant features is an important and necessary step for intelligent machines to maximize their chances of success. However, intelligent machines generally have no enough computing resources when faced with huge volume of data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Hexiang Bai , Deyu Li , Jiye Liang , Yanhui Zhai

We introduce ProtoPool, an interpretable image classification model with a pool of prototypes shared by the classes. The training is more straightforward than in the existing methods because it does not require the pruning stage. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Dawid Rymarczyk , Łukasz Struski , Michał Górszczak , Koryna Lewandowska , Jacek Tabor , Bartosz Zieliński

Starting with a set of weighted items, we want to create a generic sample of a certain size that we can later use to estimate the total weight of arbitrary subsets. For this purpose, we propose priority sampling which tested on Internet…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Nick Duffield , Carsten Lund , Mikkel Thorup

Network datasets appear across a wide range of scientific fields, including biology, physics, and the social sciences. To enable data-driven discoveries from these networks, statistical inference techniques like estimation and hypothesis…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-19 Arpan Kumar , Minh Tang , Srijan Sengupta

We derive computationally tractable methods to select a small subset of experiment settings from a large pool of given design points. The primary focus is on linear regression models, while the technique extends to generalized linear models…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-21 Yining Wang , Adams Wei Yu , Aarti Singh

Learning with few samples is a major challenge for parameter-rich models like deep networks. In contrast, people learn complex new concepts even from very few examples, suggesting that the sample complexity of learning can often be reduced.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Roman Visotsky , Yuval Atzmon , Gal Chechik

Feature selection methods have an important role on the readability of data and the reduction of complexity of learning algorithms. In recent years, a variety of efforts are investigated on feature selection problems based on unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Mohsen Ghassemi Parsa , Hadi Zare , Mehdi Ghatee

Sparse methods are the standard approach to obtain interpretable models with high prediction accuracy. Alternatively, algorithmic ensemble methods can achieve higher prediction accuracy at the cost of loss of interpretability. However, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-11 Anthony Christidis , Stefan Van Aelst , Ruben Zamar

We focus in this paper on dataset reduction techniques for use in k-nearest neighbor classification. In such a context, feature and prototype selections have always been independently treated by the standard storage reduction algorithms.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Marc Sebban , Richard Nock