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Within the framework of evidence theory, the confidence functions of different information can be combined into a combined confidence function to solve uncertain problems. The Dempster combination rule is a classic method of fusing…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-08-09 Tianxiang Zhan , Fuyuan Xiao

Current keyword spotting systems primarily use phoneme-level matching to distinguish confusable words but ignore user-specific pronunciation traits like prosody (intonation, stress, rhythm). This paper presents ProKWS, a novel framework…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Jianan Pan , Yuanming Zhang , Kejie Huang

We propose a method for combining probabilistic outputs of classifiers to make a single consensus class prediction when no further information about the individual classifiers is available, beyond that they have been trained for the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Jordan F. Masakuna , Simukai W. Utete , Steve Kroon

The authors propose a robust semi-parametric empirical likelihood method to integrate all available information from multiple samples with a common center of measurements. Two different sets of estimating equations are used to improve the…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-10-03 Hsiao-Hsuan Wang , Yuehua Wu , Yuejiao Fu , Xiaogang Wang

In this work, we present a novel method for combining predictions of object detection models: weighted boxes fusion. Our algorithm utilizes confidence scores of all proposed bounding boxes to constructs the averaged boxes. We tested method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Roman Solovyev , Weimin Wang , Tatiana Gabruseva

As a fundamental information fusion approach, the arithmetic average (AA) fusion has recently been investigated for various random finite set (RFS) filter fusion in the context of multi-sensor multi-target tracking. It is not a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-24 Tiancheng Li

Selecting the right compiler optimisations has a severe impact on programs' performance. Still, the available optimisations keep increasing, and their effect depends on the specific program, making the task human intractable. Researchers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Stefano Cereda , Gianluca Palermo , Paolo Cremonesi , Stefano Doni

Diffusion is commonly used as a ranking or re-ranking method in retrieval tasks to achieve higher retrieval performance, and has attracted lots of attention in recent years. A downside to diffusion is that it performs slowly in comparison…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Fan Yang , Ryota Hinami , Yusuke Matsui , Steven Ly , Shin'ichi Satoh

The increasing availability of passively observed data has yielded a growing methodological interest in "data fusion." These methods involve merging data from observational and experimental sources to draw causal conclusions -- and they…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-15 Evan Rosenman , Art B. Owen

We aim to make inferences about a smooth, finite-dimensional parameter by fusing data from multiple sources together. Previous works have studied the estimation of a variety of parameters in similar data fusion settings, including in the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-03 Sijia Li , Alex Luedtke

Probabilistic prediction aims to compute predictive distributions rather than single point predictions. These distributions enable practitioners to quantify uncertainty, compute risk, and detect outliers. However, most probabilistic methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Nicolas Beltran-Velez , Alessandro Antonio Grande , Achille Nazaret , Alp Kucukelbir , David Blei

This paper addresses the problem of large-scale image retrieval. We propose a two-layer fusion method which takes advantage of global and local cues and ranks database images from coarse to fine (C2F). Departing from the previous methods…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Gaipeng Kong , Le Dong , Wenpu Dong , Liang Zheng , Qi Tian

In the era of big data, the explosive growth of multi-source heterogeneous data offers many exciting challenges and opportunities for improving the inference of conditional average treatment effects. In this paper, we investigate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-02 Xinyu Li , Yilin Li , Qing Cui , Longfei Li , Jun Zhou

Consensus maximization is one of the most widely used robust fitting paradigms in computer vision, and the development of algorithms for consensus maximization is an active research topic. In this paper, we propose an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Zhipeng Cai , Tat-Jun Chin , Huu Le , David Suter

PRIMEX (prime-based graph encoding and extraction) is a recently proposed framework for scalable distributed fusion. In PRIMEX, the information pedigree of state estimates or probability density functions is encoded using the information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Yuxuan Xia , Kuo-Chu Chang , Xueqi Qiu , Lin Gao , Chaoqun Yang , Ting Yuan

Averaging predictions of a deep ensemble of networks is apopular and effective method to improve predictive performance andcalibration in various benchmarks and Kaggle competitions. However, theruntime and training cost of deep ensembles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Timo Sämann , Ahmed Mostafa Hammam , Andrei Bursuc , Christoph Stiller , Horst-Michael Groß

Data-driven algorithm selection is a powerful approach for choosing effective heuristics for computational problems. It operates by evaluating a set of candidate algorithms on a collection of representative training instances and selecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Vaggos Chatziafratis , Ishani Karmarkar , Yingxi Li , Ellen Vitercik

The last decade witnessed an explosion in the availability of data for operations research applications. Motivated by this growing availability, we propose a novel schema for utilizing data to design uncertainty sets for robust optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Dimitris Bertsimas , Vishal Gupta , Nathan Kallus

The large size of nowadays' online multimedia databases makes retrieving their content a difficult and time-consuming task. Users of online sound collections typically submit search queries that express a broad intent, often making the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Xavier Favory , Frederic Font , Xavier Serra

Cross-client data heterogeneity in federated learning induces biases that impede unbiased consensus condensation and the complementary fusion of generalization- and personalization-oriented knowledge. While existing approaches mitigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ming Yang , Dongrun Li , Xin Wang , Xiaoyang Yu , Xiaoming Wu , Shibo He