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A problem of incorporating the expert rules into machine learning models for extending the concept-based learning is formulated in the paper. It is proposed how to combine logical rules and neural networks predicting the concept…

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Classification is a fundamental task in machine learning and data mining. Existing classification methods are designed to classify unknown instances within a set of previously known training classes. Such a classification takes the form of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Wajdi Dhifli , Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo

It takes years of effort employing the best telescopes and instruments to obtain high-quality stellar photometry, astrometry, and spectroscopy. Stellar evolution models contain the experience of lifetimes of theoretical calculations and…

Few-shot classification consists of learning a predictive model that is able to effectively adapt to a new class, given only a few annotated samples. To solve this challenging problem, meta-learning has become a popular paradigm that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Nikita Dvornik , Cordelia Schmid , Julien Mairal

We address the rating-inference problem, wherein rather than simply decide whether a review is "thumbs up" or "thumbs down", as in previous sentiment analysis work, one must determine an author's evaluation with respect to a multi-point…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Bo Pang , Lillian Lee

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models provide a structured approach to combining specialized neural networks and offer greater interpretability than conventional ensembles. While MoEs have been successfully applied to image classification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Svetlana Pavlitska , Malte Stüven , Beyza Keskin , J. Marius Zöllner

In this paper, we propose a novel dynamic ensemble selection framework using meta-learning. The framework is divided into three steps. In the first step, the pool of classifiers is generated from the training data. The second phase is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Rafael M. O. Cruz , Robert Sabourin , George D. C. Cavalcanti

Throughout the processing and analysis of survey data, a ubiquitous issue nowadays is that we are spoilt for choice when we need to select a methodology for some of its steps. The alternative methods usually fail and excel in different data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Maria Süveges , Sotiria Fotopoulou , Jean Coupon , Stéphane Paltani , Laurent Eyer , Lorenzo Rimoldini

Quantifying the contribution of mergers to the stellar mass of galaxies is key for constraining the mechanisms of galaxy assembly across cosmic time. However, the mapping between observable galaxy properties and merger histories is not…

During the last decade, considerable effort has been made to perform automatic classification of variable stars using machine learning techniques. Traditionally, light curves are represented as a vector of descriptors or features used as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Ignacio Becker , Karim Pichara , Márcio Catelan , Pavlos Protopapas , Carlos Aguirre , Fatemeh Nikzat

Understanding 3D point cloud models for learning purposes has become an imperative challenge for real-world identification such as autonomous driving systems. A wide variety of solutions using deep learning have been proposed for point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , Cheng Chen , Farzan Shenavarmasouleh , M. Hadi Amini , Beshoy Morkos , Hamid R. Arabnia

A plethora of diverse approaches for question answering over RDF data have been developed in recent years. While the accuracy of these systems has increased significantly over time, most systems still focus on particular types of questions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Ricardo Usbeck , Michael Hoffmann , Michael Röder , Jens Lehmann , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Electron microscopy is widely used to explore defects in crystal structures, but human detecting of defects is often time-consuming, error-prone, and unreliable, and is not scalable to large numbers of images or real-time analysis. In this…

A significant challenge in machine learning, particularly in noisy and low-data environments, lies in effectively incorporating inductive biases to enhance data efficiency and robustness. Despite the success of informed machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Katarzyna Kobalczyk , Mihaela van der Schaar

In astronomy, neural networks are often trained on simulation data with the prospect of being used on telescope observations. Unfortunately, training a model on simulation data and then applying it to instrument data leads to a substantial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-16 A. Ćiprijanović , D. Kafkes , K. Downey , S. Jenkins , G. N. Perdue , S. Madireddy , T. Johnston , G. F. Snyder , B. Nord

Reliable celestial attitude determination is a critical requirement for autonomous spacecraft navigation, yet traditional "Lost-in-Space" (LIS) algorithms often suffer from high computational overhead and sensitivity to sensor-induced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 May Hammad , Menatallh Hammad

With several new large-scale surveys on the horizon, including LSST, TESS, ZTF, and Evryscope, faster and more accurate analysis methods will be required to adequately process the enormous amount of data produced. Deep learning, used in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-02 Emily M. Boudreaux

The aim of this work is to propose a meta-algorithm for automatic classification in the presence of discrete binary classes. Classifier learning in the presence of overlapping class distributions is a challenging problem in machine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-22 Vidhi Lalchand

The ability to learn new concepts with small amounts of data is a critical aspect of intelligence that has proven challenging for deep learning methods. Meta-learning has emerged as a promising technique for leveraging data from previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Mingzhang Yin , George Tucker , Mingyuan Zhou , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

Astronomy is increasingly encountering two fundamental truths: (1) The field is faced with the task of extracting useful information from extremely large, complex, and high dimensional datasets; (2) The techniques of astroinformatics and…

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