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Quantization is widely applied in machine learning to reduce computational and storage costs for both data and models. Considering that classification tasks are fundamental to the field, it is crucial to investigate how quantization impacts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Weizhi Lu , Mingrui Chen , Weiyu Li

Learning on big data brings success for artificial intelligence (AI), but the annotation and training costs are expensive. In future, learning on small data that approximates the generalization ability of big data is one of the ultimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Xiaofeng Cao , Weixin Bu , Shengjun Huang , Minling Zhang , Ivor W. Tsang , Yew Soon Ong , James T. Kwok

Accurately detecting multiple change-points is critical for various applications, but determining the optimal number of change-points remains a challenge. Existing approaches based on information criteria attempt to balance goodness-of-fit…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-19 Hui Chen , Yinxu Jia , Guanghui Wang , Changliang Zou

Complex categorical data is often hierarchically coupled with heterogeneous relationships between attributes and attribute values and the couplings between objects. Such value-to-object couplings are heterogeneous with complementary and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Chengzhang Zhu , Longbing Cao , Jianping Yin

Although few-shot learning and one-class classification (OCC), i.e., learning a binary classifier with data from only one class, have been separately well studied, their intersection remains rather unexplored. Our work addresses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Ahmed Frikha , Denis Krompaß , Hans-Georg Köpken , Volker Tresp

Positive-Unlabeled (PU) learning is an analog to supervised binary classification for the case when only the positive sample is clean, while the negative sample is contaminated with latent instances of positive class and hence can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Dmitry Ivanov

Zero-shot quantization is a promising approach for developing lightweight deep neural networks when data is inaccessible owing to various reasons, including cost and issues related to privacy. By exploiting the learned parameters ($\mu$ and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Yongkweon Jeon , Chungman Lee , Ho-young Kim

Few-shot action recognition aims to recognize action classes with few training samples. Most existing methods adopt a meta-learning approach with episodic training. In each episode, the few samples in a meta-training task are split into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xiatian Zhu , Antoine Toisoul , Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua , Li Zhang , Brais Martinez , Tao Xiang

We present a critical survey on the consistency of uncertainty quantification used in deep learning and highlight partial uncertainty coverage and many inconsistencies. We then provide a comprehensive and statistically consistent framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Peter Jan van Leeuwen , J. Christine Chiu , C. Kevin Yang

Precision and Recall are fundamental metrics in machine learning tasks where both accurate predictions and comprehensive coverage are essential, such as in multi-label learning, language generation, medical studies, and recommender systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Lee Cohen , Yishay Mansour , Shay Moran , Han Shao

Partial label learning deals with the problem where each training instance is assigned a set of candidate labels, only one of which is correct. This paper provides the first attempt to leverage the idea of self-training for dealing with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Lei Feng , Bo An

Quantum classification and hypothesis testing are two tightly related subjects, the main difference being that the former is data driven: how to assign to quantum states $\rho(x)$ the corresponding class $c$ (or hypothesis) is learnt from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Leonardo Banchi , Jason Pereira , Stefano Pirandola

Quantum characterization, verification, and validation (QCVV) is a set of techniques to probe, describe, and assess the behavior of quantum bits (qubits), quantum information-processing registers, and quantum computers. QCVV protocols probe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Robin Blume-Kohout , Timothy Proctor , Kevin Young

Machine learning (ML) is often viewed as a powerful data analysis tool that is easy to learn because of its black-box nature. Yet this very nature also makes it difficult to quantify confidence in predictions extracted from ML models, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Paul Patrone , Anthony Kearsley

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) enables policy learning from fixed datasets without further environment interaction, making it particularly valuable in high-risk or costly domains. Extreme $Q$-Learning (XQL) is a recent offline RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Xinming Gao , Shangzhe Li , Yujin Cai , Wenwu Yu

In binary classification, Learning from Positive and Unlabeled data (LePU) is semi-supervised learning but with labeled elements from only one class. Most of the research on LePU relies on some form of independence between the selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Naji Shajarisales , Peter Spirtes , Kun Zhang

In a recent work, arXiv:2503.05884, we proposed a unified notion of nonclassicality that applies to arbitrary processes in quantum theory, including individual quantum states, measurements, channels, set of these, etc. This notion is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Yujie Zhang , Yìlè Yīng , David Schmid

Most uncertainty quantification (UQ) approaches provide a single scalar value as a measure of model reliability. However, different uncertainty measures could provide complementary information on the prediction confidence. Even measures…

Positive--Unlabeled (PU) learning considers settings in which only positive and unlabeled data are available, while negatives are missing or left unlabeled. This situation is common in real applications where annotating reliable negatives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Miao Zhang , Junpeng Li , Changchun Hua , Yana Yang

Quantum machine learning (QML) is a discipline that seeks to transfer the advantages of quantum computing to data-driven tasks. However, many studies rely on toy datasets or heavy feature reduction, raising concerns about their scalability.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Federico Tiblias , Anna Schroeder , Yue Zhang , Mariami Gachechiladze , Iryna Gurevych