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We develop a novel iterative algorithm for locally optimal experimental design under constraints, like budget or performance constraints. It is an adaptive discretization algorithm. In every iteration, a discretized version of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Jochen Schmid , Philipp Seufert , Jan Schwientek , Tobias Seidel , Karl-Heinz Küfer

Spectral dimensionality reduction methods enable linear separations of complex data with high-dimensional features in a reduced space. However, these methods do not always give the desired results due to irregularities or uncertainties of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-21 Momo Matsuda , Keiichi Morikuni , Tetsuya Sakurai

In this paper, an eigenvalue mapping-based discretization method is applied to discretize the generalized super-twisting algorithm. The existing eigenvalue mapping is extended to the complex domain which greatly enlarges the range of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Ningning Ding

Diffusion models (DMs) have gained prominence due to their ability to generate high-quality varied images with recent advancements in text-to-image generation. The research focus is now shifting towards the controllability of DMs. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Enis Simsar , Alessio Tonioni , Yongqin Xian , Thomas Hofmann , Federico Tombari

Accurate estimation of Intrinsic Dimensionality (ID) is of crucial importance in many data mining and machine learning tasks, including dimensionality reduction, outlier detection, similarity search and subspace clustering. However, since…

This paper provides a tutorial and survey for a specific kind of illustrative visualization technique: feature lines. We examine different feature line methods. For this, we provide the differential geometry behind these concepts and adapt…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Kai Lawonn , Bernhard Preim

Feature engineering is of critical importance in the field of Data Science. While any data scientist knows the importance of rigorously preparing data to obtain good performing models, only scarce literature formalizes its benefits. In this…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-30 Florian Felice , Christophe Ley , Andreas Groll , Stéphane Bordas

This paper presents a novel automatic face recognition approach based on local binary patterns. This descriptor considers a local neighbourhood of a pixel to compute the feature vector values. This method is not very robust to handle image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Pavel Král , Ladislav Lenc , Antonín Vrba

We propose a local Legendre frame (LLF) method for function approximation from equispaced data on a finite interval. Motivated by the difficulty of stable high-order polynomial approximation at equispaced points, especially in the presence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Benxue Gong , Zhenyu Zhao , Chenyang Wang

Domain generalization aims to learn a generalization model that can perform well on unseen test domains by only training on limited source domains. However, existing domain generalization approaches often bring in prediction-irrelevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Chia-Yuan Chang , Yu-Neng Chuang , Guanchu Wang , Mengnan Du , Na Zou

This work studies the theoretical rules of feature selection in linear discriminant analysis (LDA), and a new feature selection method is proposed for sparse linear discriminant analysis. An $l_1$ minimization method is used to select the…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-04-23 Cheng Wang , Longbing Cao , Baiqi Miao

Anomaly detection is the process of identifying cases, or groups of cases, that are in some way unusual and do not fit the general patterns present in the dataset. Numerous algorithms use discretization of numerical data in their detection…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Ralph Foorthuis

Recent segmentation methods leveraging Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown reliable object-level segmentation and enhanced spatial perception. However, almost all previous methods predominantly rely on specialist mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Anqi Zhang , Xiaokang Ji , Guangyu Gao , Jianbo Jiao , Chi Harold Liu , Yunchao Wei

The capability of discretization of matrix elements in the problem of quadratic functional minimization with linear member built on matrix in N-dimensional configuration space with discrete coordinates is researched. It is shown, that…

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Compressing the output of \epsilon-locally differentially private (LDP) randomizers naively leads to suboptimal utility. In this work, we demonstrate the benefits of using schemes that jointly compress and privatize the data using shared…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Abhin Shah , Wei-Ning Chen , Johannes Balle , Peter Kairouz , Lucas Theis

A discrete statistical model is a subset of a probability simplex. Its maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) is a retraction from that simplex onto the model. We characterize all models for which this retraction is a rational function. This is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Eliana Duarte , Orlando Marigliano , Bernd Sturmfels

We introduce a general framework allowing to apply the theory of regularity structures to discretisations of stochastic PDEs. The approach pursued in this article is that we do not focus on any one specific discretisation procedure.…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Dirk Erhard , Martin Hairer

Unsupervised discretization is a crucial step in many knowledge discovery tasks. The state-of-the-art method for one-dimensional data infers locally adaptive histograms using the minimum description length (MDL) principle, but the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Lincen Yang , Mitra Baratchi , Matthijs van Leeuwen

We demonstrate how one can choose the smoothing parameter in image denoising by a statistical multiresolution criterion, both globally and locally. Using inhomogeneous diffusion and total variation regularization as examples for localized…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-02-01 Thomas Hotz , Philipp Marnitz , Rahel Stichtenoth , Laurie Davies , Zakhar Kabluchko , Axel Munk

This paper addresses the problem of learning binary hash codes for large scale image search by proposing a novel hashing method based on deep neural network. The advantage of our deep model over previous deep model used in hashing is that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-31 Thanh-Toan Do , Anh-Zung Doan , Ngai-Man Cheung