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SE analytics problems do not always need complex AI. Better and faster solutions can sometimes be obtained by matching the complexity of the problem to the complexity of the solution. This paper introduces the Dimensionality Reduction Ratio…

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This manuscript is a preliminary pre-print version of a journal submission by the authors, revisiting the problem of range measurement based localization of a signal source or a sensor. The major geometric difficulty of the problem comes…

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We study the query complexity of a learner-private sequential learning problem, motivated by the privacy and security concerns due to eavesdropping that arise in practical applications such as pricing and Federated Learning. A learner tries…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-18 Jiaming Xu , Kuang Xu , Dana Yang

This paper investigates the optimal signal detection problem with a particular interest in large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The problem is NP-hard and can be solved optimally by searching the shortest path on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Le He , Ke He , Lisheng Fan , Xianfu Lei , Arumugam Nallanathan , George K. Karagiannidis

Beam search is a go-to strategy for decoding neural sequence models. The algorithm can naturally be viewed as a subset optimization problem, albeit one where the corresponding set function does not reflect interactions between candidates.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Clara Meister , Martina Forster , Ryan Cotterell

As one popular modeling approach for end-to-end speech recognition, attention-based encoder-decoder models are known to suffer the length bias and corresponding beam problem. Different approaches have been applied in simple beam search to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Wei Zhou , Ralf Schlüter , Hermann Ney

Adaptive random search approaches have been shown to be effective for global optimization problems, where under certain conditions, the expected performance time increases only linearly with dimension. However, previous analyses assume that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-22 David D. Linz , Zelda B. Zabinsky

High-dimensional dense embeddings have become central to modern Information Retrieval, but many dimensions are noisy or redundant. Recently proposed DIME (Dimension IMportance Estimation), provides query-dependent scores to identify…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Giulio D'Erasmo , Cesare Campagnano , Antonio Mallia , Pierpaolo Brutti , Nicola Tonellotto , Fabrizio Silvestri

We are often interested in identifying the feasible subset of a decision space under multiple constraints to permit effective design exploration. If determining feasibility required computationally expensive simulations, the cost of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Alma Rahat , Michael Wood

The challenge of taking many variables into account in optimization problems may be overcome under the hypothesis of low effective dimensionality. Then, the search of solutions can be reduced to the random embedding of a low dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Mickaël Binois , David Ginsbourger , Olivier Roustant

This paper studies the classical problem of detecting the locations of signal occurrences in a one-dimensional noisy measurement. Assuming the signal occurrences do not overlap, we formulate the detection task as a constrained likelihood…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Mordechai Roth , Amichai Painsky , Tamir Bendory

Robust environment perception is essential for decision-making on robots operating in complex domains. Principled treatment of uncertainty sources in a robot's observation model is necessary for accurate mapping and object detection. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-15 Shayegan Omidshafiei , Brett T. Lopez , Jonathan P. How , John Vian

As the structural databases continue to expand, efficient methods are required to search similar structures of the query structure from the database. There are many previous works about comparing protein 3D structures and scanning the…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-02-16 Gook-Pil Roh , Seung-won Hwang , Byoung-Kee Yi

Mixed-precision quantization (MPQ) suffers from the time-consuming process of searching the optimal bit-width allocation i.e., the policy) for each layer, especially when using large-scale datasets such as ISLVRC-2012. This limits the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Chen Tang , Kai Ouyang , Zenghao Chai , Yunpeng Bai , Yuan Meng , Zhi Wang , Wenwu Zhu

Advances in neural architecture search, as well as explainability and interpretability of connectionist architectures, have been reported in the recent literature. However, our understanding of how to design Bayesian Deep Learning (BDL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Nidhin Harilal , Udit Bhatia , Auroop R. Ganguly

In this work, we show, for the well-studied problem of learning parity under noise, where a learner tries to learn $x=(x_1,\ldots,x_n) \in \{0,1\}^n$ from a stream of random linear equations over $\mathrm{F}_2$ that are correct with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Sumegha Garg , Pravesh K. Kothari , Pengda Liu , Ran Raz

Beam search is a desirable choice of test-time decoding algorithm for neural sequence models because it potentially avoids search errors made by simpler greedy methods. However, typical cross entropy training procedures for these models do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Kartik Goyal , Graham Neubig , Chris Dyer , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

We investigate the problem of persistent monitoring, where a mobile agent has to survey multiple targets in an environment in order to estimate their internal states. These internal states evolve with linear stochastic dynamics and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Samuel C. Pinto , Sean B. Andersson , Julien M. Hendrickx , Christos G. Cassandras

The discovery of utility-driven patterns is a useful and difficult research topic. It can extract significant and interesting information from specific and varied databases, increasing the value of the services provided. In practice, the…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Gengsen Huang , Wensheng Gan , Philip S. Yu

In this letter, we consider the problem of detecting a high dimensional signal based on compressed measurements with physical layer secrecy guarantees. We assume that the network operates in the presence of an eavesdropper who intends to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Bhavya Kailkhura , Sijia Liu , Thakshila Wimalajeewa , Pramod K. Varshney