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Incentive plans involve payments for performance relative to some set of goals. In this paper, we extend Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to the evaluation of performance in the specific context of pay-for-performance incentive plans. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Wade D. Cook , Nuria Ramón , José L. Ruiz , Inmaculada Sirvent , Joe Zhu

Several methods have been proposed to identify which sensor sets are optimal for finding and localizing faults under different conditions for mechanical equipment. In order to preserve acceptable performance while minimizing costs, it is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Amir Eshaghi Chaleshtori , Abdollah Aghaie

Advanced representation learning techniques require reliable and general evaluation methods. Recently, several algorithms based on the common idea of geometric and topological analysis of a manifold approximated from the learned data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Petra Poklukar , Vladislav Polianskii , Anastasia Varava , Florian Pokorny , Danica Kragic

In data envelopment analysis (DEA), the concept of efficiency is examined in either Farrell (DEA) or Pareto senses. In either of these senses, the efficiency status of a decision making unit (DMU) is classified as either weak or strong. It…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-10 Mahmood Mehdiloozad , Mohammad Bagher Ahmadi , Biresh K. Sahoo

In data envelopment analysis (DEA) literature, the returns to scale (RTS) of an inefficient decision making unit (DMU) is determined at its projected point on the efficient frontier. Under the occurrences of multiple projection points,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-10 Mahmood Mehdiloozad , Biresh K. Sahoo

Deep Ensemble (DE) is an effective alternative to Bayesian neural networks for uncertainty quantification in deep learning. The uncertainty of DE is usually conveyed by the functional inconsistency among the ensemble members, say, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Zhijie Deng , Feng Zhou , Jianfei Chen , Guoqiang Wu , Jun Zhu

This article presents a Benchmarking methodology to support decision-making for international market selection (IMS). In order to do so, we will be using an output-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model. This methodology considers…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-10-08 Safa El Kefi

Ensemble disagreement is widely used as a proxy for epistemic uncertainty in medical image segmentation. In practice, many studies form ensembles via K-fold cross-validation (CV), yet refer to them as ``deep ensembles'' (DE). Because CV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Tristan Kirscher , Markus Bujotzek , Yannick Kirchhoff , Maximilian Rokuss , Fabian Isensee , Kim-Celine Kahl , Balint Kovacs , Klaus Maier-Hein

Over the past decade, deep learning (DL) has been successfully applied to many industrial domain-specific tasks. However, the current state-of-the-art DL software still suffers from quality issues, which raises great concern especially in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Xiyue Zhang , Xiaofei Xie , Lei Ma , Xiaoning Du , Qiang Hu , Yang Liu , Jianjun Zhao , Meng Sun

This study develops a data-driven group variable selection method for data envelopment analysis (DEA), a non-parametric linear programming approach to the estimation of production frontiers. The proposed method extends the group Lasso…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-18 Zhiwei Qin , Irene Song

Recent research in machine learning has given rise to a flourishing literature on the quantification and decomposition of model uncertainty. This information can be very useful during interactions with the learner, such as in active…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Arthur Hoarau , Vincent Lemaire

The full acceptance of Deep Learning (DL) models in the clinical field is rather low with respect to the quantity of high-performing solutions reported in the literature. Particularly, end users are reluctant to rely on the rough…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Benjamin Lambert , Florence Forbes , Alan Tucholka , Senan Doyle , Harmonie Dehaene , Michel Dojat

Uncertainty estimation and ensembling methods go hand-in-hand. Uncertainty estimation is one of the main benchmarks for assessment of ensembling performance. At the same time, deep learning ensembles have provided state-of-the-art results…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-20 Arsenii Ashukha , Alexander Lyzhov , Dmitry Molchanov , Dmitry Vetrov

Machine learning models are increasingly used to predict material properties and accelerate atomistic simulations, but the reliability of their predictions depends on the representativeness of the training data. We present a scalable,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Daniel Willimetz , Lukáš Grajciar

Uncertainty estimation has been extensively studied in recent literature, which can usually be classified as aleatoric uncertainty and epistemic uncertainty. In current aleatoric uncertainty estimation frameworks, it is often neglected that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai , Mehrtash Harandi , Yiran Zhong , Nick Barnes , Richard Hartley

The human brain represents an object by small elements and distinguishes two objects based on the difference in elements. Discovering the distinctive elements of high-dimensional datasets is therefore critical in numerous perception-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Md Tauhidul Islam , Lei Xing

One of the concerns about using non-parametric estimators such as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), is the presence of outliers. There are a good number of studies that mention this assessment in the literature of DEA, however, there is no…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Dariush Khezrimotlagh

This paper introduces a new specification for the nonparametric production-frontier based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) when dealing with decision-making units whose economic performances are correlated with those of the neighbors…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-03-29 Julian Ramajo , Miguel A. Marquez , Geoffrey J. D. Hewings

Deploying deep learning (DL) models in medical applications relies on predictive performance and other critical factors, such as conveying trustworthy predictive uncertainty. Uncertainty estimation (UE) methods provide potential solutions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Kudaibergen Abutalip , Numan Saeed , Ikboljon Sobirov , Vincent Andrearczyk , Adrien Depeursinge , Mohammad Yaqub

In the realm of PCB and packaging interconnect design, electromagnetic analysis tools have transitioned from optional to essential over the last two decades, as data rates soared beyond 6 Gbps. Today, with standard data rates eclipsing 6…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-25 Yuriy Shlepnev