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This paper derives an objective Bayesian "prior" based on considerations of entropy/information. By this means, it produces a quantitative measure of goodness of fit (the "H-statistic") that balances higher likelihood against the number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Rafael D. Sorkin

The term, Big Data, has been authored to refer to the extensive heave of data that can't be managed by traditional data handling methods or techniques. The field of Big Data plays an indispensable role in various fields, such as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Mashooque Ahmed Memon , Safeeullah Soomro , Awais Khan Jumani , Muneer Ahmed Kartio

Big data present new opportunities for modern society while posing challenges for data scientists. Recent advancements in sensor networks and the widespread adoption of IoT have led to the collection of physical-sensor data on an enormous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Zhipeng Ma , Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen , Zheng Grace Ma

The Rashomon effect presents a significant challenge in model selection. It occurs when multiple models achieve similar performance on a dataset but produce different predictions, resulting in predictive multiplicity. This is especially…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-13 Mustafa Cavus , Przemyslaw Biecek

This review summarizes popular unsupervised learning methods, and gives an overview of their past, current, and future uses in astronomy. Unsupervised learning aims to organise the information content of a dataset, in such a way that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-26 Sotiria Fotopoulou

Big data, with NxP dimension where N is extremely large, has created new challenges for data analysis, particularly in the realm of creating meaningful clusters of data. Clustering techniques, such as K-means or hierarchical clustering are…

All fields of science depend on mathematical models. Occam's razor refers to the principle that good models should exclude parameters beyond those minimally required to describe the systems they represent. This is because redundancy can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Botond B Antal , Anthony G Chesebro , Helmut H Strey , Lilianne R Mujica-Parodi , Corey Weistuch

While there has been progress in developing non-vacuous generalization bounds for deep neural networks, these bounds tend to be uninformative about why deep learning works. In this paper, we develop a compression approach based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Sanae Lotfi , Marc Finzi , Sanyam Kapoor , Andres Potapczynski , Micah Goldblum , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Advances in information technology and its widespread growth in several areas of business, engineering, medical and scientific studies are resulting in information/data explosion. Knowledge discovery and decision making from such rapidly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-07 Raghavendra Kune , Pramodkumar Konugurthi , Arun Agarwal , Raghavendra Rao Chillarige , Rajkumar Buyya

Big data systems development is full of challenges in view of the variety of application areas and domains that this technology promises to serve. Typically, fundamental design decisions involved in big data systems design include choosing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Samiya Khan , Xiufeng Liu , Syed Arshad Ali , Mansaf Alam

Data-oriented applications, their users, and even the law require data of high quality. Research has divided the rather vague notion of data quality into various dimensions, such as accuracy, consistency, and reputation. To achieve the goal…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Sedir Mohammed , Lisa Ehrlinger , Hazar Harmouch , Felix Naumann , Divesh Srivastava

Assessing and improving the quality of data are fundamental challenges for data-intensive systems that have given rise to applications targeting transformation and cleaning of data. However, while schema design, data cleaning, and data…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Rada Chirkova , Jon Doyle , Juan L. Reutter

Recent research has helped to cultivate growing awareness that machine learning systems fueled by big data can create or exacerbate troubling disparities in society. Much of this research comes from outside of the practicing data science…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-23 Brian d'Alessandro , Cathy O'Neil , Tom LaGatta

Non-deductive reasoning, encompassing inductive and abductive reasoning, is essential in addressing complex real-world questions. One key feature of inductive and abductive reasoning is that there are many valid hypotheses; the simplest…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yunxin Sun , Abulhair Saparov

Real-world datasets are often of high dimension and effected by the curse of dimensionality. This hinders their comprehensibility and interpretability. To reduce the complexity feature selection aims to identify features that are crucial to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Maximilian Stubbemann , Tobias Hille , Tom Hanika

Advances in large language models have notably enhanced the efficiency of information extraction from unstructured and semi-structured data sources. As these technologies become integral to various applications, establishing an objective…

We present a structural clustering algorithm for large-scale datasets of small labeled graphs, utilizing a frequent subgraph sampling strategy. A set of representatives provides an intuitive description of each cluster, supports the…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Till Schäfer , Petra Mutzel

The last decades have not only been characterized by an explosive growth of data, but also an increasing appreciation of data as a valuable resource. Their value comes with the ability to extract meaningful patterns that are of economic,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-27 Jonas I. Liechti , Sebastian Bonhoeffer

In recent years, ideas from statistics and scientific computing have begun to interact in increasingly sophisticated and fruitful ways with ideas from computer science and the theory of algorithms to aid in the development of improved…

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As scientific data repositories and filesystems grow in size and complexity, they become increasingly disorganized. The coupling of massive quantities of data with poor organization makes it challenging for scientists to locate and utilize…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Luann Jung , Brendan Whitaker , Kyle Chard , Aaron Elmore