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Understanding the learning process and the embedded computation in transformers is becoming a central goal for the development of interpretable AI. In the present study, we introduce a hierarchical filtering procedure for data models of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Jerome Garnier-Brun , Marc Mézard , Emanuele Moscato , Luca Saglietti

Embedding tables are used by machine learning systems to work with categorical features. In modern Recommendation Systems, these tables can be very large, necessitating the development of new methods for fitting them in memory, even during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Henry Ling-Hei Tsang , Thomas Dybdahl Ahle

Recently, word embedding algorithms have been applied to map the entities of recommender systems, such as users and items, to new feature spaces using textual element-context relations among them. Unlike many other domains, this approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Arash Khoeini , Bita Shams , Saman Haratizadeh

This paper introduces a novel tree-based model, Learning Hyperplane Tree (LHT), which outperforms state-of-the-art (SOTA) tree models for classification tasks on several public datasets. The structure of LHT is simple and efficient: it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Hongyi Li , Jun Xu , William Ward Armstrong

Bipartite graph embedding (BGE) maps nodes to compressed embedding vectors that can reflect the hidden topological features of the network, and learning high-quality BGE is crucial for facilitating downstream applications such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Shanfan Zhang , Yongyi Lin , Yuan Rao , Zhan Bu

Despite the prominence of neural network approaches in the field of recommender systems, simple methods such as matrix factorization with quadratic loss are still used in industry for several reasons. These models can be trained with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Dmitrii Beloborodov , Andrei Zimovnov , Petr Molodyk , Dmitrii Kirillov

We introduce inference trees (ITs), a new class of inference methods that build on ideas from Monte Carlo tree search to perform adaptive sampling in a manner that balances exploration with exploitation, ensures consistency, and alleviates…

We propose Tree Variational Autoencoder (TreeVAE), a new generative hierarchical clustering model that learns a flexible tree-based posterior distribution over latent variables. TreeVAE hierarchically divides samples according to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Laura Manduchi , Moritz Vandenhirtz , Alain Ryser , Julia Vogt

Matrix factorization exploits the idea that, in complex high-dimensional data, the actual signal typically lies in lower-dimensional structures. These lower dimensional objects provide useful insight, with interpretability favored by sparse…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-14 Lorenzo Schiavon , Bernardo Nipoti , Antonio Canale

Fault tree analysis is a well-known technique in reliability engineering and risk assessment, which supports decision-making processes and the management of complex systems. Traditionally, fault tree (FT) models are built manually together…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Lisandro A. Jimenez-Roa , Tom Heskes , Tiedo Tinga , Marielle Stoelinga

Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is an intensively used technique for obtaining parts-based, lower dimensional and non-negative representation. Researchers in biology, medicine, pharmacy and other fields often prefer NMF over other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Matej Mihelčić , Pauli Miettinen

Tree ensembles are widely recognized for their effectiveness in classification tasks, achieving state-of-the-art performance across diverse domains, including bioinformatics, finance, and medical diagnosis. With increasing emphasis on data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Ziheng Chen , Jin Huang , Jiali Cheng , Yuchan Guo , Mengjie Wang , Lalitesh Morishetti , Kaushiki Nag , Hadi Amiri

In various practical situations, matrix factorization methods suffer from poor data quality, such as high data sparsity and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Here, we consider a matrix factorization problem by utilizing auxiliary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-06 Zhiwei Wang , Fa Zhang , Cong Zheng , Xianghong Hu , Mingxuan Cai , Can Yang

Matrix factorization techniques, especially Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF), have been widely used for dimensionality reduction and interpretable data representation. However, existing NMF-based methods are inherently single-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Jichao Zhang , Ran Miao , Limin Li

A new ensemble framework for interpretable model called Linear Iterative Feature Embedding (LIFE) has been developed to achieve high prediction accuracy, easy interpretation and efficient computation simultaneously. The LIFE algorithm is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-19 Agus Sudjianto , Jinwen Qiu , Miaoqi Li , Jie Chen

Classic embedded feature selection algorithms are often divided in two large groups: tree-based algorithms and lasso variants. Both approaches are focused in different aspects: while the tree-based algorithms provide a clear explanation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Brais Cancela , Verónica Bolón-Canedo , Amparo Alonso-Betanzos

A common use of machine learning (ML) models is predicting the class of a sample. Object detection is an extension of classification that includes localization of the object via a bounding box within the sample. Classification, and by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Erin Lanus , Daniel Wolodkin , Laura J. Freeman

It is widely acknowledged that learning joint embeddings of recipes with images is challenging due to the diverse composition and deformation of ingredients in cooking procedures. We present a Multi-modal Semantics enhanced Joint Embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Zhongwei Xie , Ling Liu , Yanzhao Wu , Lin Li , Luo Zhong

Category information plays a crucial role in enhancing the quality and personalization of recommender systems. Nevertheless, the availability of item category information is not consistently present, particularly in the context of ID-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Qijiong Liu , Lu Fan , Jiaren Xiao , Jieming Zhu , Xiao-Ming Wu

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) has been continuously evolving in several areas like pattern recognition and information retrieval methods. It factorizes a matrix into a product of 2 low-rank non-negative matrices that will define…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-04-04 Jing-Yan Wang , Mustafa AbdulJabbar