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While significant progress has been made in specifying neural networks capable of representing uncertainty, deep networks still often suffer from overconfidence and misaligned predictive distributions. Existing approaches for measuring this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Spencer Young , Riley Sinema , Cole Edgren , Andrew Hall , Nathan Dong , Porter Jenkins

While generative models have shown great success in generating high-dimensional samples conditional on low-dimensional descriptors (learning e.g. stroke thickness in MNIST, hair color in CelebA, or speaker identity in Wavenet), their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Mohammad Lotfollahi , Mohsen Naghipourfar , Fabian J. Theis , F. Alexander Wolf

Conditional density estimation (CDE) goes beyond regression by modeling the full conditional distribution, providing a richer understanding of the data than just the conditional mean in regression. This makes CDE particularly useful in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Lincen Yang , Matthijs van Leeuwen

Given observations of a collection of covariates and responses $(Y, X) \in \mathbb{R}^p \times \mathbb{R}^q$, sufficient dimension reduction (SDR) techniques aim to identify a mapping $f: \mathbb{R}^q \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^k$ with $k \ll…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-08-19 Armeen Taeb , Venkat Chandrasekaran

Survival regression aims to predict the time when an event of interest will take place, typically a death or a failure. A fully parametric method [18] is proposed to estimate the survival function as a mixture of individual parametric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Qinxin Wang , Jiayuan Huang , Junhui Li , Jiaming Liu

The purpose of this work is to improve the efficiency in estimating the average causal effect (ACE) on the survival scale where right-censoring exists and high-dimensional covariate information is available. We propose new estimators using…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-29 Ran Dai , Cheng Zheng , Mei-Jie Zhang

We propose SDORE, a Semi-supervised Deep Sobolev Regressor, for the nonparametric estimation of the underlying regression function and its gradient. SDORE employs deep ReQU neural networks to minimize the empirical risk with gradient norm…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-31 Zhao Ding , Chenguang Duan , Yuling Jiao , Jerry Zhijian Yang

Variance estimation is a fundamental problem in statistical modeling. In ultrahigh dimensional linear regressions where the dimensionality is much larger than sample size, traditional variance estimation techniques are not applicable.…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-12-27 Jianqing Fan , Shaojun Guo , Ning Hao

We propose the Variation Calibration Error (VCE) metric for assessing the calibration of machine learning classifiers. The metric can be viewed as an extension of the well-known Expected Calibration Error (ECE) which assesses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Andrew Thompson , Vivek Desai

Nonparametric regression subject to convexity or concavity constraints is increasingly popular in economics, finance, operations research, machine learning, and statistics. However, the conventional convex regression based on the least…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-27 Zhiqiang Liao , Sheng Dai , Timo Kuosmanen

We propose an estimation method that we call functional average variance estimation (FAVE), for estimating the EDR space in functional semiparametric regression model, based on kernel estimates of density and regression. Consistency results…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-26 MÈtolidji Moquilas Raymond Affossogbe , Guy Martial Nkiet , Carlos Ogouyandjou

In this work, we propose to utilize a variational autoencoder (VAE) for channel estimation (CE) in underdetermined (UD) systems. The basis of the method forms a recently proposed concept in which a VAE is trained on channel state…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-29 Michael Baur , Nurettin Turan , Benedikt Fesl , Wolfgang Utschick

Exploiting the rapid advances in probabilistic inference, in particular variational Bayes and variational autoencoders (VAEs), for anomaly detection (AD) tasks remains an open research question. Previous works argued that training VAE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Adrian Alan Pol , Victor Berger , Gianluca Cerminara , Cecile Germain , Maurizio Pierini

We consider the smoothed version of sliced average variance estimation (SAVE) dimension reduction method for dealing with spatially dependent data that are observations of a strongly mixing random field. We propose kernel estimators for the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Mètolidji Moquilas Raymond Affossogbe , Guy Martial Nkiet , Carlos Ogouyandjou

Conditional variational autoencoders (CVAEs) are versatile deep generative models that extend the standard VAE framework by conditioning the generative model with auxiliary covariates. The original CVAE model assumes that the data samples…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-03 Siddharth Ramchandran , Gleb Tikhonov , Otto Lönnroth , Pekka Tiikkainen , Harri Lähdesmäki

Nowadays, massive datasets are typically dispersed across multiple locations, encountering dual challenges of high dimensionality and huge sample size. Therefore, it is necessary to explore sufficient dimension reduction (SDR) methods for…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-16 Hongying Li , Minyi Zhu , Yaqi Cao , Xinyi Xu

We introduce the Conditional Independence Regression CovariancE (CIRCE), a measure of conditional independence for multivariate continuous-valued variables. CIRCE applies as a regularizer in settings where we wish to learn neural features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Roman Pogodin , Namrata Deka , Yazhe Li , Danica J. Sutherland , Victor Veitch , Arthur Gretton

In this paper, we address the problem of predicting a response variable in the context of both, spatially correlated and high-dimensional data. To reduce the dimensionality of the predictor variables, we apply the sufficient dimension…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-06 Liliana Forzani , Rodrigo García Arancibia , Antonella Gieco , Pamela Llop , Anne Yao

Visual counterfactual explainers (VCEs) are a straightforward and promising approach to enhancing the transparency of image classifiers. VCEs complement other types of explanations, such as feature attribution, by revealing the specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Sidney Bender , Jan Herrmann , Klaus-Robert Müller , Grégoire Montavon

Sparse Inverse Covariance Estimation (SICE) is useful in many practical data analyses. Recovering the connectivity, non-connectivity graph of covariates is classified amongst the most important data mining and learning problems. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Ashkan Esmaeili , Farokh Marvasti