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The selective frequency damping (SFD) method is an alternative to classical Newton's method to obtain unstable steady-state solutions of dynamical systems. However this method has two main limitations: it does not converge for arbitrary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-28 Bastien E. Jordi , Colin J. Cotter , Spencer J. Sherwin

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets), a new family of probabilistic samplers, have recently emerged as a promising framework for learning stochastic policies that generate high-quality and diverse objects proportionally to their rewards.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Chunhui Li , Cheng-Hao Liu , Dianbo Liu , Qingpeng Cai , Ling Pan

Data-carving methods perform selective inference by conditioning the distribution of data on the observed selection event. However, existing data-carving approaches typically require an analytically tractable characterization of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-03 Sifan Liu , Snigdha Panigrahi

Biological data including gene expression data are generally high-dimensional and require efficient, generalizable, and scalable machine-learning methods to discover their complex nonlinear patterns. The recent advances in machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Dinesh Singh , Héctor Climente-González , Mathis Petrovich , Eiryo Kawakami , Makoto Yamada

Dynamic feature selection (DFS) addresses budget constraints in decision-making by sequentially acquiring features for each instance, making it appealing for resource-limited scenarios. However, existing DFS methods require models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Javier Fumanal-Idocin , Raquel Fernandez-Peralta , Javier Andreu-Perez

Generative models see increasing use in computer-aided drug design. However, while performing well at capturing distributions of molecular motifs, they often produce synthetically inaccessible molecules. To address this, we introduce…

Language models are prone to dataset biases, known as shortcuts and spurious correlations in data, which often result in performance drop on new data. We present a new debiasing framework called ``FairFlow'' that mitigates dataset biases by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jiali Cheng , Hadi Amiri

Unsupervised feature extraction algorithms form one of the most important building blocks in machine learning systems. These algorithms are often adapted to the event-based domain to perform online learning in neuromorphic hardware.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Saeed Afshar , Ying Xu , Jonathan Tapson , André van Schaik , Gregory Cohen

Local feature selection in machine learning provides instance-specific explanations by focusing on the most relevant features for each prediction, enhancing the interpretability of complex models. However, such methods tend to produce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Harrie Oosterhuis , Lijun Lyu , Avishek Anand

This paper concerns the critical decision process of extracting or selecting the features before applying a clustering algorithm. It is not obvious to evaluate the importance of the features since the most popular methods to do it are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Jean-Sebastien Dessureault , Daniel Massicotte

In recent years, researchers pay growing attention to the few-shot learning (FSL) task to address the data-scarce problem. A standard FSL framework is composed of two components: i) Pre-train. Employ the base data to generate a CNN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Shuai Shao , Lei Xing , Rui Xu , Weifeng Liu , Yan-Jiang Wang , Bao-Di Liu

A data analysis pipeline is a structured sequence of steps that transforms raw data into meaningful insights by integrating various analysis algorithms. In this paper, we propose a novel statistical test to assess the significance of data…

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In many applications, we need to study a linear regression model that consists of a response variable and a large number of potential explanatory variables and determine which variables are truly associated with the response. In 2015,…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-23 Jiajie Chen , Anthony Hou , Thomas Y. Hou

In Sound Event Detection (SED) systems, the lengths of median filters for post-processing have never been optimized during training due to several problems. No gradient is received by the lengths so they cannot be learned during…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 Fengnian Zhao , Ruwei Li , Xin Liu , Liwen Xu

Choosing which properties of the data to use as input to multivariate decision algorithms -- a.k.a. feature selection -- is an important step in solving any problem with machine learning. While there is a clear trend towards training…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-02 Ranit Das , Gregor Kasieczka , David Shih

Feature selection has remained a daunting challenge in machine learning and artificial intelligence, where increasingly complex, high-dimensional datasets demand principled strategies for isolating the most informative predictors. Despite…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Mousam Sinha , Tirtha Sarathi Ghosh , Ridam Pal

We describe a series of algorithms that efficiently implement Gaussian model-X knockoffs to control the false discovery rate on large scale feature selection problems. Identifying the knockoff distribution requires solving a large scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Armin Askari , Quentin Rebjock , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Laurent El Ghaoui

In reinforcement learning, the state of the real world is often represented by feature vectors. However, not all of the features may be pertinent for solving the current task. We propose Feature Selection Explore and Exploit (FS-EE), an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Zhaohan Daniel Guo , Emma Brunskill

Identifying Out-of-distribution (OOD) data is becoming increasingly critical as the real-world applications of deep learning methods expand. Post-hoc methods modify softmax scores fine-tuned on outlier data or leverage intermediate feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Saandeep Aathreya , Shaun Canavan

This paper is about the problem of learning a stochastic policy for generating an object (like a molecular graph) from a sequence of actions, such that the probability of generating an object is proportional to a given positive reward for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Emmanuel Bengio , Moksh Jain , Maksym Korablyov , Doina Precup , Yoshua Bengio