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Scientists often use observational time series data to study complex natural processes, but regression analyses often assume simplistic dynamics. Recent advances in deep learning have yielded startling improvements to the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Cory Shain , William Schuler

High-dimensional dense embeddings have become central to modern Information Retrieval, but many dimensions are noisy or redundant. Recently proposed DIME (Dimension IMportance Estimation), provides query-dependent scores to identify…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Giulio D'Erasmo , Cesare Campagnano , Antonio Mallia , Pierpaolo Brutti , Nicola Tonellotto , Fabrizio Silvestri

Annotating the right data for training deep neural networks is an important challenge. Active learning using uncertainty estimates from Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) could provide an effective solution to this. Despite being theoretically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Kashyap Chitta , Jose M. Alvarez , Adam Lesnikowski

We study how the training data distribution affects confidence and performance in image classification models. We introduce Embedding Density, a model-agnostic framework that estimates prediction confidence by measuring the distance of test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Maksim Kazanskii , Artem Kasianov

Neural networks have dramatically increased our capacity to learn from large, high-dimensional datasets across innumerable disciplines. However, their decisions are not easily interpretable, their computational costs are high, and building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Mackenzie J. Meni , Ryan T. White , Michael Mayo , Kevin Pilkiewicz

Synthetic data generation is a promising technique to facilitate the use of sensitive data while mitigating the risk of privacy breaches. However, for synthetic data to be useful in downstream analysis tasks, it needs to be of sufficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-26 Thom Benjamin Volker , Peter-Paul de Wolf , Erik-Jan van Kesteren

The state of the art in human-centric computer vision achieves high accuracy and robustness across a diverse range of tasks. The most effective models in this domain have billions of parameters, thus requiring extremely large datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Fatemeh Saleh , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Charlie Hewitt , Lohit Petikam , Xiao-Xian , Antonio Criminisi , Thomas J. Cashman , Tadas Baltrušaitis

This article introduces a general statistical modeling principle called "Density Sharpening" and applies it to the analysis of discrete count data. The underlying foundation is based on a new theory of nonparametric approximation and…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-24 Subhadeep Mukhopadhyay

Due to the abundance of 2D product images from the Internet, developing efficient and scalable algorithms to recover the missing depth information is central to many applications. Recent works have addressed the single-view depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Guilin Liu , Chao Yang , Zimo Li , Duygu Ceylan , Qixing Huang

Diffusion models indirectly estimate the probability density over a data space, which can be used to study its structure. In this work, we show that geodesics can be computed in diffusion latent space, where the norm induced by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Qingtao Yu , Jaskirat Singh , Zhaoyuan Yang , Peter Henry Tu , Jing Zhang , Hongdong Li , Richard Hartley , Dylan Campbell

We present an approach based on feed-forward neural networks for learning the distribution of textual documents. This approach is inspired by the Neural Autoregressive Distribution Estimator(NADE) model, which has been shown to be a good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Stanislas Lauly , Yin Zheng , Alexandre Allauzen , Hugo Larochelle

Density estimation is a versatile technique underlying many data mining tasks and techniques,ranging from exploration and presentation of static data, to probabilistic classification, or identifying changes or irregularities in streaming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Georg Krempl , Dominik Lang , Vera Hofer

Decision trees and random forest remain highly competitive for classification on medium-sized, standard datasets due to their robustness, minimal preprocessing requirements, and interpretability. However, a single tree suffers from high…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Cencheng Shen , Yuexiao Dong , Carey E. Priebe

Probability density estimation is a core problem of statistics and signal processing. Moment methods are an important means of density estimation, but they are generally strongly dependent on the choice of feasible functions, which severely…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-06 Guangyu Wu , Anders Lindquist

General-purpose open-domain dense retrieval systems are usually trained with a large, eclectic mix of corpora and search tasks. How should these diverse corpora and tasks be sampled for training? Conventional approaches sample them…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Meet Doshi , Vishwajeet Kumar , Yulong Li , Jaydeep Sen

We present a new regression model for the determination of parton distribution functions (PDF) using techniques inspired from deep learning projects. In the context of the NNPDF methodology, we implement a new efficient computing framework…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Stefano Carrazza , Juan Cruz-Martinez

We present TraDE, a self-attention-based architecture for auto-regressive density estimation with continuous and discrete valued data. Our model is trained using a penalized maximum likelihood objective, which ensures that samples from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Rasool Fakoor , Pratik Chaudhari , Jonas Mueller , Alexander J. Smola

A prominent family of methods for learning data distributions relies on density ratio estimation (DRE), where a model is trained to $\textit{classify}$ between data samples and samples from some reference distribution. DRE-based models can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Shahar Yadin , Noam Elata , Tomer Michaeli

Image deep features extracted by pre-trained networks are known to contain rich and informative representations. In this paper, we present Deep Degradation Response (DDR), a method to quantify changes in image deep features under varying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Juncheng Wu , Zhangkai Ni , Hanli Wang , Wenhan Yang , Yuyin Zhou , Shiqi Wang

One of the popular measures of central tendency that provides better representation and interesting insights of the data compared to the other measures like mean and median is the metric mode. If the analytical form of the density function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Chandramouli Kamanchi , Raghuram Bharadwaj Diddigi , Prabuchandran K. J. , Shalabh Bhatnagar