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We introduce a new method for building classification models when we have prior knowledge of how the classes can be arranged in a hierarchy, based on how easily they can be distinguished. The new method uses a Bayesian form of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Babak Shahbaba , Radford M. Neal

Traditional methods for matching in causal inference are impractical for high-dimensional datasets. They suffer from the curse of dimensionality: exact matching and coarsened exact matching find exponentially fewer matches as the input…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-12 Oscar Clivio , Fabian Falck , Brieuc Lehmann , George Deligiannidis , Chris Holmes

The main object of this paper is to show how we can use classical probabilistic methods such as Maximum Entropy (ME), maximum likelihood (ML) and/or Bayesian (BAYES) approaches to do microscopic and macroscopic data fusion. Actually ME can…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Mohammad-Djafari

Matching pursuit algorithms are an important class of algorithms in signal processing and machine learning. We present a blended matching pursuit algorithm, combining coordinate descent-like steps with stronger gradient descent steps, for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Cyrille W. Combettes , Sebastian Pokutta

In this work, we present a novel method for combining predictions of object detection models: weighted boxes fusion. Our algorithm utilizes confidence scores of all proposed bounding boxes to constructs the averaged boxes. We tested method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Roman Solovyev , Weimin Wang , Tatiana Gabruseva

Combining multiple machine learning models into an ensemble is known to provide superior performance levels compared to the individual components forming the ensemble. This is because models can complement each other in taking better…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Nicolae-Catalin Ristea , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Integrative modeling of macromolecular assemblies allows for structural characterization of large assemblies that are recalcitrant to direct experimental observation. A Bayesian inference approach facilitates combining data from…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-13 Shreyas Arvindekar , Kartik Majila , Shruthi Viswanath

The performance of many machine learning techniques depends on the choice of an appropriate similarity or distance measure on the input space. Similarity learning (or metric learning) aims at building such a measure from training data so…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-25 Robin Vogel , Aurélien Bellet , Stéphan Clémençon

Federated learning (FL) is an approach to training machine learning models that takes advantage of multiple distributed datasets while maintaining data privacy and reducing communication costs associated with sharing local datasets.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 John Fischer , Marko Orescanin , Justin Loomis , Patrick McClure

In traditional logistic regression models, the link function is often assumed to be linear and continuous in predictors. Here, we consider a threshold model that all continuous features are discretized into ordinal levels, which further…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-18 Yinan Lin , Wen Zhou , Zhi Geng , Gexin Xiao , Jianxin Yin

In many applications of computer vision it is important to accurately estimate the trajectory of an object over time by fusing data from a number of sources, of which 2D and 3D imagery is only one. In this paper, we show how to use a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Fan Jiang , Andrew Marmon , Ildebrando De Courten , Marc Rasi , Frank Dellaert

Recommender systems are designed to predict user preferences over collections of items. These systems process users' previous interactions to decide which items should be ranked higher to satisfy their desires. An ensemble recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Alireza Gharahighehi , Celine Vens , Konstantinos Pliakos

With the recent growth in data availability and complexity, and the associated outburst of elaborate modelling approaches, model selection tools have become a lifeline, providing objective criteria to deal with this increasingly challenging…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-08 Alessandro Casa , Luca Scrucca , Giovanna Menardi

The importance of accurately quantifying forecast uncertainty has motivated much recent research on probabilistic forecasting. In particular, a variety of deep learning approaches has been proposed, with forecast distributions obtained as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-11 Benedikt Schulz , Lutz Köhler , Sebastian Lerch

We introduce a new clustering method for the classification of functional data sets by their probabilistic law, that is, a procedure that aims to assign data sets to the same cluster if and only if the data were generated with the same…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-29 Antonio Galves , Fernando Najman , Marcela Svarc , Claudia D. Vargas

Quantification is the machine learning task of estimating test-data class proportions that are not necessarily similar to those in training. Apart from its intrinsic value as an aggregate statistic, quantification output can also be used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Aykut Firat

Joint models for longitudinal and time-to-event data are often employed to calculate dynamic individualized predictions used in numerous applications of precision medicine. Two components of joint models that influence the accuracy of these…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-04 Dimitris Rizopoulos , Jeremy M. G. Taylor

Ensemble methods are widely employed to improve generalization in machine learning. This has also prompted the adoption of ensemble learning for the knowledge graph embedding (KGE) models in performing link prediction. Typical approaches to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Rupesh Sapkota , Caglar Demir , Arnab Sharma , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Learning curves are a concept from social sciences that has been adopted in the context of machine learning to assess the performance of a learning algorithm with respect to a certain resource, e.g., the number of training examples or the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Felix Mohr , Jan N. van Rijn

An ensemble method should cleverly combine a group of base classifiers to yield an improved classifier. The majority vote is an example of a methodology used to combine classifiers in an ensemble method. In this paper, we propose to combine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Rodolfo Anibal Lobo , Marcos Eduardo Valle