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Deep learning representations are often difficult to interpret, which can hinder their deployment in sensitive applications. Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) have emerged as a promising approach to mitigate this issue by learning…

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Factor-based Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) relies on likelihood-based estimation assuming a nonsingular sample covariance matrix, which breaks down in small-sample settings with $p>n$. To address this, we propose a novel estimation…

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Expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is to find maximum likelihood solution for models having latent variables. A typical example is Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) which requires Gaussian assumption, however, natural images are highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Wentian Zhao , Shaojie Wang , Zhihuai Xie , Jing Shi , Chenliang Xu

Dataset distillation (DD) aims to minimize the time and memory consumption needed for training deep neural networks on large datasets, by creating a smaller synthetic dataset that has similar performance to that of the full real dataset.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xinhao Zhong , Bin Chen , Hao Fang , Xulin Gu , Shu-Tao Xia , En-Hui Yang

Predictions for physical systems often rely upon knowledge acquired from ensembles of entities, e.g., ensembles of cells in biological sciences. For qualitative and quantitative analysis, these ensembles are simulated with parametric…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-28 Timothy Rumbell , Jaimit Parikh , James Kozloski , Viatcheslav Gurev

Spatiotemporal prediction over graphs (STPG) is challenging, because real-world data suffers from the Out-of-Distribution (OOD) generalization problem, where test data follow different distributions from training ones. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Zhaobin Mo , Haotian Xiang , Xuan Di

Influence maximization in networks is a central problem in machine learning and causal inference, where an intervention on a subset of individuals triggers a diffusion process through the network. Existing approaches typically optimize…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-13 Renjie Cao , Zhuoxin Yan , Xinyan Su , Zhiheng Zhang

Entropy minimization (EM) is frequently used to increase the accuracy of classification models when they're faced with new data at test time. EM is a self-supervised learning method that optimizes classifiers to assign even higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Ori Press , Ravid Shwartz-Ziv , Yann LeCun , Matthias Bethge

Typical dimensionality reduction methods focus on directly reducing the number of random variables while retaining maximal variations in the data. In this paper, we consider the dimensionality reduction in parameter spaces of binary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Xiaozhao Zhao , Yuexian Hou , Qian Yu , Dawei Song , Wenjie Li

We propose a novel approach for domain generalisation (DG) leveraging risk distributions to characterise domains, thereby achieving domain invariance. In our findings, risk distributions effectively highlight differences between training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Toan Nguyen , Kien Do , Bao Duong , Thin Nguyen

We present an interval-based approach for parameter identification in structural static inverse problems. The proposed inverse formulation exploits the Interval Finite Element Method (IFEM) combined with adjoint-based optimization. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-08 Naijia Xiao , Francesco Fedele , Rafi Muhanna

Empirical risk minimization (ERM) is a fundamental machine learning paradigm. However, its generalization ability is limited in various tasks. In this paper, we devise Dummy Risk Minimization (DuRM), a frustratingly easy and general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Juncheng Wang , Jindong Wang , Xixu Hu , Shujun Wang , Xing Xie

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) is able to make flexible conditional image generation from prior noise to real data, by introducing an independent noise-aware classifier to provide conditional gradient guidance at each time…

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The efficient resolution of Bayesian inverse problems remains challenging due to the high computational cost of traditional sampling methods. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that integrates Conditional Flow Matching (CFM) with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Daniil Sherki , Ivan Oseledets , Ekaterina Muravleva

We develop a divergence-minimization (DM) framework for robust and efficient inference in latent-mixture models. By optimizing a residual-adjusted divergence, the DM approach recovers EM as a special case and yields robust alternatives…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Lei Li , Anand N. Vidyashankar

We introduce a new class of swarm-based inertial methods (SBIMs) for global minimization, formulated as coupled dissipative inertial dynamical systems derived from the generalized Onsager principle. The proposed framework identifies the…

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In practical applications of regression analysis, it is not uncommon to encounter a multitude of values for each attribute. In such a situation, the univariate distribution, which is typically Gaussian, is suboptimal because the mean may be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Krzysztof Byrski , Jacek Tabor , Przemysław Spurek , Marcin Mazur

Recent works in high-dimensional model-predictive control and model-based reinforcement learning with learned dynamics and reward models have resorted to population-based optimization methods, such as the Cross-Entropy Method (CEM), for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Homanga Bharadhwaj , Kevin Xie , Florian Shkurti

Coping with distributional shifts is an important part of transfer learning methods in order to perform well in real-life tasks. However, most of the existing approaches in this area either focus on an ideal scenario in which the data does…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Luis Pedro Silvestrin , Shujian Yu , Mark Hoogendoorn

In this paper we present a world model, which learns causal features using the invariance principle. In particular, we use contrastive unsupervised learning to learn the invariant causal features, which enforces invariance across…

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