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Ordinal regression refers to classifying object instances into ordinal categories. Ordinal regression is crucial for applications in various areas like facial age estimation, image aesthetics assessment, and even cancer staging, due to its…

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Classification is an essential and fundamental task in machine learning, playing a cardinal role in the field of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV). In a supervised learning setting, labels are always needed for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Irene Li

We consider counterfactual explanations, the problem of minimally adjusting features in a source input instance so that it is classified as a target class under a given classifier. This has become a topic of recent interest as a way to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán , Suryabhan Singh Hada

Classification is an important goal in many branches of mathematics. The idea is to describe the members of some class of mathematical objects, up to isomorphism or other important equivalence in terms of relatively simple invariants. Where…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-03-25 Wesley Calvert , Julia F. Knight

One approach for feedback control using high dimensional and rich sensor measurements is to classify the measurement into one out of a finite set of situations, each situation corresponding to a (known) control action. This approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Hasan A. Poonawala , Niklas Lauffer , Ufuk Topcu

We introduce and study the proper topological complexity of a given configuration space, a version of the classical invariant for which we require that the algorithm controlling the motion is able to avoid any possible choice of ``unsafe''…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Jose M. Garcia-Calcines , Aniceto Murillo

Graph embedding algorithms are used to efficiently represent (encode) a graph in a low-dimensional continuous vector space that preserves the most important properties of the graph. One aspect that is often overlooked is whether the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Zekarias T. Kefato , Nasrullah Sheikh , Alberto Montresor

Transformers were originally proposed as a sequence-to-sequence model for text but have become vital for a wide range of modalities, including images, audio, video, and undirected graphs. However, transformers for directed graphs are a…

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Recently,the detection transformer has gained substantial attention for its inherent minimal post-processing requirement.However,this paradigm relies on abundant training data,yet in the context of the cross-domain adaptation,insufficient…

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Transformer architectures excel at sequential modeling yet remain fundamentally limited by correlational learning - they capture spurious associations induced by latent confounders rather than invariant causal mechanisms. We identify this…

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Many robotics tasks, such as path planning or trajectory optimization, are formulated as optimal control problems (OCPs). The key to obtaining high performance lies in the design of the OCP's objective function. In practice, the objective…

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Classical Domain Adaptation methods acquire transferability by regularizing the overall distributional discrepancies between features in the source domain (labeled) and features in the target domain (unlabeled). They often do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Shumin Ma , Zhiri Yuan , Qi Wu , Yiyan Huang , Xixu Hu , Cheuk Hang Leung , Dongdong Wang , Zhixiang Huang

In this paper, we investigate the controllability of a class of formation control systems. Given a directed graph, we assign an agent to each of its vertices and let the edges of the graph describe the information flow in the system. We…

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Contrastive learning is a highly effective method for learning representations from unlabeled data. Recent works show that contrastive representations can transfer across domains, leading to simple state-of-the-art algorithms for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Jeff Z. HaoChen , Colin Wei , Ananya Kumar , Tengyu Ma

In online classification, a learner is presented with a sequence of examples and aims to predict their labels in an online fashion so as to minimize the total number of mistakes. In the self-directed variant, the learner knows in advance…

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Tilings of the plane resemble the simplicial and other complexes from algebraic topology, but have not been studied from this perspective. We construct finite categories corresponding to polygons with labeled directed edges, and introduce…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Catherine DiLeo , Preston Sessoms , Brandon T. Shapiro

Achieving the generalization of an invariant classifier from training domains to shifted test domains while simultaneously considering model fairness is a substantial and complex challenge in machine learning. Existing methods address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Dong Li , Chen Zhao , Minglai Shao , Wenjun Wang

Algorithmic decision making systems are ubiquitous across a wide variety of online as well as offline services. These systems rely on complex learning methods and vast amounts of data to optimize the service functionality, satisfaction of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-27 Muhammad Bilal Zafar , Isabel Valera , Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , Krishna P. Gummadi

Most rigid formation controllers reported in the literature aim to only stabilize a rigid formation shape, while the formation orientation is not controlled. This paper studies the problem of controlling rigid formations with prescribed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Zhiyong Sun , Myoung-Chul Park , Brian D. O. Anderson , Hyo-Sung Ahn

This work presents a control-oriented identification scheme for efficient control design and stability analysis of nonlinear systems. Neural networks are used to identify a discrete-time nonlinear state-space model to approximate…

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