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Nested sampling is a powerful approach to Bayesian inference ultimately limited by the computationally demanding task of sampling from a heavily constrained probability distribution. An effective algorithm in its own right, Hamiltonian…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-03-02 M. J. Betancourt

The integrated nested Laplace approximations (INLA) method has become a widely utilized tool for researchers and practitioners seeking to perform approximate Bayesian inference across various fields of application. To address the growing…

Computation · Statistics 2023-11-15 Esmail Abdul-Fattah , Janet Van Niekerk , Haavard Rue

We propose MNPCA, a novel non-linear generalization of (2D)$^2${PCA}, a classical linear method for the simultaneous dimension reduction of both rows and columns of a set of matrix-valued data. MNPCA is based on optimizing over separate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Joni Virta , Andreas Artemiou

We propose nested sequential Monte Carlo (NSMC), a methodology to sample from sequences of probability distributions, even where the random variables are high-dimensional. NSMC generalises the SMC framework by requiring only approximate,…

Computation · Statistics 2015-09-14 Christian A. Naesseth , Fredrik Lindsten , Thomas B. Schön

We develop nested variational inference (NVI), a family of methods that learn proposals for nested importance samplers by minimizing an forward or reverse KL divergence at each level of nesting. NVI is applicable to many commonly-used…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-22 Heiko Zimmermann , Hao Wu , Babak Esmaeili , Jan-Willem van de Meent

Principal component analysis (PCA) aims at estimating the direction of maximal variability of a high-dimensional dataset. A natural question is: does this task become easier, and estimation more accurate, when we exploit additional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Andrea Montanari , Emile Richard

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is an emerging learning paradigm that computes with high dimensional binary vectors. It is attractive because of its energy efficiency and low latency, especially on emerging hardware -- but HDC suffers from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Tao Yu , Yichi Zhang , Zhiru Zhang , Christopher De Sa

Learning effective feature crosses is the key behind building recommender systems. However, the sparse and large feature space requires exhaustive search to identify effective crosses. Deep & Cross Network (DCN) was proposed to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Ruoxi Wang , Rakesh Shivanna , Derek Z. Cheng , Sagar Jain , Dong Lin , Lichan Hong , Ed H. Chi

Recent extensions of Cellular Automata (CA) have incorporated key ideas from modern deep learning, dramatically extending their capabilities and catalyzing a new family of Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) techniques. Inspired by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Mattie Tesfaldet , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Christopher Pal

Nested sampling (NS) computes parameter posterior distributions and makes Bayesian model comparison computationally feasible. Its strengths are the unsupervised navigation of complex, potentially multi-modal posteriors until a well-defined…

Computation · Statistics 2023-07-11 Johannes Buchner

We propose an end-to-end trainable framework that processes large-scale visual data tensors by looking at a fraction of their entries only. Our method combines a neural network encoder with a tensor train decomposition to learn a low-rank…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Mikhail Usvyatsov , Anastasia Makarova , Rafael Ballester-Ripoll , Maxim Rakhuba , Andreas Krause , Konrad Schindler

Cross Attention is a popular method for retrieving information from a set of context tokens for making predictions. At inference time, for each prediction, Cross Attention scans the full set of $\mathcal{O}(N)$ tokens. In practice, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Leo Feng , Frederick Tung , Hossein Hajimirsadeghi , Yoshua Bengio , Mohamed Osama Ahmed

E-commerce information retrieval (IR) systems struggle to simultaneously achieve high accuracy in interpreting complex user queries and maintain efficient processing of vast product catalogs. The dual challenge lies in precisely matching…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Shenbin Qian , Diptesh Kanojia , Samarth Agrawal , Hadeel Saadany , Swapnil Bhosale , Constantin Orasan , Zhe Wu

A single-commodity congestion approximator for a graph is a compact data structure that approximately predicts the edge congestion required to route any set of single-commodity flow demands in a network. A hierarchical congestion…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Monika Henzinger , Robin Münk , Harald Räcke

We consider a compression method for boundary element matrices arising in the context of the computation of electrostatic fields. Green cross approximation combines an analytic approximation of the kernel function based on Green's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Steffen Börm , Sven Christophersen

This paper considers the challenging computational task of estimating nested expectations. Existing algorithms, such as nested Monte Carlo or multilevel Monte Carlo, are known to be consistent but require a large number of samples at both…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-05 Zonghao Chen , Masha Naslidnyk , François-Xavier Briol

Despite a lack of theoretical understanding, deep neural networks have achieved unparalleled performance in a wide range of applications. On the other hand, shallow representation learning with component analysis is associated with rich…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Calvin Murdock , Ming-Fang Chang , Simon Lucey

It is acknowledged that co-evolutionary nucleotide-nucleotide interactions are essential for RNA structures and functions. Currently, direct coupling analysis (DCA) infers nucleotide contacts in a sequence from its homologous sequence…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-30 Yiren Jian , Chen Zeng , Yunjie Zhao

We propose a new technique, Singular Vector Canonical Correlation Analysis (SVCCA), a tool for quickly comparing two representations in a way that is both invariant to affine transform (allowing comparison between different layers and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-09 Maithra Raghu , Justin Gilmer , Jason Yosinski , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

We propose InCA, a lightweight method for transfer learning that cross-attends to any activation layer of a pre-trained model. During training, InCA uses a single forward pass to extract multiple activations, which are passed to external…