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In this paper, we present an algorithm for minimizing the difference between two submodular functions using a variational framework which is based on (an extension of) the concave-convex procedure [17]. Because several commonly used metrics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Mukund Narasimhan , Jeff A. Bilmes

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets; GFNs) are a class of generative models that learn to sample compositional objects proportionally to their a priori unknown value, their reward. We focus on the case where the reward has a specified,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Alexandre Larouche , Audrey Durand

We study procurement auctions, where an auctioneer seeks to acquire services from strategic sellers with private costs. The quality of services is measured by a submodular function known to the auctioneer. Our goal is to design…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Yuan Deng , Amin Karbasi , Vahab Mirrokni , Renato Paes Leme , Grigoris Velegkas , Song Zuo

We investigate the fair allocation of indivisible goods to agents with possibly different entitlements represented by weights. Previous work has shown that guarantees for additive valuations with existing envy-based notions cannot be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Luisa Montanari , Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin , Warut Suksompong , Nicholas Teh

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have recently emerged as the dominant model in computer vision. If provided with enough training data, they predict almost any visual quantity. In a discrete setting, such as classification, CNNs are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Deepak Pathak , Philipp Krähenbühl , Stella X. Yu , Trevor Darrell

It is well-known that deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown remarkable success in many fields. However, when adding an imperceptible magnitude perturbation on the model input, the model performance might get rapid decrease. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Hao Yang , Min Wang , Zhengfei Yu , Yun Zhou

Automatic Modulation Classification (AMC) is a vital component in the development of intelligent and adaptive transceivers for future wireless communication systems. Existing statistically-based blind modulation classification methods for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Indiwara Nanayakkara , Dehan Jayawickrama , Dasuni Jayawardena , Vijitha R. Herath , Arjuna Madanayake

DR-submodular continuous functions are important objectives with wide real-world applications spanning MAP inference in determinantal point processes (DPPs), and mean-field inference for probabilistic submodular models, amongst others.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 An Bian , Kfir Y. Levy , Andreas Krause , Joachim M. Buhmann

Mini-batch gradient descent based methods are the de facto algorithms for training neural network architectures today. We introduce a mini-batch selection strategy based on submodular function maximization. Our novel submodular formulation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-21 K J Joseph , Vamshi Teja R , Krishnakant Singh , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

We study influence maximization on temporal networks. This is a special setting where the influence function is not submodular, and there is no optimality guarantee for solutions achieved via greedy optimization. We perform an exhaustive…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-05 Sirag Erkol , Dario Mazzilli , Filippo Radicchi

In this work, we consider the notion of "criterion collapse," in which optimization of one metric implies optimality in another, with a particular focus on conditions for collapse into error probability minimizers under a wide variety of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-22 Matthew J. Holland

We focus on the problem of modulating a parameter onto a power-limited signal transmitted over a discrete-time Gaussian channel and estimating this parameter at the receiver. Considering the well-known threshold effect in non-linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Neri Merhav

In modern multiple hypothesis testing, the availability of covariate information alongside the primary test statistics has motivated the development of more powerful and adaptive inference methods. However, most existing approaches rely on…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-20 Taehyoung Kim , Seohwa Hwang , Junyong Park

Spurious correlation caused by subgroup underrepresentation has received increasing attention as a source of bias that can be perpetuated by deep neural networks (DNNs). Distributionally robust optimization has shown success in addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Nilesh Kumar , Ruby Shrestha , Zhiyuan Li , Linwei Wang

Submodular function maximization has been studied extensively in recent years under various constraints and models. The problem plays a major role in various disciplines. We study a natural online variant of this problem in which elements…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Niv Buchbinder , Moran Feldman , Roy Schwartz

Precise control over dimension of nanocrystals is critical to tune the properties for various applications. However, the traditional control through experimental optimization is slow, tedious and time consuming. Herein a robust deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Xiaoli Liu , Yang Xu , Jiali Li , Xuanwei Ong , Salwa Ali Ibrahim , Tonio Buonassisi , Xiaonan Wang

In this paper, we aim at establishing an approximation theory and a learning theory of distribution regression via a fully connected neural network (FNN). In contrast to the classical regression methods, the input variables of distribution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-10 Zhongjie Shi , Zhan Yu , Ding-Xuan Zhou

Deep learning for distribution grid optimization can be advocated as a promising solution for near-optimal yet timely inverter dispatch. The principle is to train a deep neural network (DNN) to predict the solutions of an optimal power flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Manish K. Singh , Sarthak Gupta , Vassilis Kekatos , Guido Cavraro , Andrey Bernstein

Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) has emerged as a powerful tool for analyzing the dynamics of non-linear systems from experimental datasets. Recently, several attempts have extended DMD to the context of low-rank approximations. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-18 Patrick Héas , Cédric Herzet

We propose a nested reduced-rank regression (NRRR) approach in fitting regression model with multivariate functional responses and predictors, to achieve tailored dimension reduction and facilitate interpretation/visualization of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-11 Xiaokang Liu , Shujie Ma , Kun Chen