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In neural networks with binary activations and or binary weights the training by gradient descent is complicated as the model has piecewise constant response. We consider stochastic binary networks, obtained by adding noises in front of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-05 Alexander Shekhovtsov , Viktor Yanush , Boris Flach

Network graphs have become a popular tool to represent complex systems composed of many interacting subunits; especially in neuroscience, network graphs are increasingly used to represent and analyze functional interactions between neural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Patricia Wollstadt , Ulrich Meyer , Michael Wibral

Ensuring fairness in machine learning is a critical and challenging task, as biased data representations often lead to unfair predictions. To address this, we propose Deep Fair Learning, a framework that integrates nonlinear sufficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-10 Enze Shi , Linglong Kong , Bei Jiang

Representation learning is the foundation for the recent success of neural network models. However, the distributed representations generated by neural networks are far from ideal. Due to their highly entangled nature, they are di cult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-09 William Whitney

Diffusion-based methods represented as stochastic differential equations on a continuous-time domain have recently proven successful as a non-adversarial generative model. Training such models relies on denoising score matching, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Sarthak Mittal , Korbinian Abstreiter , Stefan Bauer , Bernhard Schölkopf , Arash Mehrjou

It has been observed that representations learned by distinct neural networks conceal structural similarities when the models are trained under similar inductive biases. From a geometric perspective, identifying the classes of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Irene Cannistraci , Luca Moschella , Marco Fumero , Valentino Maiorca , Emanuele Rodolà

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have emerged as a powerful tool for compressing large-scale volume data. This opens up new possibilities for in situ visualization. However, the efficient application of INRs to distributed data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Qi Wu , Joseph A. Insley , Victor A. Mateevitsi , Silvio Rizzi , Michael E. Papka , Kwan-Liu Ma

Representations are fundamental to artificial intelligence. The performance of a learning system depends on the type of representation used for representing the data. Typically, these representations are hand-engineered using domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Vivek Veeriah , Shangtong Zhang , Richard S. Sutton

We apply recent advances in machine learning and computer vision to a central problem in materials informatics: The statistical representation of microstructural images. We use activations in a pre-trained convolutional neural network to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Nicholas Lubbers , Turab Lookman , Kipton Barros

This paper presents a novel approach that leverages domain variability to learn representations that are conditionally invariant to unwanted variability or distractors. Our approach identifies both spurious and invariant latent features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Hananeh Aliee , Ferdinand Kapl , Soroor Hediyeh-Zadeh , Fabian J. Theis

Biological imaging data are often partially confounded or contain unwanted variability. Examples of such phenomena include variable lighting across microscopy image captures, stain intensity variation in histological slides, and batch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Craig A. Glastonbury , Michael Ferlaino , Christoffer Nellåker , Cecilia M. Lindgren

This paper introduces a representative-based approach for distributed learning that transforms multiple raw data points into a virtual representation. Unlike traditional distributed learning methods such as Federated Learning, which do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Mengchen Fan , Baocheng Geng , Keren Li , Xueqian Wang , Pramod K. Varshney

We propose to learn invariant representations, in the data domain, to achieve interpretability in algorithmic fairness. Invariance implies a selectivity for high level, relevant correlations w.r.t. class label annotations, and a robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Thomas Kehrenberg , Myles Bartlett , Oliver Thomas , Novi Quadrianto

Stochastic neurons and hard non-linearities can be useful for a number of reasons in deep learning models, but in many cases they pose a challenging problem: how to estimate the gradient of a loss function with respect to the input of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-08-16 Yoshua Bengio , Nicholas Léonard , Aaron Courville

Algorithmic decision making process now affects many aspects of our lives. Standard tools for machine learning, such as classification and regression, are subject to the bias in data, and thus direct application of such off-the-shelf tools…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-16 Junpei Komiyama , Hajime Shimao

A wide range of machine learning applications such as privacy-preserving learning, algorithmic fairness, and domain adaptation/generalization among others, involve learning invariant representations of the data that aim to achieve two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Han Zhao , Chen Dan , Bryon Aragam , Tommi S. Jaakkola , Geoffrey J. Gordon , Pradeep Ravikumar

Neural networks are proven to be remarkably successful for classification and diagnosis in medical applications. However, the ambiguity in the decision-making process and the interpretability of the learned features is a matter of concern.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Ashkan Khakzar , Shadi Albarqouni , Nassir Navab

In this work, we perform unsupervised learning of representations by maximizing mutual information between an input and the output of a deep neural network encoder. Importantly, we show that structure matters: incorporating knowledge about…

This work proposes a novel privacy-preserving neural network feature representation to suppress the sensitive information of a learned space while maintaining the utility of the data. The new international regulation for personal data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Ruben Tolosana

Learning from demonstration is an effective method for human users to instruct desired robot behaviour. However, for most non-trivial tasks of practical interest, efficient learning from demonstration depends crucially on inductive bias in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Yordan Hristov , Daniel Angelov , Michael Burke , Alex Lascarides , Subramanian Ramamoorthy