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Inferring individualised treatment effects from observational data can unlock the potential for targeted interventions. It is, however, hard to infer these effects from observational data. One major problem that can arise is covariate shift…

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Tree-based models are often robust to uninformative features and can accurately capture non-smooth, complex decision boundaries. Consequently, they often outperform neural network-based models on tabular datasets at a significantly lower…

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A method for the local and global interpretation of a black-box model on the basis of the well-known generalized additive models is proposed. It can be viewed as an extension or a modification of the algorithm using the neural additive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Andrei V. Konstantinov , Lev V. Utkin

Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT) has achieved remarkable success in a wide variety of applications. The split finding algorithm, which determines the tree construction process, is one of the most crucial components of GBDT. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Zheyu Zhang , Tianping Zhang , Jian Li

Inferring causal relationships from observational data is crucial when experiments are costly or infeasible. Additive noise models (ANMs) enable unique directed acyclic graph (DAG) identification, but existing sample-efficient ANM methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Sujai Hiremath , Promit Ghosal , Kyra Gan

Tree-based methods are popular machine learning techniques used in various fields. In this work, we review their foundations and a general framework the importance sampled learning ensemble (ISLE) that accelerates their fitting process.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-02 Yinuo Zeng

We have previously presented the idea of how complex multimodal information could be represented in our brains in a compressed form, following mechanisms similar to those employed in machine learning tools, like autoencoders. In this short…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-17 Jesus Marco de Lucas , Maria Peña Fernandez , Lara Lloret Iglesias

Multi-modal fusion is crucial for Internet of Things (IoT) perception, widely deployed in smart homes, intelligent transport, industrial automation, and healthcare. However, existing systems often face challenges: high model complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Weiqi Yang , Xu Zhou , Jingfu Guan , Hao Du , Tianyu Bai

A mixed data frame (MDF) is a table collecting categorical, numerical and count observations. The use of MDF is widespread in statistics and the applications are numerous from abundance data in ecology to recommender systems. In many cases,…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-03-27 Geneviève Robin , Olga Klopp , Julie Josse , Éric Moulines , Robert Tibshirani

We consider the basic problem of learning Single-Index Models with respect to the square loss under the Gaussian distribution in the presence of adversarial label noise. Our main contribution is the first computationally efficient algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis , Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas

Gaussian Graphical Models (GGMs) have wide-ranging applications in machine learning and the natural and social sciences. In most of the settings in which they are applied, the number of observed samples is much smaller than the dimension…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Jonathan Kelner , Frederic Koehler , Raghu Meka , Ankur Moitra

We introduce Action-Inspired Generative Models (AGMs), a dual-network generative framework motivated by the observation that existing bridge-matching methods assign uniform regression weight to every stochastic transition in the transport…

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We continue to study (see arXiv:2401.08618, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.08618) a renewal equation $\phi(t)=\frak F\phi_t$ proposed in [C. Barril et al., J. Math. Biology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-024-02084-x] to model trees…

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We study preferential attachment (PA) trees with general attachment functions. PA suggests an intuitive monotonicity: if high-degree vertices are rewarded more strongly, then the resulting tree should become shallower. We examine this…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Christian Mönch

This paper presents a novel neural network training approach for faster convergence and better generalization abilities in deep reinforcement learning. Particularly, we focus on the enhancement of training and evaluation performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Mohammed Sharafath Abdul Hameed , Gavneet Singh Chadha , Andreas Schwung , Steven X. Ding

Cardinality estimation is a key component of database query optimization. Recent studies have demonstrated that learned cardinality estimation techniques can surpass traditional methods in accuracy. However, a significant barrier to their…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Lyu Yi , Weiqi Feng , Yuanbiao Wang , Yuhong Kan

Thul et al. (2020) called attention to problems that arise when chronometric experiments implementing specific factorial designs are analysed with the generalized additive mixed model (GAMM), using factor smooths to capture trial-to-trial…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-11-19 R. Harald Baayen , Matteo Fasiolo , Simon Wood , Yu-Ying Chuang

Retraining a model using its own predictions together with the original, potentially noisy labels is a well-known strategy for improving the model performance. While prior works have demonstrated the benefits of specific heuristic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Adel Javanmard , Rudrajit Das , Alessandro Epasto , Vahab Mirrokni

Behavior Trees (BTs) were invented as a tool to enable modular AI in computer games, but have received an increasing amount of attention in the robotics community in the last decade. With rising demands on agent AI complexity, game…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Matteo Iovino , Edvards Scukins , Jonathan Styrud , Petter Ögren , Christian Smith

An important technique to explore a black-box machine learning (ML) model is called SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanation). SHAP values decompose predictions into contributions of the features in a fair way. We will show that for a boosted…

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