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Weight-ensembles are formed when the parameters of multiple neural networks are directly averaged into a single model. They have demonstrated generalization capability in-distribution (ID) and out-of-distribution (OOD) which is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Alex Rojas , David Alvarez-Melis

Ensemble learning is a general technique to improve accuracy in machine learning. However, the heavy computation of a ConvNets ensemble limits its usage in deep learning. In this paper, we present Group Ensemble Network (GENet), an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Hao Chen , Abhinav Shrivastava

We investigate ensemble methods for prediction in an online setting. Unlike all the literature in ensembling, for the first time, we introduce a new approach using a meta learner that effectively combines the base model predictions via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Arda Fazla , Mustafa Enes Aydin , Orhun Tamyigit , Suleyman Serdar Kozat

Training multiple deep neural networks (DNNs) and averaging their outputs is a simple way to improve the predictive performance. Nevertheless, the multiplied training cost prevents this ensemble method to be practical and efficient. Several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Feng Wang , Guoyizhe Wei , Qiao Liu , Jinxiang Ou , Xian Wei , Hairong Lv

Ensembles of machine learning models have been well established as a powerful method of improving performance over a single model. Traditionally, ensembling algorithms train their base learners independently or sequentially with the goal of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Alan Jeffares , Tennison Liu , Jonathan Crabbé , Mihaela van der Schaar

Monte Carlo (MC) dropout is a simple and efficient ensembling method that can improve the accuracy and confidence calibration of high-capacity deep neural network models. However, MC dropout is not as effective as more compute-intensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Zhilu Zhang , Vianne R. Gao , Mert R. Sabuncu

Ensemble learning is a methodology that integrates multiple DNN learners for improving prediction performance of individual learners. Diversity is greater when the errors of the ensemble prediction is more uniformly distributed. Greater…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Ling Liu , Wenqi Wei , Ka-Ho Chow , Margaret Loper , Emre Gursoy , Stacey Truex , Yanzhao Wu

Finetuning is a common practice widespread across different communities to adapt pretrained models to particular tasks. Text classification is one of these tasks for which many pretrained models are available. On the other hand, ensembles…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Sebastian Pineda Arango , Maciej Janowski , Lennart Purucker , Arber Zela , Frank Hutter , Josif Grabocka

In recent times, with the exception of sporadic cases, the trend in Computer Vision is to achieve minor improvements compared to considerable increases in complexity. To reverse this trend, we propose a novel method to boost image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Antonio Bruno , Davide Moroni , Massimo Martinelli

Model ensembling is a well-established technique for improving the performance of machine learning models. Conventionally, this involves averaging the output distributions of multiple models and selecting the most probable label. This idea…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiale Fu , Yuchu Jiang , Peijun Wu , Chonghan Liu , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Xu Yang

A memory efficient approach to ensembling neural networks is to share most weights among the ensembled models by means of a single reference network. We refer to this strategy as Embedded Ensembling (EE); its particular examples are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-25 Maksim Velikanov , Roman Kail , Ivan Anokhin , Roman Vashurin , Maxim Panov , Alexey Zaytsev , Dmitry Yarotsky

Artificial neural networks have been successfully applied to a variety of machine learning tasks, including image recognition, semantic segmentation, and machine translation. However, few studies fully investigated ensembles of artificial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-07 Cheng Ju , Aurélien Bibaut , Mark J. van der Laan

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are prone to overfitting and hence have high variance. Overfitted networks do not perform well for a new data instance. So instead of using a single DNN as classifier we propose an ensemble of seven independent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Anmol Jain , Aishwary Kumar , Seba Susan

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown remarkable performance in general object recognition tasks. In this paper, we propose a new model called EnsNet which is composed of one base CNN and multiple Fully Connected SubNetworks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Daiki Hirata , Norikazu Takahashi

Ensembling has proven to be a powerful technique for boosting model performance, uncertainty estimation, and robustness in supervised learning. Advances in self-supervised learning (SSL) enable leveraging large unlabeled corpora for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yangjun Ruan , Saurabh Singh , Warren Morningstar , Alexander A. Alemi , Sergey Ioffe , Ian Fischer , Joshua V. Dillon

Mixture of experts method is a neural network based ensemble learning that has great ability to improve the overall classification accuracy. This method is based on the divide and conquer principle, in which the problem space is divided…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Laleh Armi , Elham Abbasi , Jamal Zarepour-Ahmadabadi

In the low-data regime, it is difficult to train good supervised models from scratch. Instead practitioners turn to pre-trained models, leveraging transfer learning. Ensembling is an empirically and theoretically appealing way to construct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Basil Mustafa , Carlos Riquelme , Joan Puigcerver , André Susano Pinto , Daniel Keysers , Neil Houlsby

Traditional machine learning approaches may fail to perform satisfactorily when dealing with complex data. In this context, the importance of data mining evolves w.r.t. building an efficient knowledge discovery and mining framework.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Abdul Mueed Hafiz , Ghulam Mohiuddin Bhat

Automated Machine Learning with ensembling (or AutoML with ensembling) seeks to automatically build ensembles of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to achieve qualitative predictions. Ensemble of DNNs are well known to avoid over-fitting but they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Pierrick Pochelu , Serge G. Petiton , Bruno Conche

We present the checkpoint ensembles method that can learn ensemble models on a single training process. Although checkpoint ensembles can be applied to any parametric iterative learning technique, here we focus on neural networks. Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Hugh Chen , Scott Lundberg , Su-In Lee