English
Related papers

Related papers: Overcoming Saturation in Density Ratio Estimation …

200 papers

In this work we present a theoretical analysis of the convergence of the Wang-Landau algorithm [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2050 (2001)] which was introduced years ago to calculate the density of states in statistical models. We study the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. E. Belardinelli , V. D. Pereyra

Binary density ratio estimation (DRE), the problem of estimating the ratio $p_1/p_2$ given their empirical samples, provides the foundation for many state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms such as contrastive representation learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Lantao Yu , Yujia Jin , Stefano Ermon

In recent years, functional linear models have attracted growing attention in statistics and machine learning, with the aim of recovering the slope function or its functional predictor. This paper considers online regularized learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-28 Yuan Mao , Zheng-Chu Guo

Kernel density estimation and kernel regression are powerful but computationally expensive techniques: a direct evaluation of kernel density estimates at $M$ evaluation points given $N$ input sample points requires a quadratic…

Computation · Statistics 2020-02-18 Nicolas Langrené , Xavier Warin

Kernel density estimation is a key component of a wide variety of algorithms in machine learning, Bayesian inference, stochastic dynamics and signal processing. However, the unsupervised density estimation technique requires tuning a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sunia Tanweer , Firas A. Khasawneh

Randomized saturation designs are a family of designs which assign a possibly different treatment proportion to each cluster of a population at random. As a result, they generalize the well-known (stratified) completely randomized designs…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-21 Chencheng Cai , Jean Pouget-Abadie , Edoardo M. Airoldi

The density estimation is one of the core problems in statistics. Despite this, existing techniques like maximum likelihood estimation are computationally inefficient due to the intractability of the normalizing constant. For this reason an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Tsimboy Olga , Yermek Kapushev , Evgeny Burnaev , Ivan Oseledets

Recently, sparsity-based algorithms are proposed for super-resolution spectrum estimation. However, to achieve adequately high resolution in real-world signal analysis, the dictionary atoms have to be close to each other in frequency,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-05 Yiyuan She , Huanghuang Li , Jiangping Wang , Dapeng Wu

We propose layer saturation - a simple, online-computable method for analyzing the information processing in neural networks. First, we show that a layer's output can be restricted to the eigenspace of its variance matrix without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Mats L. Richter , Justin Shenk , Wolf Byttner , Anders Arpteg , Mikael Huss

Conditional density estimation is a general framework for solving various problems in machine learning. Among existing methods, non-parametric and/or kernel-based methods are often difficult to use on large datasets, while methods based on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-06 Hiroaki Sasaki , Aapo Hyvärinen

Density estimation in high-dimensional settings is an important and challenging statistical problem.Traditional methods based on kernel smoothing are inefficient in high dimensions due to the difficulties in specifying appropriate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-14 Ruitong Zhang , Ke Deng

There is growing body of learning problems for which it is natural to organize the parameters into matrix, so as to appropriately regularize the parameters under some matrix norm (in order to impose some more sophisticated prior knowledge).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-10-19 Sham M. Kakade , Shai Shalev-Shwartz , Ambuj Tewari

In the present paper we introduce new optimization algorithms for the task of density ratio estimation. More precisely, we consider extending the well-known KMM method using the construction of a suitable loss function, in order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Cristian Daniel Alecsa

We consider the problem of supervised learning with convex loss functions and propose a new form of iterative regularization based on the subgradient method. Unlike other regularization approaches, in iterative regularization no constraint…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-02 Junhong Lin , Lorenzo Rosasco , Ding-Xuan Zhou

The covariate shift is a challenging problem in supervised learning that results from the discrepancy between the training and test distributions. An effective approach which recently drew a considerable attention in the research community…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-27 Yun-Qian Miao , Ahmed K. Farahat , Mohamed S. Kamel

Existing training criteria in automatic speech recognition(ASR) permit the model to freely explore more than one time alignments between the feature and label sequences. In this paper, we use entropy to measure a model's uncertainty, i.e.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Ehsan Variani , Ke Wu , David Rybach , Cyril Allauzen , Michael Riley

In this work, we propose new objective functions to train deep neural network based density ratio estimators and apply it to a change point detection problem. Existing methods use linear combinations of kernels to approximate the density…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Haidar Khan , Lara Marcuse , Bülent Yener

Bayesian optimization has attracted huge attention from diverse research areas in science and engineering, since it is capable of efficiently finding a global optimum of an expensive-to-evaluate black-box function. In general, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jungtaek Kim

Estimating the score, i.e., the gradient of log density function, from a set of samples generated by an unknown distribution is a fundamental task in inference and learning of probabilistic models that involve flexible yet intractable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-01 Yuhao Zhou , Jiaxin Shi , Jun Zhu

Density-ratio estimation via classification is a cornerstone of unsupervised learning. It has provided the foundation for state-of-the-art methods in representation learning and generative modelling, with the number of use-cases continuing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-25 Benjamin Rhodes , Kai Xu , Michael U. Gutmann