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In this paper we provide improved running times and oracle complexities for approximately minimizing a submodular function. Our main result is a randomized algorithm, which given any submodular function defined on $n$-elements with range…

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Monitoring of streamed data to detect abnormal behaviour (variously known as event detection, anomaly detection, change detection, or outlier detection) underlies many applications of the Internet of Things. There, one often collects data…

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Evidential Deep Learning (EDL) is an emerging method for uncertainty estimation that provides reliable predictive uncertainty in a single forward pass, attracting significant attention. Grounded in subjective logic, EDL derives Dirichlet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Mengyuan Chen , Junyu Gao , Changsheng Xu

Learning group representation is a commonly concerned issue in tasks where the basic unit is a group, set, or sequence. Previously, the research community tries to tackle it by aggregating the elements in a group based on an indicator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Manyuan Zhang , Guanglu Song , Hang Zhou , Yu Liu

High-dimensional datasets often contain multiple meaningful clusterings in different subspaces. For example, objects can be clustered either by color, weight, or size, revealing different interpretations of the given dataset. A variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Collin Leiber , Dominik Mautz , Claudia Plant , Christian Böhm

Data reduction is a fundamental challenge of modern technology, where classical statistical methods are not applicable because of computational limitations. We consider multiple linear regression for an extraordinarily large number of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-30 Torsten Glemser , Rainer Schwabe

This is an up-to-date introduction to and overview of the Minimum Description Length (MDL) Principle, a theory of inductive inference that can be applied to general problems in statistics, machine learning and pattern recognition. While MDL…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-19 Peter Grünwald , Teemu Roos

This work studies the theoretical rules of feature selection in linear discriminant analysis (LDA), and a new feature selection method is proposed for sparse linear discriminant analysis. An $l_1$ minimization method is used to select the…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-04-23 Cheng Wang , Longbing Cao , Baiqi Miao

This Generalized Discriminant Analysis (GDA) has provided an extremely powerful approach to extracting non linear features. The network traffic data provided for the design of intrusion detection system always are large with ineffective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-11-05 Shailendra Singh , Sanjay Silakari

We initiate the probabilistic analysis of linear programming (LP) decoding of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Specifically, we show that for a random LDPC code ensemble, the linear programming decoder of Feldman et al. succeeds in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Constantinos Daskalakis , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Richard M. Karp , Martin J. Wainwright

Vector Symbolic Architecture (VSA) is emerging in machine learning due to its efficiency, but they are hindered by issues of hyperdimensionality and accuracy. As a promising mitigation, the Low-Dimensional Computing (LDC) method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shijin Duan , Yejia Liu , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Rao Kompella , Shaolei Ren , Xiaolin Xu

This paper introduces a new algorithm for the fundamental problem of generating a random integer from a discrete probability distribution using a source of independent and unbiased random coin flips. We prove that this algorithm, which we…

Computation · Statistics 2020-07-03 Feras A. Saad , Cameron E. Freer , Martin C. Rinard , Vikash K. Mansinghka

Stochastic Boolean networks, or more generally, stochastic discrete networks, are an important class of computational models for molecular interaction networks. The stochasticity stems from the updating schedule. Standard updating schedules…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-09 David Murrugarra , Jacob Miller , Alex Mueller

Software methods introduced for automated design of approximate implementations of arithmetic circuits rely on fast and accurate evaluation of approximate candidate implementations. To accelerate the evaluation of circuit error, we propose…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Vojtech Mrazek

Recently in [1, 2], Ali-Akbar Bromideh introduced the Kullback-Leibler Divergence (KLD) test statistic in discrim- inating between two models. It was found that the Ratio Minimized Kulback-Leibler Divergence (RMKLD) works better than the…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-02 Papa Ngom , Jean de Dieu Nkurunziza , Carlos Simplice Ogouyandjou

Effective properties of materials with random heterogeneous structures are typically determined by homogenising the mechanical quantity of interest in a window of observation. The entire problem setting encompasses the solution of a local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Felipe Rocha , Simone Deparis , Pablo Antolin , Annalisa Buffa

Factor analysis, a classical multivariate statistical technique is popularly used as a fundamental tool for dimensionality reduction in statistics, econometrics and data science. Estimation is often carried out via the Maximum Likelihood…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-19 Koulik Khamaru , Rahul Mazumder

Deep Learning (DL) systems are key enablers for engineering intelligent applications due to their ability to solve complex tasks such as image recognition and machine translation. Nevertheless, using DL systems in safety- and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Simos Gerasimou , Hasan Ferit Eniser , Alper Sen , Alper Cakan

In the classical non-adaptive group testing setup, pools of items are tested together, and the main goal of a recovery algorithm is to identify the "complete defective set" given the outcomes of different group tests. In contrast, the main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Abhay Sharma , Chandra R. Murthy

A determinantal point process (DPP) is a probabilistic model of set diversity compactly parameterized by a positive semi-definite kernel matrix. To fit a DPP to a given task, we would like to learn the entries of its kernel matrix by…

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