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We propose a new unsupervised anomaly detection method based on the sliced-Wasserstein distance for training data selection in machine learning approaches. Our filtering technique is interesting for decision-making pipelines deploying…

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Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) provides a framework for training machine learning models that are able to perform well on a collection of related data distributions (the "uncertainty set"). This is done by solving a min-max…

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Deep learning algorithms have made many breakthroughs and have various applications in real life. Computational resources become a bottleneck as the data and complexity of the deep learning pipeline increases. In this paper, we propose…

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We propose a framework for distributed robust statistical learning on {\em big contaminated data}. The Distributed Robust Learning (DRL) framework can reduce the computational time of traditional robust learning methods by several orders of…

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The pyLOT library offers a Python implementation of linearized optimal transport (LOT) techniques and methods to use in downstream tasks. The pipeline embeds probability distributions into a Hilbert space via the Optimal Transport maps from…

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We propose REpresentation-Aware Distributionally Robust Estimation (READ), a novel framework for Wasserstein distributionally robust learning that accounts for predictive representations when guarding against distributional shifts. Unlike…

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The standard quadratic optimization problem (StQP) consists of minimizing a quadratic form over the standard simplex. Without assuming convexity or concavity of the quadratic form, the StQP is NP-hard. This problem has many interesting…

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Issued from Optimal Transport, the Wasserstein distance has gained importance in Machine Learning due to its appealing geometrical properties and the increasing availability of efficient approximations. In this work, we consider the problem…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-21 Guillaume Staerman , Pierre Laforgue , Pavlo Mozharovskyi , Florence d'Alché-Buc

Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization estimators are obtained as solutions of min-max problems in which the statistician selects a parameter minimizing the worst-case loss among all probability models within a certain distance…

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kooplearn is a machine-learning library that implements linear, kernel, and deep-learning estimators of dynamical operators and their spectral decompositions. kooplearn can model both discrete-time evolution operators (Koopman/Transfer) and…

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As model sizes in machine learning continue to scale, distributed training is necessary to accommodate model weights within each device and to reduce training time. However, this comes with the expense of increased communication overhead…

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Recent foundation models are capable of handling multiple tasks and multiple data modalities with the unified base model structure and several specialized model components. However, efficient training of such multi-task (MT) multi-modal…

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Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problems are increasingly seen as a viable method to train machine learning models for improved model generalization. These min-max formulations, however, are more difficult to solve. We therefore…

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Analysis of vision-and-language models has revealed their brittleness under linguistic phenomena such as paraphrasing, negation, textual entailment, and word substitutions with synonyms or antonyms. While data augmentation techniques have…

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In this paper, we investigate distributionally robust model order reduction for linear, discrete-time, time-invariant systems. The external input is assumed to follow an uncertain distribution within a Wasserstein ambiguity set. We begin by…

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