English
Related papers

Related papers: MyESL: Sparse learning in molecular evolution and …

200 papers

Even though there is a plethora of research in Microarray gene expression data analysis, still, it poses challenges for researchers to effectively and efficiently analyze the large yet complex expression of genes. The feature (gene)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Mrutyunjaya Panda

With the exponential increase of the protein sequence databases over time, multiple-sequence alignment (MSA) methods, like PSI-BLAST, perform exhaustive and time-consuming database search to retrieve evolutionary information. The resulting…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-21 Issar Arab

Extreme learning machine (ELM) as a neural network algorithm has shown its good performance, such as fast speed, simple structure etc, but also, weak robustness is an unavoidable defect in original ELM for blended data. We present a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-24 Bo Han , Bo He , Rui Nian , Mengmeng Ma , Shujing Zhang , Minghui Li , Amaury Lendasse

In several applications, input samples are more naturally represented in terms of similarities between each other, rather than in terms of feature vectors. In these settings, machine-learning algorithms can become very computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Ambra Demontis , Marco Melis , Battista Biggio , Giorgio Fumera , Fabio Roli

Feature selection has been widely used to alleviate compute requirements during training, elucidate model interpretability, and improve model generalizability. We propose SLM -- Sparse Learnable Masks -- a canonical approach for end-to-end…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Yihe Dong , Sercan O. Arik

Much work has been done recently to make neural networks more interpretable, and one obvious approach is to arrange for the network to use only a subset of the available features. In linear models, Lasso (or $\ell_1$-regularized) regression…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-17 Ismael Lemhadri , Feng Ruan , Louis Abraham , Robert Tibshirani

Internal activations of diffusion models encode rich semantic information, but interpreting such representations remains challenging. While Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have shown promise in disentangling latent representations, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zhenghao He , Guangzhi Xiong , Boyang Wang , Sanchit Sinha , Aidong Zhang

Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) has achieved state-of-the-art performances on a wide range of tasks. Its outstanding performance is guaranteed by the long-term memory ability which matches the sequential data perfectly and the gating…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Shiwei Liu , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have recently emerged as a powerful tool for interpreting the internal representations of large language models (LLMs), revealing latent latent features with semantical meaning. This interpretability has also…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-11 Haoxiang Guan , Jiyan He , Jie Zhang

Evolution Strategies (ES) is a class of powerful black-box optimisation methods that are highly parallelisable and can handle non-differentiable and noisy objectives. However, na\"ive ES becomes prohibitively expensive at scale on GPUs due…

Conventional extreme learning machines solve a Moore-Penrose generalized inverse of hidden layer activated matrix and analytically determine the output weights to achieve generalized performance, by assuming the same loss from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Lei Zhang , David Zhang

A new model for evolving Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) is proposed in this paper. The model is based on the Multi Expression Programming (MEP) technique. Each MEP chromosome encodes an evolutionary pattern that is repeatedly used for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Mihai Oltean

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are a useful tool for uncovering human-interpretable features in the activations of large language models (LLMs). While some expect SAEs to find the true underlying features used by a model, our research shows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Gonçalo Paulo , Nora Belrose

Multitask learning can be effective when features useful in one task are also useful for other tasks, and the group lasso is a standard method for selecting a common subset of features. In this paper, we are interested in a less restrictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-25 Nikhil Rao , Christopher Cox , Robert Nowak , Timothy Rogers

In genomic analysis, biomarker discovery, image recognition, and other systems involving machine learning, input variables can often be organized into different groups by their source or semantic category. Eliminating some groups of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Beibin Li , Nicholas Nuechterlein , Erin Barney , Caitlin Hudac , Pamela Ventola , Linda Shapiro , Frederick Shic

Subtype Discovery consists in finding interpretable and consistent sub-parts of a dataset, which are also relevant to a certain supervised task. From a mathematical point of view, this can be defined as a clustering task driven by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-06 Robin Louiset , Pietro Gori , Benoit Dufumier , Josselin Houenou , Antoine Grigis , Edouard Duchesnay

The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) for linear regression exploits the geometric interplay of the $\ell_2$-data error objective and the $\ell_1$-norm constraint to arbitrarily select sparse models. Guiding this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-10 Anastasios Kyrillidis , Volkan Cevher

This paper presents EASE (Effortless Algorithmic Solution Evolution), an open-source and fully modular framework for iterative algorithmic solution generation leveraging large language models (LLMs). EASE integrates generation, testing,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Adam Viktorin , Tomas Kadavy , Jozef Kovac , Michal Pluhacek , Roman Senkerik

This paper presents a novel projection-based adaptive algorithm for sparse signal and system identification. The sequentially observed data are used to generate an equivalent sequence of closed convex sets, namely hyperslabs. Each hyperslab…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Yannis Kopsinis , Konstantinos Slavakis , Sergios Theodoridis

Although the sparse multinomial logistic regression (SMLR) has provided a useful tool for sparse classification, it suffers from inefficacy in dealing with high dimensional features and manually set initial regressor values. This has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Faxian Cao , Zhijing Yang , Jinchang Ren , Wing-Kuen Ling