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Learning from limited data is challenging because data scarcity leads to a poor generalization of the trained model. A classical global pooled representation will probably lose useful local information. Many few-shot learning methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Haoxing Chen , Huaxiong Li , Yaohui Li , Chunlin Chen

Modeling multivariate time series as temporal signals over a (possibly dynamic) graph is an effective representational framework that allows for developing models for time series analysis. In fact, discrete sequences of graphs can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Ivan Marisca , Andrea Cini , Cesare Alippi

Time series forecasting is traditionally dominated by sequence-based architectures such as recurrent neural networks and attention mechanisms, which process all time steps uniformly and often incur substantial computational cost. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 K. A. Shahriar

Time series analysis is a field of data science which is interested in analyzing sequences of numerical values ordered in time. Time series are particularly interesting because they allow us to visualize and understand the evolution of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Hassan Ismail Fawaz

In this thesis we discuss machine learning methods performing automated variable selection for learning sparse predictive models. There are multiple reasons for promoting sparsity in the predictive models. By relying on a limited set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Magda Gregorova

Sequence-to-sequence models are a powerful workhorse of NLP. Most variants employ a softmax transformation in both their attention mechanism and output layer, leading to dense alignments and strictly positive output probabilities. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Ben Peters , Vlad Niculae , André F. T. Martins

Time series data have grown at an explosive rate in numerous domains and have stimulated a surge of time series modeling research. A comprehensive comparison of different time series models, for a considered data analytics task, provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Qiyao Wang , Ahmed Farahat , Chetan Gupta , Shuai Zheng

Transformers are powerful sequence models, but require time and memory that grows quadratically with the sequence length. In this paper we introduce sparse factorizations of the attention matrix which reduce this to $O(n \sqrt{n})$. We also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Rewon Child , Scott Gray , Alec Radford , Ilya Sutskever

In recent years, there have been unprecedented technological advances in sensor technology, and sensors have become more affordable than ever. Thus, sensor-driven data collection is increasingly becoming an attractive and practical option…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Alireza Abdoli

Identifying trendline visualizations with desired patterns is a common and fundamental data exploration task. Existing visual analytics tools offer limited flexibility and expressiveness for such tasks, especially when the pattern of…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Tarique Siddiqui , Zesheng Wang , Paul Luh , Karrie Karahalios , Aditya Parameswaran

Outstanding achievements of graph neural networks for spatiotemporal time series analysis show that relational constraints introduce an effective inductive bias into neural forecasting architectures. Often, however, the relational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Andrea Cini , Daniele Zambon , Cesare Alippi

Understanding 3D object shapes necessitates shape representation by object parts abstracted from results of instance and semantic segmentation. Promising shape representations enable computers to interpret a shape with meaningful parts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jiaxin Li , Hongxing Wang , Jiawei Tan , Zhilong Ou , Junsong Yuan

This paper formulates the problem of learning discriminative features (\textit{i.e.,} segments) from networked time series data considering the linked information among time series. For example, social network users are considered to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Haishuai Wang , Jia Wu , Peng Zhang , Chengqi Zhang

Sparse expert models are a thirty-year old concept re-emerging as a popular architecture in deep learning. This class of architecture encompasses Mixture-of-Experts, Switch Transformers, Routing Networks, BASE layers, and others, all with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 William Fedus , Jeff Dean , Barret Zoph

This paper presents a novel approach to learn and detect distinctive regions on 3D shapes. Unlike previous works, which require labeled data, our method is unsupervised. We conduct the analysis on point sets sampled from 3D shapes, then…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Xianzhi Li , Lequan Yu , Chi-Wing Fu , Daniel Cohen-Or , Pheng-Ann Heng

Transformer-based models have become state-of-the-art tools in various machine learning tasks, including time series classification, yet their complexity makes understanding their internal decision-making challenging. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Matīss Kalnāre , Sofoklis Kitharidis , Thomas Bäck , Niki van Stein

This paper explores how to enhance existing masked time-series modeling by randomly dropping sub-sequence level patches of time series. On this basis, a simple yet effective method named DropPatch is proposed, which has two remarkable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-23 Tianyu Qiu , Yi Xie , Yun Xiong , Hao Niu , Xiaofeng Gao

Multivariate time series (MTS) classification is widely applied in fields such as industry, healthcare, and finance, aiming to extract key features from complex time series data for accurate decision-making and prediction. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mingsen Du , Meng Chen , Yongjian Li , Cun Ji , Shoushui Wei

Sparse sequences of neural spikes are posited to underlie aspects of working memory, motor production, and learning. Discovering these sequences in an unsupervised manner is a longstanding problem in statistical neuroscience. Promising…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-13 Alex H. Williams , Anthony Degleris , Yixin Wang , Scott W. Linderman

Self-supervised learning achieves superior performance in many domains by extracting useful representations from the unlabeled data. However, most of traditional self-supervised methods mainly focus on exploring the inter-sample structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Haoyi Fan , Fengbin Zhang , Yue Gao