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We present TabPFN, a trained Transformer that can do supervised classification for small tabular datasets in less than a second, needs no hyperparameter tuning and is competitive with state-of-the-art classification methods. TabPFN performs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Noah Hollmann , Samuel Müller , Katharina Eggensperger , Frank Hutter

We present a computational framework for efficient learning, sampling, and distribution of general Bayesian posterior distributions. The framework leverages a machine learning approach for the construction of normalizing flows for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-10-10 Yukari Yamauchi , Landon Buskirk , Pablo Giuliani , Kyle Godbey

Bayesian mixture models are widely used for clustering of high-dimensional data with appropriate uncertainty quantification. However, as the dimension of the observations increases, posterior inference often tends to favor too many or too…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-22 Noirrit Kiran Chandra , Antonio Canale , David B. Dunson

Transductive Few-Shot learning has gained increased attention nowadays considering the cost of data annotations along with the increased accuracy provided by unlabelled samples in the domain of few shot. Especially in Few-Shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yuqing Hu , Stéphane Pateux , Vincent Gripon

In unsupervised feature learning, sample specificity based methods ignore the inter-class information, which deteriorates the discriminative capability of representation models. Clustering based methods are error-prone to explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Yifei Zhang , Chang Liu , Yu Zhou , Wei Wang , Weiping Wang , Qixiang Ye

Variational inference has been widely used in machine learning literature to fit various Bayesian models. In network analysis, this method has been successfully applied to solve the community detection problems. Although these results are…

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Clustered Federated Learning (CFL) improves performance under non-IID client heterogeneity by clustering clients and training one model per cluster, thereby balancing between a global model and fully personalized models. However, most CFL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Mariona Jaramillo-Civill , Peng Wu , Pau Closas

Exemplar-based clustering methods have been shown to produce state-of-the-art results on a number of synthetic and real-world clustering problems. They are appealing because they offer computational benefits over latent-mean models and can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Daniel Tarlow , Richard S. Zemel , Brendan J. Frey

Cluster sampling is common in survey practice, and the corresponding inference has been predominantly design-based. We develop a Bayesian framework for cluster sampling and account for the design effect in the outcome modeling. We consider…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-24 Susanna Makela , Yajuan Si , Andrew Gelman

Transformers perform inference by iteratively transforming token representations across layers. This layerwise computation has been studied empirically, and recent mean-field theories of Transformer dynamics explain how attention can drive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Noboru Isobe , Daisuke Inoue , Masaaki Imaizumi

Clustering is one of the fundamental tasks in computer vision and pattern recognition. Recently, deep clustering methods (algorithms based on deep learning) have attracted wide attention with their impressive performance. Most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Yanhai Gan , Xinghui Dong , Huiyu Zhou , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong

Amortized inference promises fast test-time Bayesian inference, but existing methods are inherently tied to fixed models. Extending amortization to unseen models typically requires retraining or costly test-time finetuning. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Joohwan Ko , Justin Domke

Pre-training convolutional neural networks with weakly-supervised and self-supervised strategies is becoming increasingly popular for several computer vision tasks. However, due to the lack of strong discriminative signals, these learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Xueting Yan , Ishan Misra , Abhinav Gupta , Deepti Ghadiyaram , Dhruv Mahajan

Deep clustering has the potential to learn a strong representation and hence better clustering performance compared to traditional clustering methods such as $k$-means and spectral clustering. However, this strong representation learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Hongjing Zhang , Ian Davidson

We introduce a novel framework for uncertainty quantification in clustering that combines martingale posterior distributions with density-based clustering. Unlike classical model-based approaches, which define clusters at the latent level…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-20 Nicola Bariletto , Stephen G. Walker

Compared to point estimates calculated by standard neural networks, Bayesian neural networks (BNN) provide probability distributions over the output predictions and model parameters, i.e., the weights. Training the weight distribution of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Philipp Wagner , Xinyang Wu , Marco F. Huber

$\alpha$-clustering structure is a significant topic in light nuclei. A Bayesian convolutional neural network (BCNN) is applied to classify initial non-clustered and clustered configurations, namely Woods-Saxon distribution and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-13 Junjie He , Wan-Bing He , Yu-Gang Ma , Song Zhang

Deep feedforward neural networks (DFNNs) are a powerful tool for functional approximation. We describe flexible versions of generalized linear and generalized linear mixed models incorporating basis functions formed by a DFNN. The…

Computation · Statistics 2018-05-28 Minh-Ngoc Tran , Nghia Nguyen , David Nott , Robert Kohn

Bayesian models quantify uncertainty and facilitate optimal decision-making in downstream applications. For most models, however, practitioners are forced to use approximate inference techniques that lead to sub-optimal decisions due to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-12 Tomasz Kuśmierczyk , Joseph Sakaya , Arto Klami