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We introduce Variational Joint Embedding (VJE), a reconstruction-free latent-variable framework for non-contrastive self-supervised learning in representation space. VJE maximizes a symmetric conditional evidence lower bound (ELBO) on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Amin Oji , Paul Fieguth

Deep Ensembles, as a type of Bayesian Neural Networks, can be used to estimate uncertainty on the prediction of multiple neural networks by collecting votes from each network and computing the difference in those predictions. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Illia Oleksiienko , Alexandros Iosifidis

Model ensemble techniques often increase task performance in neural networks; however, they require increased time, memory, and management effort. In this study, we propose a novel method that replicates the effects of a model ensemble with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Ryosuke Kuwabara , Jun Suzuki , Hideki Nakayama

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse domains, but their training remains resource- and time-intensive, requiring massive compute power and careful orchestration of training procedures. Model…

Generative models and those with computationally intractable likelihoods are widely used to describe complex systems in the natural sciences, social sciences, and engineering. Fitting these models to data requires likelihood-free inference…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-04 Rui Zhang , Oksana A. Chkrebtii , Dongbin Xiu

In this paper, we present the design of error-resilient machine learning architectures by employing a distributed machine learning framework referred to as classifier ensemble (CE). CE combines several simple classifiers to obtain a strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Sai Zhang , Naresh Shanbhag

Consider making a prediction over new test data without any opportunity to learn from a training set of labelled data - instead given access to a set of expert models and their predictions alongside some limited information about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Alex J. Chan , Mihaela van der Schaar

Deep neural networks achieve impressive performance but remain difficult to interpret and control. We present SALVE (Sparse Autoencoder-Latent Vector Editing), a unified "discover, validate, and control" framework that bridges mechanistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Vegard Flovik

Learning algorithms that aggregate predictions from an ensemble of diverse base classifiers consistently outperform individual methods. Many of these strategies have been developed in a supervised setting, where the accuracy of each base…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-14 Mehmet Eren Ahsen , Robert Vogel , Gustavo Stolovitzky

Recently, deep learning has emerged as a promising tool for statistical downscaling, the set of methods for generating high-resolution climate fields from coarse low-resolution variables. Nevertheless, their ability to generalize to climate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Jose González-Abad , Jorge Baño-Medina

Machine learning has emerged as a promising approach to path loss prediction, yet its effectiveness often degrades when measurement data are scarce. To address this limitation, we propose an ensemble-based machine learning framework that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Ahmed P. Mohamed , Byunghyun Lee , Yaguang Zhang , Christopher R. Anderson , David J. Love , James V. Krogmeier

Partial differential equations (PDEs) govern a wide range of physical systems, but solving them efficiently remains a major challenge. The idea of a scientific foundation model (SciFM) is emerging as a promising tool for learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Amin Totounferoush , Serge Kotchourko , Michael W. Mahoney , Steffen Staab

Ensemble learning has gain attention in resent deep learning research as a way to further boost the accuracy and generalizability of deep neural network (DNN) models. Recent ensemble training method explores different training algorithms or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Jingchi Zhang , Huanrui Yang , Hai Li

In this study, a novel sparsity-driven weighted ensemble classifier (SDWEC) that improves classification accuracy and minimizes the number of classifiers is proposed. Using pre-trained classifiers, an ensemble in which base classifiers…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-25 Atilla Ozgur , Hamit Erdem , Fatih Nar

Dropout and similar stochastic neural network regularization methods are often interpreted as implicitly averaging over a large ensemble of models. We propose STE (stochastically trained ensemble) layers, which enhance the averaging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Alex Labach , Shahrokh Valaee

EnsembleSVM is a free software package containing efficient routines to perform ensemble learning with support vector machine (SVM) base models. It currently offers ensemble methods based on binary SVM models. Our implementation avoids…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-05 Marc Claesen , Frank De Smet , Johan Suykens , Bart De Moor

This work introduces a novel probabilistic deep learning technique called deep Gaussian mixture ensembles (DGMEs), which enables accurate quantification of both epistemic and aleatoric uncertainty. By assuming the data generating process…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-13 Yousef El-Laham , Niccolò Dalmasso , Elizabeth Fons , Svitlana Vyetrenko

Freezing the pre-trained backbone has become a standard paradigm to avoid overfitting in few-shot segmentation. In this paper, we rethink the paradigm and explore a new regime: {\em fine-tuning a small part of parameters in the backbone}.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yanpeng Sun , Qiang Chen , Xiangyu He , Jian Wang , Haocheng Feng , Junyu Han , Errui Ding , Jian Cheng , Zechao Li , Jingdong Wang

Structured Latent Attribute Models (SLAMs) are a family of discrete latent variable models widely used in education, psychology, and epidemiology to model multivariate categorical data. A SLAM assumes that multiple discrete latent…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-12 Yuqi Gu , Gongjun Xu

Imbalanced data distribution remains a critical challenge in sequential learning, leading models to easily recognize frequent categories while failing to detect minority classes adequately. The Mixture-of-Experts model offers a scalable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Ye Wang , Zixuan Wu , Lifeng Shen , Jiang Xie , Xiaoling Wang , Hong Yu , Guoyin Wang