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cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

AutoDrop: Training Deep Learning Models with Automatic Learning Rate Drop

Yunfei Teng, Jing Wang, Anna Choromanska

Modern deep learning (DL) architectures are trained using variants of the SGD algorithm that is run with a defined learning rate schedule, i.e., the learning ra…

cs.LG2021

Quantile Filtered Imitation Learning

David Brandfonbrener, William F. Whitney, Rajesh Ranganath +1

We introduce quantile filtered imitation learning (QFIL), a novel policy improvement operator designed for offline reinforcement learning. QFIL performs policy improvement by runni…

cs.LG2021

Optimizing High-Dimensional Physics Simulations via Composite Bayesian Optimization

Wesley Maddox, Qing Feng, Max Balandat

Physical simulation-based optimization is a common task in science and engineering. Many such simulations produce image- or tensor-based outputs where the desired objective is a fu…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

A Simple and Fast Baseline for Tuning Large XGBoost Models

Sanyam Kapoor, Valerio Perrone

XGBoost, a scalable tree boosting algorithm, has proven effective for many prediction tasks of practical interest, especially using tabular datasets. Hyperparameter tuning can furt…

cs.LG2021★ 21 cited

AlphaD3M: Machine Learning Pipeline Synthesis

Iddo Drori, Yamuna Krishnamurthy, Remi Rampin +5

We introduce AlphaD3M, an automatic machine learning (AutoML) system based on meta reinforcement learning using sequence models with self play. AlphaD3M is based on edit operations…

cs.LG2021

Fairness-aware Online Price Discrimination with Nonparametric Demand Models

Xi Chen, Jiameng Lyu, Xuan Zhang +1

Price discrimination, which refers to the strategy of setting different prices for different customer groups, has been widely used in online retailing. Although it helps boost the…

cs.LG2021

Inverse-Weighted Survival Games

Xintian Han, Mark Goldstein, Aahlad Puli +3

Deep models trained through maximum likelihood have achieved state-of-the-art results for survival analysis. Despite this training scheme, practitioners evaluate models under other…

cs.LG2021★ 4 cited

Dynamic population-based meta-learning for multi-agent communication with natural language

Abhinav Gupta, Marc Lanctot, Angeliki Lazaridou

In this work, our goal is to train agents that can coordinate with seen, unseen as well as human partners in a multi-agent communication environment involving natural language. Pre…

cs.LG2021★ 29 cited

Cramér-Rao bound-informed training of neural networks for quantitative MRI

Xiaoxia Zhang, Quentin Duchemin, Kangning Liu +4

Neural networks are increasingly used to estimate parameters in quantitative MRI, in particular in magnetic resonance fingerprinting. Their advantages over the gold standard non-li…

cs.LG2021★ 20 cited

TEMGNet: Deep Transformer-based Decoding of Upperlimb sEMG for Hand Gestures Recognition

Elahe Rahimian, Soheil Zabihi, Amir Asif +3

There has been a surge of recent interest in Machine Learning (ML), particularly Deep Neural Network (DNN)-based models, to decode muscle activities from surface Electromyography (…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Vitruvion: A Generative Model of Parametric CAD Sketches

Ari Seff, Wenda Zhou, Nick Richardson +1

Parametric computer-aided design (CAD) tools are the predominant way that engineers specify physical structures, from bicycle pedals to airplanes to printed circuit boards. The key…

cs.LG2021★ 16 cited

Understanding Failures in Out-of-Distribution Detection with Deep Generative Models

Lily H. Zhang, Mark Goldstein, Rajesh Ranganath

Deep generative models (DGMs) seem a natural fit for detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs, but such models have been shown to assign higher probabilities or densities to OOD…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

Sisyphus: A Cautionary Tale of Using Low-Degree Polynomial Activations in Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning

Karthik Garimella, Nandan Kumar Jha, Brandon Reagen

Privacy concerns in client-server machine learning have given rise to private inference (PI), where neural inference occurs directly on encrypted inputs. PI protects clients' perso…

cs.LG2021★ 4 cited

Connectivity Matters: Neural Network Pruning Through the Lens of Effective Sparsity

Artem Vysogorets, Julia Kempe

Neural network pruning is a fruitful area of research with surging interest in high sparsity regimes. Benchmarking in this domain heavily relies on faithful representation of the s…

cs.LG2021★ 6 cited

Disaggregated Interventions to Reduce Inequality

Lucius E. J. Bynum, Joshua R. Loftus, Julia Stoyanovich

A significant body of research in the data sciences considers unfair discrimination against social categories such as race or gender that could occur or be amplified as a result of…

cs.LG2021

Joining datasets via data augmentation in the label space for neural networks

Jake Zhao, Mingfeng Ou, Linji Xue +3

Most, if not all, modern deep learning systems restrict themselves to a single dataset for neural network training and inference. In this article, we are interested in systematic w…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Bandit Modeling of Map Selection in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Guido Petri, Michael H. Stanley, Alec B. Hon +3

Many esports use a pick and ban process to define the parameters of a match before it starts. In Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CSGO) matches, two teams first pick and ban maps,…

cs.LG2021★ 12 cited

On-Policy Deep Reinforcement Learning for the Average-Reward Criterion

Yiming Zhang, Keith W. Ross

We develop theory and algorithms for average-reward on-policy Reinforcement Learning (RL). We first consider bounding the difference of the long-term average reward for two policie…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

SKIing on Simplices: Kernel Interpolation on the Permutohedral Lattice for Scalable Gaussian Processes

Sanyam Kapoor, Marc Finzi, Ke Alexander Wang +1

State-of-the-art methods for scalable Gaussian processes use iterative algorithms, requiring fast matrix vector multiplies (MVMs) with the covariance kernel. The Structured Kernel…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Scalable Variational Gaussian Processes via Harmonic Kernel Decomposition

Shengyang Sun, Jiaxin Shi, Andrew Gordon Wilson +1

We introduce a new scalable variational Gaussian process approximation which provides a high fidelity approximation while retaining general applicability. We propose the harmonic k…

cs.LG2021

Mode recovery in neural autoregressive sequence modeling

Ilia Kulikov, Sean Welleck, Kyunghyun Cho

Despite its wide use, recent studies have revealed unexpected and undesirable properties of neural autoregressive sequence models trained with maximum likelihood, such as an unreas…

cs.LG2021★ 9 cited

Bayesian Optimization with High-Dimensional Outputs

Wesley J. Maddox, Maximilian Balandat, Andrew Gordon Wilson +1

Bayesian Optimization is a sample-efficient black-box optimization procedure that is typically applied to problems with a small number of independent objectives. However, in practi…

cs.LG2021★ 16 cited

Offline RL Without Off-Policy Evaluation

David Brandfonbrener, William F. Whitney, Rajesh Ranganath +1

Most prior approaches to offline reinforcement learning (RL) have taken an iterative actor-critic approach involving off-policy evaluation. In this paper we show that simply doing…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Compressing Heavy-Tailed Weight Matrices for Non-Vacuous Generalization Bounds

John Y. Shin

Heavy-tailed distributions have been studied in statistics, random matrix theory, physics, and econometrics as models of correlated systems, among other domains. Further, heavy-tai…