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most citedVariational Inference based on Robust Divergences

33 citations · 42 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

stat.ML2026

Information-Theoretic Generalization for Set-Input Optimization-Valued Objectives

Futoshi Futami, Masahiro Fujisawa

Modern machine learning is increasingly evaluated using criteria such as multicalibration, CVaR, and Cressie-Read DRO, which target subgroup reliability, tail risk, and distributio…

hep-th2026

Nambu's Dynamics, Strings and Gravitized Quantum Theory

Tristan Hübsch, Djordje Minic

In this article we present a new view on string theory that is rooted in quantum foundations extended to the domain of quantum gravity in the form of gravitized quantum theory, in…

cs.LG2026

ProbabilityBench: Model Evaluation and Calibration with Exact Ground-Truth Uncertainty

Yuyang Dai, Yuting Tang, Futoshi Futami +1

Evaluating model uncertainty on real-world data is challenging because each instance provides only a single observed label, leaving true conditional class probabilities unknown. To…

stat.ML2026

Hierarchical Utility Calibration for Structured Multiclass Decisions

Futoshi Futami, Jerry Huang, Ichiro Takeuchi

In multiclass probabilistic prediction, Utility Calibration (UC), which focuses auditing on specified utilities, has recently received attention as a way to guarantee downstream de…

stat.ML2026

Information-Theoretic Generalization Bounds for Sequential Decision Making

Futoshi Futami, Masahiro Fujisawa

Information-theoretic generalization bounds based on the supersample construction are a central tool for algorithm-dependent generalization analysis in the batch i.i.d. setting. Ho…

stat.ML2026

Unified Approach for Weakly Supervised Multicalibration

Futoshi Futami, Takashi Ishida

Multicalibration requires predicted scores to agree with label probabilities across rich families of subgroups and score-dependent tests, but existing methods require clean input-l…

cs.LG2026

Robust and Computationally Efficient Linear Contextual Bandits under Adversarial Corruption and Heavy-Tailed Noise

Naoto Tani, Futoshi Futami

We study linear contextual bandits under adversarial corruption and heavy-tailed noise with finite -th moments for some . Existing work that addresses both adver…

stat.ML2025

Data-driven Projection Generation for Efficiently Solving Heterogeneous Quadratic Programming Problems

Tomoharu Iwata, Futoshi Futami

We propose a data-driven framework for efficiently solving quadratic programming (QP) problems by reducing the number of variables in high-dimensional QPs using instance-specific p…

cs.LG2025

-Regularized Empirical Risk Minimization Guarantees Small Smooth Calibration Error

Masahiro Fujisawa, Futoshi Futami

Calibration of predicted probabilities is critical for reliable machine learning, yet it is poorly understood how standard training procedures yield well-calibrated models. This wo…

stat.ML2025

Information-theoretic Generalization Analysis for VQ-VAEs: A Role of Latent Variables

Futoshi Futami, Masahiro Fujisawa

Latent variables (LVs) play a crucial role in encoder-decoder models by enabling effective data compression, prediction, and generation. Although their theoretical properties, such…

stat.ML2025

Uniform convergence of the smooth calibration error and its relationship with functional gradient

Futoshi Futami, Atsushi Nitanda

Calibration is a critical requirement for reliable probabilistic prediction, especially in high-risk applications. However, the theoretical understanding of which learning algorith…

cs.LG2024

PAC-Bayes Analysis for Recalibration in Classification

Masahiro Fujisawa, Futoshi Futami

Nonparametric estimation using uniform-width binning is a standard approach for evaluating the calibration performance of machine learning models. However, existing theoretical ana…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Information-theoretic Generalization Analysis for Expected Calibration Error

Futoshi Futami, Masahiro Fujisawa

While the expected calibration error (ECE), which employs binning, is widely adopted to evaluate the calibration performance of machine learning models, theoretical understanding o…

cs.LG2023

Time-Independent Information-Theoretic Generalization Bounds for SGLD

Futoshi Futami, Masahiro Fujisawa

We provide novel information-theoretic generalization bounds for stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics (SGLD) under the assumptions of smoothness and dissipativity, which are widel…

stat.ML2023★ 1 cited

Information-theoretic Analysis of Test Data Sensitivity in Uncertainty

Futoshi Futami, Tomoharu Iwata

Bayesian inference is often utilized for uncertainty quantification tasks. A recent analysis by Xu and Raginsky 2022 rigorously decomposed the predictive uncertainty in Bayesian in…

stat.ML2022★ 1 cited

Excess risk analysis for epistemic uncertainty with application to variational inference

Futoshi Futami, Tomoharu Iwata, Naonori Ueda +2

Bayesian deep learning plays an important role especially for its ability evaluating epistemic uncertainty (EU). Due to computational complexity issues, approximation methods such…

stat.ML2021★ 2 cited

Loss function based second-order Jensen inequality and its application to particle variational inference

Futoshi Futami, Tomoharu Iwata, Naonori Ueda +2

Bayesian model averaging, obtained as the expectation of a likelihood function by a posterior distribution, has been widely used for prediction, evaluation of uncertainty, and mode…

stat.ML2020★ 2 cited

Time-varying Gaussian Process Bandit Optimization with Non-constant Evaluation Time

Hideaki Imamura, Nontawat Charoenphakdee, Futoshi Futami +3

The Gaussian process bandit is a problem in which we want to find a maximizer of a black-box function with the minimum number of function evaluations. If the black-box function var…

stat.ML2018★ 1 cited

Bayesian posterior approximation via greedy particle optimization

Futoshi Futami, Zhenghang Cui, Issei Sato +1

In Bayesian inference, the posterior distributions are difficult to obtain analytically for complex models such as neural networks. Variational inference usually uses a parametric…

stat.ML2017★ 33 cited

Variational Inference based on Robust Divergences

Futoshi Futami, Issei Sato, Masashi Sugiyama

Robustness to outliers is a central issue in real-world machine learning applications. While replacing a model to a heavy-tailed one (e.g., from Gaussian to Student-t) is a standar…

stat.ML2017★ 1 cited

Expectation Propagation for t-Exponential Family Using Q-Algebra

Futoshi Futami, Issei Sato, Masashi Sugiyama

Exponential family distributions are highly useful in machine learning since their calculation can be performed efficiently through natural parameters. The exponential family has r…