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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…