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most citedLevel Generation for Angry Birds with Sequential VAE and Latent Variable Evolution

9 citations · 50 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

cs.LG2026

Fair Classification with Efficient and Post-hoc Controllable Fairness-Accuracy Trade-off

Maaya Sakata, Kazuto Fukuchi

Post-hoc controllability of fair machine learning models, the ability to control the trade-off between fairness and accuracy after training, is valuable for practical deployment. E…

stat.ML2026

Provable Data Scaling Law for Meta Learning via Complexity Minimization

Kazuto Fukuchi, Ryuichiro Hataya, Kota Matsui

Pre-training has become a fundamental paradigm in modern machine learning, with one of its key empirical benefits being reduced downstream sample complexity as the scale of pre-tra…

stat.ML2026

Provable Target Sample Complexity Improvements as Pre-Trained Models Scale

Kazuto Fukuchi, Ryuichiro Hataya, Kota Matsui

Pre-trained models have become indispensable for efficiently building models across a broad spectrum of downstream tasks. The advantages of pre-trained models have been highlighted…

stat.ML2025

Meta Optimality for Demographic Parity Constrained Regression via Post-Processing

Kazuto Fukuchi

We address the regression problem under the constraint of demographic parity, a commonly used fairness definition. Recent studies have revealed fair minimax optimal regression algo…

cs.LG2024

Robust Deep Reinforcement Learning against Adversarial Behavior Manipulation

Shojiro Yamabe, Kazuto Fukuchi, Jun Sakuma

This study investigates behavior-targeted attacks on reinforcement learning and their countermeasures. Behavior-targeted attacks aim to manipulate the victim's behavior as desired…

cs.LG2024

Adversarial Attacks on Hidden Tasks in Multi-Task Learning

Yu Zhe, Rei Nagaike, Daiki Nishiyama +2

Deep learning models are susceptible to adversarial attacks, where slight perturbations to input data lead to misclassification. Adversarial attacks become increasingly effective w…

stat.ML2024

Harnessing the Power of Vicinity-Informed Analysis for Classification under Covariate Shift

Mitsuhiro Fujikawa, Yohei Akimoto, Jun Sakuma +1

Transfer learning enhances prediction accuracy on a target distribution by leveraging data from a source distribution, demonstrating significant benefits in various applications. T…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

Statistically Significant Concept-based Explanation of Image Classifiers via Model Knockoffs

Kaiwen Xu, Kazuto Fukuchi, Youhei Akimoto +1

A concept-based classifier can explain the decision process of a deep learning model by human-understandable concepts in image classification problems. However, sometimes concept-b…

cs.NE2023

Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolutionary Strategy with Worst-Case Ranking Approximation for Min--Max Optimization and its Application to Berthing Control Tasks

Atsuhiro Miyagi, Yoshiki Miyauchi, Atsuo Maki +3

In this study, we consider a continuous min--max optimization problem whose objective function is a black-box. We propose a…

cs.LG2023

Few-Shot Image-to-Semantics Translation for Policy Transfer in Reinforcement Learning

Rei Sato, Kazuto Fukuchi, Jun Sakuma +1

We investigate policy transfer using image-to-semantics translation to mitigate learning difficulties in vision-based robotics control agents. This problem assumes two environments…

cs.NE2022

Adaptive Scenario Subset Selection for Worst-Case Optimization and its Application to Well Placement Optimization

Atsuhiro Miyagi, Kazuto Fukuchi, Jun Sakuma +1

In this study, we consider simulation-based worst-case optimization problems with continuous design variables and a finite scenario set. To reduce the number of simulations require…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Max-Min Off-Policy Actor-Critic Method Focusing on Worst-Case Robustness to Model Misspecification

Takumi Tanabe, Rei Sato, Kazuto Fukuchi +2

In the field of reinforcement learning, because of the high cost and risk of policy training in the real world, policies are trained in a simulation environment and transferred to…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

CAMRI Loss: Improving Recall of a Specific Class without Sacrificing Accuracy

Daiki Nishiyama, Kazuto Fukuchi, Youhei Akimoto +1

In real-world applications of multi-class classification models, misclassification in an important class (e.g., stop sign) can be significantly more harmful than in other classes (…

math.OC2022★ 8 cited

Convergence rate of the (1+1)-evolution strategy on locally strongly convex functions with lipschitz continuous gradient

Daiki Morinaga, Kazuto Fukuchi, Jun Sakuma +1

Evolution strategy (ES) is one of the promising classes of algorithms for black-box continuous optimization. Despite its broad successes in applications, theoretical analysis on th…

math.ST2022

Demographic Parity Constrained Minimax Optimal Regression under Linear Model

Kazuto Fukuchi, Jun Sakuma

We explore the minimax optimal error associated with a demographic parity-constrained regression problem within the context of a linear model. Our proposed model encompasses a broa…

cs.NE2022★ 2 cited

Black-Box Min--Max Continuous Optimization Using CMA-ES with Worst-case Ranking Approximation

Atsuhiro Miyagi, Kazuto Fukuchi, Jun Sakuma +1

In this study, we investigate the problem of min-max continuous optimization in a black-box setting . A popular approach updates and simultaneously…

cs.LG2021

Unsupervised Causal Binary Concepts Discovery with VAE for Black-box Model Explanation

Thien Q. Tran, Kazuto Fukuchi, Youhei Akimoto +1

We aim to explain a black-box classifier with the form: `data X is classified as class Y because X \textit{has} A, B and \textit{does not have} C' in which A, B, and C are high-lev…

cs.AI2021★ 9 cited

Level Generation for Angry Birds with Sequential VAE and Latent Variable Evolution

Takumi Tanabe, Kazuto Fukuchi, Jun Sakuma +1

Video game level generation based on machine learning (ML), in particular, deep generative models, has attracted attention as a technique to automate level generation. However, app…

cs.NE2021

Convergence Rate of the (1+1)-Evolution Strategy with Success-Based Step-Size Adaptation on Convex Quadratic Functions

Daiki Morinaga, Kazuto Fukuchi, Jun Sakuma +1

The (1+1)-evolution strategy (ES) with success-based step-size adaptation is analyzed on a general convex quadratic function and its monotone transformation, that is, $f(x) = g((x…

stat.ME2020★ 7 cited

Statistically Significant Pattern Mining with Ordinal Utility

Thien Q. Tran, Kazuto Fukuchi, Youhei Akimoto +1

Statistically significant patterns mining (SSPM) is an essential and challenging data mining task in the field of knowledge discovery in databases (KDD), in which each pattern is e…

math.ST2019

Locally Differentially Private Minimum Finding

Kazuto Fukuchi, Chia-Mu Yu, Arashi Haishima +1

We investigate a problem of finding the minimum, in which each user has a real value and we want to estimate the minimum of these values under the local differential privacy constr…

stat.ML2019★ 1 cited

Faking Fairness via Stealthily Biased Sampling

Kazuto Fukuchi, Satoshi Hara, Takanori Maehara

Auditing fairness of decision-makers is now in high demand. To respond to this social demand, several fairness auditing tools have been developed. The focus of this study is to rai…

cs.IT2018

Minimax Optimal Additive Functional Estimation with Discrete Distribution

Kazuto Fukuchi, Jun Sakuma

This paper addresses a problem of estimating an additive functional given i.i.d. samples drawn from a discrete distribution with alphabet size . The additi…

cs.CV2018★ 2 cited

Unauthorized AI cannot Recognize Me: Reversible Adversarial Example

Jiayang Liu, Weiming Zhang, Kazuto Fukuchi +2

In this study, we propose a new methodology to control how user's data is recognized and used by AI via exploiting the properties of adversarial examples. For this purpose, we prop…