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GEO-Bench: Toward Foundation Models for Earth Monitoring
Alexandre Lacoste, Nils Lehmann, Pau Rodriguez +14
Recent progress in self-supervision has shown that pre-training large neural networks on vast amounts of unsupervised data can lead to substantial increases in generalization to do…
A General Purpose Neural Architecture for Geospatial Systems
Nasim Rahaman, Martin Weiss, Frederik Träuble +6
Geospatial Information Systems are used by researchers and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response (HADR) practitioners to support a wide variety of important applications. H…
Toward Foundation Models for Earth Monitoring: Proposal for a Climate Change Benchmark
Alexandre Lacoste, Evan David Sherwin, Hannah Kerner +9
Recent progress in self-supervision shows that pre-training large neural networks on vast amounts of unsupervised data can lead to impressive increases in generalisation for downst…
Typing assumptions improve identification in causal discovery
Philippe Brouillard, Perouz Taslakian, Alexandre Lacoste +2
Causal discovery from observational data is a challenging task that can only be solved up to a set of equivalent solutions, called an equivalence class. Such classes, which are oft…
Variational Causal Networks: Approximate Bayesian Inference over Causal Structures
Yashas Annadani, Jonas Rothfuss, Alexandre Lacoste +4
Learning the causal structure that underlies data is a crucial step towards robust real-world decision making. The majority of existing work in causal inference focuses on determin…
Can Active Learning Preemptively Mitigate Fairness Issues?
Frédéric Branchaud-Charron, Parmida Atighehchian, Pau Rodríguez +2
Dataset bias is one of the prevailing causes of unfairness in machine learning. Addressing fairness at the data collection and dataset preparation stages therefore becomes an essen…
Beyond Trivial Counterfactual Explanations with Diverse Valuable Explanations
Pau Rodriguez, Massimo Caccia, Alexandre Lacoste +4
Explainability for machine learning models has gained considerable attention within the research community given the importance of deploying more reliable machine-learning systems.…
Differentiable Causal Discovery from Interventional Data
Philippe Brouillard, Sébastien Lachapelle, Alexandre Lacoste +2
Learning a causal directed acyclic graph from data is a challenging task that involves solving a combinatorial problem for which the solution is not always identifiable. A new line…
Bayesian active learning for production, a systematic study and a reusable library
Parmida Atighehchian, Frédéric Branchaud-Charron, Alexandre Lacoste
Active learning is able to reduce the amount of labelling effort by using a machine learning model to query the user for specific inputs. While there are many papers on new active…
Stochastic Neural Network with Kronecker Flow
Chin-Wei Huang, Ahmed Touati, Pascal Vincent +3
Recent advances in variational inference enable the modelling of highly structured joint distributions, but are limited in their capacity to scale to the high-dimensional setting o…
Hierarchical Importance Weighted Autoencoders
Chin-Wei Huang, Kris Sankaran, Eeshan Dhekane +2
Importance weighted variational inference (Burda et al., 2015) uses multiple i.i.d. samples to have a tighter variational lower bound. We believe a joint proposal has the potential…
Adaptive Deep Kernel Learning
Prudencio Tossou, Basile Dura, Francois Laviolette +2
Deep kernel learning provides an elegant and principled framework for combining the structural properties of deep learning algorithms with the flexibility of kernel methods. By mea…
Improving Explorability in Variational Inference with Annealed Variational Objectives
Chin-Wei Huang, Shawn Tan, Alexandre Lacoste +1
Despite the advances in the representational capacity of approximate distributions for variational inference, the optimization process can still limit the density that is ultimatel…
TADAM: Task dependent adaptive metric for improved few-shot learning
Boris N. Oreshkin, Pau Rodriguez, Alexandre Lacoste
Few-shot learning has become essential for producing models that generalize from few examples. In this work, we identify that metric scaling and metric task conditioning are import…
Neural Autoregressive Flows
Chin-Wei Huang, David Krueger, Alexandre Lacoste +1
Normalizing flows and autoregressive models have been successfully combined to produce state-of-the-art results in density estimation, via Masked Autoregressive Flows (MAF), and to…
Sequential Model-Based Ensemble Optimization
Alexandre Lacoste, Hugo Larochelle, François Laviolette +1
One of the most tedious tasks in the application of machine learning is model selection, i.e. hyperparameter selection. Fortunately, recent progress has been made in the automation…