Search Results for author: Deanna Needell

Found 65 papers, 19 papers with code

Kernel Alignment for Unsupervised Feature Selection via Matrix Factorization

no code implementations13 Mar 2024 Ziyuan Lin, Deanna Needell

By doing so, our model can learn both linear and nonlinear similarity information and automatically generate the most appropriate kernel.

feature selection

Benign overfitting in leaky ReLU networks with moderate input dimension

no code implementations11 Mar 2024 Kedar Karhadkar, Erin George, Michael Murray, Guido Montúfar, Deanna Needell

The problem of benign overfitting asks whether it is possible for a model to perfectly fit noisy training data and still generalize well.

Attribute Binary Classification

Stochastic gradient descent for streaming linear and rectified linear systems with Massart noise

no code implementations2 Mar 2024 Halyun Jeong, Deanna Needell, Elizaveta Rebrova

We propose SGD-exp, a stochastic gradient descent approach for linear and ReLU regressions under Massart noise (adversarial semi-random corruption model) for the fully streaming setting.

regression

Convergence and complexity of block majorization-minimization for constrained block-Riemannian optimization

no code implementations16 Dec 2023 Yuchen Li, Laura Balzano, Deanna Needell, Hanbaek Lyu

Block majorization-minimization (BMM) is a simple iterative algorithm for nonconvex optimization that sequentially minimizes a majorizing surrogate of the objective function in each block coordinate while the other block coordinates are held fixed.

Dictionary Learning Riemannian optimization

Stratified-NMF for Heterogeneous Data

no code implementations17 Nov 2023 James Chapman, Yotam Yaniv, Deanna Needell

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is an important technique for obtaining low dimensional representations of datasets.

Manifold Filter-Combine Networks

1 code implementation8 Jul 2023 Joyce Chew, Edward De Brouwer, Smita Krishnaswamy, Deanna Needell, Michael Perlmutter

We introduce a class of manifold neural networks (MNNs) that we call Manifold Filter-Combine Networks (MFCNs), that aims to further our understanding of MNNs, analogous to how the aggregate-combine framework helps with the understanding of graph neural networks (GNNs).

Stochastic Natural Thresholding Algorithms

no code implementations7 Jun 2023 Rachel Grotheer, Shuang Li, Anna Ma, Deanna Needell, Jing Qin

Sparse signal recovery is one of the most fundamental problems in various applications, including medical imaging and remote sensing.

Computational Efficiency

Detecting and Mitigating Indirect Stereotypes in Word Embeddings

no code implementations23 May 2023 Erin George, Joyce Chew, Deanna Needell

To evaluate this method, we perform a series of common tests and demonstrate that measures of bias in the word embeddings are reduced in exchange for minor reduction in the semantic quality of the embeddings.

Attribute Word Embeddings

Robust Tensor CUR Decompositions: Rapid Low-Tucker-Rank Tensor Recovery with Sparse Corruption

1 code implementation6 May 2023 HanQin Cai, Zehan Chao, Longxiu Huang, Deanna Needell

We study the tensor robust principal component analysis (TRPCA) problem, a tensorial extension of matrix robust principal component analysis (RPCA), that aims to split the given tensor into an underlying low-rank component and a sparse outlier component.

Linear Convergence of Reshuffling Kaczmarz Methods With Sparse Constraints

no code implementations20 Apr 2023 Halyun Jeong, Deanna Needell

The Kaczmarz method (KZ) and its variants, which are types of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) methods, have been extensively studied due to their simplicity and efficiency in solving linear equation systems.

Dimensionality Reduction

Neural Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Hierarchical Multilayer Topic Modeling

no code implementations28 Feb 2023 Tyler Will, Runyu Zhang, Eli Sadovnik, Mengdi Gao, Joshua Vendrow, Jamie Haddock, Denali Molitor, Deanna Needell

We introduce a new method based on nonnegative matrix factorization, Neural NMF, for detecting latent hierarchical structure in data.

Document Classification

Randomized Kaczmarz in Adversarial Distributed Setting

no code implementations24 Feb 2023 Longxiu Huang, Xia Li, Deanna Needell

Additionally, the efficiency of the proposed methods for solving convex problems is shown in simulations with the presence of adversaries.

Federated Gradient Matching Pursuit

no code implementations20 Feb 2023 Halyun Jeong, Deanna Needell, Jing Qin

In particular, federated learning (FL) provides such a solution to learn a shared model while keeping training data at local clients.

Federated Learning Privacy Preserving

A Convergence Rate for Manifold Neural Networks

no code implementations23 Dec 2022 Joyce Chew, Deanna Needell, Michael Perlmutter

Moreover, in this work, the authors provide a numerical scheme for implementing such neural networks when the manifold is unknown and one only has access to finitely many sample points.

Continuous Semi-Supervised Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

no code implementations19 Dec 2022 Michael R. Lindstrom, Xiaofu Ding, Feng Liu, Anand Somayajula, Deanna Needell

Nonnegative matrix factorization can be used to automatically detect topics within a corpus in an unsupervised fashion.

regression

Inference of Media Bias and Content Quality Using Natural-Language Processing

no code implementations1 Dec 2022 Zehan Chao, Denali Molitor, Deanna Needell, Mason A. Porter

We then infer a ``media-bias chart'' of (bias, quality) coordinates for the media outlets by integrating the (bias, quality) measurements of the tweets of the media outlets.

Sketched Gaussian Model Linear Discriminant Analysis via the Randomized Kaczmarz Method

no code implementations10 Nov 2022 Jocelyn T. Chi, Deanna Needell

We present convergence guarantees for the sketched predictions on new data within a fixed number of iterations.

Matrix Completion with Cross-Concentrated Sampling: Bridging Uniform Sampling and CUR Sampling

1 code implementation20 Aug 2022 HanQin Cai, Longxiu Huang, Pengyu Li, Deanna Needell

While uniform sampling has been widely studied in the matrix completion literature, CUR sampling approximates a low-rank matrix via row and column samples.

Matrix Completion

Geometric Scattering on Measure Spaces

no code implementations17 Aug 2022 Joyce Chew, Matthew Hirn, Smita Krishnaswamy, Deanna Needell, Michael Perlmutter, Holly Steach, Siddharth Viswanath, Hau-Tieng Wu

Our proposed framework includes previous work on geometric scattering as special cases but also applies to more general settings such as directed graphs, signed graphs, and manifolds with boundary.

SP2: A Second Order Stochastic Polyak Method

no code implementations17 Jul 2022 Shuang Li, William J. Swartworth, Martin Takáč, Deanna Needell, Robert M. Gower

We take a step further and develop a method for solving the interpolation equations that uses the local second-order approximation of the model.

Matrix Completion Second-order methods

Distributed randomized Kaczmarz for the adversarial workers

no code implementations28 Feb 2022 Xia Li, Longxiu Huang, Deanna Needell

Developing large-scale distributed methods that are robust to the presence of adversarial or corrupted workers is an important part of making such methods practical for real-world problems.

Semi-supervised Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Document Classification

no code implementations28 Feb 2022 Jamie Haddock, Lara Kassab, Sixian Li, Alona Kryshchenko, Rachel Grotheer, Elena Sizikova, Chuntian Wang, Thomas Merkh, RWMA Madushani, Miju Ahn, Deanna Needell, Kathryn Leonard

We propose new semi-supervised nonnegative matrix factorization (SSNMF) models for document classification and provide motivation for these models as maximum likelihood estimators.

Classification Document Classification +1

Guided Semi-Supervised Non-negative Matrix Factorization on Legal Documents

no code implementations31 Jan 2022 Pengyu Li, Christine Tseng, Yaxuan Zheng, Joyce A. Chew, Longxiu Huang, Benjamin Jarman, Deanna Needell

Classification and topic modeling are popular techniques in machine learning that extract information from large-scale datasets.

Classification

On audio enhancement via online non-negative matrix factorization

1 code implementation7 Oct 2021 Andrew Sack, Wenzhao Jiang, Michael Perlmutter, Palina Salanevich, Deanna Needell

We propose a method for noise reduction, the task of producing a clean audio signal from a recording corrupted by additive noise.

Denoising

A Generalized Hierarchical Nonnegative Tensor Decomposition

1 code implementation30 Sep 2021 Joshua Vendrow, Jamie Haddock, Deanna Needell

Hierarchical NTF (HNTF) methods have been proposed, however these methods do not naturally generalize their matrix-based counterparts.

Tensor Decomposition

Fast Robust Tensor Principal Component Analysis via Fiber CUR Decomposition

no code implementations23 Aug 2021 HanQin Cai, Zehan Chao, Longxiu Huang, Deanna Needell

We study the problem of tensor robust principal component analysis (TRPCA), which aims to separate an underlying low-multilinear-rank tensor and a sparse outlier tensor from their sum.

Video Background Subtraction

Analysis of Legal Documents via Non-negative Matrix Factorization Methods

no code implementations28 Apr 2021 Ryan Budahazy, Lu Cheng, Yihuan Huang, Andrew Johnson, Pengyu Li, Joshua Vendrow, Zhoutong Wu, Denali Molitor, Elizaveta Rebrova, Deanna Needell

The California Innocence Project (CIP), a clinical law school program aiming to free wrongfully convicted prisoners, evaluates thousands of mails containing new requests for assistance and corresponding case files.

Mode-wise Tensor Decompositions: Multi-dimensional Generalizations of CUR Decompositions

1 code implementation19 Mar 2021 HanQin Cai, Keaton Hamm, Longxiu Huang, Deanna Needell

Low rank tensor approximation is a fundamental tool in modern machine learning and data science.

Robust CUR Decomposition: Theory and Imaging Applications

no code implementations5 Jan 2021 HanQin Cai, Keaton Hamm, Longxiu Huang, Deanna Needell

Additionally, we consider hybrid randomized and deterministic sampling methods which produce a compact CUR decomposition of a given matrix, and apply this to video sequences to produce canonical frames thereof.

Neural Nonnegative CP Decomposition for Hierarchical Tensor Analysis

no code implementations1 Jan 2021 Joshua Vendrow, Jamie Haddock, Deanna Needell

We propose a new hierarchical nonnegative CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (CP) decomposition (hierarchical NCPD) model and a training method, Neural NCPD, for performing hierarchical topic modeling on multi-modal tensor data.

Document Classification

Applications of Online Nonnegative Matrix Factorization to Image and Time-Series Data

no code implementations10 Nov 2020 Hanbaek Lyu, Georg Menz, Deanna Needell, Christopher Strohmeier

Online nonnegative matrix factorization (ONMF) is a matrix factorization technique in the online setting where data are acquired in a streaming fashion and the matrix factors are updated each time.

Dictionary Learning Time Series +1

On a Guided Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

1 code implementation22 Oct 2020 Joshua Vendrow, Jamie Haddock, Elizaveta Rebrova, Deanna Needell

Fully unsupervised topic models have found fantastic success in document clustering and classification.

Clustering Topic Models

Semi-supervised NMF Models for Topic Modeling in Learning Tasks

1 code implementation15 Oct 2020 Jamie Haddock, Lara Kassab, Sixian Li, Alona Kryshchenko, Rachel Grotheer, Elena Sizikova, Chuntian Wang, Thomas Merkh, R. W. M. A. Madushani, Miju Ahn, Deanna Needell, Kathryn Leonard

We propose several new models for semi-supervised nonnegative matrix factorization (SSNMF) and provide motivation for SSNMF models as maximum likelihood estimators given specific distributions of uncertainty.

General Classification

Sparseness-constrained Nonnegative Tensor Factorization for Detecting Topics at Different Time Scales

1 code implementation4 Oct 2020 Lara Kassab, Alona Kryshchenko, Hanbaek Lyu, Denali Molitor, Deanna Needell, Elizaveta Rebrova, Jiahong Yuan

Further, we propose quantitative ways to measure the topic length and demonstrate the ability of S-NCPD (as well as its online variant) to discover short and long-lasting temporal topics in a controlled manner in semi-synthetic and real-world data including news headlines.

Tensor Decomposition

Online nonnegative CP-dictionary learning for Markovian data

1 code implementation16 Sep 2020 Hanbaek Lyu, Christopher Strohmeier, Deanna Needell

We prove that our algorithm converges almost surely to the set of stationary points of the objective function under the hypothesis that the sequence of data tensors is generated by an underlying Markov chain.

Dictionary Learning Online nonnegative CP decomposition +1

COVID-19 Literature Topic-Based Search via Hierarchical NMF

no code implementations EMNLP (NLP-COVID19) 2020 Rachel Grotheer, Yihuan Huang, Pengyu Li, Elizaveta Rebrova, Deanna Needell, Longxiu Huang, Alona Kryshchenko, Xia Li, Kyung Ha, Oleksandr Kryshchenko

A dataset of COVID-19-related scientific literature is compiled, combining the articles from several online libraries and selecting those with open access and full text available.

Virology

Feature Selection on Lyme Disease Patient Survey Data

no code implementations24 Aug 2020 Joshua Vendrow, Jamie Haddock, Deanna Needell, Lorraine Johnson

We first analyze the general performance of the model and then identify the most important features for predicting participant answers to GROC.

BIG-bench Machine Learning feature selection

Random Vector Functional Link Networks for Function Approximation on Manifolds

no code implementations30 Jul 2020 Deanna Needell, Aaron A. Nelson, Rayan Saab, Palina Salanevich, Olov Schavemaker

We provide a (corrected) rigorous proof that the Igelnik and Pao construction is a universal approximator for continuous functions on compact domains, with approximation error decaying asymptotically like $O(1/\sqrt{n})$ for the number $n$ of network nodes.

COVID-19 Time-series Prediction by Joint Dictionary Learning and Online NMF

2 code implementations20 Apr 2020 Hanbaek Lyu, Christopher Strohmeier, Georg Menz, Deanna Needell

One of the main sources of difficulty is that a very limited amount of daily COVID-19 case data is available, and with few exceptions, the majority of countries are currently in the "exponential spread stage," and thus there is scarce information available which would enable one to predict the phase transition between spread and containment.

Dictionary Learning Time Series +1

Topic-aware chatbot using Recurrent Neural Networks and Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

2 code implementations1 Dec 2019 Yuchen Guo, Nicholas Hanoian, Zhexiao Lin, Nicholas Liskij, Hanbaek Lyu, Deanna Needell, Jiahao Qu, Henry Sojico, Yuliang Wang, Zhe Xiong, Zhenhong Zou

We propose a novel model for a topic-aware chatbot by combining the traditional Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) encoder-decoder model with a topic attention layer based on Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF).

Chatbot

Online matrix factorization for Markovian data and applications to Network Dictionary Learning

1 code implementation5 Nov 2019 Hanbaek Lyu, Deanna Needell, Laura Balzano

As the main application, by combining online non-negative matrix factorization and a recent MCMC algorithm for sampling motifs from networks, we propose a novel framework of Network Dictionary Learning, which extracts ``network dictionary patches' from a given network in an online manner that encodes main features of the network.

Denoising Dictionary Learning

Adaptive Sketch-and-Project Methods for Solving Linear Systems

2 code implementations9 Sep 2019 Robert Gower, Denali Molitor, Jacob Moorman, Deanna Needell

We present new adaptive sampling rules for the sketch-and-project method for solving linear systems.

Numerical Analysis Numerical Analysis 15A06, 15B52, 65F10, 68W20, 65N75, 65Y20, 68Q25, 68W40, 90C20

Iterative Hard Thresholding for Low CP-rank Tensor Models

no code implementations22 Aug 2019 Rachel Grotheer, Shuang Li, Anna Ma, Deanna Needell, Jing Qin

In this paper, we utilize the same tensor version of the Restricted Isometry Property (RIP) to extend these results for tensors with low CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (CP) rank.

Bias of Homotopic Gradient Descent for the Hinge Loss

no code implementations26 Jul 2019 Denali Molitor, Deanna Needell, Rachel Ward

Gradient descent is a simple and widely used optimization method for machine learning.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

Data-driven Algorithm Selection and Parameter Tuning: Two Case studies in Optimization and Signal Processing

no code implementations31 May 2019 Jesus A. De Loera, Jamie Haddock, Anna Ma, Deanna Needell

Machine learning algorithms typically rely on optimization subroutines and are well-known to provide very effective outcomes for many types of problems.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

Matrix Completion With Selective Sampling

no code implementations17 Apr 2019 Christian Parkinson, Kevin Huynh, Deanna Needell

Matrix completion is a classical problem in data science wherein one attempts to reconstruct a low-rank matrix while only observing some subset of the entries.

Matrix Completion

An iterative method for classification of binary data

no code implementations9 Sep 2018 Denali Molitor, Deanna Needell

Building on a recently designed simple framework for classification using binary data, we demonstrate that one can improve classification accuracy of this approach through iterative applications whose output serves as input to the next application.

Classification Data Compression +1

Tribracket Modules

1 code implementation13 Aug 2018 Deanna Needell, Sam Nelson, Yingqi Shi

We provide examples to illustrate the computation of the invariant and show that the enhancement is proper.

Geometric Topology Quantum Algebra 57M27, 57M25

Hierarchical Classification using Binary Data

no code implementations23 Jul 2018 Denali Molitor, Deanna Needell

In classification problems, especially those that categorize data into a large number of classes, the classes often naturally follow a hierarchical structure.

Classification General Classification

Analysis of Fast Structured Dictionary Learning

no code implementations31 May 2018 Saiprasad Ravishankar, Anna Ma, Deanna Needell

Sparsity-based models and techniques have been exploited in many signal processing and imaging applications.

Dictionary Learning Operator learning

Matrix Completion for Structured Observations

no code implementations29 Jan 2018 Denali Molitor, Deanna Needell

We propose adjusting the standard nuclear norm minimization strategy for matrix completion to account for such structural differences between observed and unobserved entries by regularizing the values of the unobserved entries.

Matrix Completion

Simple Classification using Binary Data

no code implementations6 Jul 2017 Deanna Needell, Rayan Saab, Tina Woolf

Binary, or one-bit, representations of data arise naturally in many applications, and are appealing in both hardware implementations and algorithm design.

Classification General Classification

Boltzmann Enhancements of Biquasile Counting Invariants

1 code implementation9 Apr 2017 WonHyuk Choi, Deanna Needell, Sam Nelson

In this paper, we build on the biquasiles and dual graph diagrams introduced in arXiv:1610. 06969.

Geometric Topology Quantum Algebra 57M25, 57M27

An Asynchronous Parallel Approach to Sparse Recovery

no code implementations12 Jan 2017 Deanna Needell, Tina Woolf

Asynchronous algorithms are often studied to solve optimization problems where the cost function takes the form $\sum_{i=1}^M f_i(x)$, with a common assumption that each $f_i$ is sparse; that is, each $f_i$ acts only on a small number of components of $x\in\mathbb{R}^n$.

Constrained adaptive sensing

1 code implementation19 Jun 2015 Mark A. Davenport, Andrew K. Massimino, Deanna Needell, Tina Woolf

Suppose that we wish to estimate a vector $\mathbf{x} \in \mathbb{C}^n$ from a small number of noisy linear measurements of the form $\mathbf{y} = \mathbf{A x} + \mathbf{z}$, where $\mathbf{z}$ represents measurement noise.

Information Theory Information Theory

Stochastic Gradient Descent, Weighted Sampling, and the Randomized Kaczmarz algorithm

no code implementations NeurIPS 2014 Deanna Needell, Nathan Srebro, Rachel Ward

Furthermore, we show how reweighting the sampling distribution (i. e. importance sampling) is necessary in order to further improve convergence, and obtain a linear dependence in the average smoothness, dominating previous results.

Near-optimal compressed sensing guarantees for total variation minimization

no code implementations11 Oct 2012 Deanna Needell, Rachel Ward

Consider the problem of reconstructing a multidimensional signal from an underdetermined set of measurements, as in the setting of compressed sensing.

Paved with Good Intentions: Analysis of a Randomized Block Kaczmarz Method

no code implementations19 Aug 2012 Deanna Needell, Joel A. Tropp

The block Kaczmarz method is an iterative scheme for solving overdetermined least-squares problems.

Numerical Analysis Numerical Analysis 65F10, 65F20, 68W20, 41A65

Acceleration of Randomized Kaczmarz Method via the Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma

no code implementations25 Aug 2010 Yonina C. Eldar, Deanna Needell

The Kaczmarz method is an algorithm for finding the solution to an overdetermined consistent system of linear equations Ax=b by iteratively projecting onto the solution spaces.

Numerical Analysis

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