Search Results for author: Sinead A. Williamson

Found 19 papers, 5 papers with code

Denoising neural networks for magnetic resonance spectroscopy

no code implementations31 Oct 2022 Natalie Klein, Amber J. Day, Harris Mason, Michael W. Malone, Sinead A. Williamson

Our motivating example is magnetic resonance spectroscopy, in which a primary goal is to detect the presence of short-duration, low-amplitude radio frequency signals that are often obscured by strong interference that can be difficult to separate from the signal using traditional methods.

Denoising Time Series +1

Understanding collections of related datasets using dependent MMD coresets

1 code implementation24 Jun 2020 Sinead A. Williamson, Jette Henderson

Understanding how two datasets differ can help us determine whether one dataset under-represents certain sub-populations, and provides insights into how well models will generalize across datasets.

Data Summarization

Balance is key: Private median splits yield high-utility random trees

no code implementations15 Jun 2020 Shorya Consul, Sinead A. Williamson

Privatizing these queries typically comes at a high utility cost, in large part because we are privatizing queries on small subsets of the data, which are easily corrupted by added noise.

General Classification regression +1

Distributed, partially collapsed MCMC for Bayesian Nonparametrics

no code implementations15 Jan 2020 Avinava Dubey, Michael Minyi Zhang, Eric P. Xing, Sinead A. Williamson

Bayesian nonparametric (BNP) models provide elegant methods for discovering underlying latent features within a data set, but inference in such models can be slow.

A Nonparametric Bayesian Model for Sparse Dynamic Multigraphs

no code implementations11 Oct 2019 Elahe Ghalebi, Hamidreza Mahyar, Radu Grosu, Graham W. Taylor, Sinead A. Williamson

As the availability and importance of temporal interaction data--such as email communication--increases, it becomes increasingly important to understand the underlying structure that underpins these interactions.

Clustering

Avoiding Resentment Via Monotonic Fairness

1 code implementation3 Sep 2019 Guy W. Cole, Sinead A. Williamson

Classifiers that achieve demographic balance by explicitly using protected attributes such as race or gender are often politically or culturally controversial due to their lack of individual fairness, i. e. individuals with similar qualifications will receive different outcomes.

Fairness

Sequential Edge Clustering in Temporal Multigraphs

no code implementations28 May 2019 Elahe Ghalebi, Hamidreza Mahyar, Radu Grosu, Graham W. Taylor, Sinead A. Williamson

Interaction graphs, such as those recording emails between individuals or transactions between institutions, tend to be sparse yet structured, and often grow in an unbounded manner.

Clustering

Sequential Gaussian Processes for Online Learning of Nonstationary Functions

1 code implementation24 May 2019 Michael Minyi Zhang, Bianca Dumitrascu, Sinead A. Williamson, Barbara E. Engelhardt

Many machine learning problems can be framed in the context of estimating functions, and often these are time-dependent functions that are estimated in real-time as observations arrive.

Gaussian Processes Hyperparameter Optimization +3

A New Class of Time Dependent Latent Factor Models with Applications

no code implementations18 Apr 2019 Sinead A. Williamson, Michael Minyi Zhang, Paul Damien

These random, observed responses are typically affected by many unobserved, latent factors (or features) within the building such as the number of individuals, the turning on and off of electrical devices, power surges, etc.

Marketing

Stochastic Blockmodels with Edge Information

no code implementations3 Apr 2019 Guy W. Cole, Sinead A. Williamson

For example, in an email network, the volume of communication between two users and the content of that communication can give us information about both the strength and the nature of their relationship.

Random clique covers for graphs with local density and global sparsity

1 code implementation15 Oct 2018 Sinead A. Williamson, Mauricio Tec

Large real-world graphs tend to be sparse, but they often contain densely connected subgraphs and exhibit high clustering coefficients.

Methodology

Importance Weighted Generative Networks

no code implementations7 Jun 2018 Maurice Diesendruck, Ethan R. Elenberg, Rajat Sen, Guy W. Cole, Sanjay Shakkottai, Sinead A. Williamson

Deep generative networks can simulate from a complex target distribution, by minimizing a loss with respect to samples from that distribution.

Selection bias

Accelerated Parallel Non-conjugate Sampling for Bayesian Non-parametric Models

no code implementations19 May 2017 Michael Minyi Zhang, Sinead A. Williamson, Fernando Perez-Cruz

First, we introduce an accelerated feature proposal mechanism that we show is a valid MCMC algorithm for posterior inference.

Bayesian Inference valid

Parallel Markov Chain Monte Carlo for the Indian Buffet Process

no code implementations9 Mar 2017 Michael M. Zhang, Avinava Dubey, Sinead A. Williamson

In this paper we present a novel algorithm to perform asymptotically exact parallel Markov chain Monte Carlo inference for Indian Buffet Process models.

Embarrassingly Parallel Inference for Gaussian Processes

1 code implementation27 Feb 2017 Michael Minyi Zhang, Sinead A. Williamson

Training Gaussian process-based models typically involves an $ O(N^3)$ computational bottleneck due to inverting the covariance matrix.

Gaussian Processes regression

Variance Reduction in Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics

no code implementations NeurIPS 2016 Kumar Avinava Dubey, Sashank J. Reddi, Sinead A. Williamson, Barnabas Poczos, Alexander J. Smola, Eric P. Xing

In this paper, we present techniques for reducing variance in stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics, yielding novel stochastic Monte Carlo methods that improve performance by reducing the variance in the stochastic gradient.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

Restricting exchangeable nonparametric distributions

no code implementations NeurIPS 2013 Sinead A. Williamson, Steve N. Maceachern, Eric P. Xing

Distributions over exchangeable matrices with infinitely many columns are useful in constructing nonparametric latent variable models.

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