no code implementations • 18 May 2023 • Zeyu Sun, Dogyoon Song, Alfred Hero
Recalibrating probabilistic classifiers is vital for enhancing the reliability and accuracy of predictive models.
no code implementations • 7 Mar 2023 • Jinghan Jia, Yihua Zhang, Dogyoon Song, Sijia Liu, Alfred Hero
Most work in this learning paradigm has focused on resolving the problem of 'catastrophic forgetting,' which refers to a notorious dilemma between improving model accuracy over new data and retaining accuracy over previous data.
no code implementations • 4 Dec 2022 • Mehmet Aktukmak, Zeyu Sun, Monica Bobra, Tamas Gombosi, Ward B. Manchester, Yang Chen, Alfred Hero
In this paper, we consider incorporating data associated with the sun's north and south polar field strengths to improve solar flare prediction performance using machine learning models.
1 code implementation • 21 Aug 2022 • Mehmet Aktukmak, Haonan Zhu, Marc G. Chevrette, Julia Nepper, Shruthi Magesh, Jo Handelsman, Alfred Hero
We present a computationally scalable variational Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm for inferring the latent variables and the parameters of the model.
no code implementations • 14 Jun 2022 • Lin Zhou, Alfred Hero
Our task is to query the oracle as few times as possible to accurately estimate the location of the target at any specified time.
1 code implementation • 7 Apr 2022 • Zeyu Sun, Monica G. Bobra, Xiantong Wang, Yu Wang, Hu Sun, Tamas Gombosi, Yang Chen, Alfred Hero
We consider the flare prediction problem that distinguishes flare-imminent active regions that produce an M- or X-class flare in the future 24 hours, from quiet active regions that do not produce any flare within $\pm 24$ hours.
1 code implementation • 8 Dec 2021 • Yu Wang, Alfred Hero
In this work, we study the emergence of sparsity and multiway structures in second-order statistical characterizations of dynamical processes governed by partial differential equations (PDEs).
no code implementations • 6 Oct 2021 • Ren Wang, Zhe Xu, Alfred Hero
Deep learning-based Multi-Task Classification (MTC) is widely used in applications like facial attributes and healthcare that warrant strong privacy guarantees.
no code implementations • 29 Sep 2021 • Ren Wang, Zhe Xu, Alfred Hero
Deep learning-based Multi-Task Classification (MTC) is widely used in applications like facial attribute and healthcare that warrant strong privacy guarantees.
no code implementations • 15 Aug 2021 • Ren Wang, Tianqi Chen, Alfred Hero
Recent works have theoretically and empirically shown that deep neural networks (DNNs) have an inherent vulnerability to small perturbations.
1 code implementation • 27 Jun 2021 • Ren Wang, Tianqi Chen, Stephen Lindsly, Cooper Stansbury, Alnawaz Rehemtulla, Indika Rajapakse, Alfred Hero
Initializing a population of exemplars that is balanced across classes, RAILS starts from a uniform label distribution that encourages diversity and uses an evolutionary optimization process to adaptively adjust the predictive label distribution in a manner that emulates the way the natural immune system recognizes novel pathogens.
no code implementations • 27 Jun 2021 • Ren Wang, Tianqi Chen, Stephen Lindsly, Cooper Stansbury, Indika Rajapakse, Alfred Hero
This immuno-mimetic model leads to a new computational biology framework for robustification of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks.
1 code implementation • 27 Jun 2021 • Ren Wang, Tianqi Chen, Philip Yao, Sijia Liu, Indika Rajapakse, Alfred Hero
K-Nearest Neighbor (kNN)-based deep learning methods have been applied to many applications due to their simplicity and geometric interpretability.
1 code implementation • 26 May 2021 • Yu Wang, Alfred Hero
We propose a new graphical model inference procedure, called SG-PALM, for learning conditional dependency structure of high-dimensional tensor-variate data.
no code implementations • 18 Dec 2020 • Ren Wang, Tianqi Chen, Stephen Lindsly, Alnawaz Rehemtulla, Alfred Hero, Indika Rajapakse
RAILS incorporates an Adaptive Immune System Emulation (AISE), which emulates in silico the biological mechanisms that are used to defend the host against attacks by pathogens.
no code implementations • 11 Jun 2020 • Sijia Liu, Pin-Yu Chen, Bhavya Kailkhura, Gaoyuan Zhang, Alfred Hero, Pramod K. Varshney
Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization is a subset of gradient-free optimization that emerges in many signal processing and machine learning applications.
1 code implementation • 1 Feb 2020 • Yu Wang, Byoungwook Jang, Alfred Hero
We apply the SyGlasso to an electroencephalography (EEG) study to compare the brain connectivity of alcoholic and nonalcoholic subjects.
1 code implementation • 12 Dec 2019 • Zhenbang Jiao, Hu Sun, Xiantong Wang, Ward Manchester, Tamas Gombosi, Alfred Hero, Yang Chen
We develop a mixed Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) regression model to predict the maximum solar flare intensity within a 24-hour time window 0$\sim$24, 6$\sim$30, 12$\sim$36 and 24$\sim$48 hours ahead of time using 6, 12, 24 and 48 hours of data (predictors) for each Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) Active Region Patch (HARP).
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2 code implementations • 16 Sep 2019 • Morteza Noshad, Li Xu, Alfred Hero
In this problem the objective is to establish statistically consistent estimates of the Bayes misclassification error rate without having to learn a Bayes-optimal classifier.
no code implementations • 25 Jun 2019 • Brandon Oselio, Amir Sadeghian, Silvio Savarese, Alfred Hero
Directed information (DI) is a useful tool to explore time-directed interactions in multivariate data.
no code implementations • 3 Apr 2019 • Byoungwook Jang, Alfred Hero
We propose a new topic modeling procedure that takes advantage of the fact that the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) log likelihood function is asymptotically equivalent to the logarithm of the volume of the topic simplex.
no code implementations • 16 Jun 2018 • Hafiz Tiomoko Ali, Sijia Liu, Yasin Yilmaz, Romain Couillet, Indika Rajapakse, Alfred Hero
We propose a method for simultaneously detecting shared and unshared communities in heterogeneous multilayer weighted and undirected networks.
no code implementations • 5 May 2016 • Kristjan Greenewald, Edmund Zelnio, Alfred Hero
This paper proposes a spatio-temporal decomposition for the detection of moving targets in multiantenna SAR.
no code implementations • 11 Mar 2016 • Kristjan Greenewald, Stephen Kelley, Alfred Hero
Recent work in distance metric learning has focused on learning transformations of data that best align with provided sets of pairwise similarity and dissimilarity constraints.
no code implementations • 11 Nov 2015 • Yu-Hui Chen, Roni Mittelman, Boklye Kim, Charles Meyer, Alfred Hero
Head motion in fMRI acquired using slice-based Echo Planar Imaging (EPI) can be estimated and compensated by aligning the images onto a reference volume through image registration.
no code implementations • 15 Mar 2015 • Yu-Hui Chen, Dennis Wei, Gregory Newstadt, Marc DeGraef, Jeffrey Simmons, Alfred Hero
We treat the problem of estimation of orientation parameters whose values are invariant to transformations from a spherical symmetry group.
no code implementations • 26 Feb 2015 • Yu-Hui Chen, Dennis Wei, Gregory Newstadt, Jeffrey Simmons, Alfred Hero
We propose a coercive approach to simultaneously register and segment multi-modal images which share similar spatial structure.
no code implementations • 22 Feb 2015 • Hamed Firouzi, Alfred Hero, Bala Rajaratnam
In the first stage we collect a few ($n$) expensive samples $\{y_i,\mathbf x_i\}_{i=1}^n$, at the full dimension $p\gg n$ of $\mathbf X$, winnowing the number of variables down to a smaller dimension $l < p$ using a type of cross-correlation or regression coefficient screening.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2014 • Kevin Moon, Alfred Hero
The problem of f-divergence estimation is important in the fields of machine learning, information theory, and statistics.
no code implementations • 10 Nov 2014 • Yu-Hui Chen, Dennis Wei, Gregory Newstadt, Marc DeGraef, Jeffrey Simmons, Alfred Hero
This paper considers statistical estimation problems where the probability distribution of the observed random variable is invariant with respect to actions of a finite topological group.
no code implementations • 12 Apr 2014 • Xu Chen, Alfred Hero, Silvio Savarese
In this paper, we propose a novel action recognition framework.
no code implementations • 14 Jan 2014 • Kristjan Greenewald, Alfred Hero
Our approach is to estimate the covariance using parameter reduction and sparse models.
no code implementations • 10 Mar 2013 • Hamed Firouzi, Bala Rajaratnam, Alfred Hero
We introduce a new approach to variable selection, called Predictive Correlation Screening, for predictor design.