no code implementations • 17 Feb 2025 • Christian Klötergens, Tim Dernedde, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
However, they remain unexplored for IMTS due to their requirement for complete and evenly spaced observations.
no code implementations • 13 Feb 2025 • Ibram Abdelmalak, Kiran Madhusudhanan, Jungmin Choi, Maximilian Stubbemann, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
In this paper, we challenge this assumption and show that the current scenario gives a strongly biased perspective on the state of time-series forecasting research.
no code implementations • 11 Feb 2025 • Christian Klötergens, Vijaya Krishna Yalavarthi, Randolf Scholz, Maximilian Stubbemann, Stefan Born, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Physiome-ODE is the first benchmark for IMTS forecasting that we are aware of and an order of magnitude larger than the current evaluation setting of four datasets.
1 code implementation • 2 Jan 2025 • Thorben Werner, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
In this work we propose BALSA, an adaptation of the BALD algorithm, tailored for regression with normalizing flows.
1 code implementation • RecSys 2024 • Shereen Elsayed, Ahmed Rashed, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Sequential recommendation models are crucial for next-item prediction tasks in various online platforms, yet many focus on a single behavior, neglecting valuable implicit interactions.
1 code implementation • 1 Aug 2024 • Thorben Werner, Johannes Burchert, Maximilian Stubbemann, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
We show, that both the cross-domain character and a large amount of repetitions are crucial for sophisticated evaluation of AL research.
no code implementations • 11 Jun 2024 • Vijaya Krishna Yalavarthi, Randolf Scholz, Kiran Madhusudhanan, Stefan Born, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Probabilistic forecasting models for joint distributions of targets in irregular time series are a heavily under-researched area in machine learning with, to the best of our knowledge, only three models researched so far: GPR, the Gaussian Process Regression model~\citep{Durichen2015. Multitask}, TACTiS, the Transformer-Attentional Copulas for Time Series~\cite{Drouin2022. Tactis, ashok2024tactis} and ProFITi \citep{Yalavarthi2024. Probabilistica}, a multivariate normalizing flow model based on invertible attention layers.
no code implementations • 22 May 2024 • Ahmad Bdeir, Johannes Burchert, Lars Schmidt-Thieme, Niels Landwehr
Hyperbolic deep learning has become a growing research direction in computer vision due to the unique properties afforded by the alternate embedding space.
1 code implementation • 6 May 2024 • Christian Klötergens, Vijaya Krishna Yalavarthi, Maximilian Stubbemann, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
In order to capture the continuous dynamics of the irregular time series, many models rely on solving an Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) in the hidden state.
Ranked #1 on
Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
on USHCN-Daily
1 code implementation • 29 Apr 2024 • Shereen Elsayed, Ahmed Rashed, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
In the context of recommendation systems, addressing multi-behavioral user interactions has become vital for understanding the evolving user behavior.
Ranked #1 on
Multibehavior Recommendation
on MovieLens
no code implementations • 10 Apr 2024 • Johannes Burchert, Thorben Werner, Vijaya Krishna Yalavarthi, Diego Coello de Portugal, Maximilian Stubbemann, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
For EEG classification many models have been developed with layer types and architectures we typically do not see in time series classification.
1 code implementation • 7 Mar 2024 • Kiran Madhusudhanan, Shayan Jawed, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Time series forecasting attempts to predict future events by analyzing past trends and patterns.
Hyperparameter Optimization
Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting
+1
no code implementations • 6 Mar 2024 • Kiran Madhusudhanan, Gunnar Behrens, Maximilian Stubbemann, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Used car pricing is a critical aspect of the automotive industry, influenced by many economic factors and market dynamics.
1 code implementation • 9 Feb 2024 • Vijaya Krishna Yalavarthi, Randolf Scholz, Stefan Born, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Probabilistic forecasting of irregularly sampled multivariate time series with missing values is an important problem in many fields, including health care, astronomy, and climate.
1 code implementation • 7 Feb 2024 • Tim Dernedde, Daniela Thyssens, Sören Dittrich, Maximilian Stubbemann, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Our approach, Moco, learns a graph neural network that updates the solution construction procedure based on features extracted from the current search state.
3 code implementations • 15 Dec 2023 • Shereen Elsayed, Ahmed Rashed, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Sequential recommendation models are crucial for next-item recommendations in online platforms, capturing complex patterns in user interactions.
no code implementations • 30 Nov 2023 • Thorben Werner, Johannes Burchert, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Active Learning has received significant attention in the field of machine learning for its potential in selecting the most informative samples for labeling, thereby reducing data annotation costs.
no code implementations • 6 Oct 2023 • Daniela Thyssens, Tim Dernedde, Jonas K. Falkner, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Neural Combinatorial Optimization has been researched actively in the last eight years.
1 code implementation • 29 Sep 2023 • Jonas K. Falkner, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
In recent years new deep learning approaches to solve combinatorial optimization problems, in particular NP-hard Vehicle Routing Problems (VRP), have been proposed.
1 code implementation • 19 Jul 2023 • Shayan Jawed, Kiran Madhusudhanan, Vijaya Krishna Yalavarthi, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
In the early observation period of a time series, there might be only a few historic observations available to learn a model.
1 code implementation • 5 Jun 2023 • Christian Löwens, Daniela Thyssens, Emma Andersson, Christina Jenkins, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Common approaches to SR extraction are evaluated either solely unsupervised or on a small-scale private dataset, as popular public datasets are unlabeled.
1 code implementation • 22 May 2023 • Vijaya Krishna Yalavarthi, Kiran Madhusudhanan, Randolf Sholz, Nourhan Ahmed, Johannes Burchert, Shayan Jawed, Stefan Born, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Forecasting irregularly sampled time series with missing values is a crucial task for numerous real-world applications such as healthcare, astronomy, and climate sciences.
Ranked #1 on
Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
on MIMIC-III
no code implementations • 14 Apr 2023 • Mofassir ul Islam Arif, Mohsan Jameel, Josif Grabocka, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
We create phantom embeddings from a subset of homogenous samples and use these phantom embeddings to decrease the inter-class similarity of instances in their latent embedding space.
no code implementations • 14 Apr 2023 • Mofassir ul Islam Arif, Mohsan Jameel, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
In the scope of work seen currently in this domain, IoU is approximated by using the Huber loss as a proxy but this indirect method does not leverage the IoU information and treats the bounding box as four independent, unrelated terms of regression.
1 code implementation • 10 Feb 2023 • Jonas K. Falkner, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Recent work on deep clustering has found new promising methods also for constrained clustering problems.
1 code implementation • 22 Dec 2022 • Rafael Rego Drumond, Lukas Brinkmeyer, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Human motion prediction is a complex task as it involves forecasting variables over time on a graph of connected sensors.
1 code implementation • 5 Dec 2022 • Shayan Jawed, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
We show that following similar intuition from multi-task learning to exploit correlations among forecast horizons, we can model multiple quantile estimates as auxiliary tasks for each of the forecast horizon to improve forecast accuracy across the quantile estimates compared to modeling only a single quantile estimate.
1 code implementation • 18 Oct 2022 • Shereen Elsayed, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Click-Through Rate prediction (CTR) is a crucial task in recommender systems, and it gained considerable attention in the past few years.
1 code implementation • 5 Oct 2022 • Vijaya Krishna Yalavarthi, Johannes Burchert, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Results indicate an improvement in negative loglikelihood error by up to 32% on real-world datasets and 85% on synthetic datasets when using the Tripletformer compared to the next best model.
1 code implementation • 1 Oct 2022 • Mesay Samuel, Lars Schmidt-Thieme, DP Sharma, Abiot Sinamo, Abey Bruck
Learning from a few examples is also an important attempt towards learning like humans.
no code implementations • 2 Sep 2022 • Nghia Duong-Trung, Stefan Born, Jong Woo Kim, Marie-Therese Schermeyer, Katharina Paulick, Maxim Borisyak, Mariano Nicolas Cruz-Bournazou, Thorben Werner, Randolf Scholz, Lars Schmidt-Thieme, Peter Neubauer, Ernesto Martinez
ML can be seen as a set of tools that contribute to the automation of the whole experimental cycle, including model building and practical planning, thus allowing human experts to focus on the more demanding and overarching cognitive tasks.
1 code implementation • 24 Aug 2022 • Vijaya Krishna Yalavarthi, Johannes Burchert, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Because of the asynchronous nature, they pose a significant challenge to deep learning architectures, which presume that the time series presented to them are regularly sampled, fully observed, and aligned with respect to time.
no code implementations • 14 Jul 2022 • Ahmad Bdeir, Jonas K. Falkner, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Machine Learning (ML) methods have become a useful tool for tackling vehicle routing problems, either in combination with popular heuristics or as standalone models.
1 code implementation • 4 Jul 2022 • Christian Löwens, Inaam Ashraf, Alexander Gembus, Genesis Cuizon, Jonas K. Falkner, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
In this work, we generalize this concept of heterogeneous attentions to the TSPPC.
1 code implementation • 27 Jun 2022 • Jonas K. Falkner, Daniela Thyssens, Ahmad Bdeir, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Combinatorial optimization problems are encountered in many practical contexts such as logistics and production, but exact solutions are particularly difficult to find and usually NP-hard for considerable problem sizes.
1 code implementation • 16 Jun 2022 • Ekrem Öztürk, Fabio Ferreira, Hadi S. Jomaa, Lars Schmidt-Thieme, Josif Grabocka, Frank Hutter
Given a new dataset D and a low compute budget, how should we choose a pre-trained model to fine-tune to D, and set the fine-tuning hyperparameters without risking overfitting, particularly if D is small?
1 code implementation • 5 May 2022 • Shereen Elsayed, Lukas Brinkmeyer, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
In fashion-based recommendation settings, incorporating the item image features is considered a crucial factor, and it has shown significant improvements to many traditional models, including but not limited to matrix factorization, auto-encoders, and nearest neighbor models.
1 code implementation • 2 May 2022 • Jonas K. Falkner, Daniela Thyssens, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
The neural repair operator is combined with a local search routine, heuristic destruction operators and a selection procedure applied to a small population to arrive at a sophisticated solution approach.
1 code implementation • 7 Apr 2022 • Lukas Brinkmeyer, Rafael Rego Drumond, Johannes Burchert, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Learning complex time series forecasting models usually requires a large amount of data, as each model is trained from scratch for each task/data set.
2 code implementations • 4 Apr 2022 • Ahmed Rashed, Shereen Elsayed, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
This cross-attention allows CARCA to harness the correlation between old and recent items in the user profile and their influence on deciding which item to recommend next.
Ranked #1 on
Sequential Recommendation
on Amazon Men
(using extra training data)
no code implementations • 25 Feb 2022 • Mesay Samuel Gondere, Lars Schmidt-Thieme, Durga Prasad Sharma, Abiot Sinamo Boltena
Amharic is one of the official languages of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Handwritten Text Recognition
Optical Character Recognition
+1
no code implementations • 11 Feb 2022 • Jonas Sonntag, Gunnar Behrens, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
In this work we are the first to introduce the challenge of Positive-Unlabeled Domain Adaptation where we aim to generalise from a fully labeled source domain to a target domain where only positive and unlabeled data is available.
no code implementations • 9 Feb 2022 • Shayan Jawed, Mofassir ul Islam Arif, Ahmed Rashed, Kiran Madhusudhanan, Shereen Elsayed, Mohsan Jameel, Alexei Volk, Andre Hintsches, Marlies Kornfeld, Katrin Lange, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Machine learning is being widely adapted in industrial applications owing to the capabilities of commercially available hardware and rapidly advancing research.
no code implementations • 5 Jan 2022 • Daniela Thyssens, Jonas Falkner, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Learning to solve combinatorial optimization problems, such as the vehicle routing problem, offers great computational advantages over classical operations research solvers and heuristics.
no code implementations • 15 Oct 2021 • Hadi S. Jomaa, Jonas Falkner, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is generally treated as a bi-level optimization problem that involves fitting a (probabilistic) surrogate model to a set of observed hyperparameter responses, e. g. validation loss, and consequently maximizing an acquisition function using a surrogate model to identify good hyperparameter candidates for evaluation.
Hyperparameter Optimization
Model-based Reinforcement Learning
+5
1 code implementation • 13 Oct 2021 • Kiran Madhusudhanan, Johannes Burchert, Nghia Duong-Trung, Stefan Born, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Time series data is ubiquitous in research as well as in a wide variety of industrial applications.
no code implementations • 29 Sep 2021 • Hadi Samer Jomaa, Sebastian Pineda Arango, Lars Schmidt-Thieme, Josif Grabocka
As a result, our novel DKLM can learn contextualized dataset-specific similarity representations for hyperparameter configurations.
no code implementations • 3 Sep 2021 • Raaghav Radhakrishnan, Jan Fabian Schmid, Randolf Scholz, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Ground texture based localization methods are potential prospects for low-cost, high-accuracy self-localization solutions for robots.
no code implementations • 5 Aug 2021 • Sebastian Pineda Arango, Felix Heinrich, Kiran Madhusudhanan, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Recent work has shown the efficiency of deep learning models such as Fully Convolutional Networks (FCN) or Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) to deal with Time Series Regression (TSR) problems.
no code implementations • 15 Jun 2021 • Mesay Samuel Gondere, Lars Schmidt-Thieme, Durga Prasad Sharma, Randolf Scholz
Therefore, in this study multi-script handwritten digit recognition using multi-task learning will be investigated.
no code implementations • 25 Apr 2021 • Ahmad Bdeir, Simon Boeder, Tim Dernedde, Kirill Tkachuk, Jonas K. Falkner, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
In this paper we present a new approach to tackle complex routing problems with an improved state representation that utilizes the model complexity better than previous methods.
no code implementations • 7 Feb 2021 • Hadi S. Jomaa, Lars Schmidt-Thieme, Josif Grabocka
In contrast to existing models, DMFBS i) integrates a differentiable metafeature extractor and ii) is optimized using a novel multi-task loss, linking manifold regularization with a dataset similarity measure learned via an auxiliary dataset identification meta-task, effectively enforcing the response approximation for similar datasets to be similar.
1 code implementation • 6 Jan 2021 • Shereen Elsayed, Daniela Thyssens, Ahmed Rashed, Hadi Samer Jomaa, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
In this paper, we report the results of prominent deep learning models with respect to a well-known machine learning baseline, a Gradient Boosting Regression Tree (GBRT) model.
no code implementations • 1 Jan 2021 • Hadi Samer Jomaa, Lars Schmidt-Thieme, Josif Grabocka
Zero-shot hyper-parameter optimization refers to the process of selecting hyper- parameter configurations that are expected to perform well for a given dataset upfront, without access to any observations of the losses of the target response.
1 code implementation • 16 Jun 2020 • Jonas K. Falkner, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Many real-world vehicle routing problems involve rich sets of constraints with respect to the capacities of the vehicles, time windows for customers etc.
1 code implementation • 28 Oct 2019 • Rafael Rego Drumond, Lukas Brinkmeyer, Josif Grabocka, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
In this paper, we present HIDRA, a meta-learning approach that enables training and evaluating across tasks with any number of target variables.
1 code implementation • 30 Sep 2019 • Lukas Brinkmeyer, Rafael Rego Drumond, Randolf Scholz, Josif Grabocka, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Parametric models, and particularly neural networks, require weight initialization as a starting point for gradient-based optimization.
no code implementations • 25 Sep 2019 • Jonas Falkner, Josif Grabocka, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Compressed forms of deep neural networks are essential in deploying large-scale computational models on resource-constrained devices.
no code implementations • 23 Sep 2019 • Mesay Samuel Gondere, Lars Schmidt-Thieme, Abiot Sinamo Boltena, Hadi Samer Jomaa
The model was further enhanced using multi-task learning from the relationships of the characters.
1 code implementation • 27 Jun 2019 • Hadi S. Jomaa, Josif Grabocka, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
More recently, methods have been introduced that build a so-called surrogate model that predicts the validation loss for a specific hyperparameter setting, model and dataset and then sequentially select the next hyperparameter to test, based on a heuristic function of the expected value and the uncertainty of the surrogate model called acquisition function (sequential model-based Bayesian optimization, SMBO).
no code implementations • 24 Jun 2019 • Hadi S. Jomaa, Josif Grabocka, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
In classical Q-learning, the objective is to maximize the sum of discounted rewards through iteratively using the Bellman equation as an update, in an attempt to estimate the action value function of the optimal policy.
1 code implementation • 27 May 2019 • Hadi S. Jomaa, Lars Schmidt-Thieme, Josif Grabocka
As a data-driven approach, meta-learning requires meta-features that represent the primary learning tasks or datasets, and are estimated traditonally as engineered dataset statistics that require expert domain knowledge tailored for every meta-task.
no code implementations • 24 May 2019 • Josif Grabocka, Randolf Scholz, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Ultimately, the surrogate losses are learned jointly with the prediction model via bilevel optimization.
no code implementations • 25 Feb 2019 • Ahmed Rashed, Josif Grabocka, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
It can be formalized as a multi-relational learning task for predicting nodes labels based on their relations within the network.
no code implementations • 9 Feb 2019 • Shayan Jawed, Eya Boumaiza, Josif Grabocka, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
An active area of research is to increase the safety of self-driving vehicles.
2 code implementations • 20 Dec 2018 • Josif Grabocka, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Research on time-series similarity measures has emphasized the need for elastic methods which align the indices of pairs of time series and a plethora of non-parametric have been proposed for the task.
no code implementations • 2 Nov 2017 • Dripta S. Raychaudhuri, Josif Grabocka, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Time series shapelets are discriminative sub-sequences and their similarity to time series can be used for time series classification.
no code implementations • SIAM 2017 2017 • Martin Wistuba, Nicolas Schilling, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Automating machine learning by providing techniques that autonomously find the best algorithm, hyperparameter configuration and preprocessing is helpful for both researchers and practitioners.
no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Rosa Tsegaye Aga, Lucas Drumond, Christian Wartena, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Thus we show, that MRMF provides an interesting approach for building semantic classifiers that (1) gives better results than unsupervised approaches based on vector similarity, (2) gives similar results as other supervised methods and (3) can naturally be extended with other sources of information in order to improve the results.
no code implementations • 13 Oct 2016 • Martin Wistuba, Nghia Duong-Trung, Nicolas Schilling, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
We describe the solution of team ISMLL for the ECML-PKDD 2016 Discovery Challenge on Bank Card Usage for both tasks.
1 code implementation • ECML PKDD 2016 2016 • Nicolas Schilling, Martin Wistuba, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
In this paper, we use products of Gaussian process experts as surrogate models for hyperparameter optimization.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Rosa Tsegaye Aga, Christian Wartena, Lucas Drumond, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
The similarity of words can be computed by comparing their feature vectors.
no code implementations • 3 Apr 2016 • Lucas Drumond, Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Learning from multiple-relational data which contains noise, ambiguities, or duplicate entities is essential to a wide range of applications such as statistical inference based on Web Linked Data, recommender systems, computational biology, and natural language processing.
no code implementations • 3 May 2015 • Josif Grabocka, Nicolas Schilling, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
We demonstrate that searching is non-optimal since the domain of motifs is restricted, and instead we propose a principled optimization approach able to find optimal motifs.
no code implementations • 17 Mar 2015 • Martin Wistuba, Josif Grabocka, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
A method for using shapelets for multivariate time series is proposed and Ultra-Fast Shapelets is proven to be successful in comparison to state-of-the-art multivariate time series classifiers on 15 multivariate time series datasets from various domains.
no code implementations • 11 Mar 2015 • Josif Grabocka, Martin Wistuba, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Time-series classification is an important problem for the data mining community due to the wide range of application domains involving time-series data.
no code implementations • 23 Dec 2013 • Josif Grabocka, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Time-series classification is an important domain of machine learning and a plethora of methods have been developed for the task.
no code implementations • 24 Jul 2013 • Josif Grabocka, Martin Wistuba, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
The coefficients of the polynomial functions are converted to symbolic words via equivolume discretizations of the coefficients' distributions.
23 code implementations • 9 May 2012 • Steffen Rendle, Christoph Freudenthaler, Zeno Gantner, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
In this paper we present a generic optimization criterion BPR-Opt for personalized ranking that is the maximum posterior estimator derived from a Bayesian analysis of the problem.