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Advances in Domain Adaptation Theory

Author : Ievgen Redko
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0081023472
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Domain Adaptation Theory written by Ievgen Redko and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Domain Adaptation Theory gives current, state-of-the-art results on transfer learning, with a particular focus placed on domain adaptation from a theoretical point-of-view. The book begins with a brief overview of the most popular concepts used to provide generalization guarantees, including sections on Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC), Rademacher, PAC-Bayesian, Robustness and Stability based bounds. In addition, the book explains domain adaptation problem and describes the four major families of theoretical results that exist in the literature, including the Divergence based bounds. Next, PAC-Bayesian bounds are discussed, including the original PAC-Bayesian bounds for domain adaptation and their updated version. Additional sections present generalization guarantees based on the robustness and stability properties of the learning algorithm. Gives an overview of current results on transfer learning Focuses on the adaptation of the field from a theoretical point-of-view Describes four major families of theoretical results in the literature Summarizes existing results on adaptation in the field Provides tips for future research

Domain Adaptation Theory

Author : Ievgen Redko
Publisher : ISTE Press - Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 178548236X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Domain Adaptation Theory written by Ievgen Redko and published by ISTE Press - Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domain Adaptation Theory: Available Theoretical Results gives current, state-of-the-art results on transfer learning, with a particular focus placed on domain adaptation from a theoretical point-of-view. The book begins with a brief overview of the most popular concepts used to provide generalization guarantees, including sections on Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC), Rademacher, PAC-Bayesian, Robustness and Stability based bounds. In addition, the book explains domain adaptation problem and describes the four major families of theoretical results that exist in the literature, including the Divergence based bounds. Next, PAC-Bayesian bounds are discussed, including the original PAC-Bayesian bounds for domain adaptation and their updated version. Additional sections present generalization guarantees based on the robustness and stability properties of the learning algorithm. Gives an overview of current results on transfer learning Focuses on the adaptation of the field from a theoretical point-of-view Describes four major families of theoretical results in the literature Summarizes existing results on adaptation in the field Provides tips for future research

Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases

Author : Michelangelo Ceci
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319712462
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases written by Michelangelo Ceci and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volume proceedings LNAI 10534 – 10536 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2017, held in Skopje, Macedonia, in September 2017. The total of 101 regular papers presented in part I and part II was carefully reviewed and selected from 364 submissions; there are 47 papers in the applied data science, nectar and demo track. The contributions were organized in topical sections named as follows: Part I: anomaly detection; computer vision; ensembles and meta learning; feature selection and extraction; kernel methods; learning and optimization, matrix and tensor factorization; networks and graphs; neural networks and deep learning. Part II: pattern and sequence mining; privacy and security; probabilistic models and methods; recommendation; regression; reinforcement learning; subgroup discovery; time series and streams; transfer and multi-task learning; unsupervised and semisupervised learning. Part III: applied data science track; nectar track; and demo track.

Dataset Shift in Machine Learning

Author : Joaquin Quinonero-Candela
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026254587X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Book Synopsis Dataset Shift in Machine Learning by : Joaquin Quinonero-Candela

Download or read book Dataset Shift in Machine Learning written by Joaquin Quinonero-Candela and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of recent efforts in the machine learning community to deal with dataset and covariate shift, which occurs when test and training inputs and outputs have different distributions. Dataset shift is a common problem in predictive modeling that occurs when the joint distribution of inputs and outputs differs between training and test stages. Covariate shift, a particular case of dataset shift, occurs when only the input distribution changes. Dataset shift is present in most practical applications, for reasons ranging from the bias introduced by experimental design to the irreproducibility of the testing conditions at training time. (An example is -email spam filtering, which may fail to recognize spam that differs in form from the spam the automatic filter has been built on.) Despite this, and despite the attention given to the apparently similar problems of semi-supervised learning and active learning, dataset shift has received relatively little attention in the machine learning community until recently. This volume offers an overview of current efforts to deal with dataset and covariate shift. The chapters offer a mathematical and philosophical introduction to the problem, place dataset shift in relationship to transfer learning, transduction, local learning, active learning, and semi-supervised learning, provide theoretical views of dataset and covariate shift (including decision theoretic and Bayesian perspectives), and present algorithms for covariate shift. Contributors: Shai Ben-David, Steffen Bickel, Karsten Borgwardt, Michael Brückner, David Corfield, Amir Globerson, Arthur Gretton, Lars Kai Hansen, Matthias Hein, Jiayuan Huang, Choon Hui Teo, Takafumi Kanamori, Klaus-Robert Müller, Sam Roweis, Neil Rubens, Tobias Scheffer, Marcel Schmittfull, Bernhard Schölkopf Hidetoshi Shimodaira, Alex Smola, Amos Storkey, Masashi Sugiyama

Metric Learning

Author : Aurélien Muise
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303101572X
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Metric Learning written by Aurélien Muise and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Similarity between objects plays an important role in both human cognitive processes and artificial systems for recognition and categorization. How to appropriately measure such similarities for a given task is crucial to the performance of many machine learning, pattern recognition and data mining methods. This book is devoted to metric learning, a set of techniques to automatically learn similarity and distance functions from data that has attracted a lot of interest in machine learning and related fields in the past ten years. In this book, we provide a thorough review of the metric learning literature that covers algorithms, theory and applications for both numerical and structured data. We first introduce relevant definitions and classic metric functions, as well as examples of their use in machine learning and data mining. We then review a wide range of metric learning algorithms, starting with the simple setting of linear distance and similarity learning. We show how one may scale-up these methods to very large amounts of training data. To go beyond the linear case, we discuss methods that learn nonlinear metrics or multiple linear metrics throughout the feature space, and review methods for more complex settings such as multi-task and semi-supervised learning. Although most of the existing work has focused on numerical data, we cover the literature on metric learning for structured data like strings, trees, graphs and time series. In the more technical part of the book, we present some recent statistical frameworks for analyzing the generalization performance in metric learning and derive results for some of the algorithms presented earlier. Finally, we illustrate the relevance of metric learning in real-world problems through a series of successful applications to computer vision, bioinformatics and information retrieval. Table of Contents: Introduction / Metrics / Properties of Metric Learning Algorithms / Linear Metric Learning / Nonlinear and Local Metric Learning / Metric Learning for Special Settings / Metric Learning for Structured Data / Generalization Guarantees for Metric Learning / Applications / Conclusion / Bibliography / Authors' Biographies

Neural Network Learning

Author : Martin Anthony
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052157353X
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Neural Network Learning written by Martin Anthony and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-04 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores probabilistic models of supervised learning problems and addresses the key statistical and computational questions. Chapters survey research on pattern classification with binary-output networks, including a discussion of the relevance of the Vapnik Chervonenkis dimension, and of estimates of the dimension for several neural network models. In addition, the authors develop a model of classification by real-output networks, and demonstrate the usefulness of classification...

Transfer Learning

Author : Qiang Yang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108860087
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Transfer Learning by : Qiang Yang

Download or read book Transfer Learning written by Qiang Yang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transfer learning deals with how systems can quickly adapt themselves to new situations, tasks and environments. It gives machine learning systems the ability to leverage auxiliary data and models to help solve target problems when there is only a small amount of data available. This makes such systems more reliable and robust, keeping the machine learning model faced with unforeseeable changes from deviating too much from expected performance. At an enterprise level, transfer learning allows knowledge to be reused so experience gained once can be repeatedly applied to the real world. For example, a pre-trained model that takes account of user privacy can be downloaded and adapted at the edge of a computer network. This self-contained, comprehensive reference text describes the standard algorithms and demonstrates how these are used in different transfer learning paradigms. It offers a solid grounding for newcomers as well as new insights for seasoned researchers and developers.

Person Re-Identification

Author : Shaogang Gong
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 144716296X
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Person Re-Identification written by Shaogang Gong and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind dedicated to the challenge of person re-identification, this text provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary discussion of recent developments and state-of-the-art methods. Features: introduces examples of robust feature representations, reviews salient feature weighting and selection mechanisms and examines the benefits of semantic attributes; describes how to segregate meaningful body parts from background clutter; examines the use of 3D depth images and contextual constraints derived from the visual appearance of a group; reviews approaches to feature transfer function and distance metric learning and discusses potential solutions to issues of data scalability and identity inference; investigates the limitations of existing benchmark datasets, presents strategies for camera topology inference and describes techniques for improving post-rank search efficiency; explores the design rationale and implementation considerations of building a practical re-identification system.

Contributions to Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Author : Sofiane Dhouib
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Contributions to Unsupervised Domain Adaptation written by Sofiane Dhouib and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surge in the quantity of data produced nowadays made of Machine Learning, a subfield of Artificial Intelligence, a vital tool used to extract valuable patterns from them and allowed it to be integrated into almost every aspect of our everyday activities. Concretely, a machine learning algorithm learns such patterns after being trained on a dataset called the training set, and its performance is assessed on a different set called the testing set. Domain Adaptation is an active research area of machine learning, in which the training and testing sets are not assumed to stem from the same probability distribution, as opposed to Supervised Learning. In this case, the two distributions generating the training and testing data correspond respectively to the source and target domains. Our contributions focus on three theoretical aspects related to domain adaptation for classification tasks. The first one is learning with similarity functions, which deals with classification algorithms based on comparing an instance to other examples in order to decide its class. The second is large-margin classification, which concerns learning classifiers that maximize the separation between classes. The third is Optimal Transport that formalizes the principle of least effort for transporting probability masses between two distributions. At the beginning of the thesis, we were interested in learning with so-called (epsilon,gamma,tau)-good similarity functions in the domain adaptation framework, since these functions have been introduced in the literature in the classical framework of supervised learning. This is the subject of our first contribution in which we theoretically study the performance of a similarity function on a target distribution, given it is suitable for the source one. Then, we tackle the more general topic of large-margin classification in domain adaptation, with weaker assumptions than those adopted in the first contribution. In this context, we proposed a new theoretical study and a domain adaptation algorithm, which is our second contribution. We derive novel bounds taking the classification margin on the target domain into account, that we convexify by leveraging the appealing Optimal Transport theory, in order to derive a domain adaptation algorithm with an adversarial variation of the classic Kantorovich problem. Finally, after noticing that our adversarial formulation can be generalized to include several other cases of interest, we dedicate our last contribution to adversarial or minimax variations of the optimal transport problem, where we demonstrate the versatility of our approach.

Understanding Machine Learning

Author : Shai Shalev-Shwartz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107057132
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Machine Learning written by Shai Shalev-Shwartz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces machine learning and its algorithmic paradigms, explaining the principles behind automated learning approaches and the considerations underlying their usage.

A Theory of Adaptation

Author : Linda Hutcheon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113621092X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Adaptation written by Linda Hutcheon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Theory of Adaptation explores the continuous development of creative adaptation, and argues that the practice of adapting is central to the story-telling imagination. Linda Hutcheon develops a theory of adaptation through a range of media, from film and opera, to video games, pop music and theme parks, analysing the breadth, scope and creative possibilities within each. This new edition is supplemented by a new preface from the author, discussing both new adaptive forms/platforms and recent critical developments in the study of adaptation. It also features an illuminating new epilogue from Siobhan O’Flynn, focusing on adaptation in the context of digital media. She considers the impact of transmedia practices and properties on the form and practice of adaptation, as well as studying the extension of game narrative across media platforms, fan-based adaptation (from Twitter and Facebook to home movies), and the adaptation of books to digital formats. A Theory of Adaptation is the ideal guide to this ever evolving field of study and is essential reading for anyone interested in adaptation in the context of literary and media studies.

Visual Object Recognition

Author : Kristen Grauman
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1598299689
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Visual Object Recognition written by Kristen Grauman and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The visual recognition problem is central to computer vision research. From robotics to information retrieval, many desired applications demand the ability to identify and localize categories, places, and objects. This tutorial overviews computer vision algorithms for visual object recognition and image classification. We introduce primary representations and learning approaches, with an emphasis on recent advances in the field. The target audience consists of researchers or students working in AI, robotics, or vision who would like to understand what methods and representations are available for these problems. This lecture summarizes what is and isn't possible to do reliably today, and overviews key concepts that could be employed in systems requiring visual categorization. Table of Contents: Introduction / Overview: Recognition of Specific Objects / Local Features: Detection and Description / Matching Local Features / Geometric Verification of Matched Features / Example Systems: Specific-Object Recognition / Overview: Recognition of Generic Object Categories / Representations for Object Categories / Generic Object Detection: Finding and Scoring Candidates / Learning Generic Object Category Models / Example Systems: Generic Object Recognition / Other Considerations and Current Challenges / Conclusions

Principled Algorithms for Domain Adaptation and Generalization

Author : Yining Chen (Researcher in computer science)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Principled Algorithms for Domain Adaptation and Generalization written by Yining Chen (Researcher in computer science) and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine learning models are increasingly applied to datasets different from the training datasets. The performance of models often degrades when tested on unseen scenarios. Empirically, many algorithms have been used for domain adaptation and generalization, but few methods have been able to surpass empirical risk minimization consistently on common benchmarks. Theoretically, traditional learning theory offers limited insights for distributional shift problems. The main goal of this thesis is to bridge the gap between the theory and practice for domain shift problems, and to develop principled algorithms that have better robustness guarantees. We study three domain shift problems with increased supervised from the target domain. We first study domain generalization where no target data is available during training. We show that feature-matching algorithms generalize better when the distinguishing property of the signal feature is indeed conditional distributional invariance. Next, we study domain adaptation where unlabeled target data is available. We show that self-training helps when the target is more diverse than the source. Lastly, we study active online learning under domain shift. We show that uncertainty sampling leads to better query-regret tradeoff when there is hidden domain structure. In all three problems, the synergy of explicit bias from the algorithm and implicit bias from the domain shift structure contributes to successful transfer between domains.

Development and Analysis of Deep Learning Architectures

Author : Witold Pedrycz
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030317641
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Development and Analysis of Deep Learning Architectures written by Witold Pedrycz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a timely reflection on the remarkable range of algorithms and applications that have made the area of deep learning so attractive and heavily researched today. Introducing the diversity of learning mechanisms in the environment of big data, and presenting authoritative studies in fields such as sensor design, health care, autonomous driving, industrial control and wireless communication, it enables readers to gain a practical understanding of design. The book also discusses systematic design procedures, optimization techniques, and validation processes.

Elements of Causal Inference

Author : Jonas Peters
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262037319
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Elements of Causal Inference written by Jonas Peters and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and self-contained introduction to causal inference, increasingly important in data science and machine learning. The mathematization of causality is a relatively recent development, and has become increasingly important in data science and machine learning. This book offers a self-contained and concise introduction to causal models and how to learn them from data. After explaining the need for causal models and discussing some of the principles underlying causal inference, the book teaches readers how to use causal models: how to compute intervention distributions, how to infer causal models from observational and interventional data, and how causal ideas could be exploited for classical machine learning problems. All of these topics are discussed first in terms of two variables and then in the more general multivariate case. The bivariate case turns out to be a particularly hard problem for causal learning because there are no conditional independences as used by classical methods for solving multivariate cases. The authors consider analyzing statistical asymmetries between cause and effect to be highly instructive, and they report on their decade of intensive research into this problem. The book is accessible to readers with a background in machine learning or statistics, and can be used in graduate courses or as a reference for researchers. The text includes code snippets that can be copied and pasted, exercises, and an appendix with a summary of the most important technical concepts.

Domain Adaptation in Computer Vision with Deep Learning

Author : Hemanth Venkateswara
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030455297
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Domain Adaptation in Computer Vision with Deep Learning written by Hemanth Venkateswara and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a survey of deep learning approaches to domain adaptation in computer vision. It gives the reader an overview of the state-of-the-art research in deep learning based domain adaptation. This book also discusses the various approaches to deep learning based domain adaptation in recent years. It outlines the importance of domain adaptation for the advancement of computer vision, consolidates the research in the area and provides the reader with promising directions for future research in domain adaptation. Divided into four parts, the first part of this book begins with an introduction to domain adaptation, which outlines the problem statement, the role of domain adaptation and the motivation for research in this area. It includes a chapter outlining pre-deep learning era domain adaptation techniques. The second part of this book highlights feature alignment based approaches to domain adaptation. The third part of this book outlines image alignment procedures for domain adaptation. The final section of this book presents novel directions for research in domain adaptation. This book targets researchers working in artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and computer vision. Industry professionals and entrepreneurs seeking to adopt deep learning into their applications will also be interested in this book.

Lifelong Machine Learning, Second Edition

Author : Zhiyuan Sun
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031015819
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Lifelong Machine Learning, Second Edition written by Zhiyuan Sun and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lifelong Machine Learning, Second Edition is an introduction to an advanced machine learning paradigm that continuously learns by accumulating past knowledge that it then uses in future learning and problem solving. In contrast, the current dominant machine learning paradigm learns in isolation: given a training dataset, it runs a machine learning algorithm on the dataset to produce a model that is then used in its intended application. It makes no attempt to retain the learned knowledge and use it in subsequent learning. Unlike this isolated system, humans learn effectively with only a few examples precisely because our learning is very knowledge-driven: the knowledge learned in the past helps us learn new things with little data or effort. Lifelong learning aims to emulate this capability, because without it, an AI system cannot be considered truly intelligent. Research in lifelong learning has developed significantly in the relatively short time since the first edition of this book was published. The purpose of this second edition is to expand the definition of lifelong learning, update the content of several chapters, and add a new chapter about continual learning in deep neural networks—which has been actively researched over the past two or three years. A few chapters have also been reorganized to make each of them more coherent for the reader. Moreover, the authors want to propose a unified framework for the research area. Currently, there are several research topics in machine learning that are closely related to lifelong learning—most notably, multi-task learning, transfer learning, and meta-learning—because they also employ the idea of knowledge sharing and transfer. This book brings all these topics under one roof and discusses their similarities and differences. Its goal is to introduce this emerging machine learning paradigm and present a comprehensive survey and review of the important research results and latest ideas in the area. This book is thus suitable for students, researchers, and practitioners who are interested in machine learning, data mining, natural language processing, or pattern recognition. Lecturers can readily use the book for courses in any of these related fields.