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Split-kl and PAC-Bayes-split-kl Inequalities for Ternary Random Variables

Neural Information Processing Systems

It resolves an open question by Tolstikhin and Seldin [2013] and Mhammedi et al. [2019] on how to match simultaneously the combinatorial power of the


Split-kl and PAC-Bayes-split-kl Inequalities for Ternary Random Variables

Neural Information Processing Systems

It resolves an open question by Tolstikhin and Seldin [2013] and Mhammedi et al. [2019] on how to match simultaneously the combinatorial power of the



Few-Shot Data-Driven Algorithms for Low Rank Approximation

Neural Information Processing Systems

Recently, data-driven and learning-based algorithms for low rank matrix approximation were shown to outperform classical data-oblivious algorithms by wide margins in terms of accuracy. Those algorithms are based on the optimization of sparse sketching matrices, which lead to large savings in time and memory during testing. However, they require long training times on a large amount of existing data, and rely on access to specialized hardware and software. In this work, we develop new data-driven low rank approximation algorithms with better computational efficiency in the training phase, alleviating these drawbacks. Furthermore, our methods are interpretable: while previous algorithms choose the sketching matrix either at random or by black-box learning, we show that it can be set (or initialized) to clearly interpretable values extracted from the dataset. Our experiments show that our algorithms, either by themselves or in combination with previous methods, achieve significant empirical advantages over previous work, improving training times by up to an order of magnitude toward achieving the same target accuracy.



Improving Self-Supervised Learning by Characterizing Idealized Representations

Neural Information Processing Systems

Our goal is to provide a simple conceptual framework to think about those questions. To derive such a framework, we ask ourselves: what are the ideal requirements that ISSL representations should aim to satisfy? We prove necessary and sufficient requirements to ensure that probes from a specified family, e.g.





SeqPA TE: Differentially Private Text Generation via Knowledge Distillation

Neural Information Processing Systems

P A TE is a recent DP learning algorithm that achieves high utility with strong privacy protection on training samples. However, text generation models output tokens sequentially in a large output space; the classic P A TE algorithm is not customized for this setting.