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Multi-view Alignment and Generation in CCA via Consistent Latent Encoding

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Multi-view alignment, achieving one-to-one correspondence of multi-view inputs, is critical in many real-world multi-view applications, especially for cross-view data analysis problems. Recently, an increasing number of works study this alignment problem with Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA). However, existing CCA models are prone to misalign the multiple views due to either the neglect of uncertainty or the inconsistent encoding of the multiple views. To tackle these two issues, this paper studies multi-view alignment from the Bayesian perspective. Delving into the impairments of inconsistent encodings, we propose to recover correspondence of the multi-view inputs by matching the marginalization of the joint distribution of multi-view random variables under different forms of factorization. To realize our design, we present Adversarial CCA (ACCA) which achieves consistent latent encodings by matching the marginalized latent encodings through the adversarial training paradigm. Our analysis based on conditional mutual information reveals that ACCA is flexible for handling implicit distributions. Extensive experiments on correlation analysis and cross-view generation under noisy input settings demonstrate the superiority of our model.


Adaptive First-and Zeroth-order Methods for Weakly Convex Stochastic Optimization Problems

arXiv.org Machine Learning

In this paper, we design and analyze a new family of adaptive subgradient methods for solving an important class of weakly convex (possibly nonsmooth) stochastic optimization problems. Adaptive methods that use exponential moving averages of past gradients to update search directions and learning rates have recently attracted a lot of attention for solving optimization problems that arise in machine learning. Nevertheless, their convergence analysis almost exclusively requires smoothness and/or convexity of the objective function. In contrast, we establish non-asymptotic rates of convergence of first and zeroth-order adaptive methods and their proximal variants for a reasonably broad class of nonsmooth \& nonconvex optimization problems. Experimental results indicate how the proposed algorithms empirically outperform stochastic gradient descent and its zeroth-order variant for solving such optimization problems.


Deep Learning Stochastic Gradient Descent

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An easy guide to choose the right Machine Learning algorithm - KDnuggets

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Well, there is no straightforward and sure-shot answer to this question. The answer depends on many factors like the problem statement and the kind of output you want, type and size of the data, the available computational time, number of features, and observations in the data, to name a few. Here are some important considerations while choosing an algorithm. It is usually recommended to gather a good amount of data to get reliable predictions. However, many a time, the availability of data is a constraint.


Interpreting the Coefficients of a Regression Model with an Interaction Term: A Detailed…

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Adding an interaction term to a regression model becomes necessary when the relationship between an explanatory variable and an outcome variable depends on the value/level of another explanatory variable. Although the addition of an interaction term can result in a more meaningful empirical model, it simultaneously complicates the interpretation of model coefficients. In this article, we are going to learn how to interpret the coefficients of a regression model that includes a two-way interaction term. By the end of this article, we should understand how the interpretation of model coefficients differs between a model with an interaction term and a model without an interaction term. We are going to use the statistical software R for building the models and visualizing the outcomes.


13 Top Python Libraries You Should Know in 2020

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Python provides a lot of libraries to help developers with their work. Which of them will be the most popular in 2020? And which are worth your time? Here are our picks for the 13 top Python libraries. Python is one of the most popular programming languages.


Data Mining with Big Data in Intrusion Detection Systems: A Systematic Literature Review

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Cloud computing has become a powerful and indispensable technology for complex, high performance and scalable computation. The exponential expansion in the deployment of cloud technology has produced a massive amount of data from a variety of applications, resources and platforms. In turn, the rapid rate and volume of data creation has begun to pose significant challenges for data management and security. The design and deployment of intrusion detection systems (IDS) in the big data setting has, therefore, become a topic of importance. In this paper, we conduct a systematic literature review (SLR) of data mining techniques (DMT) used in IDS-based solutions through the period 2013-2018. We employed criterion-based, purposive sampling identifying 32 articles, which constitute the primary source of the present survey. After a careful investigation of these articles, we identified 17 separate DMTs deployed in an IDS context. This paper also presents the merits and disadvantages of the various works of current research that implemented DMTs and distributed streaming frameworks (DSF) to detect and/or prevent malicious attacks in a big data environment.


Towards Analogy-Based Explanations in Machine Learning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Principles of analogical reasoning have recently been applied in the context of machine learning, for example to develop new methods for classification and preference learning. In this paper, we argue that, while analogical reasoning is certainly useful for constructing new learning algorithms with high predictive accuracy, is is arguably not less interesting from an interpretability and explainability point of view. More specifically, we take the view that an analogy-based approach is a viable alternative to existing approaches in the realm of explainable AI and interpretable machine learning, and that analogy-based explanations of the predictions produced by a machine learning algorithm can complement similarity-based explanations in a meaningful way. To corroborate these claims, we outline the basic idea of an analogy-based explanation and illustrate its potential usefulness by means of some examples.


Emotion-robust EEG Classification for Motor Imagery

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Developments in Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) are empowering those with severe physical afflictions through their use in assistive systems. Common methods of achieving this is via Motor Imagery (MI), which maps brain signals to code for certain commands. Electroencephalogram (EEG) is preferred for recording brain signal data on account of it being non-invasive. Despite their potential utility, MI-BCI systems are yet confined to research labs. A major cause for this is lack of robustness of such systems. As hypothesized by two teams during Cybathlon 2016, a particular source of the system's vulnerability is the sharp change in the subject's state of emotional arousal. This work aims towards making MI-BCI systems resilient to such emotional perturbations. To do so, subjects are exposed to high and low arousal-inducing virtual reality (VR) environments before recording EEG data. The advent of COVID-19 compelled us to modify our methodology. Instead of training machine learning algorithms to classify emotional arousal, we opt for classifying subjects that serve as proxy for each state. Additionally, MI models are trained for each subject instead of each arousal state. As training subjects to use MI-BCI can be an arduous and time-consuming process, reducing this variability and increasing robustness can considerably accelerate the acceptance and adoption of assistive technologies powered by BCI.


Principal Component Analysis Based on T$\ell_1$-norm Maximization

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Classical principal component analysis (PCA) may suffer from the sensitivity to outliers and noise. Therefore PCA based on $\ell_1$-norm and $\ell_p$-norm ($0 < p < 1$) have been studied. Among them, the ones based on $\ell_p$-norm seem to be most interesting from the robustness point of view. However, their numerical performance is not satisfactory. Note that, although T$\ell_1$-norm is similar to $\ell_p$-norm ($0 < p < 1$) in some sense, it has the stronger suppression effect to outliers and better continuity. So PCA based on T$\ell_1$-norm is proposed in this paper. Our numerical experiments have shown that its performance is superior than PCA-$\ell_p$ and $\ell_p$SPCA as well as PCA, PCA-$\ell_1$ obviously.