In addition to the four appendix sections mentioned in our main paper, we would like to draw atten-1 tion to two additional experiments: one evaluating the practical training and coding time, and the2 other investigating the impact of the number of training samples. These two experiments, especially3 the later one, offer crucial insights and are detailed in Appendix E1 and Appendix E2, respectively.4 Algorithm 1 A* encoding Require: Proposal distribution pw and target distribution qw. In our experiments, we used global-bound depth-limited A*7 coding to achieve this [1]. We describe the encoding procedure in Algorithm 1 and the decoding8 procedure in Algorithm 2. For brevity, we refer to this particular variant of the algorithm as A*9 coding for the rest of the appendix.10

Many common types of data can be represented as functions that map coordinates to signal values, such as pixel locations to RGB values in the case of an image. Based on this view, data can be compressed by overfitting a compact neural network to its functional representation and then encoding the network weights. However, most current solutions for this are inefficient, as quantization to low-bit precision substantially degrades the reconstruction quality. To address this issue, we propose overfitting variational Bayesian neural networks to the data and compressing an approximate posterior weight sample using relative entropy coding instead of quantizing and entropy coding it. This strategy enables direct optimization of the rate-distortion performance by minimizing the β-ELBO, and target different rate-distortion trade-offs for a given network architecture by adjusting β. Moreover, we introduce an iterative algorithm for learning prior weight distributions and employ a progressive refinement process for the variational posterior that significantly enhances performance. Experiments show that our method achieves strong performance on image and audio compression while retaining simplicity.

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As people increasingly rely on AI chatbots for guidance, even on financial matters, a healthy dose of skepticism is critical. I've used ChatGPT to help me build a budget before, and it was genuinely helpful. After I input my monthly salary as well as my standard utilities and recurring expenses, the chatbot drafted a few solid options, and I tweaked them into penny-pinching perfection. "Millions of people turn to ChatGPT with money-related questions, from understanding debt to building budgets and learning financial concepts," says Niko Felix, an OpenAI spokesperson, when reached for comment. "ChatGPT can be a helpful tool for exploring options, preparing questions, and making financial topics easier to understand, but it is not a substitute for licensed financial professionals." OpenAI's Terms of Use state that the AI tool is not meant to replace professional financial advice.

The latest interview in our series with the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants features Deepika Vemuri who is working on interpretability and concept-based learning. We found out more about the two aspects of concept-based models that she's been researching. Could you tell us a bit about your PhD - where are you studying, and what is the topic of your research? I'm a PhD student from IIT Hyderabad working with Dr Vineeth N Balasubramanian, supported by the PMRF Fellowship. Most current state-of-the-art models are black boxes, which is especially problematic when these models are used in high-stakes applications like criminal justice and healthcare, where people's lives depend on the decisions of these models.

Let qu(θ) set as Eq. For notational simplicity, let θ0 = θ(t 1). B.1 Hyperparameter settings Training In Table 2, we enumerate the hyperparameters used for our results in Section 5. Since we use expert trajectories for all methods to train the Bayesian pseudocoresets, we refer to hyperparameters related to expert trajectories, such as the number of SGD steps or the maximum random starting points, described in [8]. We found that a slightly shorter expert training step is better for BPC-fKL, so we used an expert step 1 epoch shorter than BPC-W. For each setting, we used the best learning rate from a hyperparameter sweep over {0.01,0.02,0.03,0.04}.

ABayesian pseudocoreset is a small synthetic dataset for which the posterior over parameters approximates that of the original dataset. While promising, the scalability of Bayesian pseudocoresets is not yet validated in realistic problems such as image classification with deep neural networks. On the other hand, dataset distillation methods similarly construct a small dataset such that the optimization using the synthetic dataset converges to a solution with performance competitive with optimization using full data. Although dataset distillation has been empirically verified in large-scale settings, the framework is restricted to point estimates, and their adaptation to Bayesian inference has not been explored. This paper casts two representative dataset distillation algorithms as approximations to methods for constructing pseudocoresets by minimizing specific divergence measures: reverse KL divergence and Wasserstein distance. Furthermore, we provide a unifying view of such divergence measures in Bayesian pseudocoreset construction. Finally, we propose a novel Bayesian pseudocoreset algorithm based on minimizing forward KL divergence. Our empirical results demonstrate that the pseudocoresets constructed from these methods reflect the true posterior even in high-dimensional Bayesian inference problems.

For what purpose was the dataset created? Was there a specific task in mind? Was there a specific gap that needed to be filled? As surveillance cameras become prevalent in public spaces, using them has proven effective in proactively deterring and preventing such incidents. However, the data collected by these cameras could potentially lead to breaches in privacy for those being filmed. Thus, we hope to find a way to capture scenes of violence while avoiding infringement on personal privacy. DVS cameras can naturally achieve this goal by capturing events of pixel brightness changes. Existing violence detection datasets are filmed with RGB cameras, which cannot ensure privacy preserving.