Joint active feature acquisition and classification with variable-size set encoding

H Shim, SJ Hwang, E Yang - Advances in neural …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We consider the problem of active feature acquisition where the goal is to sequentially select
the subset of features in order to achieve the maximum prediction performance in the most …

Adaptive classification for prediction under a budget

F Nan, V Saligrama - Advances in neural information …, 2017 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We propose a novel adaptive approximation approach for test-time resource-constrained
prediction motivated by Mobile, IoT, health, security and other applications, where …

Pruning random forests for prediction on a budget

F Nan, J Wang, V Saligrama - Advances in neural …, 2016 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We propose to prune a random forest (RF) for resource-constrained prediction. We first
construct a RF and then prune it to optimize expected feature cost & accuracy. We pose …

Active feature acquisition with generative surrogate models

Y Li, J Oliva - International conference on machine learning, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Many real-world situations allow for the acquisition of additional relevant information when
making an assessment with limited or uncertain data. However, traditional ML approaches …

Efficient learning by directed acyclic graph for resource constrained prediction

J Wang, K Trapeznikov… - Advances in neural …, 2015 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study the problem of reducing test-time acquisition costs in classification systems. Our
goal is to learn decision rules that adaptively select sensors for each example as necessary …

Anytime recognition with routing convolutional networks

Z Jie, P Sun, X Li, J Feng, W Liu - IEEE transactions on pattern …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Achieving an automatic trade-off between accuracy and efficiency for a single deep neural
network is highly desired in time-sensitive computer vision applications. To achieve anytime …

Towards robust active feature acquisition

Y Li, S Shan, Q Liu, JB Oliva - arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.04163, 2021 - arxiv.org
Truly intelligent systems are expected to make critical decisions with incomplete and
uncertain data. Active feature acquisition (AFA), where features are sequentially acquired to …

A clustering based selection framework for cost aware and test-time feature elicitation

S Das, R Iyer, S Natarajan - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM India Joint …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Most learning algorithms are optimized with generalization and predictive performance as
the goal. However, in most real-world machine learning applications, obtaining features at …

Dynamic feature selection for joint probabilistic recognition

N Mehrseresht - US Patent 10,380,173, 2019 - Google Patents
A method of jointly classifying a plurality of objects in an image using a feature type selected
from a plurality of feature types determines classification information for each of the plurality …

Dynamic Feature Acquisition with Arbitrary Conditional Flows

Y Li, JB Oliva - arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.07701, 2020 - arxiv.org
Many real-world situations allow for the acquisition of additional relevant information when
making an assessment with limited or uncertain data. However, traditional ML approaches …