Conformal contextual robust optimization

YP Patel, S Rayan, A Tewari - International Conference on …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
Data-driven approaches to predict-then-optimize decision-making problems seek to mitigate
the risk of uncertainty region misspecification in safety-critical settings. Current approaches …

Wasserstein variational inference

L Ambrogioni, U Güçlü, Y Güçlütürk… - Advances in …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
This paper introduces Wasserstein variational inference, a new form of approximate
Bayesian inference based on optimal transport theory. Wasserstein variational inference …

Neural Posterior Estimation for Stochastic Epidemic Modeling

P Chatha, F Bu, J Regier, E Snitkin, J Zelner - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Stochastic infectious disease models capture uncertainty in public health outcomes and
have become increasingly popular in epidemiological practice. However, calibrating these …

Variational inference for deblending crowded starfields

R Liu, JD McAuliffe, J Regier… - Journal of Machine …, 2023 - jmlr.org
In images collected by astronomical surveys, stars and galaxies often overlap visually.
Deblending is the task of distinguishing and characterizing individual light sources in survey …

Attention is not what you need: Revisiting multi-instance learning for whole slide image classification

X Liu, W Zhang, ML Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.09449, 2024 - arxiv.org
Although attention-based multi-instance learning algorithms have achieved impressive
performances on slide-level whole slide image (WSI) classification tasks, they are prone to …

Scalable Differentiable Causal Discovery in the Presence of Latent Confounders with Skeleton Posterior

P Ma, R Ding, Q Fu, J Zhang, S Wang, S Han… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Differentiable causal discovery has made significant advancements in the learning of
directed acyclic graphs. However, its application to real-world datasets remains restricted …

Sequential Monte Carlo for Inclusive KL Minimization in Amortized Variational Inference

D McNamara, J Loper, J Regier - … Conference on Artificial …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
For training an encoder network to perform amortized variational inference, the Kullback-
Leibler (KL) divergence from the exact posterior to its approximation, known as the inclusive …

Scalable Bayesian inference for detection and deblending in astronomical images

D Hansen, I Mendoza, R Liu, Z Pang, Z Zhao… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We present a new probabilistic method for detecting, deblending, and cataloging
astronomical sources called the Bayesian Light Source Separator (BLISS). BLISS is based …

Scalable Differentiable Causal Discovery in the Presence of Latent Confounders with Skeleton Posterior (Extended Version)

P Ma, R Ding, Q Fu, J Zhang, S Wang, S Han… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Differentiable causal discovery has made significant advancements in the learning of
directed acyclic graphs. However, its application to real-world datasets remains restricted …

DeepRF: Ultrafast population receptive field mapping with deep learning

J Thielen, U Güçlü, Y Güçlütürk, L Ambrogioni… - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Population receptive field (pRF) mapping is an important asset for cognitive neuroscience.
The pRF model is used for estimating retinotopy, defining functional localizers and to study a …