12 accepted papers
In this paper, we consider the k-center problem with outliers (the (k, z)-center problem) in the context of Massively Parallel Computation (MPC). Existing MPC algorithms for the (k, z)-center problem typically require Ω(k) local space per machine. While this may be feasible when k is small, these al…
In this paper, we study the clustering problems in the learning-augmented setting, where predicted labels for a d-dimensional dataset with size m are given by an oracle to serve as auxiliary information to improve the clustering performance. Following the prior work, the given oracle is parameterize…
Deep learning models often struggle with generalization when deploying on real-world data, due to the common distributional shift to the training data. Test-time adaptation (TTA) is an emerging scheme used at inference time to address this issue. In TTA, models are adapted online at the same time wh…
The Column Subset Selection (CSS) problem has been widely studied in dimensionality reduction and feature selection. The goal of the CSS problem is to output a submatrix S, consisting of k columns from an n×d input matrix A that minimizes the residual error ‖A-SS^\dagger A‖_F^2, where S^\dagger is t…
The k-means with outliers problem is one of the most extensively studied clustering problems in the field of machine learning, where the goal is to discard up to z outliers and identify a minimum k-means clustering on the remaining data points. Most previous results for this problem have running tim…
As one of the most popular machine learning tools in the field of unsupervised learning, clustering has been widely used in various practical applications. While numerous methods have been proposed for clustering, a commonly encountered issue is that the existing clustering methods rely heavily on l…
In this paper, we study the $k$-clustering problems with outliers in distributed setting. The current best results for the distributed $k$-center problem with outliers have quadratic local running time with communication cost dependent on the aspect ratio $\Delta$ of the given instance, which may co…
The local search methods have been widely used to solve the clustering problems. In practice, local search algorithms for clustering problems mainly adapt the single-swap strategy, which enables them to handle large-scale datasets and achieve linear running time in the data size. However, compared w…
Data-free Class-incremental Learning (CIL) is a challenging problem because rehearsing data from previous phases is strictly prohibited, causing catastrophic forgetting of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). In this paper, we present \emph{iVoro}, a novel framework derived from computational geometry. We f…
The k-means problem is an extensively studied unsupervised learning problem with various applications in decision making and data mining. In this paper, we propose a fast and practical local search algorithm for the k-means problem. Our method reduces the search space of swap pairs from O(nk) to O(k…
Few-shot learning (FSL) is the process of rapid generalization from abundant base samples to inadequate novel samples. Despite extensive research in recent years, FSL is still not yet able to generate satisfactory solutions for a wide range of real-world applications. To confront this challenge, we…
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), despite their tremendous success in recent years, could still cast doubts on their predictions due to the intrinsic uncertainty associated with their learning process. Ensemble techniques and post-hoc calibrations are two types of approaches that have individually shown…