NeurIPS 2023 Poster Session 4 (Thursday Morning)

1. Temporal action segmentation is the task of translating an untrimmed video into action segments.

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The goal is to classify the action labels of each frame and refine out-of-context errors to fit into the activity context.

• Existing models often suffer from out-of-context errors and fail to distinguish between similar actions.
• The proposed approach includes activity grammar induction and an effective parser to find optimal action sequences.

2. Activity grammar induction algorithm and effective parser improve segmentation optimization.

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The activity grammar is based on probabilistic context-free grammar and includes variables, commas, rules, and star symbols.

• The grammar helps refine out-of-context errors and can recursively generate and expand sequences.
• The proposed approach improves baseline performance and effectively removes unnecessary actions.

3. Combining discriminative and generative approaches improves perception.

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By adapting a pre-trained generator model using a diffusion loss, both discriminative ability and generalization ability can be enhanced.

• Discriminative models fit well to the training set but may lack generalization.
• Generative models better generalize but may not fit the training set perfectly.

4. Online adaptation improves performance in streaming scenarios.

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Adapting models in a streaming manner can significantly improve performance compared to traditional test-time adaptation methods.

• Online adaptation accumulates information learned from previous examples.
• Significant improvements were observed in image classification and online adaptation tasks.

5. The main goal is to improve performance during training.

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Improving performance during training is a challenging engineering problem that requires matching and improving the performance of the model.

• This approach is considered an adaptation technique due to its engineering simplicity.
• Starting with a good initialization is ideal, but training using generative and discriminative losses can achieve the best results.

6. Consider the difference between online adaptation and training time adaptation.

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Results show that classifiers can be improved through online adaptation, but there is uncertainty about the difference compared to training time adaptation.

• Results on imet and imag datasets demonstrate improved classifiers.
• However, concerns about the generator model overpowering the discriminator model and the need for regularization arise.

7. Sample complexity in recurrent neural networks.

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The work focuses on understanding the number of data points or samples needed to train a recurrent neural network.

• The number of samples needed grows linearly with the sequence length.
• Adding a small amount of noise to the network's activation values reduces the number of samples needed.

8. Streaming models and their applications.

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Streaming models are used when there is a large amount of data that cannot be stored locally.

• Examples include Netflix user ratings and online data streams.
• The streaming model allows for incremental updates to the data, reducing space complexity.

9. Matrix sketching and its role in reducing dimensionality.

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Matrix sketching techniques are used to reduce the dimensionality of problems like linear regression.

• Matrix sketching preserves pairwise distances and reduces space complexity.
• These techniques can be applied to solve common problems with lower space complexity.

10. Making models robust to data transformations.

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Large pre-trained models like ChatGPT and Segment Anything Model are not completely robust to data transformations.

• Inverted images and rotated images can cause performance drops in these models.
• A strategy to address this is to side-train a small network to canonicalize the input for the pre-trained model.

11. Adapting pre-trained models using metric space information.

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By replacing the arcmax with a weighted average in the metric space, pre-trained models can be adapted to navigate the metric space and derive predictions based on the geometry of the classes.

• This approach assumes access to metric space information about the classes.
• The weights of the softmax are used to modulate the predictions based on the geometric information.

12. Applying the method to different domains.

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The method can be applied to various domains, such as image classification and air quality prediction.

• For example, in image classification, the method can be used to improve predictions by considering the hierarchy of labels in ImageNet.
• In air quality prediction, the method can navigate the metric space to predict intermediate points based on the distances between categories.

13. Improving predictions on a subset of classes.

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The method can also be used to improve predictions on a subset of classes, even when the model is trained on a larger set of classes.

• Randomly selecting a subset of classes from ImageNet and applying the method resulted in improved accuracy compared to just predicting the arcmax.
• This approach allows for more flexibility in predicting classes beyond the original set.

14. Limitation of the argmax technique in predicting endpoints.

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The argmax technique can only predict the endpoints of a given example, which is a drawback compared to other techniques.

• This limitation restricts the accuracy of predictions.
• Other techniques, like Loki, can predict more accurately by considering intermediate classes.

15. Using distance matrix to improve prediction accuracy.

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In addition to the output distribution, the distance matrix between classes is needed to apply the technique.

• The distance matrix allows for a more precise prediction by considering the relationships between classes.
• The technique involves a simple matrix-vector product and taking the argmax of the result.

16. Applications of feature shift detection.

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Feature shift detection is useful in scenarios like sensor data analysis and data standardization in different domains.

• It can be used to detect malfunctioning sensors in a sensor network.
• It can also be used to identify and fix data standardization issues between different datasets.

17. Iterative process for feature localization and correction.

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The technique involves an iterative process of detecting and correcting features that contribute to the shift.

• The process includes training a binary classifier and evaluating the F1 score to measure the accuracy of the correction.
• The technique can be applied to various types of shifts and has shown superior performance compared to other methods.

18. Evaluation metrics for feature correction.

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The F1 score is used to evaluate the accuracy of feature correction.

• The F1 score measures the balance between true positives and false negatives in detecting and correcting features.
• Lower diversions indicate better correction performance.

19. Selective feature replacement for better correction.

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Only the features that contribute to the shift are replaced with proposals from the reference dataset.

• Features that are independent of the shift are kept unchanged.
• The technique aims to achieve a perfect correction by replacing only the corrupted features.

20. Iterative process for multiple corrections.

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The correction process can be repeated multiple times to further improve the accuracy of the correction.

• The process involves retraining the classifier and evaluating the correction performance.
• Iterations continue until the balance accuracy of the classifier reaches random chance.