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2016
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Informatics Engineering
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We devise the Unit Commitment Nearest Neighbor (UCNN) algorithm to be used as a proxy for quickly approximating outcomes of short-term decisions, to make tractable hierarchical long-term assessment and planning for large power systems. Experimental results on updat
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We formulate approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search as a multi-label classification task. The implications are twofold. First, tree-based indexes can be searched more efficiently by interpreting them as models to solve this task. Second, in addition to index structures designed specifically for ANN search, any type of classifier can be used as an index.
K-Nearest Neighbor (kNN)-based deep learning methods have been applied to many applications due to their simplicity and geometric interpretability. However, the robustness of kNN-based classification models has not been thoroughly explored and kNN attack strategies are underdeveloped. In this paper, we propose an Adversarial Soft kNN (ASK) loss to both design more effective kNN attack strategies and to develop better defenses against them. Our ASK loss approach has two advantages. First, ASK loss can better approximate the kNNs probability of classification error than objectives proposed in previous works. Second, the ASK loss is interpretable: it preserves the mutual information between the perturbed input and the kNN of the unperturbed input. We use the ASK loss to generate a novel attack method called the ASK-Attack (ASK-Atk), which shows superior attack efficiency and accuracy degradation relative to previous kNN attacks. Based on the ASK-Atk, we then derive an ASK-Defense (ASK-Def) method that optimizes the worst-case training loss induced by ASK-Atk.
Nearest neighbor (kNN) methods have been gaining popularity in recent years in light of advances in hardware and efficiency of algorithms. There is a plethora of methods to choose from today, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. One requirement shared between all kNN based methods is the need for a good representation and distance measure between samples. We introduce a new method called differentiable boundary tree which allows for learning deep kNN representations. We build on the recently proposed boundary tree algorithm which allows for efficient nearest neighbor classification, regression and retrieval. By modelling traversals in the tree as stochastic events, we are able to form a differentiable cost function which is associated with the trees predictions. Using a deep neural network to transform the data and back-propagating through the tree allows us to learn good representations for kNN methods. We demonstrate that our method is able to learn suitable representations allowing for very efficient trees with a clearly interpretable structure.
Nearest neighbor search has found numerous applications in machine learning, data mining and massive data processing systems. The past few years have witnessed the popularity of the graph-based nearest neighbor search paradigm because of its superiority over the space-partitioning algorithms. While a lot of empirical studies demonstrate the efficiency of graph-based algorithms, not much attention has been paid to a more fundamental question: why graph-based algorithms work so well in practice? And which data property affects the efficiency and how? In this paper, we try to answer these questions. Our insight is that the probability that the neighbors of a point o tends to be neighbors in the KNN graph is a crucial data property for query efficiency. For a given dataset, such a property can be qualitatively measured by clustering coefficient of the KNN graph. To show how clustering coefficient affects the performance, we identify that, instead of the global connectivity, the local connectivity around some given query q has more direct impact on recall. Specifically, we observed that high clustering coefficient makes most of the k nearest neighbors of q sit in a maximum strongly connected component (SCC) in the graph. From the algorithmic point of view, we show that the search procedure is actually composed of two phases - the one outside the maximum SCC and the other one in it, which is different from the widely accepted single or multiple paths search models. We proved that the commonly used graph-based search algorithm is guaranteed to traverse the maximum SCC once visiting any point in it. Our analysis reveals that high clustering coefficient leads to large size of the maximum SCC, and thus provides good answer quality with the help of the two-phase search procedure. Extensive empirical results over a comprehensive collection of datasets validate our findings.
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