For instance, if an organization is still using paper in its sampling programs which always has higher compliance risks, is not environmentally sensitive, and typically costs more to process , one of the first things that will be done is to suggest the best-automated approach such as the utilization of an HCP Portal, Rep Portal or a Rep Triggered Remote Sample Request mechanism.

These electronic solutions will ensure a cost-effective product sampling program that runs smoother and eliminates paper. In terms of the benefits of product sampling, there are two significant aspects to take into account:.

It is always the goal to provide each client with tailored solutions base on industry expertise blended with the best technology. With years of providing solutions to the industry, Synergistix is in a unique position to understand what their clients need.

The Synergistix team works closely with each client to collaborate and create actionable solutions that are both practical and actionable. From providing a CRM solution tailored explicitly to life sciences and SampleIQ compliance solutions to help companies navigate the evolving world of sampling, Synergistix stays ahead of the curve.

Synergistix offers innovative solutions focusing on the latest technologies to optimize productivity and convenience. Using CRM and SampleIQ solutions, companies can leverage cutting-edge sampling and monitoring solutions to allow their teams to focus on the HCP experience.

In terms of effective product sampling programs, SampleIQ is a cutting-edge offering providing a broad range of services and applications. Overall, if you are seeking a method of optimizing your existing sampling ideas and methods, Synergistix is the standout choice.

To learn more about this product, contact us today. Our company has been a Synergistix client for nearly ten years, and we've had nothing short of a positive experience! The dedication of the organization to the client is next level.

Synergistix's expertise and attention to detail are truly unmatched, and we look forward to our continued partnership. In this work, we propose diffusioN Optimized Sampling NOS , a guidance method for discrete diffusion models that follows gradients in the hidden states of the denoising network.

NOS makes it possible to perform design directly in sequence space, circumventing significant limitations of structure-based methods, including scarce data and challenging inverse design.

Moreover, we use NOS to generalize LaMBO, a Bayesian optimization procedure for sequence design that facilitates multiple objectives and edit-based constraints.

The resulting method, LaMBO-2, enables discrete diffusions and stronger performance with limited edits through a novel application of saliency maps.

Zero-shot learning in prompted visual-language models, the practice of crafting prompts to build classifiers without an explicit training process, shows an impressive performance in many settings.

There also emerges a seemingly surprising fact: this method suffers relatively little from overfitting; i. In this paper, we show that we can explain such performance remarkably well via recourse to classical PAC-Bayes bounds. Furthermore, the bound is remarkably suitable for model selection: the models with the best bound typically also have the best test performance.

Causal relationships underpin modern science and our ability to reason. Automatically discovering useful causal relationships can greatly accelerate scientific progress and facilitate the creation of machines that can reason like we do. Traditionally, the dominant approaches to causal discovery are statistical, such as the PC algorithm.

A new area of research is integrating recent advancement in machine learning with causal discovery. We focus on a series of recent work that leverages new algorithms in deep learning for causal discovery -- notably, generative flow networks GFlowNets. We discuss the unique perspectives GFlowNets bring to causal discovery.

Unsupervised learning of discrete representations in neural networks NNs from continuous ones is essential for many modern applications. Vector Quantisation VQ has become popular for this, in particular in the context of generative models such as Variational Auto-Encoders VAEs , where the exponential moving average-based VQ EMA-VQ algorithm is often used.

Here we study an alternative VQ algorithm based on Kohonen's learning rule for the Self-Organising Map KSOM; , a classic VQ algorithm known to offer two potential benefits over its special case EMA-VQ: empirically, KSOM converges faster than EMA-VQ, and KSOM-generated discrete representations form a topological structure on the grid whose nodes are the discrete symbols, resulting in an artificial version of the brain's topographic map.

We revisit these properties by using KSOM in VQ-VAEs for image processing. In our experiments, the speed-up compared to well-configured EMA-VQ is only observable at the beginning of training, but KSOM is generally much more robust, e.

the choice of initialisation schemes. Representative Selection RS is the problem of finding a small subset of exemplars from a dataset that is representative of the dataset. In this paper, we study RS for unlabeled datasets and focus on finding representatives that optimize the accuracy of a model trained on the selected representatives.

Theoretically, we establish a new hardness result for RS by proving that a particular, highly practical variant of it RS for Learning is hard to approximate in polynomial time within any reasonable factor, which implies a significant potential gap between the optimum solution of widely-used surrogate functions and the actual accuracy of the model.

We then study a setting where additional information in the form of a homophilous graph structure is available, or can be constructed, between the data points. We show that with an appropriate modeling approach, the presence of such a structure can turn a hard RS for learning problem into one that can be effectively solved.

To this end, we develop RSGNN, a representation learning-based RS model based on Graph Neural Networks. Empirically, we demonstrate the effectiveness of RSGNN on problems with predefined graph structures as well as problems with graphs induced from node feature similarities, by showing that RSGNN achieves significant improvements over established baselines on a suite of eight benchmarks.

Training energy-based models EBMs on discrete spaces is challenging because sampling over such spaces can be difficult.

We propose to train discrete EBMs with energy discrepancy ED , a novel type of contrastive loss functional which only requires the evaluation of the energy function at data points and their perturbed counter parts, thus not relying on sampling strategies like Markov chain Monte Carlo MCMC.

Energy discrepancy offers theoretical guarantees for a broad class of perturbation processes of which we investigate three types: perturbations based on Bernoulli noise, based on deterministic transforms, and based on neighbourhood structures.

We demonstrate their relative performance on lattice Ising models, binary synthetic data, and discrete image data sets. Reinforcement learning RL agents can learn complex sequential decision-making and control strategies, often above human expert performance levels.

In real-world deployment, it becomes essential from a risk, safety-critical, and human interaction perspective for agents to communicate the degree of confidence or uncertainty they have in the outcomes of their actions and account for it in their decision-making. We assemble here a complete pipeline for modelling uncertainty in the finite, discrete-state setting of offline RL.

First, we use methods from Bayesian RL to capture the posterior uncertainty in environment model parameters given the available data.

Next, we determine exact values for the return distribution's standard deviation, taken as the measure of uncertainty, for given samples from the environment posterior without requiring quantile-based or similar approximations of conventional distributional RL to more efficiently decompose the agent's uncertainty into epistemic and aleatoric uncertainties compared to previous approaches.

This allows us to build an RL agent that quantifies both types of uncertainty and utilises its epistemic uncertainty belief to inform its optimal policy through a novel stochastic gradient-based optimisation process. We illustrate the improved uncertainty quantification and Bayesian value optimisation performance of our agent in simple, interpretable gridworlds and confirm its scalability by applying it to a clinical decision support system AI Clinician which makes real-time recommendations for sepsis treatment in intensive care units, and address the limitations that arise with inference for larger-scale MDPs by proposing a sparse, conservative dynamics model.

Designing biological sequences with desired properties is an impactful research problem with various application scenarios such as protein engineering, anti-body design, and drug discovery. Machine learning algorithms could be applied either to fit the property landscape with supervised learning or generatively propose reasonable candidates to reduce wet lab efforts.

From the learning perspective, the key challenges lie in the sharp property landscape, i. several mutations could dramatically change the protein property and the large biological sequence space.

In this paper, we propose annealed sequence optimization ANSO and aim to simultaneously take the two main challenges into account by a paired surrogate model training paradigm and sequence sampling procedure. The extensive experiments on a series of protein sequence design tasks have demonstrated the effectiveness over several advanced baselines.

Combinatorial optimization CO is a widely-applied method for addressing a variety of real-world optimization problems. However, due to the NP-hard nature of these problems, complex problem-specific heuristics are often required to tackle them at real-world scales. Neural combinatorial optimization has emerged as an effective approach to tackle CO problems, but it often requires the pre-computed optimal solution or a hand-designed process to ensure the model to generate a feasible solution, which may not be available in many real-world CO problems.

We propose the hierarchical combinatorial optimizer HCO that does not rely on such restrictive assumptions. HCO decomposes the given CO problem into multiple sub-problems on different scales with smaller search spaces, where each sub-problem can be optimized separately and their solutions can be combined to compose the entire solution.

Our experiments demonstrate that this hierarchical decomposition facilitates more efficient learning and stronger generalization capabilities, outperforming traditional heuristic and mathematical optimization algorithms.

Recently, a new class of non-convex optimization problems motivated by the statistical problem of learning an acyclic directed graphical model from data has attracted significant interest. While existing work uses standard first-order optimization schemes to solve this problem, proving the global optimality of such approaches has proven elusive.

The difficulty lies in the fact that unlike other non-convex problems in the literature, this problem is not "benign", and possesses multiple spurious solutions that standard approaches can easily get trapped in.

In this paper, we prove that a simple path-following optimization scheme globally converges to the global minimum of the population loss in the bivariate setting.

Integer Linear Programs ILPs are powerful tools for modeling and solving many combinatorial optimization problems. Recently, it has been shown that Large Neighborhood Search LNS , as a heuristic algorithm, can find high-quality solutions to ILPs faster than Branch and Bound.

However, how to find the right heuristics to maximize the performance of LNS remains an open problem. In this paper, we propose a novel approach, CL-LNS, that delivers state-of-the-art anytime performance on several ILP benchmarks measured by metrics including the primal gap, the primal integral, survival rates and the best performing rate.

Specifically, CL-LNS collects positive and negative solution samples from an expert heuristic that is slow to compute and learns a more efficient one with contrastive learning.

Accelerated magnetic resonance imaging resorts to either Fourier-domain subsampling or better reconstruction algorithms to deal with fewer measurements while still generating medical images of high quality. Determining the optimal sampling strategy given a fixed reconstruction protocol often has combinatorial complexity.

In this work, we apply double deep Q-learning and REINFORCE algorithms to learn the sampling strategy for dynamic image reconstruction. We consider the data in the format of time series, and the reconstruction method is a pre-trained autoencoder-typed neural network.

We present a proof of concept that reinforcement learning algorithms are effective to discover the optimal sampling pattern which underlies the pre-trained reconstructor network i. Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in generating many different kinds of data, including images, text, and videos.

Despite their success, there has been limited research on how the underlying diffusion process and the final convergent prior can affect generative performance; this research has also been limited to continuous data types and a score-based diffusion framework. To fill this gap, we explore how different discrete diffusion kernels which converge to different prior distributions affect the performance of diffusion models for graphs.

To this end, we developed a novel formulation of a family of discrete diffusion kernels which are easily adjustable to converge to different Bernoulli priors, and we study the effect of these different kernels on generative performance.

We show that the quality of generated graphs is sensitive to the prior used, and that the optimal choice cannot be explained by obvious statistics or metrics, which challenges the intuitions which previous works have suggested.

Feature crossing is a popular method for augmenting the feature set of a machine learning model by taking the Cartesian product of a small number of existing categorical features. While feature crosses have traditionally been hand-picked by domain experts, a recent line of work has focused on the automatic discovery of informative feature crosses.

Our work proposes a simple yet efficient and effective approach to this problem using tensor proxies as well as a novel application of the attention mechanism to convert the combinatorial problem of feature cross search to a continuous optimization problem.

By solving the continuous optimization problem and then rounding the solution to a feature cross, we give a highly efficient algorithm for feature cross search that trains only a single model for feature cross searching, unlike prior greedy methods that require training a large number of models.

Through extensive empirical evaluations, we show that our algorithm is not only efficient, but also discovers more informative feature crosses that allow us to achieve state-of-the-art empirical results for feature cross models. Furthermore, even without the rounding step, we obtain a novel DNN architecture for augmenting existing models with a small number of features to improve quality without introducing any feature crosses.

This avoids the cost of storing additional large embedding tables for these feature crosses. Primitive-based evolutionary AutoML discovers novel state-of-the-art ML components by searching over programs built from low-level building blocks.

While very expressive, these spaces have sparsely distributed good performing candidates. This poses great challenges in efficient search. Performance predictors have proven successful in speeding up search in smaller and denser Neural Architecture Search NAS spaces, but they have not yet been tried on these larger primitive-based search spaces.

Through a unified graph representation to encode a wide variety of ML components, we train a binary classifier online to predict which of two given candidates is better.

We then present an adaptive mutation method that leverages the learned binary predictor and show how it improves local search. We empirically demonstrate our method speeds up end-to-end evolution across a set of diverse problems including a 3. As reinforcement learning challenges involve larger amounts of data in different forms, new techniques will be required in order to generate high-quality plans with only a compact representation of the original information.

While novel diffusion generative policies have provided a way to model complex action distributions directly in the original, high-dimensional feature space, they suffer from slow inference speed and have not yet been applied with reduced dimension or to discrete tasks.

In this work, we propose three diffusion-guidance techniques with a reduced representation of the state provided by quantile discretization: a gradient-based approach, a stochastic beam search approach, and a Q-learning approach.

Our findings indicate that the gradient-based and beam search approaches are capable of improving scores on an offline reinforcement learning task by a significant margin. Batch Bayesian optimisation and Bayesian quadrature have been shown to be sample-efficient methods of performing optimisation and quadrature where expensive-to-evaluate objective functions can be queried in parallel.

However, current methods do not scale to large batch sizes — a frequent desideratum in practice e. drug discovery or simulation-based inference. We present a novel algorithm, SOBER, which permits scalable and diversified batch global optimisation and quadrature with arbitrary acquisition functions and kernels over discrete and mixed spaces.

The key to our approach is to reformulate batch selection for global optimisation as a quadrature problem, which relaxes acquisition function maximisation non-convex to kernel recombination convex. Bridging global optimisation and quadrature can efficiently solve both tasks by balancing the merits of exploitative Bayesian optimisation and explorative Bayesian quadrature.

We show that SOBER outperforms 11 competitive baselines on 12 synthetic and diverse real-world tasks. Min-max routing problems aim to minimize the maximum tour length among agents as they collaboratively visit all cities, i.

These problems include impactful real-world applications but are known as NP-hard. Existing methods are facing challenges, particularly in large-scale problems that require the coordination of numerous agents to cover thousands of cities. This paper proposes a new deep-learning framework to solve large-scale min-max routing problems.

We model the simultaneous decision-making of multiple agents as a sequential generation process, allowing the utilization of scalable deep-learning models for sequential decision-making. In the sequentially approximated problem, we propose a scalable contextual Transformer model, Equity-Transformer, which generates sequential actions considering an equitable workload among other agents.

The effectiveness of Equity-Transformer is demonstrated through its superior performance in two representative min-max routing tasks: the min-max multiple traveling salesman problem min-max mTSP and the min-max multiple pick-up and delivery problem min-max mPDP.

The ability to design novel proteins with higher fitness on a given task would be revolutionary for many fields of medicine. However, brute-force search through the combinatorially large space of sequences is infeasible.

Prior methods constrain search to a small mutational radius from a reference sequence, but such heuristics drastically limit the design space. Our work seeks to remove the restriction on mutational distance while enabling efficient exploration.

We propose Gibbs sampling with Graph-based Smoothing GGS which iteratively applies Gibbs with gradients to propose advantageous mutations using graph-based smoothing to remove noisy gradients that lead to false positives. Menu About eScholarship UC Open Access Policies Journals Academic Units.

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It is always the goal to provide each client with tailored solutions base on industry expertise blended with the best technology. With years of providing solutions to the industry, Synergistix is in a unique position to understand what their clients need.

The Synergistix team works closely with each client to collaborate and create actionable solutions that are both practical and actionable. From providing a CRM solution tailored explicitly to life sciences and SampleIQ compliance solutions to help companies navigate the evolving world of sampling, Synergistix stays ahead of the curve.

Synergistix offers innovative solutions focusing on the latest technologies to optimize productivity and convenience. Using CRM and SampleIQ solutions, companies can leverage cutting-edge sampling and monitoring solutions to allow their teams to focus on the HCP experience.

In terms of effective product sampling programs, SampleIQ is a cutting-edge offering providing a broad range of services and applications. Overall, if you are seeking a method of optimizing your existing sampling ideas and methods, Synergistix is the standout choice.

To learn more about this product, contact us today. Our company has been a Synergistix client for nearly ten years, and we've had nothing short of a positive experience! The dedication of the organization to the client is next level.

Synergistix's expertise and attention to detail are truly unmatched, and we look forward to our continued partnership. We've been a Synergistix customer for over ten years now. I'd highly recommend Synergistix for their incomparable level of commitment to top-notch customer service and dependability.

Our partnership is backed by their strong track record in the life sciences arena and excellent CATS CRM ecosystem. We've partnered with Synergistix for over fifteen years. As we deliver our products to diabetes patients nationwide, we need simplified, aligned data.

Synergistix supplies us with precise target groups and tools to generate analytics and reporting for our sales reps and leadership team. Synergistix has replaced the need for specialized IT and allows us to be more nimble in decision-making.

Customer service is impeccable. Regardless of our business challenges and opportunities, I've found that Synergistix has always been able to keep up with our high expectations.

Sampling Program Optimization - The folk wisdom is that sampling is necessarily slower than optimization and is only warranted in situations where estimates of uncertainty are Missing This dissertation investigates the use of sampling methods for solving stochastic optimization problems using iterative algorithms We present a simpler and stronger separation. We then compare sampling and optimization in more detail and show that they are provably incomparable: there are

In terms of effective product sampling programs, SampleIQ is a cutting-edge offering providing a broad range of services and applications. Overall, if you are seeking a method of optimizing your existing sampling ideas and methods, Synergistix is the standout choice.

To learn more about this product, contact us today. Our company has been a Synergistix client for nearly ten years, and we've had nothing short of a positive experience!

The dedication of the organization to the client is next level. Synergistix's expertise and attention to detail are truly unmatched, and we look forward to our continued partnership.

We've been a Synergistix customer for over ten years now. I'd highly recommend Synergistix for their incomparable level of commitment to top-notch customer service and dependability. Our partnership is backed by their strong track record in the life sciences arena and excellent CATS CRM ecosystem.

We've partnered with Synergistix for over fifteen years. As we deliver our products to diabetes patients nationwide, we need simplified, aligned data. Synergistix supplies us with precise target groups and tools to generate analytics and reporting for our sales reps and leadership team.

Synergistix has replaced the need for specialized IT and allows us to be more nimble in decision-making. Customer service is impeccable. Regardless of our business challenges and opportunities, I've found that Synergistix has always been able to keep up with our high expectations.

Whether looking to expand our sales footprint, build new features into our CRM system, or leverage our CRM to its full capabilities, I've always counted on Synergistix for their opinions and expert feedback. I truly value our partnership with Synergistix and thank them for their continued support and dedication.

How Synergistix Can Help Optimize Your Existing Sampling Program March 12, Synergistix. What are the benefits of product sampling? In terms of the benefits of product sampling, there are two significant aspects to take into account: Patient Access: One of the top benefits of product sampling is providing patients access to therapies which may otherwise not have been readily available to them or new therapies they may not have had the opportunity to try.

Trial and error: Product sampling helps pharma companies get in front of doctors to ensure their patients are the recipients of the best therapies available. When the HCP observes positive results, the patient ultimately benefits. With COVID and social distancing, sampling is no longer done in person to the extent it once was.

Conversely, in continuous settings much more successful generic methods exist. These methods exploit the gradients of the distribution's log-likelihood function to approximate the distribution's local structure which is used to parameterize fast-mixing markov transition kernels.

A number of approaches have attempted to apply these methods to discrete problems with varying levels of success. Typically we create a related continuous distribution, sampling from this using continuous methods, and map these continuous samples back into the original discrete space.

Recently, a new class of approaches has emerged which utilize gradient information in a different way. These approaches stay completely in the original discrete space but utilize gradient information to define markov transition kernels which propose discrete transitions.

These approaches have shown to scale better and are widely applicable. In this talk I will discuss the development of these methods starting Gibbs-With-Gradients, further work improving or expanding upon these ideas, and new directions for further research.

Text reasoning and generation in practice often needs to meet complex objectives, integrate diverse contextual constraints, and ground in logical structures for consistency.

Current large LMs can produce fluent text and follow human instructions, but they still struggle to effectively optimize toward specific objectives.

The discrete nature of text poses one of the key challenges to the optimization. In this talk, I will present our work on optimizing text reasoning and generation with continuous and discrete methods.

I will first introduce COLD, a unified energy-based framework that empowers any off-the-shelf LMs to reason with any objectives in a continuous space.

This approach brings forward differentiable reasoning over discrete text, thus improving efficiency. Following this, I will discuss Maieutic prompting, a method that enhances the logical consistency of neural reasoning in a discrete space by integrating with logical structures.

Understanding prompt engineering does not require rethinking generalization Outstanding Topological Neural Discrete Representation Learning à la Kohonen Oral Sequential Monte Carlo Steering of Large Language Models using Probabilistic Programs Oral.

With the eyes of the AI world pointed at the alignment of large language models, another revolution has been more silentlyyet intenselytaking place: the algorithmic alignment of neural networks. After briefly surveying how we got here, I'll present some of the interesting works I've had the pleasure to co-author, many of which were presented at this year's ICML.

Diffusion models learn to reverse the progressive noising of a data distribution to create a generative model. However, the desired continuous nature of the noising process can be at odds with discrete data. To deal with this tension between continuous and discrete objects, we propose a method of performing diffusion on the probability simplex.

Using the probability simplex naturally creates an interpretation where points correspond to categorical probability distributions. Our method uses the softmax function applied to an Ornstein-Unlenbeck Process, a well-known stochastic differential equation.

We find that our methodology also naturally extends to include diffusion on the unit cube which has applications for bounded image generation. Sampling in discrete space, with critical applications in simulation and optimization, has recently aroused considerable attention from the significant advances in gradient-based approaches that exploits modern accelerators like GPUs.

However, two key challenges seriously hinder the further research of discrete sampling. First, since there is no consensus for the experimental setting, the empirical results in different research papers are often not comparable. Secondly, implementing samplers and target distributions often require nontrivial amount of effort in terms of calibration, parallelism, and evaluation.

Even after fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, large language models LLMs can be difficult, if not impossible, to control reliably with prompts alone. We propose a new inference-time approach to enforcing syntactic and semantic constraints on the outputs of LLMs, called sequential Monte Carlo SMC steering.

The key idea is to specify language generation tasks as posterior inference problems in a class of discrete probabilistic sequence models, and replace standard decoding with sequential Monte Carlo inference. For a computational cost similar to that of beam search, SMC can steer LLMs to solve diverse tasks, including infilling, generation under syntactic constraints, and prompt intersection.

To facilitate experimentation with SMC steering, we present a probabilistic programming library, LLaMPPL, for concisely specifying new generation tasks as language model probabilistic programs, and automating steering of LLaMA-family Transformers.

Understanding the macroscopic characteristics of biological complexes demands precision and specificity in statistical ensemble modeling. One of the primary challenges in this domain lies in sampling from particular discrete subsets of the state-space, driven either by existing structural knowledge or specific areas of interest within the state-space.

We propose a method that enables sampling from distributions that rigorously adhere to arbitrary sets of geometric constraints in Euclidean spaces. This is achieved by integrating a constraint projection operator within the well-regarded architecture of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models, a framework founded in generative modeling and probabilistic inference.

The significance of this work becomes apparent, for instance, in the context of deep learning-based drug design, where it is imperative to sample from the discrete structures of the solution space.

Practitioners frequently take multiple samples from large language models LLMs to explore the distribution of completions induced by a given prompt. While individual samples can give high-quality results for given tasks, collectively there are no guarantees of the distribution over these samples induced by the generating LLM.

We identify core concepts and metrics underlying LLM-based sampling, including different sampling methodologies and prompting strategies. Using a set of controlled domains we evaluate the error and variance of the distributions induced by the LLM.

We find that LLMs struggle to induce reasonable distributions over generated elements, suggesting that practitioners should more carefully consider the semantics and methodologies of sampling from LLMs.

A popular approach to protein design is to combine a generative model with a discriminative model for conditional sampling. The generative model samples plausible sequences while the discriminative model guides a search for sequences with high fitness.

Given its broad success in conditional sampling, classifier-guided diffusion modeling is a promising foundation for protein design, leading many to develop guided diffusion models for structure with inverse folding to recover sequences. In this work, we propose diffusioN Optimized Sampling NOS , a guidance method for discrete diffusion models that follows gradients in the hidden states of the denoising network.

NOS makes it possible to perform design directly in sequence space, circumventing significant limitations of structure-based methods, including scarce data and challenging inverse design.

Moreover, we use NOS to generalize LaMBO, a Bayesian optimization procedure for sequence design that facilitates multiple objectives and edit-based constraints. The resulting method, LaMBO-2, enables discrete diffusions and stronger performance with limited edits through a novel application of saliency maps.

Zero-shot learning in prompted visual-language models, the practice of crafting prompts to build classifiers without an explicit training process, shows an impressive performance in many settings. There also emerges a seemingly surprising fact: this method suffers relatively little from overfitting; i.

In this paper, we show that we can explain such performance remarkably well via recourse to classical PAC-Bayes bounds. Furthermore, the bound is remarkably suitable for model selection: the models with the best bound typically also have the best test performance. Causal relationships underpin modern science and our ability to reason.

Automatically discovering useful causal relationships can greatly accelerate scientific progress and facilitate the creation of machines that can reason like we do. Traditionally, the dominant approaches to causal discovery are statistical, such as the PC algorithm.

A new area of research is integrating recent advancement in machine learning with causal discovery. We focus on a series of recent work that leverages new algorithms in deep learning for causal discovery -- notably, generative flow networks GFlowNets.

We discuss the unique perspectives GFlowNets bring to causal discovery. Unsupervised learning of discrete representations in neural networks NNs from continuous ones is essential for many modern applications.

Vector Quantisation VQ has become popular for this, in particular in the context of generative models such as Variational Auto-Encoders VAEs , where the exponential moving average-based VQ EMA-VQ algorithm is often used.

Here we study an alternative VQ algorithm based on Kohonen's learning rule for the Self-Organising Map KSOM; , a classic VQ algorithm known to offer two potential benefits over its special case EMA-VQ: empirically, KSOM converges faster than EMA-VQ, and KSOM-generated discrete representations form a topological structure on the grid whose nodes are the discrete symbols, resulting in an artificial version of the brain's topographic map.

We revisit these properties by using KSOM in VQ-VAEs for image processing. In our experiments, the speed-up compared to well-configured EMA-VQ is only observable at the beginning of training, but KSOM is generally much more robust, e.

the choice of initialisation schemes. Representative Selection RS is the problem of finding a small subset of exemplars from a dataset that is representative of the dataset. In this paper, we study RS for unlabeled datasets and focus on finding representatives that optimize the accuracy of a model trained on the selected representatives.

Theoretically, we establish a new hardness result for RS by proving that a particular, highly practical variant of it RS for Learning is hard to approximate in polynomial time within any reasonable factor, which implies a significant potential gap between the optimum solution of widely-used surrogate functions and the actual accuracy of the model.

We then study a setting where additional information in the form of a homophilous graph structure is available, or can be constructed, between the data points.

We show that with an appropriate modeling approach, the presence of such a structure can turn a hard RS for learning problem into one that can be effectively solved. To this end, we develop RSGNN, a representation learning-based RS model based on Graph Neural Networks.

Empirically, we demonstrate the effectiveness of RSGNN on problems with predefined graph structures as well as problems with graphs induced from node feature similarities, by showing that RSGNN achieves significant improvements over established baselines on a suite of eight benchmarks.

Training energy-based models EBMs on discrete spaces is challenging because sampling over such spaces can be difficult. We propose to train discrete EBMs with energy discrepancy ED , a novel type of contrastive loss functional which only requires the evaluation of the energy function at data points and their perturbed counter parts, thus not relying on sampling strategies like Markov chain Monte Carlo MCMC.

Energy discrepancy offers theoretical guarantees for a broad class of perturbation processes of which we investigate three types: perturbations based on Bernoulli noise, based on deterministic transforms, and based on neighbourhood structures.

We demonstrate their relative performance on lattice Ising models, binary synthetic data, and discrete image data sets. Reinforcement learning RL agents can learn complex sequential decision-making and control strategies, often above human expert performance levels.

In real-world deployment, it becomes essential from a risk, safety-critical, and human interaction perspective for agents to communicate the degree of confidence or uncertainty they have in the outcomes of their actions and account for it in their decision-making. We assemble here a complete pipeline for modelling uncertainty in the finite, discrete-state setting of offline RL.

First, we use methods from Bayesian RL to capture the posterior uncertainty in environment model parameters given the available data.

Next, we determine exact values for the return distribution's standard deviation, taken as the measure of uncertainty, for given samples from the environment posterior without requiring quantile-based or similar approximations of conventional distributional RL to more efficiently decompose the agent's uncertainty into epistemic and aleatoric uncertainties compared to previous approaches.

This allows us to build an RL agent that quantifies both types of uncertainty and utilises its epistemic uncertainty belief to inform its optimal policy through a novel stochastic gradient-based optimisation process. We illustrate the improved uncertainty quantification and Bayesian value optimisation performance of our agent in simple, interpretable gridworlds and confirm its scalability by applying it to a clinical decision support system AI Clinician which makes real-time recommendations for sepsis treatment in intensive care units, and address the limitations that arise with inference for larger-scale MDPs by proposing a sparse, conservative dynamics model.

Designing biological sequences with desired properties is an impactful research problem with various application scenarios such as protein engineering, anti-body design, and drug discovery.

Machine learning algorithms could be applied either to fit the property landscape with supervised learning or generatively propose reasonable candidates to reduce wet lab efforts.

From the learning perspective, the key challenges lie in the sharp property landscape, i. several mutations could dramatically change the protein property and the large biological sequence space.

In this paper, we propose annealed sequence optimization ANSO and aim to simultaneously take the two main challenges into account by a paired surrogate model training paradigm and sequence sampling procedure. The extensive experiments on a series of protein sequence design tasks have demonstrated the effectiveness over several advanced baselines.

Combinatorial optimization CO is a widely-applied method for addressing a variety of real-world optimization problems. However, due to the NP-hard nature of these problems, complex problem-specific heuristics are often required to tackle them at real-world scales.

Neural combinatorial optimization has emerged as an effective approach to tackle CO problems, but it often requires the pre-computed optimal solution or a hand-designed process to ensure the model to generate a feasible solution, which may not be available in many real-world CO problems.

We propose the hierarchical combinatorial optimizer HCO that does not rely on such restrictive assumptions. HCO decomposes the given CO problem into multiple sub-problems on different scales with smaller search spaces, where each sub-problem can be optimized separately and their solutions can be combined to compose the entire solution.

Our experiments demonstrate that this hierarchical decomposition facilitates more efficient learning and stronger generalization capabilities, outperforming traditional heuristic and mathematical optimization algorithms. Recently, a new class of non-convex optimization problems motivated by the statistical problem of learning an acyclic directed graphical model from data has attracted significant interest.

While existing work uses standard first-order optimization schemes to solve this problem, proving the global optimality of such approaches has proven elusive. The difficulty lies in the fact that unlike other non-convex problems in the literature, this problem is not "benign", and possesses multiple spurious solutions that standard approaches can easily get trapped in.

In this paper, we prove that a simple path-following optimization scheme globally converges to the global minimum of the population loss in the bivariate setting. Integer Linear Programs ILPs are powerful tools for modeling and solving many combinatorial optimization problems.

Recently, it has been shown that Large Neighborhood Search LNS , as a heuristic algorithm, can find high-quality solutions to ILPs faster than Branch and Bound. However, how to find the right heuristics to maximize the performance of LNS remains an open problem. In this paper, we propose a novel approach, CL-LNS, that delivers state-of-the-art anytime performance on several ILP benchmarks measured by metrics including the primal gap, the primal integral, survival rates and the best performing rate.

Specifically, CL-LNS collects positive and negative solution samples from an expert heuristic that is slow to compute and learns a more efficient one with contrastive learning.

Accelerated magnetic resonance imaging resorts to either Fourier-domain subsampling or better reconstruction algorithms to deal with fewer measurements while still generating medical images of high quality. Determining the optimal sampling strategy given a fixed reconstruction protocol often has combinatorial complexity.

In this work, we apply double deep Q-learning and REINFORCE algorithms to learn the sampling strategy for dynamic image reconstruction. We consider the data in the format of time series, and the reconstruction method is a pre-trained autoencoder-typed neural network.

We present a proof of concept that reinforcement learning algorithms are effective to discover the optimal sampling pattern which underlies the pre-trained reconstructor network i.

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in generating many different kinds of data, including images, text, and videos. Despite their success, there has been limited research on how the underlying diffusion process and the final convergent prior can affect generative performance; this research has also been limited to continuous data types and a score-based diffusion framework.

To fill this gap, we explore how different discrete diffusion kernels which converge to different prior distributions affect the performance of diffusion models for graphs. To this end, we developed a novel formulation of a family of discrete diffusion kernels which are easily adjustable to converge to different Bernoulli priors, and we study the effect of these different kernels on generative performance.

We show that the quality of generated graphs is sensitive to the prior used, and that the optimal choice cannot be explained by obvious statistics or metrics, which challenges the intuitions which previous works have suggested.

Feature crossing is a popular method for augmenting the feature set of a machine learning model by taking the Cartesian product of a small number of existing categorical features. While feature crosses have traditionally been hand-picked by domain experts, a recent line of work has focused on the automatic discovery of informative feature crosses.

Our work proposes a simple yet efficient and effective approach to this problem using tensor proxies as well as a novel application of the attention mechanism to convert the combinatorial problem of feature cross search to a continuous optimization problem.

By solving the continuous optimization problem and then rounding the solution to a feature cross, we give a highly efficient algorithm for feature cross search that trains only a single model for feature cross searching, unlike prior greedy methods that require training a large number of models.

Through extensive empirical evaluations, we show that our algorithm is not only efficient, but also discovers more informative feature crosses that allow us to achieve state-of-the-art empirical results for feature cross models. Furthermore, even without the rounding step, we obtain a novel DNN architecture for augmenting existing models with a small number of features to improve quality without introducing any feature crosses.

This avoids the cost of storing additional large embedding tables for these feature crosses. Primitive-based evolutionary AutoML discovers novel state-of-the-art ML components by searching over programs built from low-level building blocks.

While very expressive, these spaces have sparsely distributed good performing candidates. This poses great challenges in efficient search.

Performance predictors have proven successful in speeding up search in smaller and denser Neural Architecture Search NAS spaces, but they have not yet been tried on these larger primitive-based search spaces.

Through a unified graph representation to encode a wide variety of ML components, we train a binary classifier online to predict which of two given candidates is better. We then present an adaptive mutation method that leverages the learned binary predictor and show how it improves local search.

We empirically demonstrate our method speeds up end-to-end evolution across a set of diverse problems including a 3. As reinforcement learning challenges involve larger amounts of data in different forms, new techniques will be required in order to generate high-quality plans with only a compact representation of the original information.

While novel diffusion generative policies have provided a way to model complex action distributions directly in the original, high-dimensional feature space, they suffer from slow inference speed and have not yet been applied with reduced dimension or to discrete tasks.

In this work, we propose three diffusion-guidance techniques with a reduced representation of the state provided by quantile discretization: a gradient-based approach, a stochastic beam search approach, and a Q-learning approach. Our findings indicate that the gradient-based and beam search approaches are capable of improving scores on an offline reinforcement learning task by a significant margin.

Batch Bayesian optimisation and Bayesian quadrature have been shown to be sample-efficient methods of performing optimisation and quadrature where expensive-to-evaluate objective functions can be queried in parallel. However, current methods do not scale to large batch sizes — a frequent desideratum in practice e.

drug discovery or simulation-based inference. We present a novel algorithm, SOBER, which permits scalable and diversified batch global optimisation and quadrature with arbitrary acquisition functions and kernels over discrete and mixed spaces.

The key to our approach is to reformulate batch selection for global optimisation as a quadrature problem, which relaxes acquisition function maximisation non-convex to kernel recombination convex. Bridging global optimisation and quadrature can efficiently solve both tasks by balancing the merits of exploitative Bayesian optimisation and explorative Bayesian quadrature.

We show that SOBER outperforms 11 competitive baselines on 12 synthetic and diverse real-world tasks. Min-max routing problems aim to minimize the maximum tour length among agents as they collaboratively visit all cities, i.

These problems include impactful real-world applications but are known as NP-hard. Existing methods are facing challenges, particularly in large-scale problems that require the coordination of numerous agents to cover thousands of cities.

This paper proposes a new deep-learning framework to solve large-scale min-max routing problems. We model the simultaneous decision-making of multiple agents as a sequential generation process, allowing the utilization of scalable deep-learning models for sequential decision-making.

In the sequentially approximated problem, we propose a scalable contextual Transformer model, Equity-Transformer, which generates sequential actions considering an equitable workload among other agents. The effectiveness of Equity-Transformer is demonstrated through its superior performance in two representative min-max routing tasks: the min-max multiple traveling salesman problem min-max mTSP and the min-max multiple pick-up and delivery problem min-max mPDP.

The ability to design novel proteins with higher fitness on a given task would be revolutionary for many fields of medicine. However, brute-force search through the combinatorially large space of sequences is infeasible. Prior methods constrain search to a small mutational radius from a reference sequence, but such heuristics drastically limit the design space.

Our work seeks to remove the restriction on mutational distance while enabling efficient exploration. We propose Gibbs sampling with Graph-based Smoothing GGS which iteratively applies Gibbs with gradients to propose advantageous mutations using graph-based smoothing to remove noisy gradients that lead to false positives.

Our method is state-of-the-art in discovering high-fitness proteins with up to 8 mutations from the training set. We study the GFP and AAV design problems, ablations, and baselines to elucidate the results. Recently, deep reinforcement learning DRL has shown promise in solving combinatorial optimization CO problems.

However, they often require a large number of evaluations on the objective function, which can be time-consuming in real-world scenarios. To address this issue, we propose a "free" technique to enhance the performance of any deep reinforcement learning DRL solver by exploiting symmetry without requiring additional objective function evaluations.

Our key idea is to augment the training of DRL-based combinatorial optimization solvers by reward-preserving transformations. The proposed algorithm is likely to be impactful since it is simple, easy to integrate with existing solvers, and applicable to a wide range of combinatorial optimization tasks.

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