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Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

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Treeffuser: probabilistic prediction via conditional diffusions with gradient-boosted trees

Nicolas Beltran-Velez, Alessandro Antonio Grande, Achille Nazaret, Alp Kucukelbir, David Blei

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Probabilistic prediction aims to compute predictive distributions rather than single point predictions. These distributions enable practitioners to quantify uncertainty, compute risk, and detect outliers. However, most probabilistic methods assume parametric responses, such as Gaussian or Poisson distributions. When these assumptions fail, such models lead to bad predictions and poorly calibrated uncertainty. In this paper, we propose Treeffuser, an easy-to-use method for probabilistic prediction on tabular data. The idea is to learn a conditional diffusion model where the score function is estimated using gradient-boosted trees. The conditional diffusion model makes Treeffuser flexible and non-parametric, while the gradient-boosted trees make it robust and easy to train on CPUs. Treeffuser learns well-calibrated predictive distributions and can handle a wide range of regression tasks---including those with multivariate, multimodal, and skewed responses. We study Treeffuser on synthetic and real data and show that it outperforms existing methods, providing better calibrated probabilistic predictions. We further demonstrate its versatility with an application to inventory allocation under uncertainty using sales data from Walmart. We implement Treeffuser in https://github.com/blei-lab/treeffuser.

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Enhancing Large Language Models through Adaptive Tokenizers

Mengyu Zheng, Hanting Chen, Tianyu Guo, Chong Zhu, Binfan Zheng, Chang Xu, Yunhe Wang

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Tokenizers serve as crucial interfaces between models and linguistic data, substantially influencing the efficacy and precision of large language models (LLMs). Traditional tokenization methods often rely on static frequency-based statistics and are not inherently synchronized with LLM architectures, which may limit model performance. In this study, we propose a simple but effective method to learn tokenizers specifically engineered for seamless integration with LLMs. Initiating with a broad initial vocabulary, we refine our tokenizer by monitoring changes in the model’s perplexity during training, allowing for the selection of a tokenizer that is closely aligned with the model’s evolving dynamics. Through iterative refinement, we develop an optimized tokenizer. Our empirical evaluations demonstrate that this adaptive approach significantly enhances accuracy compared to conventional methods, maintaining comparable vocabulary sizes and affirming its potential to improve LLM functionality.

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Drones Help Drones: A Collaborative Framework for Multi-Drone Object Trajectory Prediction and Beyond

Zhechao Wang, Peirui Cheng, Minxing Chen, Pengju Tian, Zhirui Wang, Xinming Li, Xue Yang, Xian Sun

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Collaborative trajectory prediction can comprehensively forecast the future motion of objects through multi-view complementary information. However, it encounters two main challenges in multi-drone collaboration settings. The expansive aerial observations make it difficult to generate precise Bird's Eye View (BEV) representations. Besides, excessive interactions can not meet real-time prediction requirements within the constrained drone-based communication bandwidth. To address these problems, we propose a novel framework named "Drones Help Drones" (DHD). Firstly, we incorporate the ground priors provided by the drone's inclined observation to estimate the distance between objects and drones, leading to more precise BEV generation. Secondly, we design a selective mechanism based on the local feature discrepancy to prioritize the critical information contributing to prediction tasks during inter-drone interactions. Additionally, we create the first dataset for multi-drone collaborative prediction, named "Air-Co-Pred", and conduct quantitative and qualitative experiments to validate the effectiveness of our DHD framework. The results demonstrate that compared to state-of-the-art approaches, DHD reduces position deviation in BEV representations by over 20\% and requires only a quarter of the transmission ratio for interactions while achieving comparable prediction performance. Moreover, DHD also shows promising generalization to the collaborative 3D object detection in CoPerception-UAVs.

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Dense Associative Memory Through the Lens of Random Features

Benjamin Hoover, Duen Horng Chau, Hendrik Strobelt, Parikshit Ram, Dmitry Krotov

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Dense Associative Memories are high storage capacity variants of the Hopfield networks that are capable of storing a large number of memory patterns in the weights of the network of a given size. Their common formulations typically require storing each pattern in a separate set of synaptic weights, which leads to the increase of the number of synaptic weights when new patterns are introduced. In this work we propose an alternative formulation of this class of models using random features, commonly used in kernel methods. In this formulation the number of network's parameters remains fixed. At the same time, new memories can be added to the network by modifying existing weights. We show that this novel network closely approximates the energy function and dynamics of conventional Dense Associative Memories and shares their desirable computational properties.

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Learning Versatile Skills with Curriculum Masking

Yao Tang, Zhihui Xie, Zichuan Lin, Deheng Ye, Shuai Li

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Masked prediction has emerged as a promising pretraining paradigm in offline reinforcement learning (RL) due to its versatile masking schemes, enabling flexible inference across various downstream tasks with a unified model. Despite the versatility of masked prediction, it remains unclear how to balance the learning of skills at different levels of complexity. To address this, we propose CurrMask, a curriculum masking pretraining paradigm for sequential decision making. Motivated by how humans learn by organizing knowledge in a curriculum, CurrMask adjusts its masking scheme during pretraining for learning versatile skills. Through extensive experiments, we show that CurrMask exhibits superior zero-shot performance on skill prompting tasks, goal-conditioned planning tasks, and competitive finetuning performance on offline RL tasks. Additionally, our analysis of training dynamics reveals that CurrMask gradually acquires skills of varying complexity by dynamically adjusting its masking scheme.

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