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University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Machine Learning @ CUED > Contrastive Learning Using Spectral Methods
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If you have a question about this talk, please contact Zoubin Ghahramani. In many natural settings, the analysis goal is not to characterize a single data set in isolation, but rather to understand the difference between one set of observations and another. For example, given a background corpus of news articles together with writings of a particular author, one may want a topic model that explains word patterns and themes specific to the author. Another example comes from genomics, in which biological signals may be collected from different regions of a genome, and one wants a model that captures the differential statistics observed in these regions. This paper formalizes this notion of contrastive learning for mixture models, and develops spectral algorithms for inferring mixture components specific to a foreground data set when contrasted with a background data set. The method builds on recent moment-based estimators and tensor decompositions for latent variable models, and has the intuitive feature of using background data statistics to appropriately modify moments estimated from foreground data. A key advantage of the method is that the background data need only be coarsely modeled, which is important when the background is too complex, noisy, or not of interest. The method is demonstrated on applications in contrastive topic modeling and genomic sequence analysis. This is joint work with Daniel Hsu, David Parkes and Ryan Adams. If there’s time, I will also briefly describe a statistical approach to identify epigenomic variations in human populations that are associated with diseases. This talk is part of the Machine Learning @ CUED series. This talk is included in these lists:
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