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In this task, you are given a part of an article. Your task is to generate headline (title) for this text. Preferred headlines are under fifteen words.
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Knowing the largest rate at which data can be sent on an end-to-end path such that the egress rate is equal to the ingress rate with high probability can be very practical when choosing transmission rates in video streaming or selecting peers in peer-to-peer applications. We introduce probabilistic available bandwidth, which is defined in terms of ingress rates and egress rates of traffic on a path, rather than in terms of capacity and utilization of the constituent links of the path like the standard available bandwidth metric. In this paper, we describe a distributed algorithm, based on a probabilistic graphical model and Bayesian active learning, for simultaneously estimating the probabilistic available bandwidth of multiple paths through a network. Our procedure exploits the fact that each packet train provides information not only about the path it traverses, but also about any path that shares a link with the monitored path. Simulations and PlanetLab experiments indicate that this process can dramatically reduce the number of probes required to generate accurate estimates.
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Multi-path Probabilistic Available Bandwidth Estimation through Bayesian Active Learning


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Dropout and other feature noising schemes control overfitting by artificially cor-<lb>rupting the training data. For generalized linear models, dropout performs a form<lb>of adaptive regularization. Using this viewpoint, we show that the dropout regular-<lb>izer is first-order equivalent to an L2 regularizer applied after scaling the features<lb>by an estimate of the inverse diagonal Fisher information matrix. We also establish<lb>a connection to AdaGrad, an online learning algorithm, and find that a close rel-<lb>ative of AdaGrad operates by repeatedly solving linear dropout-regularized prob-<lb>lems. By casting dropout as regularization, we develop a natural semi-supervised<lb>algorithm that uses unlabeled data to create a better adaptive regularizer. We ap-<lb>ply this idea to document classification tasks, and show that it consistently boosts<lb>the performance of dropout training, improving on state-of-the-art results on the<lb>IMDB reviews dataset.
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Dropout Training as Adaptive Regularization


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Acoustic models using probabilistic linear discriminant analysis (PLDA) capture the correlations within feature vectors using subspaces which do not vastly expand the model. This allows high dimensional and correlated feature spaces to be used, without requiring the estimation of multiple high dimension covariance matrices. In this letter we extend the recently presented PLDA mixture model for speech recognition through a tied PLDA approach, which is better able to control the model size to avoid overfitting. We carried out experiments uisng the Switchboard corpus, with both mel frequency cepstral coefficient features and bottleneck feature derived from a deep neural network. Reductions in word error rate were obtained by using tied PLDA, compared with the PLDA mixture model, subspace Gaussian mixture models, and deep neural networks.
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Tied Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis for Speech Recognition