Learning on sets is increasingly gaining attention in the machine learning community, due to its widespread applicability. Typically, representations over sets are computed by using fixed aggregation functions such as sum or maximum. However, recent results showed that universal function representation by sum- (or max-) decomposition requires either highly discontinuous (and thus poorly learnable) mappings, or a latent dimension equal to the maximum number of elements in the set. To mitigate this problem, we introduce a learnable aggregation function (LAF) for sets of arbitrary cardinality. LAF can approximate several extensively used aggregators (such as average, sum, maximum) as well as more complex functions (e.g., variance and skewness). We report experiments on semi-synthetic and real data showing that LAF outperforms state-of-the-art sum- (max-) decomposition architectures such as DeepSets and librarybased architectures like Principal Neighborhood Aggregation, and can be effectively combined with attention-based architectures.
Learning Aggregation Functions / Pellegrini, Giovanni; Tibo, Alessandro; Frasconi, Paolo; Passerini, Andrea; Jaeger, Manfred. - (2021), pp. 2892-2898. ((Intervento presentato al convegno IJCAI tenutosi a Montreal, Canada nel 19th- 26th August, 2021 [10.24963/ijcai.2021/398].
Titolo: | Learning Aggregation Functions | |
Autori: | Pellegrini, Giovanni; Tibo, Alessandro; Frasconi, Paolo; Passerini, Andrea; Jaeger, Manfred | |
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Titolo del volume contenente il saggio: | Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence | |
Luogo di edizione: | International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization | |
Casa editrice: | International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization | |
Anno di pubblicazione: | 2021 | |
ISBN: | 978-0-9992411-9-6 | |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11572/330913 | |
Citazione: | Learning Aggregation Functions / Pellegrini, Giovanni; Tibo, Alessandro; Frasconi, Paolo; Passerini, Andrea; Jaeger, Manfred. - (2021), pp. 2892-2898. ((Intervento presentato al convegno IJCAI tenutosi a Montreal, Canada nel 19th- 26th August, 2021 [10.24963/ijcai.2021/398]. | |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 04.1 Saggio in atti di convegno (Paper in Proceedings) |
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