Statistical learning is the process of estimating an unknown probabilistic input-output relationship of a system using a limited number of observations. A statistical learning machine (SLM) is the algorithm, function, model, or rule, that learns such a process; and machine learning (ML) is the conventional name of this field. ML and its applications are ubiquitous in the modern world. Systems such as Automatic target recognition (ATR) in military applications, computer aided diagnosis (CAD) in medical imaging, DNA microarrays in genomics, optical character recognition (OCR), speech recognition (SR), spam email filtering, stock market prediction, etc., are few examples and applications for ML; diverse fields but one theory. In particular, ML has gained a lot of attention in the field of cyberphysical security, especially in the last decade. It is of great importance to this field to design detection algorithms that have the capability of learning from security data to be able to hunt threats, achieve better monitoring, master the complexity of the threat intelligence feeds, and achieve timely remediation of security incidents. The field of ML can be decomposed into two basic subfields: \textit{construction} and \textit{assessment}. We mean by \textit{construction} designing or inventing an appropriate algorithm that learns from the input data and achieves a good performance according to some optimality criterion. We mean by \textit{assessment} attributing some performance measures to the constructed ML algorithm, along with their estimators, to objectively assess this algorithm. \textit{Construction} and \textit{assessment} of a ML algorithm require familiarity with different other fields: probability, statistics, matrix theory, optimization, algorithms, and programming, among others.f

This chapter is dedicated to the assessment and performance estimation of machine learning (ML) algorithms, a topic that is equally important to the construction of these algorithms, in particular in the context of cyberphysical security design. The literature is full of nonparametric methods to estimate a statistic from just one available dataset through resampling techniques, e.g., jackknife, bootstrap and cross validation (CV). Special statistics of great interest are the error rate and the area under the ROC curve (AUC) of a classification rule. The importance of these resampling methods stems from the fact that they require no knowledge about the probability distribution of the data or the construction details of the ML algorithm. This chapter provides a concise review of this literature to establish a coherent theoretical framework for these methods that can estimate both the error rate (a one-sample statistic) and the AUC (a two-sample statistic). The resampling methods are usually computationally expensive, because they rely on repeating the training and testing of a ML algorithm after each resampling iteration. Therefore, the practical applicability of some of these methods may be limited to the traditional ML algorithms rather than the very computationally demanding approaches of the recent deep neural networks (DNN). In the field of cyberphysical security, many applications generate structured (tabular) data, which can be fed to all traditional ML approaches. This is in contrast to the DNN approaches, which favor unstructured data, e.g., images, text, voice, etc.; hence, the relevance of this chapter to this field.%

这项正在进行的工作旨在为统计学习提供统一的介绍，从诸如GMM和HMM等经典模型到现代神经网络（如VAE和扩散模型）缓慢地构建。如今，有许多互联网资源可以孤立地解释这一点或新的机器学习算法，但是它们并没有（也不能在如此简短的空间中）将这些算法彼此连接起来，或者与统计模型的经典文献相连现代算法出现了。同样明显缺乏的是一个单一的符号系统，尽管对那些已经熟悉材料的人（如这些帖子的作者）不满意，但对新手的入境造成了重大障碍。同样，我的目的是将各种模型（尽可能）吸收到一个用于推理和学习的框架上，表明（以及为什么）如何以最小的变化将一个模型更改为另一个模型（其中一些是新颖的，另一些是文献中的）。某些背景当然是必要的。我以为读者熟悉基本的多变量计算，概率和统计以及线性代数。这本书的目标当然不是​​完整性，而是从基本知识到过去十年中极强大的新模型的直线路径或多或少。然后，目标是补充而不是替换，诸如Bishop的\ emph {模式识别和机器学习}之类的综合文本，该文本现在已经15岁了。

The notion of uncertainty is of major importance in machine learning and constitutes a key element of machine learning methodology. In line with the statistical tradition, uncertainty has long been perceived as almost synonymous with standard probability and probabilistic predictions. Yet, due to the steadily increasing relevance of machine learning for practical applications and related issues such as safety requirements, new problems and challenges have recently been identified by machine learning scholars, and these problems may call for new methodological developments. In particular, this includes the importance of distinguishing between (at least) two different types of uncertainty, often referred to as aleatoric and epistemic. In this paper, we provide an introduction to the topic of uncertainty in machine learning as well as an overview of attempts so far at handling uncertainty in general and formalizing this distinction in particular.

这是一门专门针对STEM学生开发的介绍性机器学习课程。我们的目标是为有兴趣的读者提供基础知识，以在自己的项目中使用机器学习，并将自己熟悉术语作为进一步阅读相关文献的基础。在这些讲义中，我们讨论受监督，无监督和强化学习。注释从没有神经网络的机器学习方法的说明开始，例如原理分析，T-SNE，聚类以及线性回归和线性分类器。我们继续介绍基本和先进的神经网络结构，例如密集的进料和常规神经网络，经常性的神经网络，受限的玻尔兹曼机器，（变性）自动编码器，生成的对抗性网络。讨论了潜在空间表示的解释性问题，并使用梦和对抗性攻击的例子。最后一部分致力于加强学习，我们在其中介绍了价值功能和政策学习的基本概念。

这篇综述的目的是将读者介绍到图表内，以将其应用于化学信息学中的分类问题。图内核是使我们能够推断分子的化学特性的功能，可以帮助您完成诸如寻找适合药物设计的化合物等任务。内核方法的使用只是一种特殊的两种方式量化了图之间的相似性。我们将讨论限制在这种方法上，尽管近年来已经出现了流行的替代方法，但最著名的是图形神经网络。

最近有一项激烈的活动在嵌入非常高维和非线性数据结构的嵌入中，其中大部分在数据科学和机器学习文献中。我们分四部分调查这项活动。在第一部分中，我们涵盖了非线性方法，例如主曲线，多维缩放，局部线性方法，ISOMAP，基于图形的方法和扩散映射，基于内核的方法和随机投影。第二部分与拓扑嵌入方法有关，特别是将拓扑特性映射到持久图和映射器算法中。具有巨大增长的另一种类型的数据集是非常高维网络数据。第三部分中考虑的任务是如何将此类数据嵌入中等维度的向量空间中，以使数据适合传统技术，例如群集和分类技术。可以说，这是算法机器学习方法与统计建模（所谓的随机块建模）之间的对比度。在论文中，我们讨论了两种方法的利弊。调查的最后一部分涉及嵌入$ \ mathbb {r}^ 2 $，即可视化中。提出了三种方法：基于第一部分，第二和第三部分中的方法，$ t $ -sne，UMAP和大节。在两个模拟数据集上进行了说明和比较。一个由嘈杂的ranunculoid曲线组成的三胞胎，另一个由随机块模型和两种类型的节点产生的复杂性的网络组成。

Uncertainty is prevalent in engineering design, statistical learning, and decision making broadly. Due to inherent risk-averseness and ambiguity about assumptions, it is common to address uncertainty by formulating and solving conservative optimization models expressed using measure of risk and related concepts. We survey the rapid development of risk measures over the last quarter century. From its beginning in financial engineering, we recount their spread to nearly all areas of engineering and applied mathematics. Solidly rooted in convex analysis, risk measures furnish a general framework for handling uncertainty with significant computational and theoretical advantages. We describe the key facts, list several concrete algorithms, and provide an extensive list of references for further reading. The survey recalls connections with utility theory and distributionally robust optimization, points to emerging applications areas such as fair machine learning, and defines measures of reliability.

Learning curves provide insight into the dependence of a learner's generalization performance on the training set size. This important tool can be used for model selection, to predict the effect of more training data, and to reduce the computational complexity of model training and hyperparameter tuning. This review recounts the origins of the term, provides a formal definition of the learning curve, and briefly covers basics such as its estimation. Our main contribution is a comprehensive overview of the literature regarding the shape of learning curves. We discuss empirical and theoretical evidence that supports well-behaved curves that often have the shape of a power law or an exponential. We consider the learning curves of Gaussian processes, the complex shapes they can display, and the factors influencing them. We draw specific attention to examples of learning curves that are ill-behaved, showing worse learning performance with more training data. To wrap up, we point out various open problems that warrant deeper empirical and theoretical investigation. All in all, our review underscores that learning curves are surprisingly diverse and no universal model can be identified.

监督主体组件分析（SPCA）的方法旨在将标签信息纳入主成分分析（PCA），以便提取的功能对于预测感兴趣的任务更有用。SPCA的先前工作主要集中在优化预测误差上，并忽略了提取功能解释的最大化方差的价值。我们为SPCA提出了一种新的方法，该方法共同解决了这两个目标，并从经验上证明我们的方法主导了现有方法，即在预测误差和变异方面都超越了它们的表现。我们的方法可容纳任意监督的学习损失，并通过统计重新制定提供了广义线性模型的新型低级扩展。

即使机器学习算法已经在数据科学中发挥了重要作用，但许多当前方法对输入数据提出了不现实的假设。由于不兼容的数据格式，或数据集中的异质，分层或完全缺少的数据片段，因此很难应用此类方法。作为解决方案，我们提出了一个用于样本表示，模型定义和培训的多功能，统一的框架，称为“ Hmill”。我们深入审查框架构建和扩展的机器学习的多个范围范式。从理论上讲，为HMILL的关键组件的设计合理，我们将通用近似定理的扩展显示到框架中实现的模型所实现的所有功能的集合。本文还包含有关我们实施中技术和绩效改进的详细讨论，该讨论将在MIT许可下发布供下载。该框架的主要资产是其灵活性，它可以通过相同的工具对不同的现实世界数据源进行建模。除了单独观察到每个对象的一组属性的标准设置外，我们解释了如何在框架中实现表示整个对象系统的图表中的消息推断。为了支持我们的主张，我们使用框架解决了网络安全域的三个不同问题。第一种用例涉及来自原始网络观察结果的IoT设备识别。在第二个问题中，我们研究了如何使用以有向图表示的操作系统的快照可以对恶意二进制文件进行分类。最后提供的示例是通过网络中实体之间建模域黑名单扩展的任务。在所有三个问题中，基于建议的框架的解决方案可实现与专业方法相当的性能。

Virtually all machine learning tasks are characterized using some form of loss function, and "good performance" is typically stated in terms of a sufficiently small average loss, taken over the random draw of test data. While optimizing for performance on average is intuitive, convenient to analyze in theory, and easy to implement in practice, such a choice brings about trade-offs. In this work, we survey and introduce a wide variety of non-traditional criteria used to design and evaluate machine learning algorithms, place the classical paradigm within the proper historical context, and propose a view of learning problems which emphasizes the question of "what makes for a desirable loss distribution?" in place of tacit use of the expected loss.

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机器学习渗透到许多行业，这为公司带来了新的利益来源。然而，在人寿保险行业中，机器学习在实践中并未被广泛使用，因为在过去几年中，统计模型表明了它们的风险评估效率。因此，保险公司可能面临评估人工智能价值的困难。随着时间的流逝，专注于人寿保险行业的修改突出了将机器学习用于保险公司的利益以及通过释放数据价值带来的利益。本文回顾了传统的生存建模方法论，并通过机器学习技术扩展了它们。它指出了与常规机器学习模型的差异，并强调了特定实现在与机器学习模型家族中面对审查数据的重要性。在本文的补充中，已经开发了Python库。已经调整了不同的开源机器学习算法，以适应人寿保险数据的特殊性，即检查和截断。此类模型可以轻松地从该SCOR库中应用，以准确地模拟人寿保险风险。

大多数机器学习算法由一个或多个超参数配置，必须仔细选择并且通常会影响性能。为避免耗时和不可递销的手动试验和错误过程来查找性能良好的超参数配置，可以采用各种自动超参数优化（HPO）方法，例如，基于监督机器学习的重新采样误差估计。本文介绍了HPO后，本文审查了重要的HPO方法，如网格或随机搜索，进化算法，贝叶斯优化，超带和赛车。它给出了关于进行HPO的重要选择的实用建议，包括HPO算法本身，性能评估，如何将HPO与ML管道，运行时改进和并行化结合起来。这项工作伴随着附录，其中包含关于R和Python的特定软件包的信息，以及用于特定学习算法的信息和推荐的超参数搜索空间。我们还提供笔记本电脑，这些笔记本展示了这项工作的概念作为补充文件。

In many engineering optimization problems, the number of function evaluations is severely limited by time or cost. These problems pose a special challenge to the field of global optimization, since existing methods often require more function evaluations than can be comfortably afforded. One way to address this challenge is to fit response surfaces to data collected by evaluating the objective and constraint functions at a few points. These surfaces can then be used for visualization, tradeoff analysis, and optimization. In this paper, we introduce the reader to a response surface methodology that is especially good at modeling the nonlinear, multimodal functions that often occur in engineering. We then show how these approximating functions can be used to construct an efficient global optimization algorithm with a credible stopping rule. The key to using response surfaces for global optimization lies in balancing the need to exploit the approximating surface (by sampling where it is minimized) with the need to improve the approximation (by sampling where prediction error may be high). Striking this balance requires solving certain auxiliary problems which have previously been considered intractable, but we show how these computational obstacles can be overcome.

天然气管道中的泄漏检测是石油和天然气行业的一个重要且持续的问题。这尤其重要，因为管道是运输天然气的最常见方法。这项研究旨在研究数据驱动的智能模型使用基本操作参数检测天然气管道的小泄漏的能力，然后使用现有的性能指标比较智能模型。该项目应用观察者设计技术，使用回归分类层次模型来检测天然气管道中的泄漏，其中智能模型充当回归器，并且修改后的逻辑回归模型充当分类器。该项目使用四个星期的管道数据流研究了五个智能模型（梯度提升，决策树，随机森林，支持向量机和人工神经网络）。结果表明，虽然支持向量机和人工神经网络比其他网络更好，但由于其内部复杂性和所使用的数据量，它们并未提供最佳的泄漏检测结果。随机森林和决策树模型是最敏感的，因为它们可以在大约2小时内检测到标称流量的0.1％的泄漏。所有智能模型在测试阶段中具有高可靠性，错误警报率为零。将所有智能模型泄漏检测的平均时间与文献中的实时短暂模型进行了比较。结果表明，智能模型在泄漏检测问题中的表现相对较好。该结果表明，可以与实时瞬态模型一起使用智能模型，以显着改善泄漏检测结果。

超参数优化构成了典型的现代机器学习工作流程的很大一部分。这是由于这样一个事实，即机器学习方法和相应的预处理步骤通常只有在正确调整超参数时就会产生最佳性能。但是在许多应用中，我们不仅有兴趣仅仅为了预测精度而优化ML管道；确定最佳配置时，必须考虑其他指标或约束，从而导致多目标优化问题。由于缺乏知识和用于多目标超参数优化的知识和容易获得的软件实现，因此通常在实践中被忽略。在这项工作中，我们向读者介绍了多个客观超参数优化的基础知识，并激励其在应用ML中的实用性。此外，我们从进化算法和贝叶斯优化的领域提供了现有优化策略的广泛调查。我们说明了MOO在几个特定ML应用中的实用性，考虑了诸如操作条件，预测时间，稀疏，公平，可解释性和鲁棒性之类的目标。

本文介绍了分类器校准原理和实践的简介和详细概述。校准的分类器正确地量化了与其实例明智的预测相关的不确定性或信心水平。这对于关键应用，最佳决策，成本敏感的分类以及某些类型的上下文变化至关重要。校准研究具有丰富的历史，其中几十年来预测机器学习作为学术领域的诞生。然而，校准兴趣的最近增加导致了新的方法和从二进制到多种子体设置的扩展。需要考虑的选项和问题的空间很大，并导航它需要正确的概念和工具集。我们提供了主要概念和方法的介绍性材料和最新的技术细节，包括适当的评分规则和其他评估指标，可视化方法，全面陈述二进制和多字数分类的HOC校准方法，以及几个先进的话题。

The success of machine learning algorithms generally depends on data representation, and we hypothesize that this is because different representations can entangle and hide more or less the different explanatory factors of variation behind the data. Although specific domain knowledge can be used to help design representations, learning with generic priors can also be used, and the quest for AI is motivating the design of more powerful representation-learning algorithms implementing such priors. This paper reviews recent work in the area of unsupervised feature learning and deep learning, covering advances in probabilistic models, auto-encoders, manifold learning, and deep networks. This motivates longer-term unanswered questions about the appropriate objectives for learning good representations, for computing representations (i.e., inference), and the geometrical connections between representation learning, density estimation and manifold learning.