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In this paper, the problem of training a classifier on a dataset with incomplete features is addressed. We assume that different subsets of features (random or structured) are available at each data instance. This situation typically occurs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Cesar F. Caiafa , Ziyao Wang , Jordi Solé-Casals , Qibin Zhao

Subspace clustering refers to the problem of segmenting data drawn from a union of subspaces. State-of-the-art approaches for solving this problem follow a two-stage approach. In the first step, an affinity matrix is learned from the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Chun-Guang Li , Chong You , René Vidal

Sparse coding algorithm is an learning algorithm mainly for unsupervised feature for finding succinct, a little above high - level Representation of inputs, and it has successfully given a way for Deep learning. Our objective is to use High…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-08 R. Vidya , Dr. G. M. Nasira , R. P. Jaia Priyankka

We propose a meta-parameter free, off-the-shelf, simple and fast unsupervised feature learning algorithm, which exploits a new way of optimizing for sparsity. Experiments on STL-10 show that the method presents state-of-the-art performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Adriana Romero , Petia Radeva , Carlo Gatta

We investigate the use of sparse coding and dictionary learning in the context of multitask and transfer learning. The central assumption of our learning method is that the tasks parameters are well approximated by sparse linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Andreas Maurer , Massimiliano Pontil , Bernardino Romera-Paredes

We define and discuss the first sparse coding algorithm based on closed-form EM updates and continuous latent variables. The underlying generative model consists of a standard `spike-and-slab' prior and a Gaussian noise model. Closed-form…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-03-05 Jörg Lücke , Abdul-Saboor Sheikh

Function-level binary code similarity detection is a crucial aspect of cybersecurity. It enables the detection of bugs and patent infringements in released software and plays a pivotal role in preventing supply chain attacks. A practical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Sun RuiJin , Guo Shize , Guo Jinhong , Li Wei , Zhan Dazhi , Sun Meng , Pan Zhisong

This paper addresses the problem of face recognition when there is only few, or even only a single, labeled examples of the face that we wish to recognize. Moreover, these examples are typically corrupted by nuisance variables, both linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Yuan Gao , Jiayi Ma , Alan L. Yuille

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are a popular tool for interpreting large language model activations, but their utility in addressing open questions in interpretability remains unclear. In this work, we demonstrate their effectiveness by using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Dmitrii Kharlapenko , Stepan Shabalin , Fazl Barez , Arthur Conmy , Neel Nanda

A new line of research for feature selection based on neural networks has recently emerged. Despite its superiority to classical methods, it requires many training iterations to converge and detect informative features. The computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ghada Sokar , Zahra Atashgahi , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Decebal Constantin Mocanu

Self-similarity learning has been recognized as a promising method for single image super-resolution (SR) to produce high-resolution (HR) image in recent years. The performance of learning based SR reconstruction, however, highly depends on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Jiahe Shi , Chun Qi

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) are widely employed for mechanistic interpretability and model steering. Within this context, steering is by design performed by means of decoding altered SAE intermediate representations. This procedure…

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To truly understand vision models, we must not only interpret their learned features but also validate these interpretations through controlled experiments. While earlier work offers either rich semantics or direct control, few post-hoc…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Samuel Stevens , Wei-Lun Chao , Tanya Berger-Wolf , Yu Su

Categorizing source codes accurately and efficiently is a challenging problem in real-world programming education platform management. In recent years, model-based approaches utilizing abstract syntax trees (ASTs) have been widely applied…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Ziyang Xiang , Zaixi Zhang , Qi Liu

In practical domains, high-dimensional data are usually associated with diverse semantic labels, whereas traditional feature selection methods are designed for single-label data. Moreover, existing multi-label methods encounter two main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yan Zhong , Xingyu Wu , Xinping Zhao , Li Zhang , Xinyuan Song , Lei Shi , Bingbing Jiang

In this paper, we explore an efficient variant of convolutional sparse coding with unit norm code vectors where reconstruction quality is evaluated using an inner product (cosine distance). To use these codes for discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Bailey Kong , Charless C. Fowlkes

In sparse coding, we attempt to extract features of input vectors, assuming that the data is inherently structured as a sparse superposition of basic building blocks. Similarly, neural networks perform a given task by learning features of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Deborah Pereg , Israel Cohen , Anthony A. Vassiliou

ISAC enables pervasive monitoring, but modern sensing algorithms are often too complex for energy-constrained edge devices. This motivates the development of learning techniques that balance accuracy performance and energy efficiency.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Eleonora Cicciarella , Riccardo Mazzieri , Jacopo Pegoraro , Michele Rossi

Super-symmetric tensors - a higher-order extension of scatter matrices - are becoming increasingly popular in machine learning and computer vision for modelling data statistics, co-occurrences, or even as visual descriptors. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Piotr Koniusz , Anoop Cherian

This paper presents a novel approach at the intersection of machine learning and number theory, focusing on the classification of prime and non-prime numbers. At the core of our research is the development of a highly sparse encoding…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Serin Lee , S. Kim