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This paper proposes a novel, efficient transfer learning method, called Scalable Weight Reparametrization (SWR) that is efficient and effective for multiple downstream tasks. Efficient transfer learning involves utilizing a pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Byeonggeun Kim , Jun-Tae Lee , Seunghan yang , Simyung Chang

Modern deep neural networks can easily overfit to biased training data containing corrupted labels or class imbalance. Sample re-weighting methods are popularly used to alleviate this data bias issue. Most current methods, however, require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Jun Shu , Xiang Yuan , Deyu Meng , Zongben Xu

Weakly supervised learning has drawn considerable attention recently to reduce the expensive time and labor consumption of labeling massive data. In this paper, we investigate a novel weakly supervised learning problem of learning from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-16 Yuzhou Cao , Lei Feng , Yitian Xu , Bo An , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

Curriculum learning (CL) mimics human learning, in which easy samples are learned first, followed by harder samples, and has become an effective method for training deep networks. However, many existing automatic CL methods maintain a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Wensheng Li , Yichao Tian , Hao Wang , Ruifeng Zhou , Hanting Guan , Chao Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Image classification technology and performance based on Deep Learning have already achieved high standards. Nevertheless, many efforts have conducted to improve the stability of classification via ensembling. However, the existing ensemble…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-12 YeongHyeon Park , JoonSung Lee , Wonseok Park

Recently, many evolutionary computation methods have been developed to solve the feature selection problem. However, the studies focused mainly on small-scale issues, resulting in stagnation issues in local optima and numerical instability…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Xubin Wang , Yunhe Wang , Ka-Chun Wong , Xiangtao Li

In practical machine learning applications, it is often challenging to assign accurate labels to data, and increasing the number of labeled instances is often limited. In such cases, Weakly Supervised Learning (WSL), which enables training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tomoya Tate , Kosuke Sugiyama , Masato Uchida

We investigate the convergence rates and data sample sizes required for training a machine learning model using a stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm, where data points are sampled based on either their loss value or uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Daniel Haimovich , Dima Karamshuk , Fridolin Linder , Niek Tax , Milan Vojnovic

Weight averaging has become a standard technique for enhancing model performance. However, methods such as Stochastic Weight Averaging (SWA) and Latest Weight Averaging (LAWA) often require manually designed procedures to sample from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Peng Wang , Shengchao Hu , Zerui Tao , Guoxia Wang , Dianhai Yu , Li Shen , Quan Zheng , Dacheng Tao

We introduce the Differentiable Weightless Neural Network (DWN), a model based on interconnected lookup tables. Training of DWNs is enabled by a novel Extended Finite Difference technique for approximate differentiation of binary values. We…

Stochastic control-flow models (SCFMs) are a class of generative models that involve branching on choices from discrete random variables. Amortized gradient-based learning of SCFMs is challenging as most approaches targeting discrete…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-17 Tuan Anh Le , Adam R. Kosiorek , N. Siddharth , Yee Whye Teh , Frank Wood

Optimal decision making requires that classifiers produce uncertainty estimates consistent with their empirical accuracy. However, deep neural networks are often under- or over-confident in their predictions. Consequently, methods have been…

Model fairness is becoming important in class-incremental learning for Trustworthy AI. While accuracy has been a central focus in class-incremental learning, fairness has been relatively understudied. However, naively using all the samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jaeyoung Park , Minsu Kim , Steven Euijong Whang

In this paper, we introduce Target-Aware Weighted Training (TAWT), a weighted training algorithm for cross-task learning based on minimizing a representation-based task distance between the source and target tasks. We show that TAWT is easy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Shuxiao Chen , Koby Crammer , Hangfeng He , Dan Roth , Weijie J. Su

Despite the power of deep neural networks for a wide range of tasks, an overconfident prediction issue has limited their practical use in many safety-critical applications. Many recent works have been proposed to mitigate this issue, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Jooyoung Moon , Jihyo Kim , Younghak Shin , Sangheum Hwang

This work aims at solving the problems with intractable sparsity-inducing norms that are often encountered in various machine learning tasks, such as multi-task learning, subspace clustering, feature selection, robust principal component…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Feiping Nie , Zhanxuan Hu , Xiaoqian Wang , Rong Wang , Xuelong Li , Heng Huang

Recent studies have shown that as training progresses, neural networks gradually lose their capacity to learn new information, a phenomenon known as plasticity loss. An unbounded weight growth is one of the main causes of plasticity loss.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Seungwon Oh , Sangyeon Park , Isaac Han , Kyung-Joong Kim

In this paper, we provide a novel and simple algorithm, Clairvoyant Multiplicative Weights Updates (CMWU) for regret minimization in general games. CMWU effectively corresponds to the standard MWU algorithm but where all agents, when…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Georgios Piliouras , Ryann Sim , Stratis Skoulakis

Normalization methods are essential components in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). They either standardize or whiten data using statistics estimated in predefined sets of pixels. Unlike existing works that design normalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Xingang Pan , Xiaohang Zhan , Jianping Shi , Xiaoou Tang , Ping Luo

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation focuses on the exploration of a small amount of labeled data and a large amount of unlabeled data, which is more in line with the demands of real-world image understanding applications. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Bo Dang , Yansheng Li , Yongjun Zhang , Jiayi Ma