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This paper describes a parsing model that combines the exact dynamic programming of CRF parsing with the rich nonlinear featurization of neural net approaches. Our model is structurally a CRF that factors over anchored rule productions, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Greg Durrett , Dan Klein

Neural approaches to sequence labeling often use a Conditional Random Field (CRF) to model their output dependencies, while Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) are used for the same purpose in other tasks. We set out to establish RNNs as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Saeed Najafi , Colin Cherry , Grzegorz Kondrak

Many problems in real-world applications involve predicting several random variables which are statistically related. Markov random fields (MRFs) are a great mathematical tool to encode such relationships. The goal of this paper is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Liang-Chieh Chen , Alexander G. Schwing , Alan L. Yuille , Raquel Urtasun

Object detection is one of the most active areas in computer vision, which has made significant improvement in recent years. Current state-of-the-art object detection methods mostly adhere to the framework of regions with convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Wenqing Chu , Deng Cai

Superpixel-based Higher-order Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) are effective in enforcing long-range consistency in pixel-wise labeling problems, such as semantic segmentation. However, their major short coming is considerably longer time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Li Sulimowicz , Ishfaq Ahmad , Alexander Aved

Random Forest (RF) is a powerful supervised learner and has been popularly used in many applications such as bioinformatics. In this work we propose the guided random forest (GRF) for feature selection. Similar to a feature selection method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Houtao Deng

We propose a new approach to image segmentation, which exploits the advantages of both conditional random fields (CRFs) and decision trees. In the literature, the potential functions of CRFs are mostly defined as a linear combination of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Fayao Liu , Guosheng Lin , Ruizhi Qiao , Chunhua Shen

Sparse Conditional Random Field (CRF) is a powerful technique in computer vision and natural language processing for structured prediction. However, solving sparse CRFs in large-scale applications remains challenging. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Weizhong Zhang , Shuang Qiu

We introduce a training-efficient framework for time-series learning that combines random features with controlled differential equations (CDEs). In this approach, large randomly parameterized CDEs act as continuous-time reservoirs, mapping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Francesco Piatti , Thomas Cass , William F. Turner

This paper presents a versatile technique for the purpose of feature selection and extraction - Class Dependent Features (CDFs). We use CDFs to improve the accuracy of classification and at the same time control computational expense by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Kratarth Goel , Raunaq Vohra , Ainesh Bakshi

Many deep learning architectures for semantic segmentation involve a Fully Convolutional Neural Network (FCN) followed by a Conditional Random Field (CRF) to carry out inference over an image. These models typically involve unary potentials…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Cristina Mata , Guy Ben-Yosef , Boris Katz

Neural random fields (NRFs), referring to a class of generative models that use neural networks to implement potential functions in random fields (a.k.a. energy-based models), are not new but receive less attention with slow progress.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-23 Yunfu Song , Zhijian Ou

This paper proposes a method for measuring conditional feature importance via generative modeling. In explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), conditional feature importance assesses the impact of a feature on a prediction model's…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-22 Kristin Blesch , Niklas Koenen , Jan Kapar , Pegah Golchian , Lukas Burk , Markus Loecher , Marvin N. Wright

Random feature (RF) method is a powerful kernel approximation technique, but is typically equipped with fixed activation functions, limiting its adaptability across diverse tasks. To overcome this limitation, we introduce the Random Feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Zailin Ma , Jiansheng Yang , Yaodong Yang

This paper presents a novel deep learning architecture to classify structured objects in datasets with a large number of visually similar categories. We model sequences of images as linear-chain CRFs, and jointly learn the parameters from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Eran Goldman , Jacob Goldberger

Incremental methods for structure learning of pairwise Markov random fields (MRFs), such as grafting, improve scalability by avoiding inference over the entire feature space in each optimization step. Instead, inference is performed over an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Walid Chaabene , Bert Huang

The output of image the segmentation process is usually not very clear due to low quality features of Satellite images. The purpose of this study is to find a suitable Conditional Random Field (CRF) to achieve better clarity in a segmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Aashish Dhawan , Pankaj Bodani , Vishal Garg

When humans perform inductive learning, they often enhance the process with background knowledge. With the increasing availability of well-formed collaborative knowledge bases, the performance of learning algorithms could be significantly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Lior Friedman , Shaul Markovitch

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, a core task in recommendation systems, aims to estimate the probability of users clicking on items. Existing models predominantly follow a discriminative paradigm, which relies heavily on explicit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Mingjia Yin , Junwei Pan , Hao Wang , Ximei Wang , Shangyu Zhang , Jie Jiang , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

In modern scientific research, the objective is often to identify which variables are associated with an outcome among a large class of potential predictors. This goal can be achieved by selecting variables in a manner that controls the the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-10 Yushu Shi , Michael Martens