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Factor analysis provides a canonical framework for imposing lower-dimensional structure such as sparse covariance in high-dimensional data. High-dimensional data on the same set of variables are often collected under different conditions,…

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Traditional semi-supervised learning (SSL) assumes that the feature distributions of labeled and unlabeled data are consistent which rarely holds in realistic scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel SSL setting, where unlabeled samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Jiachen Liang , Ruibing Hou , Hong Chang , Bingpeng Ma , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Medical image classification has developed rapidly under the impetus of the convolutional neural network (CNN). Due to the fixed size of the receptive field of the convolution kernel, it is difficult to capture the global features of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-22 Xiangzuo Huo , Gang Sun , Shengwei Tian , Yan Wang , Long Yu , Jun Long , Wendong Zhang , Aolun Li

How can unlabeled video augment visual learning? Existing methods perform "slow" feature analysis, encouraging the representations of temporally close frames to exhibit only small differences. While this standard approach captures the fact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Dinesh Jayaraman , Kristen Grauman

In this article we propose feature graph architectures (FGA), which are deep learning systems employing a structured initialisation and training method based on a feature graph which facilitates improved generalisation performance compared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Richard Davis , Sanjay Chawla , Philip Leong

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated strong performance in visual recognition tasks, but their inherent reliance on regular grid structures limits their capacity to model complex topological relationships and non-local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Feiyue Zhao , Zhichao Zhang

Attribute recognition is a crucial but challenging task due to viewpoint changes, illumination variations and appearance diversities, etc. Most of previous work only consider the attribute-level feature embedding, which might perform poorly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Jie Yang , Jiarou Fan , Yiru Wang , Yige Wang , Weihao Gan , Lin Liu , Wei Wu

We study parameter estimation in Nonlinear Factor Analysis (NFA) where the generative model is parameterized by a deep neural network. Recent work has focused on learning such models using inference (or recognition) networks; we identify a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-18 Rahul G. Krishnan , Dawen Liang , Matthew Hoffman

Extended Predictable Feature Analysis (PFAx) [Richthofer and Wiskott, 2017] is an extension of PFA [Richthofer and Wiskott, 2015] that allows generating a goal-directed control signal of an agent whose dynamics has previously been learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Stefan Richthofer , Laurenz Wiskott

Second-order Latent Factor (SLF) model, a class of low-rank representation learning methods, has proven effective at extracting node-to-node interaction patterns from High-dimensional and Incomplete (HDI) data. However, its optimization is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jialiang Wang , Xueyan Bao , Hao Wu

We propose a new learning method for heterogeneous domain adaptation (HDA), in which the data from the source domain and the target domain are represented by heterogeneous features with different dimensions. Using two different projection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Lixin Duan , Dong Xu , Ivor Tsang

A key goal of unsupervised learning is to go beyond density estimation and sample generation to reveal the structure inherent within observed data. Such structure can be expressed in the pattern of interactions between explanatory latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Changmin Yu , Hugo Soulat , Neil Burgess , Maneesh Sahani

Federated learning enables collaborative model training across distributed data sources but suffers from slow convergence under non-IID data conditions. Existing solutions employ algorithmic modifications treating all client updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jahidul Arafat

Recognition of low-quality face images remains a challenge due to invisible or deformation in partial facial regions. For low-quality images dominated by missing partial facial regions, local region similarity contributes more to face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Wang Yu , Wei Wei

Federated learning increasingly operates in a large-model regime where communication, memory, and computation are all scarce. Typically, non-IID client data induce drift that degrades the stability and performance of local training.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shuchen Zhu , Zhengyang Huang , Yuqi Xu , Peijin Li

Graph neural networks (GNNs) with missing node features have recently received increasing interest. Such missing node features seriously hurt the performance of the existing GNNs. Some recent methods have been proposed to reconstruct the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Chengxiang Lei , Sichao Fu , Yuetian Wang , Wenhao Qiu , Yachen Hu , Qinmu Peng , Xinge You

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful learning methods for recommender systems owing to their robustness in handling complicated user-item interactions. Recently, the integration of contrastive learning with GNNs has demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Junfeng Long , Hao Wu

Under circumstances of heterophily, where nodes with different labels tend to be connected based on semantic meanings, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often exhibit suboptimal performance. Current studies on graph heterophily mainly focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Yilun Zheng , Jiahao Xu , Lihui Chen

Extended persistence is a technique from topological data analysis to obtain global multiscale topological information from a graph. This includes information about connected components and cycles that are captured by the so-called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Simon Zhang , Soham Mukherjee , Tamal K. Dey

Monitoring complex systems results in massive multivariate time series data, and anomaly detection of these data is very important to maintain the normal operation of the systems. Despite the recent emergence of a large number of anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Liwei Deng , Xuanhao Chen , Yan Zhao , Kai Zheng