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Sequence classification is the supervised learning task of building models that predict class labels of unseen sequences of symbols. Although accuracy is paramount, in certain scenarios interpretability is a must. Unfortunately, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Severin Gsponer , Luca Costabello , Chan Le Van , Sumit Pai , Christophe Gueret , Georgiana Ifrim , Freddy Lecue

Deep metric learning has yielded impressive results in tasks such as clustering and image retrieval by leveraging neural networks to obtain highly discriminative feature embeddings, which can be used to group samples into different classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Ismail Elezi , Jenny Seidenschwarz , Laurin Wagner , Sebastiano Vascon , Alessandro Torcinovich , Marcello Pelillo , Laura Leal-Taixe

Node embeddings map graph vertices into low-dimensional Euclidean spaces while preserving structural information. They are central to tasks such as node classification, link prediction, and signal reconstruction. A key goal is to design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Valentin de Bassompierre , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Laurent Jacques

In this paper, we extend distance correlation to categorical data with general encodings, such as one-hot encoding for nominal variables and semicircle encoding for ordinal variables. Unlike existing methods, our approach leverages the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-21 Qingyang Zhang

Autoencoders are commonly trained using element-wise loss. However, element-wise loss disregards high-level structures in the image which can lead to embeddings that disregard them as well. A recent improvement to autoencoders that helps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Gustav Grund Pihlgren , Fredrik Sandin , Marcus Liwicki

Knowledge proximity refers to the strength of association between any two entities in a structural form that embodies certain aspects of a knowledge base. In this work, we operationalize knowledge proximity within the context of the US…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Guangtong Li , L Siddharth , Jianxi Luo

An embedding is a mapping from a set of nodes of a network into a real vector space. Embeddings can have various aims like capturing the underlying graph topology and structure, node-to-node relationship, or other relevant information about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ashkan Dehghan , Kinga Siuta , Agata Skorupka , Andrei Betlen , David Miller , Bogumil Kaminski , Pawel Pralat

A powerful and flexible approach to structured prediction consists in embedding the structured objects to be predicted into a feature space of possibly infinite dimension by means of output kernels, and then, solving a regression problem in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-03 Luc Brogat-Motte , Alessandro Rudi , Céline Brouard , Juho Rousu , Florence d'Alché-Buc

This paper proposes a general interpretable predictive system with shared information. The system is able to perform predictions in a multi-task setting where distinct tasks are not bound to have the same input/output structure. Embeddings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Maciej Żelaszczyk , Jacek Mańdziuk

Embedding complex objects as vectors in low dimensional spaces is a longstanding problem in machine learning. We propose in this work an extension of that approach, which consists in embedding objects as elliptical probability…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-19 Boris Muzellec , Marco Cuturi

Most state-of-the-art approaches for named-entity recognition (NER) use semi supervised information in the form of word clusters and lexicons. Recently neural network-based language models have been explored, as they as a byproduct generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Alexandre Passos , Vineet Kumar , Andrew McCallum

Deep metric learning (DML) is a cornerstone of many computer vision applications. It aims at learning a mapping from the input domain to an embedding space, where semantically similar objects are located nearby and dissimilar objects far…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Artsiom Sanakoyeu , Pingchuan Ma , Vadim Tschernezki , Björn Ommer

Much of human knowledge is encoded in text, available in scientific publications, books, and the web. Given the rapid growth of these resources, we need automated methods to extract such knowledge into machine-processable structures, such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Shobeir Fakhraei , Joel Mathew , Jose Luis Ambite

Despite significant recent advances in the field of face recognition, implementing face verification and recognition efficiently at scale presents serious challenges to current approaches. In this paper we present a system, called FaceNet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Florian Schroff , Dmitry Kalenichenko , James Philbin

Deep embeddings answer one simple question: How similar are two images? Learning these embeddings is the bedrock of verification, zero-shot learning, and visual search. The most prominent approaches optimize a deep convolutional network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Chao-Yuan Wu , R. Manmatha , Alexander J. Smola , Philipp Krähenbühl

A key to knowledge graph embedding (KGE) is to choose a proper representation space, e.g., point-wise Euclidean space and complex vector space. In this paper, we propose a unified perspective of embedding and introduce uncertainty into KGE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Changyi Xiao , Xiangnan He , Yixin Cao

In humans and other animals, category learning enhances discrimination between stimuli close to the category boundary. This phenomenon, called categorical perception, was also empirically observed in artificial neural networks trained on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Laurent Bonnasse-Gahot , Jean-Pierre Nadal

This paper proposes a new deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) architecture that learns pixel embeddings, such that pairwise distances between the embeddings can be used to infer whether or not the pixels lie on the same region. That…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Adam W. Harley , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Iasonas Kokkinos

Several works have proposed to learn a two-path neural network that maps images and texts, respectively, to a same shared Euclidean space where geometry captures useful semantic relationships. Such a multi-modal embedding can be trained and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Martin Engilberge , Louis Chevallier , Patrick Pérez , Matthieu Cord

Embedding of large but redundant data, such as images or text, in a hierarchy of lower-dimensional spaces is one of the key features of representation learning approaches, which nowadays provide state-of-the-art solutions to problems once…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Gianluca Berardi , Luca De Luigi , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano