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Network Embeddings (NEs) map the nodes of a given network into $d$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$. Ideally, this mapping is such that `similar' nodes are mapped onto nearby points, such that the NE can be used for purposes such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-17 Bo Kang , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie

Recently recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have demonstrated the ability to improve scene labeling through capturing long-range dependencies among image units. In this paper, we propose dense RNNs for scene labeling by exploring various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Heng Fan , Haibin Ling

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have shown the ability to improve scene parsing through capturing long-range dependencies among image units. In this paper, we propose dense RNNs for scene labeling by exploring various long-range semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Heng Fan , Peng Chu , Longin Jan Latecki , Haibin Ling

Recently, the Network Representation Learning (NRL) techniques, which represent graph structure via low-dimension vectors to support social-oriented application, have attracted wide attention. Though large efforts have been made, they may…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Hao Wang , Tong Xu , Qi Liu , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen , Dongfang Du , Han Wu , Wen Su

Mixture Density Networks (MDNs) can be used to generate probability density functions of model parameters $\boldsymbol{\theta}$ given a set of observables $\mathbf{x}$. In some applications, training data are available only for discrete…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-08-18 Charles Burton , Spencer Stubbs , Peter Onyisi

Current meta-learning approaches focus on learning functional representations of relationships between variables, i.e. on estimating conditional expectations in regression. In many applications, however, we are faced with conditional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-25 Jean-Francois Ton , Lucian Chan , Yee Whye Teh , Dino Sejdinovic

We propose a way of transforming the problem of conditional density estimation into a single nonparametric regression task via the introduction of auxiliary samples. This allows leveraging regression methods that work well in high…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-25 Alexander G. Reisach , Olivier Collier , Alex Luedtke , Antoine Chambaz

We consider the problem of distributed estimation of an unknown deterministic scalar parameter (the target signal) in a wireless sensor network (WSN), where each sensor receives a single snapshot of the field. We assume that the observation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Qing Zhou , Di Li , Soummya Kar , Lauren Huie , H. Vincent Poor , Shuguang Cui

To simplify the parameter of the deep learning network, a cascaded compressive sensing model "CSNet" is implemented for image classification. Firstly, we use cascaded compressive sensing network to learn feature from the data. Secondly,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-26 Yufei Gan , Tong Zhuo , Chu He

Deep learning has demonstrated abilities to learn complex structures, but they can be restricted by available data. Recently, Consensus Networks (CNs) were proposed to alleviate data sparsity by utilizing features from multiple modalities,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Zining Zhu , Jekaterina Novikova , Frank Rudzicz

Multi-scale features are essential for dense prediction tasks, such as object detection, instance segmentation, and semantic segmentation. The prevailing methods usually utilize a classification backbone to extract multi-scale features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Gang Zhang , Ziyi Li , Chufeng Tang , Jianmin Li , Xiaolin Hu

A new method to solve computationally challenging (random) parametric obstacle problems is developed and analyzed, where the parameters can influence the related partial differential equation (PDE) and determine the position and surface…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Martin Eigel , Cosmas Heiß , Janina E. Schütte

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the backbone of state-of-art semantic image segmentation systems. Recent work has shown that complementing CNNs with fully-connected conditional random fields (CRFs) can significantly enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Liang-Chieh Chen , Jonathan T. Barron , George Papandreou , Kevin Murphy , Alan L. Yuille

Despite the huge success of deep neural networks (NNs), finding good mechanisms for quantifying their prediction uncertainty is still an open problem. Bayesian neural networks are one of the most popular approaches to uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-01 Agustinus Kristiadi , Sina Däubener , Asja Fischer

This work studies how to estimate the mean-field density of large-scale systems in a distributed manner. Such problems are motivated by the recent swarm control technique that uses mean-field approximations to represent the collective…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Tongjia Zheng , Qing Han , Hai Lin

In this paper we investigate image classification with computational resource limits at test time. Two such settings are: 1. anytime classification, where the network's prediction for a test example is progressively updated, facilitating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Gao Huang , Danlu Chen , Tianhong Li , Felix Wu , Laurens van der Maaten , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Mixture Density Networks are a tried and tested tool for modelling conditional probability distributions. As such, they constitute a great baseline for novel approaches to this problem. In the standard formulation, an MDN takes some input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Jakob Kruse

Modern Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are extremely powerful on a range of computer vision tasks. However, their performance may degrade when the data is characterised by large intra-class variability caused by spatial transformations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Roberto Annunziata , Christos Sagonas , Jacques Calì

Deep Learning (DL) based Compressed Sensing (CS) has been applied for better performance of image reconstruction than traditional CS methods. However, most existing DL methods utilize the block-by-block measurement and each measurement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-29 Zhifeng Wang , Zhenghui Wang , Chunyan Zeng , Yan Yu , Xiangkui Wan

Our proposed deeply-supervised nets (DSN) method simultaneously minimizes classification error while making the learning process of hidden layers direct and transparent. We make an attempt to boost the classification performance by studying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-26 Chen-Yu Lee , Saining Xie , Patrick Gallagher , Zhengyou Zhang , Zhuowen Tu