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Accurately estimating and simulating the physical properties of objects from real-world sound recordings is of great practical importance in the fields of vision, graphics, and robotics. However, the progress in these directions has been…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Xutong Jin , Chenxi Xu , Ruohan Gao , Jiajun Wu , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

Deep learning methods have been considered promising for accelerating molecular screening in drug discovery and material design. Due to the limited availability of labelled data, various self-supervised molecular pre-training methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yuyan Ni , Shikun Feng , Xin Hong , Yuancheng Sun , Wei-Ying Ma , Zhi-Ming Ma , Qiwei Ye , Yanyan Lan

White noise is a fundamental and fairly well understood stochastic process that conforms the conceptual basis for many other processes, as well as for the modeling of time series. Here we push a fresh perspective toward white noise that,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-04 Alvaro Diaz-Ruelas

Valid causal inference in observational studies often requires controlling for confounders. However, in practice measurements of confounders may be noisy, and can lead to biased estimates of causal effects. We show that we can reduce the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-05 Nathan Kallus , Xiaojie Mao , Madeleine Udell

In black-box optimization, noise in the objective function is inevitable. Noise disrupts the ranking of candidate solutions in comparison-based optimization, possibly deteriorating the search performance compared with a noiseless scenario.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Daiki Morinaga , Youhei Akimoto

We consider a situation where the distribution of a random variable is being estimated by the empirical distribution of noisy measurements of that variable. This is common practice in, for example, teacher value-added models and other…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-12-08 Koen Jochmans , Martin Weidner

$\textit{Implicit neural representations}$ (INRs) aim to learn a $\textit{continuous function}$ (i.e., a neural network) to represent an image, where the input and output of the function are pixel coordinates and RGB/Gray values,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Ke Liu , Feng Liu , Haishuai Wang , Ning Ma , Jiajun Bu , Bo Han

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative frameworks, creating data samples by progressively denoising an initial random state. Traditionally, this initial state is sampled from a simple, fixed distribution like isotropic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zeming Li , Xiangyue Liu , Xiangyu Zhang , Ping Tan , Heung-Yeung Shum

Noise is an important factor which when get added to an image reduces its quality and appearance. So in order to enhance the image qualities, it has to be removed with preserving the textural information and structural features of image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Vivek Kumar , Atul Samadhiya

The counterintuitive emergence of order from noise is a central phenomenon in science, ranging from pattern formation and synchronization to order-by-disorder in frustrated systems. While large-scale spatial self-organization induced by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-02 Satyam Anand , Guanming Zhang , Stefano Martiniani

Diffusion models have found valuable applications in anomaly detection by capturing the nominal data distribution and identifying anomalies via reconstruction. Despite their merits, they struggle to localize anomalies of varying scales,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Justin Tebbe , Jawad Tayyub

This paper examines the influence of internal Gaussian noise on the performance of deep feedforward neural networks, focusing on the role of the noise injection stage relative to the activation function. Two scenarios are analyzed: noise…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-10 D. A. Maksimov , V. M. Moskvitin , N. Semenova

Real-world data is complex and often consists of objects that can be decomposed into multiple entities (e.g. images into pixels, graphs into interconnected nodes). Randomized smoothing is a powerful framework for making models provably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yan Scholten , Jan Schuchardt , Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann

The field of Continual Learning investigates the ability to learn consecutive tasks without losing performance on those previously learned. Its focus has been mainly on incremental classification tasks. We believe that research in continual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Angelo G. Menezes , Gustavo de Moura , Cézanne Alves , André C. P. L. F. de Carvalho

A good supervised embedding for a specific machine learning task is only sensitive to changes in the label of interest and is invariant to other confounding factors. We leverage the concept of repeatability from measurement theory to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Jianwei Zhang , Suren Jayasuriya , Visar Berisha

To learn and reason in the presence of uncertainty, the brain must be capable of imposing some form of regularization. Here we suggest, through theoretical and computational arguments, that the combination of noise with synchronization…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-12-06 Jake Bouvrie , Jean-Jacques Slotine

In this work we study the rheological features of yield stress materials that exhibit non-homogeneous steady flows and that are subjected to an additional mechanical noise. Using a mesoscale elasto-plastic model accounting for a viscosity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-08 Magali Le Goff , Eric Bertin , Kirsten Martens

Cumulant mapping has been recently suggested [Frasinski, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 24, 207767 (2022)] as an efficient approach to observing multi-particle fragmentation pathways, while bypassing the restrictions of the usual…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 S. Patchkovskii , J. Mikosch

In safety-critical applications like medical diagnosis, certainty associated with a model's prediction is just as important as its accuracy. Consequently, uncertainty estimation and reduction play a crucial role. Uncertainty in predictions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Abhishek Singh Sambyal , Narayanan C. Krishnan , Deepti R. Bathula

Humans are able to segment images effortlessly without supervision using perceptual grouping. Here, we propose a counter-intuitive computational approach to solving unsupervised perceptual grouping and segmentation: that they arise because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Ben Lonnqvist , Zhengqing Wu , Michael H. Herzog