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Metric learning has become an attractive field for research on the latest years. Loss functions like contrastive loss, triplet loss or multi-class N-pair loss have made possible generating models capable of tackling complex scenarios with…

During the training of networks for distance metric learning, minimizers of the typical loss functions can be considered as "feasible points" satisfying a set of constraints imposed by the training data. To this end, we reformulate distance…

Distances are pervasive in machine learning. They serve as similarity measures, loss functions, and learning targets; it is said that a good distance measure solves a task. When defining distances, the triangle inequality has proven to be a…

This paper presents an analysis regarding an influence of the Distance Metric Learning (DML) loss functions on the supervised fine-tuning of the language models for classification tasks. We experimented with known datasets from SentEval…

In many practical applications of constrained optimization, scale and solving time limits make traditional optimization solvers prohibitively slow. Thus, the research question of how to design optimization proxies -- machine learning models…

Triplet loss is widely used for learning local descriptors from image patch. However, triplet loss only minimizes the Euclidean distance between matching descriptors and maximizes that between the non-matching descriptors, which neglects…

Deep metric learning is essential for visual recognition. The widely used pair-wise (or triplet) based loss objectives cannot make full use of semantical information in training samples or give enough attention to those hard samples during…

The Triplet Margin Ranking Loss is one of the most widely used loss functions in Siamese Networks for solving Distance Metric Learning (DML) problems. This loss function depends on a margin parameter {\mu}, which defines the minimum…

Most existing distance metric learning methods assume perfect side information that is usually given in pairwise or triplet constraints. Instead, in many real-world applications, the constraints are derived from side information, such as…

The objective of deep metric learning (DML) is to learn embeddings that can capture semantic similarity and dissimilarity information among data points. Existing pairwise or tripletwise loss functions used in DML are known to suffer from…

This work focuses on active learning of distance metrics from relative comparison information. A relative comparison specifies, for a data point triplet $(x_i,x_j,x_k)$, that instance $x_i$ is more similar to $x_j$ than to $x_k$. Such…

Unsupervised deep metric learning (UDML) focuses on learning a semantic representation space using only unlabeled data. This challenging problem requires accurately estimating the similarity between data points, which is used to supervise a…

We propose a simple modification from a fixed margin triplet loss to an adaptive margin triplet loss. While the original triplet loss is used widely in classification problems such as face recognition, face re-identification and…

We present an active learning strategy for training parametric models of distance metrics, given triplet-based similarity assessments: object $x_i$ is more similar to object $x_j$ than to $x_k$. In contrast to prior work on class-based…

The mainstream researche in deep metric learning can be divided into two genres: proxy-based and pair-based methods. Proxy-based methods have attracted extensive attention due to the lower training complexity and fast network convergence.…

We propose a novel distance-based regularization method for deep metric learning called Multi-level Distance Regularization (MDR). MDR explicitly disturbs a learning procedure by regularizing pairwise distances between embedding vectors…

This paper studies how to train machine-learning models that directly approximate the optimal solutions of constrained optimization problems. This is an empirical risk minimization under constraints, which is challenging as training must…

Distance metric learning aims to learn from the given training data a valid distance metric, with which the similarity between data samples can be more effectively evaluated for classification. Metric learning is often formulated as a…

Deep representation learning using triplet network for classification suffers from a lack of theoretical foundation and difficulty in tuning both the network and classifiers for performance. To address the problem, local-margin triplet loss…

The scalability and complexity of deep learning models remains a key issue in many of visual recognition applications like, e.g., video surveillance, where fine tuning with labeled image data from each new camera is required to reduce the…