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Compositional generalization has achieved substantial progress in computer vision on pre-collected training data. Nonetheless, real-world data continually emerges, with possible compositions being nearly infinite, long-tailed, and not…

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Many complex tasks can be decomposed into simpler, independent parts. Discovering such underlying compositional structure has the potential to enable compositional generalization. Despite progress, our most powerful systems struggle to…

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) learn abstract features to perform object classification, but understanding these features remains challenging due to difficult-to-interpret results or high computational costs. We propose an automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Maren H. Wehrheim , Pamela Osuna-Vargas , Matthias Kaschube

While a real-world research program in mathematics may be guided by a motivating question, the process of mathematical discovery is typically open-ended. Ideally, exploration needed to answer the original question will reveal new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Henry Kvinge , Andrew Aguilar , Nayda Farnsworth , Grace O'Brien , Robert Jasper , Sarah Scullen , Helen Jenne

Spectral clustering is known as a powerful technique in unsupervised data analysis. The vast majority of approaches to spectral clustering are driven by a single modality, leaving the rich information in multi-modal representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bo Peng , Yuanwei Hu , Bo Liu , Ling Chen , Jie Lu , Zhen Fang

Deep neural networks represent the gold standard for image classification. However, they usually need large amounts of data to reach superior performance. In this work, we focus on image classification problems with a few labeled examples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Lorenzo Brigato , Luca Iocchi

Autonomous systems require the management of several model views to assure properties such as safety and security among others. A crucial issue in autonomous systems design assurance is the notion of emergent behavior; we cannot use their…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Georgios Bakirtzis , Ufuk Topcu

The visual world is fundamentally compositional. Visual scenes are defined by the composition of objects and their relations. Hence, it is essential for computer vision systems to reflect and exploit this compositionality to achieve robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Shuhao Fu , Andrew Jun Lee , Anna Wang , Ida Momennejad , Trevor Bihl , Hongjing Lu , Taylor W. Webb

We consider the problem of learning a neural network classifier. Under the information bottleneck (IB) principle, we associate with this classification problem a representation learning problem, which we call "IB learning". We show that IB…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Masoumeh Soflaei , Hongyu Guo , Ali Al-Bashabsheh , Yongyi Mao , Richong Zhang

Compositional understanding is crucial for human intelligence, yet it remains unclear whether contemporary vision models exhibit it. The dominant machine learning paradigm is built on the premise that scaling data and model sizes will…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Arnas Uselis , Andrea Dittadi , Seong Joon Oh

We present a framework for efficient perceptual inference that explicitly reasons about the segmentation of its inputs and features. Rather than being trained for any specific segmentation, our framework learns the grouping process in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Klaus Greff , Antti Rasmus , Mathias Berglund , Tele Hotloo Hao , Jürgen Schmidhuber , Harri Valpola

The ability to learn new visual concepts from limited examples is a hallmark of human cognition. While traditional category learning models represent each example as an unstructured feature vector, compositional concept learning is thought…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Andrew Jun Lee , Taylor Webb , Trevor Bihl , Keith Holyoak , Hongjing Lu

In complex inferential tasks like question answering, machine learning models must confront two challenges: the need to implement a compositional reasoning process, and, in many applications, the need for this reasoning process to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Ronghang Hu , Jacob Andreas , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko

The pursuit of decision safety in clinical applications highlights the potential of concept-based methods in medical imaging. While these models offer active interpretability, they often suffer from concept leakages, where unintended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yibo Gao , Hangqi Zhou , Zheyao Gao , Bomin Wang , Shangqi Gao , Sihan Wang , Xiahai Zhuang

Interpretability is a critical factor in applying complex deep learning models to advance the understanding of brain disorders in neuroimaging studies. To interpret the decision process of a trained classifier, existing techniques typically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Zixuan Liu , Ehsan Adeli , Kilian M. Pohl , Qingyu Zhao

As with any task, the process of building machine learning models can benefit from prior experience. Meta-learning for classifier selection leverages knowledge about the characteristics of different datasets and/or the past performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sebastian Maldonado , Carla Vairetti , Ignacio Figueroa

Obtaining compositional mappings is important for the model to generalize well compositionally. To better understand when and how to encourage the model to learn such mappings, we study their uniqueness through different perspectives.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Yi Ren , Danica J. Sutherland

Convolutional neural networks for computer vision are fairly intuitive. In a typical CNN used in image classification, the first layers learn edges, and the following layers learn some filters that can identify an object. But CNNs for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Prudhvi Raj Dachapally , Srikanth Ramanam

How can we discover and succinctly summarize the concepts that a neural network has learned? Such a task is of great importance in applications of networks in areas of inference that involve classification, like medical diagnosis based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Uday Singh Saini , Evangelos E. Papalexakis

An important goal in visual recognition is to devise image representations that are invariant to particular transformations. In this paper, we address this goal with a new type of convolutional neural network (CNN) whose invariance is…

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