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Deep multi-task learning attracts much attention in recent years as it achieves good performance in many applications. Feature learning is important to deep multi-task learning for sharing common information among tasks. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Pengxin Guo , Chang Deng , Linjie Xu , Xiaonan Huang , Yu Zhang

In the last two years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved an impressive suite of results on standard recognition datasets and tasks. CNN-based features seem poised to quickly replace engineered representations, such as SIFT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Pulkit Agrawal , Ross Girshick , Jitendra Malik

Understanding the advantages of deep neural networks trained by gradient descent (GD) compared to shallow models remains an open theoretical challenge. In this paper, we introduce a class of target functions (single and multi-index Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-17 Yatin Dandi , Luca Pesce , Lenka Zdeborová , Florent Krzakala

Deep learning algorithms demonstrate a surprising ability to learn high-dimensional tasks from limited examples. This is commonly attributed to the depth of neural networks, enabling them to build a hierarchy of abstract, low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Francesco Cagnetta , Leonardo Petrini , Umberto M. Tomasini , Alessandro Favero , Matthieu Wyart

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are generated by sequentially performing linear and non-linear processes. Using a combination of linear and non-linear procedures is critical for generating a sufficiently deep feature space. The majority of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Yufei Hu , Nacim Belkhir , Jesus Angulo , Angela Yao , Gianni Franchi

Deep neural networks learn fragile "shortcut" features, rendering them difficult to interpret (black box) and vulnerable to adversarial attacks. This paper proposes semantic features as a general architectural solution to this problem. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Maciej Satkiewicz

In recent years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have known an important rise in popularity. However, although they are state-of-the-art in many machine learning challenges, they still suffer from several limitations. For example, DNNs require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Carlos Lassance , Myriam Bontonou , Mounia Hamidouche , Bastien Pasdeloup , Lucas Drumetz , Vincent Gripon

Probabilistic graphical models are traditionally known for their successes in generative modeling. In this work, we advocate layered graphical models (LGMs) for probabilistic discriminative learning. To this end, we design LGMs in close…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Yuesong Shen , Tao Wu , Csaba Domokos , Daniel Cremers

We propose a learning algorithm capable of learning from label proportions instead of direct data labels. In this scenario, our data are arranged into various bags of a certain size, and only the proportions of each label within a given bag…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Gabriel Dulac-Arnold , Neil Zeghidour , Marco Cuturi , Lucas Beyer , Jean-Philippe Vert

We study the problem of learning differentiable functions expressed as programs in a domain-specific language. Such programmatic models can offer benefits such as composability and interpretability; however, learning them requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Ameesh Shah , Eric Zhan , Jennifer J. Sun , Abhinav Verma , Yisong Yue , Swarat Chaudhuri

There currently exist two extreme viewpoints for neural network feature learning -- (i) Neural networks simply implement a kernel method (a la NTK) and hence no features are learned (ii) Neural networks can represent (and hence learn)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Mahesh Lorik Yadav , Harish Guruprasad Ramaswamy , Chandrashekar Lakshminarayanan

With the tremendous success of deep learning in visual tasks, the representations extracted from intermediate layers of learned models, that is, deep features, attract much attention of researchers. Previous empirical analysis shows that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Qi Qian , Juhua Hu , Hao Li

End-to-end autonomous driving has emerged as a dominant paradigm, yet its highly entangled black-box models pose significant challenges in terms of interpretability and safety assurance. To improve model transparency and training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Ni Ding , Lei He , Shengbo Eben Li , Keqiang Li

The current deep neural network algorithm still stays in the end-to-end training supervision method like Image-Label pairs, which makes traditional algorithm is difficult to explain the reason for the results, and the prediction logic is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Yishuang Tian , Ning Wang , Liang Zhang

Statistical learning in high-dimensional spaces is challenging without a strong underlying data structure. Recent advances with foundational models suggest that text and image data contain such hidden structures, which help mitigate the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-04 Charles Arnal , Clement Berenfeld , Simon Rosenberg , Vivien Cabannes

Image space feature detection is the act of selecting points or parts of an image that are easy to distinguish from the surrounding image region. By combining a repeatable point detection with a descriptor, parts of an image can be matched…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Alexander Mai , Joseph Menke , Allen Yang

Features play a crucial role in computer vision. Initially designed to detect salient elements by means of handcrafted algorithms, features are now often learned by different layers in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Loris Nanni , Stefano Ghidoni , Sheryl Brahnam

This paper introduces a novel approach that combines unsupervised active contour models with deep learning for robust and adaptive image segmentation. Indeed, traditional active contours, provide a flexible framework for contour evolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Antoine Habis , Vannary Meas-Yedid , Elsa Angelini , Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed in different applications to achieve state-of-the-art performance. However, they are often applied as a black box with limited understanding of what knowledge the model has learned from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Shihao Zhao , Xingjun Ma , Yisen Wang , James Bailey , Bo Li , Yu-Gang Jiang

Although statistical learning theory provides a robust framework to understand supervised learning, many theoretical aspects of deep learning remain unclear, in particular how different architectures may lead to inductive bias when trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Cédric Gerbelot , Avetik Karagulyan , Stefani Karp , Kavya Ravichandran , Menachem Stern , Nathan Srebro