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The need for appropriate ways to measure the distance or similarity between data is ubiquitous in machine learning, pattern recognition and data mining, but handcrafting such good metrics for specific problems is generally difficult. This…

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Statistical relational learning techniques have been successfully applied in a wide range of relational domains. In most of these applications, the human designers capitalized on their background knowledge by following a trial-and-error…

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Learning-to-Rank (LTR) is a supervised machine learning approach that constructs models specifically designed to order a set of items or documents based on their relevance or importance to a given query or context. Despite significant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Camilo Gomez , Pengyang Wang , Yanjie Fu

Deep Metric Learning (DML), a widely-used technique, involves learning a distance metric between pairs of samples. DML uses deep neural architectures to learn semantic embeddings of the input, where the distance between similar examples is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Thomas Kobber Panum , Zi Wang , Pengyu Kan , Earlence Fernandes , Somesh Jha

Distance metric learning (DML) is a critical factor for image analysis and pattern recognition. To learn a robust distance metric for a target task, we need abundant side information (i.e., the similarity/dissimilarity pairwise constraints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Yong Luo , Tongliang Liu , Dacheng Tao , Chao Xu

A key element of any machine learning algorithm is the use of a function that measures the dis/similarity between data points. Given a task, such a function can be optimized with a metric learning algorithm. Although this research field has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-05 Léo Gautheron , Emilie Morvant , Amaury Habrard , Marc Sebban

Distance metric learning (DML) approaches learn a transformation to a representation space where distance is in correspondence with a predefined notion of similarity. While such models offer a number of compelling benefits, it has been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-03-03 Oren Rippel , Manohar Paluri , Piotr Dollar , Lubomir Bourdev

We propose a novel adaptive transfer learning framework, learning to transfer learn (L2TL), to improve performance on a target dataset by careful extraction of the related information from a source dataset. Our framework considers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Linchao Zhu , Sercan O. Arik , Yi Yang , Tomas Pfister

There is extensive interest in metric learning methods for image retrieval. Many metric learning loss functions focus on learning a correct ranking of training samples, but strongly overfit semantically inconsistent labels and require a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Christopher Liao , Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Brian Kulis

The multilabel learning problem with large number of labels, features, and data-points has generated a tremendous interest recently. A recurring theme of these problems is that only a few labels are active in any given datapoint as compared…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Akshay Soni , Yashar Mehdad

Distance metric learning can be viewed as one of the fundamental interests in pattern recognition and machine learning, which plays a pivotal role in the performance of many learning methods. One of the effective methods in learning such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Mostafa Razavi Ghods , Mohammad Hossein Moattar , Yahya Forghani

The success of recommender systems in modern online platforms is inseparable from the accurate capture of users' personal tastes. In everyday life, large amounts of user feedback data are created along with user-item online interactions in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Xiao Zhou , Danyang Liu , Jianxun Lian , Xing Xie

Multimodal representation learning has been largely driven by contrastive models such as CLIP, which learn a shared embedding space by aligning paired image-text samples. While effective for general-purpose representation learning, such…

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In this position paper, I first describe a new perspective on machine learning (ML) by four basic problems (or levels), namely, "What to learn?", "How to learn?", "What to evaluate?", and "What to adjust?". The paper stresses more on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-20 Bao-Gang Hu

Distance metric learning (DML) plays a crucial role in diverse machine learning algorithms and applications. When the labeled information in target domain is limited, transfer metric learning (TML) helps to learn the metric by leveraging…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-09 Yong Luo , Yonggang Wen , Dacheng Tao

Metric learning aims to learn a distance metric such that semantically similar instances are pulled together while dissimilar instances are pushed away. Many existing methods consider maximizing or at least constraining a distance margin in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-17 Xiaochen Yang , Yiwen Guo , Mingzhi Dong , Jing-Hao Xue

Relational logistic regression (RLR) is a representation of conditional probability in terms of weighted formulae for modelling multi-relational data. In this paper, we develop a learning algorithm for RLR models. Learning an RLR model from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Bahare Fatemi , Seyed Mehran Kazemi , David Poole

Continual relation extraction is an important task that focuses on extracting new facts incrementally from unstructured text. Given the sequential arrival order of the relations, this task is prone to two serious challenges, namely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Tongtong Wu , Xuekai Li , Yuan-Fang Li , Reza Haffari , Guilin Qi , Yujin Zhu , Guoqiang Xu

Learning a distance metric from the given training samples plays a crucial role in many machine learning tasks, and various models and optimization algorithms have been proposed in the past decade. In this paper, we generalize several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Faqiang Wang , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang , Deyu Meng , David Zhang

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…

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