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Addressing the need for explainable Machine Learning has emerged as one of the most important research directions in modern Artificial Intelligence (AI). While the current dominant paradigm in the field is based on black-box models,…

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Topology optimization(TO) is widely used in engineering because of its ability to save material and optimize structural performance. Although prior work has explored 2D human-centered design tool for TO, the results are often limited in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Shuyue Feng , Cedric Caremel , Yoshihiro Kawahara

Dimensionality reduction (DR) techniques are often characterized by whether they preserve global, high-level structures in the data or local, neighborhood structures. This distinction matters in visualization: global methods can obscure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Kaviru Gunaratne , Stephen Kobourov , Jacob Miller

Designing functional materials requires a deep search through multidimensional spaces for system parameters that yield desirable material properties. For cases where conventional parameter sweeps or trial-and-error sampling are impractical,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-22 Sanket Kadulkar , Zachary M. Sherman , Venkat Ganesan , Thomas M. Truskett

Literature search is arguably one of the most important phases of the academic and non-academic research. The increase in the number of published papers each year makes manual search inefficient and furthermore insufficient. Hence,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-09-27 Onur Küçüktunç , Erik Saule , Kamer Kaya , Ümit V. Çatalyürek

Diffusion models have made remarkable progress in solving various inverse problems, attributing to the generative modeling capability of the data manifold. Posterior sampling from the conditional score function enable the precious data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jinghao Zhang , Zizheng Yang , Qi Zhu , Feng Zhao

We study the similarity search problem which aims to find the similar query results according to a set of given data and a query string. To balance the result number and result quality, we combine query result diversity with query…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Ruoxi Shi , Hongzhi Wang , Tao Wang , Yutai Hou , Yiwen Tang

New types of designs called nested space-filling designs have been proposed for conducting multiple computer experiments with different levels of accuracy. In this article, we develop several approaches to constructing such designs. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-04 Peter Z. G. Qian , Mingyao Ai , C. F. Jeff Wu

Evaluating the accuracy of dimensionality reduction (DR) projections in preserving the structure of high-dimensional data is crucial for reliable visual analytics. Diverse evaluation metrics targeting different structural characteristics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jiyeon Bae , Hyeon Jeon , Jinwook Seo

Deep clustering which adopts deep neural networks to obtain optimal representations for clustering has been widely studied recently. In this paper, we propose a novel deep image clustering framework to learn a category-style latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Junjie Zhao , Donghuan Lu , Kai Ma , Yu Zhang , Yefeng Zheng

Object detection is a basic computer vision task to loccalize and categorize objects in a given image. Most state-of-the-art detection methods utilize a fixed number of proposals as an intermediate representation of object candidates, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Yiming Cui , Linjie Yang , Ding Liu

Quality and diversity have been proposed as reasonable heuristics for assessing content generated by co-creative systems, but to date there has been little agreement around what constitutes the latter or how to measure it. Proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Francisco Ibarrola , Kazjon Grace

Dimension reduction and data quantization are two important methods for reducing data complexity. In the paper, we study the methodology of first reducing data dimension by random projection and then quantizing the projections to ternary or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Weizhi Lu , Mingrui Chen , Kai Guo , Weiyu Li

Recently different evolutionary computation approaches have been developed that generate sets of high quality diverse solutions for a given optimisation problem. Many studies have considered diversity 1) as a mean to explore niches in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Adel Nikfarjam , Aneta Neumann , Jakob Bossek , Frank Neumann

Scientific expertise often requires recognizing subtle visual differences that remain challenging to articulate even for domain experts. We present a system that leverages generative models to automatically discover and visualize minimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Mia Chiquier , Orr Avrech , Yossi Gandelsman , Berthy Feng , Katherine Bouman , Carl Vondrick

Quality by design in pharmaceutical manufacturing hinges on computational methods and tools that are capable of accurate quantitative prediction of the design space. This paper investigates Bayesian approaches to design space…

Data quality describes the degree to which data meet specific requirements and are fit for use by humans and/or downstream tasks (e.g., artificial intelligence). Data quality can be assessed across multiple high-level concepts called…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Vasileios Papastergios , Lisa Ehrlinger , Anastasios Gounaris

Operational decisions in healthcare, logistics, and public policy increasingly involve algorithms that recommend candidate solutions, such as treatment plans, delivery routes, or policy options, while leaving the final choice to human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Michael Lingzhi Li , Shixiang Zhu

Creating digital models using Computer Aided Design (CAD) is a process that requires in-depth expertise. In industrial product development, this process typically involves entire teams of engineers, spanning requirements engineering, CAD…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Felix Ocker , Stefan Menzel , Ahmed Sadik , Thiago Rios

Spatial optimization is often overlooked in many computer vision tasks. Filters should be able to recognize the features of an object regardless of where it is in the image. Similarity search is a crucial task where spatial features decide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Md. Farhadul Islam , Md. Tanzim Reza , Meem Arafat Manab , Mohammad Rakibul Hasan Mahin , Sarah Zabeen , Jannatun Noor