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Hyperbolic deep learning has become a growing research direction in computer vision due to the unique properties afforded by the alternate embedding space. The negative curvature and exponentially growing distance metric provide a natural…

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This paper focuses on the problem of unsupervised alignment of hierarchical data such as ontologies or lexical databases. This is a problem that appears across areas, from natural language processing to bioinformatics, and is typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-11 David Alvarez-Melis , Youssef Mroueh , Tommi S. Jaakkola

Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) seeks to utilize knowledge from different domains to alleviate the problem of data sparsity in the target recommendation domain, and it has been gaining more attention in recent years. Although there have…

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The success of models operating on tokenized data has heightened the need for effective tokenization methods, particularly in vision and auditory tasks where inputs are naturally continuous. A common solution is to employ Vector…

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Single Positive Multi-Label Learning (SPMLL) addresses the challenging scenario where each training sample is annotated with only one positive label despite potentially belonging to multiple categories, making it difficult to capture…

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Given an image set without any labels, our goal is to train a model that maps each image to a point in a feature space such that, not only proximity indicates visual similarity, but where it is located directly encodes how prototypical the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Yunhui Guo , Youren Zhang , Yubei Chen , Stella X. Yu

Hierarchical reinforcement learning deals with the problem of breaking down large tasks into meaningful sub-tasks. Autonomous discovery of these sub-tasks has remained a challenging problem. We propose a novel method of learning sub-tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Saket Tiwari , M. Prannoy

Slot attention has emerged as a powerful framework for unsupervised object-centric learning, decomposing visual scenes into a small set of compact vector representations called \emph{slots}, each capturing a distinct region or object.…

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Neural embeddings have been used with great success in Natural Language Processing (NLP). They provide compact representations that encapsulate word similarity and attain state-of-the-art performance in a range of linguistic tasks. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-20 Benjamin Paul Chamberlain , James Clough , Marc Peter Deisenroth

Hyperbolic spaces provide a natural geometry for representing hierarchical and tree-structured data due to their exponential volume growth. To leverage these benefits, neural networks require intrinsic and efficient components that operate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Ziheng Chen , Bernhard Schölkopf , Nicu Sebe

The distance metric plays an important role in nearest neighbor (NN) classification. Usually the Euclidean distance metric is assumed or a Mahalanobis distance metric is optimized to improve the NN performance. In this paper, we study the…

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This paper contributes to interpretable machine learning via visual knowledge discovery in parallel coordinates. The concepts of hypercubes and hyper-blocks are used as easily understandable by end-users in the visual form in parallel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Boris Kovalerchuk , Dustin Hayes

Hierarchical data is common in many domains like life sciences and e-commerce, and its embeddings often play a critical role. While hyperbolic embeddings offer a theoretically grounded approach to representing hierarchies in low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Hui Yang , Jiaoyan Chen

Embedded topic models are able to learn interpretable topics even with large and heavy-tailed vocabularies. However, they generally hold the Euclidean embedding space assumption, leading to a basic limitation in capturing hierarchical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Yishi Xu , Dongsheng Wang , Bo Chen , Ruiying Lu , Zhibin Duan , Mingyuan Zhou

In this work, we study group recommendation in a particular scenario, namely Occasional Group Recommendation (OGR). Most existing works have addressed OGR by aggregating group members' personal preferences to learn the group representation.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Lei Guo , Hongzhi Yin , Tong Chen , Xiangliang Zhang , Kai Zheng

3D contrastive representation learning has exhibited remarkable efficacy across various downstream tasks. However, existing contrastive learning paradigms based on cosine similarity fail to deeply explore the potential intra-modal…

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Personalized recommender systems are increasingly important as more content and services become available and users struggle to identify what might interest them. Thanks to the ability for providing rich information, knowledge graphs (KGs)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Chen Ma , Liheng Ma , Yingxue Zhang , Haolun Wu , Xue Liu , Mark Coates

Metric learning algorithms aim to learn a distance function that brings the semantically similar data items together and keeps dissimilar ones at a distance. The traditional Mahalanobis distance learning is equivalent to find a linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Karrar Al-Kaabi , Reza Monsefi , Davood Zabihzadeh

Many graph neural networks have been developed to learn graph representations in either Euclidean or hyperbolic space, with all nodes' representations embedded in a single space. However, a graph can have hyperbolic and Euclidean geometries…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 See Hian Lee , Feng Ji , Wee Peng Tay

Taxonomic classification in biodiversity research involves organizing biological specimens into structured hierarchies based on evidence, which can come from multiple modalities such as images and genetic information. We investigate whether…