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Progress in self-supervised learning has brought strong general image representation learning methods. Yet so far, it has mostly focused on image-level learning. In turn, tasks such as unsupervised image segmentation have not benefited from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Adrian Ziegler , Yuki M. Asano

A key challenge for autonomous vehicles is to navigate in unseen dynamic environments. Separating moving objects from static ones is essential for navigation, pose estimation, and understanding how other traffic participants are likely to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Benedikt Mersch , Xieyuanli Chen , Ignacio Vizzo , Lucas Nunes , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Leveraging on the underlying low-dimensional structure of data, low-rank and sparse modeling approaches have achieved great success in a wide range of applications. However, in many applications the data can display structures beyond simply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Zhao Kang , Xiao Lu , Yiwei Lu , Chong Peng , Zenglin Xu

Formal verification provides a powerful framework for proving that dynamical systems satisfy their specifications. However, these techniques face scalability challenges in high-dimensional settings, as they often rely on state-space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Robert Reed , Luca Laurenti , Morteza Lahijanian

A network supporting deep unsupervised learning is presented. The network is an autoencoder with lateral shortcut connections from the encoder to decoder at each level of the hierarchy. The lateral shortcut connections allow the higher…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-03 Harri Valpola

Analyzing human vasculature and vessel-like, tubular structures, such as airways, is crucial for disease diagnosis and treatment. Current methods often rely on small sub-regions or simplified tree-like structures, rendering analysis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Chinmay Prabhakar , Bastian Wittmann , Paul Büschl , Hongwei Bran Li , Bjoern Menze , Suprosanna Shit

We study the problem of self-supervised structured representation learning using autoencoders for downstream tasks such as generative modeling. Unlike most methods which rely on matching an arbitrary, relatively unstructured, prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Felix Leeb , Guilia Lanzillotta , Yashas Annadani , Michel Besserve , Stefan Bauer , Bernhard Schölkopf

This paper investigates the use of autoencoders and machine learning methods for detecting and analyzing quantum phase transitions in the Two-Component Bose-Hubbard Model. By leveraging deep learning models such as autoencoders, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-30 Iftekher S. Chowdhury , Binay Prakash Akhouri , Shah Haque , Eric Howard

Behavioral patterns captured in embeddings learned from interaction data are pivotal across various stages of production recommender systems. However, in the initial retrieval stage, practitioners face an inherent tradeoff between embedding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Vojtěch Vančura , Martin Spišák , Rodrigo Alves , Ladislav Peška

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have been proposed as an unsupervised approach to learn a decomposition of a model's latent space. This enables useful applications such as steering - influencing the output of a model towards a desired concept -…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Dana Arad , Aaron Mueller , Yonatan Belinkov

We study video-specific autoencoders that allow a human user to explore, edit, and efficiently transmit videos. Prior work has independently looked at these problems (and sub-problems) and proposed different formulations. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Kevin Wang , Deva Ramanan , Aayush Bansal

Conformal Autoencoders are a neural network architecture that imposes orthogonality conditions between the gradients of latent variables to obtain disentangled representations of data. In this work we show that orthogonality relations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 George A. Kevrekidis , Zan Ahmad , Mauro Maggioni , Soledad Villar , Yannis G. Kevrekidis

Learned data models based on sparsity are widely used in signal processing and imaging applications. A variety of methods for learning synthesis dictionaries, sparsifying transforms, etc., have been proposed in recent years, often imposing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Saiprasad Ravishankar , Brendt Wohlberg

We identify and overcome two key obstacles in extending the success of BERT-style pre-training, or the masked image modeling, to convolutional networks (convnets): (i) convolution operation cannot handle irregular, random-masked input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Keyu Tian , Yi Jiang , Qishuai Diao , Chen Lin , Liwei Wang , Zehuan Yuan

A fundamental problem faced by object recognition systems is that objects and their features can appear in different locations, scales and orientations. Current deep learning methods attempt to achieve invariance to local translations via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Dimitrios C. Gklezakos , Rajesh P. N. Rao

Through the success of deep learning in various domains, artificial neural networks are currently among the most used artificial intelligence methods. Taking inspiration from the network properties of biological neural networks (e.g.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Elena Mocanu , Peter Stone , Phuong H. Nguyen , Madeleine Gibescu , Antonio Liotta

It has been long known that sparsity is an effective inductive bias for learning efficient representation of data in vectors with fixed dimensionality, and it has been explored in many areas of representation learning. Of particular…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Victor Prokhorov , Yingzhen Li , Ehsan Shareghi , Nigel Collier

Predicting movement of objects while the action of learning agent interacts with the dynamics of the scene still remains a key challenge in robotics. We propose a multi-layer Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) autoendocer network that predicts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Meenakshi Sarkar , Debasish Ghose

Machine learning problems involving sparse datasets may benefit from the use of convolutional neural networks if the numbers of samples and features are very large. Such datasets are increasingly more frequently encountered in a variety of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-21 Baris Kanber

Latent variable generative models have emerged as powerful tools for generative tasks including image and video synthesis. These models are enabled by pretrained autoencoders that map high resolution data into a compressed lower dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Mohammed Suhail , Carlos Esteves , Leonid Sigal , Ameesh Makadia