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Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) often rely on in-context learning (ICL) to perform new visual question answering (VQA) tasks with minimal supervision. However, ICL performance, especially in smaller LMMs, does not always improve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Akash Gupta , Amos Storkey , Mirella Lapata

In-context learning (ICL) is a type of prompting where a transformer model operates on a sequence of (input, output) examples and performs inference on-the-fly. In this work, we formalize in-context learning as an algorithm learning problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yingcong Li , M. Emrullah Ildiz , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Samet Oymak

Computer vision research has long aimed to build systems that are robust to spatial transformations found in natural data. Traditionally, this is done using data augmentation or hard-coding invariances into the architecture. However, too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Utkarsh Singhal , Carlos Esteves , Ameesh Makadia , Stella X. Yu

Conventional fine-tuning encounters increasing difficulties given the size of current Pre-trained Language Models, which makes parameter-efficient tuning become the focal point of frontier research. Previous methods in this field add…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Wang Qi , Yu-Ping Ruan , Yuan Zuo , Taihao Li

Channel equalization is fundamental for mitigating distortions such as frequency-selective fading and inter-symbol interference. Unlike standard supervised learning approaches that require costly retraining or fine-tuning for each new task,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Jiachen Jiang , Zhen Qin , Zhihui Zhu

Meta-learning algorithms are able to learn a new task using previously learned knowledge, but they often require a large number of meta-training tasks which may not be readily available. To address this issue, we propose a method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Wenfang Sun , Yingjun Du , Xiantong Zhen , Fan Wang , Ling Wang , Cees G. M. Snoek

While modern convolutional neural networks achieve outstanding accuracy on many image classification tasks, they are, compared to humans, much more sensitive to image degradation. Here, we describe a variant of Batch Normalization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Bojian Yin , Siebren Schaafsma , Henk Corporaal , H. Steven Scholte , Sander M. Bohte

With sequentially stacked self-attention, (optional) encoder-decoder attention, and feed-forward layers, Transformer achieves big success in natural language processing (NLP), and many variants have been proposed. Currently, almost all…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Jinhua Zhu , Lijun Wu , Yingce Xia , Shufang Xie , Tao Qin , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Tie-Yan Liu

Deep neural networks suffer from catastrophic forgetting, where performance on previous tasks degrades after training on a new task. This issue arises due to the model's tendency to overwrite previously acquired knowledge with new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Lama Alssum , Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud , Motasem Alfarra , Juan C Leon Alcazar , Bernard Ghanem

One fundamental problem when solving inverse problems is how to find regularization parameters. This article considers solving this problem using data-driven bilevel optimization, i.e. we consider the adaptive learning of the regularization…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-08 Neil K. Chada , Claudia Schillings , Xin T. Tong , Simon Weissmann

We build a theoretical framework for designing and understanding practical meta-learning methods that integrates sophisticated formalizations of task-similarity with the extensive literature on online convex optimization and sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Mikhail Khodak , Maria-Florina Balcan , Ameet Talwalkar

Information retrieval aims to find information that meets users' needs from the corpus. Different needs correspond to different IR tasks such as document retrieval, open-domain question answering, retrieval-based dialogue, etc., while they…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Shicheng Xu , Liang Pang , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

We propose meta-curvature (MC), a framework to learn curvature information for better generalization and fast model adaptation. MC expands on the model-agnostic meta-learner (MAML) by learning to transform the gradients in the inner…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Eunbyung Park , Junier B. Oliva

A key component of most neural network architectures is the use of normalization layers, such as Batch Normalization. Despite its common use and large utility in optimizing deep architectures, it has been challenging both to generically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Cecilia Summers , Michael J. Dinneen

Inverse problems are essential to imaging applications. In this paper, we propose a model-based deep learning network, named FISTA-Net, by combining the merits of interpretability and generality of the model-based Fast Iterative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Jinxi Xiang , Yonggui Dong , Yunjie Yang

Natural gradient descent is a principled method for adapting the parameters of a statistical model on-line using an underlying Riemannian parameter space to redefine the direction of steepest descent. The algorithm is examined via methods…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Magnus Rattray , David Saad

Normalization layers have been shown to improve convergence in deep neural networks, and even add useful inductive biases. In many vision applications the local spatial context of the features is important, but most common normalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Anthony Ortiz , Caleb Robinson , Dan Morris , Olac Fuentes , Christopher Kiekintveld , Md Mahmudulla Hassan , Nebojsa Jojic

We present a novel Transformer-based network architecture for instance-aware image-to-image translation, dubbed InstaFormer, to effectively integrate global- and instance-level information. By considering extracted content features from an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Soohyun Kim , Jongbeom Baek , Jihye Park , Gyeongnyeon Kim , Seungryong Kim

We propose an algorithm for learning a conditional generative model of a molecule given a target. Specifically, given a receptor molecule that one wishes to bind to, the conditional model generates candidate ligand molecules that may bind…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Eyal Rozenberg , Daniel Freedman

The widespread use of Batch Normalization has enabled training deeper neural networks with more stable and faster results. However, the Batch Normalization works best using large batch size during training and as the state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Martin Kolarik , Radim Burget , Kamil Riha