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This paper considers sequential adaptive estimation of sparse signals under a constraint on the total sensing effort. The advantage of adaptivity in this context is the ability to focus more resources on regions of space where signal…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-04-03 Dennis Wei , Alfred O. Hero

The development of generalizable Novel View Synthesis (NVS) models is critically limited by the scarcity of large-scale training data featuring diverse and precise camera trajectories. While real-world captures are photorealistic, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chenhan Jiang , Yu Chen , Qingwen Zhang , Jifei Song , Songcen Xu , Dit-Yan Yeung , Jiankang Deng

Perception is often viewed as a process that transforms physical variables, external to an observer, into internal psychological variables. Such a process can be modeled by a function coined perceptual scale. The perceptual scale can be…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-19 Jonathan Vacher , Pascal Mamassian

Scale-sensitive object detection remains a challenging task, where most of the existing methods could not learn it explicitly and are not robust to scale variance. In addition, the most existing methods are less efficient during training or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Junran Peng , Ming Sun , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Tieniu Tan , Junjie Yan

Symmetry is omnipresent in nature and perceived by the visual system of many species, as it facilitates detecting ecologically important classes of objects in our environment. Symmetry perception requires abstraction of long-range spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Shobhita Sundaram , Darius Sinha , Matthew Groth , Tomotake Sasaki , Xavier Boix

Graphs are ubiquitous due to their flexibility in representing social and technological systems as networks of interacting elements. Graph representation learning methods, such as node embeddings, are powerful approaches to map nodes into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Simone Piaggesi , Megha Khosla , André Panisson , Avishek Anand

Scaling issues are mundane yet irritating for practitioners of reinforcement learning. Error scales vary across domains, tasks, and stages of learning; sometimes by many orders of magnitude. This can be detrimental to learning speed and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Tom Schaul , Georg Ostrovski , Iurii Kemaev , Diana Borsa

Scale selection methods based on local extrema over scale of scale-normalized derivatives have been primarily developed to be applied sparsely --- at image points where the magnitude of a scale-normalized differential expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Tony Lindeberg

Understanding the structural complexity and predictability of complex networks is a central challenge in network science. Although recent studies have revealed a relationship between compression-based entropy and link prediction…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sebastián Brzovic , Cristóbal Rojas , Andrés Abeliuk

Objective functions that optimize deep neural networks play a vital role in creating an enhanced feature representation of the input data. Although cross-entropy-based loss formulations have been extensively used in a variety of supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Deen Dayal Mohan , Bhavin Jawade , Srirangaraj Setlur , Venu Govindaraj

We propose a new randomized optimization method for high-dimensional problems which can be seen as a generalization of coordinate descent to random subspaces. We show that an adaptive sampling strategy for the random subspace significantly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Jonathan Lacotte , Mert Pilanci , Marco Pavone

Understanding the internal representations of large language models (LLMs) is a central challenge in interpretability research. Existing feature interpretability methods often rely on strong assumptions about the structure of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yifan Luo , Zhennan Zhou , Bin Dong

Metriplectic systems are learned from data in a way that scales quadratically in both the size of the state and the rank of the metriplectic data. Besides being provably energy conserving and entropy stable, the proposed approach comes with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Anthony Gruber , Kookjin Lee , Haksoo Lim , Noseong Park , Nathaniel Trask

Despite variations in architecture and pretraining strategies, recent studies indicate that large-scale AI models often converge toward similar internal representations that also align with neural activity. We propose that scale-invariance,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-17 Junjie Yu , Wenxiao Ma , Jianyu Zhang , Haotian Deng , Zihan Deng , Yi Guo , Quanying Liu

Monocular visual odometry consists of the estimation of the position of an agent through images of a single camera, and it is applied in autonomous vehicles, medical robots, and augmented reality. However, monocular systems suffer from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-09 André O. Françani , Marcos R. O. A. Maximo

Diffusion Probabilistic Field (DPF) models the distribution of continuous functions defined over metric spaces. While DPF shows great potential for unifying data generation of various modalities including images, videos, and 3D geometry, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Kangfu Mei , Mo Zhou , Vishal M. Patel

An increasing number of applications require real-time reasoning under uncertainty with streaming input. The temporal (dynamic) Bayes net formalism provides a powerful representational framework for such applications. However, existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Masami Takikawa , Bruce D'Ambrosio , Ed Wright

While robot learning has demonstrated promising results for enabling robots to automatically acquire new skills, a critical challenge in deploying learning-based systems is scale: acquiring enough data for the robot to effectively…

Self-supervised learning approaches for unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) of semantic segmentation models suffer from challenges of predicting and selecting reasonable good quality pseudo labels. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 M. Naseer Subhani , Mohsen Ali

The discovering of low-dimensional manifolds in high-dimensional data is one of the main goals in manifold learning. We propose a new approach to identify the effective dimension (intrinsic dimension) of low-dimensional manifolds. The scale…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-03-17 Xiaohui Wang , J. S. Marron