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We present the novel approach for stance detection across domains and targets, Metric Learning-Based Few-Shot Learning for Cross-Target and Cross-Domain Stance Detection (MLSD). MLSD utilizes metric learning with triplet loss to capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Parush Gera , Tempestt Neal

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is essential for ensuring the reliability of deep learning models operating in open-world scenarios. Current OOD detectors mainly rely on statistical models to identify unusual patterns in the latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Konstantin Kirchheim , Frank Ortmeier

In this paper we discuss a method, which we call Minimum Conditional Description Length (MCDL), for estimating the parameters of a subset of sites within a Markov random field. We assume that the edges are known for the entire graph…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Matthew G. Reyes , David L. Neuhoff

Flexible district heating grids form an important part of future, low-carbon energy systems. We examine probabilistic state estimation in such grids, i.e., we aim to estimate the posterior probability distribution over all grid state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Andreas Bott , Tim Janke , Florian Steinke

The perceived advantage of machine learning (ML) models is that they are flexible and can incorporate a large number of features. However, many of these are typically correlated or dependent, and incorporating all of them can hinder model…

Applications · Statistics 2025-03-11 Anwesha Bhattacharyya , Yaqun Wang , Joel Vaughan , Vijayan N. Nair

The problem of detection and possible estimation of a signal generated by a dynamic system when a variable number of noisy measurements can be taken is here considered. Assuming a Markov evolution of the system (in particular, the pair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Emanuele Grossi , Marco Lops

Markov networks are widely studied and used throughout multivariate statistics and computer science. In particular, the problem of learning the structure of Markov networks from data without invoking chordality assumptions in order to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-29 Juri Kuronen , Jukka Corander , Johan Pensar

We present doubly stochastic gradient MCMC, a simple and generic method for (approximate) Bayesian inference of deep generative models (DGMs) in a collapsed continuous parameter space. At each MCMC sampling step, the algorithm randomly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Chao Du , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Most methods proposed to uncover communities in complex networks rely on combinatorial graph properties. Usually an edge-counting quality function, such as modularity, is optimized over all partitions of the graph compared against a null…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-17 Renaud Lambiotte , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Mauricio Barahona

A Markov process is registered. At random moment $\theta$ the distribution of observed sequence changes. Using probability maximizing approach the optimal stopping rule for detecting the change is identified. Some explicit solution is…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Wojciech Sarnowski , Krzysztof Szajowski

Classical work on line segment detection is knowledge-based; it uses carefully designed geometric priors using either image gradients, pixel groupings, or Hough transform variants. Instead, current deep learning methods do away with all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yancong Lin , Silvia L. Pintea , Jan C. van Gemert

This paper proposes a probabilistic deep metric learning (PDML) framework for hyperspectral image classification, which aims to predict the category of each pixel for an image captured by hyperspectral sensors. The core problem for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Chengkun Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Xian Sun , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

This paper studies the problem of Line Segment Detection (LSD) for the characterization of line geometry in images, with the aim of learning a domain-agnostic robust LSD model that works well for any natural images. With the focus of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Zeran Ke , Bin Tan , Xianwei Zheng , Yujun Shen , Tianfu Wu , Nan Xue

We present a novel Bayesian inference tool that uses a neural network to parameterise efficient Markov Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) proposals. The target distribution is first transformed into a diagonal, unit variance Gaussian by a series of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Adam Moss

This paper considers cluster detection in Block Markov Chains (BMCs). These Markov chains are characterized by a block structure in their transition matrix. More precisely, the $n$ possible states are divided into a finite number of $K$…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-31 Jaron Sanders , Alexandre Proutière , Se-Young Yun

We tackle the general differentiable meta learning problem that is ubiquitous in modern deep learning, including hyperparameter optimization, loss function learning, few-shot learning, invariance learning and more. These problems are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Minyoung Kim , Timothy M. Hospedales

A novel algorithm, called semantic line combination detector (SLCD), to find an optimal combination of semantic lines is proposed in this paper. It processes all lines in each line combination at once to assess the overall harmony of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Jinwon Ko , Dongkwon Jin , Chang-Su Kim

We propose Subsampling MCMC, a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) framework where the likelihood function for $n$ observations is estimated from a random subset of $m$ observations. We introduce a highly efficient unbiased estimator of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-31 Matias Quiroz , Robert Kohn , Mattias Villani , Minh-Ngoc Tran

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a powerful tool for sampling from complex probability distributions. Despite its versatility, MCMC often suffers from strong autocorrelation and the negative sign problem, leading to slowing down the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-05 Synge Todo

This paper is concerned with statistical methods for the segmental classification of linear sequence data where the task is to segment and classify the data according to an underlying hidden discrete state sequence. Such analysis is…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-05-05 Christopher Yau , Christopher C. Holmes