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This work presents an innovative method for point set self-embedding, that encodes the structural information of a dense point set into its sparser version in a visual but imperceptible form. The self-embedded point set can function as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Ruihui Li , Xianzhi Li , Tien-Tsin Wong , Chi-Wing Fu

Dense object tracking, the ability to localize specific object points with pixel-level accuracy, is an important computer vision task with numerous downstream applications in robotics. Existing approaches either compute dense keypoint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Mel Vecerik , Jackie Kay , Raia Hadsell , Lourdes Agapito , Jon Scholz

In this paper, we tackle the task of establishing dense visual correspondences between images containing objects of the same category. This is a challenging task due to large intra-class variations and a lack of dense pixel level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Shuda Li , Kai Han , Theo W. Costain , Henry Howard-Jenkins , Victor Prisacariu

The accuracy and fidelity of deformation simulations are highly dependent upon the underlying constitutive material model. Commonly used linear or nonlinear constitutive material models only cover a tiny part of possible material behavior.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Bin Wang , Paul Kry , Yuanmin Deng , Uri Ascher , Hui Huang , Baoquan Chen

Learning from limited data is challenging because data scarcity leads to a poor generalization of the trained model. A classical global pooled representation will probably lose useful local information. Many few-shot learning methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Haoxing Chen , Huaxiong Li , Yaohui Li , Chunlin Chen

Following the recent success of word embeddings, it has been argued that there is no such thing as an ideal representation for words, as different models tend to capture divergent and often mutually incompatible aspects like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Mikel Artetxe , Gorka Labaka , Iñigo Lopez-Gazpio , Eneko Agirre

Object localisation, in the context of regular images, often depicts objects like people or cars. In these images, there is typically a relatively small number of objects per class, which usually is manageable to annotate. However, outside…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Andreas Panteli , Jonas Teuwen , Hugo Horlings , Efstratios Gavves

In this paper, we propose a general approach to optimize anchor boxes for object detection. Nowadays, anchor boxes are widely adopted in state-of-the-art detection frameworks. However, these frameworks usually pre-define anchor box shapes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Yuanyi Zhong , Jianfeng Wang , Jian Peng , Lei Zhang

Transformer architectures have achieved remarkable success across language, vision, and multimodal tasks, and there is growing demand for them to address in-context compositional learning tasks. In these tasks, models solve the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Wei Chen , Jingxi Yu , Zichen Miao , Qiang Qiu

Existing prompt learning methods, which are built upon CLIP models, leverage textual tokens as anchors to guide the learnable soft tokens. This guidance improves CLIP generalizations. However, these anchors-static in both value and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Zheng Li , Yibing Song , Xin Zhang , Lei Luo , Xiang Li , Jian Yang

We consider the task of building compact deep learning pipelines suitable for deployment on storage and power constrained mobile devices. We propose a unified framework to learn a broad family of structured parameter matrices that are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-07 Vikas Sindhwani , Tara N. Sainath , Sanjiv Kumar

We present two deep learning approaches to narrative text understanding for character relationship modelling. The temporal evolution of these relations is described by dynamic word embeddings, that are designed to learn semantic changes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Vani K , Simone Mellace , Alessandro Antonucci

We present Predictive Sparse Manifold Transform (PSMT), a minimalistic, interpretable and biologically plausible framework for learning and predicting natural dynamics. PSMT incorporates two layers where the first sparse coding layer…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-29 Yujia Xie , Xinhui Li , Vince D. Calhoun

Embedding matrices are key components in neural natural language processing (NLP) models that are responsible to provide numerical representations of input tokens.\footnote{In this paper words and subwords are referred to as \textit{tokens}…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Krtin Kumar , Peyman Passban , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Yiu Sing Lau , Qun Liu

Unsupervised video object segmentation has often been tackled by methods based on recurrent neural networks and optical flow. Despite their complexity, these kinds of approaches tend to favour short-term temporal dependencies and are thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Zhao Yang , Qiang Wang , Luca Bertinetto , Weiming Hu , Song Bai , Philip H. S. Torr

Given a small corpus $\mathcal D_T$ pertaining to a limited set of focused topics, our goal is to train embeddings that accurately capture the sense of words in the topic in spite of the limited size of $\mathcal D_T$. These embeddings may…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Vihari Piratla , Sunita Sarawagi , Soumen Chakrabarti

Learning high-quality embeddings for rare words is a hard problem because of sparse context information. Mimicking (Pinter et al., 2017) has been proposed as a solution: given embeddings learned by a standard algorithm, a model is first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Timo Schick , Hinrich Schütze

Neural network-based language models deal with data sparsity problems by mapping the large discrete space of words into a smaller continuous space of real-valued vectors. By learning distributed vector representations for words, each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Davide Nunes , Luis Antunes

Data sparsity is an inherent challenge in the recommender systems, where most of the data is collected from the implicit feedbacks of users. This causes two difficulties in designing effective algorithms: first, the majority of users only…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Wenhui Yu , Xiao Lin , Junfeng Ge , Wenwu Ou , Zheng Qin

Embedding tables are usually huge in click-through rate (CTR) prediction models. To train and deploy the CTR models efficiently and economically, it is necessary to compress their embedding tables at the training stage. To this end, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Shiwei Li , Huifeng Guo , Lu Hou , Wei Zhang , Xing Tang , Ruiming Tang , Rui Zhang , Ruixuan Li