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Federated learning (FL) is an emerging technique for training machine learning models using geographically dispersed data collected by local entities. It includes local computation and synchronization steps. To reduce the communication…

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Accurate and fast localization is vital for safe autonomous navigation in GPS-denied areas. Fine-Grained Cross-View Geolocalization (FG-CVG) aims to estimate the precise 2-Degree-of-Freedom (2-DoF) location of a ground image relative to a…

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Recent advancements in neural network-based optical flow estimation often come with prohibitively high computational and memory requirements, presenting challenges in their model adaptation for mobile and low-power use cases. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Risheek Garrepalli , Jisoo Jeong , Rajeswaran C Ravindran , Jamie Menjay Lin , Fatih Porikli

Bayesian inference with computationally expensive likelihood evaluations remains a significant challenge in many scientific domains. We propose normalizing flow regression (NFR), a novel offline inference method for approximating posterior…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-17 Chengkun Li , Bobby Huggins , Petrus Mikkola , Luigi Acerbi

Text-to-image diffusion models are a class of deep generative models that have demonstrated an impressive capacity for high-quality image generation. However, these models are susceptible to implicit biases that arise from web-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Yinan Zhang , Eric Tzeng , Yilun Du , Dmitry Kislyuk

Normalizing Flows (NFs) are likelihood-based models for continuous inputs. They have demonstrated promising results on both density estimation and generative modeling tasks, but have received relatively little attention in recent years. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Shuangfei Zhai , Ruixiang Zhang , Preetum Nakkiran , David Berthelot , Jiatao Gu , Huangjie Zheng , Tianrong Chen , Miguel Angel Bautista , Navdeep Jaitly , Josh Susskind

Deep learning (DL) has been increasingly applied in medical imaging, however, it requires large amounts of data, which raises many challenges related to data privacy, storage, and transfer. Federated learning (FL) is a training paradigm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Jan Fiszer , Dominika Ciupek , Maciej Malawski

Recent works on learned index open a new direction for the indexing field. The key insight of the learned index is to approximate the mapping between keys and positions with piece-wise linear functions. Such methods require partitioning key…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Shangyu Wu , Yufei Cui , Jinghuan Yu , Xuan Sun , Tei-Wei Kuo , Chun Jason Xue

We propose a simple algorithm to train stochastic neural networks to draw samples from given target distributions for probabilistic inference. Our method is based on iteratively adjusting the neural network parameters so that the output…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-29 Dilin Wang , Qiang Liu

The Langevin algorithm is a classic method for sampling from a given pdf in a real space. In its basic version, it only requires knowledge of the gradient of the log-density, also called the score function. However, in deep learning, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Aapo Hyvärinen

We propose a novel iterative method to adapt a a graph to d-dimensional image data. The method drives the nodes of the graph towards image features. The adaptation process naturally lends itself to a measure of feature saliency which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Alberto Gomez , Veronika A. Zimmer , Bishesh Khanal , Nicolas Toussaint , Julia A. Schnabel

Modeling of turbulent flows is still challenging. One way to deal with the large scale separation due to turbulence is to simulate only the large scales and model the unresolved contributions as done in large-eddy simulation (LES). This…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-03 Mathis Bode , Michael Gauding , Konstantin Kleinheinz , Heinz Pitsch

Whether it is oil and gas exploration or geological science research, it is necessary to accurately grasp the structural information of underground media. Full waveform inversion is currently the most popular seismic wave inversion method,…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-07-30 Guoxin Chen

Real-world fine-tuning of dexterous manipulation policies remains challenging due to limited real-world interaction budgets and highly multimodal action distributions. Diffusion-based policies, while expressive, do not permit conservative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Chenyu Yang , Denis Tarasov , Davide Liconti , Hehui Zheng , Robert K. Katzschmann

While traditional Deep Learning (DL) optimization methods treat all training samples equally, Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) adaptively assigns importance weights to different samples. However, a significant gap exists between…

Flow-based generative models are a family of exact log-likelihood models with tractable sampling and latent-variable inference, hence conceptually attractive for modeling complex distributions. However, flow-based models are limited by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Huadong Liao , Jiawei He , Kunxian Shu

Iterative Proportional Fitting (IPF), combined with EM, is commonly used as an algorithm for likelihood maximization in undirected graphical models. In this paper, we present two iterative algorithms that generalize upon IPF. The first one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Wim Wiegerinck , Tom Heskes

In this manuscript, we introduce a novel Decision Flow (DF) framework for sampling decisions from a target distribution while incorporating additional guidance from a prior sampler. DF can be viewed as an AI-driven algorithmic reincarnation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Michael Chertkov , Sungsoo Ahn , Hamidreza Behjoo

Graphons are continuous models that represent the structure of graphs and allow the generation of graphs of varying sizes. We propose Scalable Implicit Graphon Learning (SIGL), a scalable method that combines implicit neural representations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-23 Ali Azizpour , Nicolas Zilberstein , Santiago Segarra

In the past few years, deep generative models, such as generative adversarial networks \autocite{GAN}, variational autoencoders \autocite{vaepaper}, and their variants, have seen wide adoption for the task of modelling complex data…

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