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Neural models have demonstrated remarkable performance across diverse ranking tasks. However, the processes and internal mechanisms along which they determine relevance are still largely unknown. Existing approaches for analyzing neural…

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Optimal designs are usually model-dependent and likely to be sub-optimal if the postulated model is not correctly specified. In practice, it is common that a researcher has a list of candidate models at hand and a design has to be found…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Mingyao Ai , Holger Dette , Zhengfu Liu , Jun Yu

Current anomaly detection methods excel with benchmark industrial data but struggle with natural images and medical data due to varying definitions of 'normal' and 'abnormal.' This makes accurate identification of deviations in these fields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Zeduo Zhang , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Recently neural networks and multiple instance learning are both attractive topics in Artificial Intelligence related research fields. Deep neural networks have achieved great success in supervised learning problems, and multiple instance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-08 Xinggang Wang , Yongluan Yan , Peng Tang , Xiang Bai , Wenyu Liu

Probabilistic image segmentation encodes varying prediction confidence and inherent ambiguity in the segmentation problem. While different probabilistic segmentation models are designed to capture different aspects of segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Steffen Czolbe , Kasra Arnavaz , Oswin Krause , Aasa Feragen

A common approach to transfer learning under distribution shift is to fine-tune the last few layers of a pre-trained model, preserving learned features while also adapting to the new task. This paper shows that in such settings, selectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yoonho Lee , Annie S. Chen , Fahim Tajwar , Ananya Kumar , Huaxiu Yao , Percy Liang , Chelsea Finn

Sequence learning is an essential aspect of intelligence. In Artificial Intelligence, sequence prediction task is usually used to test a sequence learning model. In this paper, a model of sequence learning, which is interpretable through…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Bowen Xu

Computer vision datasets frequently contain spurious correlations between task-relevant labels and (easy to learn) latent task-irrelevant attributes (e.g. context). Models trained on such datasets learn "shortcuts" and underperform on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Sriram Yenamandra , Pratik Ramesh , Viraj Prabhu , Judy Hoffman

Inspired by the human brain's ability to adapt to new tasks without erasing prior knowledge, we develop spiking neural networks (SNNs) with dynamic structures for Class Incremental Learning (CIL). Our comparative experiments reveal that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Wenyao Ni , Jiangrong Shen , Qi Xu , Huajin Tang

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has proven highly effective in aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences. Typical RL methods optimize under an overall sequence reward, which can lead to a suboptimal learning process. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Yanshi Li , Shaopan Xiong , Gengru Chen , Xiaoyang Li , Yijia Luo , Xingyuan Bu , Yingshui Tan , Wenbo Su , Bo Zheng

Feature learning is thought to be one of the fundamental reasons for the success of deep neural networks. It is rigorously known that in two-layer fully-connected neural networks under certain conditions, one step of gradient descent on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-11 Behrad Moniri , Donghwan Lee , Hamed Hassani , Edgar Dobriban

Many latent (factorized) models have been proposed for recommendation tasks like collaborative filtering and for ranking tasks like document or image retrieval and annotation. Common to all those methods is that during inference the items…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Jason Weston , John Blitzer

An effective approach in meta-learning is to utilize multiple "train tasks" to learn a good initialization for model parameters that can help solve unseen "test tasks" with very few samples by fine-tuning from this initialization. Although…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Nikunj Saunshi , Arushi Gupta , Wei Hu

High-dimensional data is common in multiple areas, such as health care and genomics, where the number of features can be tens of thousands. In such scenarios, the large number of features often leads to inefficient learning. Constraint…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-13 Kartheek Bondugula , Santiago Mazuelas , Aritz Pérez

Sequential computation via autoregressive generation can make difficult tasks learnable, but the generation order of intermediate states strongly affects whether training succeeds. We address the problem of discovering a learning-friendly…

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Split learning (SL) is a distributed learning paradigm that can enable computation-intensive artificial intelligence (AI) applications by partitioning AI models between mobile devices and edge servers. %fully utilizing distributed computing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Zuguang Li , Wen Wu , Shaohua Wu , Xuemin , Shen

Today's robots are increasingly interacting with people and need to efficiently learn inexperienced user's preferences. A common framework is to iteratively query the user about which of two presented robot trajectories they prefer. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Nils Wilde , Erdem Bıyık , Dorsa Sadigh , Stephen L. Smith

In this paper, we propose a learning algorithm that speeds up the search in task and motion planning problems. Our algorithm proposes solutions to three different challenges that arise in learning to improve planning efficiency: what to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Beomjoon Kim , Zi Wang , Leslie Pack Kaelbling , Tomas Lozano-Perez

Deep Neural networks (DNNs), extensively applied across diverse disciplines, are characterized by their integrated and monolithic architectures, setting them apart from conventional software systems. This architectural difference introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shide Zhou , Tianlin Li , Yihao Huang , Ling Shi , Kailong Wang , Yang Liu , Haoyu Wang

Brain can recognize different objects as ones that it has experienced before. The recognition accuracy and its processing time depend on task properties such as viewing condition, level of noise and etc. Recognition accuracy can be well…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-27 Hamed Heidari Gorji , Sajjad Zabbah , Reza Ebrahimpour