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In this paper, we propose a deep invertible hybrid model which integrates discriminative and generative learning at a latent space level for semi-supervised few-shot classification. Various tasks for classifying new species from image data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Yusuke Ohtsubo , Tetsu Matsukawa , Einoshin Suzuki

Learning probabilistic models that can estimate the density of a given set of samples, and generate samples from that density, is one of the fundamental challenges in unsupervised machine learning. We introduce a new generative model based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Siavash A. Bigdeli , Geng Lin , Tiziano Portenier , L. Andrea Dunbar , Matthias Zwicker

Typical engineering design tasks require the effort to modify designs iteratively until they meet certain constraints, i.e., performance or attribute requirements. Past work has proposed ways to solve the inverse design problem, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Amin Heyrani Nobari , Wei Chen , Faez Ahmed

Sparse representations using overcomplete dictionaries have proved to be a powerful tool in many signal processing applications such as denoising, super-resolution, inpainting, compression or classification. The sparsity of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-01 Jeremy Aghaei Mazaheri , Elif Vural , Claude Labit , Christine Guillemot

Constraint-based learning reduces the burden of collecting labels by having users specify general properties of structured outputs, such as constraints imposed by physical laws. We propose a novel framework for simultaneously learning these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Hongyu Ren , Russell Stewart , Jiaming Song , Volodymyr Kuleshov , Stefano Ermon

Deep learning has yielded extraordinary results in vision and natural language processing, but this achievement comes at a cost. Most models require enormous resources during training, both in terms of computation and in human labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Srikumar Ramalingam , Daniel Glasner , Kaushal Patel , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Sadeep Jayasumana , Sanjiv Kumar

Generative models defining joint distributions over parse trees and sentences are useful for parsing and language modeling, but impose restrictions on the scope of features and are often outperformed by discriminative models. We propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Jianpeng Cheng , Adam Lopez , Mirella Lapata

We present an approach to learn a dense pixel-wise labeling from image-level tags. Each image-level tag imposes constraints on the output labeling of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) classifier. We propose Constrained CNN (CCNN), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Deepak Pathak , Philipp Krähenbühl , Trevor Darrell

We introduce a new generative model where samples are produced via Langevin dynamics using gradients of the data distribution estimated with score matching. Because gradients can be ill-defined and hard to estimate when the data resides on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yang Song , Stefano Ermon

We examine the linear regression problem in a challenging high-dimensional setting with correlated predictors where the vector of coefficients can vary from sparse to dense. In this setting, we propose a combination of probabilistic…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-13 Roman Parzer , Peter Filzmoser , Laura Vana-Gür

Deep convolutional neural networks have liberated its extraordinary power on various tasks. However, it is still very challenging to deploy state-of-the-art models into real-world applications due to their high computational complexity. How…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Zehao Huang , Naiyan Wang

In complex visual recognition tasks it is typical to adopt multiple descriptors, that describe different aspects of the images, for obtaining an improved recognition performance. Descriptors that have diverse forms can be fused into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Andreas Spanias

We give a novel formal theoretical framework for unsupervised learning with two distinctive characteristics. First, it does not assume any generative model and based on a worst-case performance metric. Second, it is comparative, namely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Elad Hazan , Tengyu Ma

Computational imaging is increasingly vital for a broad spectrum of applications, ranging from biological to material sciences. This includes applications where the object is known and sufficiently sparse, allowing it to be described with a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Jacob Seifert , Yifeng Shao , Allard P. Mosk

By pretraining to synthesize coherent images from perturbed inputs, generative models inherently learn to understand object boundaries and scene compositions. How can we repurpose these generative representations for general-purpose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Om Khangaonkar , Hamed Pirsiavash

We present a framework to define a large class of neural networks for which, by construction, training by gradient flow provably reaches arbitrarily low loss when the number of parameters grows. Distinct from the fixed-space global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-13 David A. R. Robin , Kevin Scaman , Marc Lelarge

Learning to sample from complex unnormalized distributions is a fundamental challenge in computational physics and machine learning. While score-based and variational methods have achieved success in continuous domains, extending them to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-11 Lei Li , Zhen Wang , Lishuo Zhang

While the manifold hypothesis is widely adopted in modern machine learning, complex data is often better modeled as stratified spaces -- unions of manifolds (strata) of varying dimensions. Stratified learning is challenging due to varying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-14 Randy Martinez , Rong Tang , Lizhen Lin

Learning high-level causal representations together with a causal model from unstructured low-level data such as pixels is impossible from observational data alone. We prove under mild assumptions that this representation is however…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-12 Johann Brehmer , Pim de Haan , Phillip Lippe , Taco Cohen

Reliable machine learning and statistical analysis rely on diverse, well-distributed training data. However, real-world datasets are often limited in size and exhibit underrepresentation across key subpopulations, leading to biased…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-15 Xinyu Tian , Xiaotong Shen