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Assisting pathologists in the analysis of histopathological images has high clinical value, as it supports cancer detection and staging. In this context, histology foundation models have recently emerged. Among them, Vision-Language Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Tiffanie Godelaine , Maxime Zanella , Karim El Khoury , Saïd Mahmoudi , Benoît Macq , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

This paper presents an empirical study of two widely-used sequence prediction models, Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) and Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTMs), on two fundamental tasks for Vietnamese text processing, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Phuong Le-Hong , Minh Pham Quang Nhat , Thai-Hoang Pham , Tuan-Anh Tran , Dang-Minh Nguyen

Despite successful applications across a broad range of NLP tasks, conditional random fields ("CRFs"), in particular the linear-chain variant, are only able to model local features. While this has important benefits in terms of inference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Fei Liu , Timothy Baldwin , Trevor Cohn

We compare different models for low resource multi-task sequence tagging that leverage dependencies between label sequences for different tasks. Our analysis is aimed at datasets where each example has labels for multiple tasks. Current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Jonas Pfeiffer , Edwin Simpson , Iryna Gurevych

Semi-Markov CRF has been proposed as an alternative to the traditional Linear Chain CRF for text segmentation tasks such as Named Entity Recognition (NER). Unlike CRF, which treats text segmentation as token-level prediction, Semi-CRF…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Urchade Zaratiana , Nadi Tomeh , Niama El Khbir , Pierre Holat , Thierry Charnois

The phrase grounding task aims to ground each entity mention in a given caption of an image to a corresponding region in that image. Although there are clear dependencies between how different mentions of the same caption should be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Jiacheng Liu , Julia Hockenmaier

In this paper, we propose a variety of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) based models for sequence tagging. These models include LSTM networks, bidirectional LSTM (BI-LSTM) networks, LSTM with a Conditional Random Field (CRF) layer (LSTM-CRF)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Zhiheng Huang , Wei Xu , Kai Yu

This paper makes a focused contribution to supervised aspect extraction. It shows that if the system has performed aspect extraction from many past domains and retained their results as knowledge, Conditional Random Fields (CRF) can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Lei Shu , Hu Xu , Bing Liu

Online Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is a challenging problem and has many important applications including intelligence surveillance, robot navigation and autonomous driving. In existing MOT methods, individual object's movements and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Hui Zhou , Wanli Ouyang , Jian Cheng , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Statistical Relational Learning (SRL) models have attracted significant attention due to their ability to model complex data while handling uncertainty. However, most of these models have been limited to discrete domains due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Yuqiao Chen , Sriraam Natarajan , Nicholas Ruozzi

Conditional Random Rields (CRF) have been widely applied in image segmentations. While most studies rely on hand-crafted features, we here propose to exploit a pre-trained large convolutional neural network (CNN) to generate deep features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Fayao Liu , Guosheng Lin , Chunhua Shen

We apply stochastic average gradient (SAG) algorithms for training conditional random fields (CRFs). We describe a practical implementation that uses structure in the CRF gradient to reduce the memory requirement of this linearly-convergent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-20 Mark Schmidt , Reza Babanezhad , Mohamed Osama Ahmed , Aaron Defazio , Ann Clifton , Anoop Sarkar

Image segmentation is considered to be one of the critical tasks in hyperspectral remote sensing image processing. Recently, convolutional neural network (CNN) has established itself as a powerful model in segmentation and classification by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Fahim Irfan Alam , Jun Zhou , Alan Wee-Chung Liew , Xiuping Jia , Jocelyn Chanussot , Yongsheng Gao

CRF has been used as a powerful model for statistical sequence labeling. For neural sequence labeling, however, BiLSTM-CRF does not always lead to better results compared with BiLSTM-softmax local classification. This can be because the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Leyang Cui , Yue Zhang

Semi-Markov Conditional Random Fields (semi-CRFs) assign labels to segments of a sequence rather than to individual positions, enabling exact inference over segment-level features and principled uncertainty estimates at their boundaries.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Benjamin K. Johnson , Thomas Goralski , Ayush Semwal , Hui Shen , H. Josh Jang

A conditional random field (CRF) model for cloud detection in ground based sky images is presented. We show that very high cloud detection accuracy can be achieved by combining a discriminative classifier and a higher order clique potential…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-19 Vijai T. Jayadevan , Jeffrey J. Rodriguez , Alexander D. Cronin

While LLMs have grown popular in sequence labeling, linear-chain conditional random fields (CRFs) remain a popular alternative with the ability to directly model interactions between labels. However, the Markov assumption limits them to %…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Sean Papay , Roman Klinger , Sebastian Pado

This paper addresses the problem of video object segmentation, where the initial object mask is given in the first frame of an input video. We propose a novel spatio-temporal Markov Random Field (MRF) model defined over pixels to handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Linchao Bao , Baoyuan Wu , Wei Liu

There are two major approaches for sequence labeling. One is the probabilistic gradient-based methods such as conditional random fields (CRF) and neural networks (e.g., RNN), which have high accuracy but drawbacks: slow training, and no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Xu Sun , Shuming Ma , Yi Zhang , Xuancheng Ren

We experiment graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) of Conditional Random Fields (CRF) for the application of Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) on unaligned data. The aligned labels for examples are obtained using IBM Model. We adapt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Masoud Kiaeeha , Shahram Khadivi , Saeed Shiry Ghidary