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Subword modeling for zero-resource languages aims to learn low-level representations of speech audio without using transcriptions or other resources from the target language (such as text corpora or pronunciation dictionaries). A good…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Enno Hermann , Herman Kamper , Sharon Goldwater

Text classification tends to be difficult when data are deficient or when it is required to adapt to unseen classes. In such challenging scenarios, recent studies have often used meta-learning to simulate the few-shot task, thus negating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Shumin Deng , Ningyu Zhang , Zhanlin Sun , Jiaoyan Chen , Huajun Chen

We propose a method for the approximation of high- or even infinite-dimensional feature vectors, which play an important role in supervised learning. The goal is to reduce the size of the training data, resulting in lower storage…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-06 Patrick Gelß , Stefan Klus , Ingmar Schuster , Christof Schütte

Contrastive learning is one of the fastest growing research areas in machine learning due to its ability to learn useful representations without labeled data. However, contrastive learning is susceptible to feature suppression, i.e., it may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Tianhong Li , Lijie Fan , Yuan Yuan , Hao He , Yonglong Tian , Rogerio Feris , Piotr Indyk , Dina Katabi

Domain adaptation aims to transfer the knowledge learned on (data-rich) source domains to (low-resource) target domains, and a popular method is invariant representation learning, which matches and aligns the data distributions on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Ruicheng Xian , Honglei Zhuang , Zhen Qin , Hamed Zamani , Jing Lu , Ji Ma , Kai Hui , Han Zhao , Xuanhui Wang , Michael Bendersky

We address the problem of learning self-supervised representations from unlabeled image collections. Unlike existing approaches that attempt to learn useful features by maximizing similarity between augmented versions of each input image or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Omiros Pantazis , Gabriel Brostow , Kate Jones , Oisin Mac Aodha

We present a system for bottom-up cumulative learning of myriad concepts corresponding to meaningful character strings, and their part-related and prediction edges. The learning is self-supervised in that the concepts discovered are used as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Omid Madani

Deep dictionary learning seeks multiple dictionaries at different image scales to capture complementary coherent characteristics. We propose a method for learning a hierarchy of synthesis dictionaries with an image classification goal. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Shahin Mahdizadehaghdam , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim , Liyi Dai

We address the problem of discovering part segmentations of articulated objects without supervision. In contrast to keypoints, part segmentations provide information about part localizations on the level of individual pixels. Capturing both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Sandro Braun , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

Learning meaningful representations is at the heart of many tasks in the field of modern machine learning. Recently, a lot of methods were introduced that allow learning of image representations without supervision. These representations…

This paper proposes an unsupervised method for learning a unified representation that serves both discriminative and generative purposes. While most existing unsupervised learning approaches focus on a representation for only one of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shengbang Tong , Xili Dai , Yubei Chen , Mingyang Li , Zengyi Li , Brent Yi , Yann LeCun , Yi Ma

Many of the existing methods for learning joint embedding of images and text use only supervised information from paired images and its textual attributes. Taking advantage of the recent success of unsupervised learning in deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai , Liang-Kang Huang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

In this study, we investigate the task of data pre-selection, which aims to select instances for labeling from an unlabeled dataset through a single pass, thereby optimizing performance for undefined downstream tasks with a limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Xin Li , Sima Behpour , Thang Doan , Wenbin He , Liang Gou , Liu Ren

Unsupervised methods for learning distributed representations of words are ubiquitous in today's NLP research, but far less is known about the best ways to learn distributed phrase or sentence representations from unlabelled data. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-11 Felix Hill , Kyunghyun Cho , Anna Korhonen

Unsupervised feature selection (FS) is essential for high-dimensional learning tasks where labels are not available. It helps reduce noise, improve generalization, and enhance interpretability. However, most existing unsupervised FS methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Shira Lifshitz , Ofir Lindenbaum , Gal Mishne , Ron Meir , Hadas Benisty

The era of Big Data has spawned unprecedented interests in developing hashing algorithms for efficient storage and fast nearest neighbor search. Most existing work learn hash functions that are numeric quantizations of feature values in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-23 Kai Li , Guojun Qi , Jun Ye , Kien A. Hua

Feature selection is crucial for pinpointing relevant features in high-dimensional datasets, mitigating the 'curse of dimensionality,' and enhancing machine learning performance. Traditional feature selection methods for classification use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Rittwika Kansabanik , Adrian Barbu

Unsupervised domain adaptation aims to address the problem of classifying unlabeled samples from the target domain whilst labeled samples are only available from the source domain and the data distributions are different in these two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Qian Wang , Toby P. Breckon

Neural net classifiers trained on data with annotated class labels can also capture apparent visual similarity among categories without being directed to do so. We study whether this observation can be extended beyond the conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Zhirong Wu , Yuanjun Xiong , Stella Yu , Dahua Lin

This review addresses the problem of learning abstract representations of the measurement data in the context of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). While the data are often ambiguous, high-dimensional, and complex to interpret, many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Nicolò Botteghi , Mannes Poel , Christoph Brune