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This work introduces a novel approach to pruning deep learning models by using distilled data. Unlike conventional strategies which primarily focus on architectural or algorithmic optimization, our method reconsiders the role of data in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Luke McDermott , Daniel Cummings

We present an approach to effectively use millions of images with noisy annotations in conjunction with a small subset of cleanly-annotated images to learn powerful image representations. One common approach to combine clean and noisy data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Andreas Veit , Neil Alldrin , Gal Chechik , Ivan Krasin , Abhinav Gupta , Serge Belongie

In cross-domain retrieval, a model is required to identify images from the same semantic category across two visual domains. For instance, given a sketch of an object, a model needs to retrieve a real image of it from an online store's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Samarth Mishra , Carlos D. Castillo , Hongcheng Wang , Kate Saenko , Venkatesh Saligrama

A learning task, understood as the problem of fitting a parametric model from supervised data, fundamentally requires the dataset to be large enough to be representative of the underlying distribution of the source. When data is limited,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Leopoldo Agorio , Juan Cerviño , Miguel Calvo-Fullana , Alejandro Ribeiro , Juan Andrés Bazerque

Although supervised finetuning (SFT) has emerged as an essential technique to align large language models with humans, it is considered superficial, with style learning being its nature. At the same time, recent works indicate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Ming Shen

Researchers have long tried to minimize training costs in deep learning while maintaining strong generalization across diverse datasets. Emerging research on dataset distillation aims to reduce training costs by creating a small synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ahmad Sajedi , Samir Khaki , Ehsan Amjadian , Lucy Z. Liu , Yuri A. Lawryshyn , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

In this paper, we propose a simple but effective method for training neural networks with a limited amount of training data. Our approach inherits the idea of knowledge distillation that transfers knowledge from a deep or wide reference…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-06 Akisato Kimura , Zoubin Ghahramani , Koh Takeuchi , Tomoharu Iwata , Naonori Ueda

Complex structures are typical in machine learning. Tailoring learning algorithms for every structure requires an effort that may be saved by defining a generic learning procedure adaptive to any complex structure. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Pablo Strasser , Stephane Armand , Stephane Marchand-Maillet , Alexandros Kalousis

Medical image classification is one of the most critical problems in the image recognition area. One of the major challenges in this field is the scarcity of labelled training data. Additionally, there is often class imbalance in datasets…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-29 Khushboo Mehra , Hassan Soliman , Soumya Ranjan Sahoo

We present a deep learning-based method for propagating spatially-varying visual material attributes (e.g. texture maps or image stylizations) to larger samples of the same or similar materials. For training, we leverage images of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo , Elena Garces

Deep learning methods usually require a large amount of training data and lack interpretability. In this paper, we propose a novel knowledge distillation and model interpretation framework for medical image classification that jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Thanh Nguyen-Duc , He Zhao , Jianfei Cai , Dinh Phung

Person re-identification (Re-ID) poses a unique challenge to deep learning: how to learn a deep model with millions of parameters on a small training set of few or no labels. In this paper, a number of deep transfer learning models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Mengyue Geng , Yaowei Wang , Tao Xiang , Yonghong Tian

Reconstruction of human clothing is an important task and often relies on intrinsic image decomposition. With a lack of domain-specific data and coarse evaluation metrics, existing models failed to produce satisfying results for graphics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Kuo Jiang , Zian Wang , Xiaodong Yang

Dataset distillation aims to minimize the time and memory needed for training deep networks on large datasets, by creating a small set of synthetic images that has a similar generalization performance to that of the full dataset. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Xuxi Chen , Yu Yang , Zhangyang Wang , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Understanding the abundance of a species is the first step towards understanding both its long-term sustainability and the impact that we may be having upon it. Ecologists use camera traps to remotely survey for the presence of specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Ryan Curry , Cameron Trotter , Andrew Stephen McGough

Few-shot object detection aims to simultaneously localize and classify the objects in an image with limited training samples. However, most existing few-shot object detection methods focus on extracting the features of a few samples of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Anh-Khoa Nguyen Vu , Thanh-Toan Do , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen , Tam Le , Minh-Triet Tran , Tam V. Nguyen

This article aims to use graphic engines to simulate a large number of training data that have free annotations and possibly strongly resemble to real-world data. Between synthetic and real, a two-level domain gap exists, involving content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yue Yao , Liang Zheng , Xiaodong Yang , Milind Napthade , Tom Gedeon

Fine-grained classification is a challenging task that involves identifying subtle differences between objects within the same category. This task is particularly challenging in scenarios where data is scarce. Visual transformers (ViT) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Manuel Lagunas , Brayan Impata , Victor Martinez , Virginia Fernandez , Christos Georgakis , Sofia Braun , Felipe Bertrand

While the availability of large datasets is perceived to be a key requirement for training deep neural networks, it is possible to train such models with relatively little data. However, compensating for the absence of large datasets…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Mohammad Motamedi , Nikolay Sakharnykh , Tim Kaldewey

Many of the recent approaches to polyphonic piano note onset transcription require training a machine learning model on a large piano database. However, such approaches are limited by dataset availability; additional training data is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-27 Samuel Li