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Deep learning is a standard tool in the field of high-energy physics, facilitating considerable sensitivity enhancements for numerous analysis strategies. In particular, in identification of physics objects, such as jet flavor tagging,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-09-20 Annika Stein , Xavier Coubez , Spandan Mondal , Andrzej Novak , Alexander Schmidt

Metric learning is a widely used method for few shot learning in which the quality of prototypes plays a key role in the algorithm. In this paper we propose the trainable prototypes for distance measure instead of the artificial ones within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Jianyi Li , Guizhong Liu

Standard adversarial training approaches suffer from robust overfitting where the robust accuracy decreases when models are adversarially trained for too long. The origin of this problem is still unclear and conflicting explanations have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Muhammad Zaid Hameed , Beat Buesser

Conventional supervised super-resolution (SR) approaches are trained with massive external SR datasets but fail to exploit desirable properties of the given test image. On the other hand, self-supervised SR approaches utilize the internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Seobin Park , Jinsu Yoo , Donghyeon Cho , Jiwon Kim , Tae Hyun Kim

Deep neural networks have been able to outperform humans in some cases like image recognition and image classification. However, with the emergence of various novel categories, the ability to continuously widen the learning capability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Nihar Bendre , Hugo Terashima Marín , Peyman Najafirad

Meta-learning aims at optimizing the hyperparameters of a model class or training algorithm from the observation of data from a number of related tasks. Following the setting of Baxter [1], the tasks are assumed to belong to the same task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Sharu Theresa Jose , Osvaldo Simeone

Continual learning aims to acquire tasks sequentially without catastrophic forgetting, yet standard strategies face a core tradeoff: regularization-based methods (e.g., EWC) can overconstrain updates when task optima are weakly overlapping,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zekun Wang , Anant Gupta , Christopher J. MacLellan

In this paper, we introduce a discrete variant of the meta-learning framework. Meta-learning aims at exploiting prior experience and data to improve performance on future tasks. By now, there exist numerous formulations for meta-learning in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Arman Adibi , Aryan Mokhtari , Hamed Hassani

Labeled data is a critical resource for training and evaluating machine learning models. However, many real-life datasets are only partially labeled. We propose a semi-supervised machine learning training strategy to improve event detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Florian Dubost , Erin Hong , Nandita Bhaskhar , Siyi Tang , Daniel Rubin , Christopher Lee-Messer

To benefit the learning of a new task, meta-learning has been proposed to transfer a well-generalized meta-model learned from various meta-training tasks. Existing meta-learning algorithms randomly sample meta-training tasks with a uniform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Huaxiu Yao , Yu Wang , Ying Wei , Peilin Zhao , Mehrdad Mahdavi , Defu Lian , Chelsea Finn

Vulnerability to adversarial attacks is a well-known weakness of Deep Neural networks. While most of the studies focus on single-task neural networks with computer vision datasets, very little research has considered complex multi-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Salah Ghamizi , Maxime Cordy , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon

Fine-tuning a deep network trained with the standard cross-entropy loss is a strong baseline for few-shot learning. When fine-tuned transductively, this outperforms the current state-of-the-art on standard datasets such as Mini-ImageNet,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Guneet S. Dhillon , Pratik Chaudhari , Avinash Ravichandran , Stefano Soatto

While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved excellent performances in various computer vision tasks, they often misclassify with malicious samples, a.k.a. adversarial examples. Adversarial training is a popular and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Hiroki Adachi , Tsubasa Hirakawa , Takayoshi Yamashita , Hironobu Fujiyoshi , Yasunori Ishii , Kazuki Kozuka

Deep neural networks excel in regimes with large amounts of data, but tend to struggle when data is scarce or when they need to adapt quickly to changes in the task. In response, recent work in meta-learning proposes training a meta-learner…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Nikhil Mishra , Mostafa Rohaninejad , Xi Chen , Pieter Abbeel

Deep learning models have a propensity for fitting the entire training set even with random labels, which requires memorization of every training sample. In this paper, we explore the memorization effect in adversarial training (AT) for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yinpeng Dong , Ke Xu , Xiao Yang , Tianyu Pang , Zhijie Deng , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Recognizing new objects by learning from a few labeled examples in an evolving environment is crucial to obtain excellent generalization ability for real-world machine learning systems. A typical setting across current meta learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Zhenyi Wang , Tiehang Duan , Le Fang , Qiuling Suo , Mingchen Gao

Owing to security implications of adversarial vulnerability, adversarial robustness of deep metric learning models has to be improved. In order to avoid model collapse due to excessively hard examples, the existing defenses dismiss the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Mo Zhou , Vishal M. Patel

The process of meta-learning algorithms from data, instead of relying on manual design, is growing in popularity as a paradigm for improving the performance of machine learning systems. Meta-learning shows particular promise for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Alexander David Goldie , Zilin Wang , Jaron Cohen , Jakob Nicolaus Foerster , Shimon Whiteson

Machine learning models are usually evaluated according to the average case performance on the test set. However, this is not always ideal, because in some sensitive domains (e.g. autonomous driving), it is the worst case performance that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Michelle Shu , Chenxi Liu , Weichao Qiu , Alan Yuille

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples, in which DNNs are misled to false outputs due to inputs containing imperceptible perturbations. Adversarial training, a reliable and effective method of defense, may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zongyuan Zhang , Qingwen Bu , Tianyang Duan , Zheng Lin , Yuhao Qing , Zihan Fang , Heming Cui , Dong Huang