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We introduce a new convex formulation for stable principal component pursuit (SPCP) to decompose noisy signals into low-rank and sparse representations. For numerical solutions of our SPCP formulation, we first develop a convex variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-06 Aleksandr Aravkin , Stephen Becker , Volkan Cevher , Peder Olsen

Neural Processes (NPs) are a family of conditional generative models that are able to model a distribution over functions, in a way that allows them to perform predictions at test time conditioned on a number of context points. A recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Jens Petersen , Gregor Köhler , David Zimmerer , Fabian Isensee , Paul F. Jäger , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Diffusion models learn to denoise data and the trained denoiser is then used to generate new samples from the data distribution. In this paper, we revisit the diffusion sampling process and identify a fundamental cause of sample quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yunshu Wu , Yingtao Luo , Xianghao Kong , Evangelos E. Papalexakis , Greg Ver Steeg

Determinantal Point Processes (DPPs) are elegant probabilistic models of repulsion and diversity over discrete sets of items. But their applicability to large sets is hindered by expensive cubic-complexity matrix operations for basic tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Chengtao Li , Stefanie Jegelka , Suvrit Sra

Determinantal point processes (DPPs), which arise in random matrix theory and quantum physics, are natural models for subset selection problems where diversity is preferred. Among many remarkable properties, DPPs offer tractable algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Alex Kulesza , Ben Taskar

The origin of the diverse population of galaxy clusters remains an unexplained aspect of large-scale structure formation and cluster evolution. We present a novel method of using X-ray images to identify cool core (CC), weak cool core…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Y. Su , Y. Zhang , G. Liang , J. A. ZuHone , D. J. Barnes , N. B. Jacobs , M. Ntampaka , W. R. Forman , P. E. J. Nulsen , R. P. Kraft , C. Jones

Discrete stability extends the classical notion of stability to random elements in discrete spaces by defining a scaling operation in a randomised way: an integer is transformed into the corresponding binomial distribution. Similarly…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-08-10 Youri Davydov , Ilya Molchanov , Sergei Zuyev

Determinantal point processes (DPPs) are well-suited for modeling repulsion and have proven useful in many applications where diversity is desired. While DPPs have many appealing properties, such as efficient sampling, learning the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-02-21 Raja Hafiz Affandi , Emily B. Fox , Ryan P. Adams , Ben Taskar

Gaussian processes are the leading class of distributions on random functions, but they suffer from well known issues including difficulty scaling and inflexibility with respect to certain shape constraints (such as nonnegativity). Here we…

Deep Learning-based models such as Convolutional Neural Networks, have led to significant advancements in several areas of computing applications. Seismogram quality assurance is a relevant Geophysics task, since in the early stages of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Eduardo Betine Bucker , Antonio José Grandson Busson , Ruy Luiz Milidiú , Sérgio Colcher , Bruno Pereira Dias , André Bulcão

Despite the success of deep learning in dermoscopy image analysis, its inherent black-box nature hinders clinical trust, motivating the use of prototypical networks for case-based visual transparency. However, inevitable selection bias in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Junhao Jia , Yueyi Wu , Huangwei Chen , Haodong Jing , Haishuai Wang , Jiajun Bu , Lei Wu

The convergence speed of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) can be improved by actively selecting mini-batches. We explore sampling schemes where similar data points are less likely to be selected in the same mini-batch. In particular, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-21 Cheng Zhang , Cengiz Öztireli , Stephan Mandt , Giampiero Salvi

Denoising diffusion models have become ubiquitous for generative modeling. The core idea is to transport the data distribution to a Gaussian by using a diffusion. Approximate samples from the data distribution are then obtained by…

We study some fundamental properties, such as the transience, the recurrence, the first passage times and the zero-set of a certain type of sawtooth Markov processes, called extremal shot noise processes. The sets of zeros of the latter are…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Clément Foucart , Linglong Yuan

Randomized smoothing is a general technique for computing sample-dependent robustness guarantees against adversarial attacks for deep classifiers. Prior works on randomized smoothing against L_1 adversarial attacks use additive smoothing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Alexander Levine , Soheil Feizi

The Log-Gaussian Cox Process is a commonly used model for the analysis of spatial point patterns. Fitting this model is difficult because of its doubly-stochastic property, i.e., it is an hierarchical combination of a Poisson process at the…

Computation · Statistics 2017-01-05 Ming Teng , Farouk S. Nathoo , Timothy D. Johnson

An active learning algorithm for the classification of high-dimensional images is proposed in which spatially-regularized nonlinear diffusion geometry is used to characterize cluster cores. The proposed method samples from estimated cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-07 James M. Murphy

In this work, a new clustering algorithm is proposed based on neutrosophic set (NS) theory. The main contribution is to use NS to handle boundary and outlier points as challenging points of clustering methods. In the first step, a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-01 Elyas Rashno , Behrouz Minaei-Bidgolia , Yanhui Guo

Characterizing imaging noise is notoriously data-intensive and device-dependent, as modern sensors entangle physical signals with complex algorithmic artifacts. Current paradigms struggle to disentangle these factors without massive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yuanjie Gu , Yiqun Wang , Chaohui Yu , Ang Xuan , Fan Wang , Zhi Lu , Biqin Dong

We derive the divergence-kernel formula for the scores of random dynamical systems, then formally pass to the continuous-time limit of SDEs. Our formula works for multiplicative noise systems over any period of time; it does not require…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Angxiu Ni