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Hypergraphs play a pivotal role in the modelling of data featuring higher-order relations involving more than two entities. Hypergraph neural networks emerge as a powerful tool for processing hypergraph-structured data, delivering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zexi Liu , Bohan Tang , Ziyuan Ye , Xiaowen Dong , Siheng Chen , Yanfeng Wang

Language recognition system is typically trained directly to optimize classification error on the target language labels, without using the external, or meta-information in the estimation of the model parameters. However labels are not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Trung Ngo Trong , Ville Hautamäki , Kristiina Jokinen

Training deep neural networks is a very demanding task, especially challenging is how to adapt architectures to improve the performance of trained models. We can find that sometimes, shallow networks generalize better than deep networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-03 David Peer , Bart Keulen , Sebastian Stabinger , Justus Piater , Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez

Understanding what makes high-dimensional data learnable is a fundamental question in machine learning. On the one hand, it is believed that the success of deep learning lies in its ability to build a hierarchy of representations that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-03 Umberto Tomasini , Matthieu Wyart

Structuring latent representations in a hierarchical manner enables models to learn patterns at multiple levels of abstraction. However, most prevalent image understanding models focus on visual similarity, and learning visual hierarchies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Ziwei Wang , Sameera Ramasinghe , Chenchen Xu , Julien Monteil , Loris Bazzani , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan

Deep learning has achieved impressive prediction accuracies in a variety of scientific and industrial domains. However, the nested non-linear feature of deep learning makes the learning highly non-transparent, i.e., it is still unknown how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Chan Li , Haiping Huang

In order to learn quickly with few samples, meta-learning utilizes prior knowledge learned from previous tasks. However, a critical challenge in meta-learning is task uncertainty and heterogeneity, which can not be handled via globally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Huaxiu Yao , Ying Wei , Junzhou Huang , Zhenhui Li

The goal of meta-learning is to train a model on a variety of learning tasks, such that it can adapt to new problems within only a few iterations. Here we propose a principled information-theoretic model that optimally partitions the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-10 Heinke Hihn , Daniel A. Braun

In deep neural networks, better results can often be obtained by increasing the complexity of previously developed basic models. However, it is unclear whether there is a way to boost performance by decreasing the complexity of such models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Junran Wu , Shangzhe Li , Jianhao Li , Yicheng Pan , Ke Xu

We introduce a new hierarchical deep learning framework for recursive higher-order meta-learning that enables neural networks (NNs) to construct, solve, and generalise across hierarchies of tasks. Central to this approach is a generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 David H. Mguni

Text classification is a primary task in natural language processing (NLP). Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have developed rapidly and been applied to text classification tasks. As a special kind of graph data, the tree has a simpler…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Chong Zhang , He Zhu , Xingyu Peng , Junran Wu , Ke Xu

A significant effort has been made to train neural networks that replicate algorithmic reasoning, but they often fail to learn the abstract concepts underlying these algorithms. This is evidenced by their inability to generalize to data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Yujun Yan , Kevin Swersky , Danai Koutra , Parthasarathy Ranganathan , Milad Hashemi

Over the past decade, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have shown remarkable performance in most computer vision tasks. These tasks traditionally use a fixed dataset, and the model, once trained, is deployed as is. Adding new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Deboleena Roy , Priyadarshini Panda , Kaushik Roy

Classification and clustering have been studied separately in machine learning and computer vision. Inspired by the recent success of deep learning models in solving various vision problems (e.g., object recognition, semantic segmentation)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Ali Borji , Aysegul Dundar

Deep neural networks have improved image classification dramatically over the past decade, but have done so by focusing on performance measures that treat all classes other than the ground truth as equally wrong. This has led to a situation…

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Humans perceive the world as a series of sequential events, which can be hierarchically organized with different levels of abstraction based on conceptual knowledge. Drawing inspiration from human learning behaviors, this work proposes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Quyen Tran , Hoang Phan , Minh Le , Tuan Truong , Dinh Phung , Linh Ngo , Thien Nguyen , Nhat Ho , Trung Le

Imitation is a basic updating mechanism for strategy evolution in structured populations, determining how individuals sample social information and translate it into behavioral changes. Higher-order networks, such as hypergraphs, generalize…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-11 Bingxin Lin , Lei Zhou , Hao Fang

We propose a hierarchical graph neural network (GNN) model that learns how to cluster a set of images into an unknown number of identities using a training set of images annotated with labels belonging to a disjoint set of identities. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Yifan Xing , Tong He , Tianjun Xiao , Yongxin Wang , Yuanjun Xiong , Wei Xia , David Wipf , Zheng Zhang , Stefano Soatto

This paper proposes an architecture for deep neural networks with hidden layer branches that learn targets of lower hierarchy than final layer targets. The branches provide a channel for enforcing useful information in hidden layer which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Abhinav Tushar

Despite their renowned predictive power on i.i.d. data, convolutional neural networks are known to rely more on high-frequency patterns that humans deem superficial than on low-frequency patterns that agree better with intuitions about what…

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