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The problem of classification in machine learning has often been approached in terms of function approximation. In this paper, we propose an alternative approach for classification in arbitrary compact metric spaces which, in theory, yields…

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In semantic segmentation tasks, input images can often have more than one plausible interpretation, thus allowing for multiple valid labels. To capture such ambiguities, recent work has explored the use of probabilistic networks that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Elias Kassapis , Georgi Dikov , Deepak K. Gupta , Cedric Nugteren

We present a novel self-taught framework for unsupervised metric learning, which alternates between predicting class-equivalence relations between data through a moving average of an embedding model and learning the model with the predicted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Sungyeon Kim , Dongwon Kim , Minsu Cho , Suha Kwak

We study the problem of supervised learning a metric space under discriminative constraints. Given a universe $X$ and sets ${\cal S}, {\cal D}\subset {X \choose 2}$ of similar and dissimilar pairs, we seek to find a mapping $f:X\to Y$, into…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Diego Ihara Centurion , Neshat Mohammadi , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

We present two practical improvement techniques for unsupervised segmentation learning. These techniques address limitations in the resolution and accuracy of predicted segmentation maps of recent state-of-the-art methods. Firstly, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Alp Eren Sari , Francesco Locatello , Paolo Favaro

Tensor networks provide an efficient approximation of operations involving high dimensional tensors and have been extensively used in modelling quantum many-body systems. More recently, supervised learning has been attempted with tensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Raghavendra Selvan , Erik B Dam , Jens Petersen

Learning embedding functions, which map semantically related inputs to nearby locations in a feature space supports a variety of classification and information retrieval tasks. In this work, we propose a novel, generalizable and fast method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Hong Xuan , Richard Souvenir , Robert Pless

In recent years, a myriad of advanced results have been reported in the community of imitation learning, ranging from parametric to non-parametric, probabilistic to non-probabilistic and Bayesian to frequentist approaches. Meanwhile, ample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Yanlong Huang , Darwin G. Caldwell

We study the problem of learning similarity by using nonlinear embedding models (e.g., neural networks) from all possible pairs. This problem is well-known for its difficulty of training with the extreme number of pairs. For the special…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-16 Bowen Yuan , Yu-Sheng Li , Pengrui Quan , Chih-Jen Lin

In this paper, we focus on the separability of classes with the cross-entropy loss function for classification problems by theoretically analyzing the intra-class distance and inter-class distance (i.e. the distance between any two points…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Rudrajit Das , Subhasis Chaudhuri

Deep metric learning employs deep neural networks to embed instances into a metric space such that distances between instances of the same class are small and distances between instances from different classes are large. In most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Ahmed Abdelwahab , Niels Landwehr

Pre-trained deep image representations are useful for post-training tasks such as classification through transfer learning, image retrieval, and object detection. Data augmentations are a crucial aspect of pre-training robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Sangnie Bhardwaj , Willie McClinton , Tongzhou Wang , Guillaume Lajoie , Chen Sun , Phillip Isola , Dilip Krishnan

Optimized sensing is important for computational imaging in low-resource environments, when images must be recovered from severely limited measurements. In this paper, we propose a physics-constrained, fully differentiable, autoencoder that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 He Sun , Adrian V. Dalca , Katherine L. Bouman

Embedding of large but redundant data, such as images or text, in a hierarchy of lower-dimensional spaces is one of the key features of representation learning approaches, which nowadays provide state-of-the-art solutions to problems once…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Gianluca Berardi , Luca De Luigi , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

Unsupervised anomaly detection aims to detect defective parts of a sample by having access, during training, to a set of normal, i.e. defect-free, data. It has many applications in fields, such as industrial inspection or medical imaging,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Robin Trombetta , Carole Lartizien

While the manifold hypothesis is widely adopted in modern machine learning, complex data is often better modeled as stratified spaces -- unions of manifolds (strata) of varying dimensions. Stratified learning is challenging due to varying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-14 Randy Martinez , Rong Tang , Lizhen Lin

Optimal transport provides a robust framework for comparing probability distributions. Its effectiveness is significantly influenced by the choice of the underlying ground metric. Traditionally, the ground metric has either been (i)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Damin Kühn , Michael T. Schaub

Sliced Wasserstein (SW) distances offer an efficient method for comparing high-dimensional probability measures by projecting them onto multiple 1-dimensional probability distributions. However, identifying informative slicing directions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Navid NaderiAlizadeh , Darian Salehi , Xinran Liu , Soheil Kolouri

Probabilistic mixture models have been widely used for different machine learning and pattern recognition tasks such as clustering, dimensionality reduction, and classification. In this paper, we focus on trying to solve the most common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Gustavo A Valencia-Zapata , Daniel Mejia , Gerhard Klimeck , Michael Zentner , Okan Ersoy

In scientific machine learning, models are routinely deployed with parameter values or boundary conditions far from those used in training. This paper studies the learning-where-to-learn problem of designing a training data distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Nicolas Guerra , Nicholas H. Nelsen , Yunan Yang