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This work proposes a new formulation to the long-standing problem of convex decomposition through learning feature fields, enabling the first feed-forward model for open-world convex decomposition. Our method produces high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yuezhi Yang , Qixing Huang , Mikaela Angelina Uy , Nicholas Sharp

Any solid object can be decomposed into a collection of convex polytopes (in short, convexes). When a small number of convexes are used, such a decomposition can be thought of as a piece-wise approximation of the geometry. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Boyang Deng , Kyle Genova , Soroosh Yazdani , Sofien Bouaziz , Geoffrey Hinton , Andrea Tagliasacchi

Porting state of the art deep learning algorithms to resource constrained compute platforms (e.g. VR, AR, wearables) is extremely challenging. We propose a fast, compact, and accurate model for convolutional neural networks that enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Hessam Bagherinezhad , Mohammad Rastegari , Ali Farhadi

We present an approach to learn a dense pixel-wise labeling from image-level tags. Each image-level tag imposes constraints on the output labeling of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) classifier. We propose Constrained CNN (CCNN), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Deepak Pathak , Philipp Krähenbühl , Trevor Darrell

Non-convex optimization is a critical tool in advancing machine learning, especially for complex models like deep neural networks and support vector machines. Despite challenges such as multiple local minima and saddle points, non-convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Greg B Fotopoulos , Paul Popovich , Nicholas Hall Papadopoulos

Multi-well potentials are ubiquitous in science, modeling phenomena such as phase transitions, dynamic instabilities, and multimodal behavior across physics, chemistry, and biology. In contrast to non-smooth minimum-of-mixture…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-24 Reese E. Jones , Adrian Buganza Tepole , Jan N. Fuhg

We introduce neural networks for end-to-end differentiable proving of queries to knowledge bases by operating on dense vector representations of symbols. These neural networks are constructed recursively by taking inspiration from the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Tim Rocktäschel , Sebastian Riedel

Recently, neural networks have been used as implicit representations for surface reconstruction, modelling, learning, and generation. So far, training neural networks to be implicit representations of surfaces required training data sampled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Matan Atzmon , Yaron Lipman

Neuro-symbolic rule learning has attracted lots of attention as it offers better interpretability than pure neural models and scales better than symbolic rule learning. A recent approach named pix2rule proposes a neural Disjunctive Normal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Kexin Gu Baugh , Nuri Cingillioglu , Alessandra Russo

In this work we propose the use of adaptive stochastic search as a building block for general, non-convex optimization operations within deep neural network architectures. Specifically, for an objective function located at some layer in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Ioannis Exarchos , Marcus A. Pereira , Ziyi Wang , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be state-of-the-art models for supervised computer vision tasks, such as image classification. However, large labeled data sets are generally needed for the training and validation of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Patrick Hemmer , Niklas Kühl , Jakob Schöffer

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) provide excellent performance when used for image classification. The classical method of training CNNs is by labeling images in a supervised manner as in "input image belongs to this label" (Positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Youngdong Kim , Junho Yim , Juseung Yun , Junmo Kim

We introduce a framework for learning continuous neural representations of formal specifications by distilling the geometry of their semantics into a latent space. Existing approaches rely either on symbolic kernels -- which preserve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sara Candussio , Gabriele Sarti , Gaia Saveri , Luca Bortolussi

Deep Symbolic Optimization (DSO) is a novel computational framework that enables symbolic optimization for scientific discovery, particularly in applications involving the search for intricate symbolic structures. One notable example is…

This paper develops a general framework for solving a variety of convex cone problems that frequently arise in signal processing, machine learning, statistics, and other fields. The approach works as follows: first, determine a conic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-20 Stephen R. Becker , Emmanuel J. Candès , Michael Grant

There is extensive interest in metric learning methods for image retrieval. Many metric learning loss functions focus on learning a correct ranking of training samples, but strongly overfit semantically inconsistent labels and require a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Christopher Liao , Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Brian Kulis

Training convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with back-propagation (BP) is time-consuming and resource-intensive particularly in view of the need to visit the dataset multiple times. In contrast, analytic learning attempts to obtain the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Huiping Zhuang , Zhiping Lin , Yimin Yang , Kar-Ann Toh

We introduce Deep Adaptive Semantic Logic (DASL), a novel framework for automating the generation of deep neural networks that incorporates user-provided formal knowledge to improve learning from data. We provide formal semantics that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Karan Sikka , Andrew Silberfarb , John Byrnes , Indranil Sur , Ed Chow , Ajay Divakaran , Richard Rohwer

The standard approach to compressive sampling considers recovering an unknown deterministic signal with certain known structure, and designing the sub-sampling pattern and recovery algorithm based on the known structure. This approach…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Yen-Huan Li , Volkan Cevher

Capturing the compositional process which maps the meaning of words to that of documents is a central challenge for researchers in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. We introduce a model that is able to represent the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Misha Denil , Alban Demiraj , Nal Kalchbrenner , Phil Blunsom , Nando de Freitas