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Learning similarity between scene graphs and images aims to estimate a similarity score given a scene graph and an image. There is currently no research dedicated to this task, although it is critical for scene graph generation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yuren Cong , Wentong Liao , Bodo Rosenhahn , Michael Ying Yang

Graph inference plays an essential role in machine learning, pattern recognition, and classification. Signal processing based approaches in literature generally assume some variational property of the observed data on the graph. We make a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-24 B. Subbareddy , Aditya Siripuram , Jingxin Zhang

Inferring objects and their relationships from an image in the form of a scene graph is useful in many applications at the intersection of vision and language. We consider a challenging problem of compositional generalization that emerges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Boris Knyazev , Harm de Vries , Cătălina Cangea , Graham W. Taylor , Aaron Courville , Eugene Belilovsky

The reparameterization gradient has become a widely used method to obtain Monte Carlo gradients to optimize the variational objective. However, this technique does not easily apply to commonly used distributions such as beta or gamma…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-20 Francisco J. R. Ruiz , Michalis K. Titsias , David M. Blei

Learning to control the structure of sentences is a challenging problem in text generation. Existing work either relies on simple deterministic approaches or RL-based hard structures. We explore the use of structured variational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Yao Fu , Chuanqi Tan , Bin Bi , Mosha Chen , Yansong Feng , Alexander M. Rush

By providing a simple and efficient way of computing low-variance gradients of continuous random variables, the reparameterization trick has become the technique of choice for training a variety of latent variable models. However, it is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Michael Figurnov , Shakir Mohamed , Andriy Mnih

Visual Commonsense Reasoning, which is regarded as one challenging task to pursue advanced visual scene comprehension, has been used to diagnose the reasoning ability of AI systems. However, reliable reasoning requires a good grasp of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Fan Yuan , Xiaoyuan Fang , Rong Quan , Jing Li , Wei Bi , Xiaogang Xu , Piji Li

This paper presents a new variational inference framework for image restoration and a convolutional neural network (CNN) structure that can solve the restoration problems described by the proposed framework. Earlier CNN-based image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-20 Jae Woong Soh , Nam Ik Cho

Estimation of graph parameters based on a collection of graphs is essential for a wide range of graph inference tasks. In practice, weighted graphs are generally observed with edge contamination. We consider a weighted latent position graph…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-07-13 Runze Tang , Minh Tang , Joshua T. Vogelstein , Carey E. Priebe

Motivated by performance optimization of large-scale graph processing systems that distribute the graph across multiple machines, we consider the balanced graph partitioning problem. Compared to the previous work, we study the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Dmitrii Avdiukhin , Sergey Pupyrev , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

The ability to backpropagate stochastic gradients through continuous latent distributions has been crucial to the emergence of variational autoencoders and stochastic gradient variational Bayes. The key ingredient is an unbiased and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Alex Graves

3D point cloud segmentation aims to assign semantic labels to individual points in a scene for fine-grained spatial understanding. Existing methods typically adopt data augmentation to alleviate the burden of large-scale annotation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Hongbin Lin , Yifan Jiang , Juangui Xu , Jesse Jiaxi Xu , Yi Lu , Zhengyu Hu , Ying-Cong Chen , Hao Wang

In this paper, we study the problem of parsing structured knowledge graphs from textual descriptions. In particular, we consider the scene graph representation that considers objects together with their attributes and relations: this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Yu-Siang Wang , Chenxi Liu , Xiaohui Zeng , Alan Yuille

We propose an adaptive node feature selection approach for graph neural networks (GNNs) that identifies and removes unnecessary features during training. The ability to measure how features contribute to model output is key for interpreting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Ali Azizpour , Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

Scene graph generation aims to capture detailed spatial and semantic relationships between objects in an image, which is challenging due to incomplete labelling, long-tailed relationship categories, and relational semantic overlap. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Zeeshan Hayder , Xuming He

In the realm of statistical learning, the increasing volume of accessible data and increasing model complexity necessitate robust methodologies. This paper explores two branches of robust Bayesian methods in response to this trend. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-12-02 Masahiro Tanaka

This paper studies the problem of learning causal structures from observational data. We reformulate the Structural Equation Model (SEM) with additive noises in a form parameterized by binary graph adjacency matrix and show that, if the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Ignavier Ng , Shengyu Zhu , Zhuangyan Fang , Haoyang Li , Zhitang Chen , Jun Wang

Scene graph generation (SGG) aims to predict graph-structured descriptions of input images, in the form of objects and relationships between them. This task is becoming increasingly useful for progress at the interface of vision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Boris Knyazev , Harm de Vries , Cătălina Cangea , Graham W. Taylor , Aaron Courville , Eugene Belilovsky

Uncertainty quantification plays an important role in achieving trustworthy and reliable learning-based computational imaging. Recent advances in generative modeling and Bayesian neural networks have enabled the development of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Canberk Ekmekci , Mujdat Cetin

Scene graph generation models understand the scene through object and predicate recognition, but are prone to mistakes due to the challenges of perception in the wild. Perception errors often lead to nonsensical compositions in the output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Alireza Zareian , Zhecan Wang , Haoxuan You , Shih-Fu Chang