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This paper presents a learning method for convolutional autoencoders (CAEs) for extracting features from images. CAEs can be obtained by utilizing convolutional neural networks to learn an approximation to the identity function in an…

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Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have proven to be powerful tools for interpreting neural networks by decomposing hidden representations into disentangled, interpretable features via sparsity constraints. However, conventional SAEs are…

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are widely used in mechanistic interpretability to project LLM activations onto sparse latent spaces. However, sparsity alone is an imperfect proxy for interpretability, and current training objectives often…

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Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are used to decompose neural network activations into sparsely activating features, but many SAE features are only interpretable at high activation strengths. To address this issue we propose to use binary sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Lucia Quirke , Stepan Shabalin , Nora Belrose

Recently, learned image compression methods have developed rapidly and exhibited excellent rate-distortion performance when compared to traditional standards, such as JPEG, JPEG2000 and BPG. However, the learning-based methods suffer from…

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State-of-the-art methods for Convolutional Sparse Coding usually employ Fourier-domain solvers in order to speed up the convolution operators. However, this approach is not without shortcomings. For example, Fourier-domain representations…

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Certain datasets contain a limited number of samples with highly various styles and complex structures. This study presents a novel adversarial Lagrangian integrated contrastive embedding (ALICE) method for small-sized datasets. First, the…

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Histopathology images are crucial to the study of complex diseases such as cancer. The histologic characteristics of nuclei play a key role in disease diagnosis, prognosis and analysis. In this work, we propose a sparse Convolutional…

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Autoencoders empower state-of-the-art image and video generative models by compressing pixels into a latent space through visual tokenization. Although recent advances have alleviated the performance degradation of autoencoders under high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Dongxu Liu , Jiahui Zhu , Yuang Peng , Haomiao Tang , Yuwei Chen , Chunrui Han , Zheng Ge , Daxin Jiang , Mingxue Liao

Recently, numerous learning-based compression methods have been developed with outstanding performance for the coding of the geometry information of point clouds. On the contrary, limited explorations have been devoted to point cloud…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Jianqiang Wang , Zhan Ma

The classical sparse coding (SC) model represents visual stimuli as a linear combination of a handful of learned basis functions that are Gabor-like when trained on natural image data. However, the Gabor-like filters learned by classical…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-19 Jonathan Huml , Abiy Tasissa , Demba Ba

We present an extension of sparse PCA, or sparse dictionary learning, where the sparsity patterns of all dictionary elements are structured and constrained to belong to a prespecified set of shapes. This \emph{structured sparse PCA} is…

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Neural image compression leverages deep neural networks to outperform traditional image codecs in rate-distortion performance. However, the resulting models are also heavy, computationally demanding and generally optimized for a single…

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We propose a MultiScale AutoEncoder(MSAE) based extreme image compression framework to offer visually pleasing reconstruction at a very low bitrate. Our method leverages the "priors" at different resolution scale to improve the compression…

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We propose a lossy image compression system using the deep-learning autoencoder structure to participate in the Challenge on Learned Image Compression (CLIC) 2018. Our autoencoder uses the residual blocks with skip connections to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 David Alexandre , Chih-Peng Chang , Wen-Hsiao Peng , Hsueh-Ming Hang

Recent advances in deep learning have shown their ability to learn strong feature representations for images. The task of image clustering naturally requires good feature representations to capture the distribution of the data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Vignesh Prasad , Dipanjan Das , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) \citep{bricken2023monosemanticity,gao2024scalingevaluatingsparseautoencoders} rely on dictionary learning to extract interpretable features from neural networks at scale in an unsupervised manner, with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Hans Peter , Anders Søgaard

In this paper, we propose a novel sparse coding and counting method under Bayesian framwork for visual tracking. In contrast to existing methods, the proposed method employs the combination of L0 and L1 norm to regularize the linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Risheng Liu , Jing Wang , Yiyang Wang , Zhixun Su , Yu Cai

Dense retrievers encode queries and documents and map them in an embedding space using pre-trained language models. These embeddings need to be high-dimensional to fit training signals and guarantee the retrieval effectiveness of dense…

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