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Interest in stochastic zeroth-order (SZO) methods has recently been revived in black-box optimization scenarios such as adversarial black-box attacks to deep neural networks. SZO methods only require the ability to evaluate the objective…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-11 Mayumi Ohta , Nathaniel Berger , Artem Sokolov , Stefan Riezler

Image smoothing represents a fundamental component of many disparate computer vision and graphics applications. In this paper, we present a unified unsupervised (label-free) learning framework that facilitates generating flexible and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Qingnan Fan , Jiaolong Yang , David Wipf , Baoquan Chen , Xin Tong

Kernel density estimation is a key component of a wide variety of algorithms in machine learning, Bayesian inference, stochastic dynamics and signal processing. However, the unsupervised density estimation technique requires tuning a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sunia Tanweer , Firas A. Khasawneh

Recent advances in one-shot semi-supervised learning have lowered the barrier for deep learning of new applications. However, the state-of-the-art for semi-supervised learning is slow to train and the performance is sensitive to the choices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Helena E. Liu , Leslie N. Smith

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently advanced through non-contrastive methods that couple an invariance term with variance, covariance, or redundancy-reduction penalties. While such objectives shape first- and second-order statistics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Benyamin Ghojogh , M. Hadi Sepanj , Paul Fieguth

Brightfield microscopy of unstained live cells is challenging due to low contrast, dynamic morphology, uneven illumination, and lack of labels. Deep learning achieved SOTA performance on stained, high-contrast images but needs large labeled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Surajit Das , Pavel Zun

We propose UnMixMatch, a semi-supervised learning framework which can learn effective representations from unconstrained unlabelled data in order to scale up performance. Most existing semi-supervised methods rely on the assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Shuvendu Roy , Ali Etemad

Weakly-supervised salient object detection (WSOD) aims to develop saliency models using image-level annotations. Despite of the success of previous works, explorations on an effective training strategy for the saliency network and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Yongri Piao , Jian Wang , Miao Zhang , Zhengxuan Ma , Huchuan Lu

Recent work in Deep Learning has re-imagined the representation of data as functions mapping from a coordinate space to an underlying continuous signal. When such functions are approximated by neural networks this introduces a compelling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-09 Jonathan Richard Schwarz , Yee Whye Teh

Vision Transformer (ViT) suffers from data scarcity in semi-supervised learning (SSL). To alleviate this issue, inspired by masked autoencoder (MAE), which is a data-efficient self-supervised learner, we propose Semi-MAE, a pure ViT-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Haojie Yu , Kang Zhao , Xiaoming Xu

This paper proposes an unsupervised method for learning a unified representation that serves both discriminative and generative purposes. While most existing unsupervised learning approaches focus on a representation for only one of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shengbang Tong , Xili Dai , Yubei Chen , Mingyang Li , Zengyi Li , Brent Yi , Yann LeCun , Yi Ma

Pre-training general-purpose visual features with convolutional neural networks without relying on annotations is a challenging and important task. Most recent efforts in unsupervised feature learning have focused on either small or highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Mathilde Caron , Piotr Bojanowski , Julien Mairal , Armand Joulin

Self-supervised learning has revolutionized representation learning by eliminating the need for labeled data. Contrastive learning methods, such as SimCLR, maximize the agreement between augmented views of an image but lack explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 M. Hadi Sepanj , Paul Fiegth

This paper introduces an unsupervised compact architecture that can extract features and classify the contents of dynamic scenes from the temporal output of a neuromorphic asynchronous event-based camera. Event-based cameras are clock-less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Germain Haessig , Ryad Benosman

Can a lightweight Vision Transformer (ViT) match or exceed the performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) like ResNet on small datasets with small image resolutions? This report demonstrates that a pure ViT can indeed achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jen Hong Tan

Compared to supervised learning, semi-supervised learning reduces the dependence of deep learning on a large number of labeled samples. In this work, we use a small number of labeled samples and perform data augmentation on unlabeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Qiuyu Zhu , Tiantian Li

Anomalies are samples that significantly deviate from the rest of the data and their detection plays a major role in building machine learning models that can be reliably used in applications such as data-driven design and novelty…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-19 Amin Yousefpour , Mehdi Shishehbor , Zahra Zanjani Foumani , Ramin Bostanabad

Masked image modeling (MIM) pre-training for large-scale vision transformers (ViTs) has enabled promising downstream performance on top of the learned self-supervised ViT features. In this paper, we question if the \textit{extremely simple}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Jin Gao , Shubo Lin , Shaoru Wang , Yutong Kou , Zeming Li , Liang Li , Congxuan Zhang , Xiaoqin Zhang , Yizheng Wang , Weiming Hu

Recently, self-supervised learning methods like MoCo, SimCLR, BYOL and SwAV have reduced the gap with supervised methods. These results have been achieved in a control environment, that is the highly curated ImageNet dataset. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Priya Goyal , Mathilde Caron , Benjamin Lefaudeux , Min Xu , Pengchao Wang , Vivek Pai , Mannat Singh , Vitaliy Liptchinsky , Ishan Misra , Armand Joulin , Piotr Bojanowski

Overparameterized neural networks generalize well but are expensive to train. Ideally, one would like to reduce their computational cost while retaining their generalization benefits. Sparse model training is a simple and promising approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Tri Dao , Beidi Chen , Kaizhao Liang , Jiaming Yang , Zhao Song , Atri Rudra , Christopher Ré