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We introduce Interleaved Gibbs Diffusion (IGD), a novel generative modeling framework for discrete-continuous data, focusing on problems with important, implicit and unspecified constraints in the data. Most prior works on discrete and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Gautham Govind Anil , Sachin Yadav , Dheeraj Nagaraj , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Prateek Jain

Deep learning models exhibit limited generalizability across different domains. Specifically, transferring knowledge from available entangled domain features(source/target domain) and categorical features to new unseen categorical features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Qingjie Meng , Daniel Rueckert , Bernhard Kainz

Deep learning based models have excelled in many computer vision tasks and appear to surpass humans' performance. However, these models require an avalanche of expensive human labeled training data and many iterations to train their large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yikai Wang , Li Zhang , Yuan Yao , Yanwei Fu

A wide variety of deep generative models has been developed in the past decade. Yet, these models often struggle with simultaneously addressing three key requirements including: high sample quality, mode coverage, and fast sampling. We call…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Zhisheng Xiao , Karsten Kreis , Arash Vahdat

Few-shot learning (FSL) addresses the challenge of classifying novel classes with limited training samples. While some methods leverage semantic knowledge from smaller-scale models to mitigate data scarcity, these approaches often introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Hao Tang , Shengfeng He , Jing Qin

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) is a paradigm where a model, initially trained on a dataset of base classes, must adapt to an expanding problem space by recognizing novel classes with limited data. We focus on the challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jack Foster , Kirill Paramonov , Mete Ozay , Umberto Michieli

The challenges of training and inference in few-shot environments persist in the area of graph representation learning. The quality and quantity of labels are often insufficient due to the extensive expert knowledge required to annotate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chao Chen , Xujia Li , Dongsheng Hong , Shanshan Lin , Xiangwen Liao , Chuanyi Liu , Lei Chen

Although various methods have been proposed for multi-label classification, most approaches still follow the feature learning mechanism of the single-label (multi-class) classification, namely, learning a shared image feature to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Jian Jia , Fei He , Naiyu Gao , Xiaotang Chen , Kaiqi Huang

Generative AI has made impressive strides in enabling users to create diverse and realistic visual content such as images, videos, and audio. However, training generative models on large centralized datasets can pose challenges in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Fiona Victoria Stanley Jothiraj , Afra Mashhadi

Deep neural networks typically learn spatially entangled representations that conflate discriminative foreground features with spurious background correlations, thereby undermining model interpretability and robustness. We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Kaixiang Shu , Kai Meng , Junqin Luo

In this theory paper, we investigate training deep neural networks (DNNs) for classification via minimizing the information bottleneck (IB) functional. We show that the resulting optimization problem suffers from two severe issues: First,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Rana Ali Amjad , Bernhard C. Geiger

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) which aims to recognize unseen classes with no labeled training sample, efficiently tackles the problem of missing labeled data in image retrieval. Nowadays there are mainly two types of popular methods for ZSL to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Gang Yang , Jinlu Liu , Xirong Li

With the rapid emergence of multi-behavior learning in recommender systems, leveraging auxiliary user behaviors has proven effective for mitigating target-behavior data sparsity. Yet auxiliary behavior graphs frequently contain noisy or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Likang Wu , Zihao Chen , Jianxin Zhang , Sangqi Zhu , Yuanyuan Ge , Haipeng Yang , Lei Zhang

Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) distills score-based generative models into efficient one-step generators, without requiring a one-to-one correspondence with the sampling trajectories of their teachers. Yet, the limited capacity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xiangyu Fan , Zesong Qiu , Zhuguanyu Wu , Fanzhou Wang , Zhiqian Lin , Tianxiang Ren , Dahua Lin , Ruihao Gong , Lei Yang

Multimodal learning significantly benefits cancer survival prediction, especially the integration of pathological images and genomic data. Despite advantages of multimodal learning for cancer survival prediction, massive redundancy in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yilan Zhang , Yingxue Xu , Jianqi Chen , Fengying Xie , Hao Chen

Disentangled representation learning aims to uncover latent variables underlying the observed data, and generally speaking, rather strong assumptions are needed to ensure identifiability. Some approaches rely on sufficient changes on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zijian Li , Shunxing Fan , Yujia Zheng , Ignavier Ng , Shaoan Xie , Guangyi Chen , Xinshuai Dong , Ruichu Cai , Kun Zhang

Convolutional neural networks and supervised learning have achieved remarkable success in various fields but are limited by the need for large annotated datasets. Few-shot learning (FSL) addresses this limitation by enabling models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yang Liu , Feixiang Liu , Jiale Du , Xinbo Gao , Jungong Han

Learning effective joint embedding for cross-modal data has always been a focus in the field of multimodal machine learning. We argue that during multimodal fusion, the generated multimodal embedding may be redundant, and the discriminative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Sijie Mai , Ying Zeng , Haifeng Hu

The capacity to learn incrementally from an online stream of data is an envied trait of human learners, as deep neural networks typically suffer from catastrophic forgetting and stability-plasticity dilemma. Several works have previously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Chaerin Kong , Nojun Kwak

Deep generative models have been successfully applied to Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) recently. However, the underlying drawbacks of GANs and VAEs (e.g., the hardness of training with ZSL-oriented regularizers and the limited generation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Yuming Shen , Jie Qin , Lei Huang