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This paper presents a hardness-aware deep metric learning (HDML) framework. Most previous deep metric learning methods employ the hard negative mining strategy to alleviate the lack of informative samples for training. However, this mining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Wenzhao Zheng , Zhaodong Chen , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Learning from implicit feedback has become the standard paradigm for modern recommender systems. However, this setting is fraught with the persistent challenge of false negatives, where unobserved user-item interactions are not necessarily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Minglei Yin , Chuanbo Hu , Bin Liu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yanfang , Ye , Xin Li

Importance sampling has been successfully used to accelerate stochastic optimization in many convex problems. However, the lack of an efficient way to calculate the importance still hinders its application to Deep Learning. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Angelos Katharopoulos , François Fleuret

We extend the previously observed scaling equation connecting the internode distances and nodes' degrees onto the case of weighted networks. We show that the scaling takes a similar form in the empirical data obtained from networks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-08-25 Julian Sienkiewicz , Janusz A. Holyst

Monotonic linear interpolation (MLI) - on the line connecting a random initialization with the minimizer it converges to, the loss and accuracy are monotonic - is a phenomenon that is commonly observed in the training of neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-15 Xiang Wang , Annie N. Wang , Mo Zhou , Rong Ge

Recent works have highlighted scale invariance or symmetry that is present in the weight space of a typical deep network and the adverse effect that it has on the Euclidean gradient based stochastic gradient descent optimization. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Vijay Badrinarayanan , Bamdev Mishra , Roberto Cipolla

Most Machine Learning (ML) methods, from clustering to classification, rely on a distance function to describe relationships between datapoints. For complex datasets it is hard to avoid making some arbitrary choices when defining a distance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-04 Gina Gruenhage , Manfred Opper , Simon Barthelme

One of the primary goals of coastal water quality monitoring is to characterize spatial variation. Generally, this monitoring takes place at a limited number of fixed sampling points. The alternative sampling methodology explored in this…

Applications · Statistics 2015-04-07 Joseph Stachelek , Christopher J. Madden

The weight space of an artificial neural network can be systematically explored using tools from statistical mechanics. We employ a combination of a hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm which performs long exploration steps, a ratchet-based…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-25 Alessandro Zambon , Enrico M. Malatesta , Guido Tiana , Riccardo Zecchina

Multi-level sentence simplification generates simplified sentences with varying language proficiency levels. We propose Label Confidence Weighted Learning (LCWL), a novel approach that incorporates a label confidence weighting scheme in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Xinying Qiu , Jingshen Zhang

This paper presents a novel method for embedding transfer, a task of transferring knowledge of a learned embedding model to another. Our method exploits pairwise similarities between samples in the source embedding space as the knowledge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Sungyeon Kim , Dongwon Kim , Minsu Cho , Suha Kwak

The deep convolutional neural network(CNN) has significantly raised the performance of image classification and face recognition. Softmax is usually used as supervision, but it only penalizes the classification loss. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Ce Qi , Fei Su

Machine unlearning, as a post-hoc processing technique, has gained widespread adoption in addressing challenges like bias mitigation and robustness enhancement, colloquially, machine unlearning for fairness and robustness. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xinbao Qiao , Ningning Ding , Yushi Cheng , Meng Zhang

Contrastive learning (CL) aims to preserve relational structure between samples by learning representations that reflect a similarity graph. Yet, the geometry of the resulting embeddings remains poorly understood. Here we show that weighted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Raphael Vock , Edouard Duchesnay , Benoit Dufumier

Linear layers in neural networks (NNs) trained by gradient descent can be expressed as a key-value memory system which stores all training datapoints and the initial weights, and produces outputs using unnormalised dot attention over the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Kazuki Irie , Róbert Csordás , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Linear attention has emerged as a promising alternative to softmax-based attention, leveraging kernelized feature maps to reduce complexity from quadratic to linear in sequence length. However, the non-negative constraint on feature maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Weikang Meng , Yadan Luo , Xin Li , Dongmei Jiang , Zheng Zhang

Deep convolutional neural networks have been widely applied in salient object detection and have achieved remarkable results in this field. However, existing models suffer from information distortion caused by interpolation during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Hewen Xiao , Jie Mei , Guangfu Ma , Weiren Wu

Simplicial complexes prove effective in modeling data with multiway dependencies, such as data defined along the edges of networks or within other higher-order structures. Their spectrum can be decomposed into three interpretable subspaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Alexander Möllers , Alexander Immer , Vincent Fortuin , Elvin Isufi

The attention mechanism in Transformers is an important primitive for accurate and scalable sequence modeling. Its quadratic-compute and linear-memory complexity however remain significant bottlenecks. Linear attention and state-space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Han Guo , Songlin Yang , Tarushii Goel , Eric P. Xing , Tri Dao , Yoon Kim

This paper proposes and illustrates a general framework to integrate the areas of vision research and complex networks. Each image pixel is associated to a network node and the Euclidean distance between the visual properties (e.g.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luciano da Fontoura Costa