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Designing models that are both expressive and preserve known invariances of tasks is an increasingly hard problem. Existing solutions tradeoff invariance for computational or memory resources. In this work, we show how to leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Leonardo Cotta , Gal Yehuda , Assaf Schuster , Chris J. Maddison

Continuous learning seeks to perform the learning on the data that arrives from time to time. While prior works have demonstrated several possible solutions, these approaches require excessive training time as well as memory usage. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Chih-Hsing Ho , Shang-Ho , Tsai

In several application domains, high-dimensional observations are collected and then analysed in search for naturally occurring data clusters which might provide further insights about the nature of the problem. In this paper we describe a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-03-07 Brian McWilliams , Giovanni Montana

Predictive coding (PC) accounts of perception now form one of the dominant computational theories of the brain, where they prescribe a general algorithm for inference and learning over hierarchical latent probabilistic models. Despite this,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Umais Zahid , Qinghai Guo , Karl Friston , Zafeirios Fountas

Neural implicit representations have shown substantial improvements in efficiently storing 3D data, when compared to conventional formats. However, the focus of existing work has mainly been on storage and subsequent reconstruction. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Theo W. Costain , Victor Adrian Prisacariu

In order to leverage and profit from unlabelled data, semi-supervised frameworks for semantic segmentation based on consistency training have been proven to be powerful tools to significantly improve the performance of purely supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Max Coenen , Tobias Schack , Dries Beyer , Christian Heipke , Michael Haist

Recent breakthroughs in semi-supervised semantic segmentation have been developed through contrastive learning. In prevalent pixel-wise contrastive learning solutions, the model maps pixels to deterministic representations and regularizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Haoyu Xie , Changqi Wang , Mingkai Zheng , Minjing Dong , Shan You , Chong Fu , Chang Xu

Reliable uncertainty quantification is essential for deploying machine learning systems in high-stakes domains. Conformal prediction provides distribution-free coverage guarantees but often produces overly large prediction sets, limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yunpeng Xu , Wenge Guo , Zhi Wei

Motion planning for autonomous driving must account for multi-modal uncertainty in both the intentions and trajectories of surrounding vehicles. Handling uncertainty in a worst-case manner guarantees robustness but often leads to excessive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zekun Xing , Ramkrishna Chaudhari , Marion Leibold , Dirk Wollherr , Martin Buss

We describe a method for utilizing the known structure of input data to make learning more efficient. Our work is in the domain of programming languages, and we use deep neural networks to do program analysis. Computer programs include a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Zehra Sura , Tong Chen , Hyojin Sung

Representing token embeddings as probability distributions over learned manifolds allows for more flexible contextual inference, reducing representational rigidity while enhancing semantic granularity. Comparative evaluations demonstrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Christopher Nightingale , Dominic Lavington , Jonathan Thistlethwaite , Sebastian Penhaligon , Thomas Belinski , David Boldo

Image tokenizers play a central role in modern generative models, where the structure of the latent space critically determines the downstream generation performance. A key but underexplored property of effective latent representations is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jinsung Lee , Jaemin Oh , Namhun Kim , Dongwon Kim , Byung-Jun Yoon , Suha Kwak

Continual learning algorithms which keep the parameters of new tasks close to that of previous tasks, are popular in preventing catastrophic forgetting in sequential task learning settings. However, 1) the performance for the new continual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Wei Cong , Yang Cong , Gan Sun , Yuyang Liu , Jiahua Dong

In structured prediction, the goal is to jointly predict many output variables that together encode a structured object -- a path in a graph, an entity-relation triple, or an ordering of objects. Such a large output space makes learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Kareem Ahmed , Eric Wang , Kai-Wei Chang , Guy Van den Broeck

Boosting is a method for learning a single accurate predictor by linearly combining a set of less accurate weak learners. Recently, structured learning has found many applications in computer vision. Inspired by structured support vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Chunhua Shen , Guosheng Lin , Anton van den Hengel

Pretrained encoders for mathematical texts have achieved significant improvements on various tasks such as formula classification and information retrieval. Yet they remain limited in representing and capturing student strategies for entire…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Siddhartha Pradhan , Ethan Prihar , Erin Ottmar

When manipulating a novel object with complex dynamics, a state representation is not always available, for example for deformable objects. Learning both a representation and dynamics from observations requires large amounts of data. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Thomas Power , Dmitry Berenson

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

This paper presents a new class of spatially coupled turbo-like codes (SC-TCs), namely half spatially coupled braided convolutional codes (HSC-BCCs) and half spatially coupled parallel concatenated codes (HSC-PCCs). Different from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Xiaowei Wu , Lei Yang , Min Qiu , Chong Han , Jinhong Yuan

Transformer architectures have achieved remarkable success across language, vision, and multimodal tasks, and there is growing demand for them to address in-context compositional learning tasks. In these tasks, models solve the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Wei Chen , Jingxi Yu , Zichen Miao , Qiang Qiu