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Fairness in machine learning (ML) has a critical importance for building trustworthy machine learning system as artificial intelligence (AI) systems increasingly impact various aspects of society, including healthcare decisions and legal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Modar Sulaiman , Kallol Roy

Adversarial Training (AT) is one of the most effective methods for developing robust deep neural networks (DNNs). However, AT faces a trade-off problem between clean accuracy and adversarial robustness. In this work, we reveal a surprising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yanyun Wang , Qingqing Ye , Li Liu , Zi Liang , Haibo Hu

This work proposes the continuous conditional generative adversarial network (CcGAN), the first generative model for image generation conditional on continuous, scalar conditions (termed regression labels). Existing conditional GANs (cGANs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Xin Ding , Yongwei Wang , Zuheng Xu , William J. Welch , Z. Jane Wang

Active learning aims to reduce labeling efforts by selectively asking humans to annotate the most important data points from an unlabeled pool and is an example of human-machine interaction. Though active learning has been extensively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Hongjing Zhang , S. S. Ravi , Ian Davidson

Training of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is notoriously fragile, requiring to maintain a careful balance between the generator and the discriminator in order to perform well. To mitigate this issue we introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Dan Zhang , Anna Khoreva

State-of-the-art methods for retinal vessel segmentation mainly rely on manually labeled vessels as the ground truth for supervised training. The quality of manual labels plays an essential role in the segmentation accuracy, while in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-06 Yunqiao Yang , Zhiwei Wang , Jingen Liu , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Xin Yang

We suggest a new method, called Functional Additive Regression, or FAR, for efficiently performing high-dimensional functional regression. FAR extends the usual linear regression model involving a functional predictor, $X(t)$, and a scalar…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Yingying Fan , Gareth M. James , Peter Radchenko

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards has significantly advanced reasoning in large language models (LLMs), but such signals remain coarse, offering only binary correctness feedback. This limitation often results in inefficiencies,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Peixuan Han , Adit Krishnan , Gerald Friedland , Jiaxuan You , Chris Kong

In this study, we focus on the unsupervised domain adaptation problem where an approximate inference model is to be learned from a labeled data domain and expected to generalize well to an unlabeled data domain. The success of unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Jing Wang , Jiahong Chen , Jianzhe Lin , Leonid Sigal , Clarence W. de Silva

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown great performance on super-resolution problems since they can generate more visually realistic images and video frames. However, these models often introduce side effects into the outputs,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Xijun Wang , Santiago López-Tapia , Alice Lucas , Xinyi Wu , Rafael Molina , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Active learning continues to remain significant in the industry since it is data efficient. Not only is it cost effective on a constrained budget, continuous refinement of the model allows for early detection and resolution of failure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Megh Shukla , Shuaib Ahmed

A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) with generator $G$ trained to model the prior of images has been shown to perform better than sparsity-based regularizers in ill-posed inverse problems. Here, we propose a new method of deploying a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Ankit Raj , Yuqi Li , Yoram Bresler

Image-to-image translation is an ill-posed problem as unique one-to-one mapping may not exist between the source and target images. Learning-based methods proposed in this context often evaluate the performance on test data that is similar…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Uddeshya Upadhyay , Viswanath P. Sudarshan , Suyash P. Awate

Pairwise learning refers to learning tasks where the loss function depends on a pair of instances. It instantiates many important machine learning tasks such as bipartite ranking and metric learning. A popular approach to handle streaming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Zhenhuan Yang , Yunwen Lei , Puyu Wang , Tianbao Yang , Yiming Ying

The major challenge in today's computer vision scenario is the availability of good quality labeled data. In a field of study like image classification, where data is of utmost importance, we need to find more reliable methods which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Aashish Dhawan , Divyanshu Mudgal

Full-parameter fine-tuning of large language models is constrained by substantial GPU memory requirements. Low-rank adaptation methods mitigate this challenge by updating only a subset of parameters. However, these approaches often limit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Kaiyuan Tian , Yu Tang , Gongqingjian Jiang , Baihui Liu , Yifu Gao , Xialin Su , Linbo Qiao , Dongsheng Li

The purpose of model selection algorithms such as All Subsets, Forward Selection and Backward Elimination is to choose a linear model on the basis of the same set of data to which the model will be applied. Typically we have available a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Bradley Efron , Trevor Hastie , Iain Johnstone , Robert Tibshirani

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) improves reliability of large language models by incorporating external knowledge, but the retrieval process can introduce bias that propagates to generated outputs. This issue is particularly…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yingqi Zhao , Vasilis Efthymiou , Jyrki Nummenmaa , Kostas Stefanidis

In-context learning has recently been linked to implicit gradient descent in linear self-attention models, suggesting that context can induce a forward-pass update. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) also relies on context, but retrieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Mingchen Li , Jiatan Huang , Chuxu Zhang , Liang Zhao , Hong Yu

Gradient descent is an important class of iterative algorithms for minimizing convex functions. Classically, gradient descent has been a sequential and synchronous process. Distributed and asynchronous variants of gradient descent have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Yun Kuen Cheung , Richard Cole