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It has been a long-standing goal in machine learning, as well as in AI more generally, to develop life-long learning systems that learn many different tasks over time, and reuse insights from tasks learned, "learning to learn" as they do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Maria-Florina Balcan , Avrim Blum , Santosh Vempala

In recent years, soft prompt learning methods have been proposed to fine-tune large-scale vision-language pre-trained models for various downstream tasks. These methods typically combine learnable textual tokens with class tokens as input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Yingjie Tian , Yiqi Wang , Xianda Guo , Zheng Zhu , Long Chen

Supervised (pre-)training currently yields state-of-the-art performance for representation learning for visual recognition, yet it comes at the cost of (1) intensive manual annotations and (2) an inherent restriction in the scope of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Ruohan Gao , Dinesh Jayaraman , Kristen Grauman

We present Emu, a Transformer-based multimodal foundation model, which can seamlessly generate images and texts in multimodal context. This omnivore model can take in any single-modality or multimodal data input indiscriminately (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Quan Sun , Qiying Yu , Yufeng Cui , Fan Zhang , Xiaosong Zhang , Yueze Wang , Hongcheng Gao , Jingjing Liu , Tiejun Huang , Xinlong Wang

Understanding visual inputs for a given task amidst varied changes is a key challenge posed by visual reinforcement learning agents. We propose \textit{Value Explicit Pretraining} (VEP), a method that learns generalizable representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Kiran Lekkala , Henghui Bao , Sumedh A. Sontakke , Erdem Biyik , Laurent Itti

Existing dense or paragraph video captioning approaches rely on holistic representations of videos, possibly coupled with learned object/action representations, to condition hierarchical language decoders. However, they fundamentally lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Shih-Han Chou , James J. Little , Leonid Sigal

The perception system for autonomous driving generally requires to handle multiple diverse sub-tasks. However, current algorithms typically tackle individual sub-tasks separately, which leads to low efficiency when aiming at obtaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xuesong Chen , Shaoshuai Shi , Tao Ma , Jingqiu Zhou , Simon See , Ka Chun Cheung , Hongsheng Li

Multimodal learning has attracted increasing attention due to its practicality. However, it often suffers from insufficient optimization, where the multimodal model underperforms even compared to its unimodal counterparts. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Shicai Wei , Chunbo Luo , Qiang Zhu , Yang Luo

Representation learning approaches for robotic manipulation have boomed in recent years. Due to the scarcity of in-domain robot data, prevailing methodologies tend to leverage large-scale human video datasets to extract generalizable…

Foundation models in healthcare have largely adopted self supervised pretraining objectives inherited from natural language processing and computer vision, emphasizing reconstruction and large scale representation learning prior to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yang Zhang , Li Fan , Samuel Lawrence , Shi Li

Self-supervised learning has greatly facilitated medical image analysis by suppressing the training data requirement for real-world applications. Current paradigms predominantly rely on self-supervision within uni-modal image data, thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Shaohao Rui , Lingzhi Chen , Zhenyu Tang , Lilong Wang , Mianxin Liu , Shaoting Zhang , Xiaosong Wang

Variational Autoencoders for multimodal data hold promise for many tasks in data analysis, such as representation learning, conditional generation, and imputation. Current architectures either share the encoder output, decoder input, or…

This work proposes a unified self-supervised pre-training framework for transferable multi-modal perception representation learning via masked multi-modal reconstruction in Neural Radiance Field (NeRF), namely NeRF-Supervised Masked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Xiaohao Xu

The volume of unlabelled Earth observation (EO) data is huge, but many important applications lack labelled training data. However, EO data offers the unique opportunity to pair data from different modalities and sensors automatically based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Vishal Nedungadi , Ankit Kariryaa , Stefan Oehmcke , Serge Belongie , Christian Igel , Nico Lang

In this work we propose a novel end-to-end imitation learning approach which combines natural language, vision, and motion information to produce an abstract representation of a task, which in turn is used to synthesize specific motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Simon Stepputtis , Joseph Campbell , Mariano Phielipp , Chitta Baral , Heni Ben Amor

Unified understanding and generation is a highly appealing research direction in multimodal learning. There exist two approaches: one trains a transformer via an auto-regressive paradigm, and the other adopts a two-stage scheme connecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shihao Zhao , Yitong Chen , Zeyinzi Jiang , Bojia Zi , Shaozhe Hao , Yu Liu , Chaojie Mao , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Recent studies on pre-trained vision/language models have demonstrated the practical benefit of a new, promising solution-building paradigm in AI where models can be pre-trained on broad data describing a generic task space and then adapted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Ziqian Lin , Hao Ding , Nghia Trong Hoang , Branislav Kveton , Anoop Deoras , Hao Wang

Cross-robot policy learning -- training a single policy to perform well across multiple embodiments -- remains a central challenge in robot learning. Transformer-based policies, such as vision-language-action (VLA) models, are typically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kei Suzuki , Jing Liu , Ye Wang , Chiori Hori , Matthew Brand , Diego Romeres , Toshiaki Koike-Akino

Multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) constitutes the first line of investigation for clinicians in the care of brain tumors, providing crucial insights for surgery planning, treatment monitoring, and biomarker identification.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Lucas Robinet , Ahmad Berjaoui , Elizabeth Cohen-Jonathan Moyal

Multilingual models jointly pretrained on multiple languages have achieved remarkable performance on various multilingual downstream tasks. Moreover, models finetuned on a single monolingual downstream task have shown to generalize to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Seanie Lee , Hae Beom Lee , Juho Lee , Sung Ju Hwang