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Stochastic gradient descent-based algorithms are widely used for training deep neural networks but often suffer from slow convergence. To address the challenge, we leverage the framework of the alternating direction method of multipliers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Ouya Wang , Shenglong Zhou , Geoffrey Ye Li

Saliency maps that identify the most informative regions of an image for a classifier are valuable for model interpretability. A common approach to creating saliency maps involves generating input masks that mask out portions of an image to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Jason Phang , Jungkyu Park , Krzysztof J. Geras

Understanding the internal representations of large language models is crucial for ensuring their reliability and safety, with sparse autoencoders (SAEs) emerging as a promising interpretability approach. However, current SAE training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 T. Ed Li , Junyu Ren

Segmentation is a fundamental problem in surgical scene analysis using artificial intelligence. However, the inherent data scarcity in this domain makes it challenging to adapt traditional segmentation techniques for this task. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jay N. Paranjape , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Shameema Sikder , S. Swaroop Vedula , Vishal M. Patel

Driven by the success of Masked Language Modeling (MLM), the realm of self-supervised learning for computer vision has been invigorated by the central role of Masked Image Modeling (MIM) in driving recent breakthroughs. Notwithstanding the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Hyesong Choi , Hunsang Lee , Seyoung Joung , Hyejin Park , Jiyeong Kim , Dongbo Min

In this paper, we propose an efficient saliency map generation method, called Group score-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Group-CAM), which adopts the "split-transform-merge" strategy to generate saliency maps. Specifically, for an input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Qinglong Zhang , Lu Rao , Yubin Yang

Post-hoc saliency methods are widely used to interpret deep neural networks, but their faithfulness is difficult to evaluate reliably. Existing evaluations mask features according to saliency-induced feature ordering and measure performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chia-Ying Hsieh , Hsin-Yuan Fang , Chun-Shu Wei

This letter proposes a novel blind acoustic mask (BAM) designed to adaptively detect noise components and preserve target speech segments in time-domain. A robust standard deviation estimator is applied to the non-stationary noisy speech to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-07 F. Farias , R. Coelho

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) is a powerful self-supervised strategy for visual pre-training without the use of labels. MIM applies random crops to input images, processes them with an encoder, and then recovers the masked inputs with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Maryam Haghighat , Peyman Moghadam , Shaheer Mohamed , Piotr Koniusz

We propose Curriculum by Masking (CBM), a novel state-of-the-art curriculum learning strategy that effectively creates an easy-to-hard training schedule via patch (token) masking, offering significant accuracy improvements over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Andrei Jarca , Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Masked language modeling has become a widely adopted unsupervised technique to pre-train large language models (LLMs). However, the process of selecting tokens for masking is random, and the percentage of masked tokens is typically fixed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Andrei Jarca , Florinel Alin Croitoru , Radu Tudor Ionescu

This paper presents an advancement to an approach for model-independent surrogate-based optimization with adaptive batch sampling, known as Adaptive Model Refinement (AMR). While the original AMR method provides unique decisions with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Payam Ghassemi , Sumeet Sanjay Lulekar , Souma Chowdhury

Recently, masked image modeling (MIM), an important self-supervised learning (SSL) method, has drawn attention for its effectiveness in learning data representation from unlabeled data. Numerous studies underscore the advantages of MIM,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jiantao Wu , Shentong Mo , Sara Atito , Zhenhua Feng , Josef Kittler , Muhammad Awais

The performance of existing supervised neuron segmentation methods is highly dependent on the number of accurate annotations, especially when applied to large scale electron microscopy (EM) data. By extracting semantic information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Yinda Chen , Wei Huang , Shenglong Zhou , Qi Chen , Zhiwei Xiong

Recognizing implicit visual and textual patterns is essential in many real-world applications of modern AI. However, tackling long-tail pattern recognition tasks remains challenging for current pre-trained foundation models such as LLMs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Minxue Tang , Yangyang Yu , Aolin Ding , Maziyar Baran Pouyan , Taha Belkhouja , Yujia Bao

SimMIM is a widely used method for pretraining vision transformers using masked image modeling. However, despite its success in fine-tuning performance, it has been shown to perform sub-optimally when used for linear probing. We propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Madhava Krishna , A V Subramanyam

In the evolving landscape of computer vision, foundation models have emerged as pivotal tools, exhibiting exceptional adaptability to a myriad of tasks. Among these, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) by Meta AI has distinguished itself in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Bo Li , Haoke Xiao , Lv Tang

As the deep learning revolution marches on, masked modeling has emerged as a distinctive approach that involves predicting parts of the original data that are proportionally masked during training, and has demonstrated exceptional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Qinrong Cai , Yu Guan , Zhibo Chen , Dong Liang , Qiuyun Fan , Qiegen Liu

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has gained significant recognition in the field of semantic segmentation due to its versatile capabilities and impressive performance. Despite its success, SAM faces two primary limitations: (1) it relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yuchen Li , Li Zhang , Youwei Liang , Pengtao Xie

The stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm has achieved remarkable success in training deep learning models. However, it has several limitations, including susceptibility to vanishing gradients, sensitivity to input data, and a lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Chengcheng Yan , Jiawei Xu , Qingsong Wang , Zheng Peng