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We are concerned with the discovery of hierarchical relationships from large-scale unstructured similarity scores. For this purpose, we study different models of hyperbolic space and find that learning embeddings in the Lorentz model is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Maximilian Nickel , Douwe Kiela

Semantic segmentation consists of predicting a semantic label for each image pixel. While existing deep learning approaches achieve high accuracy, they often overlook the ordinal relationships between classes, which can provide critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Ricardo P. M. Cruz , Rafael Cristino , Jaime S. Cardoso

Class-incremental semantic image segmentation assumes multiple model updates, each enriching the model to segment new categories. This is typically carried out by providing expensive pixel-level annotations to the training algorithm for all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Subhankar Roy , Riccardo Volpi , Gabriela Csurka , Diane Larlus

We present a recurrent model for semantic instance segmentation that sequentially generates binary masks and their associated class probabilities for every object in an image. Our proposed system is trainable end-to-end from an input image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Amaia Salvador , Miriam Bellver , Victor Campos , Manel Baradad , Ferran Marques , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Real-world knowledge is often organized as hierarchies such as product taxonomies, medical ontologies, and label trees, yet learning hierarchical representations is challenging due to asymmetric structure and noisy semantics. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Sahil Mishra , Srinitish Srinivasan , Sourish Dasgupta , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Many high-dimensional and large-volume data sets of practical relevance have hierarchical structures induced by trees, graphs or time series. Such data sets are hard to process in Euclidean spaces and one often seeks low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Eli Chien , Chao Pan , Puoya Tabaghi , Olgica Milenkovic

Class incremental learning aims to enable models to learn from sequential, non-stationary data streams across different tasks without catastrophic forgetting. In class incremental semantic segmentation (CISS), the semantic content of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Xiao Yu , Yan Fang , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

Continually learning to segment more and more types of image regions is a desired capability for many intelligent systems. However, such continual semantic segmentation suffers from the same catastrophic forgetting issue as in continual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Yiqiao Qiu , Yixing Shen , Zhuohao Sun , Yanchong Zheng , Xiaobin Chang , Weishi Zheng , Ruixuan Wang

In contrast to the incremental classification task, the incremental detection task is characterized by the presence of data ambiguity, as an image may have differently labeled bounding boxes across multiple continuous learning stages. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Ziyue Huang , Yupeng He , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

In a real-world setting, object instances from new classes can be continuously encountered by object detectors. When existing object detectors are applied to such scenarios, their performance on old classes deteriorates significantly. A few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 K J Joseph , Jathushan Rajasegaran , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

In this work, we focus on continual semantic segmentation (CSS), where segmentation networks are required to continuously learn new classes without erasing knowledge of previously learned ones. Although storing images of old classes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Hongmei Yin , Tingliang Feng , Fan Lyu , Fanhua Shang , Hongying Liu , Wei Feng , Liang Wan

Different from the traditional classification tasks which assume mutual exclusion of labels, hierarchical multi-label classification (HMLC) aims to assign multiple labels to every instance with the labels organized under hierarchical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Boli Chen , Xin Huang , Lin Xiao , Zixin Cai , Liping Jing

Recent neural supervised topic segmentation models achieve distinguished superior effectiveness over unsupervised methods, with the availability of large-scale training corpora sampled from Wikipedia. These models may, however, suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Linzi Xing , Patrick Huber , Giuseppe Carenini

We address the problem of incremental sequence classification, where predictions are updated as new elements in the sequence are revealed. Drawing on temporal-difference learning from reinforcement learning, we identify a…

Discovering novel concepts in unlabelled datasets and in a continuous manner is an important desideratum of lifelong learners. In the literature such problems have been partially addressed under very restricted settings, where novel classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Mingxuan Liu , Subhankar Roy , Zhun Zhong , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Structuring latent representations in a hierarchical manner enables models to learn patterns at multiple levels of abstraction. However, most prevalent image understanding models focus on visual similarity, and learning visual hierarchies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Ziwei Wang , Sameera Ramasinghe , Chenchen Xu , Julien Monteil , Loris Bazzani , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan

Hyperbolic spaces have proven to be suitable for modeling data of hierarchical nature. As such we use the Poincare ball to embed sentences with the goal of proving how hyperbolic spaces can be used for solving Textual Entailment. To this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Igor Petrovski

Continual learning for segmentation has recently seen increasing interest. However, all previous works focus on narrow semantic segmentation and disregard panoptic segmentation, an important task with real-world impacts. %a In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Fabio Cermelli , Matthieu Cord , Arthur Douillard

State-of-the-art semantic segmentation models are typically optimized in a data-driven fashion, minimizing solely per-pixel or per-segment classification objectives on their training data. This purely data-driven paradigm often leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shamik Basu , Luc Van Gool , Christos Sakaridis

Continual Learning is a step towards lifelong intelligence where models continuously learn from recently collected data without forgetting previous knowledge. Existing continual learning approaches mostly focus on image classification in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Motasem Alfarra , Zhipeng Cai , Adel Bibi , Bernard Ghanem , Matthias Müller