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Instructors and students alike are often focused on the grade in programming assignments as a key measure of how well a student is mastering the material and whether a student is struggling. This can be, however, misleading. Especially when…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Chuqin Geng , Wenwen Xu , Yingjie Xu , Brigitte Pientka , Xujie Si

Small class-imbalanced datasets, common in many high-level semantic tasks like discourse analysis, present a particular challenge to current deep-learning architectures. In this work, we perform an extensive analysis on sentence-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Alexander Spangher , Jonathan May , Sz-rung Shiang , Lingjia Deng

To efficiently select optimal dataset combinations for enhancing multi-task learning (MTL) performance in large language models, we proposed a novel framework that leverages a neural network to predict the best dataset combinations. The…

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Despite vision-language models' (VLMs) remarkable capabilities as versatile visual assistants, two substantial challenges persist within the existing VLM frameworks: (1) lacking task diversity in pretraining and visual instruction tuning,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhiyang Xu , Chao Feng , Rulin Shao , Trevor Ashby , Ying Shen , Di Jin , Yu Cheng , Qifan Wang , Lifu Huang

Labelled image datasets have played a critical role in high-level image understanding. However, the process of manual labelling is both time-consuming and labor intensive. To reduce the cost of manual labelling, there has been increased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Yazhou Yao , Jian Zhang , Fumin Shen , Xiansheng Hua , Jingsong Xu , Zhenmin Tang

Task abstractions and taxonomic structures for tasks are useful for designers of interactive data analysis approaches, serving as design targets and evaluation criteria alike. For individual data types, dataset-specific taxonomic structures…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Yasara Peiris , Clara-Maria Barth , Elaine M. Huang , Jürgen Bernard

Shared training approaches, such as multi-task learning (MTL) and gradient-based meta-learning, are widely used in various machine learning applications, but they often suffer from negative transfer, leading to performance degradation in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Anshul Thakur , Yichen Huang , Soheila Molaei , Yujiang Wang , David A. Clifton

Measuring GUI task difficulty is crucial for user behavior analysis and agent capability evaluation. Yet, existing benchmarks typically quantify difficulty based on motor actions (e.g., step counts), overlooking the cognitive demands…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yiwen Yin , Zhian Hu , Xiaoxi Xu , Chun Yu , Xintong Wu , Wenyu Fan , Yuanchun Shi

Meta-learning has emerged as a prominent technology for few-shot text classification and has achieved promising performance. However, existing methods often encounter difficulties in drawing accurate class prototypes from support set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xinyue Liu , Yunlong Gao , Linlin Zong , Bo Xu

Characteristics extracted from the training datasets of classification problems have proven to be effective predictors in a number of meta-analyses. Among them, measures of classification complexity can be used to estimate the difficulty in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Ana C. Lorena , Luís P. F. Garcia , Jens Lehmann , Marcilio C. P. Souto , Tin K. Ho

In this work, we investigate multi-task learning as a way of pre-training models for classification tasks in digital pathology. It is motivated by the fact that many small and medium-size datasets have been released by the community over…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Romain Mormont , Pierre Geurts , Raphaël Marée

By leveraging large amounts of product data collected across hundreds of live e-commerce websites, we construct 1000 unique classification tasks that share similarly-structured input data, comprised of both text and images. These…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Cameron R. Wolfe , Keld T. Lundgaard

One of the best ways for developers to test and improve their skills in a fun and challenging way are programming challenges, offered by a plethora of websites. For the inexperienced ones, some of the problems might appear too challenging,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Bianca Iancu , Gabriele Mazzola , Kyriakos Psarakis , Panagiotis Soilis

Many computer vision tasks address the problem of scene understanding and are naturally interrelated e.g. object classification, detection, scene segmentation, depth estimation, etc. We show that we can leverage the inherent relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Yao Lu , Sören Pirk , Jan Dlabal , Anthony Brohan , Ankita Pasad , Zhao Chen , Vincent Casser , Anelia Angelova , Ariel Gordon

Although accuracy and computation benchmarks are widely available to help choose among neural network models, these are usually trained on datasets with many classes, and do not give a good idea of performance for few (< 10) classes. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Bryan Bo Cao , Abhinav Sharma , Lawrence O'Gorman , Michael Coss , Shubham Jain

Predicting the runtime complexity of a programming code is an arduous task. In fact, even for humans, it requires a subtle analysis and comprehensive knowledge of algorithms to predict time complexity with high fidelity, given any code. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jagriti Sikka , Kushal Satya , Yaman Kumar , Shagun Uppal , Rajiv Ratn Shah , Roger Zimmermann

To alleviate the reliance of deep neural networks on large-scale datasets, dataset distillation aims to generate compact, high-quality synthetic datasets that can achieve comparable performance to the original dataset. The integration of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Mingzhuo Li , Guang Li , Jiafeng Mao , Linfeng Ye , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

In this paper, we study the problem of feature points description in the context of document analysis and template matching. Our study shows that the specific training data is required for the task especially if we are to train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-10 A. Sheshkus , A. Chirvonaya , V. L. Arlazarov

Identifying the tasks a given piece of malware was designed to perform (e.g. logging keystrokes, recording video, establishing remote access, etc.) is a difficult and time-consuming operation that is largely human-driven in practice. In…

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