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Pseudo-rehearsal allows neural networks to learn a sequence of tasks without forgetting how to perform in earlier tasks. Preventing forgetting is achieved by introducing a generative network which can produce data from previously seen tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Craig Atkinson , Brendan McCane , Lech Szymanski , Anthony Robins

Unsupervised person re-identification has achieved great success through the self-improvement of individual neural networks. However, limited by the lack of diversity of discriminant information, a single network has difficulty learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Yunpeng Zhai , Peixi Peng , Mengxi Jia , Shiyong Li , Weiqiang Chen , Xuesong Gao , Yonghong Tian

In this work, we introduce a self-supervised feature representation learning framework DreamTeacher that utilizes generative networks for pre-training downstream image backbones. We propose to distill knowledge from a trained generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Daiqing Li , Huan Ling , Amlan Kar , David Acuna , Seung Wook Kim , Karsten Kreis , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

Recent deep learning approaches to single image super-resolution have achieved impressive results in terms of traditional error measures and perceptual quality. However, in each case it remains challenging to achieve high quality results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Yifan Wang , Federico Perazzi , Brian McWilliams , Alexander Sorkine-Hornung , Olga Sorkine-Hornung , Christopher Schroers

Iterative data generation and model re-training can effectively align large language models(LLMs) to human preferences. The process of data sampling is crucial, as it significantly influences the success of policy improvement. Repeated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Hai Ye , Hwee Tou Ng

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems rely on retrieval models for identifying relevant contexts and answer generation models for utilizing those contexts. However, retrievers exhibit imperfect recall and precision, limiting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jerry Huang , Siddarth Madala , Risham Sidhu , Cheng Niu , Hao Peng , Julia Hockenmaier , Tong Zhang

A grand challenge in machine learning is the development of computational algorithms that match or outperform humans in perceptual inference tasks that are complicated by nuisance variation. For instance, visual object recognition involves…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-03 Ankit B. Patel , Tan Nguyen , Richard G. Baraniuk

Bridge models in image restoration construct a diffusion process from degraded to clear images. However, existing methods typically require training a bridge model from scratch for each specific type of degradation, resulting in high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hanting Wang , Tao Jin , Wang Lin , Shulei Wang , Hai Huang , Shengpeng Ji , Zhou Zhao

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances language models by retrieving and incorporating relevant external knowledge. However, traditional retrieve-and-generate processes may not be optimized for real-world scenarios, where queries…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Ingeol Baek , Hwan Chang , Byeongjeong Kim , Jimin Lee , Hwanhee Lee

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

Unconditional generation -- the problem of modeling data distribution without relying on human-annotated labels -- is a long-standing and fundamental challenge in generative models, creating a potential of learning from large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Tianhong Li , Dina Katabi , Kaiming He

Unsupervised learning methods have recently shown their competitiveness against supervised training. Typically, these methods use a single objective to train the entire network. But one distinct advantage of unsupervised over supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Zefan Li , Chenxi Liu , Alan Yuille , Bingbing Ni , Wenjun Zhang , Wen Gao

Recommender systems and search engines serve as foundational elements of online platforms, with the former delivering information proactively and the latter enabling users to seek information actively. Unifying both tasks in a shared model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jujia Zhao , Wenjie Wang , Chen Xu , Xiuying Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Suzan Verberne

In this work we propose for the first time a transformer-based framework for unsupervised representation learning of multivariate time series. Pre-trained models can be potentially used for downstream tasks such as regression and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 George Zerveas , Srideepika Jayaraman , Dhaval Patel , Anuradha Bhamidipaty , Carsten Eickhoff

Generative Adversarial Networks have become one of the most studied frameworks for unsupervised learning due to their intuitive formulation. They have also been shown to be capable of generating convincing examples in limited domains, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Daniel Jiwoong Im , He Ma , Chris Dongjoo Kim , Graham Taylor

Learning the disentangled representation of interpretable generative factors of data is one of the foundations to allow artificial intelligence to think like people. In this paper, we propose the analogical training strategy for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Zejian Li , Yongchuan Tang , Yongxing He

This work presents an unsupervised deep learning scheme that exploiting high-dimensional assisted score-based generative model for color image restoration tasks. Considering that the sample number and internal dimension in score-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-17 Kai Hong , Chunhua Wu , Cailian Yang , Minghui Zhang , Yancheng Lu , Yuhao Wang , Qiegen Liu

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have drawn enormous attention due to the simple yet effective training mechanism and superior image generation quality. With the ability to generate photo-realistic high-resolution (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ming Liu , Yuxiang Wei , Xiaohe Wu , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

The reconstruction of X-rays CT images from sparse or limited-angle geometries is a highly challenging task. The lack of data typically results in artifacts in the reconstructed image and may even lead to object distortions. For this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Davide Evangelista , Pasquale Cascarano , Elena Loli Piccolomini

Probabilistic generative models can be used for compression, denoising, inpainting, texture synthesis, semi-supervised learning, unsupervised feature learning, and other tasks. Given this wide range of applications, it is not surprising…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-26 Lucas Theis , Aäron van den Oord , Matthias Bethge