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Understanding the fundamental limits of robust supervised learning has emerged as a problem of immense interest, from both practical and theoretical standpoints. In particular, it is critical to determine classifier-agnostic bounds on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Daniel Cullina , Vikash Sehwag , Prateek Mittal

Deep learning work on musical instrument recognition has generally focused on instrument classes for which we have abundant data. In this work, we exploit hierarchical relationships between instruments in a few-shot learning setup to enable…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Hugo Flores Garcia , Aldo Aguilar , Ethan Manilow , Bryan Pardo

In this paper, we focus on the separability of classes with the cross-entropy loss function for classification problems by theoretically analyzing the intra-class distance and inter-class distance (i.e. the distance between any two points…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Rudrajit Das , Subhasis Chaudhuri

Test-time reinforcement learning generates multiple candidate answers via repeated rollouts and performs online updates using pseudo-labels constructed by majority voting. To reduce overhead and improve exploration, prior work introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chu Zhao , Enneng Yang , Yuting Liu , Jianzhe Zhao , Guibing Guo

Compositional zero-shot learning (CZSL) aims to recognize unseen state-object compositions by generalizing from a training set of their primitives (state and object). Current methods often overlook the rich hierarchical structures, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Lin Li , Jiahui Li , Jiaming Lei , Jun Xiao , Feifei Shao , Long Chen

Unsupervised feature learning often finds low-dimensional embeddings that capture the structure of complex data. For tasks for which prior expert topological knowledge is available, incorporating this into the learned representation may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Robin Vandaele , Bo Kang , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie , Yvan Saeys

Contrastive learning allows us to flexibly define powerful losses by contrasting positive pairs from sets of negative samples. Recently, the principle has also been used to learn cross-modal embeddings for video and text, yet without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Mohammadreza Zolfaghari , Yi Zhu , Peter Gehler , Thomas Brox

Text classification has become increasingly challenging due to the continuous refinement of classification label granularity and the expansion of classification label scale. To address that, some research has been applied onto strategies…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Jingpeng Zhao , Yinglong Ma

Large scale image classification models trained on top of popular datasets such as Imagenet have shown to have a distributional skew which leads to disparities in prediction accuracies across different subsections of population…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Rohan Mahadev , Anindya Chakravarti

Recently, deep learning models have achieved great success in computer vision applications, relying on large-scale class-balanced datasets. However, imbalanced class distributions still limit the wide applicability of these models due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Yechan Kim , Younkwan Lee , Moongu Jeon

Triplet loss, one of the deep metric learning (DML) methods, is to learn the embeddings where examples from the same class are closer than examples from different classes. Motivated by DML, we propose an effective BP-Triplet Loss for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Shanshan Wang , Lei Zhang , Pichao Wang

The multi-label classification problem has generated significant interest in recent years. However, existing approaches do not adequately address two key challenges: (a) the ability to tackle problems with a large number (say millions) of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Hsiang-Fu Yu , Prateek Jain , Purushottam Kar , Inderjit S. Dhillon

Recent pre-trained transformer models achieve superior performance in various code processing objectives. However, although effective at optimizing decision boundaries, common approaches for fine-tuning them for downstream classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Adelaide Danilov , Aria Nourbakhsh , Christoph Schommer

In this paper, we propose mean squared error (MSE) loss with outlying label for class imbalanced classification. Cross entropy (CE) loss, which is widely used for image recognition, is learned so that the probability value of true class is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Sota Kato , Kazuhiro Hotta

Average-K classification is an alternative to top-K classification in which the number of labels returned varies with the ambiguity of the input image but must average to K over all the samples. A simple method to solve this task is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Camille Garcin , Maximilien Servajean , Alexis Joly , Joseph Salmon

We combine multi-task learning and semi-supervised learning by inducing a joint embedding space between disparate label spaces and learning transfer functions between label embeddings, enabling us to jointly leverage unlabelled data and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Isabelle Augenstein , Sebastian Ruder , Anders Søgaard

Music-text multimodal systems have enabled new approaches to Music Information Research (MIR) applications such as audio-to-text and text-to-audio retrieval, text-based song generation, and music captioning. Despite the reported success,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yannis Vasilakis , Rachel Bittner , Johan Pauwels

Contrastive learning has demonstrated promising performance in image and text domains either in a self-supervised or a supervised manner. In this work, we extend the supervised contrastive learning framework to clinical risk prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Chengxi Zang , Fei Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved tremendous success in a variety of applications across many disciplines. Yet, their superior performance comes with the expensive cost of requiring correctly annotated large-scale datasets.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Zhilu Zhang , Mert R. Sabuncu

Recent algorithms in convolutional neural networks (CNN) considerably advance the fine-grained image classification, which aims to differentiate subtle differences among subordinate classes. However, previous studies have rarely focused on…

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