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Ensembles of Convolutional neural networks have shown remarkable results in learning discriminative semantic features for image classification tasks. Though, the models in the ensemble often concentrate on similar regions in images. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Tobias Schlagenhauf , Yiwen Lin , Benjamin Noack

Continual Learning (CL) primarily aims to retain knowledge to prevent catastrophic forgetting and transfer knowledge to facilitate learning new tasks. Unlike traditional methods, we propose a novel perspective: CL not only needs to prevent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Xuemei Cao , Hanlin Gu , Xin Yang , Bingjun Wei , Haoyang Liang , Xiangkun Wang , Tianrui Li

Federated learning (FL) is emerging as a promising technique for collaborative learning without local data leaving their devices. However, clients' data originating from diverse domains may degrade model performance due to domain shifts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zheng Wang , Zihui Wang , Zheng Wang , Xiaoliang Fan , Cheng Wang

This paper proposed a new explicit nonlinear dimensionality reduction using neural networks for image retrieval tasks. We first proposed a Quasi-curvature Locally Linear Embedding (QLLE) for training set. QLLE guarantees the linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Shenglan Liu , Jun Wu , Lin Feng , Feilong Wang

The primary goal of continual learning (CL) task in medical image segmentation field is to solve the "catastrophic forgetting" problem, where the model totally forgets previously learned features when it is extended to new categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Qian Chen , Lei Zhu , Hangzhou He , Xinliang Zhang , Shuang Zeng , Qiushi Ren , Yanye Lu

Most existing Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) methods have the strong bias problem, in which instances of unseen (target) classes tend to be categorized as one of the seen (source) classes. So they yield poor performance after being deployed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Jie Song , Chengchao Shen , Yezhou Yang , Yang Liu , Mingli Song

Generating images from text has become easier because of the scaling of diffusion models and advancements in the field of vision and language. These models are trained using vast amounts of data from the Internet. Hence, they often contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Masane Fuchi , Tomohiro Takagi

We investigate fast methods that allow to quickly eliminate variables (features) in supervised learning problems involving a convex loss function and a $l_1$-norm penalty, leading to a potentially substantial reduction in the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-10-28 Laurent El Ghaoui , Vivian Viallon , Tarek Rabbani

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) is typically achieved by resorting to a class semantic embedding space to transfer the knowledge from the seen classes to unseen ones. Capturing the common semantic characteristics between the visual modality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Jichang Guo , Zhongfei , Zhang

The two main impediments to continual learning are catastrophic forgetting and memory limitations on the storage of data. To cope with these challenges, we propose a novel, cognitively-inspired approach which trains autoencoders with Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Ali Ayub , Alan R. Wagner

We present a novel feature selection technique, Sparse Linear Centroid-Encoder (SLCE). The algorithm uses a linear transformation to reconstruct a point as its class centroid and, at the same time, uses the $\ell_1$-norm penalty to filter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Tomojit Ghosh , Michael Kirby , Karim Karimov

Large text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable image synthesis capabilities, but their indiscriminate training on Internet-scale data has led to learned concepts that enable harmful, copyrighted, or otherwise undesirable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Finn Carter

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer extensive knowledge across various domains, but they may inadvertently memorize sensitive, unauthorized, or malicious data, such as personal information in the medical and financial sectors. Machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 YuXuan Wu , Bonaventure F. P. Dossou , Dianbo Liu

Despite the initial belief that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are driven by shapes to perform visual recognition tasks, recent evidence suggests that texture bias in CNNs provides higher performing models when learning on large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Reza Azad , Abdur R Fayjie , Claude Kauffman , Ismail Ben Ayed , Marco Pedersoli , Jose Dolz

As Text-to-Image models continue to evolve, so does the risk of generating unsafe, copyrighted, or privacy-violating content. Existing safety interventions - ranging from training data curation and model fine-tuning to inference-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shristi Das Biswas , Arani Roy , Kaushik Roy

Many approximate machine unlearning methods demonstrate strong logit-level forgetting -- such as near-zero accuracy on the forget set -- yet continue to preserve substantial information within their internal feature representations. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Jaewon Lee , Yongwoo Kim , Donghyun Kim

Concept erasure has emerged as a promising approach to mitigate undesired or unsafe content in diffusion models, yet existing methods still face significant limitations. While training-based methods are effective, their high computational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yuhao Sun , Lingyun Yu , Haoxiang Xu , Fengyuan Miao , Zhuoer Xu , Hongtao Xie

Deep neural networks suffer from the major limitation of catastrophic forgetting old tasks when learning new ones. In this paper we focus on class incremental continual learning in semantic segmentation, where new categories are made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Umberto Michieli , Pietro Zanuttigh

This article considers "compressive learning," an approach to large-scale machine learning where datasets are massively compressed before learning (e.g., clustering, classification, or regression) is performed. In particular, a "sketch" is…

Erasing specific concepts from text-to-image diffusion models is essential for avoiding the generation of copyrighted and explicit content. Closed-form concept erasure methods offer a fast alternative to backpropagation-based techniques,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nicola Novello , Andrea M. Tonello