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We show that using nearest neighbours in the latent space of autoencoders (AE) significantly improves performance of semi-supervised novelty detection in both single and multi-class contexts. Autoencoding methods detect novelty by learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Michael Mesarcik , Elena Ranguelova , Albert-Jan Boonstra , Rob V. van Nieuwpoort

Action advising is a budget-constrained knowledge exchange mechanism between teacher-student peers that can help tackle exploration and sample inefficiency problems in deep reinforcement learning (RL). Most recently, student-initiated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Ercument Ilhan , Jeremy Gow , Diego Perez-Liebana

In this paper, a novel framework for anomaly estimation is proposed. The basic idea behind our method is to reduce the data into a two-dimensional space and then rank each data point in the reduced space. We attempt to estimate the degree…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Zhongping Ji

Existing methods for last layer retraining that aim to optimize worst-group accuracy (WGA) rely heavily on well-annotated groups in the training data. We show, both in theory and practice, that annotation-based data augmentations using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Nathan Stromberg , Rohan Ayyagari , Monica Welfert , Sanmi Koyejo , Richard Nock , Lalitha Sankar

Automated scientific idea generation systems have made remarkable progress, yet the automatic evaluation of idea novelty remains a critical and underexplored challenge. Manual evaluation of novelty through literature review is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Simra Shahid , Marissa Radensky , Raymond Fok , Pao Siangliulue , Daniel S. Weld , Tom Hope

The lack of object-level annotations poses a significant challenge for object detection in remote sensing images (RSIs). To address this issue, active learning (AL) and semi-supervised learning (SSL) techniques have been proposed to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Boxuan Zhang , Zengmao Wang , Bo Du

We study the open-domain named entity recognition (NER) problem under distant supervision. The distant supervision, though does not require large amounts of manual annotations, yields highly incomplete and noisy distant labels via external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Chen Liang , Yue Yu , Haoming Jiang , Siawpeng Er , Ruijia Wang , Tuo Zhao , Chao Zhang

Despite the striking performance achieved by modern detectors when training and test data are sampled from the same or similar distribution, the generalization ability of detectors under unknown distribution shifts remains hardly studied.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Xingxuan Zhang , Zekai Xu , Renzhe Xu , Jiashuo Liu , Peng Cui , Weitao Wan , Chong Sun , Chen Li

To develop a domain-agnostic, semi-supervised anomaly detection framework that integrates deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to address challenges such as large-scale data, overfitting, and class imbalance, focusing on brain MRI volumes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zeduo Zhang , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Novelty detection using deep generative models such as autoencoder, generative adversarial networks mostly takes image reconstruction error as novelty score function. However, image data, high dimensional as it is, contains a lot of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Sungkwon An , Jeonghoon Kim , Myungjoo Kang , Shahbaz Razaei , Xin Liu

The rigorous evaluation of the novelty of a scientific paper is, even for human scientists, a challenging task. With the increasing interest in AI scientists and AI involvement in scientific idea generation and paper writing, it also…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Miri Liu , ChengXiang Zhai

We present Re-weighted Gradient Descent (RGD), a novel optimization technique that improves the performance of deep neural networks through dynamic sample re-weighting. Leveraging insights from distributionally robust optimization (DRO)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Ramnath Kumar , Kushal Majmundar , Dheeraj Nagaraj , Arun Sai Suggala

Unsupervised graph anomaly detection is crucial for various practical applications as it aims to identify anomalies in a graph that exhibit rare patterns deviating significantly from the majority of nodes. Recent advancements have utilized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yuanchen Bei , Sheng Zhou , Qiaoyu Tan , Hao Xu , Hao Chen , Zhao Li , Jiajun Bu

Domain Randomization (DR) is known to require a significant amount of training data for good performance. We argue that this is due to DR's strategy of random data generation using a uniform distribution over simulation parameters, as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Rawal Khirodkar , Kris M. Kitani

Recently, it has attracted much attention to build reliable named entity recognition (NER) systems using limited annotated data. Nearly all existing works heavily rely on domain-specific resources, such as external lexicons and knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Houjin Yu , Xian-Ling Mao , Zewen Chi , Wei Wei , Heyan Huang

Many autonomous systems, such as driverless taxis, perform safety critical functions. Autonomous systems employ artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, specifically for the environment perception. Engineers cannot completely test or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Andreas Rausch , Azarmidokht Motamedi Sedeh , Meng Zhang

Current approaches to novelty or anomaly detection are based on deep neural networks. Despite their effectiveness, neural networks are also vulnerable to imperceptible deformations of the input data. This is a serious issue in critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Ranya Almohsen , Shivang Patel , Donald A. Adjeroh , Gianfranco Doretto

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have proven their capabilities in many areas in the past years, such as robotics, or automated driving, enabling technological breakthroughs. DNNs play a significant role in environment perception for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Manuel Schwonberg , Joshua Niemeijer , Jan-Aike Termöhlen , Jörg P. Schäfer , Nico M. Schmidt , Hanno Gottschalk , Tim Fingscheidt

Deep Neural Networks(DNN) have excessively advanced the field of computer vision by achieving state of the art performance in various vision tasks. These results are not limited to the field of vision but can also be seen in speech…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Chirag Agarwal , Bo Dong , Dan Schonfeld , Anthony Hoogs

Detecting novelty of an entire document is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) frontier problem that has widespread NLP applications, such as extractive document summarization, tracking development of news events, predicting impact of scholarly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Tirthankar Ghosal , Amitra Salam , Swati Tiwari , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya