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Deep unsupervised approaches are gathering increased attention for applications such as pathology detection and segmentation in medical images since they promise to alleviate the need for large labeled datasets and are more generalizable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Ioannis Lagogiannis , Felix Meissen , Georgios Kaissis , Daniel Rueckert

Object detection methods have witnessed impressive improvements in the last years thanks to the design of novel neural network architectures and the availability of large scale datasets. However, current methods have a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Dario Fontanel , Matteo Tarantino , Fabio Cermelli , Barbara Caputo

Current LLM unlearning methods are not robust. A few steps of finetuning can revert their effects. We begin by showing that this is true even for an idealized form of unlearning: training to imitate a model that was never trained on…

Robotic Perception in diverse domains such as low-light scenarios, where new modalities like thermal imaging and specialized night-vision sensors are increasingly employed, remains a challenge. Largely, this is due to the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Anirudha Ramesh , Anurag Ghosh , Christoph Mertz , Jeff Schneider

In recommendation systems, items are likely to be exposed to various users and we would like to learn about the familiarity of a new user with an existing item. This can be formulated as an anomaly detection (AD) problem distinguishing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Ke Bai , Aonan Zhang , Zhizhong Li , Ricardo Heano , Chong Wang , Lawrence Carin

We introduce Unsupervised Partner Design (UPD) - a population-free, multi-agent reinforcement learning framework for robust ad-hoc teamwork that adaptively generates training partners without requiring pretrained partners or manual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Constantin Ruhdorfer , Matteo Bortoletto , Victor Oei , Anna Penzkofer , Andreas Bulling

Reinforcement learning algorithms struggle on tasks with complex hierarchical dependency structures. Humans and other intelligent agents do not waste time assessing the utility of every high-level action in existence, but instead only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Robby Costales , Shariq Iqbal , Fei Sha

Training end-to-end deep robot policies requires a lot of domain-, task-, and hardware-specific data, which is often costly to provide. In this work, we propose to tackle this issue by employing a deep neural network with a modular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Aleksi Hämäläinen , Karol Arndt , Ali Ghadirzadeh , Ville Kyrki

Recent advances in deep learning significantly boost the performance of salient object detection (SOD) at the expense of labeling larger-scale per-pixel annotations. To relieve the burden of labor-intensive labeling, deep unsupervised SOD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Pengxiang Yan , Ziyi Wu , Mengmeng Liu , Kun Zeng , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

To be capable of lifelong learning in a real-life environment, robots have to tackle multiple challenges. Being able to relate physical properties they may observe in their environment to possible interactions they may have is one of them.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Alexandre Manoury , Sao Mai Nguyen , Cédric Buche

Automatic differentiation (AD) in reverse mode (RAD) is a central component of deep learning and other uses of large-scale optimization. Commonly used RAD algorithms such as backpropagation, however, are complex and stateful, hindering deep…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Conal Elliott

The successes of deep learning, variational inference, and many other fields have been aided by specialized implementations of reverse-mode automatic differentiation (AD) to compute gradients of mega-dimensional objectives. The AD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Deniz Oktay , Nick McGreivy , Joshua Aduol , Alex Beatson , Ryan P. Adams

Existing approaches to unsupervised object discovery (UOD) do not scale up to large datasets without approximations that compromise their performance. We propose a novel formulation of UOD as a ranking problem, amenable to the arsenal of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Huy V. Vo , Elena Sizikova , Cordelia Schmid , Patrick Pérez , Jean Ponce

Underwater robotic grasping is difficult due to degraded, highly variable imagery and the expense of collecting diverse underwater demonstrations. We introduce a system that (i) autonomously collects successful underwater grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hao Li , Long Yin Chung , Jack Goler , Ryan Zhang , Xiaochi Xie , Huy Ha , Shuran Song , Mark Cutkosky

Recently, unsupervised salient object detection (USOD) has gained increasing attention due to its annotation-free nature. However, current methods mainly focus on specific tasks such as RGB and RGB-D, neglecting the potential for task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Yao Yuan , Wutao Liu , Pan Gao , Qun Dai , Jie Qin

Learning-based surface reconstruction based on unsigned distance functions (UDF) has many advantages such as handling open surfaces. We propose SuperUDF, a self-supervised UDF learning which exploits a learned geometry prior for efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hui Tian , Chenyang Zhu , Yifei Shi , Kai Xu

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection targets to detect and reject test samples with semantic shifts, to prevent models trained on in-distribution (ID) dataset from producing unreliable predictions. Existing works only extract the appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Fang , Arvind Easwaran , Blaise Genest

How can we reconstruct 3D hand poses when large portions of the hand are heavily occluded by itself or by objects? Humans often resolve such ambiguities by leveraging contextual knowledge -- such as affordances, where an object's shape and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Naru Suzuki , Takehiko Ohkawa , Tatsuro Banno , Jihyun Lee , Ryosuke Furuta , Yoichi Sato

We study the problem of object detection from a novel perspective in which annotation budget constraints are taken into consideration, appropriately coined Budget Aware Object Detection (BAOD). When provided with a fixed budget, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Alejandro Pardo , Mengmeng Xu , Ali Thabet , Pablo Arbelaez , Bernard Ghanem

In the quest to enable robots to coexist with humans, understanding dynamic situations and selecting appropriate actions based on common sense and affordances are essential. Conventional AI systems face challenges in applying affordance, as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Kazuma Arii , Satoshi Kurihara