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Transfer learning has emerged as a powerful methodology for adapting pre-trained deep neural networks on image recognition tasks to new domains. This process consists of taking a neural network pre-trained on a large feature-rich source…

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Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful framework for learning generalizable representations, yet its theoretical understanding remains limited, particularly under imbalanced data distributions that are prevalent in real-world…

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What matters for contrastive learning? We argue that contrastive learning heavily relies on informative features, or "hard" (positive or negative) features. Early works include more informative features by applying complex data…

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Synthetically augmenting training datasets with diffusion models has become an effective strategy for improving the generalization of image classifiers. However, existing approaches typically increase dataset size by 10-30x and struggle to…

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Pretrained models of code, such as CodeBERT and CodeT5, have become popular choices for code understanding and generation tasks. Such models tend to be large and require commensurate volumes of training data, which are rarely available for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Kamel Alrashedy , Vincent J. Hellendoorn , Alessandro Orso

Attention-based neural models were employed to detect the different aspects and sentiment polarities of the same target in targeted aspect-based sentiment analysis (TABSA). However, existing methods do not specifically pre-train reasonable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Bin Liang , Jiachen Du , Ruifeng Xu , Binyang Li , Hejiao Huang

Deep neural networks have been widely used in computer vision. There are several well trained deep neural networks for the ImageNet classification challenge, which has played a significant role in image recognition. However, little work has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Youshan Zhang , Brian D. Davison

To benefit the learning of a new task, meta-learning has been proposed to transfer a well-generalized meta-model learned from various meta-training tasks. Existing meta-learning algorithms randomly sample meta-training tasks with a uniform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Huaxiu Yao , Yu Wang , Ying Wei , Peilin Zhao , Mehrdad Mahdavi , Defu Lian , Chelsea Finn

Transfer learning using deep neural networks as feature extractors has become increasingly popular over the past few years. It allows to obtain state-of-the-art accuracy on datasets too small to train a deep neural network on its own, and…

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Inferring transient molecular structural dynamics from diffraction data is an ambiguous task that often requires different approximation methods. In this paper we present an attempt to tackle this problem using machine learning. While most…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Hazem Daoud , Dhruv Sirohi , Endri Mjeku , John Feng , Saeed Oghbaey , R. J. Dwayne Miller

The face expression is the first thing we pay attention to when we want to understand a person's state of mind. Thus, the ability to recognize facial expressions in an automatic way is a very interesting research field. In this paper,…

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The development and adoption of Vision Transformers and other deep-learning architectures for image classification tasks has been rapid. However, the "black box" nature of neural networks is a barrier to adoption in applications where…

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Understanding the internal representations of large language models is crucial for ensuring their reliability and safety, with sparse autoencoders (SAEs) emerging as a promising interpretability approach. However, current SAE training…

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It is a central challenge in deep learning to understand how neural networks learn representations. A leading approach is the Neural Feature Ansatz (NFA) (Radhakrishnan et al. 2024), a conjectured mechanism for how feature learning occurs.…

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It is always a hot and difficult point to improve the accuracy of convolutional neural network model and speed up its convergence. Based on the idea of small world network, a random edge adding algorithm is proposed to improve the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Xuanyu Shu , Jin Zhang , Sen Tian , Sheng chen , Lingyu Chen

Deep learning (DL) techniques are highly effective for defect detection from images. Training DL classification models, however, requires vast amounts of labeled data which is often expensive to collect. In many cases, not only the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Adrian Shuai Li , Elisa Bertino , Rih-Teng Wu , Ting-Yan Wu

We develop new algorithms for estimating heterogeneous treatment effects, combining recent developments in transfer learning for neural networks with insights from the causal inference literature. By taking advantage of transfer learning,…

Tuning tensor program generation involves searching for various possible program transformation combinations for a given program on target hardware to optimize the tensor program execution. It is already a complex process because of the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Gaurav Verma , Siddhisanket Raskar , Zhen Xie , Abid M Malik , Murali Emani , Barbara Chapman

Graph auto-encoders have proved to be useful in network embedding task. However, current models only consider explicit structures and fail to explore the informative latent structures cohered in networks. To address this issue, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Minglong Lei , Yong Shi , Lingfeng Niu