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In recent years, multimodal medical data-based survival analysis has attracted much attention. However, real-world datasets often suffer from the problem of incomplete modality, where some patient modality information is missing due to…

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Multiple instance learning (MIL) stands as a powerful approach in weakly supervised learning, regularly employed in histological whole slide image (WSI) classification for detecting tumorous lesions. However, existing mainstream MIL methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Wenhui Zhu , Xiwen Chen , Peijie Qiu , Aristeidis Sotiras , Abolfazl Razi , Yalin Wang

Survival prediction of cancers is crucial for clinical practice, as it informs mortality risks and influences treatment plans. However, a static model trained on a single dataset fails to adapt to the dynamically evolving clinical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Dianzhi Yu , Conghao Xiong , Yankai Chen , Wenqian Cui , Xinni Zhang , Yifei Zhang , Hao Chen , Joseph J. Y. Sung , Irwin King

In continual instruction tuning (CIT) scenarios, where new instruction tuning data continuously arrive in an online streaming manner, training delays from large-scale data significantly hinder real-time adaptation. Data selection can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Minjae Lee , Minhyuk Seo , Tingyu Qu , Tinne Tuytelaars , Jonghyun Choi

Inverse optimal transport (OT) refers to the problem of learning the cost function for OT from observed transport plan or its samples. In this paper, we derive an unconstrained convex optimization formulation of the inverse OT problem,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Shaojun Ma , Haodong Sun , Xiaojing Ye , Hongyuan Zha , Haomin Zhou

In this work, we present a novel Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm for the off-road trajectory tracking problem. Off-road environments involve varying terrain types and elevations, and it is difficult to model the interaction dynamics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Akhil Nagariya , Dileep Kalathil , Srikanth Saripalli

Many numerical and learning algorithms rely on the solution of the Monge-Kantorovich problem and Wasserstein distances, which provide appropriate distributional metrics. While the natural approach is to treat the problem as an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Mohsen Sadr , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Hossein Gorji

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is the key to deploying models safely in the open world. For OOD detection, collecting sufficient in-distribution (ID) labeled data is usually more time-consuming and costly than unlabeled data. When ID…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Rundong He , Rongxue Li , Zhongyi Han , Yilong Yin

Out-of-distribution (OOD) data poses serious challenges in deployed machine learning models as even subtle changes could incur significant performance drops. Being able to estimate a model's performance on test data is important in practice…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Yuzhe Lu , Zhenlin Wang , Runtian Zhai , Soheil Kolouri , Joseph Campbell , Katia Sycara

We present a novel hierarchical framework for optimal transport (OT) using string diagrams, namely string diagrams of optimal transports. This framework reduces complex hierarchical OT problems to standard OT problems, allowing efficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Kazuki Watanabe , Noboru Isobe

When deploying a trained machine learning model in the real world, it is inevitable to receive inputs from out-of-distribution (OOD) sources. For instance, in continual learning settings, it is common to encounter OOD samples due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Chuanwen Feng , Wenlong Chen , Ao Ke , Yilong Ren , Xike Xie , S. Kevin Zhou

Detecting anomalies in datasets is a longstanding problem in machine learning. In this context, anomalies are defined as a sample that significantly deviates from the remaining data. Meanwhile, optimal transport (OT) is a field of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-09 Eduardo Fernandes Montesuma , Adel El Habazi , Fred Ngole Mboula

Meta-heuristic algorithmic development has been a thrust area of research since its inception. In this paper, a novel meta-heuristic optimization algorithm, Olive Ridley Survival (ORS), is proposed which is inspired from survival challenges…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Niranjan Panigrahi , Sourav Kumar Bhoi , Debasis Mohapatra , Rashmi Ranjan Sahoo , Kshira Sagar Sahoo , Anil Mohapatra

Due to the mismatch of statistical distributions of acoustic speech between training and testing sets, the performance of spoken language identification (SLID) could be drastically degraded. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Xugang Lu , Peng Shen , Yu Tsao , Hisashi Kawai

One of the challenges practitioners face when applying structure learning algorithms to their data involves determining a set of hyperparameters; otherwise, a set of hyperparameter defaults is assumed. The optimal hyperparameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Kiattikun Chobtham , Anthony C. Constantinou

Whole slide images (WSIs) are the gold standard for pathological diagnosis and sub-typing. Current main-stream two-step frameworks employ offline feature encoders trained without domain-specific knowledge. Among them, attention-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mingrui Ma , Chentao Li , Pan Huang , Jing Qin

Diffusion Models (DMs) have achieved remarkable progress in generative modeling. However, the mismatch between the forward terminal distribution and reverse initial distribution introduces prior error, leading to deviations of sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Zhanpeng Wang , Shenghao Li , Jiameng Che , Chen Wang , Shangling Jui , Na Lei , Zhongxuan Luo

Optimal transport (OT) and Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) alignment provide interpretable geometric frameworks for comparing, transforming, and aggregating heterogeneous datasets -- tasks ubiquitous in data science and machine learning. Because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Sanjit Dandapanthula , Aleksandr Podkopaev , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan , Aaditya Ramdas , Ziv Goldfeld

Reliable estimation of terrain traversability is critical for the successful deployment of autonomous systems in wild, outdoor environments. Given the lack of large-scale annotated datasets for off-road navigation, strictly-supervised…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Sanghun Jung , JoonHo Lee , Xiangyun Meng , Byron Boots , Alexander Lambert

Digital pathology has revolutionized the field by enabling the digitization of tissue samples into whole slide images (WSIs). However, the high resolution and large size of WSIs present significant challenges when it comes to applying Deep…

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