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In recommender systems such as news feed stream, it is essential to optimize the long-term utilities in the continuous user-system interaction processes. Previous works have proved the capability of reinforcement learning in this problem.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Fan Wang , Xiaomin Fang , Lihang Liu , Hao Tian , Zhiming Peng

Disentangling complex causal relationships is important for accurate detection of anomalies. In multivariate time series analysis, dynamic interactions among data variables over time complicate the interpretation of causal relationships.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Wonah Kim , Jeonghyeon Park , Dongsan Jun , Jungkyu Han , Sejin Chun

Active Learning (AL) allows models to learn interactively from user feedback. This paper introduces a counterfactual data augmentation approach to AL, particularly addressing the selection of datapoints for user querying, a pivotal concern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Simret Araya Gebreegziabher , Kuangshi Ai , Zheng Zhang , Elena L. Glassman , Toby Jia-Jun Li

Centralized Training with Decentralized Execution (CTDE) has been a popular paradigm in cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) settings and is widely used in many real applications. One of the major challenges in the training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jiahui Li , Kun Kuang , Baoxiang Wang , Furui Liu , Long Chen , Fei Wu , Jun Xiao

Graph contrastive learning is a general learning paradigm excelling at capturing invariant information from diverse perturbations in graphs. Recent works focus on exploring the structural rationale from graphs, thereby increasing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Qirui Ji , Jiangmeng Li , Jie Hu , Rui Wang , Changwen Zheng , Fanjiang Xu

In this paper, we propose a new Robust Disentangled Counterfactual Learning (RDCL) approach for physical audiovisual commonsense reasoning. The task aims to infer objects' physics commonsense based on both video and audio input, with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Mengshi Qi , Changsheng Lv , Huadong Ma

Deep networks allow to obtain outstanding results in semantic segmentation, however they need to be trained in a single shot with a large amount of data. Continual learning settings where new classes are learned in incremental steps and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Andrea Maracani , Umberto Michieli , Marco Toldo , Pietro Zanuttigh

Transferable adversarial attack is always in the spotlight since deep learning models have been demonstrated to be vulnerable to adversarial samples. However, existing physical attack methods do not pay enough attention on transferability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Yu Zhang , Zhiqiang Gong , Yichuang Zhang , YongQian Li , Kangcheng Bin , Jiahao Qi , Wei Xue , Ping Zhong

Semi-supervised anomaly detection for sensor signals is critical in ensuring system reliability in smart manufacturing. However, existing methods rely heavily on data correlation, neglecting causality and leading to potential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Xiangwei Chen , Ruliang Xiaoa , Zhixia Zeng , Zhipeng Qiu , Shi Zhang , Xin Du

In-context learning (ICL) allows transformer-based language models that are pre-trained on general text to quickly learn a specific task with a few "task demonstrations" without updating their parameters, significantly boosting their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zijian Zhou , Xiaoqiang Lin , Xinyi Xu , Alok Prakash , Daniela Rus , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

Large language models are able to exploit in-context learning to access external knowledge beyond their training data through retrieval-augmentation. While promising, its inner workings remain unclear. In this work, we shed light on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Patrick Kahardipraja , Reduan Achtibat , Thomas Wiegand , Wojciech Samek , Sebastian Lapuschkin

The open world is inherently dynamic, characterized by ever-evolving concepts and distributions. Continual learning (CL) in this dynamic open-world environment presents a significant challenge in effectively generalizing to unseen test-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Youngeun Kim , Jun Fang , Qin Zhang , Zhaowei Cai , Yantao Shen , Rahul Duggal , Dripta S. Raychaudhuri , Zhuowen Tu , Yifan Xing , Onkar Dabeer

Ascription of an image gives insights into the objects that influence the classification of the whole image or its pixels towards a specific category. These insights help radiologists to visualize deformities in medical imaging. Most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shakeeb Murtaza

Counterfactual instances are a powerful tool to obtain valuable insights into automated decision processes, describing the necessary minimal changes in the input space to alter the prediction towards a desired target. Most previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Robert-Florian Samoilescu , Arnaud Van Looveren , Janis Klaise

This paper addresses the challenge of graph domain adaptation on evolving, multiple out-of-distribution (OOD) graphs. Conventional graph domain adaptation methods are confined to single-step adaptation, making them ineffective in handling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Ziyue Qiao , Qianyi Cai , Hao Dong , Jiawei Gu , Pengyang Wang , Meng Xiao , Xiao Luo , Hui Xiong

Counterfactuals are a popular framework for interpreting machine learning predictions. These what if explanations are notoriously challenging to create for computer vision models: standard gradient-based methods are prone to produce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Jeremy Goldwasser , Giles Hooker

Most neural models of causality assume static causal graphs, failing to capture the dynamic and sparse nature of physical interactions where causal relationships emerge and dissolve over time. We introduce the Causal Process Framework and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Turan Orujlu , Christian Gumbsch , Martin V. Butz , Charley M Wu

Most multimodal models treat every negative pair alike, ignoring the ambiguous negatives that differ from the positive by only a small detail. We propose Boundary-Aware Curriculum with Local Attention (BACL), a lightweight add-on that turns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Hua Ye , Hang Ding , Siyuan Chen , Yiyang Jiang , Changyuan Zhang , Xuan Zhang

Active learning (AL) aims to improve model performance within a fixed labeling budget by choosing the most informative data points to label. Existing AL focuses on the single-domain setting, where all data come from the same domain (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Guang-Yuan Hao , Hengguan Huang , Haotian Wang , Jie Gao , Hao Wang

In multi-task learning (MTL) for visual scene understanding, it is crucial to transfer useful information between multiple tasks with minimal interferences. In this paper, we propose a novel architecture that effectively transfers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Sunkyung Kim , Hyesong Choi , Dongbo Min