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Representation learning on graphs, also called graph embedding, has demonstrated its significant impact on a series of machine learning applications such as classification, prediction and recommendation. However, existing work has largely…

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Many social network applications depend on robust representations of spatio-temporal data. In this work, we present an embedding model based on feed-forward neural networks which transforms social media check-ins into dense feature vectors…

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Well structured visual representations can make robot learning faster and can improve generalization. In this paper, we study how we can acquire effective object-centric representations for robotic manipulation tasks without human labeling…

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This paper aims to investigate representation learning for large scale visual place recognition, which consists of determining the location depicted in a query image by referring to a database of reference images. This is a challenging task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Amar Ali-bey , Brahim Chaib-draa , Philippe Giguère

Spatial-temporal forecasting is crucial and widely applicable in various domains such as traffic, energy, and climate. Benefiting from the abundance of unlabeled spatial-temporal data, self-supervised methods are increasingly adapted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Qi Zheng , Zihao Yao , Yaying Zhang

Recently, Point of interest (POI) recommendation has gained ever-increasing importance in various Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs). With the recent advances of neural models, much work has sought to leverage neural networks to learn…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Hossein A. Rahmani , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Rasoul Mirzaei Zadeh , Mitra Baratchi , Mohsen Afsharchi , Fabio Crestani

Robotic dexterous grasping is a challenging problem due to the high degree of freedom (DoF) and complex contacts of multi-fingered robotic hands. Existing deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based methods leverage human demonstrations to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Qingtao Liu , Yu Cui , Qi Ye , Zhengnan Sun , Haoming Li , Gaofeng Li , Lin Shao , Jiming Chen

Visual place recognition (VPR) using deep networks has achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, most of them require a training set with ground truth sensor poses to obtain positive and negative samples of each observation's spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Chao Chen , Zegang Cheng , Xinhao Liu , Yiming Li , Li Ding , Ruoyu Wang , Chen Feng

Understanding intrinsic patterns and predicting spatiotemporal characteristics of cities require a comprehensive representation of urban neighborhoods. Existing works relied on either inter- or intra-region connectivities to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Zhecheng Wang , Haoyuan Li , Ram Rajagopal

Recent years brought advancements in using neural networks for representation learning of various language or visual phenomena. New methods freed data scientists from hand-crafting features for common tasks. Similarly, problems that require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Kacper Leśniara , Piotr Szymański

In this paper, we study whether inexpensive, physics-free supervision can reliably prioritize grasp-place candidates for budget-aware pick-and-place. From an object's initial pose, target pose, and a candidate grasp, we generate two…

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Traffic digital twins are powerful tools for advanced traffic management, and most systems are built on static geometric representations. However, these representations fail to capture the dynamic functional semantics required for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Rei Tamaru , Pei Li , Bin Ran

Recent advances in self-supervised visual representation learning have demonstrated the effectiveness of predictive latent-space objectives for learning transferable features. In particular, Image-based Joint-Embedding Predictive…

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Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation is an important application in location-based social networks (LBSNs), which learns the user preference and mobility pattern from check-in sequences to recommend POIs. However, previous POI…

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Graph neural networks (GNN) have been proven to be mature enough for handling graph-structured data on node-level graph representation learning tasks. However, the graph pooling technique for learning expressive graph-level representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Ning Liu , Songlei Jian , Dongsheng Li , Yiming Zhang , Zhiquan Lai , Hongzuo Xu

Representation learning of pedestrian trajectories transforms variable-length timestamp-coordinate tuples of a trajectory into a fixed-length vector representation that summarizes spatiotemporal characteristics. It is a crucial technique to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Ka-Ho Chow , Anish Hiranandani , Yifeng Zhang , S. -H. Gary Chan

The ability to transform location-centric geospatial data into meaningful computational representations has become fundamental to modern spatial analysis and decision-making. Geospatial Representation Learning (GRL), the process of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Xixuan Hao , Yutian Jiang , Xingchen Zou , Jiabo Liu , Yifang Yin , Song Gao , Flora Salim , Tianrui Li , Yuxuan Liang

Deep representation learning has become one of the most widely adopted approaches for visual search, recommendation, and identification. Retrieval of such representations from a large database is however computationally challenging.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Biswajit Paria , Chih-Kuan Yeh , Ian E. H. Yen , Ning Xu , Pradeep Ravikumar , Barnabás Póczos

The choice of representation for geographic location significantly impacts the accuracy of models for a broad range of geospatial tasks, including fine-grained species classification, population density estimation, and biome classification.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Aayush Dhakal , Srikumar Sastry , Subash Khanal , Adeel Ahmad , Eric Xing , Nathan Jacobs

Geographic data is fundamentally local. Disease outbreaks cluster in population centers, ecological patterns emerge along coastlines, and economic activity concentrates within country borders. Machine learning models that encode geographic…

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