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Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have greatly advanced text-to-image generation, but models still struggle to generate the correct spatial relations between objects as specified in the text prompt. In this study, we adopt a mechanistic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Binxu Wang , Jingxuan Fan , Xu Pan

We start out by demonstrating that an elementary learning task, corresponding to the training of a single linear neuron in a convolutional neural network, can be solved for feature spaces of very high dimensionality. In a second step,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Marco Loog , François Lauze

Unsupervised image-to-image translation techniques are able to map local texture between two domains, but they are typically unsuccessful when the domains require larger shape change. Inspired by semantic segmentation, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Aaron Gokaslan , Vivek Ramanujan , Daniel Ritchie , Kwang In Kim , James Tompkin

We evaluate the mutual information between the input and the output of a two layer network in the case of a noisy and non-linear analogue channel. In the case where the non-linearity is small with respect to the variability in the noise, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Korutcheva , V. Del Prete , J. -P. Nadal

New ideas and technologies adopted by a small number of individuals occasionally spread globally through a complex web of social ties. Here, we present a simple and general approximation method, namely, a message-passing approach, that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-01 Teruyoshi Kobayashi , Tomokatsu Onaga

This paper presents a new artificial neuron model capable of learning its receptive field in the topological domain of inputs. The model provides adaptive and differentiable local connectivity (plasticity) applicable to any domain. It…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-08 F. Boray Tek

Layer normalization (LayerNorm) is a technique to normalize the distributions of intermediate layers. It enables smoother gradients, faster training, and better generalization accuracy. However, it is still unclear where the effectiveness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Jingjing Xu , Xu Sun , Zhiyuan Zhang , Guangxiang Zhao , Junyang Lin

Representation learning is a widely adopted framework for learning in data-scarce environments, aiming to extract common features from related tasks. While centralized approaches have been extensively studied, decentralized methods remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Donghwa Kang , Shana Moothedath

Smoothing a signal based on local neighborhoods is a core operation in machine learning and geometry processing. On well-structured domains such as vector spaces and manifolds, the Laplace operator derived from differential geometry offers…

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Bridging the 'reality gap' that separates simulated robotics from experiments on hardware could accelerate robotic research through improved data availability. This paper explores domain randomization, a simple technique for training models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Josh Tobin , Rachel Fong , Alex Ray , Jonas Schneider , Wojciech Zaremba , Pieter Abbeel

We report a crossover in optical propagation in random layered media from localization towards diffusion as the interaction of the wave with the sample is transformed from one to three-dimensional due to nonuniformity in the layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sheng Zhang , Jongchul Park , Valery Milner , Azriel Z. Genack

The great advances of learning-based approaches in image processing and computer vision are largely based on deeply nested networks that compose linear transfer functions with suitable non-linearities. Interestingly, the most frequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Peter Ochs , Tim Meinhardt , Laura Leal-Taixe , Michael Moeller

We propose a new class of generative diffusion models, called functional diffusion. In contrast to previous work, functional diffusion works on samples that are represented by functions with a continuous domain. Functional diffusion can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Biao Zhang , Peter Wonka

In both natural and engineered systems, communication often occurs dynamically over networks ranging from highly structured grids to largely disordered graphs. To use, or comprehend the use of, networks as efficient communication media…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-17 Giacomo Baggio , Virginia Rutten , Guillaume Hennequin , Sandro Zampieri

Localization is a fundamental task for sensor networks. Traditional network construction approaches allow to obtain localized networks requiring the nodes to be at least tri-connected (in 2D), i.e., the communication graph needs to be…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Gabriele Oliva , Stefano Panzieri , Federica Pascucci , Roberto Setola

The most common way for robots to handle environmental information is by using maps. At present, each kind of data is hosted on a separate map, which complicates planning because a robot attempting to perform a task needs to access and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Francesco Verdoja , Ville Kyrki

In the scenario of one/multi-shot learning, conventional end-to-end learning strategies without sufficient supervision are usually not powerful enough to learn correct patterns from noisy signals. Thus, given a CNN pre-trained for object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Quanshi Zhang , Ruiming Cao , Shengming Zhang , Mark Redmonds , Ying Nian Wu , Song-Chun Zhu

By introducing a concept of "minifying layer", we propose a universal device to hide the position of an object by shifting its scattering without scaling effect for a distance, independent of the direction of incident wave and observation.…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Wei Li , Jianguo Guan , Wei Wang , Zhigang Sun , Zhengyi Fu

Human-centered environments are rich with a wide variety of spatial relations between everyday objects. For autonomous robots to operate effectively in such environments, they should be able to reason about these relations and generalize…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Oier Mees , Nichola Abdo , Mladen Mazuran , Wolfram Burgard

Multilayer networks have become increasingly ubiquitous across diverse scientific fields, ranging from social sciences and biology to economics and international relations. Despite their broad applications, the inferential theory for…

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