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Adopting large-scale AI models in enterprise information systems is often hindered by high training costs and long development cycles, posing a significant managerial challenge. The standard end-to-end backpropagation (BP) algorithm is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ming-Yao Ho , Cheng-Kai Wang , You-Teng Lin , Hung-Hsuan Chen

Image classification datasets exhibit a non-negligible fraction of mislabeled examples, often due to human error when one class superficially resembles another. This issue poses challenges in supervised contrastive learning (SCL), where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zijun Long , George Killick , Lipeng Zhuang , Richard McCreadie , Gerardo Aragon Camarasa , Paul Henderson

Event-based semantic segmentation has gained popularity due to its capability to deal with scenarios under high-speed motion and extreme lighting conditions, which cannot be addressed by conventional RGB cameras. Since it is hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Linglin Jing , Yiming Ding , Yunpeng Gao , Zhigang Wang , Xu Yan , Dong Wang , Gerald Schaefer , Hui Fang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

Self-supervised learning (SSL) on large-scale datasets like AudioSet has become the dominant paradigm for audio representation learning. While the continuous influx of new, unlabeled audio presents an opportunity to enrich these static…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yizhou Zhang , Yuan Gao , Wangjin Zhou , Zicheng Yuan , Keisuke Imoto , Tatsuya Kawahara

We introduce two synthetic likelihood methods for Simulation-Based Inference (SBI), to conduct either amortized or targeted inference from experimental observations when a high-fidelity simulator is available. Both methods learn a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Pierre Glaser , Michael Arbel , Samo Hromadka , Arnaud Doucet , Arthur Gretton

Class-incremental learning is becoming more popular as it helps models widen their applicability while not forgetting what they already know. A trend in this area is to use a mixture-of-expert technique, where different models work together…

Training recurrent neural networks typically relies on backpropagation through time (BPTT). BPTT depends on forward and backward passes to be completed, rendering the network locked to these computations before loss gradients are available.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Joseph Pemberton , Rui Ponte Costa

Instance-incremental learning (IIL) focuses on learning continually with data of the same classes. Compared to class-incremental learning (CIL), the IIL is seldom explored because IIL suffers less from catastrophic forgetting (CF). However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Qiang Nie , Weifu Fu , Yuhuan Lin , Jialin Li , Yifeng Zhou , Yong Liu , Lei Zhu , Chengjie Wang

Continual learning tries to learn new tasks without forgetting previously learned ones. In reality, most of the existing artificial neural network(ANN) models fail, while humans do the same by remembering previous works throughout their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Subhankar Ghosh

Deep networks have strong capacities of embedding data into latent representations and finishing following tasks. However, the capacities largely come from high-quality annotated labels, which are expensive to collect. Noisy labels are more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Shikun Li , Xiaobo Xia , Shiming Ge , Tongliang Liu

Incremental brain tumor segmentation is critical for models that must adapt to evolving clinical datasets without retraining on all prior data. However, catastrophic forgetting, where models lose previously acquired knowledge, remains a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Sashank Makanaboyina

Efforts to leverage deep learning models in low-resource regimes have led to numerous augmentation studies. However, the direct application of methods such as mixup and cutout to text data, is limited due to their discrete characteristics.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Kyohoon Jin , Junho Lee , Juhwan Choi , Sangmin Song , Youngbin Kim

Contrastive learning has shown effectiveness in improving sequential recommendation models. However, existing methods still face challenges in generating high-quality contrastive pairs: they either rely on random perturbations that corrupt…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ziqiang Cui , Yunpeng Weng , Xing Tang , Xiaokun Zhang , Shiwei Li , Peiyang Liu , Bowei He , Dugang Liu , Weihong Luo , Xiuqiang He , Chen Ma

Accurately modeling users' evolving preferences from sequential interactions remains a central challenge in recommender systems. Recent studies emphasize the importance of capturing multiple latent intents underlying user behaviors.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shanfan Zhang , Yongyi Lin , Yuan Rao

Rehearsal-based Continual Learning (CL) has been intensely investigated in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, its application in Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) has not been explored in depth. In this paper we introduce the first…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Alberto Dequino , Alessio Carpegna , Davide Nadalini , Alessandro Savino , Luca Benini , Stefano Di Carlo , Francesco Conti

State-of-the-art natural language understanding classification models follow two-stages: pre-training a large language model on an auxiliary task, and then fine-tuning the model on a task-specific labeled dataset using cross-entropy loss.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Beliz Gunel , Jingfei Du , Alexis Conneau , Ves Stoyanov

Data mixing methods play a crucial role in semi-supervised learning (SSL), but their application is unexplored in long-tailed semi-supervised learning (LTSSL). The primary reason is that the in-batch mixing manner fails to address class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hongwei Zheng , Linyuan Zhou , Han Li , Jinming Su , Xiaoming Wei , Xiaoming Xu

In dynamic environments where new concepts continuously emerge, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) must adapt by learning new classes while retaining previously acquired ones. This challenge is addressed by Class-Incremental Learning (CIL). This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Yanis Basso-Bert , Anca Molnos , Romain Lemaire , William Guicquero , Antoine Dupret

Exemplar-Free Continual Learning (EFCL) restricts the storage of previous task data and is highly susceptible to catastrophic forgetting. While pre-trained models (PTMs) are increasingly leveraged for EFCL, existing methods often overlook…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Siddeshwar Raghavan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

We propose a Bayesian neural network-based continual learning algorithm using Variational Inference, aiming to overcome several drawbacks of existing methods. Specifically, in continual learning scenarios, storing network parameters at each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Sanchar Palit , Biplab Banerjee , Subhasis Chaudhuri