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Deep auto-encoders (DAEs) have achieved great success in learning data representations via the powerful representability of neural networks. But most DAEs only focus on the most dominant structures which are able to reconstruct the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Zhao Kang , Xiao Lu , Jian Liang , Kun Bai , Zenglin Xu

Representation learning, a task of learning latent vectors to represent entities, is a key task in improving search and recommender systems in web applications. Various representation learning methods have been developed, including…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Anirudhan Badrinath , Alex Yang , Kousik Rajesh , Prabhat Agarwal , Jaewon Yang , Haoyu Chen , Jiajing Xu , Charles Rosenberg

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

In this paper we explore the task of modeling semi-structured object sequences; in particular, we focus our attention on the problem of developing a structure-aware input representation for such sequences. Examples of such data include user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Rudra Murthy , Riyaz Bhat , Chulaka Gunasekara , Siva Sankalp Patel , Hui Wan , Tejas Indulal Dhamecha , Danish Contractor , Marina Danilevsky

Tasks critical to enterprise profitability, such as customer churn prediction, fraudulent account detection or customer lifetime value estimation, are often tackled by models trained on features engineered from customer data in tabular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Pin-Jung Chen , Sahil Bhatnagar , Sagar Goyal , Damian Konrad Kowalczyk , Mayank Shrivastava

Modern online service providers such as online shopping platforms often provide both search and recommendation (S&R) services to meet different user needs. Rarely has there been any effective means of incorporating user behavior data from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Zihua Si , Zhongxiang Sun , Xiao Zhang , Jun Xu , Xiaoxue Zang , Yang Song , Kun Gai , Ji-Rong Wen

Variational autoencoders were proven successful in domains such as computer vision and speech processing. Their adoption for modeling user preferences is still unexplored, although recently it is starting to gain attention in the current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Noveen Sachdeva , Giuseppe Manco , Ettore Ritacco , Vikram Pudi

Many machine learning models use the manipulation of dimensions as a driving force to enable models to identify and learn important features in data. In the case of sequential data this manipulation usually happens on the token dimension…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Daniel Biermann , Fabrizio Palumbo , Morten Goodwin , Ole-Christoffer Granmo

The attention-based encoder-decoder framework has recently achieved impressive results for scene text recognition, and many variants have emerged with improvements in recognition quality. However, it performs poorly on contextless texts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Xiaoyu Yue , Zhanghui Kuang , Chenhao Lin , Hongbin Sun , Wayne Zhang

Unsupervised meta-learning aims to learn feature representations from unsupervised datasets that can transfer to downstream tasks with limited labeled data. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to unsupervised meta-learning that…

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Industrial-scale user representation learning requires balancing robust universality with acute task-sensitivity. However, existing paradigms primarily yield static, task-agnostic embeddings that struggle to reconcile the divergent…

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Attention-based encoder-decoder framework is widely used in the scene text recognition task. However, for the current state-of-the-art(SOTA) methods, there is room for improvement in terms of the efficient usage of local visual and global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Mengmeng Cui , Wei Wang , Jinjin Zhang , Liang Wang

In the field of Recommender Systems (RS), neural collaborative filtering represents a significant milestone by combining matrix factorization and deep neural networks to achieve promising results. Traditional methods like matrix…

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It has been a long-standing goal in machine learning, as well as in AI more generally, to develop life-long learning systems that learn many different tasks over time, and reuse insights from tasks learned, "learning to learn" as they do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Maria-Florina Balcan , Avrim Blum , Santosh Vempala

In video surveillance applications, person search is a challenging task consisting in detecting people and extracting features from their silhouette for re-identification (re-ID) purpose. We propose a new end-to-end model that jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Angelique Loesch , Jaonary Rabarisoa , Romaric Audigier

We present a unified deep learning framework for the recognition of user identity and the recognition of imagined actions, based on electroencephalography (EEG) signals, for application as a brain-computer interface. Our solution exploits a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Marco Buzzelli , Simone Bianco , Paolo Napoletano

Analyzing interaction data provides an opportunity to learn about users, uncover their underlying goals, and create intelligent visualization systems. The first step for intelligent response in visualizations is to enable computers to infer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Shayan Monadjemi , Roman Garnett , Alvitta Ottley

User representation learning is vital to capture diverse user preferences, while it is also challenging as user intents are latent and scattered among complex and different modalities of user-generated data, thus, not directly measurable.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Lin Gong , Lu Lin , Weihao Song , Hongning Wang

The dominant retrieve-then-rank pipeline in large-scale recommender systems suffers from mis-calibration and engineering overhead due to its architectural split and differing optimization objectives. While recent generative sequence models…

We present a multimodal learning-based method to simultaneously synthesize co-speech facial expressions and upper-body gestures for digital characters using RGB video data captured using commodity cameras. Our approach learns from sparse…

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