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Multitask learning (MTL) has recently gained a lot of popularity as a learning paradigm that can lead to improved per-task performance while also using fewer per-task model parameters compared to single task learning. One of the biggest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Dimitrios Sinodinos , Narges Armanfard

Large language models are remarkably capable, yet how computation propagates through their layers remains poorly understood. A growing line of work treats depth as discrete time and the residual stream as a dynamical system, where each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Jesseba Fernando , Grigori Guitchounts

Large Language Models (LLMs) possess encompassing capabilities that can process diverse language-related tasks. However, finetuning on LLMs will diminish this general skills and continual finetuning will further cause severe degradation on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Kai Tong , Kang Pan , Xiao Zhang , Erli Meng , Run He , Yawen Cui , Nuoyan Guo , Huiping Zhuang

We consider the nonlinear inverse problem of learning a transition operator $\mathbf{A}$ from partial observations at different times, in particular from sparse observations of entries of its powers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Christian Kümmerle , Mauro Maggioni , Sui Tang

How do vision transformers (ViTs) represent and process the world? This paper addresses this long-standing question through the first systematic analysis of 6.6K features across all layers, extracted via sparse autoencoders, and by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jinyeong Kim , Junhyeok Kim , Yumin Shim , Joohyeok Kim , Sunyoung Jung , Seong Jae Hwang

Lane segment topology reasoning constructs a comprehensive road network by capturing the topological relationships between lane segments and their semantic types. This enables end-to-end autonomous driving systems to perform road-dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yiming Yang , Yueru Luo , Bingkun He , Hongbin Lin , Suzhong Fu , Chao Zheng , Zhipeng Cao , Erlong Li , Chao Yan , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

We demonstrate the effectiveness of one of the many multi-tracer analyses enabled by Optimal Transport (OT) reconstruction. Leveraging a semi-discrete OT algorithm, we determine the displacements between initial and observed positions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-19 Farnik Nikakhtar , Ravi K. Sheth , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Bruno Lévy , Roya Mohayaee

We study Latent Recurrent Transformer (LRT), a lightweight augmentation of autoregressive transformers that reuses a high-level source-layer hidden state from the previous token as recurrent memory for the next token. Because this source…

Optimal transport (OT) is a framework that can be used to guide the optimal allocation of a limited amount of resources. The classical OT paradigm does not consider malicious attacks in its formulation and thus the designed transport plan…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Jason Hughes , Juntao Chen

Class activation maps are widely used for explaining deep neural networks. Due to its ability to highlight regions of interest, it has evolved in recent years as a key step in weakly supervised learning. A major limitation to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Hang-Cheng Dong , Yuhao Jiang , Yingyan Huang , Jingxiao Liao , Bingguo Liu , Dong Ye , Guodong Liu

Due to strict rate and reliability demands, wireless image transmission remains difficult for both classical layered designs and joint source-channel coding (JSCC), especially under low latency. Diffusion-based generative decoders can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jingwen Fu , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund , Dong In Kim

We address the problem of inferring an undirected graph from nodal observations, which are modeled as non-stationary graph signals generated by local diffusion dynamics that depend on the structure of the unknown network. Using the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-01 Rasoul Shafipour , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques , Gonzalo Mateos

Alignment plays a fundamental role in many machine learning problems, such as multi-network analysis, multimodal learning, and point cloud registration. Recent works increasingly leverage optimal transport (OT) for distributional alignment,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Qi Yu , Ruizhong Qiu , Zhichen Zeng , My T. Thai , Huan Liu , Hanghang Tong

Optimal transport (OT) has recently been shown as a promising criterion for unsupervised restoration when no explicit prior model is available. Despite its theoretical appeal, OT still significantly falls short of supervised methods on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Fei Wen , Wei Wang , Zeyu Yan , Wenbin Jiang

We develop a real-time anomaly detection algorithm for directed activity on large, sparse networks. We model the propensity for future activity using a dynamic logistic model with interaction terms for sender- and receiver-specific latent…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-01 Wesley Lee , Tyler H. McCormick , Joshua Neil , Cole Sodja , Yanran Cui

Currently, low-resolution image recognition is confronted with a significant challenge in the field of intelligent traffic perception. Compared to high-resolution images, low-resolution images suffer from small size, low quality, and lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Zongcai Tan , Zhenhai Gao

Resource limitations often constrain the parameter counts of Large Language Models (LLMs), hindering their performance. While existing methods employ parameter sharing to reuse the same parameter set under fixed budgets, such approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Guanghao Li , Wenhao Jiang , Li Shen , Ming Tang , Chun Yuan

Optimal Transport (OT) naturally arises in many machine learning applications, yet the heavy computational burden limits its wide-spread uses. To address the scalability issue, we propose an implicit generative learning-based framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Yujia Xie , Minshuo Chen , Haoming Jiang , Tuo Zhao , Hongyuan Zha

We develop online graph learning algorithms from streaming network data. Our goal is to track the (possibly) time-varying network topology, and effect memory and computational savings by processing the data on-the-fly as they are acquired.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Rasoul Shafipour , Gonzalo Mateos

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become integral components in various autonomous agent systems. In this study, we present an exploration-based trajectory optimization approach, referred to as ETO. This learning method is designed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yifan Song , Da Yin , Xiang Yue , Jie Huang , Sujian Li , Bill Yuchen Lin