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Our work aims to build a model that performs dual tasks of image captioning and image generation while being trained on only one task. The central idea is to train an invertible model that learns a one-to-one mapping between the image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Nandakishore S Menon , Chandramouli Kamanchi , Raghuram Bharadwaj Diddigi

The increasing use of generative ML foundation models for image restoration tasks such as super-resolution calls for robust and interpretable uncertainty quantification methods. We address this need by presenting a novel approach based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Eduardo Adame , Daniel Csillag , Guilherme Tegoni Goedert

Interpreting the learned features of vision models has posed a longstanding challenge in the field of machine learning. To address this issue, we propose a novel method that leverages the capabilities of language models to interpret the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Aliasghar Khani , Ali Saheb Pasand , Amir Khasahmadi , Aditya Sanghi , Karl D. D. Willis , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri

There has been a lot of interest in understanding what information is captured by hidden representations of language models (LMs). Typically, interpretation methods i) do not guarantee that the model actually uses the encoded information,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Nicola De Cao , Leon Schmid , Dieuwke Hupkes , Ivan Titov

We show how bidirectional transformers trained for masked token prediction can be applied to neural image compression to achieve state-of-the-art results. Such models were previously used for image generation by progressivly sampling groups…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Fabian Mentzer , Eirikur Agustsson , Michael Tschannen

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) achieves outstanding success in self-supervised representation learning. Unfortunately, MIM models typically have huge computational burden and slow learning process, which is an inevitable obstacle for their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Haoqing Wang , Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang , Jianyuan Guo , Zhi-Hong Deng , Kai Han

This paper advances the theoretical understanding of active learning label complexity for decision trees as binary classifiers. We make two main contributions. First, we provide the first analysis of the disagreement coefficient for…

The Class Activation Map (CAM) lookup of a neural network tells us to which regions the neural network focuses when it makes a decision. In the past, the CAM search method was dependent upon a specific internal module of the network. It has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Yitao Peng , Longzhen Yang , Yihang Liu , Lianghua He

Large pre-trained language models (LMs) have been shown to perform surprisingly well when fine-tuned on tasks that require commonsense and world knowledge. However, in end-to-end architectures, it is difficult to explain what is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Veronica Latcinnik , Jonathan Berant

Several recent results in machine learning have established formal connections between autoencoders---artificial neural network models that attempt to reproduce their inputs---and other coding models like sparse coding and K-means. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Leif Johnson , Craig Corcoran

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

Facial expressions are a form of non-verbal communication that humans perform seamlessly for meaningful transfer of information. Most of the literature addresses the facial expression recognition aspect however, with the advent of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 J. Rafid Siddiqui

In this paper we aim to investigate the mechanisms that guide text generation with pre-trained Transformer-based Language Models (TLMs). Grounded on the Product of Experts formulation by Hinton (1999), we describe a generative mechanism…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Xavier Suau , Luca Zappella , Nicholas Apostoloff

Language models can behave in unexpected and unsafe ways, and so it is valuable to monitor their outputs. Internal activations of language models encode additional information that could be useful for this. The baseline approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Henk Tillman , Dan Mossing

Fine-tuned large language models can exhibit reward-hacking behavior arising from emergent misalignment, which is difficult to detect from final outputs alone. While prior work has studied reward hacking at the level of completed responses,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Patrick Wilhelm , Thorsten Wittkopp , Odej Kao

Self-supervised learning methods like masked autoencoders (MAE) have shown significant promise in learning robust feature representations, particularly in image reconstruction-based pretraining task. However, their performance is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Sua Lee , Joonhun Lee , Myungjoo Kang

The ambiguity of the decision-making process has been pointed out as the main obstacle to applying the deep learning-based method in a practical way in spite of its outstanding performance. Interpretability could guarantee the confidence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Hyebin Lee , Seong Tae Kim , Yong Man Ro

Different activation functions work best for different deep learning models. To exploit this, we leverage recent advancements in gradient-based search techniques for neural architectures to efficiently identify high-performing activation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Lukas Strack , Mahmoud Safari , Frank Hutter

Existing explanation methods for image classification struggle to provide faithful and plausible explanations. This paper addresses this issue by proposing a post-hoc natural language explanation method that can be applied to any CNN-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Adam Wojciechowski , Mateusz Lango , Ondrej Dusek

Brain decoding, understood as the process of mapping brain activities to the stimuli that generated them, has been an active research area in the last years. In the case of language stimuli, recent studies have shown that it is possible to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Nicolas Affolter , Beni Egressy , Damian Pascual , Roger Wattenhofer