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Visual Foundation Models (VFMs) are becoming ubiquitous in computer vision, powering systems for diverse tasks such as object detection, image classification, segmentation, pose estimation, and motion tracking. VFMs are capitalizing on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Sandeep Gupta , Roberto Passerone

Foundation Models (FMs) are models trained on large corpora of data that, at very large scale, can generalize to new tasks without any task-specific finetuning. As these models continue to grow in size, innovations continue to push the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Avanika Narayan , Ines Chami , Laurel Orr , Simran Arora , Christopher Ré

Federated Learning (FL), while a breakthrough in decentralized machine learning, contends with significant challenges such as limited data availability and the variability of computational resources, which can stifle the performance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jiaqi Wang , Xi Li

Foundation models (FMs) have emerged as a transformative paradigm in medical image analysis, offering the potential to provide generalizable, task-agnostic solutions across a wide range of clinical tasks and imaging modalities. Their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Karma Phuntsho , Abdullah , Kyungmi Lee , Ickjai Lee , Euijoon Ahn

Over the past few years, the landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been reshaped by the emergence of Foundation Models (FMs). Pre-trained on massive datasets, these models exhibit exceptional performance across diverse downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Shenghui Li , Fanghua Ye , Meng Fang , Jiaxu Zhao , Yun-Hin Chan , Edith C. H. Ngai , Thiemo Voigt

Many machine learning applications use latent variable models to explain structure in data, whereby visible variables (= coordinates of the given datapoint) are explained as a probabilistic function of some hidden variables. Finding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Tengyu Ma , Andrej Risteski

Speech foundation models (SFMs) are increasingly hailed as powerful computational models of human speech perception. However, since their representations are inherently black-box, it remains unclear what drives their alignment with brain…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-26 Riki Shimizu , Richard J. Antonello , Chandan Singh , Nima Mesgarani

We introduce a new method based on nonnegative matrix factorization, Neural NMF, for detecting latent hierarchical structure in data. Datasets with hierarchical structure arise in a wide variety of fields, such as document classification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Tyler Will , Runyu Zhang , Eli Sadovnik , Mengdi Gao , Joshua Vendrow , Jamie Haddock , Denali Molitor , Deanna Needell

Neural Linear Models (NLM) are deep Bayesian models that produce predictive uncertainty by learning features from the data and then performing Bayesian linear regression over these features. Despite their popularity, few works have focused…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-25 Cooper Lorsung

Foundation models (FMs) unlock unprecedented multimodal and multitask intelligence, yet their cloud-centric deployment precludes real-time responsiveness and compromises user privacy. Meanwhile, monolithic execution at the edge remains…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Juan Zhu , Zixin Wang , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled Ben Letaief

Over the recent years, the field of robotics has been undergoing a transformative paradigm shift from fixed, single-task, domain-specific solutions towards adaptive, multi-function, general-purpose agents, capable of operating in complex,…

Foundation models (FMs), including large language models, have become increasingly popular due to their wide-ranging applicability and ability to understand human-like semantics. While previous research has explored the use of FMs in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Xinping Yi , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

From extracting features to generating text, the outputs of large language models (LLMs) typically rely on the final layers, following the conventional wisdom that earlier layers capture only low-level cues. However, our analysis shows that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Oscar Skean , Md Rifat Arefin , Dan Zhao , Niket Patel , Jalal Naghiyev , Yann LeCun , Ravid Shwartz-Ziv

Foundation models (FMs) are general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) models that have recently enabled multiple brand-new generative AI applications. The rapid advances in FMs serve as an important contextual backdrop for the vision of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Zihan Chen , Howard H. Yang , Y. C. Tay , Kai Fong Ernest Chong , Tony Q. S. Quek

Graph foundation models (GFM) aim to acquire transferable knowledge by pre-training on diverse graphs, which can be adapted to various downstream tasks. However, domain shift in graphs is inherently two-dimensional: graphs differ not only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Xingtong Yu , Shenghua Ye , Ruijuan Liang , Chang Zhou , Hong Cheng , Xinming Zhang , Yuan Fang

Many predictive tasks of web applications need to model categorical variables, such as user IDs and demographics like genders and occupations. To apply standard machine learning techniques, these categorical predictors are always converted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Xiangnan He , Tat-Seng Chua

The integration of Foundation Models (FMs) with Federated Learning (FL) presents a transformative paradigm in Artificial Intelligence (AI). This integration offers enhanced capabilities, while addressing concerns of privacy, data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Chao Ren , Han Yu , Hongyi Peng , Xiaoli Tang , Bo Zhao , Liping Yi , Alysa Ziying Tan , Yulan Gao , Anran Li , Xiaoxiao Li , Zengxiang Li , Qiang Yang

The rise of foundation models has transformed machine learning research, prompting efforts to uncover their inner workings and develop more efficient and reliable applications for better control. While significant progress has been made in…

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a powerful tool in data exploratory analysis by discovering the hidden features and part-based patterns from high-dimensional data. NMF and its variants have been successfully applied into diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Lihua Zhang , Shihua Zhang

Neural networks have greatly boosted performance in computer vision by learning powerful representations of input data. The drawback of end-to-end training for maximal overall performance are black-box models whose hidden representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Patrick Esser , Robin Rombach , Björn Ommer