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We investigate the potential of adaptive blind equalizers based on variational inference for carrier recovery in optical communications. These equalizers are based on a low-complexity approximation of maximum likelihood channel estimation.…

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This paper addresses the significant challenge in open-set object detection (OSOD): the tendency of state-of-the-art detectors to erroneously classify unknown objects as known categories with high confidence. We present a novel approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Prakash Mallick , Feras Dayoub , Jamie Sherrah

Imbalanced classification remains a pervasive challenge in machine learning, particularly when minority samples are too scarce to provide a robust discriminative boundary. In such extreme scenarios, conventional models often suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Hongfei Wu , Ruijian Han , Yancheng Yuan

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have gained significant popularity among researchers as a powerful tool for understanding unknown distributions based on limited samples. This popularity stems partly from their impressive performance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Saptarshi Chakraborty , Peter L. Bartlett

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) requires timely screening to prevent irreversible vision loss. However, its early detection remains a significant challenge since often the subtle pathological manifestations (lesions) get overlooked due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Shramana Dey , Abhirup Banerjee , B. Uma Shankar , Ramachandran Rajalakshmi , Sushmita Mitra

Imbalanced distribution learning is a common and significant challenge in predictive modeling, often reducing the performance of standard algorithms. Although various approaches address this issue, most are tailored to classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Samuel Stocksieker , Denys pommeret , Arthur Charpentier

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are a popular class of deep generative models with many variants and a wide range of applications. Improvements upon the standard VAE mostly focus on the modelling of the posterior distribution over the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 James Langley , Miguel Monteiro , Charles Jones , Nick Pawlowski , Ben Glocker

A variational autoencoder (VAE) is a probabilistic machine learning framework for posterior inference that projects an input set of high-dimensional data to a lower-dimensional, latent space. The latent space learned with a VAE offers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Rafael Pastrana

One of the key challenges in learning joint embeddings of multiple modalities, e.g. of images and text, is to ensure coherent cross-modal semantics that generalize across datasets. We propose to address this through joint Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Shweta Mahajan , Teresa Botschen , Iryna Gurevych , Stefan Roth

We propose a distributionally robust classification model with a fairness constraint that encourages the classifier to be fair in view of the equality of opportunity criterion. We use a type-$\infty$ Wasserstein ambiguity set centered at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Yijie Wang , Viet Anh Nguyen , Grani A. Hanasusanto

The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is a seminal approach in deep generative modeling with latent variables. Interpreting its reconstruction process as a nonlinear transformation of samples from the latent posterior distribution, we apply the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Faris Janjoš , Lars Rosenbaum , Maxim Dolgov , J. Marius Zöllner

Semi-supervised learning methods have shown promising results in solving many practical problems when only a few labels are available. The existing methods assume that the class distributions of labeled and unlabeled data are equal;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Min Gu Kwak , Hyungu Kahng , Seoung Bum Kim

This work presents a multi-label temporal event detection framework for video capsule endoscopy (VCE) that addresses the extreme class imbalance inherent in the Galar dataset by combining two principal contributions: an Angular Separation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Podakanti Satyajith Chary , Nagarajan Ganapathy

The variational autoencoder (VAE; Kingma, Welling (2014)) is a recently proposed generative model pairing a top-down generative network with a bottom-up recognition network which approximates posterior inference. It typically makes strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Yuri Burda , Roger Grosse , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Regularized Auto-Encoders (RAEs) form a rich class of neural generative models. They effectively model the joint-distribution between the data and the latent space using an Encoder-Decoder combination, with regularization imposed in terms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Arnab Kumar Mondal , Himanshu Asnani , Parag Singla , Prathosh AP

Accurate segmentation of retinal images plays a crucial role in aiding ophthalmologists in diagnosing retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and assessing its severity. However, due to their underdeveloped, thinner vessels, manual annotation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Gozde Merve Demirci , Jiachen Yao , Ming-Chih Ho , Xiaoling Hu , Wei-Chi Wu , Chao Chen , Chia-Ling Tsai

Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) helps physicians examine the gastrointestinal (GI) tract noninvasively. There are few studies that address pathological assessment of endoscopy images in multiclass classification and most of them are based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Mohammad Reza Mohebbian , Khan A. Wahid , Paul Babyn

In deep representational learning, it is often desired to isolate a particular factor (termed {\em content}) from other factors (referred to as {\em style}). What constitutes the content is typically specified by users through explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Minyoung Kim , Vladimir Pavlovic

Large medical imaging datasets can be cheaply and quickly annotated with low-confidence, weak labels (e.g., radiological scores). Access to high-confidence labels, such as histology-based diagnoses, is rare and costly. Pretraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Emma Sarfati , Alexandre Bône , Marc-Michel Rohé , Pietro Gori , Isabelle Bloch

Despite signi cant progress in semi-supervised medical image segmentation, most existing segmentation networks overlook e ective methodological guidance for feature extraction and important prior information from datasets. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Junying Meng , Gangxuan Zhou , Jun Liu , Weihong Guo