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In recent years, several unsupervised, "contrastive" learning algorithms in vision have been shown to learn representations that perform remarkably well on transfer tasks. We show that this family of algorithms maximizes a lower bound on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Mike Wu , Chengxu Zhuang , Milan Mosse , Daniel Yamins , Noah Goodman

Sparse coding networks, which utilize unsupervised learning to maximize coding efficiency, have successfully reproduced response properties found in primary visual cortex \cite{AN:OlshausenField96}. However, conventional sparse coding…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2011-05-25 William K. Coulter , Christopher J. Hillar , Friedrich T. Sommer

Deep neural networks have achieved strong performance in image classification tasks due to their ability to learn complex patterns from high-dimensional data. However, their large computational and memory requirements often limit deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sai Shi

Learning-based lossy image compression usually involves the joint optimization of rate-distortion performance. Most existing methods adopt spatially invariant bit length allocation and incorporate discrete entropy approximation to constrain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Mu Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Shuhang Gu , Jane You , David Zhang

Neural networks exhibit a remarkable degree of representational convergence across diverse architectures, training objectives, and even data modalities. This convergence is predictive of alignment with brain representation. A recent…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-24 Eghbal A. Hosseini , Brian Cheung , Evelina Fedorenko , Alex H. Williams

Comparing the internal representations of neural networks is a central goal in both neuroscience and machine learning. Standard alignment metrics operate on raw neural activations, implicitly assuming that similar representations produce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Sunny Liu , Habon Issa , André Longon , Liv Gorton , Meenakshi Khosla , David Klindt

Representational similarity metrics typically force all units to be matched, making them susceptible to noise and outliers common in neural representations. We extend the soft-matching distance to a partial optimal transport setting that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Chaitanya Kapoor , Alex H. Williams , Meenakshi Khosla

Neural compression is the application of neural networks and other machine learning methods to data compression. Recent advances in statistical machine learning have opened up new possibilities for data compression, allowing compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yibo Yang , Stephan Mandt , Lucas Theis

Neural networks can be compressed to reduce memory and computational requirements, or to increase accuracy by facilitating the use of a larger base architecture. In this paper we focus on pruning individual neurons, which can simultaneously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Bin Dai , Chen Zhu , David Wipf

Recently, more and more images are compressed and sent to the back-end devices for the machine analysis tasks~(\textit{e.g.,} object detection) instead of being purely watched by humans. However, most traditional or learned image codecs are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Guo Lu , Xingtong Ge , Tianxiong Zhong , Jing Geng , Qiang Hu

Modern computer vision requires processing large amounts of data, both while training the model and/or during inference, once the model is deployed. Scenarios where images are captured and processed in physically separated locations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Sudeep Katakol , Basem Elbarashy , Luis Herranz , Joost van de Weijer , Antonio M. Lopez

Tensor decompositions have been successfully applied to compress neural networks. The compression algorithms using tensor decompositions commonly minimize the approximation error on the weights. Recent work assumes the approximation error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Jetze T. Schuurmans , Kim Batselier , Julian F. P. Kooij

Lossy image compression has been studied extensively in the context of typical loss functions such as RMSE, MS-SSIM, etc. However, compression at low bitrates generally produces unsatisfying results. Furthermore, the availability of massive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Ashutosh Bhown , Soham Mukherjee , Sean Yang , Shubham Chandak , Irena Fischer-Hwang , Kedar Tatwawadi , Judith Fan , Tsachy Weissman

Datasets such as images, text, or movies are embedded in high-dimensional spaces. However, in important cases such as images of objects, the statistical structure in the data constrains samples to a manifold of dramatically lower…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Stefano Recanatesi , Matthew Farrell , Madhu Advani , Timothy Moore , Guillaume Lajoie , Eric Shea-Brown

Numerous embedding models have been recently explored to incorporate semantic knowledge into visual recognition. Existing methods typically focus on minimizing the distance between the corresponding images and texts in the embedding space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Dong Li , Hsin-Ying Lee , Jia-Bin Huang , Shengjin Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

To interpret information visualizations, observers must determine how visual features map onto concepts. First and foremost, this ability depends on perceptual discriminability; e.g., observers must be able to see the difference between…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Karen B. Schloss , Zachary Leggon , Laurent Lessard

Deep neural networks have achieved state-of-the-art performance across numerous applications, but their high memory and computational demands present significant challenges, particularly in resource-constrained environments. Model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Shihao Zhang , Rayan Saab

Determining how the brain stores information is one of the most pressing problems in neuroscience. In many instances, the collection of stimuli for a given neuron can be modeled by a convex set in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Combinatorial objects known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-29 R. Amzi Jeffs , Mohamed Omar , Natchanon Suaysom , Aleina Wachtel , Nora Youngs

In compressed sensing, we wish to reconstruct a sparse signal $x$ from observed data $y$. In sparse coding, on the other hand, we wish to find a representation of an observed signal $y$ as a sparse linear combination, with coefficients $x$,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-11-25 Will Landecker , Rick Chartrand , Simon DeDeo

A change of the prevalent supervised learning techniques is foreseeable in the near future: from the complex, computational expensive algorithms to more flexible and elementary training ones. The strong revitalization of randomized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Antonello Rosato , Massimo Panella , Evgeny Osipov , Denis Kleyko