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This study presents an approach to lane detection involving the prediction of binary segmentation masks and per-pixel affinity fields. These affinity fields, along with the binary masks, can then be used to cluster lane pixels horizontally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Hala Abualsaud , Sean Liu , David Lu , Kenny Situ , Akshay Rangesh , Mohan M. Trivedi

Bias discovery is critical for black-box generative models, especiall text-to-image (TTI) models. Existing works predominantly focus on output-level demographic distributions, which do not necessarily guarantee concept representations to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Rajatsubhra Chakraborty , Xujun Che , Depeng Xu , Cori Faklaris , Xi Niu , Shuhan Yuan

Cognitive diagnostic assessment aims to measure specific knowledge structures in students. To model data arising from such assessments, cognitive diagnostic models with discrete latent variables have gained popularity in educational and…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-25 Seunghyun Lee , Yuqi Gu

Large Language Models (LLMs) are prone to generating content that exhibits gender biases, raising significant ethical concerns. Alignment, the process of fine-tuning LLMs to better align with desired behaviors, is recognized as an effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Tao Zhang , Ziqian Zeng , Yuxiang Xiao , Huiping Zhuang , Cen Chen , James Foulds , Shimei Pan

Deep latent variable models learn condensed representations of data that, hopefully, reflect the inner workings of the studied phenomena. Unfortunately, these latent representations are not statistically identifiable, meaning they cannot be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-02 Stas Syrota , Yevgen Zainchkovskyy , Johnny Xi , Benjamin Bloem-Reddy , Søren Hauberg

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), especially the recent style-based generators (StyleGANs), have versatile semantics in the structured latent space. Latent semantics discovery methods emerge to move around the latent code such that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Yue Song , Jichao Zhang , Nicu Sebe , Wei Wang

Authentication is the task of confirming the matching relationship between a data instance and a given identity. Typical examples of authentication problems include face recognition and person re-identification. Data-driven authentication…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-24 Jian Liang , Yuren Cao , Shuang Li , Bing Bai , Hao Li , Fei Wang , Kun Bai

Dataset bias, where data points are skewed to certain concepts, is ubiquitous in machine learning datasets. Yet, systematically identifying these biases is challenging without costly, fine-grained attribute annotations. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Jinho Choi , Hyesu Lim , Steffen Schneider , Jaegul Choo

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation aims to achieve pixel-level predictions using image-level labels. Existing methods typically entangle semantic recognition and object localization, which often leads models to focus exclusively on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Qingze He , Fagui Liu , Dengke Zhang , Qingmao Wei , Quan Tang

Latent-space interpolation is commonly used to demonstrate the generalization ability of deep latent variable models. Various algorithms have been proposed to calculate the best trajectory between two encodings in the latent space. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Lu Mi , Tianxing He , Core Francisco Park , Hao Wang , Yue Wang , Nir Shavit

Biased attributes, spuriously correlated with target labels in a dataset, can problematically lead to neural networks that learn improper shortcuts for classifications and limit their capabilities for out-of-distribution (OOD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jinyung Hong , Eun Som Jeon , Changhoon Kim , Keun Hee Park , Utkarsh Nath , Yezhou Yang , Pavan Turaga , Theodore P. Pavlic

While Diffusion Models (DM) exhibit remarkable performance across various image generative tasks, they nonetheless reflect the inherent bias presented in the training set. As DMs are now widely used in real-world applications, these biases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Yilei Jiang , Weihong Li , Yiyuan Zhang , Minghong Cai , Xiangyu Yue

Various controls over the generated data can be extracted from the latent space of a pre-trained GAN, as it implicitly encodes the semantics of the training data. The discovered controls allow to vary semantic attributes in the generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Perla Doubinsky , Nicolas Audebert , Michel Crucianu , Hervé Le Borgne

The discovery of interpretable directions in the latent spaces of pre-trained GAN models has recently become a popular topic. In particular, StyleGAN2 has enabled various image generation and manipulation tasks due to its rich and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Enis Simsar , Umut Kocasari , Ezgi Gülperi Er , Pinar Yanardag

A recent study has shown that large-scale visual datasets are very biased: they can be easily classified by modern neural networks. However, the concrete forms of bias among these datasets remain unclear. In this study, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Boya Zeng , Yida Yin , Zhuang Liu

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) advance face synthesis through learning the underlying distribution of observed data. Despite the high-quality generated faces, some minority groups can be rarely generated from the trained models due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Shuhan Tan , Yujun Shen , Bolei Zhou

Manipulating latent code in generative adversarial networks (GANs) for facial image synthesis mainly focuses on continuous attribute synthesis (e.g., age, pose and emotion), while discrete attribute synthesis (like face mask and eyeglasses)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Zhou Kangneng , Zhu Xiaobin , Gao Daiheng , Lee Kai , Li Xinjie , Yin Xu-Cheng

Whilst face recognition applications are becoming increasingly prevalent within our daily lives, leading approaches in the field still suffer from performance bias to the detriment of some racial profiles within society. In this study, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Seyma Yucer , Samet Akçay , Noura Al-Moubayed , Toby P. Breckon

The rapid advancement of Vision-Language models (VLMs) has raised growing concerns that their black-box reasoning processes could lead to unintended forms of social bias. Current debiasing approaches focus on mitigating surface-level bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Na Min An , Yoonna Jang , Yusuke Hirota , Ryo Hachiuma , Isabelle Augenstein , Hyunjung Shim

Real-world datasets are often biased with respect to key demographic factors such as race and gender. Due to the latent nature of the underlying factors, detecting and mitigating bias is especially challenging for unsupervised machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Kristy Choi , Aditya Grover , Trisha Singh , Rui Shu , Stefano Ermon