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Humans can learn several tasks in succession with minimal mutual interference but perform more poorly when trained on multiple tasks at once. The opposite is true for standard deep neural networks. Here, we propose novel computational…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-07 Timo Flesch , David G. Nagy , Andrew Saxe , Christopher Summerfield

The recent contrastive learning methods, due to their effectiveness in representation learning, have been widely applied to modeling graph data. Random perturbation is widely used to build contrastive views for graph data, which however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Yucheng Shi , Kaixiong Zhou , Ninghao Liu

The variance in class-wise sample sizes within long-tailed scenarios often results in degraded performance in less frequent classes. Fortunately, foundation models, pre-trained on vast open-world datasets, demonstrate strong potential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yufei Peng , Yonggang Zhang , Yiu-ming Cheung

Large neural networks trained on large datasets have become the dominant paradigm in machine learning. These systems rely on maximum likelihood point estimates of their parameters, precluding them from expressing model uncertainty. This may…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-01 Javier Antoran

Visual saliency patterns are the result of a variety of factors aside from the image being parsed, however existing approaches have ignored these. To address this limitation, we propose a novel saliency estimation model which leverages the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Tharindu Fernando , Simon Denman , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

Real-world datasets exhibit imbalances of varying types and degrees. Several techniques based on re-weighting and margin adjustment of loss are often used to enhance the performance of neural networks, particularly on minority classes. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Harsh Rangwani , Sumukh K Aithal , Mayank Mishra , R. Venkatesh Babu

Most of the saliency methods are evaluated on their ability to generate saliency maps, and not on their functionality in a complete vision pipeline, like for instance, image classification. In the current paper, we propose an approach which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Carola Figueroa-Flores , Bogdan Raducanu , David Berga , Joost van de Weijer

Training neural networks with high certified accuracy against adversarial examples remains an open challenge despite significant efforts. While certification methods can effectively leverage tight convex relaxations for bound computation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Stefan Balauca , Mark Niklas Müller , Yuhao Mao , Maximilian Baader , Marc Fischer , Martin Vechev

Fixed representational capacity is a fundamental constraint in continual learning: practitioners must guess an appropriate model width before training, without knowing how many distinct concepts the data contains. We propose LACE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shivnath Tathe

We introduce a new Bayesian multi-class support vector machine by formulating a pseudo-likelihood for a multi-class hinge loss in the form of a location-scale mixture of Gaussians. We derive a variational-inference-based training objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Martin Wistuba , Ambrish Rawat

Saliency detection is an important task in image processing as it can solve many problems and it usually is the first step in for other processes. Convolutional neural networks have been proved to be very effective on several image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Hooman Misaghi , Reza Askari Moghadam , Ali Mahmoudi , Kurosh Madani

We introduce SaltiNet, a deep neural network for scanpath prediction trained on 360-degree images. The model is based on a temporal-aware novel representation of saliency information named the saliency volume. The first part of the network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Marc Assens , Kevin McGuinness , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto , Noel E. O'Connor

As learned image compression (LIC) methods become increasingly computationally demanding, enhancing their training efficiency is crucial. This paper takes a step forward in accelerating the training of LIC methods by modeling the neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-26 Yichi Zhang , Zhihao Duan , Yuning Huang , Fengqing Zhu

Co-saliency detection within a single image is a common vision problem that has received little attention and has not yet been well addressed. Existing methods often used a bottom-up strategy to infer co-saliency in an image in which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Yuanhao Yue , Qin Zou , Hongkai Yu , Qian Wang , Zhongyuan Wang , Song Wang

We put forth a principled design of a neural architecture to learn nodal Adjacency Spectral Embeddings (ASE) from graph inputs. By bringing to bear the gradient descent (GD) method and leveraging the principle of algorithm unrolling, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Sofía Pérez Casulo , Marcelo Fiori , Federico Larroca , Gonzalo Mateos

Using only a model that was trained to predict where people look at images, and no additional training data, we can produce a range of powerful editing effects for reducing distraction in images. Given an image and a mask specifying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Kfir Aberman , Junfeng He , Yossi Gandelsman , Inbar Mosseri , David E. Jacobs , Kai Kohlhoff , Yael Pritch , Michael Rubinstein

Self-supervised contrastive learning has demonstrated great potential in learning visual representations. Despite their success in various downstream tasks such as image classification and object detection, self-supervised pre-training for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Di Wu , Siyuan Li , Zelin Zang , Stan Z. Li

It is known that sparsity can improve interpretability for deep neural networks. However, existing methods in the area either require networks that are pre-trained with sparsity constraints, or impose sparsity after the fact, altering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Arshia Soltani Moakhar , Eugenia Iofinova , Elias Frantar , Dan Alistarh

Recent advancements in learning algorithms have demonstrated that the sharpness of the loss surface is an effective measure for improving the generalization gap. Building upon this concept, Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) was proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Tanapat Ratchatorn , Masayuki Tanaka

In this paper, we propose a self-supervised visual representation learning approach which involves both generative and discriminative proxies, where we focus on the former part by requiring the target network to recover the original image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Yunjie Tian , Lingxi Xie , Xiaopeng Zhang , Jiemin Fang , Haohang Xu , Wei Huang , Jianbin Jiao , Qi Tian , Qixiang Ye