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Unsupervised learning of keypoints and landmarks has seen significant progress with the help of modern neural network architectures, but performance is yet to match the supervised counterpart, making their practicability questionable. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Eric Hedlin , Gopal Sharma , Shweta Mahajan , Xingzhe He , Hossam Isack , Abhishek Kar Helge Rhodin , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Kwang Moo Yi

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative tools across various domains, yet tailoring pre-trained models to exhibit specific desirable properties remains challenging. While reinforcement learning (RL) offers a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Fengyuan Dai , Zifeng Zhuang , Yufei Huang , Siteng Huang , Bangyan Liao , Donglin Wang , Fajie Yuan

While large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated impressive image-generation capabilities, there are significant concerns about their potential misuse for generating unsafe content, violating copyright, and perpetuating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Ruchika Chavhan , Da Li , Timothy Hospedales

Large-scale text-to-image generative models have shown remarkable ability to synthesize diverse and high-quality images. However, it is still challenging to directly apply these models for editing real images for two reasons. First, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Syed Muhmmad Israr , Feng Zhao

In supervised learning for image denoising, usually the paired clean images and noisy images are collected or synthesised to train a denoising model. L2 norm loss or other distance functions are used as the objective function for training.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yutong Xie , Minne Yuan , Bin Dong , Quanzheng Li

Concept erasure in text-to-image diffusion models aims to disable pre-trained diffusion models from generating images related to a target concept. To perform reliable concept erasure, the properties of robustness and locality are desirable.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Chi-Pin Huang , Kai-Po Chang , Chung-Ting Tsai , Yung-Hsuan Lai , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

We present a comprehensive solution to learn and improve text-to-image models from human preference feedback. To begin with, we build ImageReward -- the first general-purpose text-to-image human preference reward model -- to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jiazheng Xu , Xiao Liu , Yuchen Wu , Yuxuan Tong , Qinkai Li , Ming Ding , Jie Tang , Yuxiao Dong

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising strategy for finetuning small language models (SLMs) to solve targeted tasks such as math and coding. However, RL algorithms tend to be resource-intensive, taking a significant amount…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Lianghuan Huang , Sagnik Anupam , Insup Lee , Shuo Li , Osbert Bastani

The diffusion model has demonstrated superior performance in synthesizing diverse and high-quality images for text-guided image translation. However, there remains room for improvement in both the formulation of text prompts and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Qi Si , Bo Wang , Zhao Zhang

This paper proposes a novel reinforcement learning (RL) framework for credit underwriting that tackles ungeneralizable contextual challenges. We adapt RL principles for credit scoring, incorporating action space renewal and multi-choice…

The limited understanding capacity of the visual encoder in Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become a key bottleneck for downstream performance. This capacity includes both Discriminative Ability (D-Ability), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Boyu Han , Qianqian Xu , Shilong Bao , Zhiyong Yang , Ruochen Cui , Xilin Zhao , Qingming Huang

Reinforcement learning for training end-to-end autonomous driving models in closed-loop simulations is gaining growing attention. However, most simulation environments differ significantly from real-world conditions, creating a substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Chaojun Ni , Guosheng Zhao , Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Wenkang Qin , Xinze Chen , Guanghong Jia , Guan Huang , Wenjun Mei

Developing scalable and generalizable reward engineering for reinforcement learning (RL) is crucial for creating general-purpose agents, especially in the challenging domain of robotic manipulation. While recent advances in reward…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yuhui Chen , Haoran Li , Zhennan Jiang , Haowei Wen , Dongbin Zhao

Reinforcement learning has become a central paradigm for improving LLM reasoning, but most existing methods optimize policies over discrete token sequences. This creates a mismatch between the optimization space and the structure of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Haoqiang Kang , Yizhe Zhang , Nikki Lijing Kuang , Yi-An Ma , Lianhui Qin

Zero-shot reinforcement learning (RL) methods aim at instantly producing a behavior for an RL task in a given environment, from a description of the reward function. These methods are usually tested by evaluating their average performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yann Ollivier

Imitation learning is an efficient method for teaching robots a variety of tasks. Diffusion Policy, which uses a conditional denoising diffusion process to generate actions, has demonstrated superior performance, particularly in learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zhuoqun Chen , Xiu Yuan , Tongzhou Mu , Hao Su

Robotic control policies learned from human demonstrations have achieved impressive results in many real-world applications. However, in scenarios where initial performance is not satisfactory, as is often the case in novel open-world…

The learning objective of vision-language approach of CLIP does not effectively account for the noisy many-to-many correspondences found in web-harvested image captioning datasets, which contributes to its compute and data inefficiency. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Alex Andonian , Shixing Chen , Raffay Hamid

Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods have emerged as a popular choice for training an efficient and effective dialogue policy. However, these methods suffer from sparse and unstable reward signals returned by a user simulator only when a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Ziming Li , Sungjin Lee , Baolin Peng , Jinchao Li , Julia Kiseleva , Maarten de Rijke , Shahin Shayandeh , Jianfeng Gao

This paper is concerned with contrastive learning (CL) for low-level image restoration and enhancement tasks. We propose a new label-efficient learning paradigm based on residuals, residual contrastive learning (RCL), and derive an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Nanqing Dong , Matteo Maggioni , Yongxin Yang , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero , Ales Leonardis , Steven McDonagh