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Auto-Encoders are unsupervised models that aim to learn patterns from observed data by minimizing a reconstruction cost. The useful representations learned are often found to be sparse and distributed. On the other hand, compressed sensing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-14 Devansh Arpit , Yingbo Zhou , Hung Q. Ngo , Nils Napp , Venu Govindaraju

In previous work a novel Edge Lightweight Searchable Attribute-based encryption (ELSA) method was proposed to support Industry 4.0 and specifically Industrial Internet of Things applications. In this paper, we aim to improve ELSA by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Jawhara Aljabri , Anna Lito Michala , Jeremy Singer , Ioannis Vourganas

Network representation learning seeks to embed networks into a low-dimensional space while preserving the structural and semantic properties, thereby facilitating downstream tasks such as classification, trait prediction, edge…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-16 Zihan Dong , Xin Zhou , Ryumei Nakada , Lexin Li , Linjun Zhang

Learned sparse retrieval (LSR) is a family of first-stage retrieval methods that are trained to generate sparse lexical representations of queries and documents for use with an inverted index. Many LSR methods have been recently introduced,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Thong Nguyen , Sean MacAvaney , Andrew Yates

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are a useful tool for uncovering human-interpretable features in the activations of large language models (LLMs). While some expect SAEs to find the true underlying features used by a model, our research shows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Gonçalo Paulo , Nora Belrose

We address the problem of learning a distributed representation of entities in a relational database using a low-dimensional embedding. Low-dimensional embeddings aim to encapsulate a concise vector representation for an underlying dataset…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Siddhant Arora , Srikanta Bedathur

We tackle the problem of building explainable recommendation systems that are based on a per-user decision tree, with decision rules that are based on single attribute values. We build the trees by applying learned regression functions to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Eyal Shulman , Lior Wolf

Industry-scale recommendation systems have become a cornerstone of the e-commerce shopping experience. For Etsy, an online marketplace with over 50 million handmade and vintage items, users come to rely on personalized recommendations to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Xiaoting Zhao , Raphael Louca , Diane Hu , Liangjie Hong

Deep auto-encoders (DAEs) have achieved great success in learning data representations via the powerful representability of neural networks. But most DAEs only focus on the most dominant structures which are able to reconstruct the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Zhao Kang , Xiao Lu , Jian Liang , Kun Bai , Zenglin Xu

High-dimensional data sets are often analyzed and explored via the construction of a latent low-dimensional space which enables convenient visualization and efficient predictive modeling or clustering. For complex data structures, linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Oskar Allerbo , Rebecka Jörnsten

Learning efficient representations for decision-making policies is a challenge in imitation learning (IL). Current IL methods require expert demonstrations, which are expensive to collect. Additionally, they are not explicitly trained to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Aleksandar Vujinovic , Aleksandar Kovacevic

This paper describes a hierarchical learning strategy for generating sparse representations of multivariate datasets. The hierarchy arises from approximation spaces considered at successively finer scales. A detailed analysis of stability,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-23 Prashant Shekhar , Abani Patra

We use spatially-sparse two, three and four dimensional convolutional autoencoder networks to model sparse structures in 2D space, 3D space, and 3+1=4 dimensional space-time. We evaluate the resulting latent spaces by testing their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Benjamin Graham

Data selection is designed to accelerate learning with preserved performance. To achieve this, a fundamental thought is to identify informative data samples with significant contributions to the training. In this work, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ziheng Cheng , Zhong Li , Jiang Bian

Temporal graph neural networks have shown promising results in learning inductive representations by automatically extracting temporal patterns. However, previous works often rely on complex memory modules or inefficient random walk methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Mohammad Ali Alomrani , Mahdi Biparva , Yingxue Zhang , Mark Coates

Effectiveness of speech emotion recognition in real-world scenarios is often hindered by noisy environments and variability across datasets. This paper introduces a two-step approach to enhance the robustness and generalization of speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Upasana Tiwari , Rupayan Chakraborty , Sunil Kumar Kopparapu

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) achieve impressive performance in image classification tasks, yet the internal representations they learn remain less understood. This work started as an attempt to understand the strong downstream classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Anika Shrivastava , Renu Rameshan , Samar Agnihotri

Dimension of the encoder output (i.e., the code layer) in an autoencoder is a key hyper-parameter for representing the input data in a proper space. This dimension must be carefully selected in order to guarantee the desired reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Pedram Fekri , Ali Akbar Safavi , Mehrdad Hosseini Zadeh , Peyman Setoodeh

Pre-trained transformer models shine in many natural language processing tasks and therefore are expected to bear the representation of the input sentence or text meaning. These sentence-level embeddings are also important in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Lukas Stankevičius , Mantas Lukoševičius

Sequence data is challenging for machine learning approaches, because the lengths of the sequences may vary between samples. In this paper, we present an unsupervised learning model for sequence data, called the Integrated Sequence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Wenjie Pei , David M. J. Tax