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We propose a novel information bottleneck (IB) method named Drop-Bottleneck, which discretely drops features that are irrelevant to the target variable. Drop-Bottleneck not only enjoys a simple and tractable compression objective but also…

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Anomaly detection is a fundamental yet challenging problem in machine learning due to the lack of label information. In this work, we propose a novel and powerful framework, dubbed as SLA$^2$P, for unsupervised anomaly detection. After…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Yizhou Wang , Can Qin , Rongzhe Wei , Yi Xu , Yue Bai , Yun Fu

JEPAs often regularize one-view embeddings toward an isotropic Gaussian, implicitly baking Euclidean symmetry into the representation. We show that this is not merely a benign default. For a known structured downstream geometry $H\succ0$,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Robert Jenkinson Alvarez

We consider the problem of image representation for the tasks of unsupervised learning and semi-supervised learning. In those learning tasks, the raw image vectors may not provide enough representation for their intrinsic structures due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-20 Yiyi Liao , Yue Wang , Yong Liu

Designing learning algorithms that are resistant to perturbations of the underlying data distribution is a problem of wide practical and theoretical importance. We present a general approach to this problem focusing on unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Andreas Maurer , Daniela A. Parletta , Andrea Paudice , Massimiliano Pontil

We propose a mathematical framework to explain implicit regularization from early stopping during the training of overparametrized neural networks. In the mean-field limit, the parameter distribution evolves according to a gradient flow on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Beatrice Acciaio , Jakob Heiss , Gudmund Pammer , Qinxin Yan

The cornerstone of cognitive intelligence lies in extracting hidden patterns from observations and leveraging these principles to systematically predict future outcomes. However, current image tokenization methods demonstrate significant…

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Autoencoders have achieved great success in various computer vision applications. The autoencoder learns appropriate low dimensional image representations through the self-supervised paradigm, i.e., reconstruction. Existing studies mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Jianzhang Zheng , Hao Shen , Jian Yang , Xuan Tang , Mingsong Chen , Hui Yu , Jielong Guo , Xian Wei

We introduce a conceptually simple yet effective model for self-supervised representation learning with graph data. It follows the previous methods that generate two views of an input graph through data augmentation. However, unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Hengrui Zhang , Qitian Wu , Junchi Yan , David Wipf , Philip S. Yu

Image-based Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (IJEPA) offers an attractive alternative to Masked Autoencoder (MAE) for representation learning using the Masked Image Modeling framework. IJEPA drives representations to capture useful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Etai Littwin , Vimal Thilak , Anand Gopalakrishnan

Autoregressive language models have demonstrated a remarkable ability to extract latent structure from text. The embeddings from large language models have been shown to capture aspects of the syntax and semantics of language. But what…

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Accurate diagnosis of heart arrhythmias requires the interpretation of electrocardiograms (ECG), which capture the electrical activity of the heart. Automating this process through machine learning is challenging due to the need for large…

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Autoencoders represent an effective approach for computing the underlying factors characterizing datasets of different types. The latent representation of autoencoders have been studied in the context of enabling interpolation between data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Alon Oring , Zohar Yakhini , Yacov Hel-Or

In this work, we introduce Mask-JEPA, a self-supervised learning framework tailored for mask classification architectures (MCA), to overcome the traditional constraints associated with training segmentation models. Mask-JEPA combines a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Dong-Hee Kim , Sungduk Cho , Hyeonwoo Cho , Chanmin Park , Jinyoung Kim , Won Hwa Kim

We present EB-JEPA, an open-source library for learning representations and world models using Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs). JEPAs learn to predict in representation space rather than pixel space, avoiding the pitfalls…

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Autoencoders are a widespread tool in machine learning to transform high-dimensional data into a lowerdimensional representation which still exhibits the essential characteristics of the input. The encoder provides an embedding from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Juliane Braunsmann , Marko Rajković , Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

We propose a new GAN-based unsupervised model for disentangled representation learning. The new model is discovered in an attempt to utilize the Information Bottleneck (IB) framework to the optimization of GAN, thereby named IB-GAN. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Insu Jeon , Wonkwang Lee , Myeongjang Pyeon , Gunhee Kim

Supervised neural networks, which first map an input $x$ to a single representation $z$, and then map $z$ to the output label $y$, have achieved remarkable success in a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Despite their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Jiawei Wu , Xiaoya Li , Xiang Ao , Yuxian Meng , Fei Wu , Jiwei Li

Self-supervision can dramatically cut back the amount of manually-labelled data required to train deep neural networks. While self-supervision has usually been considered for tasks such as image classification, in this paper we aim at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-06 David Novotny , Samuel Albanie , Diane Larlus , Andrea Vedaldi

Learning useful representations with little or no supervision is a key challenge in artificial intelligence. We provide an in-depth review of recent advances in representation learning with a focus on autoencoder-based models. To organize…

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