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Decentralized data sources are prevalent in real-world applications, posing a formidable challenge for causal inference. These sources cannot be consolidated into a single entity owing to privacy constraints. The presence of dissimilar data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Thanh Vinh Vo , Young lee , Tze-Yun Leong

Foundation models possess strong capabilities in reasoning and memorizing across modalities. To further unleash the power of foundation models, we present FIND, a generalized interface for aligning foundation models' embeddings with unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xueyan Zou , Linjie Li , Jianfeng Wang , Jianwei Yang , Mingyu Ding , Junyi Wei , Zhengyuan Yang , Feng Li , Hao Zhang , Shilong Liu , Arul Aravinthan , Yong Jae Lee , Lijuan Wang

Inner interpretability is a promising field aiming to uncover the internal mechanisms of AI systems through scalable, automated methods. While significant research has been conducted on large language models, limited attention has been paid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jinyung Hong , Yearim Kim , Keun Hee Park , Sangyu Han , Nojun Kwak , Theodore P. Pavlic

In this paper, we study the framework of collaborative inference, or edge ensembles. This framework enables multiple edge devices to improve classification accuracy by exchanging intermediate features rather than raw observations. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Mateus P. Mota , Mattia Merluzzi , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Learning from the collective knowledge of data dispersed across private sources can provide neural networks with enhanced generalization capabilities. Federated learning, a method for collaboratively training a machine learning model across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Matt Gorbett , Hossein Shirazi , Indrakshi Ray

Federated Learning (FL) for face recognition aggregates locally optimized models from individual clients to construct a generalized face recognition model. However, previous studies present two major challenges: insufficient incorporation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Hansol Kim , Hoyeol Choi , Youngjun Kwak

Machine learning is typically framed from a perspective of i.i.d., and more importantly, isolated data. In parts, federated learning lifts this assumption, as it sets out to solve the real-world challenge of collaboratively learning a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Subarnaduti Paul , Lars-Joel Frey , Roshni Kamath , Kristian Kersting , Martin Mundt

Smartphones, wearables, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices produce a wealth of data that cannot be accumulated in a centralized repository for learning supervised models due to privacy, bandwidth limitations, and the prohibitive cost of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Aaqib Saeed , Flora D. Salim , Tanir Ozcelebi , Johan Lukkien

We present a novel deep learning architecture for fusing static multi-exposure images. Current multi-exposure fusion (MEF) approaches use hand-crafted features to fuse input sequence. However, the weak hand-crafted representations are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-21 K. Ram Prabhakar , V. Sai Srikar , R. Venkatesh Babu

Collaborative filtering (CF) and content-based filtering (CBF) have widely been used in information filtering applications. Both approaches have their strengths and weaknesses which is why researchers have developed hybrid systems. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Kai Yu , Anton Schwaighofer , Volker Tresp , Wei-Ying Ma , HongJiang Zhang

Ensemble learning is a well established body of methods for machine learning to enhance predictive performance by combining multiple algorithms/models. Combinatorial Fusion Analysis (CFA) has provided method and practice for combining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Eric Roginek , Jingyan Xu , D. Frank. Hsu

Collaborative inference among multiple wireless edge devices has the potential to significantly enhance Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, particularly for sensing and computer vision. This approach typically involves a three-stage…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Mohamed Seif , Yuqi Nie , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as an effective technique to co-training machine learning models without actually sharing data and leaking privacy. However, most existing FL methods focus on the supervised setting and ignore the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Zewei Long , Liwei Che , Yaqing Wang , Muchao Ye , Junyu Luo , Jinze Wu , Houping Xiao , Fenglong Ma

Semantic vector embedding techniques have proven useful in learning semantic representations of data across multiple domains. A key application enabled by such techniques is the ability to measure semantic similarity between given data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Shalisha Witherspoon , Dean Steuer , Graham Bent , Nirmit Desai

Federated Learning is a distributed machine learning approach that enables geographically distributed data silos to collaboratively learn a joint machine learning model without sharing data. Most of the existing work operates on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Dimitris Stripelis , Jose Luis Ambite

The goal of this paper is to retrieve an image based on instance, attribute and category similarity notions. Different from existing works, which usually address only one of these entities in isolation, we introduce a cooperative embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 William Thong , Cees G. M. Snoek , Arnold W. M. Smeulders

Ensembling is a successful technique to improve the performance of machine learning (ML) models. Conf-Ensemble is an adaptation to Boosting to create ensembles based on model confidence instead of model errors to better classify difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Rafael Rosales , Peter Popov , Michael Paulitsch

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning technique that enables multiple entities to collaboratively learn a shared model without exchanging their local data. Over the past decade, FL systems have achieved substantial progress, scaling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Katharine Daly , Hubert Eichner , Peter Kairouz , H. Brendan McMahan , Daniel Ramage , Zheng Xu

Nowadays, user privacy is becoming an issue that cannot be bypassed for system developers, especially for that of web applications where data can be easily transferred through internet. Thankfully, federated learning proposes an innovative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Tianyi Yu , Pei Lai , Fei Teng

We propose a framework in which multiple entities collaborate to build a machine learning model while preserving privacy of their data. The approach utilizes feature embeddings from shared/per-entity feature extractors transforming data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Alireza Sarmadi , Hao Fu , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Siddharth Garg , Farshad Khorrami