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Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as a powerful tool for interpreting neural networks by extracting the concepts represented in their activations. However, choosing the size of the SAE dictionary (i.e. number of learned concepts)…

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Large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems typically operate in dense array deployments with limited scattering environments, leading to highly correlated and ill-conditioned channel matrices that severely degrade the…

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Existing works are dedicated to untangling atomized numerical components (features) from the hidden states of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, they typically rely on autoencoders constrained by some training-time regularization on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hakaze Cho , Haolin Yang , Yanshu Li , Brian M. Kurkoski , Naoya Inoue

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to segment an image into semantic regions according to text descriptions, which may not have been seen during training. Recent two-stage methods first generate class-agnostic mask proposals and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Feng Liang , Bichen Wu , Xiaoliang Dai , Kunpeng Li , Yinan Zhao , Hang Zhang , Peizhao Zhang , Peter Vajda , Diana Marculescu

We present an interpretable deep model for fine-grained visual recognition. At the core of our method lies the integration of region-based part discovery and attribution within a deep neural network. Our model is trained using image-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Zixuan Huang , Yin Li

When the predicted sequence length exceeds the length seen during training, the transformer's inference accuracy diminishes. Existing relative position encoding methods, such as those based on the ALiBi technique, address the length…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Weiguo Gao

Interpretable entity representations (IERs) are sparse embeddings that are "human-readable" in that dimensions correspond to fine-grained entity types and values are predicted probabilities that a given entity is of the corresponding type.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Diego Garcia-Olano , Yasumasa Onoe , Joydeep Ghosh , Byron C. Wallace

Interactive image segmentation enables users to interact minimally with a machine, facilitating the gradual refinement of the segmentation mask for a target of interest. Previous studies have demonstrated impressive performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Kun Li , Hao Cheng , George Vosselman , Michael Ying Yang

Semantic segmentation of electron microscopy (EM) images of biological samples remains a challenge in the life sciences. EM data captures details of biological structures, sometimes with such complexity that even human observers can find it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Sheida Rahnamai Kordasiabi , Damian Dalle Nogare , Florian Jug

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have garnered substantial attention in open-vocabulary semantic and part segmentation (OSPS). However, existing methods extract image-text alignment cues from cost volumes through a serial…

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Expectation Propagation (EP) is a widely used iterative message-passing algorithm that decomposes a global inference problem into multiple local ones. It approximates marginal distributions as ``beliefs'' using intermediate functions called…

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We consider the non-coherent single-input multiple-output (SIMO) multiple access channel with general signaling under spatially correlated Rayleigh block fading. We propose a novel soft-output multi-user detector that computes an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Maxime Guillaud , Alexis Decurninge , Sheng Yang , Philip Schniter

Expectation maximisation (EM) is an unsupervised learning method for estimating the parameters of a finite mixture distribution. It works by introducing "hidden" or "latent" variables via Baum's auxiliary function $Q$ that allow the joint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Graham W. Pulford

CLIP is one of the most popular foundational models and is heavily used for many vision-language tasks. However, little is known about the inner workings of CLIP. To bridge this gap we propose a study to quantify the interpretability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Avinash Madasu , Yossi Gandelsman , Vasudev Lal , Phillip Howard

We introduce a new image segmentation task, called Entity Segmentation (ES), which aims to segment all visual entities (objects and stuffs) in an image without predicting their semantic labels. By removing the need of class label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Lu Qi , Jason Kuen , Yi Wang , Jiuxiang Gu , Hengshuang Zhao , Zhe Lin , Philip Torr , Jiaya Jia

Neuron segmentation from electron microscopy (EM) volumes is crucial for understanding brain circuits, yet the complex neuronal structures in high-resolution EM images present significant challenges. EM data exhibits unique characteristics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yinda Chen , Haoyuan Shi , Xiaoyu Liu , Te Shi , Ruobing Zhang , Dong Liu , Zhiwei Xiong , Feng Wu

Exemplar-based semantic image synthesis generates images aligned with semantic content while preserving the appearance of an exemplar. Conventional structure-guidance models like ControlNet, are limited as they rely solely on text prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Siyoon Jin , Jisu Nam , Jiyoung Kim , Dahyun Chung , Yeong-Seok Kim , Joonhyung Park , Heonjeong Chu , Seungryong Kim

Interpretability is a pressing issue for machine learning. Common approaches to interpretable machine learning constrain interactions between features of the input, rendering the effects of those features on a model's output comprehensible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Kieran A. Murphy , Dani S. Bassett

Higher-order exceptional points (EPs) govern non-Hermitian system dynamics through their enriched and sharpened spectral topology, yet the intrinsic topological fragility hinders robust experimental realization. Here, we present a scalable…