I consider how to influence CycleGAN, image-to-image translation, by using additional constraints from a neural network trained on art composition attributes. I show how I trained the the Art Composition Attributes Network (ACAN) by incorporating domain knowledge based on the rules of art evaluation and the result of a…
Study challenges neural models in compositional learning tasks.
problem Challenges in neural models for compositional and relational learning.
method Introduced ConceptWorld environment for generating images from compositional concepts, tested various neural architectures.
result Neural models struggle with longer compositional chains and substitutivity tests.
Energy-based models can generate complex images by combining simpler concepts.
problem Generating natural images that satisfy complex logical combinations of concepts.
method Energy-based models combine probability distributions of simpler concepts to generate compositions.
result Energy-based models can generate images that satisfy conjunctions, disjunctions, and negations of concepts.
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can produce images of remarkable complexity and realism but are generally structured to sample from a single latent source ignoring the explicit spatial interaction between multiple entities that could be present in a scene. Capturing such complex interactions between different ob…
New framework infers multiple classes per image for one-shot learning.
problem Inferring multiple classes per image in one-shot learning.
method Compositional embedding framework with joint training of embedding and composition/query functions.
result Compositional embedding models outperform existing methods on various datasets.
New method separates objects from images using deep neural networks trained to inpaint.
problem Fully self-supervised instance separation of occluded objects in images.
method Maximizes independence of two image regions given a fully self-supervised inpainting network.
result Method achieves similar segmentation performance to fully supervised methods on microscopy image datasets.
Image captioning models are usually evaluated on their ability to describe a held-out set of images, not on their ability to generalize to unseen concepts. We study the problem of compositional generalization, which measures how well a model composes unseen combinations of concepts when describing images. State-of-the-…
A short proof for a theorem about composite knots.
problem Proving a theorem about composite knots with symmetric union presentations.
method Presenting a concise proof of Tanaka's theorem.
result Composite knots with symmetric union presentations have non-trivial connected summands.
New samplers improve compositional generation with diffusion models.
problem Improving compositional generation with diffusion models.
method Score-based interpretation, energy-based parameterization, Metropolis-corrected samplers.
result New samplers enable successful compositional generation across various tasks.
Sublinearly structured DNNs achieve feature learning consistency for compositional functions.
problem Achieving feature-learning and prediction consistency in deep neural networks.
method Sublinearly structured DNNs
result Sublinearly structured DNNs match or surpass wide DNNs in prediction.
New method recovers relative rates in spatial compositional data from IMS.
problem Challenges in analyzing spatial data from IMS due to competitive sampling.
method Hierarchical Variational Graph Fused Lasso using heavy-tailed graphical lasso prior and automatic differentiation variational inference.
result Our method outperforms state-of-the-practice point estimate methodologies in IMS and has superior posterior coverage.
There has been remarkable recent work in unpaired image-to-image translation. However, they're restricted to translation on single pairs of distributions, with some exceptions. In this study, we extend one of these works to a scalable multidistribution translation mechanism. Our translation models not only converts fro…
Diffusion models learn hierarchical composition rules from data.
problem How many samples do generative models need to learn hierarchical composition rules?
method Theoretical and empirical investigation of diffusion models on probabilistic context-free grammars.
result Diffusion models learn hierarchical composition rules with sample complexity scaling polynomially with context size.
New real algebraic maps with prescribed images and compositions are constructed locally like moment maps.
problem Constructing real algebraic maps with specific properties and compositions.
method Explicit construction of real algebraic hypersurfaces and maps with prescribed images and compositions.
result Explicit families of functions represented as compositions of constructed maps with canonical projections.
Generative model improves scene graph prediction for rare compositions.
problem Challenges in inferring unseen or rare scene graph compositions.
method Synthesizing rare scene graphs by perturbing real ones, using conditional GANs.
result Marginal but consistent improvements in zero- and few-shot metrics.
Unified tensor model disentangles object appearance factors.
problem Representing hierarchical intrinsic and extrinsic causal factors of object appearance.
method Compositional hierarchical tensor factorization.
result Interpretable object representation robust to occlusion and reduced training data requirements.
Compositional structures between parts and objects are inherent in natural scenes. Modeling such compositional hierarchies via unsupervised learning can bring various benefits such as interpretability and transferability, which are important in many downstream tasks. In this paper, we propose the first deep latent vari…
Generalization error defines the discriminability and the representation power of a deep model. In this work, we claim that feature space design using deep compositional function plays a significant role in generalization along with explicit and implicit regularizations. Our claims are being established with several im…
Unified framework for aligning and composing diffusion models to satisfy multiple constraints.
problem Improving quality and compliance of generated samples from diffusion models.
method Constrained optimization framework that unifies alignment and composition of diffusion models.
result Proposed framework effectively satisfies multiple constraints in image generation.
In this work, we propose a composition/decomposition framework for adversarially training generative models on composed data - data where each sample can be thought of as being constructed from a fixed number of components. In our framework, samples are generated by sampling components from component generators and fee…
Proposes a new framework for learning image augmentations to improve classification performance.
problem Improving classification performance with a given class of predictors.
method Transformed Risk Minimization (TRM) framework that optimizes both predictive models and data transformations.
result Performance of TRM with SCALE algorithm compares favorably to prior methods on CIFAR10/100.
DCMIX learns channel importance for high content imaging.
problem Lack of channel importance information in deep learning-based image analysis.
method Image blending concepts with alpha compositing for arbitrary channels.
result DCMIX learns biologically relevant channel importance without sacrificing prediction performance.
AR-CSM models use derivatives of univariate log-conditionals to estimate joint distributions efficiently.
problem Scalability and stability issues in training autoregressive models.
method Parameterize joint distribution using derivatives of univariate log-conditionals and introduce Composite Score Matching (CSM) for efficient training.
result AR-CSM models are more scalable and stable compared to previous score matching algorithms.
The paper introduces multimodal generative models to improve data marginal likelihood.
problem Improving data marginal likelihood in multimodal settings.
method Derives variational bounds on the evidence for multimodal deep generative models, generalizes objectives for different model types, and benchmarks across various datasets.
result Multimodal VAEs excel in image, label, and text datasets with and without weak supervision.
Enhances image captioning with novel context combination methods.
problem Improving machine learning for image captioning with structured learning and meaningful interpretation.
method Combines Feature Distribution Composition (FDC), Multiple Role Representation Crossover (MRRC) attention layers, and language decoder.
result Significantly improved image captioning performance (35.3%) and established new standards.
Improved SVMs learn from few samples with composition and multiple scales.
problem Learning with small sample sizes.
method Transformation-invariant SVMs with composition and locality at multiple scales.
result Kernels based on maximum similarity are positive definite and yield superior accuracy.
We introduce the hierarchical compositional network (HCN), a directed generative model able to discover and disentangle, without supervision, the building blocks of a set of binary images. The building blocks are binary features defined hierarchically as a composition of some of the features in the layer immediately be…
CFA improves model's ability to generalize across unseen domain-class combinations.
problem Challenges in real-world machine learning applications due to data distribution shifts and limited training data.
method Developed Compositional Feature Alignment (CFA) technique to improve CG ability of pretrained models.
result CFA outperforms common finetuning techniques in compositional generalization.
Paper shows linear convergence of ISTA and FISTA for ill-conditioned images.
problem Solving linear inverse problems with sparse representation in signal and image processing.
method Revisits iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithms (ISTA) and improves their convergence properties.
result Linear convergence of ISTA and FISTA for strongly convex smooth parts, even in ill-conditioned cases.
This paper proposes to learn hierarchical compositional AND-OR model for interpretable image synthesis by sparsifying the generator network. The proposed method adopts the scene-objects-parts-subparts-primitives hierarchy in image representation. A scene has different types (i.e., OR) each of which consists of a number…
Unified theory for neural scaling laws in hierarchically compositional data.
problem Understanding neural scaling laws in hierarchically compositional data.
method Probabilistic context-free grammars and power-law distributed production rules.
result Unified learning curve behavior for classification and next-token prediction tasks.
Face recognition systems are vulnerable to composite face reconstruction attacks.
problem Vulnerability of face recognition systems to composite face reconstruction attacks.
method Assumed attacker uses composite face parts to reconstruct faces faster and more efficiently.
result Current face recognition systems are extremely vulnerable to random search attacks.
Describes explaining neurons in deep representations using compositional logical concepts.
problem Interpreting neuron behavior in deep neural networks.
method Identifying compositional logical concepts that closely approximate neuron behavior.
result Compositional explanations provide insights into model performance and allow for adversarial example creation.
GFlowNet-EM learns complex latent variable models with discrete structures.
problem Challenges in modeling posteriors over discrete compositional latents with expectation-maximization.
method Uses GFlowNets to learn stochastic policies for sampling from complex posterior distributions.
result GFlowNet-EM enables training expressive LVMs with discrete compositional latents.
Generative Neuro-Symbolic model learns from raw data with rich conceptual representations.
problem Learning rich, general-purpose conceptual representations from raw perceptual inputs.
method Generative Neuro-Symbolic (GNS) model combining symbolic and neural network approaches.
result Model learns from raw data and generalizes to 4 unique tasks.
RB-Modulation trains free diffusion models without external adapters.
problem Training-free personalization of diffusion models with style and content control.
method Stochastic optimal control with a style descriptor and cross-attention aggregation.
result Precise content and style extraction and control without external adapters.
Improves GAN-based semi-supervised learning with consistency regularization.
problem Lack of consistency in class probability predictions under local perturbations.
method Introduces consistency regularization to GANs, leveraging both local and interpolation consistency.
result Significantly improves performance and achieves new state-of-the-art results.
On some specified convex supporting sets of spheres, we find a generalized longitude function whose level sets are totally geodesic. Given an arbitrary (weakly) harmonic map into spheres, the composition of the generalized longitude function and harmonic map satisfies an elliptic equation of divergence type. With the a…
Analytic functions on specific domains are characterized by their smoothness and composites with polynomial curves.
problem Characterizing real analytic functions on closed subanalytic domains.
method Analyzing functions defined on closed uniformly polynomially cuspidal sets in Rn using composites with polynomial curves. result Conditions for a function to be real analytic are effectively related to the regularity of the boundary of the domain.
Image classification system identifies bumble bee species from images.
problem Manual identification of bumble bee species is time-consuming and requires expert knowledge.
method Transfer learning using Inception, VGG16, VGG19, and ResNet models.
result Inception and VGG classifiers achieved up to 23% accuracy for single species identification.
In this paper by reduction we construct a family of conformally flat Hamiltonian-minimal Lagrangian tori in CP3 as the image of the composition of the Hopf map H:S7→CP3 and a map ψ:R3→S7 with certain conditions.
This paper analyzes self-supervised learning from a multi-view perspective.
problem Understanding and optimizing self-supervised learning from multi-view data.
method Information-theoretical framework to understand and design self-supervised learning objectives.
result Self-supervised representations can extract task-relevant information and discard task-irrelevant information.
We assume that a high-dimensional datum, like an image, is a compositional expression of a set of properties, with a complicated non-linear relationship between the datum and its properties. This paper proposes a factorial mixture prior for capturing latent properties, thereby adding structured compositionality to deep…
Spectral images captured by satellites and radio-telescopes are analyzed to obtain information about geological compositions distributions, distant asters as well as undersea terrain. Spectral images usually contain tens to hundreds of continuous narrow spectral bands and are widely used in various fields. But the vast…
This paper reviews deep learning techniques for face recognition and sketch matching.
problem Matching composite sketches to photo images of faces is challenging due to limited details.
method Uses deep learning for feature extraction and classification in face recognition.
result Deep learning improves face recognition accuracy with large datasets.
DreamFusion uses text-to-image diffusion models to create 3D images efficiently.
problem Lack of large-scale 3D datasets and efficient architectures for 3D synthesis.
method Adapting a 2D diffusion model to 3D synthesis using a loss based on probability density distillation.
result A 3D model can be optimized from a 2D diffusion model, allowing for text-to-3D synthesis.
Proposes a novel method to identify complex effects in multi-view datasets.
problem Challenges in analyzing multi-view biomedical datasets with complex interactions.
method Generalized kernel machine approach considering marginal and joint effects of features from different views.
result Effective identification of higher-order composite effects in multi-view datasets.
New method steals deep neural network knowledge using unlabeled data.
problem Stealing knowledge from protected deep neural networks.
method Generating composite images to mimic mentor neural networks.
result Student network successfully mimics mentor network and steals knowledge.