Method converts emotions in nonparallel speech data.
problem Lack of parallel data for speech emotion conversion.
method Unsupervised style transfer technique for nonparallel training.
result Effectiveness demonstrated on nonparallel corpora with four emotions.
A new method for image translation without paired data.
problem Image-to-image translation between two domains with content preservation.
method Energy-based model in latent space of pretrained autoencoder.
result Improved translation quality and content preservation.
Develops deep learning for logical code segmentation.
problem Lack of logically segmented source code.
method Novel deep learning approach to generate logical code segments.
result Improves software analysis tasks like commenting, bug detection, and code synthesis.
Paper explores understanding of neural source code embeddings.
problem Lack of understanding of contents and characteristics of code2vec embeddings.
method Small case study using code2vec embeddings to create binary SVM classifiers and compare performance with handcrafted features.
result Code2vec embeddings perform similarly to handcrafted features and have more evenly distributed information gains.
Sensory data are often comprised of independent content and transformation factors. For example, face images may have shapes as content and poses as transformation. To infer separately these factors from given data, various ``disentangling'' models have been proposed. However, many of these are supervised or semi-super…
Content based image retrieval, a technique which uses visual contents of image to search images from large scale image databases according to users' interests. This paper provides a comprehensive survey on recent technology used in the area of content based face image retrieval. Nowadays digital devices and photo shari…
Project classifies Hinglish social content on platforms like Twitter, Reddit.
problem Classifying abusive and hate-inducing content in Hinglish on social media.
method Used deep learning with bi-directional sequence models and text augmentation techniques.
result Produced a state-of-the-art classifier that outperforms previous work.
Unsupervised image-to-image translation is an important and challenging problem in computer vision. Given an image in the source domain, the goal is to learn the conditional distribution of corresponding images in the target domain, without seeing any pairs of corresponding images. While this conditional distribution i…
Measures neural network information transfer for generalization.
problem Estimating the generalizable information in neural networks.
method Proposes Information Transfer (LIT) based on prequential coding. result Consistently correlates with generalizable information in neural networks.
Deep neural network predicts semantic labels for source code.
problem Difficulty in labeling and understanding new programming languages and functionalities.
method Language-agnostic deep convolutional neural network trained on Stack Overflow code snippets.
result Mean area under ROC of 0.957 and top-1 accuracy of 86.6% on Github code documents.
An unsupervised method clusters patient incident reports for content analysis.
problem Lack of methods to extract interpretable content from electronic healthcare records.
method Combines text-embedding with paragraph vectors and graph-theoretical multiscale community detection.
result Extracts high-intrinsic-consistency groups of patient incident reports.
Malicious web content is a serious problem on the Internet today. In this paper we propose a deep learning approach to detecting malevolent web pages. While past work on web content detection has relied on syntactic parsing or on emulation of HTML and Javascript to extract features, our approach operates directly on a …
We present an algorithm to generate synthetic datasets of tunable difficulty on classification of Morse code symbols for supervised machine learning problems, in particular, neural networks. The datasets are spatially one-dimensional and have a small number of input features, leading to high density of input informatio…
This paper detects function-level obfuscation in binary code using graph-based methods.
problem Detecting and characterizing function-level obfuscation in binary code.
method Graph-based approaches, including GNNs, are compared on various datasets.
result GNNs outperform baselines in function-level obfuscation detection, especially in a 11-class classification task.
A method to improve image synthesis diversity using mutual information.
problem Mode collapse in conditional GANs for multimodal image synthesis.
method Explicitly estimate and maximize mutual information between latent code and output image.
result Prevents mode collapse and encourages synthesis of diverse images.
The paper applies Gaussianization to analyze Earth data, simplifying complex multivariate distributions.
problem Challenges in accurately estimating information content in high-dimensional, heterogeneous Earth data.
method Multivariate Gaussianization for robust probability density estimation.
result Validates the method for estimating information-theoretic measures in Earth system data.
Machine learning analyzed peer reviews to find differences in quality by journal impact factor.
problem Determining if higher journal impact factors correlate with more thorough or helpful peer reviews.
method Hand-coded and machine-learned analysis of 10,000 peer review sentences from 1,644 journals.
result Peer reviews in higher impact factor journals are more thorough in discussing methods but less helpful in suggesting solutions and providing examples.
End-to-end deep generative model for video compression.
problem Efficiently compressing video data with deep learning.
method Variational autoencoder (VAE) for sequential data, combined with neural image compression techniques.
result Our model achieves competitive rate-distortion results on diverse video content.
TOAD-GAN generates coherent game levels from a single example.
problem Creating game levels from a single example.
method Token-based Procedural Content Generation (PCG) using SinGAN architecture.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results in generating coherent levels of similar style.
Patch ranking improves CNN performance by focusing on object content, not location.
problem CNNs lack rotation and translation invariance, limiting model capacity.
method Patch ranking before convolution and pooling to encode invariance.
result Patch ranking module improves CNN performance on various tasks.
Paper improves deep point cloud compression techniques.
problem Efficiently compressing 3D point cloud data for various applications.
method Integrates scale hyperprior model, deeper transforms, focal loss, and optimal thresholding.
result Achieves significant BD-PSNR gains over existing methods.
Study uses few-shot learning to analyze claims and arguments in German debate on arms deliveries.
problem Limited data and computational resources for automated content analysis.
method Multilingual transformer model with adapter extension and few-shot learning.
result Parameter-efficient approach performs well on varying training set sizes.
The seminal work of Gatys et al. demonstrated the power of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in creating artistic imagery by separating and recombining image content and style. This process of using CNNs to render a content image in different styles is referred to as Neural Style Transfer (NST). Since then, NST has …
Deep learning improves video coding efficiency without client-side changes.
problem Improving video coding efficiency without altering existing standards.
method Cascaded downscaling neural networks coupled with adaptive precoding mode selection.
result 15% to 45% rate reduction in FHD and UHD content encoding.
Boost-and-Skip generates minority samples without guidance, faster and more effectively.
problem Generating minority samples in low-density regions of a data manifold.
method Boost-and-Skip approach with variance-boosted initialization and timestep skipping.
result Boost-and-Skip effectively promotes the emergence of underrepresented minority features.
Study shows online learning algorithms incentivize low-quality content, proposing new algorithms to improve quality.
problem Online learning algorithms in content recommender systems incentivize producers to create low-quality content.
method Analyzed the game between producers and content quality, designed new learning algorithms to incentivize high effort and quality.
result New algorithms incentivize producers to invest high effort and achieve high user welfare, improving content quality.
Proposes a model to optimize feedback for content creators on social media.
problem Nurturing content creation on social media platforms.
method Modeling feedback distribution to incentivize creators and optimize newsfeed experience.
result Optimized newsfeed for content creators without compromising user experience.
Proposes a VAE variant for ordinal content factors.
problem Isolating ordinal-valued content factors in deep latent variable models.
method Introduces a partially ordered set (poset) structure and a conditional Gaussian spacing prior model.
result Significant improvements in content-style separation over previous non-ordinal approaches.
New estimate reduces overfitting risk in machine learning models.
problem Error rate on test data may not reflect true population error due to adaptive data analysis practices.
method Introduces Rip van Winkle's Razor, a simple estimate of overfit to test data based on information content.
result Shows non-vacuous estimate of deviation in many modern settings.
New deep architecture improves head motion prediction in 360° videos.
problem Predicting user head motion in 360-degree videos using past positions and video content.
method Re-examined existing deep-learning approaches, identified flaws, and designed a new TRACK architecture.
result TRACK achieves state-of-the-art performance, outperforming competitors by up to 20 percent.
Learning an encoding of feature vectors in terms of an over-complete dictionary or a information geometric (Fisher vectors) construct is wide-spread in statistical signal processing and computer vision. In content based information retrieval using deep-learning classifiers, such encodings are learnt on the flattened la…
This research predicts the popularity of new video contents using a hybrid machine learning approach.
problem Predicting the popularity of new video contents before they are published.
method Hybrid machine learning approach combining XGBoosting and deep neural nets, using metadata and categorical embedding techniques.
result Achieved better performance than standalone methods, validated on a dataset from a top streaming service.
Preserves content while changing style in text.
problem Text style transfer often fails to preserve content.
method Leverages linguistic information in structured supervisions.
result Significant improvement in content preservation and style transfer.
Codebook for Institutional Grammar 2.0 simplifies policy encoding.
problem Facilitating consistent policy encoding for diverse analytical needs.
method Revised Institutional Grammar with multiple levels of expressiveness.
result Enhanced flexibility and specificity in policy encoding.
Many businesses are using recommender systems for marketing outreach. Recommendation algorithms can be either based on content or driven by collaborative filtering. We study different ways to incorporate content information directly into the matrix factorization approach of collaborative filtering. These content-booste…
Sparse coding is a common approach to learning local features for object recognition. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in learning features from spatio-temporal, binocular, or other multi-observation data, where the goal is to encode the relationship between images rather than the content of a single ima…
Spotify improves content mix using contextual bandits.
problem Skewed historical data and varying user preferences across contexts.
method Contextual bandits to dynamically learn optimal content type distribution.
result Improved precision and user engagement with under-represented content types.
A new model considers fatigue in online content recommendation systems.
problem Fatigue in users due to overexposure and boredom from similar recommendations.
method Proposed a fatigue-aware Dependent Click Model (DCM) and two learning algorithms.
result Developed algorithms with regret bounds for learning content relevance and fatigue effects.
New PCGML approach generates novel game content across multiple platformer domains.
problem Generating novel game content in new domains.
method Using a new affordance and path vocabulary, variational autoencoders trained on data from six platformer games produce new content with varying proportions of different domains.
result Captures latent level space spanning multiple domains and generates new content with varying proportions of different domains.
We consider visual domains in which a class label specifies the content of an image, and class-irrelevant properties that differentiate instances constitute the style. We present a domain-independent method that permits the open-ended recombination of style of one image with the content of another. Open ended simply me…
New study shows personalized content recommendations can lead to polarization of user preferences.
problem Personalized content recommendations can alter user preferences, leading to polarization.
method Used a model of preference dynamics to explore how personalized content affects user preferences.
result Standard reward maximization algorithms achieve only constant regret in personalized recommendation environments.
This paper uses diffusion models for lossy image compression, improving perceptual metrics and practicality.
problem Lossy image compression with improved perceptual metrics and practicality.
method End-to-end optimized lossy image compression using conditional diffusion models.
result The model yields stronger FID scores and competitive performance in distortion metrics.
A new approach uses deep learning to manage vehicular content efficiently.
problem Managing content replication and caching in vehicular networks efficiently.
method Data-driven, centralized approach using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN).
result Effective strategies derived to modulate FC operation in space and adapt to mobility changes.
Generative AI tasks analyzed for text, images, audio, video, code, and molecules.
problem What is the core question when using generative AI?
method Survey of generative model families, probabilistic framework, game-theoretic setup, post-training modifications, socially responsible considerations.
result Generative AI is a distinct machine learning task with connections to prediction, compression, and decision-making.
Study on heat content for submanifolds in sub-Riemannian geometry.
problem Understanding heat content for submanifolds in sub-Riemannian geometry.
method Existence of smooth tubular neighborhood, definition of relative heat content, approximation via smooth neighborhoods, asymptotic expansion analysis.
result Approximation of relative heat content fails to recover the exact expansion.
With rapid development of the Internet, web contents become huge. Most of the websites are publicly available, and anyone can access the contents from anywhere such as workplace, home and even schools. Nevertheless, not all the web contents are appropriate for all users, especially children. An example of these content…
With an abundance of research papers in deep learning, reproducibility or adoption of the existing works becomes a challenge. This is due to the lack of open source implementations provided by the authors. Further, re-implementing research papers in a different library is a daunting task. To address these challenges, w…
Enhances content moderation with culturally-aware models.
problem Global content moderation policies miss local cultural nuances.
method Fine-tuning encoder-decoder models on media-diet data.
result Improved accuracy in local violation detection and cultural alignment.