Analyzes fashion demand to optimize style mix in retail.
problem Optimizing fashion assortment planning in retail.
method Derives a style quotient from customer demand data, decoupling style from price.
result Shows the relationship between customer perception and retailer's style mix.
The fashion industry is establishing its presence on a number of visual-centric social media like Instagram. This creates an interesting clash as fashion brands that have traditionally practiced highly creative and editorialized image marketing now have to engage with people on the platform that epitomizes impromptu, r…
A new object detector identifies fashion items from social media photos.
problem Difficult to parse and classify fashion items from social media content.
method Pretrained unsupervised object detector on 24 categories from Open Images V4.
result 72.7% mAP on test dataset of 2.4K photos, outperforming state-of-the-art.
Fashion-Gen dataset offers high-res fashion images and descriptions for research.
problem Lack of high-quality, detailed fashion image datasets for research.
method Created a large dataset of fashion images and descriptions, provided baseline results, and launched a challenge.
result Baseline results on image generation and conditioning on text descriptions.
This study examines how fashion consumption affects self-confidence and buying behavior in Iranian consumers.
problem Understanding the role of self-confidence in fashion buying behavior.
method A questionnaire was used to collect data from 400 consumers in Tehran's clothing market. Structural equations and factor analysis were employed to test the model.
result Interest in fashion, personal taste, utilitarianism, and new products positively impact self-confidence, and self-confidence positively impacts fashion buying behavior.
This paper removes near-duplicates from Fashion-MNIST to improve testing accuracy.
problem Near-duplicate images in Fashion-MNIST increase testing accuracy, reducing dataset quality.
method Identified and removed near-duplicate images between training and testing sets.
result Improved dataset quality for better testing accuracy in machine learning models.
We present Fashion-MNIST, a new dataset comprising of 28x28 grayscale images of 70,000 fashion products from 10 categories, with 7,000 images per category. The training set has 60,000 images and the test set has 10,000 images. Fashion-MNIST is intended to serve as a direct drop-in replacement for the original MNIST dat…
Robotic clothing manipulation improved with fashion image analysis techniques.
problem Automated identification of clothing categories and landmarks for robotic tasks.
method Training data augmentation methods and rotation invariant convolutions.
result Our approach outperforms state-of-the-art models on unseen datasets.
HERMES model predicts nonstationary fashion trends using social media data.
problem Forecasting nonstationary fashion time series for optimal inventory decisions.
method Hybrid model combining parametric models, seasonal components, and recurrent neural networks with external signals.
result State-of-the-art results on fashion dataset and M4 competition time series.
Paper generates high-resolution fashion images based on body pose.
problem Limited variety of outfit images for shopping.
method Generative model trained on body pose and style transfer.
result Realistic high-resolution images of models in custom outfits.
This work aims to separate buying preferences from merchandise commercials in fashion e-retail.
problem Difficult to infer customer preference from sales data due to implicit signals.
method Extends earlier work on explicit signals to implicit signals from user behavior.
result Derives a metric to separate buying preferences from merchandise commercials.
Automates size normalization for fashion items.
problem Reduce merchandise returns in e-commerce.
method Uses sales data to automate size mapping.
result Automated size mappings comparable to human-generated ones.
Generates detailed fashion feedback from outfit images.
problem Creating informative and diverse fashion feedback from outfit images.
method Trained deep generative models with visual attention, then improved with Maximum Mutual Information objective function.
result Generated sentences are more diverse and detailed.
The paper disentangles multiple input conditions in GANs for fashion design.
problem Controlling multiple input attributes in GANs for realistic image generation.
method Customized conditional GANs with consistency loss functions.
result The method can generate novel and realistic images of clothing articles.
O-GANs improve fashion image generation by conditioning on a hierarchical ontology.
problem Challenges in training GANs to generate images from text descriptions.
method Ontology Generative Adversarial Networks (O-GANs) that condition on a hierarchical fashion ontology.
result O-GANs achieve better image quality and conditioning results compared to standard GANs.
Bayesian model predicts fashion size recommendations and returns.
problem Predicting optimal fashion sizes and handling returns efficiently.
method Hierarchical Bayesian model for size and return events.
result Model incorporates domain expertise and article characteristics.
Test for fairness in IR systems based on protected variables.
problem Unfairness in IR systems due to correlation with protected variables.
method Statistical test for 'distribution parity' in top-K IR results.
result Ensures fairness in IR systems for all users.
A new model predicts fashion demand 6-12 months ahead, boosting retailer profits.
problem Accurate demand forecasting for fashion retailers with short product life cycles.
method Product age-based forecast model, incorporating unique feature engineering.
result Significant revenue uplift of 41% compared to retailer's plan.
Deep learning predicts fit for fashion e-commerce.
problem Predicting correct fit for customer satisfaction and cost reduction.
method Deep learning content-collaborative approach using customer and article embeddings.
result Significant improvement over state-of-the-art methods.
Model generates outfits and extracts style information from them.
problem Lack of methods focusing on global outfit style information.
method Incorporated unsupervised style extraction module into a bidirectional LSTM and autoencoder model.
result Generated outfits more flexibly and extracted easily interpretable styles.
The paper proposes a machine learning technique to optimize prices in fashion e-commerce.
problem Optimizing prices for millions of products in fashion e-commerce to maximize revenue and profit.
method Demand prediction, price elasticity, multiple price demand pairs, linear programming optimization.
result The model improved revenue by 1% and gross margin by 0.81% in AB tests.
Outfittery uses machine learning to help stylists choose appropriate fashion items.
problem Selecting appropriate fashion items and ensuring relevance to customers.
method Combining machine learning with human expertise to recommend items by style fit and relevance.
result The method successfully recommends fashion items by style fit and relevance.
Can an algorithm create original and compelling fashion designs to serve as an inspirational assistant? To help answer this question, we design and investigate different image generation models associated with different loss functions to boost creativity in fashion generation. The dimensions of our explorations include…
Deep neural network predicts product returns before purchase.
problem High costs of handling returned fashion products.
method Bayesian Personalized Ranking (BPR) embeddings and skip-gram model for user and product features.
result Reduced overall returns through real-time return probability prediction.
Feature Learning aims to extract relevant information contained in data sets in an automated fashion. It is driving force behind the current deep learning trend, a set of methods that have had widespread empirical success. What is lacking is a theoretical understanding of different feature learning schemes. This work p…
Improved image reconstruction using VAEs with Student's t-prior.
problem Improving the robustness of VAEs in image reconstruction.
method Proposed a VAE with Student's t-distribution as prior, trained all distribution parameters.
result Better image reconstruction achieved with Student's t-prior compared to Gaussian priors.
q-CNN learns data features through entangled states.
problem Classifying MNIST and Fashion MNIST datasets.
method Introduces q-CNN model, a tensor network description, and studies entanglement structure.
result q-CNN learns entanglement structure to perform classification tasks accurately.
Let (M,ω) be a connected symplectic manifold on which a connected Lie group G acts properly and in a Hamiltonian fashion with moment map $μ:M \lra \mf g^*$. Our purpose is investigate multiplicity-free actions, giving criteria to decide a multiplicity freenes of the action. As an application we give the complete cl…
New bounds for shallow neural networks with deterministic parameters.
problem Developing generalisation bounds for shallow neural networks.
method PAC-Bayesian theory applied to shallow neural networks with deterministic parameters.
result Empirical non-vacuous bounds for shallow neural networks trained with vanilla SGD.
New method uses random discriminators to train GANs more efficiently.
problem Difficulty in training Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs).
method Proposes a new generative network using random discriminators.
result The method leads to a more stable and efficient optimization problem.
Bidirectional VAE reduces parameters and improves image tasks.
problem Improving image reconstruction, classification, interpolation, and generation.
method Uses a single neural network for both encoding and decoding in both forward and backward directions.
result Bidirectional VAEs reduce parameters by almost 50% and slightly outperform unidirectional VAEs.
Improved image classification using centroids and stochastic sampling.
problem Limited accuracy of nearest-neighbor classification.
method Coarse-graining (replacing images by centroids) and stochastic sampling of centroids.
result Stochastic sampling of centroids improves classification accuracy.
We prove that the Seiberg-Witten invariants of a rational homology sphere are determined in a very explicit fashion by the Casson-Walker invariant and the Reidemeister torsion
InfoMax Autoencoder maximizes mutual information for robust data representation.
problem Learning robust data representations from raw data.
method Explicitly maximizes mutual information between input and hidden representation.
result IMAE outperforms state-of-the-art models in clustering performance.
Method retrieves similar fashion items from images and text, enabling style refinement.
problem Lack of intuitive, interactive refinement in search engines for fashion items.
method Joint visual-textual embedding training, Mini-Batch Match Retrieval, attribute extraction.
result Improved performance in multimodal style search, demonstrated through benchmark.
Tensor methods improve image classification performance.
problem Improving image classification accuracy using tensor-based machine learning.
method Two novel tensor-based approaches: MANDy kernel reformulation and alternating ridge regression in tensor-train format.
result Tensor-based methods are competitive with state-of-the-art neural networks.
QMIX combines per-agent values to create decentralised policies.
problem Training decentralised policies from centralised learning.
method QMIX uses a mixing network to estimate joint action-values as a monotonic combination of per-agent values.
result QMIX significantly outperforms existing methods on the StarCraft Multi-Agent Challenge (SMAC).
New neural network avoids forgetting old knowledge as new data comes in.
problem Catastrophic forgetting in lifelong learning systems.
method Sequential Neural Coding Network, biologically-plausible synapse adaptation, task-executive control mimicry.
result Significantly less forgetting compared to standard neural models in experiments.
FIS-GAN uses importance sampling in GANs to speed up training.
problem Efficiency in GAN training by focusing on hard-to-generate examples.
method Adapting importance sampling into GANs using normalizing flows.
result Significant acceleration in GAN optimization with improved fidelity.
In this paper, we describe a solution to tackle a common set of challenges in e-commerce, which arise from the fact that new products are continually being added to the catalogue. The challenges involve properly personalising the customer experience, forecasting demand and planning the product range. We argue that the …
Investigates the impact of batch size on GPU and TPU performance.
problem Optimizing performance of GPUs and TPUs during training and inference phases.
method Investigated the impact of batch size on performance of GPUs and TPUs using standard MNIST and Fashion-MNIST datasets.
result Significant speedup was achieved even with low-scale usage of TPUv2 units, up to 10x for training and 2x for prediction.
We present a novel method to solve image analogy problems : it allows to learn the relation between paired images present in training data, and then generalize and generate images that correspond to the relation, but were never seen in the training set. Therefore, we call the method Conditional Analogy Generative Adver…
Quantum computing at room temperature achieves high accuracy in image classification.
problem Classifying images with single photons at room temperature.
method Optical transformation of quantum state to exploit interference and entanglement.
result Theoretical accuracy of 41.27% for MNIST and 36.14% for Fashion-MNIST.
New data set and method for BTO supply chain demand forecasting.
problem Lack of demand forecasting methods for BTO supply chains.
method Proposes a novel data transformation technique for BTO products.
result Approach compares well to state-of-the-art methods and is easy to implement.
New supervised and unsupervised NFLTs for elliptical distributions.
problem Understanding unsupervised No Free Lunch Theorems for elliptical distributions.
method Proved two equally optimal strategies for elliptical distributions, inspired PRIM-based bump-hunting algorithms.
result Optimal strategies for selecting principal components based on variance or volume.
Machine learning is used to compute achievable information rates (AIRs) for a simplified fiber channel. The approach jointly optimizes the input distribution (constellation shaping) and the auxiliary channel distribution to compute AIRs without explicit channel knowledge in an end-to-end fashion.
Nested learning improves model performance on multi-granular tasks.
problem Overconfident models and lack of fine-grained confidence in predictions.
method Introducing nested learning with a sequence of nested feature embeddings and explicit combination of outputs.
result Nested learning outperforms standard end-to-end training on various datasets.
New metrics help rebuild trust in Active Learning for industry practitioners.
problem Misalignment of objectives between research and industry in Active Learning.
method Presentation of actionable metrics to interpret AL strategies.
result Actionable metrics improve AL performance and interpretability.