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Proposes STN for HDA by aligning domain-shared classifier and subspace.

problem Learning in target domain using knowledge from heterogeneous source domain.
method End-to-end learning of domain-shared classifier and domain-invariant subspace; soft-label strategy for unlabeled data; adaptive coefficient for soft-labels.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in various transfer tasks.

SFM matches flows on statistical manifolds for better discrete generation.

problem Discrete generation on statistical manifolds with strong prior assumptions.
method Statistical Flow Matching (SFM) on manifold of categorical distributions using Fisher information metric.
result SFM achieves higher sampling quality and likelihood than other models.

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.

ZegOT uses optimal transport to zero-shot segment images with text prompts.

problem Zero-shot semantic segmentation with limited image-text alignment knowledge.
method ZegOT uses optimal transport to match multiple text prompts with frozen image embeddings.
result ZegOT achieves state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot semantic segmentation.

Unsupervised methods have proven effective for discriminative tasks in a single-modality scenario. In this paper, we present a multimodal framework for learning sparse representations that can capture semantic correlation between modalities. The framework can model relationships at a higher level by forcing the shared …

2015-11-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes MR-SNE for multimodal data visualization.

problem Visualizing data from multiple domains with relations across them.
method Extends t-SNE to compute augmented relations and jointly embed them in a low-dimensional space.
result Demonstrates promising performance in visualizing Flickr and Animal with Attributes 2 datasets.

Estimates CATEs for structured treatments using a new decomposition method.

problem Estimating conditional average treatment effects for complex data types.
method Generalized Robinson decomposition, isolating causal estimand, arbitrary model plugging, quasi-oracle convergence guarantee.
result Demonstrates superior performance in CATE estimation compared to prior work.

Classifies and constructs intertwining differential operators between line and vector bundles over real projective space.

problem Classifying and constructing intertwining differential operators between line and vector bundles over real projective space.
method F-method for classification and construction of intertwining differential operators.
result Generalizes a classical result of Bol for SL(2,R)SL(2,\mathbb{R}) and classifies intertwining operators for SL(n,R)SL(n,\mathbb{R}).

The paper classifies and constructs differential symmetry breaking operators from a line bundle to a vector bundle over real projective spaces.

problem Classifying and constructing differential symmetry breaking operators.
method Utilizing factorization identities and branching laws of generalized Verma modules.
result Differential symmetry breaking operators from a line bundle to a vector bundle over real projective spaces are classified and constructed.

Global pooling, such as max- or sum-pooling, is one of the key ingredients in deep neural networks used for processing images, texts, graphs and other types of structured data. Based on the recent DeepSets architecture proposed by Zaheer et al. (NIPS 2017), we introduce a Set Aggregation Network (SAN) as an alternative…

2018-10-03abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose JECL, a method for clustering image-caption pairs by training parallel encoders with regularized clustering and alignment objectives, simultaneously learning both representations and cluster assignments. These image-caption pairs arise frequently in high-value applications where structured training data is e…

2019-01-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Traditional clustering methods often perform clustering with low-level indiscriminative representations and ignore relationships between patterns, resulting in slight achievements in the era of deep learning. To handle this problem, we develop Deep Discriminative Clustering (DDC) that models the clustering task by inve…

2019-05-05abs ↗pdf ↗

While supervised learning has enabled great progress in many applications, unsupervised learning has not seen such widespread adoption, and remains an important and challenging endeavor for artificial intelligence. In this work, we propose a universal unsupervised learning approach to extract useful representations fro…

2018-07-10abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we study output coding for multi-label prediction. For a multi-label output coding to be discriminative, it is important that codewords for different label vectors are significantly different from each other. In the meantime, unlike in traditional coding theory, codewords in output coding are to be predic…

2012-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

CLIP learns joint image-text representations for zero-shot learning.

problem Understanding and improving zero-shot transfer performance in CLIP.
method Formal study of transferrable representation learning and analysis of zero-shot transfer performance.
result Proposes a new CLIP-type approach that outperforms existing methods.

We study how well one can recover sparse principal components of a data matrix using a sketch formed from a few of its elements. We show that for a wide class of optimization problems, if the sketch is close (in the spectral norm) to the original data matrix, then one can recover a near optimal solution to the optimiza…

2015-03-12abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper discusses quantifying realism in generated images.

problem Designing functions to reliably distinguish realistic data from unrealistic data.
method Drawing on insights from algorithmic information theory, the paper introduces the notion of a universal critic.
result A good generative model alone is insufficient to solve the problem of realism quantification.

New method improves neural network performance by focusing on steep function regions.

problem Improving neural network performance by focusing on steep function regions.
method Variance Based Samples Weighting (VBSW) using labels local variance to weight training points.
result Significantly increases the performances of neural networks for various tasks.

The paper tackles calibrating long-term behaviors with multiple styles using programmatic style-consistency.

problem Generating long-term sequential behaviors with multiple styles simultaneously.
method Leverage programmatic labeling functions to specify controllable styles and derive style-consistency as a learning objective.
result Learned policies can be calibrated for up to 1024 distinct style combinations.

This work generates diverse adversarial attacks for different domains using latent variable perturbation.

problem Adversarial attacks on deep neural networks are limited to a single perturbation.
method Frame adversarial attacks as learning a distribution of perturbations, enabling generation of diverse attacks.
result Framework generates competitive or superior adversarial attacks across diverse domains (images, text, graphs).

This research explores how different discrete diffusion kernels affect graph generation quality.

problem The impact of different discrete diffusion kernels on graph generation quality.
method Developed a family of discrete diffusion kernels that converge to different Bernoulli priors.
result The quality of generated graphs is sensitive to the prior used, challenging previous intuitions.

Contrastive learning estimates transition kernels for continuous-time stochastic processes.

problem Estimating transition kernels for continuous-time stochastic processes without labeled data.
method Contrastive learning applied to strong-mixing continuous-time stochastic processes.
result Contrastive learning can estimate transition kernels for small-to-mid-range intervals in the diffusion case.

Improved guarantees for sparse random embeddings with explicit bounds and empirical superiority.

problem Improving the explicitness and sharpness of guarantees for sparse random embeddings.
method Explicit bounds, tighter estimates for quadratic chaos, extreme properties of sparse linear forms, and improved bounds for sums of independent random variables.
result Significantly outperforms prior works on various real-world datasets.

Study shows how to reduce data needed for learning under geometric constraints.

problem Learning high-dimensional data with geometric priors.
method Spherical harmonic decompositions and kernel methods for invariance and geometric stability.
result Improvements in sample complexity by leveraging group invariance, with asymptotic behavior depending on spectral properties.

COBRA reduces modality gap in cross-modal tasks.

problem Joint embedding spaces fail to sufficiently reduce modality gap in multi-modal tasks.
method COBRA trains image and text modalities in a joint fashion using Contrastive Predictive Coding and Noise Contrastive Estimation.
result COBRA significantly reduces the modality gap and generates robust joint-embedding space.

The paper analyzes and proposes an algorithm for multi-modal nonlinear embeddings with theoretical performance bounds.

problem Generalizability of multi-modal nonlinear embeddings to unseen data.
method Theoretical analysis and a multi-modal nonlinear representation learning algorithm motivated by performance bounds.
result The proposed algorithm yields promising performance in multi-modal image classification and cross-modal image-text retrieval applications.

The paper proves probabilistic alignment between unseen modalities using contrastive learning.

problem Aligning unseen modalities in unsupervised learning.
method Bayesian approach and direct comparison of contrastive representations.
result Direct comparison of contrastive representations recovers the same likelihood ratio as probabilistic graphical models.

Generates coherent storybooks from plain text using diffusion models.

problem Ensuring coherency in a sequence of images for storytelling applications.
method Combines pre-trained LLM and text-guided Latent Diffusion Model for zero-shot generation.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art image editing baselines in generating coherent storybooks.

Paper presents a novel approach for global feature aggregation in Graph Neural Networks.

problem Graphs lack a straightforward way to perform non-local feature aggregation like images and texts.
method Utilizes Latent Fixed Data Structure (LFDS) to aggregate feature vectors from local extraction.
result Proposed methods achieve competitive or better results with linear computational complexity.

FHDMs achieve optimal convergence in spherically supported data.

problem Statistical convergence properties of FHDMs for spherical data.
method FHDMs leverage random generation time and Doob's h-transform to optimize convergence rate.
result Achieve minimax optimal convergence rate in total variation for spherically supported Sobolev smooth data.

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.

Neural score matching improves high-dimensional causal inference by using neural networks for balancing scores.

problem Impracticality of traditional matching methods in high-dimensional datasets due to the curse of dimensionality.
method Develops neural networks to create non-trivial, multivariate balancing scores for high-dimensional causal inference.
result Neural score matching outperforms other methods in treatment effect estimation and reducing imbalance on high-dimensional datasets.

BC-LLM uses LLMs to find concepts without predefined sets, improving interpretability and performance.

problem Finding a balance between interpretability and accuracy in concept extraction models.
method Bayesian approach with LLMs as both concept extractor and prior.
result BC-LLM outperforms interpretable and black-box models across various datasets.