This paper refines MMD for domain adaptation by balancing intra-class and inter-class distances.
problem Balancing intra-class and inter-class distances for better feature discriminability in domain adaptation.
method The paper theoretically proves two facts about MMD and proposes a novel discriminative MMD method to balance intra-class and inter-class distances.
result The proposed method improves feature discriminability and outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
Proposes a new layer for efficient 3D shape discrimination.
problem Irregular structure and redundancy in 3D point clouds hinder efficient inter-class discrimination.
method Integrates Blended Convolution and Synthesis layer that projects and synthesizes 3D point clouds, followed by 3D convolution in the unit ball.
result End-to-end architecture achieves compelling results on 3D shape recognition and retrieval.
Study improves speaker verification accuracy using angular based embedding learning.
problem Improving discriminative power of embeddings for open-set speaker verification.
method Optimizes angular distance and adds margin penalty, applying various angular margin embedding strategies and proposing inter-class regularization.
result Achieved impressive results with 16.5% improvement in EER and 18.2% improvement in minimum detection cost function.
Adversarial training is a useful approach to promote the learning of transferable representations across the source and target domains, which has been widely applied for domain adaptation (DA) tasks based on deep neural networks. Until very recently, existing adversarial domain adaptation (ADA) methods ignore the usefu…
Proposes GM Score to evaluate GANs considering diversity, disentanglement, and discriminability.
problem Evaluation of GANs for sample quality and diversity.
method Integrates various factors including intra-class and inter-class diversity, disentanglement, and discriminability metrics.
result Demonstrates improved evaluation of GANs on MNIST dataset.
Recently, considerable effort has been devoted to deep domain adaptation in computer vision and machine learning communities. However, most of existing work only concentrates on learning shared feature representation by minimizing the distribution discrepancy across different domains. Due to the fact that all the domai…
A new weighted FDA method improves face recognition accuracy.
problem Equal treatment of all class pairs in FDA leads to suboptimal performance.
method Cosine-weighted and automatically weighted FDA methods are proposed.
result Improved face recognition accuracy through weighted FDA.
Metric-based few-shot learning methods try to overcome the difficulty due to the lack of training examples by learning embedding to make comparison easy. We propose a novel algorithm to generate class representatives for few-shot classification tasks. As a probabilistic model for learned features of inputs, we consider…
Cross-entropy loss together with softmax is arguably one of the most common used supervision components in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Despite its simplicity, popularity and excellent performance, the component does not explicitly encourage discriminative learning of features. In this paper, we propose a gene…
Paper proposes angular loss for better face recognition and object classification.
problem Improving intra-class compactness and preventing overfitting in face recognition and object classification.
method Angular loss function to maximize angular gradient, reducing overfitting and requiring only one adjustable constant.
result Our method outperforms other methods in accuracy, discriminative information, and time-efficiency.
Deep neural networks trained using a softmax layer at the top and the cross-entropy loss are ubiquitous tools for image classification. Yet, this does not naturally enforce intra-class similarity nor inter-class margin of the learned deep representations. To simultaneously achieve these two goals, different solutions h…
Person re-identification (Re-ID) aims at matching images of the same person across disjoint camera views, which is a challenging problem in multimedia analysis, multimedia editing and content-based media retrieval communities. The major challenge lies in how to preserve similarity of the same person across video footag…
New approach improves human activity recognition with wearables.
problem Improving human activity recognition with wearables.
method Exploiting latent relationships between multi-channel sensor modalities, data-agnostic augmentation, and a classification loss criterion.
result Achieves new state-of-the-art performance on four diverse activity recognition benchmarks.
Graph-based framework for generalized few-shot learning.
problem Transferring learned models to novel tasks with few labeled examples.
method Graph-based framework that models relationships between seen and novel classes.
result Demonstrates benefits on benchmark datasets.
This work studies the impact of intra-/inter-class diversity on pre-training datasets and finds a balance for optimal performance.
problem The impact of intra-/inter-class diversity on supervised pre-training datasets and their effect on downstream tasks.
method Empirical study and theoretical analysis of the relationship between diversity types and downstream performance.
result The optimal class-to-sample ratio is invariant to the size of the pre-training dataset and can be predicted.
The paper analyzes how well classes are separated in neural network feature space.
problem Understanding class separability in neural network feature space.
method Theoretical analysis of intra-class and inter-class distances in feature space.
result A lower bound for the probability of inter-class distance being greater than intra-class distance as a function of loss value.
AdaCAD improves semi-supervised classification by focusing on intra-class nodes.
problem Improving semi-supervised classification by addressing inter-class connections in graphs.
method AdaCAD uses a class-attentive diffusion process to adaptively aggregate nodes based on their class similarity.
result AdaCAD significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in semi-supervised classification.
Proposes RLAR for efficient labeled data classification with robust margin and manifold structure.
problem Clear margin representation and data manifold structure difficulty in linear discriminant methods.
method Introduces retargeted regression for adaptive margin learning and locality-aware strategy for compact data manifold.
result RLAR outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in UCI and benchmark data sets.
A new loss function HUG decouples and generalizes neural collapse.
problem Neural collapse limits in deep learning models.
method Hyperspherical uniformity gap (HUG) as a unified framework.
result HUG decouples and generalizes neural collapse, improving model flexibility and robustness.
Representation and classification of Electroencephalography (EEG) brain signals are critical processes for their analysis in cognitive tasks. Particularly, extraction of discriminative features from raw EEG signals, without any pre-processing, is a challenging task. Motivated by nuclear norm, we observed that there is …
With the remarkable success achieved by the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in object recognition recently, deep learning is being widely used in the computer vision community. Deep Metric Learning (DML), integrating deep learning with conventional metric learning, has set new records in many fields, especially in…
Unified framework improves cross-corpus EEG emotion recognition by aligning prototypes and refining decision boundaries.
problem Cross-corpus EEG emotion recognition suffers from performance degradation due to physiological variability and device inconsistencies.
method Prototype-driven Adversarial Alignment (PAA) framework with three configurations: local, contrastive, and boundary-aware.
result State-of-the-art performance improvements across four cross-corpus evaluation protocols.
CoSCA improves unsupervised domain adaptation by better aligning ambiguous target samples.
problem Missing alignment of ambiguous target samples in unsupervised domain adaptation.
method CoSCA explicitly incorporates intra- and inter-class domain discrepancy, estimating label hypotheses and optimizing a contrastive loss with MMD for better global alignment.
result CoSCA outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in producing more discriminative features.
In this paper, a genetic algorithm-based frequency-domain feature search (GAFDS) method is proposed for the electroencephalogram (EEG) analysis of epilepsy. In this method, frequency-domain features are first searched and then combined with nonlinear features. Subsequently, these features are selected and optimized to …
Graph attention improves node classification by distinguishing important edges.
problem Node classification in graph-based learning models.
method Theoretical analysis of graph attention networks for node classification.
result Graph attention can perfectly classify nodes in an 'easy' regime but fails in a 'hard' regime.
Two novel methods improve network embedding for completely-imbalanced labels.
problem Improving network embedding for networks with completely-imbalanced labels.
method Two novel semi-supervised network embedding methods: RSDNE and RECT.
result Experimental results show the superiority of the proposed methods.
Study investigates XAI methods in clinical gait analysis.
problem Limited understanding of machine learning models in healthcare.
method XAI methods, specifically Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP), to explain ML predictions.
result Explanations from LRP show promising statistical and clinical relevance.
Enhances GNNs by improving input data quality from topology and labels.
problem Poor quality of graph data limits GNN performance.
method Improves graph data quality using model outputs for better semi-supervised node classification.
result SEG consistently improves GNN performance across various datasets.
In this paper we propose the use of multiple local binary patterns(LBPs) to effectively classify land use images. We use the UC Merced 21 class land use image dataset. Task is challenging for classification as the dataset contains intra class variability and inter class similarities. Our proposed method of using multi-…
A new model classifies surface anomalies in 3D point cloud data.
problem Accurate classification of surface anomalies in manufacturing processes.
method Deep subspace learning approach for 3D point cloud data.
result The method effectively identifies new types of anomalies.
This work explores the relationship between expressivity and generalization in GNNs.
problem Understanding the trade-off between expressivity and generalization in GNNs.
method Introducing a novel framework that connects GNN generalization to the variance in graph structures they can capture.
result Theoretical findings align with empirical results, offering a deeper understanding of how expressivity enhances GNN generalization.
PSC classifier improves HDLSS classification on class-imbalanced data.
problem Classification on high-dimension low-sample-size data with class imbalance.
method Population Structure-learned Classifier (PSC) maximizing inter-class and intra-class scatter matrices.
result PSC outperforms state-of-the-art methods on IHDLSS.
MPWTSVM improves multi-view learning by reducing redundancy and enhancing accuracy.
problem Improving multi-view learning models for better accuracy and efficiency.
method Proposes MPWTSVM, which combines WLTSVM's strengths with multi-view learning principles.
result Demonstrates better accuracy and efficiency compared to existing multi-view classification models.
In this work we propose a method for reducing the dimensionality of tensor objects in a binary classification framework. The proposed Common Mode Patterns method takes into consideration the labels' information, and ensures that tensor objects that belong to different classes do not share common features after the redu…
Cross-entropy loss linked to metric learning, outperforming complex pairwise losses.
problem Improving metric learning performance without complex optimization schemes.
method Theoretical analysis linking cross-entropy to pairwise losses, showing cross-entropy as an upper bound and equivalent to mutual information maximization.
result Minimizing cross-entropy is equivalent to maximizing mutual information, leading to state-of-the-art performance.
Learning to disentangle the hidden factors of variations within a set of observations is a key task for artificial intelligence. We present a unified formulation for class and content disentanglement and use it to illustrate the limitations of current methods. We therefore introduce LORD, a novel method based on Latent…
The study quantifies and compares aleatoric and epistemic discrimination in ML models.
problem Sources of discrimination in ML models and their impact on performance.
method Quantifying aleatoric and epistemic discrimination using statistical experiments and model accuracy.
result State-of-the-art fairness interventions are effective at removing epistemic discrimination but not aleatoric discrimination in datasets with missing values.
We introduce principal differences analysis (PDA) for analyzing differences between high-dimensional distributions. The method operates by finding the projection that maximizes the Wasserstein divergence between the resulting univariate populations. Relying on the Cramer-Wold device, it requires no assumptions about th…
Discrimination-aware classification is receiving an increasing attention in data science fields. The pre-process methods for constructing a discrimination-free classifier first remove discrimination from the training data, and then learn the classifier from the cleaned data. However, they lack a theoretical guarantee f…
Discriminator guidance improves autoregressive diffusion models for generating molecular graphs.
problem Improving the accuracy of autoregressive diffusion models for generating molecular graphs.
method Deriving ways to use a discriminator with a pretrained generative model in the discrete case, including optimal and sub-optimal scenarios.
result Using a discriminator can correct pretrained models and improve exact sampling from the data distribution.
Solves GAN mode collapse by assigning minibatches to multiple discriminators.
problem Mode collapse in GANs where models generate similar samples.
method Multiple discriminators, microbatching, and changing tasks.
result Promotes sample diversity in generated sets.
Kernel discriminant analysis uses nonlinear embeddings to improve classification.
problem Limited effectiveness of linear discriminant analysis in capturing nonlinear features.
method Study of nonlinear embeddings in kernel discriminant analysis using polynomial and Gaussian kernels, solving generalized eigenvalue problems.
result Polynomial and Gaussian discriminants capture class differences through population moments and randomized projections.
Lower-dimensional video discriminators improve GAN performance.
problem High curvature in unconstrained video discriminator loss surfaces.
method Proposed Lower-Dimensional Video Discriminators (LDVD GANs).
result LDVD GANs double Temporal-GAN performance and achieve state-of-the-art performance.
Discriminative clustering uses mutual information to cluster data.
problem Clustering data into cohesive groups.
method Discriminative clustering using mutual information.
result Mutual information has been a cornerstone of discriminative clustering.
Pairwise discriminators stabilize adversarial training by ensuring the generator's alignment is preserved.
problem Stability issues in adversarial training when using sub-optimal discriminators.
method Introducing a family of objectives using pairwise discriminators, ensuring the generator's alignment is preserved.
result Only the generator needs to converge, and the alignment is preserved with any discriminator.
PBN combines generative and discriminative capabilities in a neural network.
problem Combining generative and discriminative capabilities in neural networks.
method Convolutional PBN, sharing FF-NN embodiment, combining generative and discriminative qualities.
result PBN shows excellent qualities from either generative or discriminative viewpoint.
Study on GANs under and overfitting using discriminator unseen data.
problem Understanding and mitigating under and overfitting in GANs.
method Using discriminators unseen by the generator to measure generalization.
result Model capacity of the discriminator affects generator quality; large discriminator capacities do not prevent overfitting.
Study infinite Euclidean distance discriminants of algebraic varieties.
problem Understanding the structure of data points with infinitely many critical points in Euclidean distance correspondence.
method Developed computer code to compute discriminants and proved properties of fibers.
result Infinite Euclidean distance discriminants contain all data points with infinitely many critical points for the nearest-point problem.