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48 results for visual learning

Paper establishes baselines for offline RL from visual observations.

problem Challenges in offline reinforcement learning from visual observations with continuous action spaces.
method Simple baselines and benchmarking tasks for offline RL from visual observations.
result Simple modifications to existing online RL algorithms outperform existing offline RL methods.

Consensus dimension reduction combines multiple visualizations to identify shared patterns.

problem Conflicting visualizations from different dimension reduction methods.
method Multi-view learning to identify stable patterns across multiple views.
result Consensus visualization effectively identifies shared low-dimensional data structure.

Constellation learns group-level visual relationships for abstract reasoning.

problem Learning configurational properties of entire groups of objects.
method Introduces Constellation, a network that learns relational abstractions over static visual scenes.
result Offers a basis for abstract relational reasoning and sensory imagination.

The paper explains knowledge distillation by analyzing visual concepts in DNNs.

problem Understanding how knowledge distillation affects the learning of visual concepts in deep neural networks.
method The paper proposes three hypotheses and designs mathematical metrics to evaluate feature representations of DNNs.
result The hypotheses were verified through experiments on various DNNs.

This work learns visual representations for deformable objects using contrastive estimation.

problem Challenges in learning plannable visual representations for deformable objects.
method Jointly optimizes visual representation and dynamics models using contrastive estimation.
result Substantial improvements in performance over standard model-based learning techniques.

Self-supervised learning of visual semantics in image games.

problem Learning visual semantics in referential emergent language games.
method Investigating the impact of feature extractor weights and tasks on visual semantics, using various image augmentations and additional tasks.
result Communication systems can learn visual semantics in a self-supervised manner by playing the right types of games.

The paper uses deep learning to speed up spatial and visual connectivity analysis.

problem Slow calculation of spatial and visual connectivity metrics.
method Investigates machine learning models and a pipeline for training them on spatial and visual connectivity analysis.
result Deep learning models significantly speed up the analysis process.

Achieving artificial visual reasoning - the ability to answer image-related questions which require a multi-step, high-level process - is an important step towards artificial general intelligence. This multi-modal task requires learning a question-dependent, structured reasoning process over images from language. Stand…

2017-07-10abs ↗pdf ↗

The present contribution suggests the use of a multidimensional scaling (MDS) algorithm as a visualization tool for manifold-valued elements. A visualization tool of this kind is useful in signal processing and machine learning whenever learning/adaptation algorithms insist on high-dimensional parameter manifolds.

2010-04-02abs ↗pdf ↗

VTAB benchmarks diverse visual tasks to assess representation learning effectiveness.

problem Lack of a unified evaluation for general visual representations.
method Developed VTAB, a benchmark for diverse visual tasks, and evaluated many representation learning algorithms.
result VTAB revealed insights into the effectiveness of various representation learning methods.

Visualizes deep neural networks for speech recognition using learned topographic filter maps.

problem Unintuitive internal structure of deep neural networks complicates activation visualization.
method Trains a convolutional speech recognition model with filters arranged in a 2D grid, highlighting similar filters.
result Topographic filter maps visualize artificial neuron activations more intuitively.

Few-shot visual reasoning model learns analogical relationships from small data.

problem Training deep models on few samples for visual reasoning tasks.
method Meta-analogical contrastive learning to enforce structural similarity between training and test samples.
result Method outperforms state-of-the-art on RAVEN dataset with scarce training data.

Entangled bisimulation improves policy learning from visual input.

problem Learning generalizeable policies from visual input in the presence of visual distractions.
method Proposes entangled bisimulation, a bisimulation metric for continuous state and action spaces.
result Entangled bisimulation improves policy learning on the Distracting Control Suite (DCS).

ViCE uses superpixels to enhance self-supervised learning for better dense visual embeddings.

problem Lack of high-resolution feature maps from self-supervised models.
method Superpixels for dense representation learning, contrasting over regions.
result Improves unsupervised semantic segmentation on benchmarks like Cityscapes and COCO.

There is a growing interest in learning data representations that work well for many different types of problems and data. In this paper, we look in particular at the task of learning a single visual representation that can be successfully utilized in the analysis of very different types of images, from dog breeds to s…

2017-05-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a spectral method to assess and combine multiple data visualizations.

problem Evaluating and combining the strengths of different data visualization algorithms.
method Spectral method for assessing and combining multiple visualizations.
result Proposes a visualization eigenscore to quantify relative performance and a consensus visualization.

Mapping states to actions in deep reinforcement learning is mainly based on visual information. The commonly used approach for dealing with visual information is to extract pixels from images and use them as state representation for reinforcement learning agent. But, any vision only agent is handicapped by not being ab…

2019-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Understanding why and how certain neural networks outperform others is key to guiding future development of network architectures and optimization methods. To this end, we introduce a novel visualization algorithm that reveals the internal geometry of such networks: Multislice PHATE (M-PHATE), the first method designed…

2019-08-07abs ↗pdf ↗

New VAE models reveal hierarchical visual cortex computations.

problem Capturing hierarchical visual cortex computations in generative models.
method Sparse coding hierarchical VAEs trained on natural images with varied generative and recognition components.
result Representations similar to those in visual cortex emerge under inductive biases.

Manifold learning techniques for dynamical systems and time series have shown their utility for a broad spectrum of applications in recent years. While these methods are effective at learning a low-dimensional representation, they are often insufficient for visualizing the global and local structure of the data. In thi…

2019-06-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Visual system compares and evaluates machine learning models for clinical data predictions.

problem Challenges in comparing and evaluating different machine learning models for medical predictions.
method Developed a visual analytics system to compare and evaluate multiple models' prediction criteria and consistency.
result Demonstrated the effectiveness of the visual analytics system in assisting clinicians and researchers.

Understanding how images of objects and scenes behave in response to specific ego-motions is a crucial aspect of proper visual development, yet existing visual learning methods are conspicuously disconnected from the physical source of their images. We propose to exploit proprioceptive motor signals to provide unsuperv…

2015-05-08abs ↗pdf ↗

As machine learning becomes more pervasive, there is an urgent need for interpretable explanations of predictive models. Prior work has developed effective methods for visualizing global model behavior, as well as generating local (instance-specific) explanations. However, relatively little work has addressed regional …

2019-04-01abs ↗pdf ↗