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Proposes Population Difference Criterion for visually observed subpopulation differences.

problem Statistical significance of visually observed subpopulation differences in high-dimensional and high-signal contexts.
method Balanced permutation approach and bootstrap confidence interval for quantifying uncertainty.
result Balanced permutation approach is more powerful in high-signal contexts.

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.

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.

The paper addresses bias in visual recognition models by reweighting observations.

problem Bias in deep neural networks trained on biased image databases.
method Reweighting observations based on known biasing mechanisms to form a nearly debiased estimator.
result The approach can remedy representativeness issues in visual recognition systems.

The paper corrects biases in estimating intrinsic dimension and differential entropy.

problem Systematic bias in estimating intrinsic dimension and differential entropy.
method A bias-corrected estimator for both measures is proposed, highlighting shared steps and useful consequences.
result Simultaneous estimation of differential entropy and intrinsic dimension provides complementary perspectives on underlying manifolds.

In recent years, a large amount of model-agnostic methods to improve the transparency, trustability and interpretability of machine learning models have been developed. We introduce local feature importance as a local version of a recent model-agnostic global feature importance method. Based on local feature importance…

2018-04-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep metric learning is often used to learn an embedding function that captures the semantic differences within a dataset. A key factor in many problem domains is how this embedding generalizes to new classes of data. In observing many triplet selection strategies for Metric Learning, we find that the best performance …

2019-09-16abs ↗pdf ↗

DPFRL uses particle filters for decision making with complex visual observations.

problem Decision making with partial complex visual observations.
method Discriminative Particle Filter Reinforcement Learning (DPFRL) with a differentiable particle filter in the neural network policy.
result DPFRL outperforms state-of-the-art POMDP RL models in complex visual observation tasks.

Neural model predicts object states and physical parameters from visual observations.

problem Computational models struggle with physical reasoning and adapting to new environments.
method Visual prior predicts particle-based system from visual observations; inference module refines estimates subject to dynamics constraints.
result Model can infer physical properties within a few observations and adapt to unseen scenarios.

CVRL tackles complex visual observations in reinforcement learning.

problem Complex visual observations in natural environments.
method Contrastive Variational Reinforcement Learning (CVRL) learns a contrastive variational model by maximizing mutual information between latent states and observations.
result CVRL achieves comparable performance with state-of-the-art model-based DRL methods and significantly outperforms them on tasks with complex observations.

New dataset tests mental rotation from single images, improving model understanding of 3D scenes.

problem Understanding how a scene looks from a different viewpoint using a single image.
method Created CLEVR-MRT dataset, explored neural architectures for volumetric scene representations.
result Demonstrated the effectiveness of volumetric representations in answering mental rotation questions.

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.

Classically, imitation learning algorithms have been developed for idealized situations, e.g., the demonstrations are often required to be collected in the exact same environment and usually include the demonstrator's actions. Recently, however, the research community has begun to address some of these shortcomings by …

2019-05-22abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper investigates uncertainty calibration in multimodal large language models.

problem Challenges in properly calibrating uncertainty in multimodal large language models.
method Investigation of representative MLLMs across various scenarios, including visual fine-tuning and multimodal training.
result MLLMs tend to give answers rather than admit uncertainty, but this self-assessment improves with proper prompt adjustments.

A framework disentangles controllable objects from visual signals for improved RL.

problem Improving sample efficiency and game performance in vision-based RL.
method Action-conditioned video prediction to disentangle controllable objects.
result Improved sample efficiency and game performance in Atari games.

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 ↗

Algorithm improves imitation learning from visual data in partially observable environments.

problem Imitation learning from visual observations with missing expert actions and partial observability.
method Theoretical analysis and Latent Adversarial Imitation from Observations algorithm combining adversarial and latent representations.
result Latent Adversarial Imitation from Observations achieves state-of-the-art performance in high-dimensional robotic tasks.

Paper speeds up visualization of uncertain data.

problem High computational cost in reconstructing data uncertainties.
method Subdivide data spatially, adaptively reconstructing only necessary values, using GPR kernel and saved data observations to estimate upper bounds for level-crossing probabilities.
result Accurate estimation of value occurrence probabilities with low computation cost.

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.

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.

A framework for measuring differences in categorical data.

problem Measuring differences between categorical variables.
method Introduces a general framework for efficient and flexible implementation of distances for categorical variables.
result Framework allows for incorporation of existing distances and introduces new formulations.

Convolutional neural networks have been successfully applied to various NLP tasks. However, it is not obvious whether they model different linguistic patterns such as negation, intensification, and clause compositionality to help the decision-making process. In this paper, we apply visualization techniques to observe h…

2018-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

In recent years, deep generative models have been shown to 'imagine' convincing high-dimensional observations such as images, audio, and even video, learning directly from raw data. In this work, we ask how to imagine goal-directed visual plans -- a plausible sequence of observations that transition a dynamical system …

2018-07-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Topological surgery in dimension 33 is intrinsically connected with the classification of 33-manifolds and with patterns of natural phenomena. In this expository paper, we present two different approaches for understanding and visualizing the process of 33-dimensional surgery. In the first approach, we view the proc…

2018-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Visual spoofing bypasses spam filters and plagiarism detection.

problem Vulnerability in spam filters that can be exploited by visually similar but differently encoded characters.
method Replaces characters with visually similar but differently encoded characters from a different alphabet.
result Spammers can create messages that bypass existing spam filters.

New visual tool detects financial market changes using multiscaling analysis.

problem Detecting relevant changes in financial time series.
method Time-dependent Generalized Hurst Exponents (GHE) and Change-Point Analysis.
result Identifies patterns distinguishing between uniscaling and multiscaling, and provides warning signals.

Visual relationship detection can bridge the gap between computer vision and natural language for scene understanding of images. Different from pure object recognition tasks, the relation triplets of subject-predicate-object lie on an extreme diversity space, such as \textit{person-behind-person} and \textit{car-behind…

2018-09-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Different layouts can characterize different aspects of the same graph. Finding a "good" layout of a graph is thus an important task for graph visualization. In practice, users often visualize a graph in multiple layouts by using different methods and varying parameter settings until they find a layout that best suits …

2019-04-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Imitation from observation (IfO) is the problem of learning directly from state-only demonstrations without having access to the demonstrator's actions. The lack of action information both distinguishes IfO from most of the literature in imitation learning, and also sets it apart as a method that may enable agents to l…

2018-07-17abs ↗pdf ↗

This research reverses feature visualization in neural networks to optimize for specific feature objectives.

problem The invertibility of feature visualization in neural networks is not well understood.
method The approach involves optimizing for the feature objective that generates the input used in feature visualization, using the gradient of a specific objective function.
result A closed-form solution is found to minimize the gradient, providing an alternative view on network sensitivity.

Sensor data has been playing an important role in machine learning tasks, complementary to the human-annotated data that is usually rather costly. However, due to systematic or accidental mis-operations, sensor data comes very often with a variety of missing values, resulting in considerable difficulties in the follow-…

2017-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

This work tackles long-term visual planning by goal-conditioned hierarchical predictors.

problem Current learning approaches fail on long-horizon tasks due to lack of goal information and coarse-to-fine planning.
method Formulate goal-conditioned predictors (GCPs) and hierarchical models to predict trajectories between observations.
result GCPs enable effective long-term planning with much longer horizons than before.

Person re-identification (re-id), an emerging problem in visual surveillance, deals with maintaining entities of individuals whilst they traverse various locations surveilled by a camera network. From a visual perspective re-id is challenging due to significant changes in visual appearance of individuals in cameras wit…

2014-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗