133 accepted papers
Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models effectively produce semantically aligned images, but their reliance on training distributions constrains their capacity for synthesizing truly novel, out-of-distribution concepts. Existing methods attempt to enhance creativity through semantic exploration, such a
Diffusion-based generative image compression has demonstrated remarkable potential for achieving realistic reconstruction at ultra-low bitrates. The key to unlocking this potential lies in making the entire compression process content-adaptive, ensuring that the encoder's representation and the deco
Machine learning under limited computational resources has gained increasing attention recently. A common yet challenging scenario is managing multiple time-constrained learning tasks with budgeted computational resources, known as Computational Resource Efficient Learning (CoRE-Learning). To this e
Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversation (MERC) aims to predict speakers’ emotions by integrating textual, acoustic, and visual cues. Existing approaches either struggle to capture complex cross‑modal interactions or experience gradient conflicts and unstable training when using deeper archite
3D style transfer enables the creation of visually expressive 3D content, enriching the visual appearance of 3D scenes and objects. However, existing VGG- and CLIP-based methods struggle to model multi-view consistency within the model itself, while diffusion-based approaches can capture such consis…
Diffusion models have advanced from text-to-image (T2I) to image-to-image (I2I) generation by incorporating structured inputs such as depth maps, enabling fine-grained spatial control. However, existing methods either train separate models for each condition or rely on unified architectures with ent
Reinforcement learning (RL), particularly GRPO, improves image generation quality significantly by comparing the relative performance of images generated within the same group. However, in the later stages of training, the model tends to produce homogenized outputs, lacking creativity and visual div
Despite the remarkable developments achieved by recent 3D generation works, scaling these methods to geographic extents, such as modeling thousands of square kilometers of Earth’s surface, remains an open challenge. We address this through a dual innovation in data infrastructure and model architect
The training of diffusion models is computationally intensive, making effective pre-training essential. However, real-world deployments often demand models of variable sizes due to diverse memory and computational constraints, posing challenges when corresponding pre-trained versions are unavailable
In semiconductor manufacturing, lithography projects circuit layouts onto silicon wafers through an optical mask. As circuit features shrink below the wavelength of light, optical diffraction causes the printed patterns to deviate from their intended layouts. Inverse Lithography Technology (ILT) add…
Proteins are essential biological macromolecules that execute life functions. Local motifs within protein structures, such as active sites, are the most critical components for linking structure to function and are key to understanding protein evolution and enabling protein engineering. Existing com…
Recently, GRPO-based reinforcement learning has shown remarkable progress in optimizing flow-matching models, effectively improving their alignment with task-specific rewards. Within these frameworks, the policy update relies on importance-ratio clipping to constrain overconfident positive and negat
Real-world multimodal systems must be robust against low-quality data, such as sensor noise, incomplete multimodal data and conflicting inputs. However, existing trustworthy fusion methods rely on the model's own prediction confidence to judge data quality. This creates a circular dependency: when a…
Generating high-fidelity audio that is both semantically meaningful and temporally synchronized with silent videos remains a challenging problem in video-to-audio generation. Existing approaches often fail to capture fine-grained temporal correspondence between visual events and audio dynamics, lead
Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated proficiency in video captioning, practical applications require captions that follow specific user instructions rather than generating exhaustive, unconstrained descriptions. Current benchmarks, however, primarily assess descriptiv…
Audio-visual deepfake localization demands interval-level outputs that serve as temporal evidence. Despite recent progress, symmetric fusion under single-sided or asynchronous forgeries propagates cross-modal noise, degrading high-precision localization. We present IaMSB, an inconsistency-aware mult
Universal morphology control aims to learn a universal policy that generalizes across heterogeneous robot morphologies, with Transformer-based controllers emerging as a dominant choice. However, such architectures incur substantial computational costs, resulting in high deployment overhead, and exis…
Biological intelligence has driven significant progress in artificial intelligence (AI), but a critical gap remains: biological systems inherit innate abilities from genes, with brains initialized by blueprints refined over 3.5 billion years of evolution, while machines rely heavily on inefficient,
Virtual try-on aims to fit an in-shop clothing image onto a specific human body. An optimal virtual try-on method should provide diverse and flexible dressing options, accurately reflecting the varied wearing styles encountered in real-life scenarios, tailored to individual preferences and fashion a
Audio-visual deepfake detection typically employs a complementary multi-modal model to check the forgery traces in the video. These methods primarily extract forgery traces through audio-visual alignment, which results from the inconsistency between audio and video modalities. However, the tradition…
Multimodal learning aims to preserve as much task-related information as possible from different inputs. However, current fusion designs often distort the feedback loop to feature extractors. Aggressively merging modalities entangles their representations, making the feature extractors fragile to in…
Recent advances in video generation have shown remarkable potential for constructing world simulators. However, current models still struggle to produce physically consistent results, particularly when handling large-scale or complex dynamics. This limitation arises primarily because existing approa
The Diffusion Transformer plays a pivotal role in advancing text-to-image and text-to-video generation, owing primarily to its inherent scalability. However, existing controlled diffusion transformer methods incur significant parameter and computational overheads and suffer from inefficient resource
Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have shown success in robust 3D object detection tasks. Existing methods often rely on the score matching from 3D boxes or pre-trained diffusion priors. However, they typically require multi-step iterations in inference, which limits efficiency. To a
The increasing scale and complexity of modern model parameters underscore the importance of pre-trained models. However, deployment often demands architectures of varying sizes, exposing limitations of conventional pre-training and fine-tuning. To address this, we propose SWEET, a self-supervised fr…
Multi-target domain adaptation (MTDA) trains a model using a labeled source domain and several unlabeled target domains, aiming to enhance performance across all targets. However, existing methods lack a principled causal formulation and often rely on empirical domain-invariance enforcement, which c…
Online EEG decoding is pivotal for real-world Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) but confronts significant challenges arising from continuous distribution shifts, including both inter- and intra-subject variations. Existing Unsupervised Continual Domain Adaptation (UCDA) methods typically rely on rigi
Existing imitation learning methods decouple perception and action, which overlooks the causal reciprocity between sensory representations and action execution that humans naturally leverage for adaptive behaviors. To bridge this gap, we introduce Action-Guided Diffusion Policy (DP-AG), a unified re…
Most Multi-view Clustering approaches assume that all views are available for clustering. However, this assumption is often unrealistic as views are incrementally accumulated over time, leading to a need for continual multi-view clustering (CMVC) methods. Current approaches to CMVC leverage late fus…
Existing conditional Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) with a Noise-Conditional Framework (NCF) remain challenging for 3D scene understanding tasks, as the complex geometric details in scenes increase the difficulty of fitting the gradients of the data distribution (the scores) from s…
Precise 3D hand posture is essential for learning musical instruments. Reconstructing highly precise 3D hand gestures enables learners to correct and master proper techniques through 3D simulation and Extended Reality. However, exsiting methods typically rely on precisely calibrated multi-camera sys
Open-Set Domain Adaptation (OSDA) aims to transfer knowledge from the labeled source domain to the unlabeled target domain that contains unknown categories, thus facing the challenges of domain shift and unknown category recognition. While recent works have demonstrated the potential of causality fo…
The rapid advancements of AI rely on the support of integrated circuits (ICs). However, the growing complexity of digital ICs makes the traditional IC design process costly and time-consuming. In recent years, AI-assisted IC design methods have demonstrated great potential, but most methods are task…
Current collaborative perception methods often rely on fully annotated datasets, which can be expensive to obtain in practical situations. To reduce annotation costs, some works adopt sparsely supervised learning techniques and generate pseudo labels for the missing instances. However, these methods…
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as a promising solution for mitigating hallucinations of large language models (LLMs) with retrieved external knowledge. Adaptive RAG enhances this approach by enabling dynamic retrieval during generation, activating retrieval only when the query exce…
Large language models have demonstrated powerful reasoning capabilities, and their integration with robotics has revolutionized human-computer interaction and automated task planning. However, LLMs are unaware of environmental knowledge and possible state changes in the environment during planning,
We explore the potential of \emph{AI-enhanced combinatorial optimization theory}, taking online bipartite matching (OBM) as a case study. In the theoretical study of OBM, the \emph{hardness} corresponds to a performance \emph{upper bound} of a specific online algorithm or any possible online algorit…
Low-light image enhancement methods based on diffusion models, though effective in improving image quality, often overrely on noise sensitivity and neglect the reconstruction deviations due to the naive up- and down-sampling operations. To address this issue, we propose a novel diffusion model, MWT-…
In this work, we unlock new capabilities in robot learning from neural trajectories, synthetic robot data generated from video world models. Our proposed recipe is simple, but powerful: we take the most recent state-of-the-art video generative models (world models), adapt them to the target robot em…
Knowledge in modern neural networks is often entangled and structurally opaque, making current transfer methods—typically based on reusing entire parameter sets—inefficient and inflexible. Efforts to improve flexibility by reusing partial parameters frequently depend on handcrafted heuristics or rig…
Flow-based generative models have gained popularity for image generation and editing. For instruction-based image editing, it is critical to ensure that modifications are confined to the targeted regions. Yet existing methods often fail to maintain consistency in non-targeted regions between the ori…
Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have a significant issue with object hallucinations, where researchers have noted that LVLMs often mistakenly determine objects as present in images where they do not actually exist. Some recent studies evaluate the occurrence of object hallucinations by asking L…
We introduce **F**uture **LA**tent **R**presentation Alignm**E**nt (**FLARE**), a novel framework that integrates predictive world modeling into robot policy learning. By aligning features from a diffusion transformer with latent embeddings of future observations, **FLARE** enables a diffusion trans…
Synthesizing motion-rich and temporally consistent videos remains a challenge in artificial intelligence, especially when dealing with extended durations. Existing text-to-video (T2V) models commonly employ spatial cross-attention for text control, equivalently guiding different frame generations wi
Medical time-series analysis differs fundamentally from general ones by requiring specialized domain knowledge to interpret complex signals and clinical context. Large language models (LLMs) hold great promise for augmenting medical time-series analysis by complementing raw series with rich contextu…
Aircraft manufacturing is the jewel in the crown of industry, in which generating high-fidelity airfoil geometries with controllable and editable representations remains a fundamental challenge. Existing deep learning methods, which typically rely on predefined parametric representations (e.g., Bézi…
Recent advances in hand-object interaction modeling have employed implicit representations, such as Signed Distance Functions (SDF) and Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) to reconstruct hands and objects with arbitrary topology and photo-realistic detail. However, these methods often rely on dense 3D sur…
We study the stochastic linear bandits with heavy-tailed noise. Two principled strategies for handling heavy-tailed noise, truncation and median-of-means, have been introduced to heavy-tailed bandits. Nonetheless, these methods rely on specific noise assumptions or bandit structures, limiting their…
Pre-trained models have become the preferred backbone due to the increasing complexity of model parameters. However, traditional pre-trained models often face deployment challenges due to their fixed sizes, and are prone to negative transfer when discrepancies arise between training tasks and target…
Multi-label learning (MLL) has gained attention for its ability to represent real-world data. Label Distribution Learning (LDL), an extension of MLL to learning from label distributions, faces challenges in collecting accurate label distributions. To address the issue of biased annotations, based on
Storytelling tasks involving generating consistent subjects have gained significant attention recently. However, existing methods, whether training-free or training-based, continue to face challenges in maintaining subject consistency due to the lack of fine-grained guidance and inter-frame interact…
Acoustic Impulse Response (AIR) provides crucial spatial information about the environment, significantly enhancing audio immersion. However, achieving high perceptual quality while computing AIR in real-time for interactive audio-video media (IAVM) presents a challenging problem. This study propose…
Accurate driving behavior recognition and reasoning are critical for autonomous driving video understanding. However, existing methods often tend to dig out the shallow causal, fail to address spurious correlations across modalities, and ignore the ego-vehicle level causality modeling. To overcome t…
In the context of autonomous driving, monocular 3D detection is regarded as a fundamental and essential task due to its convenience, speed, and low cost. However, the lack of depth information in monocular images presents significant challenges for predicting object 3D information. Although existing
In recent years, deep learning has advanced the MIDI domain, solidifying music generation as a key application of artificial intelligence. However, most research focuses on Western music, facing challenges in generating Chinese traditional melodies, particularly in capturing modal characteristics an…
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly progressed in offline video understanding. However, applying these models to real-world scenarios, such as autonomous driving and human-computer interaction, presents unique challenges due to the need for real-time processing of continuous…
Explaining deep models for time-series data is crucial for identifying key patterns in sensitive domains, such as healthcare and finance. However, due to the lack of unified optimization criterion, existing explanation methods often suffer from redundancy and incompleteness, where irrelevant pattern…
The global self-attention mechanism in diffusion transformers involves redundant computation due to the sparse and redundant nature of visual information, and the attention map of tokens within a spatial window shows significant similarity. To address this redundancy, we propose the Proxy-Tokenized…
Pre-trained video generation models hold great potential for generative video super-resolution (VSR). However, adapting them for full-size VSR, as most existing methods do, suffers from unnecessary intensive full-attention computation and fixed output resolution. To overcome these limitations, we ma…
3D hand pose estimation plays a critical role in various human-computer interaction tasks. Single-frame 3D hand pose estimation methods have poor temporal smoothness and are easily affected by self-occlusion, which severely impacts their practical applicability. Traditional joint-based sequential po…
Affective brain-computer interfaces (aBCIs) play a crucial role in personalized human–computer interaction and neurofeedback modulation. To develop practical and effective aBCI paradigms and to investigate the spatial-temporal dynamics of brain activity under emotional inducement, portable electroen…
Pseudo label based semi-supervised learning (SSL) for single-label and multi-label classification tasks has been extensively studied; however, semi-supervised label distribution learning (SSLDL) remains a largely unexplored area. Existing SSL methods fail in SSLDL because the pseudo-labels they ge…
Creative remains an inherently abstract concept for both humans and diffusion models. While text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models can easily generate out-of-distribution concepts like "a blue banana", they struggle with generating combinatorial objects such as "a creative mixture that resembles a let…
Open-vocabulary action recognition (OVAR) extends recognition systems to identify unseen action categories. While large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have enabled OVAR in image domains, their adaptation to event data remains underexplored. Event cameras offer high temporal resolution…
LEO satellite non-terrestrial networks (NTN) utilize satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to dynamically establish global communication service and own significant promise. The dynamic nature of LEO satellite NTN necessities efficient handover authentication protocols. However existing schemes cannot…
The general capabilities of large language models (LLMs) make them the infrastructure for various AI applications, but updating their inner knowledge requires significant resources. Recent model editing is a promising technique for efficiently updating a small amount of knowledge of LLMs and has att…
Large language models (LLMs) generate human-aligned content under certain safety constraints. However, the current known technique “jailbreak prompt” can circumvent safety-aligned measures and induce LLMs to output malicious content. Research on Jailbreaking can help identify vulnerabilities in LLMs
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have recently achieved remarkable progress in video understanding. However, their effectiveness in real-time streaming scenarios remains limited due to storage constraints of historical visual features and insufficient real-time spatiotemporal reasoning. To a…
In recent years, AI-assisted integrated circuit (IC) design methods have shown great potential in boosting IC design efficiency. However, this emerging technique is fundamentally limited by the serious scarcity of publicly accessible large-scale circuit design data, which are mostly private IPs owne
Direct Prompt Injection (DPI) attacks pose a critical security threat to Large Language Models (LLMs) due to their low barrier of execution and high potential damage. To address the impracticality of existing white-box/gray-box methods and the poor transferability of black-box methods, we propose an
Network quantization, one of the most widely studied model compression methods, effectively quantizes a floating-point model to obtain a fixed-point one with negligible accuracy loss. Although great success was achieved in reducing the model size, it may exacerbate the unfairness in model accuracy…
Multi-view 3D human pose estimation (HPE) leverages complementary information across views to improve accuracy and robustness. Traditional methods rely on camera calibration to establish geometric correspondences, which is sensitive to calibration accuracy and lacks flexibility in dynamic settings.…
Existing research in multi-hop questions has identified two reasoning modes: latent reasoning and factual shortcuts, but has not deeply investigated how these modes differ during inference. This impacts both model generalization ability and downstream reasoning tasks. In this work, we systematically
Recent work on latent diffusion models (LDMs) has focused almost exclusively on generative tasks, leaving their potential for discriminative transfer largely unexplored. We introduce Discriminative Vicinity Diffusion (DVD), a novel LDM-based framework for a more practical variant of source-free doma…
The growing complexity of model parameters underscores the significance of pre-trained models. However, deployment constraints often necessitate models of varying sizes, exposing limitations in the conventional pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm, particularly when target model sizes are incompati…
Recent advances in text-to-video (T2V) generation, exemplified by models such as Sora and Kling, have demonstrated strong potential for constructing world simulators. However, existing T2V models still struggle to understand abstract physical principles and to generate videos that faithfully obey ph…
Data-driven generative models have emerged as promising approaches towards achieving efficient mechanical inverse design. However, due to prohibitively high cost in time and money, there is still lack of open-source and large-scale benchmarks in this field. It is mainly the case for airfoil inverse…
The Few-Shot Segmentation (FSS) aims to accomplish the novel class segmentation task with a few annotated images. Current FSS research based on meta-learning focuses on designing a complex interaction mechanism between the query and support feature. However, unlike humans who can rapidly learn new t…
Modern deep learning (DL) architectures are trained using variants of the SGD algorithm and typically rely on the user to manually drop the learning rate when the training curve saturates. In this paper, we develop an algorithm, that we call AutoDrop, that realizes the learning rate drop automatical…
Pitch estimation plays a critical role in various fields from speech analysis and synthesis to medical diagnosis. Despite the importance of pitch estimation, the evaluation of pitch estimation methods often yields inconsistent results and unfair comparisons. This inconsistency largely stems from the…
In recent years, the merging of vast datasets with powerful computational resources has led to the emergence of large pre-trained models in the field of deep learning. However, the common practices often overgeneralize the applicability of these models, overlooking the task-specific resource constra…
Existing Deep Multi-view Clustering (DMVC) approaches typically concentrate on capturing consensus semantics from multiple views, where contrastive learning is widely used to align view-specific representations of each view. Unfortunately, view-specific representations are extracted from the content…
Numerous self-supervised learning paradigms, such as contrastive learning and masked image modeling, have been proposed to acquire powerful and general representations from unlabeled data. However, these models are commonly pretrained within their specific framework alone, failing to consider the co…
Label Distribution Learning (LDL) is a novel machine learning paradigm that assigns label distribution to each instance. Numerous LDL methods proposed to leverage label correlation in the learning process to solve the exponential-sized output space; among these, many exploited the low-rank structur…
"Most meta-learning methods assume that the (very small) context set used to establish a new task at test time is passively provided. In some settings, however, it is feasible to actively select which points to label; the potential gain from a careful choice is substantial, but the setting requires…
Micro-enterprises and individual developers emerge analysis demands for long sequence with powerful Large Language Models (LLMs). They try to deploy the LLMs at local, but only possess various commodity devices and the unreliable interconnection between devices. Existing parallel techniques do not l…
We investigate online Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) with bandit feedback and semi-adversarial disturbances. Previous works assume costs with *homogeneous* curvatures (i.e., with a uniform strong convexity lower bound), which can be hard to satisfy in many real scenarios and prohibits adapting to…
Few-shot learning is a promising way for reducing the label cost in new categories adaptation with the guidance of a small, well labeled support set. But for few-shot semantic segmentation, the pixel-level annotations of support images are still expensive. In this paper, we propose an innovative sol…
The study of machine learning under limited resources has gathered increasing attention, considering improving the learning efficiency and effectiveness with budgeted resources. However, previous efforts mainly focus on *single* learning task, and a common resource-limited scenario is less explored:…
The audio codec is one of the core modules in audio communication for real-time transmission. With the development of neural networks, end-to-end audio codecs have emerged and demonstrated effects beyond conventional codecs. However, current neural network-based codecs have the weakness of high comp…
It is a common method to quantify the latent in audio generation and then use diffusion models to estimate noise or data from the corrupted data to generate the quantized latent. Unlike the method, we consider that the targets estimated by the diffusion model include both noise and data, rather than…
The learning-based video compression method has made significant progress in recent years, exhibiting promising compression performance compared with traditional video codecs. However, prior works have primarily focused on advanced compression architectures while neglecting the rate control techniqu…
With the growing significance of non-intrusive speech quality assessment in speech systems, existing methods predominantly rely on neural networks to extract low-order features. Typically, these features undergo a low-dimensional linear transformation, yielding the network’s output. However, the int…
Deep Multi-view Graph Clustering (DMGC) aims to partition instances into different groups using the graph information extracted from multi-view data. The mainstream framework of DMGC methods applies graph neural networks to embed structure information into the view-specific representations and fuse…
Subsampling is effective in tackling computational challenges for massive data with rare events. Overly aggressive subsampling may adversely affect estimation efficiency, and optimal subsampling is essential to mitigate the information loss. However, existing optimal subsampling probabilities depen…
Binaural audio delivers an immersive spatial auditory experience to human listeners, but most existing videos lack binaural audio due to the expertise required for recording environments. Recent studies have been dedicated to converting monaural audio into binaural ones conditioned on the visual inp…
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Sleep stage classification based on physiological time-series is essential for sleep quality evaluation and the diagnosis of sleep disorders in clinical practice. Existing machine learning studies have achieved adequate results in sleep stage classification. However, those methods neglect the signif…
Label distribution covers a certain number of labels, representing the degree to which each label describes an instance. The learning process on the instances labeled by label distributions is called Label Distribution Learning (LDL). Although LDL has been applied successfully to many practical appl…
Non-stationary parametric bandits have attracted much attention recently. There are three principled ways to deal with non-stationarity, including sliding-window, weighted, and restart strategies. As many non-stationary environments exhibit gradual drifting patterns, the weighted strategy is commonl…
Video anomaly detection aims to automatically detect abnormal objects or behaviors. Most existing methods tackle the problem by minimizing the reconstruction errors stemming from the lack of anomalous data, which leads to poor interpretability and robustness. Focus on the context-dependent nature of…
RGB and depth modalities provide complementary information, which can be effectively utilized to improve the performance of hand detection in the wild. Most existing fusion-based methods model the channel-wise or spatial-wise cross-modal correlation to exploit the complementary RGB-D information, in…
Sound event detection (SED) is an interesting but challenging task due to the scarcity of data and diverse sound events in real life. In this paper, we focus on the semi-supervised SED task, and combine pre-trained model from other field to assist in improving the detection effect. Pre-trained model…
Recent studies have experimentally shown that we can achieve in non-Euclidean metric space effective and efficient graph embedding, which aims to obtain the vertices' representations reflecting the graph's structure in the metric space. Specifically, graph embedding in hyperbolic space has experimen…
"Recently, learned video compression has drawn lots of attention and show a rapid development trend with promising results. However, the previous works still suffer from some criticial issues and have a performance gap with traditional compression standards in terms of widely used PSNR metric. In th…
"In recent years, with the development of deep neural networks, end-to-end optimized image compression has made significant progress and exceeded the classic methods in terms of rate-distortion performance. However, most learning-based image compression methods are unlabeled and do not consider imag…
"Text manipulation technologies cause serious worries in recent years, however, corresponding tampering detection methods have not been well explored. In this paper, we introduce a new task, named Tampered Scene Text Detection (TSTD), to localize text instances and recognize the texture authenticity…
Existing navigation policies for autonomous robots tend to focus on collision avoidance while ignoring human-robot interactions in social life. For instance, robots can pass along the corridor safer and easier if pedestrians notice them. Sounds have been considered as an efficient way to attract the…
In this paper, we study the sharpness of a deep learning (DL) loss landscape around local minima in order to reveal systematic mechanisms underlying the generalization abilities of DL models. Our analysis is performed across varying network and optimizer hyper-parameters, and involves a rich family…
Based on deep learning technology, non-intrusive methods have received increasing attention for synthetic speech quality assessment since it does not need reference signals. Meanwhile, i-vector has been widely used in paralinguistic speech attribute recognition such as speaker and emotion recognitio…
"For 3D medical image (e.g. CT and MRI) segmentation, the difficulty of segmenting each slice in a clinical case varies greatly. Previous research on volumetric medical image segmentation in a slice-by-slice manner conventionally use the identical 2D deep neural network to segment all the slices of…
Active learning has become a prevalent technique for designing label-efficient algorithms, where the central principle is to only query and fit “informative” labeled instances. It is, however, known that an active learning algorithm may incur unfairness due to such instance selection procedure. In t…
Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) aims to distinguish sentiment polarity of every specific aspect in a given sentence. Previous researches have realized the importance of interactive learning with context and aspects. However, these methods are ill-studied to learn complex sentence with multipl…
Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals for motor imagery (MI) are easily influenced by the environment and the state of the subject, which exhibit temporal and spatial variance. And this variance is more significant across subjects and sessions, which imposes limitations on the cross-domain MI tasks. To…
With the development of deep learning techniques, the combination of deep learning with image compression has drawn lots of attention. Recently, learned image compression methods had exceeded their classical counterparts in terms of rate-distortion performance. However, continuous rate adaptation re…
In this paper, we abandon the dominant complex language model and rethink the linguistic learning process in the scene text recognition. Different from previous methods considering the visual and linguistic information in two separate structures, we propose a Visual Language Modeling Network (Vision…
Graph embedding, which represents real-world entities in a mathematical space, has enabled numerous applications such as analyzing natural languages, social networks, biochemical networks, and knowledge bases. It has been experimentally shown that graph embedding in hyperbolic space can represent hi…
Hyperbolic ordinal embedding (HOE) represents entities as points in hyperbolic space so that they agree as well as possible with given constraints in the form of entity $i$ is more similar to entity $j$ than to entity $k$. It has been experimentally shown that HOE can obtain representations of hiera…
OCR-based image captioning aims to automatically describe images based on all the visual entities (both visual objects and scene text) in images. Compared with conventional image captioning, the reasoning of scene text is required for OCR-based image captioning since the generated descriptions often…
Although Label Distribution Learning (LDL) has witnessed extensive classification applications, it faces the challenge of objective mismatch – the objective of LDL mismatches that of classification, which has seldom been noticed in existing studies. Our goal is to solve the objective mismatch and im…
Although Label Distribution Learning (LDL) has found wide applications in varieties of classification problems, it may face the challenge of objective mismatch -- LDL neglects the optimal label for the sake of learning the whole label distribution, which leads to performance deterioration. To improv…
Despite the great success of Siamese-based trackers, their performance under complicated scenarios is still not satisfying, especially when there are distractors. To this end, we propose a novel Siamese relation network, which introduces two efficient modules, i.e. Relation Detector (RD) and Refinem…
Sleep staging is fundamental for sleep assessment and disease diagnosis. Although previous attempts to classify sleep stages have achieved high classification performance, several challenges remain open: 1) How to effectively extract salient waves in multimodal sleep data; 2) How to capture the mult…
Scene text retrieval aims to localize and search all text instances from an image gallery, which are the same or similar with a given query text. Such a task is usually realized by matching a query text to the recognized words, outputted by an end-to-end scene text spotter. In this paper, we address…
The purpose of this paper is to learn efficient representations from raw electroencephalogram (EEG) signals for sleep stage classification via self-supervised learning (SSL). Although supervised methods have gained favorable performance, they heavily rely on manually labeled datasets. Recently, SSL…
Existing multi-label learning (MLL) approaches mainly assume all the labels are observed and construct classification models with a fixed set of target labels (known labels). However, in some real applications, multiple latent labels may exist outside this set and hide in the data, especially for la…
Sleep stage classification is essential for sleep assessment and disease diagnosis. However, how to effectively utilize brain spatial features and transition information among sleep stages continues to be challenging. In particular, owing to the limited knowledge of the human brain, predefining a su…
This paper aims to analyze knowledge consistency between pre-trained deep neural networks. We propose a generic definition for knowledge consistency between neural networks at different fuzziness levels. A task-agnostic method is designed to disentangle feature components, which represent the consis…
Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) have been an important research area in closed-loop neuroscience and neuroengineering. In real-time neuroscience applications, many issues require special consideration, such as trial variability, spike sorting noise or multi-unit activity. For a BMI application of de…
In large-scale machine learning applications and high-dimensional statistics, it is ubiquitous to address a considerable number of features among which many are redundant. As a remedy, online feature selection has attracted increasing attention in recent years. It sequentially reveals features and e…
Recently, sparse coding has been widely and successfully used in image classification, noise reduction, texture synthesis and audio processing. Although traditional sparse coding method with fixed dictionaries like wavelet and curvelet can produce promising results, unsupervised sparse coding has sh…
To date most pain studies have focused on spinal cord or peripheral pathways. However, a complete understanding of pain mechanisms requires the study of neocortex. Using an animal model of acute pain, we investigate neural codes for pain at both single-cell and population levels. We propose a statis…
The way people look in terms of facial attributes (ethnicity, hair color, facial hair, etc.) and the clothes or accessories they wear (sunglasses, hat, hoodies, etc.) is highly dependent on geo-location and weather condition, respectively. This work explores, for the first time, the use of this cont…