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Maksims Volkovs

14 accepted papers

2025

TabDPT: Scaling Tabular Foundation Models on Real Data

NeurIPS 2025poster

Tabular data is one of the most ubiquitous sources of information worldwide, spanning a wide variety of domains. This inherent heterogeneity has slowed the development of Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) capable of fast generalization to unseen datasets. In-Context Learning (ICL) has recently emerge…

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2024

Data-Efficient Multimodal Fusion on a Single GPU

CVPR 2024highlight

The goal of multimodal alignment is to learn a single latent space that is shared between multimodal inputs. The most powerful models in this space have been trained using massive datasets of paired inputs and large-scale computational resources making them prohibitively expensive to train in many p…

2024

Retrieval & Fine-Tuning for In-Context Tabular Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Tabular data is a pervasive modality spanning a wide range of domains, and this inherent diversity poses a considerable challenge for deep learning. Recent advancements using transformer-based in-context learning have shown promise on smaller and less complex tabular datasets, but have struggled to…

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2024

Self-supervised Representation Learning from Random Data Projectors

ICLR 2024poster

Self-supervised representation learning (SSRL) has advanced considerably by exploiting the transformation invariance assumption under artificially designed data augmentations. While augmentation-based SSRL algorithms push the boundaries of performance in computer vision and natural language processi…

2023

DiMS: Distilling Multiple Steps of Iterative Non-Autoregressive Transformers for Machine Translation

ACL 2023findings

The computational benefits of iterative non-autoregressive transformers decrease as the number of decoding steps increases. As a remedy, we introduce Distill Multiple Steps (DiMS), a simple yet effective distillation technique to decrease the number of required steps to reach a certain translation q…

2023

Temporal Dependencies in Feature Importance for Time Series Prediction

ICLR 2023poster

Time series data introduces two key challenges for explainability methods: firstly, observations of the same feature over subsequent time steps are not independent, and secondly, the same feature can have varying importance to model predictions over time. In this paper, we propose Windowed Feature I…

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2022

Improving Non-Autoregressive Translation Models Without Distillation

ICLR 2022poster

Transformer-based autoregressive (AR) machine translation models have achieved significant performance improvements, nearing human-level accuracy on some languages. The AR framework translates one token at a time which can be time consuming, especially for long sequences. To accelerate inference, re…

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2022

X-Pool: Cross-Modal Language-Video Attention for Text-Video Retrieval

CVPR 2022poster

In text-video retrieval, the objective is to learn a cross-modal similarity function between a text and a video that ranks relevant text-video pairs higher than irrelevant pairs. However, videos inherently express a much wider gamut of information than texts. Instead, texts often capture sub-regions…

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2021

Context-Aware Scene Graph Generation With Seq2Seq Transformers

ICCV 2021poster

Scene graph generation is an important task in computer vision aimed at improving the semantic understand- ing of the visual world. In this task, the model needs to detect objects and predict visual relationships between them. Most of the existing models predict relationships in parallel assuming th…

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2020

Improving Transformer Optimization Through Better Initialization

ICML 2020poster

The Transformer architecture has achieved considerable success recently; the key component of the Transformer is the attention layer that enables the model to focus on important regions within an input sequence. Gradient optimization with attention layers can be notoriously difficult requiring trick…

2019

Guided Similarity Separation for Image Retrieval

NeurIPS 2019oral

Despite recent progress in computer vision, image retrieval remains a challenging open problem. Numerous variations such as view angle, lighting and occlusion make it difficult to design models that are both robust and efficient. Many leading methods traverse the nearest neighbor graph to exploit hi…