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Michael Kampffmeyer

19 accepted papers

2026

Beyond Independence: Learning Correlated Views for Variational Incomplete Multi-View Clustering

ICML 2026poster

Incomplete multi-view clustering (IMVC) aims to uncover shared cluster structures from data with partially observed views. Although recent imputation-free methods based on variational inference demonstrate robustness to missing views, they commonly rely on a conditional independence assumption acros…

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2026

Optimizing Data Augmentation through Bayesian Model Selection

ICLR 2026poster

Data Augmentation (DA) has become an essential tool to improve robustness and generalization of modern machine learning. However, when deciding on DA strategies it is critical to choose parameters carefully, and this can be a daunting task which is traditionally left to trial-and-error or expensive…

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2026

Why Prototypes Collapse: Diagnosing and Preventing Partial Collapse in Prototypical Self-Supervised Learning

ICLR 2026poster

Prototypical self-supervised learning methods consistently suffer from partial prototype collapse, where multiple prototypes converge to nearly identical representations. This undermines their central purpose—providing diverse and informative targets to guide encoders toward rich representations—and…

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2025

Aggregation of Dependent Expert Distributions in Multimodal Variational Autoencoders

ICML 2025poster

Multimodal learning with variational autoencoders (VAEs) requires estimating joint distributions to evaluate the evidence lower bound (ELBO). Current methods, the product and mixture of experts, aggregate single-modality distributions assuming independence for simplicity, which is an overoptimistic…

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2025

ProPy: Building Interactive Prompt Pyramids upon CLIP for Partially Relevant Video Retrieval

EMNLP 2025

Partially Relevant Video Retrieval (PRVR) is a practical yet challenging task that involves retrieving videos based on queries relevant to only specific segments. While existing works follow the paradigm of developing models to process unimodal features, powerful pretrained vision-language models li

2025

RefCap: Zero-shot Video Corpus Moment Retrieval Based on Refined Dense Video Captioning

ICASSP 2025accepted

Video corpus moment retrieval (VCMR) is a challenging task aimed at localizing specific segments from untrimmed videos within a vast video collection. It has long been addressed using end-to-end supervised or weakly-supervised methods, which often lack explainability and rely on laborious annotation…

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2025

Robust Classification by Coupling Data Mollification with Label Smoothing

AISTATS 2025poster

Introducing training-time augmentations is a key technique to enhance generalization and prepare deep neural networks against test-time corruptions. Inspired by the success of generative diffusion models, we propose a novel approach of coupling data mollification, in the form of image noising and bl…

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2025

Sitcom-Crafter: A Plot-Driven Human Motion Generation System in 3D Scenes

ICLR 2025poster

Recent advancements in human motion synthesis have focused on specific types of motions, such as human-scene interaction, locomotion or human-human interaction, however, there is a lack of a unified system capable of generating a diverse combination of motion types. In response, we introduce *Sitcom…

2025

UniGS: Unified Language-Image-3D Pretraining with Gaussian Splatting

ICLR 2025poster

Recent advancements in multi-modal 3D pre-training methods have shown promising efficacy in learning joint representations of text, images, and point clouds. However, adopting point clouds as 3D representation fails to fully capture the intricacies of the 3D world and exhibits a noticeable gap betwe…

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2024

DIB-X: Formulating Explainability Principles for a Self-Explainable Model Through Information Theoretic Learning

ICASSP 2024accepted

The recent development of self-explainable deep learning approaches has focused on integrating well-defined explainability principles into learning process, with the goal of achieving these principles through optimization. In this work, we propose DIB-X, a self-explainable deep learning approach for…

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2022

ProtoVAE: A Trustworthy Self-Explainable Prototypical Variational Model

NeurIPS 2022accept

The need for interpretable models has fostered the development of self-explainable classifiers. Prior approaches are either based on multi-stage optimization schemes, impacting the predictive performance of the model, or produce explanations that are not transparent, trustworthy or do not capture th…

2022

Towards Hard-pose Virtual Try-on via 3D-aware Global Correspondence Learning

NeurIPS 2022accept

In this paper, we target image-based person-to-person virtual try-on in the presence of diverse poses and large viewpoint variations. Existing methods are restricted in this setting as they estimate garment warping flows mainly based on 2D poses and appearance, which omits the geometric prior of the…

2021

M3D-VTON: A Monocular-to-3D Virtual Try-On Network

ICCV 2021poster

Virtual 3D try-on can provide an intuitive and realistic view for online shopping and has a huge potential commercial value. However, existing 3D virtual try-on methods mainly rely on annotated 3D human shapes and garment templates, which hinders their applications in practical scenarios. 2D virtual…

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2021

Reconsidering Representation Alignment for Multi-View Clustering

CVPR 2021poster

Aligning distributions of view representations is a core component of today's state of the art models for deep multi-view clustering. However, we identify several drawbacks with naively aligning representation distributions. We demonstrate that these drawbacks both lead to less separable clusters in…

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2021

Towards Scalable Unpaired Virtual Try-On via Patch-Routed Spatially-Adaptive GAN

NeurIPS 2021poster

Image-based virtual try-on is one of the most promising applications of human-centric image generation due to its tremendous real-world potential. Yet, as most try-on approaches fit in-shop garments onto a target person, they require the laborious and restrictive construction of a paired training da…

2020

SEN: A Novel Feature Normalization Dissimilarity Measure for Prototypical Few-Shot Learning Networks

ECCV 2020poster

In this paper, we equip Prototypical Networks (PNs) with a novel dissimilarity measure to enable discriminative feature normalization for few-shot learning. The embedding onto the hypersphere requires no direct normalization and is easy to optimize. Our theoretical analysis shows that the proposed d…

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2019

Recurrent Deep Divergence-based Clustering for Simultaneous Feature Learning and Clustering of Variable Length Time Series

ICASSP 2019accepted

The task of clustering unlabeled time series and sequences entails a particular set of challenges, namely to adequately model temporal relations and variable sequence lengths. If these challenges are not properly handled, the resulting clusters might be of suboptimal quality. As a key solution, we p…

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2019

Rethinking Knowledge Graph Propagation for Zero-Shot Learning

CVPR 2019poster

Graph convolutional neural networks have recently shown great potential for the task of zero-shot learning. These models are highly sample efficient as related concepts in the graph structure share statistical strength allowing generalization to new classes when faced with a lack of data. However, m…

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