17 accepted papers
A faithful decision-making process requires models to ground human-understandable concepts both spatially (where they appear in the image) and causally (how they influence the prediction). Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) enable concept-level alignment and have inspired Concept Bottl
Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) methods have demonstrated considerable success in achieving parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) for Transformer-based foundation models. These methods typically fine-tune individual Transformer layers using independent LoRA adaptations. However, directly applying existi…
The self-attention mechanism has been adopted in various popular message passing neural networks (MPNNs), enabling the model to adaptively control the amount of information that flows along the edges of the underlying graph. Such attention-based MPNNs (Att-GNNs) have also been used as a baseline for…
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in learning from graph-structured data, often outperforming traditional Multilayer Perceptrons (MLPs) in numerous graph-based tasks. Although existing works have demonstrated the benefits of graph convolution through Laplacian sm…
The classic problem of node importance estimation has been conventionally studied with homogeneous network topology analysis. To deal with practical network heterogeneity, a few recent methods employ graph neural models to automatically learn diverse sources of information. However, the major concer…
Defocus blur, due to spatially-varying sizes and shapes, is hard to remove. Existing methods either are unable to effectively handle irregular defocus blur or fail to generalize well on other datasets. In this work, we propose a divide-and-conquer approach to tackling this issue, which gives rise to…
The existing methods for 6D pose estimation based on RGB-D employ RGB images and observed point cloud derived from depth maps as input, then concurrently predicting both rotation and translation. However, rotation and translation possess distinct characteristics and scale ranges, and their simultane…
Hand-eye calibration estimates the pose of a camera relative to a robot, which is a fundamental problem for visually guided robots, especially for dynamic object grasping. Most methods use 2D fiducial markers with distinctive visual features and require pre-calibration for accurate calibration, whic…
Masked Language Modeling (MLM) is widely used to pretrain language models. The standard random masking strategy in MLM causes the pre-trained language models (PLMs) to be biased towards high-frequency tokens. Representation learning of rare tokens is poor and PLMs have limited performance on downstr…
Template-based 3D object tracking still lacks a high-precision benchmark of real scenes due to the difficulty of annotating the accurate 3D poses of real moving video objects without using markers. In this paper, we present a multi-view approach to estimate the accurate 3D poses of real moving objec…
The problem of selecting a sequence of items that maximizes a given submodular function appears in many real-world applications. Existing study on the problem only considers uniform costs over items, but non-uniform costs on items are more general. Taking this cue, we study the problem of budgeted s…
Keyphrase extraction (KPE) automatically extracts phrases in a document that provide a concise summary of the core content, which benefits downstream information retrieval and NLP tasks. Previous state-of-the-art methods select candidate keyphrases based on the similarity between learned representat…
Keyword search is a fundamental task to retrieve information that is the most relevant to the query keywords. Keyword search over graphs aims to find subtrees or subgraphs containing all query keywords ranked according to some criteria. Existing studies all assume that the graphs have complete infor…
Recently, how to protect privacy in JPEG images has become an important issue in social networks. Besides encryption, reversible visual transformation has been studied for content and privacy protection. In this paper, an improved algorithm is proposed to conceal privacy information in JPEG images.…
Given a graph G and a query vertex q, the topic of community search (CS), aiming to retrieve a dense subgraph of G containing q, has gained much attention. Most existing works focus on undirected graphs which overlooks the rich information carried by the edge directions. Recently, the problem of com…
Predicting the link between two nodes is a fundamental problem for graph data analytics. In attributed graphs, both the structure and attribute information can be utilized for link prediction. Most existing studies focus on transductive link prediction where both nodes are already in the graph. Howe…
Region search is an important problem in location-based services due to its wide applications. In this paper, we study the problem of optimal region search with submodular maximization (ORS-SM). This problem considers a region as a connected subgraph. We compute an objective value over the locations…