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International Conference on Learning Representations Β· 737 papers

Does Learning from Decentralized Non-IID Unlabeled Data Benefit from Self Supervision?

Lirui Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Russ Tedrake (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

CodeFederated LearningRepresentation LearningContrastive LearningImage

🎯 What it does: This paper studies how to efficiently learn general representations through self-supervised learning (SSL) in a decentralized and non-IID unlabeled data environment, and explores its feasibility and advantages within a federated learning framework.

Does Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning Exist?

Ahmed Touati (Meta AI Research), Yann Ollivier (Meta AI Research)

CodeReinforcement LearningContrastive LearningBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes and systematically evaluates a zero-shot reinforcement learning method, primarily based on Success Features (SF) and Forward-Backward (FB) representations, aimed at training an agent that can immediately execute any reward task without further planning.

Domain Generalization via Heckman-type Selection Models

Hyungu Kahng (Korea University), Judy Zhong (New York University School of Medicine)

CodeDomain AdaptationTabularBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Modeling the domain generalization problem as a non-random sample selection problem, jointly learning the prediction model and the domain selection model, aiming to achieve more robust predictions against the true population distribution.

Domain-Indexing Variational Bayes: Interpretable Domain Index for Domain Adaptation

Zihao Xu (Rutgers University), Hao Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

CodeDomain AdaptationGenerative Adversarial NetworkTabular

🎯 What it does: A variational inference-based domain index inference framework (VDI) is proposed, which can learn interpretable continuous domain indices from multi-domain data under the condition of only given domain identities;

Don’t fear the unlabelled: safe semi-supervised learning via debiasing

Hugo Schmutz (Universite Cote d'Azur), Pierre-Alexandre Mattei (Universite Cote d'Azur)

CodeClassificationData-Centric LearningImage

🎯 What it does: A debiased semi-supervised learning framework, DeSSL, is proposed, which incorporates control variables into the traditional SSL risk estimation, ensuring that the risk estimation is unbiased under the MCAR assumption and has theoretical guarantees.

DropIT: Dropping Intermediate Tensors for Memory-Efficient DNN Training

Joya Chen (National University of Singapore), Angela Yao (National University of Singapore)

CodeClassificationObject DetectionSegmentationComputational EfficiencyConvolutional Neural NetworkTransformerImage

🎯 What it does: DropIT reduces GPU memory usage and approximates gradients by dropping intermediate tensors (activations) based on absolute minimum values or randomly during training, and then filling in the missing elements with zeros during backpropagation.

Dual Diffusion Implicit Bridges for Image-to-Image Translation

Xuan Su (Stanford University), Stefano Ermon (Stanford University)

CodeImage TranslationFederated LearningSafty and PrivacyDiffusion modelScore-based ModelImageOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: Proposes Dual Diffusion Implicit Bridges (DDIBs), which utilize two independently trained diffusion models to encode source domain images into latent space, and then decode using the target domain model to obtain target domain images, completing unpaired image translation.

Dynamic Update-to-Data Ratio: Minimizing World Model Overfitting

Nicolai Dorka (University of Freiburg), Wolfram Burgard (University of Technology Nuremberg)

CodeReinforcement LearningWorld ModelImage

🎯 What it does: A dynamic update-to-data ratio (DUTD) method is proposed and implemented for world model training in model-based reinforcement learning. It automatically detects underfitting and overfitting by monitoring validation set errors and adjusts the ratio of training steps to data steps accordingly.

DySR: Adaptive Super-Resolution via Algorithm and System Co-design

Syed Zawad (University of Nevada), Feng Yan (University of Houston)

CodeSuper ResolutionOptimizationNeural Architecture SearchImageVideo

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes an adaptive super-resolution framework DySR based on algorithm and system co-design, which can dynamically switch subgraphs on mobile devices according to real-time computing and memory resources, maximizing super-resolution quality while maintaining frame rates.

E-CRF: Embedded Conditional Random Field for Boundary-caused Class Weights Confusion in Semantic Segmentation

Jie Zhu (Peking University), Leye Wang (Peking University)

CodeSegmentationConvolutional Neural NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: To address the class weight confusion (BCWC) problem in semantic segmentation, an Embedded Conditional Random Field (E-CRF) model is proposed, which integrates the CRF mechanism with CNN networks to enhance class weight discrimination and improve boundary pixel prediction.

EA-HAS-Bench: Energy-aware Hyperparameter and Architecture Search Benchmark

Shuguang Dou (Tongji University), Dongsheng Li (Microsoft Research Asia)

CodeComputational EfficiencyHyperparameter SearchConvolutional Neural NetworkImageBenchmark

🎯 What it does: A joint architecture and hyperparameter search benchmark for energy consumption, EA‑HAS‑Bench, is proposed, providing complete energy consumption and performance data.

Edgeformers: Graph-Empowered Transformers for Representation Learning on Textual-Edge Networks

Bowen Jin (University of Illinois), Jiawei Han (University of Illinois)

CodeRepresentation LearningGraph Neural NetworkTransformerLarge Language ModelTextGraph

🎯 What it does: For text-edge networks, the Edgeformers framework is proposed, which injects virtual node tokens into the Transformer layers to deeply couple graph structures with text information, achieving edge and node representation learning.

Editing models with task arithmetic

Gabriel Ilharco (University of Washington), Ali Farhadi (University of Washington)

CodeClassificationOptimizationTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningImageText

🎯 What it does: Proposes the Task Vector and edits the behavior of pre-trained models through vector operations (addition, subtraction, analogy).

Efficient Certified Training and Robustness Verification of Neural ODEs

Mustafa Zeqiri (ETH Zurich), Martin Vechev (ETH Zurich)

CodeClassificationOptimizationImageTime SeriesOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a framework called GAINS for efficient certified training and robustness verification of high-dimensional Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs), addressing the issue of continuous step size abstraction caused by traditional adaptive ODE solvers.

Efficient Discrete Multi Marginal Optimal Transport Regularization

Ronak Mehta (University of Wisconsin Madison), Vikas Singh (University of Wisconsin Madison)

CodeImage TranslationOptimizationImageTabular

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes an efficient Discrete Multi-Marginal Optimal Transport (MMOT) regularization method called DEMD, which is integrated into a deep learning framework for tasks such as fairness, discernible representation, and multi-domain image translation.

Efficient Edge Inference by Selective Query

Anil Kag (Boston University), Venkatesh Saligrama (Boston University)

CodeClassificationComputational EfficiencyNeural Architecture SearchImageText

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes an end-to-end hybrid learning framework that queries the routing model on edge devices only for hard examples that are correctly classified in the cloud, significantly reducing overall inference latency while maintaining high accuracy.

Efficient Model Updates for Approximate Unlearning of Graph-Structured Data

Eli Chien (University of Illinois), Olgica Milenkovic (University of Illinois)

CodeOptimizationSafty and PrivacyComputational EfficiencyGraph Neural NetworkGraph

🎯 What it does: An approximate graph model degradation method based on SGC and GPR is proposed, with theoretical guarantees provided.

Efficient Offline Policy Optimization with a Learned Model

Zichen Liu (Sea AI Lab), Zhongwen Xu (Sea AI Lab)

CodeOptimizationReinforcement LearningTabularSequential

🎯 What it does: A lightweight single-step model-based offline reinforcement learning algorithm, ROSMO, is proposed to replace the high-cost MCTS of MuZero Unplugged for policy improvement.

Efficient recurrent architectures through activity sparsity and sparse back-propagation through time

Anand Subramoney (Institute for Neural Computation, Ruhr University Bochum), David Kappel (Institute for Neural Computation, Ruhr University Bochum)

CodeRecurrent Neural NetworkSequentialOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: A GRU-based event-driven RNN, called EGRU, is proposed, which achieves activity sparsity through event communication triggered by thresholds, allowing the forward and backward propagation computations to scale linearly with the number of events.

Emergent World Representations: Exploring a Sequence Model Trained on a Synthetic Task

Kenneth Li (Harvard University), Martin Wattenberg (Harvard University)

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilityRepresentation LearningTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningTextSequential

🎯 What it does: This study investigates a variant of GPT that predicts legal moves in Othello (Reversi) without prior rules. It finds that nonlinear board state representations emerge in its internal activations and verifies that this representation has a causal impact on model predictions through activation interventions. Consequently, it proposes an intervention-based latent saliency map to explain model decisions.

Empowering Graph Representation Learning with Test-Time Graph Transformation

Wei Jin (Michigan State University), Neil Shah (Snap Inc.)

CodeOptimizationRepresentation LearningAdversarial AttackGraph Neural NetworkContrastive LearningGraph

🎯 What it does: Proposes the GTRANS framework, which utilizes gradient descent to perturb graph structures and node features during testing, enhancing the generalization and robustness of pre-trained GNNs under suboptimal data.

Energy-based Out-of-Distribution Detection for Graph Neural Networks

Qitian Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Junchi Yan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

CodeAnomaly DetectionGraph Neural NetworkSupervised Fine-TuningGraph

🎯 What it does: A method for out-of-distribution (OOD) detection based on energy functions in graph neural networks (GNN), named GNNSAFE, is proposed, which can obtain an OOD discriminator using only a standard supervised trained GNN classifier.

Energy-Based Test Sample Adaptation for Domain Generalization

Zehao Xiao (University of Amsterdam), Cees G. M. Snoek (University of Amsterdam)

CodeDomain AdaptationImageTextStochastic Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes an energy model-based adaptive method for test samples, aimed at domain generalization.

EPISODE: Episodic Gradient Clipping with Periodic Resampled Corrections for Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Data

Michael Crawshaw (George Mason University), Mingrui Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

CodeOptimizationFederated LearningImageText

🎯 What it does: EPISODE is proposed, a gradient clipping algorithm for heterogeneous data in federated learning that is non-convex and satisfies relaxed smoothness ((L,L0,1)-smoothness);

Equal Improvability: A New Fairness Notion Considering the Long-term Impact

Ozgur Guldogan (University of California), Kangwook Lee (University of Wisconsin)

CodeTabularFinance Related

🎯 What it does: The concept of Equal Improvability (EI) fairness is proposed, along with three methods for implementing this concept through fair regularization; its effectiveness is validated in both static and dynamic scenarios.

Equiformer: Equivariant Graph Attention Transformer for 3D Atomistic Graphs

Yi-Lun Liao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Tess Smidt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

CodeGraph Neural NetworkTransformerGraphBenchmarkPhysics Related

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes Equiformer, a transformation-based equivariant graph neural network for predicting quantum properties of 3D atomic graphs.

Equivariant Descriptor Fields: SE(3)-Equivariant Energy-Based Models for End-to-End Visual Robotic Manipulation Learning

Hyunwoo Ryu (Yonsei University), Jongeun Choi (Yonsei University)

CodeRobotic IntelligenceTransformerReinforcement LearningImage

🎯 What it does: Equivariant Descriptor Fields (EDFs) are proposed, an end-to-end energy model that utilizes SE(3) symmetry for visual robot manipulation learning with only 5 to 10 demonstration examples;

Equivariant Hypergraph Diffusion Neural Operators

Peihao Wang (University of Texas at Austin), Pan Li (Georgia Tech)

CodeClassificationGraph Neural NetworkGraph

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes ED-HNN, a equivariant hypergraph neural network based on transferable hypergraph diffusion, designed to efficiently capture high-order relationships in hypergraphs and perform node classification tasks.

Equivariant Shape-Conditioned Generation of 3D Molecules for Ligand-Based Drug Design

Keir Adams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Connor W. Coley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

CodeGenerationDrug DiscoveryGraph Neural NetworkAuto EncoderGraph

🎯 What it does: A shape-based 3D molecular generation framework called SQUID is proposed, which can automatically generate drug-like molecules with diverse chemical structures under given 3D shape constraints.

ERL-Re$^2$: Efficient Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning with Shared State Representation and Individual Policy Representation

Jianye HAO, Zhaopeng Meng (Tianjin University)

CodeOptimizationReinforcement LearningSequentialBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposes ERL-Re 2, which integrates evolutionary algorithms with reinforcement learning, utilizing shared nonlinear state representations and individual linear policy representations for efficient policy optimization.

Error Sensitivity Modulation based Experience Replay: Mitigating Abrupt Representation Drift in Continual Learning

Fahad Sarfraz (NavInfo Europe), Bahram Zonooz (NavInfo Europe)

CodeClassificationRepresentation LearningConvolutional Neural NetworkImageSequential

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes an experience replay framework based on error sensitivity modulation, ESMER, which utilizes dual-mode memory (short-term experience buffer and long-term semantic model) and error history memory to alleviate representation drift and catastrophic forgetting in continual learning.

ESD: Expected Squared Difference as a Tuning-Free Trainable Calibration Measure

Hee Suk Yoon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Chang D. Yoo (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

CodeClassificationOptimizationConvolutional Neural NetworkTransformerImageText

🎯 What it does: A trainable calibration loss without internal hyperparameters is proposed - Expected Squared Difference (ESD), which can be optimized simultaneously with negative log-likelihood loss;

Eva: Practical Second-order Optimization with Kronecker-vectorized Approximation

Lin Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Bo Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

CodeOptimizationConvolutional Neural NetworkTransformerImage

🎯 What it does: A second-order optimizer named Eva is proposed, which constructs the curvature matrix using Kronecker-vectorization approximation and implements gradient preconditioning without explicit inverse matrices using the Sherman-Morrison formula;

EVA3D: Compositional 3D Human Generation from 2D Image Collections

Fangzhou Hong (Nanyang Technological University), Ziwei Liu (Nanyang Technological University)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisPose EstimationNeural Radiance FieldGenerative Adversarial NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: We propose EVA3D, a human generation model based on compositional NeRF, capable of learning to generate high-resolution (512Γ—256) 3D humans from a collection of 2D images.

Evaluating Long-Term Memory in 3D Mazes

Jurgis PaΕ‘ukonis, Danijar Hafner (DeepMind)

CodeRepresentation LearningReinforcement LearningSequentialBenchmark

🎯 What it does: A 3D maze benchmark specifically designed to measure the long-term memory capabilities of reinforcement learning agents, called Memory Maze, has been designed and evaluated, providing human baselines, offline datasets, and representation learning probes.

EVC: Towards Real-Time Neural Image Compression with Mask Decay

Wang Guo-Hua, Yan Lu (Microsoft Research Asia)

CodeCompressionKnowledge DistillationRepresentation LearningConvolutional Neural NetworkImageVideo

🎯 What it does: Designed and implemented an efficient single-model variable bitrate image compression scheme that balances real-time performance with excellent rate-distortion performance.

Everybody Needs Good Neighbours: An Unsupervised Locality-based Method for Bias Mitigation

Xudong Han (University of Melbourne), Trevor Cohn (University of Melbourne)

CodeTabular

🎯 What it does: An unsupervised neighborhood-based proxy labeling method, ULPL, is proposed for bias mitigation in models without protected attribute labels.

Evolving Populations of Diverse RL Agents with MAP-Elites

Thomas PIERROT, Arthur Flajolet (InstaDeep)

CodeRobotic IntelligenceReinforcement LearningAgentic AI

🎯 What it does: A PBT-MAP-ELITES framework is proposed that combines a complete RL agent (including policy parameters, other learnable parameters, and hyperparameters) with MAP-ELITES, aiming to achieve both high quality and diversity simultaneously.

Explicit Box Detection Unifies End-to-End Multi-Person Pose Estimation

Jie Yang (International Digital Economy Academy), Lei Zhang (International Digital Economy Academy)

CodeObject DetectionPose EstimationTransformerImage

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes ED-Pose, a fully end-to-end single-stage multi-person pose estimation framework that utilizes explicit box detection to unify global (human-level) and local (joint-level) information.

Exploring Active 3D Object Detection from a Generalization Perspective

Yadan Luo (University of Queensland), Mahsa Baktashmotlagh (University of Queensland)

CodeObject DetectionAutonomous DrivingPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: An active learning framework CRB is proposed in LiDAR 3D object detection, aiming to achieve near fully supervised detection performance with extremely low annotation costs.

Exploring Low-Rank Property in Multiple Instance Learning for Whole Slide Image Classification

Jinxi Xiang (Tencent AI Lab), Jun Zhang (Tencent AI Lab)

CodeClassificationConvolutional Neural NetworkContrastive LearningImageMagnetic Resonance Imaging

🎯 What it does: A multi-instance learning method based on low-rank properties is proposed, which enhances feature embedding through low-rank constrained contrastive learning (LRC) and designs an Iterative Low-Rank Attention Module (ILRA-MIL) to efficiently model the inter-instance correlations of whole slide images, achieving whole slide image classification.

Exploring Temporally Dynamic Data Augmentation for Video Recognition

Taeoh Kim (NAVER Cloud), Sangyoun Lee (NAVER Cloud)

CodeRecognitionObject DetectionSegmentationConvolutional Neural NetworkTransformerVideo

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes and implements DynaAugment, a dynamic data augmentation framework designed for video recognition, capable of generating smooth and diverse augmentation magnitudes for each frame.

Exploring the Limits of Differentially Private Deep Learning with Group-wise Clipping

Jiyan He (University of Science and Technology of China), Jiang Bian (Microsoft Research)

CodeSafty and PrivacyComputational EfficiencyTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: This paper researches and implements a differential privacy deep learning method based on group clipping, proposing layer-wise clipping that can run in parallel with backpropagation and device-level clipping aimed at large models, validating its effectiveness on various tasks.

Expressive Monotonic Neural Networks

Niklas Nolte (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Mike Williams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

CodeClassificationOptimizationImageTabularPhysics Related

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a method that applies L1-Lipschitz constraints to fully connected layers and adds a single residual connection, which can strictly ensure that the network is monotonic for any specified input subset and possesses provable robustness.

ExpressivE: A Spatio-Functional Embedding For Knowledge Graph Completion

Aleksandar Pavlović (TU Wien), Emanuel Sallinger (TU Wien)

CodeKnowledge DistillationRepresentation LearningGraph Neural NetworkGraphBenchmark

🎯 What it does: A new knowledge graph embedding model called ExpressivE is proposed, which embeds entities as points and relationships as hyper-parallelograms in a virtual triple space to achieve richer reasoning patterns.

Extracting Robust Models with Uncertain Examples

Guanlin Li (Nanyang Technological University), Tianwei Zhang (Nanyang Technological University)

CodeKnowledge DistillationAdversarial AttackConvolutional Neural NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a model extraction method based on uncertain samples (UE) called Boundary Entropy Searching Thief (BEST), which can recover the clarity accuracy and robustness of the target model in a black-box Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) environment using only hard label queries.

Factorized Fourier Neural Operators

Alasdair Tran (Australian National University), Cheng Soon Ong (Data61, CSIRO)

CodeComputational EfficiencyPoint CloudPhysics Related

🎯 What it does: An improved Fourier Neural Operator (F-FNO) is proposed for efficient learning and simulation of various PDEs (Navier-Stokes, elasticity, aerodynamics, plastic forming).

Fair Attribute Completion on Graph with Missing Attributes

Dongliang Guo (University of Georgia), Sheng Li (University of Virginia)

CodeGraph Neural NetworkAuto EncoderGenerative Adversarial NetworkGraph

🎯 What it does: The FairAC framework is proposed, which can complete missing attributes in graphs while simultaneously suppressing unfairness at both feature and topological levels.

FaiREE: fair classification with finite-sample and distribution-free guarantee

Puheng Li (Peking University), Linjun Zhang (Rutgers University)

CodeClassificationTabular

🎯 What it does: A post-processing algorithm FaiREE is proposed to achieve group fair classification under finite samples and no distribution assumptions.

FairGBM: Gradient Boosting with Fairness Constraints

AndrΓ© Cruz, Pedro Bizarro (Feedzai)

CodeClassificationOptimizationSupervised Fine-TuningTabularFinance Related

🎯 What it does: Proposes the FairGBM framework, which implements fairness constraints in gradient boosting trees (GBDT) through dual ascent learning.

Fairness and Accuracy under Domain Generalization

Thai-Hoang Pham (Ohio State University), Ping Zhang (Ohio State University)

CodeDomain AdaptationRepresentation LearningGenerative Adversarial NetworkImageBiomedical DataElectronic Health Records

🎯 What it does: The research focuses on maintaining both model accuracy and fairness in domain generalization scenarios, and proposes a two-stage training framework based on density matching called FATDM.

Fake It Until You Make It : Towards Accurate Near-Distribution Novelty Detection

Hossein Mirzaei (University of Amsterdam), Mohammad Hossein Rohban (Sharif University of Technology)

CodeAnomaly DetectionTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningDiffusion modelGenerative Adversarial NetworkImageStochastic Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: For anomaly detection in near-distribution scenarios, this paper proposes using a non-adversarial diffusion model to generate approximate anomalous samples and fine-tuning a pre-trained feature extractor on the generated samples to enhance detection performance.

Fantastic Rewards and How to Tame Them: A Case Study on Reward Learning for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems

Yihao Feng (Salesforce Research), Huan Wang (Salesforce Research)

CodeTransformerReinforcement LearningText

🎯 What it does: Two learning-to-rank based reward function learning methods, RewardNet and RewardMLE, are proposed, and the learned reward functions are combined with Gumbel-softmax policy gradients for training end-to-end task-oriented dialogue systems.

Fast and Precise: Adjusting Planning Horizon with Adaptive Subgoal Search

MichaΕ‚ Zawalski (University of Warsaw), Piotr MiΕ‚oΕ› (Polish Academy of Sciences)

CodeOptimizationComputational EfficiencyConvolutional Neural NetworkTransformerTabularBenchmark

🎯 What it does: The Adaptive Subgoal Search (AdaSubS) algorithm is proposed, which can adaptively adjust the time window for subgoal search based on state complexity, thereby planning more efficiently in complex reasoning tasks.

Fast Sampling of Diffusion Models with Exponential Integrator

Qinsheng Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology), Yongxin Chen (Georgia Institute of Technology)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisComputational EfficiencyDiffusion modelImageStochastic Differential EquationOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: A fast sampling method based on the Exponential Integrator, DEIS, has been developed to accelerate the generation process of diffusion models.

FastFill: Efficient Compatible Model Update

Florian Jaeckle (University of Oxford), Hadi Pouransari (Apple)

CodeRetrievalOptimizationImage

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes FastFill, a method compatible with model updates and online local backfilling, which can quickly enhance retrieval performance.

FedDAR: Federated Domain-Aware Representation Learning

Aoxiao Zhong (Harvard University), Quanzheng Li (Massachusetts General Hospital)

CodeFederated LearningRepresentation LearningBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: A new method called FedDAR is proposed for domain-mixed data distribution in cross-site federated learning, achieving model personalization through learning shared encoders and domain-specific prediction heads.

Federated Learning as Variational Inference: A Scalable Expectation Propagation Approach

Han Guo (Carnegie Mellon University), Eric Xing

CodeFederated LearningImageText

🎯 What it does: Proposed FedEP: a federated learning framework based on expectation propagation, which improves global posterior approximation using distributed inference;

Federated Learning from Small Datasets

Michael Kamp (University Hospital Essen), Jilles Vreeken (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security)

CodeFederated LearningSafty and PrivacyConvolutional Neural NetworkImageBiomedical DataMagnetic Resonance Imaging

🎯 What it does: A federated learning method called FEDDC is proposed, which combines 'daisy chaining' and aggregation to achieve effective training in scenarios where each client has very few samples.

Federated Nearest Neighbor Machine Translation

Yichao Du (University of Science and Technology of China), Enhong Chen (University of Science and Technology of China)

CodeFederated LearningSafty and PrivacyComputational EfficiencyText

🎯 What it does: Proposes the FedNN framework, which uses single-round memory-based interaction to replace traditional FedAvg, achieving efficient training and knowledge sharing for federated NMT.

FedFA: Federated Feature Augmentation

Tianfei Zhou (ETH Zurich), Ender Konukoglu (ETH Zurich)

CodeDomain AdaptationFederated LearningImageBiomedical DataMagnetic Resonance Imaging

🎯 What it does: Proposes FEDFA, which achieves data augmentation in federated learning through Gaussian sampling of feature statistics to alleviate feature shift among clients.

Few-shot Backdoor Attacks via Neural Tangent Kernels

Jonathan Hayase (University of Washington), Sewoong Oh (University of Washington)

CodeOptimizationAdversarial AttackConvolutional Neural NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: Construct a small number of powerful backdoor trigger samples and achieve a high attack success rate by predicting the training process through the Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK).

Few-shot Cross-domain Image Generation via Inference-time Latent-code Learning

Arnab Kumar Mondal (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi), Prathosh AP (Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisGenerative Adversarial NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: A few-shot cross-domain image generation method is proposed for learning latent codes during the inference phase without the need to retrain the generator;

Few-Shot Domain Adaptation For End-to-End Communication

Jayaram Raghuram (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

CodeDomain AdaptationAuto Encoder

🎯 What it does: A few-shot domain adaptation method for end-to-end communication systems is proposed, achieving rapid channel model transfer through the adaptation of Gaussian Mixture Networks (MDN) without retraining the encoder/decoder.

FIGARO: Controllable Music Generation using Learned and Expert Features

Dimitri von RΓΌtte (ETH Zurich), Thomas Hofmann (ETH Zurich)

CodeGenerationTransformerAuto EncoderAudio

🎯 What it does: The paper proposes a controllable music generation model FIGARO based on Transformer, which combines high-level features manually extracted by experts with vectors obtained through self-supervised learning to construct a self-supervised training framework from description to sequence.

FINDE: Neural Differential Equations for Finding and Preserving Invariant Quantities

Takashi Matsubara (Osaka University), Takaharu Yaguchi (Kobe University)

CodeTime SeriesPhysics RelatedStochastic Differential EquationOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes FINDE (First Integral-preserving Neural Differential Equation), a neural network framework that can automatically discover and preserve unknown conserved quantities of dynamical systems from data.

Finding Actual Descent Directions for Adversarial Training

Fabian Latorre (Γ‰cole Polytechnique FΓ©dΓ©rale de Lausanne), Volkan Cevher (Γ‰cole Polytechnique FΓ©dΓ©rale de Lausanne)

CodeOptimizationAdversarial AttackConvolutional Neural NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: This study investigates the theoretical foundation of adversarial training, reveals the error in Corollary C.2 proposed by Madry et al., and introduces the Danskin descent direction (DDi) algorithm using multiple adversarial samples to obtain the true descent direction.

FiT: Parameter Efficient Few-shot Transfer Learning for Personalized and Federated Image Classification

Aliaksandra Shysheya (University of Cambridge), Richard E Turner

CodeClassificationFederated LearningMeta LearningConvolutional Neural NetworkSupervised Fine-TuningImage

🎯 What it does: A method called FiLM Transfer (FIT) has been developed for achieving parameter-efficient image classification transfer learning in few-shot scenarios, and it can be applied in personalized models and federated learning settings.

FLIP: A Provable Defense Framework for Backdoor Mitigation in Federated Learning

Kaiyuan Zhang (Purdue University), Xiangyu Zhang (Purdue University)

CodeFederated LearningAdversarial AttackImage

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes FLIP, a provable defense framework that combines trigger inversion and adversarial training in federated learning to reduce the success rate of backdoor attacks while maintaining the accuracy of clean samples.

Flow Annealed Importance Sampling Bootstrap

Laurence Illing Midgley, JosΓ© Miguel HernΓ‘ndez-Lobato (University of Cambridge)

CodeFlow-based Model

🎯 What it does: A Flow Annealed Importance Sampling Bootstrap (FAB) method is proposed, which combines α-divergence with α=2 and Annealed Importance Sampling to train Normalizing Flows for approximating multimodal target distributions.

Flow Straight and Fast: Learning to Generate and Transfer Data with Rectified Flow

Xingchao Liu (University of Texas at Austin), qiang liu

CodeGenerationData SynthesisDomain AdaptationScore-based ModelFlow-based ModelRectified FlowNeural Radiance FieldImageOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: A 'Rectified Flow' model based on ODE is proposed, which learns the transport mapping from one empirical distribution to another and can be used for both unsupervised generation and domain transfer.

Formal Mathematics Statement Curriculum Learning

Stanislas Polu (OpenAI), Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelReinforcement LearningText

🎯 What it does: An Expert Iteration framework is proposed for training language models to complete theorem proofs in Lean formalized mathematics, achieving self-improvement through alternating search and learning.

Free Lunch for Domain Adversarial Training: Environment Label Smoothing

YiFan Zhang, Tieniu Tan (Alibaba Group)

CodeClassificationDomain AdaptationImageTextTime Series

🎯 What it does: In Domain Adversarial Training (DAT), Environment Label Smoothing (ELS) is introduced to reduce the overconfidence of the discriminator and alleviate environmental label noise, enhancing training stability and convergence speed;

From $t$-SNE to UMAP with contrastive learning

Sebastian Damrich (Heidelberg University), Dmitry Kobak (University of TΓΌbingen)

CodeOptimizationRepresentation LearningContrastive LearningImageBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: This study investigates the essential relationship between t-SNE and UMAP within the contrastive learning framework, and proposes a tunable negative sampling spectral method to adjust the clustering tightness and global structure of embeddings by correlating Noise Contrastive Estimation (NCE) with Negative Sampling (NEG).

Function-Consistent Feature Distillation

Dongyang Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Xilin CHEN

CodeClassificationObject DetectionKnowledge DistillationConvolutional Neural NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: The Function-Consistent Feature Distillation (FCFD) method is proposed, which enhances the performance of the student model by using the functional consistency of intermediate features between the teacher and student in the later part of the network as supervision.

FunkNN: Neural Interpolation for Functional Generation

AmirEhsan Khorashadizadeh (University of Basel), Ivan Dokmanić (University of Illinois)

CodeRestorationGenerationSuper ResolutionConvolutional Neural NetworkGenerative Adversarial NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: A convolution-based continuous super-resolution network called FunkNN is proposed, which combines a discrete generator to generate continuous images at any scale and is differentiable.

Fuzzy Alignments in Directed Acyclic Graph for Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation

Zhengrui Ma (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Yang Feng (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

CodeGenerationOptimizationTransformerTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: A target function based on fuzzy alignment (n-gram expected matching) is proposed to train a non-autoregressive translation model with a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), thereby better addressing multimodal issues.

GAMR: A Guided Attention Model for (visual) Reasoning

Mohit Vaishnav (Universite de Toulouse), Thomas Serre (Universite de Toulouse)

CodeConvolutional Neural NetworkRecurrent Neural NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: A guided attention module named GAMR is proposed, which learns to dynamically locate and store key information in visual reasoning tasks through a serialized attention movement and memory mechanism.

gDDIM: Generalized denoising diffusion implicit models

Qinsheng Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology), Yongxin Chen (Georgia Institute of Technology)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisComputational EfficiencyDiffusion modelImageStochastic Differential EquationOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: The paper proposes a general acceleration method for diffusion models called gDDIM, which can achieve nearly perfect sampling in a limited number of steps.

Generate rather than Retrieve: Large Language Models are Strong Context Generators

Wenhao Yu (University of Notre Dame), Meng Jiang (Microsoft Cognitive Service Research)

CodeGenerationRetrievalTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringTextRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: A generate-then-read (GENREAD) framework is proposed, which directly uses large language models to generate context documents related to questions, and then a reading model provides answers based on these documents, replacing the traditional retrieve-read pipeline.

Generating Diverse Cooperative Agents by Learning Incompatible Policies

Rujikorn Charakorn (Vistec), Nat Dilokthanakul (KMITL)

CodeRobotic IntelligenceReinforcement Learning

🎯 What it does: A method for generating diverse cooperative agents by learning incompatible strategies is proposed, aimed at enhancing the cooperation ability and diversity of the agents.

Generative Augmented Flow Networks

Ling Pan (Mila Quebec AI Institute), Yoshua Bengio (Mila Quebec AI Institute)

CodeGenerationReinforcement LearningFlow-based ModelGraph

🎯 What it does: A Generative Augmented Flow Network (GAFlowNet) framework is proposed, which introduces intermediate rewards (through edge, state, or joint methods) into the traditional GFlowNet to enhance exploration efficiency and generation diversity in sparse reward environments.

Generative Modelling with Inverse Heat Dissipation

Severi Rissanen (Aalto University), Arno Solin (Aalto University)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisConvolutional Neural NetworkDiffusion modelImage

🎯 What it does: A generative model based on the Inverse Heat Dissipation Model (IHDM) is designed and implemented, achieving multi-scale image generation through the inverse process of the heat equation.

GFlowNets and variational inference

Nikolay Malkin (Mila), Yoshua Bengio (Mila)

CodeGenerationDrug DiscoveryReinforcement LearningGraph

🎯 What it does: This paper connects two types of probabilistic algorithms: Variational Inference (VI) and Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNet). It proves that they are equivalent in terms of gradient expectations under certain conditions and experimentally compares the performance of the two methods in discrete structure generation tasks.

Git Re-Basin: Merging Models modulo Permutation Symmetries

Samuel Ainsworth, Siddhartha Srinivasa (Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington)

CodeOptimizationFederated LearningSafty and PrivacyConvolutional Neural NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes aligning two independently trained models by finding permutations of hidden layer units, thereby achieving linear mode connectivity (LMC) in weight space and enabling model merging.

GLM-130B: An Open Bilingual Pre-trained Model

Aohan Zeng (Tsinghua University), Jie Tang (Tsinghua University)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelText

🎯 What it does: Trained and released a 130 billion parameter bilingual (English-Chinese) large language model GLM-130B, providing complete code, training logs, and quantization implementation.

Global Explainability of GNNs via Logic Combination of Learned Concepts

Steve Azzolin (University of Trento), Andrea Passerini (University of Trento)

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilityGraph Neural NetworkGraph

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes GLGExplainer, which can generate global explanations through logical combinations of local explanations, thereby revealing the overall decision-making process of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs).

GNNDelete: A General Strategy for Unlearning in Graph Neural Networks

Jiali Cheng (University of Massachusetts Lowell), Marinka Zitnik (Harvard University)

CodeGraph Neural NetworkGraph

🎯 What it does: A general graph neural network deletion operator GNNDELETE is proposed, which can effectively delete nodes, edges, and node features without retraining the model.

GoBigger: A Scalable Platform for Cooperative-Competitive Multi-Agent Interactive Simulation

Ming Zhang (SenseTime Research), Yu Liu (Shanghai AI Laboratory)

CodeRobotic IntelligenceReinforcement Learning

🎯 What it does: Designed and implemented GoBigger, a scalable multi-agent interactive simulation platform that supports MΓ—N teams and can simulate the cooperation and competition of multiple teams within the same game.

GOGGLE: Generative Modelling for Tabular Data by Learning Relational Structure

Tennison Liu (University of Cambridge), Mihaela van der Schaar (University of Cambridge)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisGraph Neural NetworkAuto EncoderGenerative Adversarial NetworkTabular

🎯 What it does: GOGGLE is proposed, an end-to-end framework that can jointly learn the relational structure and generative model of tabular data.

GOOD: Exploring geometric cues for detecting objects in an open world

Haiwen Huang (University of TΓΌbingen), Dan Zhang (Bosch)

CodeObject DetectionAuto EncoderImage

🎯 What it does: A pseudo-labeling method based on geometric cues (depth, normals) is proposed to train an open-world category-free object detector called GOOD.

GPViT: A High Resolution Non-Hierarchical Vision Transformer with Group Propagation

Chenhongyi Yang (University of Edinburgh), Xiaolong Wang (UC San Diego)

CodeClassificationObject DetectionSegmentationTransformerImage

🎯 What it does: A non-hierarchical high-resolution visual Transformer (GPViT) is proposed, which achieves low computational cost global information exchange through the Group Propagation Block while maintaining high resolution of image features.

Gradient Boosting Performs Gaussian Process Inference

Aleksei Ustimenko (ShareChat), Liudmila Prokhorenkova (Yandex Research)

CodeTabular

🎯 What it does: View gradient boosting trees (GBDT) as kernel ridge regression in an implicit RKHS, prove its convergence to the posterior mean of Gaussian processes, and propose a KGB method based on random tree sampling and gradient boosting for sampling from the posterior distribution and obtaining knowledge uncertainty estimates.

Gradient-Guided Importance Sampling for Learning Binary Energy-Based Models

Meng Liu (Texas A&M University), Shuiwang Ji (Texas A&M University)

CodeGraph

🎯 What it does: A ratio matching method based on gradient-guided importance sampling is proposed for learning binary discrete energy models.

Graph Contrastive Learning for Skeleton-based Action Recognition

Xiaohu Huang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Bin Feng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

CodeRecognitionPose EstimationGraph Neural NetworkContrastive LearningVideoGraph

🎯 What it does: A skeleton action recognition framework called SkeletonGCL based on graph contrastive learning is proposed, achieving self-supervised contrast across sequences through graph learning in GCN.

Graph Domain Adaptation via Theory-Grounded Spectral Regularization

Yuning You (Texas A&M University), Yang Shen (Texas A&M University)

CodeDomain AdaptationGraph Neural NetworkGraph

🎯 What it does: A graph domain adaptation method based on spectral regularization is proposed, which enhances cross-domain graph learning performance by controlling the spectral smoothness and maximum frequency response of graph neural networks.

Graph Neural Networks are Inherently Good Generalizers: Insights by Bridging GNNs and MLPs

Chenxiao Yang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Junchi Yan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

CodeClassificationGraph Neural NetworkGraph

🎯 What it does: This study investigates the generalization ability of Graph Neural Networks (GNN) in node-level prediction tasks and proposes an intermediate model called Propagational MLP (PMLP), which uses a standard Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) during the training phase and GNN message passing during the inference phase, to reveal the source of GNN's superiority.

Graph Neural Networks for Link Prediction with Subgraph Sketching

Benjamin Paul Chamberlain, Max Hansmire (Twitter Inc.)

CodeGraph Neural NetworkGraph

🎯 What it does: An efficient graph neural network ELPH (and its scalable version BUDDY) is proposed for link prediction, replacing explicit subgraph construction with subgraph Sketching, addressing the limitations of traditional MPNN in triangle counting and automatic isomorphic nodes.

Graph Signal Sampling for Inductive One-Bit Matrix Completion: a Closed-form Solution

Chao Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Junchi Yan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

CodeRecommendation SystemGraph Neural NetworkGraph

🎯 What it does: A graph signal sampling-based inductive one-bit matrix completion framework GS-IMC and its Bayesian online extension BGS-IMC are proposed.

Graph-based Deterministic Policy Gradient for Repetitive Combinatorial Optimization Problems

Zhongyuan Zhao (Rice University), Santiago Segarra (Rice University)

CodeOptimizationGraph Neural NetworkReinforcement LearningGraph

🎯 What it does: A graph-based deterministic policy gradient framework, GDPG-Twin, is proposed to solve repetitive combinatorial optimization problems and significantly reduce the optimality gap of fast distributed heuristics.