GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
Learning Where to Look – Generative NAS Is Surprisingly Efficient
Authors: Jovita Lukasik; Steffen Jung; Margret Keuper
Venue: ECCV 2022 (main)

Abstract: "The efficient, automated search for well-performing neural architectures (NAS) has drawn increasing attention in the recent past. Thereby, the predominant research objective is to reduce the necessity of costly evaluations of neural architectures while efficiently exploring large search spaces. To this aim, surrogate models embed architectures in a latent space and predict their performance, while generative models for neural architectures enable optimization-based search within the latent space the generator draws from. Both, surrogate and generative models, have the aim of facilitating query-efficient search in a well-structured latent space. In this paper, we further improve the trade-off between query-efficiency and promising architecture generation by leveraging advantages from both, efficient surrogate models and generative design. To this end, we propose a generative model, paired with a surrogate predictor, that iteratively learns to generate samples from increasingly promising latent subspaces. This approach leads to very effective and efficient architecture search, while keeping the query amount low. In addition, our approach allows in a straightforward manner to jointly optimize for multiple objectives such as accuracy and hardware latency. We show the benefit of this approach not only w.r.t. the optimization of architectures for highest classification accuracy but also in the context of hardware constraints and outperform state-of-the-art methods on several NAS benchmarks for single and multiple objectives. We also achieve state-of-the-art performance on ImageNet. The code is available at https://github.com/jovitalukasik/AG-Net."
Subspace Diffusion Generative Models
Authors: Bowen Jing; Gabriele Corso; Renato Berlinghieri; Tommi Jaakkola
Venue: ECCV 2022 (main)

Abstract: "Score-based models generate samples by mapping noise to data (and vice versa) via a high-dimensional diffusion process. We question whether it is necessary to run this entire process at high dimensionality and incur all the inconveniences thereof. Instead, we restrict the diffusion via projections onto subspaces as the data distribution evolves toward noise. When applied to state-of-the-art models, our framework simultaneously improves sample quality---reaching an FID of 2.17 on unconditional CIFAR-10---and reduces the computational cost of inference for the same number of denoising steps. Our framework is fully compatible with continuous-time diffusion and retains its flexible capabilities, including exact log-likelihoods and controllable generation. Code is available at https://github.com/bjing2016/subspace-diffusion."
DuelGAN: A Duel between Two Discriminators Stabilizes the GAN Training
Authors: Jiaheng Wei; Minghao Liu; Jiahao Luo; Andrew Zhu; James Davis; Yang Liu
Venue: ECCV 2022 (main)

Abstract: "In this paper, we introduce DuelGAN, a generative adversarial network (GAN) solution to improve the stability of the generated samples and to mitigate mode collapse. Built upon the Vanilla GAN’s two-player game between the discriminator D_1 and the generator G, we introduce a peer discriminator D_2 to the min-max game. Similar to previous work using two discriminators, the first role of both D_1, D_2 is to distinguish between generated samples and real ones, while the generator tries to generate high-quality samples which are able to fool both discriminators. Different from existing methods, we introduce a duel between D_1 and D_2 to discourage their agreement and therefore increase the level of diversity of the generated samples. This property alleviates the issue of early mode collapse by preventing D_1 and D_2 from converging too fast. We provide theoretical analysis for the equilibrium of the min-max game formed among G, D_1, D_2. We offer convergence behavior of DuelGAN as well as stability of the min-max game. It’s worth mentioning that DuelGAN operates in the unsupervised setting, and the duel between D_1 and D_2 does not need any label supervision. Experiments results on a synthetic dataset and on real-world image datasets (MNIST, Fashion MNIST, CIFAR-10, STL-10, CelebA, VGG) demonstrate that DuelGAN outperforms competitive baseline work in generating diverse and high-quality samples, while only introduces negligible computation cost. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/UCSC-REAL/DuelGAN."
MINER: Multiscale Implicit Neural Representation
Authors: Vishwanath Saragadam; Jasper Tan; Guha Balakrishnan; Richard G. Baraniuk; Ashok Veeraraghavan
Venue: ECCV 2022 (main)

Abstract: "We introduce a new neural signal model designed for efficient high-resolution representation of large-scale signals. The key innovation in our multiscale implicit neural representation (MINER) is an internal representation via a Laplacian pyramid, which provides a sparse multiscale decomposition of the signal that captures orthogonal parts of the signal across scales. We leverage the advantages of the Laplacian pyramid by representing small disjoint patches of the pyramid at each scale with a small MLP. This enables the capacity of the network to adaptively increase from coarse to fine scales, and only represent parts of the signal with strong signal energy. The parameters of each MLP are optimized from coarse-to-fine scale which results in faster approximations at coarser scales, thereby ultimately an extremely fast training process. We apply MINER to a range of large-scale signal representation tasks, including gigapixel images and very large point clouds, and demonstrate that it requires fewer than 25% of the parameters, 33% of the memory footprint, and 10% of the computation time of competing techniques such as ACORN to reach the same representation accuracy."
An Embedded Feature Whitening Approach to Deep Neural Network Optimization
Authors: Hongwei Yong; Lei Zhang
Venue: ECCV 2022 (main)

Abstract: "Compared with the feature normalization methods that are widely used in deep neural network (DNN) training, feature whitening methods take the correlation of features into consideration, which can help to learn more effective features. However, existing feature whitening methods have a few limitations, such as the large computation and memory cost, incapability to adopt pre-trained DNN models, the introduction of additional parameters, etc., making them impractical to use in optimizing DNNs. To overcome these drawbacks, we propose a novel Embedded Feature Whitening (EFW) approach to DNN optimization. EFW only adjusts the gradient of weight by using the whitening matrix without changing any part of the network so that it can be easily adopted to optimize pre-trained and well-defined DNN architectures. We consequently develop the associated momentum, adaptive damping and gradient norm recovery techniques w.r.t. EFW, which can be implemented efficiently with acceptable extra computation and memory cost. We apply EFW to the two most commonly used DNN optimizers, i.e., SGDM and Adam, and name them W-SGDM and W-Adam. Extensive experimental results on various vision tasks, including image classification, object detection, segmentation and person ReID, demonstrate the superiority of W-SGDM and W-Adam to their original counterparts."
Q-FW: A Hybrid Classical-Quantum Frank-Wolfe for Quadratic Binary Optimization
Authors: Alp Yurtsever; Tolga Birdal; Vladislav Golyanik
Venue: ECCV 2022 (main)

Abstract: "We present a hybrid classical-quantum framework based on the Frank-Wolfe algorithm, Q-FW, for solving quadratic, linearly-constrained, binary optimization problems on quantum annealers (QA). The computational premise of quantum computers has cultivated the re-design of various existing vision problems into quantum-friendly forms. Experimental QA realisations can solve a particular non-convex problem known as the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO). Yet a naive-QUBO cannot take into account the restrictions on the parameters. To introduce additional structure in the parameter space, researchers have crafted ad-hoc solutions incorporating (linear) constraints in the form of regularizers. However, this comes at the expense of a hyper-parameter, balancing the impact of regularization. To date, a true constrained solver of quadratic binary optimization (QBO) problems has lacked. Q-FW first reformulates constrained-QBO as a copositive program (CP), then employs Frank-Wolfe iterations to solve CP while satisfying linear (in)equality constraints. This procedure unrolls the original constrained-QBO into a set of unconstrained QUBOs all of which are solved, in a sequel, on a QA. We use D-Wave Advantage QA to conduct synthetic and real experiments on two important computer vision problems, graph matching and permutation synchronization, which demonstrate that our approach is effective in alleviating the need for an explicit regularization coefficient."
Self-Supervised Learning of Visual Graph Matching
Authors: Chang Liu; Shaofeng Zhang; Xiaokang Yang; Junchi Yan
Venue: ECCV 2022 (main)

Abstract: "Despite the rapid progress made by existing graph matching methods, expensive or even unrealistic node-level correspondence labels are often required. Inspired by recent progress in self-supervised contrastive learning, we propose an end-to-end label-free self-supervised contrastive graph matching framework (SCGM). Unlike in vision tasks like classification and segmentation, where the backbone is often forced to extract object instance-level or pixel-level information, we design an extra objective function at node-level on graph data which also considers both the visual appearance and graph structure by node embedding. Further, we propose two-stage augmentation functions on both raw images and extracted graphs to increase the variance, which has been shown effective in self-supervised learning. We conduct experiments on standard graph matching benchmarks, where our method boosts previous state-of-the-arts under both label-free self-supervised and fine-tune settings. Without the ground truth labels for node matching nor the graph/image-level category information, our proposed framework SCGM outperforms several deep graph matching methods. By proper fine-tuning, SCGM can surpass the state-of-the-art supervised deep graph matching methods."
Scalable Learning to Optimize: A Learned Optimizer Can Train Big Models
Authors: Xuxi Chen; Tianlong Chen; Yu Cheng; Weizhu Chen; Ahmed Awadallah; Zhangyang Wang
Venue: ECCV 2022 (main)

Abstract: "Learning to optimize (L2O) has gained increasing attention since it demonstrates a promising path to automating and accelerating the optimization of complicated problems. Unlike manually crafted classical optimizers, L2O parameterizes and learns optimization rules in a data-driven fashion. However, the primary barrier, scalability, persists for this paradigm: as the typical L2O models create massive memory overhead due to unrolled computational graphs, it disables L2O’s applicability to large-scale tasks. To overcome this core challenge, we propose a new scalable learning to optimize (SL2O) framework which (i) first constrains the network updates in a tiny subspace and (ii) then explores learning rules on top of it. Thanks to substantially reduced trainable parameters, learning optimizers for large-scale networks with a single GPU become feasible for the first time, showing that the scalability roadblock of applying L2O to training large models is now removed. Comprehensive experiments on various network architectures (i.e., ResNets, VGGs, ViTs) and datasets (i.e., CIFAR, ImageNet, E2E) across vision and language tasks, consistently validate that SL2O can achieve significantly faster convergence speed and competitive performance compared to analytical optimizers. For example, our approach converges 3.41 4.60 times faster on CIFAR-10/100 with ResNet-18, and 1.24 times faster on ViTs, at nearly no performance loss. Codes are included in the supplement."
QISTA-ImageNet: A Deep Compressive Image Sensing Framework Solving lq-Norm Optimization Problem
Authors: Gang-Xuan Lin; Shih-Wei Hu; Chun-Shien Lu
Venue: ECCV 2022 (main)

Abstract: "In this paper, we study how to reconstruct the original images from the given sensed samples/measurements by proposing a so-called deep compressive image sensing framework. This framework, dubbed QISTA-ImageNet, is built upon a deep neural network to realize our optimization algorithm QISTA (Lq-ISTA) in solving image recovery problem. The unique characteristics of QISTA-ImageNet are that we (1) introduce a generalized proximal operator and present learning-based proximal gradient descent (PGD) together with an iterative algorithm in reconstructing images, (2) analyze how QISTA-ImageNet can exhibit better solutions compared to state-of-the-art methods and interpret clearly the insight of proposed method, and (3) conduct empirical comparisons with state-of-the-art methods to demonstrate that QISTA-ImageNet exhibits the best performance in terms of image reconstruction quality to solve the Lq-norm optimization problem."
R-DFCIL: Relation-Guided Representation Learning for Data-Free Class Incremental Learning
Authors: Qiankun Gao; Chen Zhao; Bernard Ghanem; Jian Zhang
Venue: ECCV 2022 (main)

Abstract: "Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) struggles with catastrophic forgetting when learning new knowledge, and Data-Free CIL (DFCIL) is even more challenging without access to the training data of previously learned classes. Though recent DFCIL works introduce techniques such as model inversion to synthesize data for previous classes, they fail to overcome forgetting due to the severe domain gap between the synthetic and real data. To address this issue, this paper proposes relation-guided representation learning (RRL) for DFCIL, dubbed R-DFCIL. In RRL, we introduce relational knowledge distillation to flexibly transfer the structural relation of new data from the old model to the current model. Our RRL-boosted DFCIL can guide the current model to learn representations of new classes better compatible with representations of previous classes, which greatly reduces forgetting while improving plasticity. To avoid the mutual interference between representation and classifier learning, we employ local rather than global classification loss during RRL. After RRL, the classification head is refined with global class-balanced classification loss to address the data imbalance issue as well as learn the decision boundaries between new and previous classes. Extensive experiments on CIFAR100, Tiny-ImageNet200, and ImageNet100 demonstrate that our R-DFCIL significantly surpasses previous approaches and achieves a new state-of-the-art performance for DFCIL."
Domain Generalization by Mutual-Information Regularization with Pre-trained Models
Authors: Junbum Cha; Kyungjae Lee; Sungrae Park; Sanghyuk Chun
Venue: ECCV 2022 (main)

Abstract: "Domain generalization (DG) aims to learn a generalized model to an unseen target domain using only limited source domains. Previous attempts to DG fail to learn domain-invariant representations only from the source domains due to the significant domain shifts between training and test domains. Instead, we re-formulate the DG objective using mutual information with the oracle model, a model generalized to any possible domain. We derive a tractable variational lower bound via approximating the oracle model by a pre-trained model, called Mutual Information Regularization with Oracle (MIRO). Our extensive experiments show that MIRO significantly improves the out-of-distribution performance. Furthermore, our scaling experiments show that the larger the scale of the pre-trained model, the greater the performance improvement of MIRO. Code is available at https://github.com/kakaobrain/miro."
Predicting Is Not Understanding: Recognizing and Addressing Underspecification in Machine Learning
Authors: Damien Teney; Maxime Peyrard; Ehsan Abbasnejad
Venue: ECCV 2022 (main)

Abstract: "Machine learning models are typically designed for maximum accuracy on validation data. This predictive criterion rarely captures all desirable properties, in particular how a model matches a domain expert’s \emph{understanding} of the task. In this situation, known as underspecification, two models with similar validation accuracy may rely on different features (e.g. shape or texture in image recognition) and make very different predictions on out-of-distribution (OOD) data. Identifying underspecification is important as a warning against unexpected behaviour of deployed models, and as an indication of the need for additional task-specific knowledge. In this paper, we formalize the notion of underspecification and propose a method to identify and address the issue. We train multiple models with an independence constraint that forces them to discover distinct predictive features, most of which are missed by standard training. The number of models trainable under this constraint characterize the degree of underspecification of a task. Moreover, we show that an optimal set of these features can be combined to obtain a global predictor with superior OOD performance. We demonstrate the method on existing benchmarks and discuss important implications of underspecification. In particular, in-domain validation performance cannot serve for OOD model selection without additional assumptions."
Neural-Sim: Learning to Generate Training Data with NeRF
Authors: Yunhao Ge; Harkirat Behl; Jiashu Xu; Suriya Gunasekar; Neel Joshi; Yale Song; Xin Wang; Laurent Itti; Vibhav Vineet
Venue: ECCV 2022 (main)

Abstract: Traditional approaches for training a computer vision models requires collecting and labelling vast amounts of imagery under a diverse set of scene configurations and properties. This process is incredibly time-consuming, and it is challenging to ensure that the captured data distribution maps well to the target domain of an application scenario. In recent years, synthetic data has emerged as a way to address both of these issues. However, current approaches either require human experts to manually tune each scene property or use automatic methods that provide little to no control; this requires rendering large amounts random data variations, which is slow and is often suboptimal for the target domain. We present the first fully differentiable synthetic data generation pipeline that uses Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) in a closed-loop with a target application’s loss function to generate data, on demand, with no human labor, to maximise accuracy for a target task. We illustrate the effectiveness of our method with synthetic and real-world object detection experiments. In addition, we evaluate on a new "YCB-in-the-Wild" dataset that provides a test scenario for object detection with varied pose in real-world environments.
Bayesian Optimization with Clustering and Rollback for CNN Auto Pruning
Authors: Hanwei Fan; Jiandong Mu; Wei Zhang
Venue: ECCV 2022 (main)

Abstract: "Pruning is an effective technique for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) model compression, but it is difficult to find the optimal pruning policy due to the large design space. To improve the usability of pruning, many auto pruning methods have been developed. Recently, Bayesian optimization (BO) has been considered to be a competitive algorithm for auto pruning due to its solid theoretical foundation and high sampling efficiency. However, BO suffers from the curse of dimensionality. The performance of BO deteriorates when pruning deep CNNs, since the dimension of the design spaces increase. We propose a novel clustering algorithm that reduces the dimension of the design space to speed up the searching process. Subsequently, a rollback algorithm is proposed to recover the high-dimensional design space so that higher pruning accuracy can be obtained. We validate our proposed method on ResNet, MobileNetV1, and MobileNetV2 models. Experiments show that the proposed method significantly improves the convergence rate of BO when pruning deep CNNs with no increase in running time. The source code is available at https://github.com/fanhanwei/BOCR."
Learned Variational Video Color Propagation
Authors: Markus Hofinger; Erich Kobler; Alexander Effland; Thomas Pock
Venue: ECCV 2022 (main)

Abstract: "In this paper, we propose a novel method for color propagation that is used to recolor gray-scale videos (e.g. historic movies). Our energy-based model combines deep learning with a variational formulation. At its core, the method optimizes over a set of plausible color proposals that are extracted from motion and semantic feature matches, together with a learned regularizer that resolves color ambiguities by enforcing spatial color smoothness. Our approach allows interpreting intermediate results and to incorporate extensions like using multiple reference frames even after training. We achieve state-of-the-art results on a number of standard benchmark datasets with multiple metrics and also provide convincing results on real historical videos - even though such types of video are not present during training. Moreover, a user evaluation shows that our method propagates initial colors more faithfully and temporally consistent."
Continual Variational Autoencoder Learning via Online Cooperative Memorization
Authors: Fei Ye; Adrian G. Bors
Venue: ECCV 2022 (main)

Abstract: "Due to their inference, data representation and reconstruction properties, Variational Autoencoders (VAE) have been successfully used in continual learning classification tasks. However, their ability to generate images with specifications corresponding to the classes and databases learned during Continual Learning (CL) is not well understood and catastrophic forgetting remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we firstly analyze the forgetting behaviour of VAEs by developing a new theoretical framework that formulates CL as a dynamic optimal transport problem. This framework proves approximate bounds to the data likelihood without requiring the task information and explains how the prior knowledge is lost during the training process. We then propose a novel memory buffering approach, namely the Online Cooperative Memorization (OCM) framework, which consists of a Short-Term Memory (STM) that continually stores recent samples to provide future information for the model, and a Long-Term Memory (LTM) aiming to preserve a wide diversity of samples. The proposed OCM transfers certain samples from STM to LTM according to the information diversity selection criterion without requiring any supervised signals. The OCM framework is then combined with a dynamic VAE expansion mixture network for further enhancing its performance."
Learning to Learn with Smooth Regularization
Authors: Yuanhao Xiong; Cho-Jui Hsieh
Venue: ECCV 2022 (main)

Abstract: "Recent decades have witnessed great advances of deep learning in tackling various problems such as classification and decision making. The rapid development gave rise to a novel framework, Learning-to-Learn (L2L), in which an automatic optimization algorithm (optimizer) modeled by neural networks is expected to learn rules for updating the target objective function (optimizee). Despite its advantages for specific problems, L2L still cannot replace classic methods due to its instability. Unlike hand-engineered algorithms, neural optimizers may suffer from the instability issue---under distinct but similar states, the same neural optimizer can produce quite different updates. Motivated by the stability property that should be satisfied by an ideal optimizer, we propose a regularization term that can enforce the smoothness and stability of the learned optimizers. Comprehensive experiments on the neural network training tasks demonstrate that the proposed regularization consistently improve the learned neural optimizers even when transferring to tasks with different architectures and datasets. Furthermore, we show that our smoothness-inducing regularizer can improve the performance of neural optimizers on few-shot learning tasks. Code can be found at https://github.com/xyh97/SmoothedOptimizer."