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most citedFine-Grained Visual Classification of Aircraft

1.2k citations

26 papers

math.OC2022

On a fixed-point continuation method for a convex optimization problem

Jean-Baptiste Fest, Tommi Heikkilä, Ignace Loris +4

We consider a variation of the classical proximal-gradient algorithm for the iterative minimization of a cost function consisting of a sum of two terms, one smooth and the other pr…

math.ST2022★ 2 cited

Regularized Rényi divergence minimization through Bregman proximal gradient algorithms

Thomas Guilmeau, Emilie Chouzenoux, Víctor Elvira

We study the variational inference problem of minimizing a regularized Rényi divergence over an exponential family. We propose to solve this problem with a Bregman proximal gradien…

cs.CV2022

A Variational Approach for Joint Image Recovery and Feature Extraction Based on Spatially-Varying Generalised Gaussian Models

Emilie Chouzenoux, Marie-Caroline Corbineau, Jean-Christophe Pesquet +1

The joint problem of reconstruction / feature extraction is a challenging task in image processing. It consists in performing, in a joint manner, the restoration of an image and th…

cs.LG2021★ 6 cited

Topic-aware latent models for representation learning on networks

Abdulkadir Çelikkanat, Fragkiskos D. Malliaros

Network representation learning (NRL) methods have received significant attention over the last years thanks to their success in several graph analysis problems, including node cla…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Maximizing Influence with Graph Neural Networks

George Panagopoulos, Nikolaos Tziortziotis, Michalis Vazirgiannis +1

Finding the seed set that maximizes the influence spread over a network is a well-known NP-hard problem. Though a greedy algorithm can provide near-optimal solutions, the subproble…

math.OC2020★ 8 cited

Sparse Signal Reconstruction for Nonlinear Models via Piecewise Rational Optimization

Arthur Marmin, Marc Castella, Jean-Christophe Pesquet +1

We propose a method to reconstruct sparse signals degraded by a nonlinear distortion and acquired at a limited sampling rate. Our method formulates the reconstruction problem as a…

cs.CG2020★ 16 cited

Optimizing persistent homology based functions

Mathieu Carrière, Frédéric Chazal, Marc Glisse +2

Solving optimization tasks based on functions and losses with a topological flavor is a very active, growing field of research in data science and Topological Data Analysis, with a…

cs.LG2020

NodeSig: Binary Node Embeddings via Random Walk Diffusion

Abdulkadir Çelikkanat, Fragkiskos D. Malliaros, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos

Graph Representation Learning (GRL) has become a key paradigm in network analysis, with a plethora of interdisciplinary applications. As the scale of networks increases, most of th…

math.OC2020★ 103 cited

Fixed Point Strategies in Data Science

Patrick L. Combettes, Jean-Christophe Pesquet

The goal of this paper is to promote the use of fixed point strategies in data science by showing that they provide a simplifying and unifying framework to model, analyze, and solv…

math.OC2020★ 28 cited

SPOQ -Over- Regularization for Sparse Signal Recovery applied to Mass Spectrometry

Afef Cherni, Emilie Chouzenoux, Laurent Duval +1

Underdetermined or ill-posed inverse problems require additional information for \ldd{d} sound solutions with tractable optimization algorithms. Sparsity yields consequent heuristi…

eess.IV2019★ 17 cited

Preconditioned P-ULA for Joint Deconvolution-Segmentation of Ultrasound Images -- Extended Version

Corbineau Marie-Caroline, Kouamé Denis, Chouzenoux Emilie +2

Joint deconvolution and segmentation of ultrasound images is a challenging problem in medical imaging. By adopting a hierarchical Bayesian model, we propose an accelerated Markov c…

cs.LG2018★ 4 cited

TNE: A Latent Model for Representation Learning on Networks

Abdulkadir Çelikkanat, Fragkiskos D. Malliaros

Network representation learning (NRL) methods aim to map each vertex into a low dimensional space by preserving the local and global structure of a given network, and in recent yea…

cs.CV2018★ 24 cited

Compressing the Input for CNNs with the First-Order Scattering Transform

Edouard Oyallon, Eugene Belilovsky, Sergey Zagoruyko +1

We study the first-order scattering transform as a candidate for reducing the signal processed by a convolutional neural network (CNN). We show theoretical and empirical evidence t…

cs.LG2018★ 78 cited

Scattering Networks for Hybrid Representation Learning

Edouard Oyallon, Sergey Zagoruyko, Gabriel Huang +4

Scattering networks are a class of designed Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with fixed weights. We argue they can serve as generic representations for modelling images. In par…

eess.SP2018★ 11 cited

Rational Optimization for Nonlinear Reconstruction with Approximate Penalization

Marc Castella, Jean-Christophe Pesquet, Arthur Marmin

Recovering nonlinearly degraded signal in the presence of noise is a challenging problem. In this work, this problem is tackled by minimizing the sum of a non convex least-squares…

math.OC2018★ 2 cited

Nonlinear Acceleration of CNNs

Damien Scieur, Edouard Oyallon, Alexandre d'Aspremont +1

The Regularized Nonlinear Acceleration (RNA) algorithm is an acceleration method capable of improving the rate of convergence of many optimization schemes such as gradient descend,…

math.OC2018★ 21 cited

A Proximal Approach for a Class of Matrix Optimization Problems

A. Benfenati, E. Chouzenoux, J. -C. Pesquet

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in mathematical models leading to the minimization, in a symmetric matrix space, of a Bregman divergence coupled with a regulariz…

math.OC2017★ 27 cited

A Random Block-Coordinate Douglas-Rachford Splitting Method with Low Computational Complexity for Binary Logistic Regression

Luis M. Briceno-Arias, Giovanni Chierchia, Emilie Chouzenoux +1

In this paper, we propose a new optimization algorithm for sparse logistic regression based on a stochastic version of the Douglas-Rachford splitting method. Our algorithm sweeps t…

cs.CV2017★ 188 cited

Slice-to-volume medical image registration: a survey

Enzo Ferrante, Nikos Paragios

During the last decades, the research community of medical imaging has witnessed continuous advances in image registration methods, which pushed the limits of the state-of-the-art…

cs.LG2016★ 42 cited

Minding the Gaps for Block Frank-Wolfe Optimization of Structured SVMs

Anton Osokin, Jean-Baptiste Alayrac, Isabella Lukasewitz +2

In this paper, we propose several improvements on the block-coordinate Frank-Wolfe (BCFW) algorithm from Lacoste-Julien et al. (2013) recently used to optimize the structured suppo…

stat.ML2016★ 11 cited

Learning to Discover Sparse Graphical Models

Eugene Belilovsky, Kyle Kastner, Gaël Varoquaux +1

We consider structure discovery of undirected graphical models from observational data. Inferring likely structures from few examples is a complex task often requiring the formulat…

stat.ML2016★ 6 cited

A Convex Surrogate Operator for General Non-Modular Loss Functions

Jiaqian Yu, Matthew Blaschko

Empirical risk minimization frequently employs convex surrogates to underlying discrete loss functions in order to achieve computational tractability during optimization. However,…

stat.ML2015★ 5 cited

The Lovász Hinge: A Novel Convex Surrogate for Submodular Losses

Jiaqian Yu, Matthew Blaschko

Learning with non-modular losses is an important problem when sets of predictions are made simultaneously. The main tools for constructing convex surrogate loss functions for set p…

cs.CV2015★ 41 cited

Deep Learning for Semantic Part Segmentation with High-Level Guidance

S. Tsogkas, I. Kokkinos, G. Papandreou +1

In this work we address the task of segmenting an object into its parts, or semantic part segmentation. We start by adapting a state-of-the-art semantic segmentation system to this…