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most citedSigsoftmax: Reanalysis of the Softmax Bottleneck

20 citations · 48 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.LG2026

Relative Density Ratio Optimization for Stable and Statistically Consistent Model Alignment

Hiroshi Takahashi, Tomoharu Iwata, Atsutoshi Kumagai +4

Aligning language models with human preferences is essential for ensuring their safety and reliability. Although most existing approaches assume specific human preference models su…

cs.LG2025

Test-time reward-guided alignment of language models by importance sampling on pre-logit space

Sekitoshi Kanai, Tsukasa Yoshida, Hiroshi Takahashi +2

Test-time alignment of large language models (LLMs) attracts attention because fine-tuning of LLMs requires high computational costs. In this paper, we propose a new test-time rewa…

cs.CV2025

Post-pre-training for Modality Alignment in Vision-Language Foundation Models

Shin'ya Yamaguchi, Dewei Feng, Sekitoshi Kanai +2

Contrastive language image pre-training (CLIP) is an essential component of building modern vision-language foundation models. While CLIP demonstrates remarkable zero-shot performa…

cs.LG2024

Evaluating Time-Series Training Dataset through Lens of Spectrum in Deep State Space Models

Sekitoshi Kanai, Yasutoshi Ida, Kazuki Adachi +3

This study investigates a method to evaluate time-series datasets in terms of the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) with state space models (deep SSMs) trained on the data…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Adaptive Random Feature Regularization on Fine-tuning Deep Neural Networks

Shin'ya Yamaguchi, Sekitoshi Kanai, Kazuki Adachi +1

While fine-tuning is a de facto standard method for training deep neural networks, it still suffers from overfitting when using small target datasets. Previous methods improve fine…

cs.CV2023

Adversarial Finetuning with Latent Representation Constraint to Mitigate Accuracy-Robustness Tradeoff

Satoshi Suzuki, Shin'ya Yamaguchi, Shoichiro Takeda +4

This paper addresses the tradeoff between standard accuracy on clean examples and robustness against adversarial examples in deep neural networks (DNNs). Although adversarial train…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Regularizing Neural Networks with Meta-Learning Generative Models

Shin'ya Yamaguchi, Daiki Chijiwa, Sekitoshi Kanai +2

This paper investigates methods for improving generative data augmentation for deep learning. Generative data augmentation leverages the synthetic samples produced by generative mo…

cs.LG2023

Fast Regularized Discrete Optimal Transport with Group-Sparse Regularizers

Yasutoshi Ida, Sekitoshi Kanai, Kazuki Adachi +2

Regularized discrete optimal transport (OT) is a powerful tool to measure the distance between two discrete distributions that have been constructed from data samples on two differ…

cs.LG2022

Fast Saturating Gate for Learning Long Time Scales with Recurrent Neural Networks

Kentaro Ohno, Sekitoshi Kanai, Yasutoshi Ida

Gate functions in recurrent models, such as an LSTM and GRU, play a central role in learning various time scales in modeling time series data by using a bounded activation function…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

One-vs-the-Rest Loss to Focus on Important Samples in Adversarial Training

Sekitoshi Kanai, Shin'ya Yamaguchi, Masanori Yamada +3

This paper proposes a new loss function for adversarial training. Since adversarial training has difficulties, e.g., necessity of high model capacity, focusing on important data po…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Transfer Learning with Pre-trained Conditional Generative Models

Shin'ya Yamaguchi, Sekitoshi Kanai, Atsutoshi Kumagai +2

Transfer learning is crucial in training deep neural networks on new target tasks. Current transfer learning methods always assume at least one of (i) source and target task label…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

F-Drop&Match: GANs with a Dead Zone in the High-Frequency Domain

Shin'ya Yamaguchi, Sekitoshi Kanai

Generative adversarial networks built from deep convolutional neural networks (GANs) lack the ability to exactly replicate the high-frequency components of natural images. To allev…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Smoothness Analysis of Adversarial Training

Sekitoshi Kanai, Masanori Yamada, Hiroshi Takahashi +2

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Recent studies about adversarial robustness focus on the loss landscape in the parameter space since it is related to op…

stat.ML2021★ 4 cited

Adversarial Training Makes Weight Loss Landscape Sharper in Logistic Regression

Masanori Yamada, Sekitoshi Kanai, Tomoharu Iwata +4

Adversarial training is actively studied for learning robust models against adversarial examples. A recent study finds that adversarially trained models degenerate generalization p…

stat.ML2020

Constraining Logits by Bounded Function for Adversarial Robustness

Sekitoshi Kanai, Masanori Yamada, Shin'ya Yamaguchi +2

We propose a method for improving adversarial robustness by addition of a new bounded function just before softmax. Recent studies hypothesize that small logits (inputs of softmax)…

stat.ML2019★ 4 cited

Effective Data Augmentation with Multi-Domain Learning GANs

Shin'ya Yamaguchi, Sekitoshi Kanai, Takeharu Eda

For deep learning applications, the massive data development (e.g., collecting, labeling), which is an essential process in building practical applications, still incurs seriously…

stat.ML2019★ 7 cited

Image Enhanced Rotation Prediction for Self-Supervised Learning

Shin'ya Yamaguchi, Sekitoshi Kanai, Tetsuya Shioda +1

The rotation prediction (Rotation) is a simple pretext-task for self-supervised learning (SSL), where models learn useful representations for target vision tasks by solving pretext…

stat.ML2019

Absum: Simple Regularization Method for Reducing Structural Sensitivity of Convolutional Neural Networks

Sekitoshi Kanai, Yasutoshi Ida, Yasuhiro Fujiwara +2

We propose Absum, which is a regularization method for improving adversarial robustness of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Although CNNs can accurately recognize images, rece…

stat.ML2019★ 4 cited

Autoencoding Binary Classifiers for Supervised Anomaly Detection

Yuki Yamanaka, Tomoharu Iwata, Hiroshi Takahashi +2

We propose the Autoencoding Binary Classifiers (ABC), a novel supervised anomaly detector based on the Autoencoder (AE). There are two main approaches in anomaly detection: supervi…

stat.ML2018★ 20 cited

Sigsoftmax: Reanalysis of the Softmax Bottleneck

Sekitoshi Kanai, Yasuhiro Fujiwara, Yuki Yamanaka +1

Softmax is an output activation function for modeling categorical probability distributions in many applications of deep learning. However, a recent study revealed that softmax can…