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20182026
most citedBenchopt: Reproducible, efficient and collaborative optimization benchmarks

9 citations · 27 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.CV2026

Co-Learning for Missing Arbitrary Modalities in Multi-modal Classification

Francisco Mena, Dino Ienco, Roberto Interdonato +2

Multi-modal classification leverages complementary information across diverse data sources to enhance predictive performance. However, real-world scenarios subject to operational c…

cs.CV2026

Evaluating the Interpretability of Sparse Autoencoders with Concept Annotations

Jonas Klotz, Cassio F. Dantas, Pallavi Jain +2

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are increasingly used to extract interpretable concepts from vision and vision language models, yet existing evaluation methods largely rely on proxy met…

cs.CV2026

Metonymy in vision models undermines attention-based interpretability

Ananthu Aniraj, Cassio F. Dantas, Dino Ienco +2

Part-based reasoning is a classical strategy to make a computer vision model directly focus on the object parts that are relevant to the downstream task. In the context of deep lea…

cs.CV2025★ 4 cited

Multi-modal Co-learning for Earth Observation: Enhancing single-modality models via modality collaboration

Francisco Mena, Dino Ienco, Cassio F. Dantas +2

Multi-modal co-learning is emerging as an effective paradigm in machine learning, enabling models to collaboratively learn from different modalities to enhance single-modality pred…

q-bio.PE2025

Fire severity and recovery across Europe: insights from forest diversity and landscape metrics

Eatidal Amin, Cassio F. Dantas, Dino Ienco +2

In recent decades, European forests have faced an increased incidence of fire disturbances. This phenomenon is likely to persist, given the rising frequency of extreme events expec…

cs.CV2025

Two-stage Vision Transformers and Hard Masking offer Robust Object Representations

Ananthu Aniraj, Cassio F. Dantas, Dino Ienco +1

Context can strongly affect object representations, sometimes leading to undesired biases, particularly when objects appear in out-of-distribution backgrounds at inference. At the…

cs.CV2025

Revisiting Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation: A Disentanglement Approach for RGBD Semantic Segmentation

Roger Ferrod, Cássio F. Dantas, Luigi Di Caro +1

Multi-modal RGB and Depth (RGBD) data are predominant in many domains such as robotics, autonomous driving and remote sensing. The combination of these multi-modal data enhances en…

cs.CV2025

Geographical Context Matters: Bridging Fine and Coarse Spatial Information to Enhance Continental Land Cover Mapping

Babak Ghassemi, Cassio Fraga-Dantas, Raffaele Gaetano +4

Land use and land cover mapping from Earth Observation (EO) data is a critical tool for sustainable land and resource management. While advanced machine learning and deep learning…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

DisCoM-KD: Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation via Disentanglement Representation and Adversarial Learning

Dino Ienco, Cassio Fraga Dantas

Cross-modal knowledge distillation (CMKD) refers to the scenario in which a learning framework must handle training and test data that exhibit a modality mismatch, more precisely,…

cs.CV2024

PDiscoFormer: Relaxing Part Discovery Constraints with Vision Transformers

Ananthu Aniraj, Cassio F. Dantas, Dino Ienco +1

Computer vision methods that explicitly detect object parts and reason on them are a step towards inherently interpretable models. Existing approaches that perform part discovery d…

cs.AI2024

Semi Supervised Heterogeneous Domain Adaptation via Disentanglement and Pseudo-Labelling

Cassio F. Dantas, Raffaele Gaetano, Dino Ienco

Semi-supervised domain adaptation methods leverage information from a source labelled domain with the goal of generalizing over a scarcely labelled target domain. While this settin…

cs.LG2024

Reuse out-of-year data to enhance land cover mapping via feature disentanglement and contrastive learning

Cassio F. Dantas, Raffaele Gaetano, Claudia Paris +1

Timely up-to-date land use/land cover (LULC) maps play a pivotal role in supporting agricultural territory management, environmental monitoring and facilitating well-informed and s…

cs.CV2023

PDiscoNet: Semantically consistent part discovery for fine-grained recognition

Robert van der Klis, Stephan Alaniz, Massimiliano Mancini +4

Fine-grained classification often requires recognizing specific object parts, such as beak shape and wing patterns for birds. Encouraging a fine-grained classification model to fir…

cs.CV2023

Masking Strategies for Background Bias Removal in Computer Vision Models

Ananthu Aniraj, Cassio F. Dantas, Dino Ienco +1

Models for fine-grained image classification tasks, where the difference between some classes can be extremely subtle and the number of samples per class tends to be low, are parti…

cs.LG2023

Towards Explainable Land Cover Mapping: a Counterfactual-based Strategy

Cassio F. Dantas, Diego Marcos, Dino Ienco

Counterfactual explanations are an emerging tool to enhance interpretability of deep learning models. Given a sample, these methods seek to find and display to the user similar sam…

cs.LG2022★ 9 cited

Benchopt: Reproducible, efficient and collaborative optimization benchmarks

Thomas Moreau, Mathurin Massias, Alexandre Gramfort +18

Numerical validation is at the core of machine learning research as it allows to assess the actual impact of new methods, and to confirm the agreement between theory and practice.…

cs.LG2022

Accelerating Non-Negative and Bounded-Variable Linear Regression Algorithms with Safe Screening

Cassio F. Dantas, Emmanuel Soubies, Cédric Févotte

Non-negative and bounded-variable linear regression problems arise in a variety of applications in machine learning and signal processing. In this paper, we propose a technique to…

cs.LG2021★ 7 cited

Expanding boundaries of Gap Safe screening

Cassio F. Dantas, Emmanuel Soubies, Cédric Févotte

Sparse optimization problems are ubiquitous in many fields such as statistics, signal/image processing and machine learning. This has led to the birth of many iterative algorithms…

cs.LG2018★ 6 cited

Stable safe screening and structured dictionaries for faster L1 regularization

Cassio Fraga Dantas, Rémi Gribonval

In this paper, we propose a way to combine two acceleration techniques for the -regularized least squares problem: safe screening tests, which allow to eliminate useless…