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cs.CV2024

LoRA.rar: Learning to Merge LoRAs via Hypernetworks for Subject-Style Conditioned Image Generation

Donald Shenaj, Ondrej Bohdal, Mete Ozay +2

Recent advancements in image generation models have enabled personalized image creation with both user-defined subjects (content) and styles. Prior works achieved personalization b…

cs.CV2024

DreamCache: Finetuning-Free Lightweight Personalized Image Generation via Feature Caching

Emanuele Aiello, Umberto Michieli, Diego Valsesia +2

Personalized image generation requires text-to-image generative models that capture the core features of a reference subject to allow for controlled generation across different con…

cs.LG2024

Randomized Asymmetric Chain of LoRA: The First Meaningful Theoretical Framework for Low-Rank Adaptation

Grigory Malinovsky, Umberto Michieli, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud +4

Fine-tuning has become a popular approach to adapting large foundational models to specific tasks. As the size of models and datasets grows, parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniq…

cs.CV2024

Swiss DINO: Efficient and Versatile Vision Framework for On-device Personal Object Search

Kirill Paramonov, Jia-Xing Zhong, Umberto Michieli +2

In this paper, we address a recent trend in robotic home appliances to include vision systems on personal devices, capable of personalizing the appliances on the fly. In particular…

cs.CV2024

Enhanced Model Robustness to Input Corruptions by Per-corruption Adaptation of Normalization Statistics

Elena Camuffo, Umberto Michieli, Simone Milani +2

Developing a reliable vision system is a fundamental challenge for robotic technologies (e.g., indoor service robots and outdoor autonomous robots) which can ensure reliable naviga…

cs.CV2024

Cross-Architecture Auxiliary Feature Space Translation for Efficient Few-Shot Personalized Object Detection

Francesco Barbato, Umberto Michieli, Jijoong Moon +2

Recent years have seen object detection robotic systems deployed in several personal devices (e.g., home robots and appliances). This has highlighted a challenge in their design, i…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Model Merging and Safety Alignment: One Bad Model Spoils the Bunch

Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Umberto Michieli, Fabio Pizzati +4

Merging Large Language Models (LLMs) is a cost-effective technique for combining multiple expert LLMs into a single versatile model, retaining the expertise of the original ones. H…

cs.CV2024

Object-conditioned Bag of Instances for Few-Shot Personalized Instance Recognition

Umberto Michieli, Jijoong Moon, Daehyun Kim +1

Nowadays, users demand for increased personalization of vision systems to localize and identify personal instances of objects (e.g., my dog rather than dog) from a few-shot dataset…

cs.CV2024

FFT-based Selection and Optimization of Statistics for Robust Recognition of Severely Corrupted Images

Elena Camuffo, Umberto Michieli, Jijoong Moon +2

Improving model robustness in case of corrupted images is among the key challenges to enable robust vision systems on smart devices, such as robotic agents. Particularly, robust te…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

A Modular System for Enhanced Robustness of Multimedia Understanding Networks via Deep Parametric Estimation

Francesco Barbato, Umberto Michieli, Mehmet Kerim Yucel +2

In multimedia understanding tasks, corrupted samples pose a critical challenge, because when fed to machine learning models they lead to performance degradation. In the past, three…

cs.LG2024

Deep Neural Network Models Trained With A Fixed Random Classifier Transfer Better Across Domains

Hafiz Tiomoko Ali, Umberto Michieli, Ji Joong Moon +2

The recently discovered Neural collapse (NC) phenomenon states that the last-layer weights of Deep Neural Networks (DNN), converge to the so-called Equiangular Tight Frame (ETF) si…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

HOP to the Next Tasks and Domains for Continual Learning in NLP

Umberto Michieli, Mete Ozay

Continual Learning (CL) aims to learn a sequence of problems (i.e., tasks and domains) by transferring knowledge acquired on previous problems, whilst avoiding forgetting of past o…