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most citedBIOSCAN-5M: A Multimodal Dataset for Insect Biodiversity

4 citations · 10 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CV2026

SPARC: SuperPixel-Aware Region Contrastive Learning for Self-Supervised Dense Prediction

David Szczecina, Yuanpei Xiang, Jitao Hu +4

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has become an effective approach for learning visual representations without manual annotations. Among SSL approaches, contrastive learning has been…

cs.LG2025

Pre-train to Gain: Robust Learning Without Clean Labels

David Szczecina, Nicholas Pellegrino, Paul Fieguth

Training deep networks with noisy labels leads to poor generalization and degraded accuracy due to overfitting to label noise. Existing approaches for learning with noisy labels of…

cs.LG2025

Effects of Initialization Biases on Deep Neural Network Training Dynamics

Nicholas Pellegrino, David Szczecina, Paul W. Fieguth

Untrained large neural networks, just after random initialization, tend to favour a small subset of classes, assigning high predicted probabilities to these few classes and approxi…

cs.LG2025

Hard Samples, Bad Labels: Robust Loss Functions That Know When to Back Off

Nicholas Pellegrino, David Szczecina, Paul Fieguth

Incorrectly labelled training data are frustratingly ubiquitous in both benchmark and specially curated datasets. Such mislabelling clearly adversely affects the performance and ge…

cs.LG2025

Self-Supervised Learning by Curvature Alignment

Benyamin Ghojogh, M. Hadi Sepanj, Paul Fieguth

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently advanced through non-contrastive methods that couple an invariance term with variance, covariance, or redundancy-reduction penalties. Wh…

stat.ML2025

Kernel VICReg for Self-Supervised Learning in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space

M. Hadi Sepanj, Benyamin Ghojogh, Saed Moradi +1

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for representation learning by optimizing geometric objectives, such as invariance to augmentations, variance pres…

cs.LG2025★ 4 cited

Self-Supervised Learning Using Nonlinear Dependence

M. Hadi Sepanj, Benyamin Ghojogh, Paul Fieguth

Self-supervised learning has gained significant attention in contemporary applications, particularly due to the scarcity of labeled data. While existing SSL methodologies primarily…

cs.CV2024

Particle-Filtering-based Latent Diffusion for Inverse Problems

Amir Nazemi, Mohammad Hadi Sepanj, Nicholas Pellegrino +2

Current strategies for solving image-based inverse problems apply latent diffusion models to perform posterior sampling.However, almost all approaches make no explicit attempt to e…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

BIOSCAN-5M: A Multimodal Dataset for Insect Biodiversity

Zahra Gharaee, Scott C. Lowe, ZeMing Gong +10

As part of an ongoing worldwide effort to comprehend and monitor insect biodiversity, this paper presents the BIOSCAN-5M Insect dataset to the machine learning community and establ…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Challenges for Predictive Modeling with Neural Network Techniques using Error-Prone Dietary Intake Data

Dylan Spicker, Amir Nazemi, Joy Hutchinson +4

Dietary intake data are routinely drawn upon to explore diet-health relationships. However, these data are often subject to measurement error, distorting the true relationships. Be…