no code implementations • 5 Dec 2024 • Juan Rodriguez, Xiangru Jian, Siba Smarak Panigrahi, Tianyu Zhang, Aarash Feizi, Abhay Puri, Akshay Kalkunte, François Savard, Ahmed Masry, Shravan Nayak, Rabiul Awal, Mahsa Massoud, Amirhossein Abaskohi, Zichao Li, Suyuchen Wang, Pierre-André Noël, Mats Leon Richter, Saverio Vadacchino, Shubbam Agarwal, Sanket Biswas, Sara Shanian, Ying Zhang, Noah Bolger, Kurt MacDonald, Simon Fauvel, Sathwik Tejaswi, Srinivas Sunkara, Joao Monteiro, Krishnamurthy Dj Dvijotham, Torsten Scholak, Nicolas Chapados, Sepideh Kharagani, Sean Hughes, M. Özsu, Siva Reddy, Marco Pedersoli, Yoshua Bengio, Christopher Pal, Issam Laradji, Spandanna Gella, Perouz Taslakian, David Vazquez, Sai Rajeswar
We use an efficient data curation process to ensure our data is high-quality and license-permissive.
no code implementations • 18 Nov 2024 • Reza Asad, Reza Babanezhad, Issam Laradji, Nicolas Le Roux, Sharan Vaswani
Natural policy gradient (NPG) is a common policy optimization algorithm and can be viewed as mirror ascent in the space of probabilities.
no code implementations • 16 Nov 2024 • Juan A. Rodriguez, Nicholas Botzer, David Vazquez, Christopher Pal, Marco Pedersoli, Issam Laradji
IntentGPT comprises an \textit{In-Context Prompt Generator}, which generates informative prompts for In-Context Learning, an \textit{Intent Predictor} for classifying and discovering user intents from utterances, and a \textit{Semantic Few-Shot Sampler} that selects relevant few-shot examples and a set of known intents to be injected into the prompt.
no code implementations • 21 Dec 2023 • Issam Laradji, Perouz Taslakian, Sai Rajeswar, Valentina Zantedeschi, Alexandre Lacoste, Nicolas Chapados, David Vazquez, Christopher Pal, Alexandre Drouin
The extraction of a small number of relevant insights from vast amounts of data is a crucial component of data-driven decision-making.
1 code implementation • 17 Oct 2023 • Nicholas Botzer, David Vasquez, Tim Weninger, Issam Laradji
In the present work, we describe Top-K K-Nearest Neighbor (TK-KNN), which uses a more robust pseudo-labeling approach based on distance in the embedding space while maintaining a balanced set of pseudo-labeled examples across classes through a ranking-based approach.
1 code implementation • 21 Jul 2023 • Saypraseuth Mounsaveng, Issam Laradji, David Vázquez, Marco Perdersoli, Ismail Ben Ayed
Experimental results show that our model can learn color and affine transformations that are more helpful to train an image classifier than predefined DA transformations, which are also more expensive as they need to be selected before the training by grid search on a validation set.
1 code implementation • 1 Jun 2023 • Juan A Rodriguez, David Vazquez, Issam Laradji, Marco Pedersoli, Pau Rodriguez
The generative modeling landscape has experienced tremendous growth in recent years, particularly in generating natural images and art.
no code implementations • 10 Feb 2023 • Nicolas Gontier, Pau Rodriguez, Issam Laradji, David Vazquez, Christopher Pal
Text-based game environments are challenging because agents must deal with long sequences of text, execute compositional actions using text and learn from sparse rewards.
3 code implementations • 19 Oct 2022 • Juan A. Rodriguez, David Vazquez, Issam Laradji, Marco Pedersoli, Pau Rodriguez
To alleviate this problem, we present OCR-VQGAN, an image encoder, and decoder that leverages OCR pre-trained features to optimize a text perceptual loss, encouraging the architecture to preserve high-fidelity text and diagram structure.
no code implementations • 30 Aug 2022 • Joao Monteiro, Pau Rodriguez, Pierre-Andre Noel, Issam Laradji, David Vazquez
In the add-on case, the original neural network's inference head is completely unaffected (so its accuracy remains the same) but we now have the option to use TAC's own confidence and prediction when determining which course of action to take in an hypothetical production workflow.
1 code implementation • 24 May 2022 • Amine El Hattami, Stefania Raimondo, Issam Laradji, David Vazquez, Pau Rodriguez, Chris Pal
We propose and evaluate an approach that conditions models on the set of possible actions, and we show that using this strategy, we can improve WD performance.
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1 code implementation • 30 Mar 2022 • Christopher Beckham, Issam Laradji, Pau Rodriguez, David Vazquez, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Christopher Pal
In this paper, we explore the use of GAN-based few-shot data augmentation as a method to improve few-shot classification performance.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2022 • Klaus Greff, Francois Belletti, Lucas Beyer, Carl Doersch, Yilun Du, Daniel Duckworth, David J. Fleet, Dan Gnanapragasam, Florian Golemo, Charles Herrmann, Thomas Kipf, Abhijit Kundu, Dmitry Lagun, Issam Laradji, Hsueh-Ti, Liu, Henning Meyer, Yishu Miao, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Cengiz Oztireli, Etienne Pot, Noha Radwan, Daniel Rebain, Sara Sabour, Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi, Matan Sela, Vincent Sitzmann, Austin Stone, Deqing Sun, Suhani Vora, Ziyu Wang, Tianhao Wu, Kwang Moo Yi, Fangcheng Zhong, Andrea Tagliasacchi
Data is the driving force of machine learning, with the amount and quality of training data often being more important for the performance of a system than architecture and training details.
no code implementations • CVPR 2022 • Julian Ost, Issam Laradji, Alejandro Newell, Yuval Bahat, Felix Heide
We introduce Neural Point Light Fields that represent scenes implicitly with a light field living on a sparse point cloud.
no code implementations • 28 Oct 2021 • Ryan D'Orazio, Nicolas Loizou, Issam Laradji, Ioannis Mitliagkas
We investigate the convergence of stochastic mirror descent (SMD) under interpolation in relatively smooth and smooth convex optimization.
1 code implementation • 27 Oct 2021 • Gabriel Huang, Issam Laradji, David Vazquez, Simon Lacoste-Julien, Pau Rodriguez
Labeling data is often expensive and time-consuming, especially for tasks such as object detection and instance segmentation, which require dense labeling of the image.
1 code implementation • 21 Aug 2021 • Issam Laradji, Pau Rodríguez, David Vazquez, Derek Nowrouzezahrai
In order to obtain the viewpoints for these unlabeled images, we propose to use a Siamese network that takes two images as input and outputs whether they correspond to the same viewpoint.
2 code implementations • ICCV 2021 • Pau Rodriguez, Massimo Caccia, Alexandre Lacoste, Lee Zamparo, Issam Laradji, Laurent Charlin, David Vazquez
Explainability for machine learning models has gained considerable attention within the research community given the importance of deploying more reliable machine-learning systems.
1 code implementation • 14 Nov 2020 • Issam Laradji, Pau Rodriguez, Freddie Kalaitzis, David Vazquez, Ross Young, Ed Davey, Alexandre Lacoste
Cattle farming is responsible for 8. 8\% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.
1 code implementation • 6 Nov 2020 • Issam Laradji, Alzayat Saleh, Pau Rodriguez, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi, David Vazquez
Leading automatic approaches rely on fully-supervised segmentation models to acquire these measurements but these require collecting per-pixel labels -- also time consuming and laborious: i. e., it can take up to two minutes per fish to generate accurate segmentation labels, almost always requiring at least some manual intervention.
1 code implementation • 14 Sep 2020 • Vincenzo Lomonaco, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Pau Rodriguez, Massimo Caccia, Qi She, Yu Chen, Quentin Jodelet, Ruiping Wang, Zheda Mai, David Vazquez, German I. Parisi, Nikhil Churamani, Marc Pickett, Issam Laradji, Davide Maltoni
In the last few years, we have witnessed a renewed and fast-growing interest in continual learning with deep neural networks with the shared objective of making current AI systems more adaptive, efficient and autonomous.
4 code implementations • NeurIPS 2020 • Alexandre Lacoste, Pau Rodríguez, Frédéric Branchaud-Charron, Parmida Atighehchian, Massimo Caccia, Issam Laradji, Alexandre Drouin, Matt Craddock, Laurent Charlin, David Vázquez
Progress in the field of machine learning has been fueled by the introduction of benchmark datasets pushing the limits of existing algorithms.
no code implementations • 7 Jul 2020 • Issam Laradji, Pau Rodriguez, Frederic Branchaud-Charron, Keegan Lensink, Parmida Atighehchian, William Parker, David Vazquez, Derek Nowrouzezahrai
We address this challenge introducing a scalable, fast, and accurate active learning system that accelerates the labeling of CT scan images.
1 code implementation • 7 Jul 2020 • Keegan Lensink, Issam Laradji, Marco Law, Paolo Emilio Barbano, Savvas Nicolaou, William Parker, Eldad Haber
In this work we provide open source models for the segmentation of patterns of pulmonary opacification on chest Computed Tomography (CT) scans which have been correlated with various stages and severities of infection.
3 code implementations • 4 Jul 2020 • Issam Laradji, Pau Rodriguez, Oscar Mañas, Keegan Lensink, Marco Law, Lironne Kurzman, William Parker, David Vazquez, Derek Nowrouzezahrai
Thus, we propose a consistency-based (CB) loss function that encourages the output predictions to be consistent with spatial transformations of the input images.
2 code implementations • 25 Jun 2020 • Saypraseuth Mounsaveng, Issam Laradji, Ismail Ben Ayed, David Vazquez, Marco Pedersoli
Data augmentation is a key practice in machine learning for improving generalization performance.
1 code implementation • 11 Jun 2020 • Sharan Vaswani, Issam Laradji, Frederik Kunstner, Si Yi Meng, Mark Schmidt, Simon Lacoste-Julien
In this setting, we prove that AMSGrad with constant step-size and momentum converges to the minimizer at a faster $O(1/T)$ rate.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2020 • Massimo Caccia, Pau Rodriguez, Oleksiy Ostapenko, Fabrice Normandin, Min Lin, Lucas Caccia, Issam Laradji, Irina Rish, Alexandre Lacoste, David Vazquez, Laurent Charlin
We propose Continual-MAML, an online extension of the popular MAML algorithm as a strong baseline for this scenario.
1 code implementation • ECCV 2020 • Pau Rodríguez, Issam Laradji, Alexandre Drouin, Alexandre Lacoste
Furthermore, we show that embedding propagation consistently improves the accuracy of the models in multiple semi-supervised learning scenarios by up to 16\% points.
1 code implementation • 24 Feb 2020 • Nicolas Loizou, Sharan Vaswani, Issam Laradji, Simon Lacoste-Julien
Consequently, the proposed stochastic Polyak step-size (SPS) is an attractive choice for setting the learning rate for stochastic gradient descent (SGD).
1 code implementation • 11 Oct 2019 • Si Yi Meng, Sharan Vaswani, Issam Laradji, Mark Schmidt, Simon Lacoste-Julien
Under this condition, we show that the regularized subsampled Newton method (R-SSN) achieves global linear convergence with an adaptive step-size and a constant batch-size.
1 code implementation • 30 Aug 2019 • Lironne Kurzman, David Vazquez, Issam Laradji
We propose a Class-Based Styling method (CBS) that can map different styles for different object classes in real-time.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2019 • Sharan Vaswani, Aaron Mishkin, Issam Laradji, Mark Schmidt, Gauthier Gidel, Simon Lacoste-Julien
To improve the proposed methods' practical performance, we give heuristics to use larger step-sizes and acceleration.
1 code implementation • 6 Jul 2018 • Issam Laradji, Reza Babanezhad
Unsupervised domain adaptation techniques have been successful for a wide range of problems where supervised labels are limited.
1 code implementation • 23 Dec 2017 • Julie Nutini, Issam Laradji, Mark Schmidt
Block coordinate descent (BCD) methods are widely used for large-scale numerical optimization because of their cheap iteration costs, low memory requirements, amenability to parallelization, and ability to exploit problem structure.
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