🧬Representation Learning

Metric Learning

Learning distance functions

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Also includes: metric learning, distance learning, similarity learning, triplet loss

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#1

RoMa: Robust Dense Feature Matching

Johan Edstedt, Qiyu Sun, Georg Bökman et al.

CVPR 2024
238
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#2

Efficient LoFTR: Semi-Dense Local Feature Matching with Sparse-Like Speed

Yifan Wang, Xingyi He, Sida Peng et al.

CVPR 2024
142
citations
#3

LaneSegNet: Map Learning with Lane Segment Perception for Autonomous Driving

Tianyu Li, Peijin Jia, Bangjun Wang et al.

ICLR 2024
60
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#4

PointRWKV: Efficient RWKV-Like Model for Hierarchical Point Cloud Learning

Qingdong He, Jiangning Zhang, Jinlong Peng et al.

AAAI 2025
30
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#5

Dataset Distillation with Neural Characteristic Function: A Minmax Perspective

Shaobo Wang, Yicun Yang, Zhiyuan Liu et al.

CVPR 2025
28
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#6

Multi-Class Support Vector Machine with Maximizing Minimum Margin

Feiping Nie, Zhezheng Hao, Rong Wang

AAAI 2024arXiv:2312.06578
support vector machinemulti-class classificationmargin maximizationpairwise class loss+3
25
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#7

Quasi-Monte Carlo for 3D Sliced Wasserstein

Khai Nguyen, Nicola Bariletto, Nhat Ho

ICLR 2024
24
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#8

SimPER: A Minimalist Approach to Preference Alignment without Hyperparameters

Teng Xiao, Yige Yuan, Zhengyu Chen et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2502.00883
preference optimizationlanguage model alignmenthyperparameter-free traininginverse perplexity+2
23
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#9

LiDAR: Sensing Linear Probing Performance in Joint Embedding SSL Architectures

Vimal Thilak, Chen Huang, Omid Saremi et al.

ICLR 2024
22
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#10

Cut Your Losses in Large-Vocabulary Language Models

Erik Wijmans, Brody Huval, Alexander Hertzberg et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2411.09009
cross-entropy lossmemory optimizationlarge-vocabulary language modelstraining efficiency+2
19
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#11

CA-Jaccard: Camera-aware Jaccard Distance for Person Re-identification

Yiyu Chen, Zheyi Fan, Zhaoru Chen et al.

CVPR 2024
19
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#12

Towards Adversarially Robust Dataset Distillation by Curvature Regularization

Eric Xue, Yijiang Li, Haoyang Liu et al.

AAAI 2025
18
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#13

Beyond Single Concept Vector: Modeling Concept Subspace in LLMs with Gaussian Distribution

Haiyan Zhao, Heng Zhao, Bo Shen et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2410.00153
concept probinglinear classifiersrepresentation spacegaussian concept subspace+3
16
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#14

Learning Intra-view and Cross-view Geometric Knowledge for Stereo Matching

Rui Gong, Weide Liu, ZAIWANG GU et al.

CVPR 2024
14
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#15

JamMa: Ultra-lightweight Local Feature Matching with Joint Mamba

Xiaoyong Lu, Songlin Du

CVPR 2025arXiv:2503.03437
local feature matchingmamba architecturelinear complexityscan-merge strategy+3
14
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#16

How Contaminated Is Your Benchmark? Measuring Dataset Leakage in Large Language Models with Kernel Divergence

Hyeong Kyu Choi, Maxim Khanov, Hongxin Wei et al.

ICML 2025
13
citations
#17

QLABGrad: A Hyperparameter-Free and Convergence-Guaranteed Scheme for Deep Learning

Fang-Xiang Wu, Minghan Fu

AAAI 2024arXiv:2302.00252
learning rate adaptationgradient descent optimizationhyperparameter-free trainingconvergence guarantee+3
11
citations
#18

Optimal Sample Complexity of Contrastive Learning

Noga Alon, Dmitrii Avdiukhin, Dor Elboim et al.

ICLR 2024
11
citations
#19

Differentiable Optimization of Similarity Scores Between Models and Brains

Nathan Cloos, Moufan Li, Markus Siegel et al.

ICLR 2025
11
citations
#20

SDGMNet: Statistic-Based Dynamic Gradient Modulation for Local Descriptor Learning

Yuxin Deng, Jiayi Ma

AAAI 2024arXiv:2106.04434
local descriptor learninggradient modulationtriplet lossstatistical characteristics+3
11
citations
#21

Adapter Merging with Centroid Prototype Mapping for Scalable Class-Incremental Learning

Takuma Fukuda, Hiroshi Kera, Kazuhiko Kawamoto

CVPR 2025
11
citations
#22

GaussianUDF: Inferring Unsigned Distance Functions through 3D Gaussian Splatting

Shujuan Li, Yu-Shen Liu, Zhizhong Han

CVPR 2025
11
citations
#23

Multiscale Sliced Wasserstein Distances as Perceptual Color Difference Measures

Jiaqi He, Zhihua Wang, Leon Wang et al.

ECCV 2024
10
citations
#24

Estimating Conditional Mutual Information for Dynamic Feature Selection

Soham Gadgil, Ian Covert, Su-In Lee

ICLR 2024
10
citations
#25

DiscoMatch: Fast Discrete Optimisation for Geometrically Consistent 3D Shape Matching

Paul Roetzer, Ahmed Abbas, Dongliang Cao et al.

ECCV 2024arXiv:2310.08230
3d shape matchinggeometric consistencycombinatorial optimizationdiscrete optimization+3
10
citations
#26

LDReg: Local Dimensionality Regularized Self-Supervised Learning

Hanxun Huang, Ricardo Campello, Sarah Erfani et al.

ICLR 2024
9
citations
#27

Memory-Scalable and Simplified Functional Map Learning

Robin Magnet, Maks Ovsjanikov

CVPR 2024
9
citations
#28

Link Prediction in Multilayer Networks via Cross-Network Embedding

Guojing Ren, Xiao Ding, Xiao-Ke Xu et al.

AAAI 2024
9
citations
#29

Tree-Wasserstein Distance for High Dimensional Data with a Latent Feature Hierarchy

Ya-Wei Eileen Lin, Ronald Coifman, Gal Mishne et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2410.21107
tree-wasserstein distancelatent feature hierarchydiffusion geometryhyperbolic embedding+3
8
citations
#30

PELA: Learning Parameter-Efficient Models with Low-Rank Approximation

Yangyang Guo, Guangzhi Wang, Mohan Kankanhalli

CVPR 2024
8
citations
#31

Improved Metric Distortion via Threshold Approvals

Elliot Anshelevich, Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Christopher Jerrett et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2305.14024
metric distortionsocial choice theoryapproval votingdeterministic mechanisms+4
8
citations
#32

Loss Functions and Operators Generated by f-Divergences

Vincent Roulet, Tianlin Liu, Nino Vieillard et al.

ICML 2025
7
citations
#33

Inverse Weight-Balancing for Deep Long-Tailed Learning

Wenqi Dang, Zhou Yang, Weisheng Dong et al.

AAAI 2024
7
citations
#34

Details Enhancement in Unsigned Distance Field Learning for High-fidelity 3D Surface Reconstruction

Cheng Xu, Fei Hou, Wencheng Wang et al.

AAAI 2025
7
citations
#35

Distance-Based Tree-Sliced Wasserstein Distance

Viet-Hoang Tran, Minh-Khoi Nguyen-Nhat, Trang Pham et al.

ICLR 2025
7
citations
#36

VertiBench: Advancing Feature Distribution Diversity in Vertical Federated Learning Benchmarks

Zhaomin Wu, Junyi Hou, Bingsheng He

ICLR 2024
7
citations
#37

Learning Bijective Surface Parameterization for Inferring Signed Distance Functions from Sparse Point Clouds with Grid Deformation

Takeshi Noda, Chao Chen, Junsheng Zhou et al.

CVPR 2025arXiv:2503.23670
signed distance functionssurface reconstructionsparse point cloudsbijective surface parameterization+2
7
citations
#38

Diffeomorphic Mesh Deformation via Efficient Optimal Transport for Cortical Surface Reconstruction

Thanh-Tung Le, Khai Nguyen, shanlin sun et al.

ICLR 2024
7
citations
#39

Open-Set Biometrics: Beyond Good Closed-Set Models

Yiyang Su, Minchul Kim, Feng Liu et al.

ECCV 2024
7
citations
#40

Towards Stable and Storage-efficient Dataset Distillation: Matching Convexified Trajectory

Wenliang Zhong, Haoyu Tang, Qinghai Zheng et al.

CVPR 2025
7
citations
#41

Zeroth-Order Fine-Tuning of LLMs in Random Subspaces

Ziming Yu, Pan Zhou, Sike Wang et al.

ICCV 2025
6
citations
#42

Locally Convex Global Loss Network for Decision-Focused Learning

Haeun Jeon, Hyunglip Bae, Minsu Park et al.

AAAI 2025
6
citations
#43

Generalized Dimension Reduction Using Semi-Relaxed Gromov-Wasserstein Distance

Ranthony A. Clark, Tom Needham, Thomas Weighill

AAAI 2025
6
citations
#44

Learning-Augmented Search Data Structures

Chunkai Fu, Brandon G. Nguyen, Jung Seo et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2402.10457
learning-augmented algorithmssearch data structuresskip listskd trees+4
6
citations
#45

Learning Distances from Data with Normalizing Flows and Score Matching

Peter Sorrenson, Daniel Behrend-Uriarte, Christoph Schnörr et al.

ICML 2025
6
citations
#46

Intrinsic Dimension Correlation: uncovering nonlinear connections in multimodal representations

Lorenzo Basile, Santiago Acevedo, Luca Bortolussi et al.

ICLR 2025
6
citations
#47

Unbiased Region-Language Alignment for Open-Vocabulary Dense Prediction

Yunheng Li, Yuxuan Li, Quan-Sheng Zeng et al.

ICCV 2025
6
citations
#48

Near-Optimal Resilient Aggregation Rules for Distributed Learning Using 1-Center and 1-Mean Clustering with Outliers

Yuhao Yi, Ronghui You, Hong Liu et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2312.12835
byzantine machine learningresilient aggregation mechanismsdistributed learning systemsoutlier-robust clustering+4
5
citations
#49

Difficulty-aware Balancing Margin Loss for Long-tailed Recognition

Minseok Son, Inyong Koo, Jinyoung Park et al.

AAAI 2025
5
citations
#50

Beyond FVD: An Enhanced Evaluation Metrics for Video Generation Distribution Quality

Ge Ya Luo, Gian M Favero, Zhi Hao Luo et al.

ICLR 2025
5
citations
#51

Robust Feature Learning for Multi-Index Models in High Dimensions

Alireza Mousavi-Hosseini, Adel Javanmard, Murat A Erdogdu

ICLR 2025
5
citations
#52

Learning Orthogonal Multi-Index Models: A Fine-Grained Information Exponent Analysis

Yunwei Ren, Jason Lee

NeurIPS 2025arXiv:2410.09678
multi-index modelsinformation exponent analysisonline stochastic gradient descentorthogonal direction recovery+4
5
citations
#53

Spatial Voting with Incomplete Voter Information

Aviram Imber, Jonas Israel, Markus Brill et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2302.08929
spatial votingcomputational complexitypositional scoring rulespossible winner problem+4
5
citations
#54

Tree-Sliced Wasserstein Distance with Nonlinear Projection

Thanh Tran, Viet Hoang Tran, Thanh Chu et al.

ICML 2025
5
citations
#55

Linear $Q$-Learning Does Not Diverge in $L^2$: Convergence Rates to a Bounded Set

Xinyu Liu, Zixuan Xie, Shangtong Zhang

ICML 2025
4
citations
#56

Learning Affine Correspondences by Integrating Geometric Constraints

Pengju Sun, Banglei Guan, Zhenbao Yu et al.

CVPR 2025
4
citations
#57

Relating Misfit to Gain in Weak-to-Strong Generalization Beyond the Squared Loss

Abhijeet Mulgund, Chirag Pabbaraju

ICML 2025
4
citations
#58

Causal LLM Routing: End-to-End Regret Minimization from Observational Data

Asterios Tsiourvas, Wei Sun, Georgia Perakis

NeurIPS 2025
4
citations
#59

$\texttt{BetaConform}$: Efficient MAP Estimation of LLM Ensemble Judgment Performance with Prior Transfer

Huaizhi Qu, Inyoung Choi, Zhen Tan et al.

NeurIPS 2025
4
citations
#60

Discriminating image representations with principal distortions

Jenelle Feather, David Lipshutz, Sarah Harvey et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2410.15433
fisher information matrixlocal geometry analysisimage representation comparisonprincipal distortions+3
4
citations
#61

Connecting Federated ADMM to Bayes

Siddharth Swaroop, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan, Finale Doshi-Velez

ICLR 2025arXiv:2501.17325
federated learningadmm optimizationvariational bayesdistributed optimization+2
4
citations
#62

Constraint-Aware Feature Learning for Parametric Point Cloud

Xi Cheng, Ruiqi Lei, Di Huang et al.

ICCV 2025arXiv:2411.07747
parametric point cloudscad shape analysisconstraint-aware learningbrep data processing+4
3
citations
#63

Implicit Riemannian Optimism with Applications to Min-Max Problems

Christophe Roux, David Martinez-Rubio, Sebastian Pokutta

ICML 2025
3
citations
#64

Decentralized and Uncoordinated Learning of Stable Matchings: A Game-Theoretic Approach

S. Rasoul Etesami, R. Srikant

AAAI 2025
3
citations
#65

A Market for Accuracy: Classification Under Competition

Ohad Einav, Nir Rosenfeld

ICML 2025
3
citations
#66

Architecture-Aware Learning Curve Extrapolation via Graph Ordinary Differential Equation

Yanna Ding, Zijie Huang, Xiao Shou et al.

AAAI 2025
3
citations
#67

Approximating Metric Magnitude of Point Sets

Rayna Andreeva, James Ward, Primoz Skraba et al.

AAAI 2025
3
citations
#68

$\boldsymbol{\lambda}$-Orthogonality Regularization for Compatible Representation Learning

Simone Ricci, Niccolò Biondi, Federico Pernici et al.

NeurIPS 2025
compatible representation learningorthogonality regularizationaffine transformationslatent space alignment+3
3
citations
#69

Towards a Density Preserving Objective Function for Learning on Point Sets

Haritha Jayasinghe, Ioannis Brilakis

ECCV 2024
point cloud learningchamfer distanceearth mover's distancepoint set objective functions+4
3
citations
#70

Multi-Dimensional Conformal Prediction

Yam Tawachi, Bracha Laufer-Goldshtein

ICLR 2025
3
citations
#71

FedSPA: Generalizable Federated Graph Learning under Homophily Heterogeneity

Zihan Tan, Guancheng Wan, Wenke Huang et al.

CVPR 2025
3
citations
#72

Efficient Speech Language Modeling via Energy Distance in Continuous Latent Space

Zhengrui Ma, Yang Feng, Chenze Shao et al.

NeurIPS 2025arXiv:2505.13181
speech language modelingcontinuous latent spaceenergy distance objectiveautoregressive distribution modeling+3
3
citations
#73

Probably Approximately Precision and Recall Learning

Lee Cohen, Yishay Mansour, Shay Moran et al.

NeurIPS 2025
3
citations
#74

Foreseeing Reconstruction Quality of Gradient Inversion: An Optimization Perspective

Hyeong Gwon Hong, Yooshin Cho, Hanbyel Cho et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2312.12488
gradient inversion attacksfederated learning securityloss-aware vulnerability proxyhessian eigenvalue analysis+3
3
citations
#75

GeoRanker: Distance-Aware Ranking for Worldwide Image Geolocalization

Pengyue Jia, Seongheon Park, Song Gao et al.

NeurIPS 2025arXiv:2505.13731
image geolocalizationvision-language modelsdistance-aware rankinggeographic proximity prediction+3
3
citations
#76

Function-Space Learning Rates

Edward Milsom, Ben Anson, Laurence Aitchison

ICML 2025
2
citations
#77

Non-asymptotic Error Bounds in $\mathcal{W}_2$-Distance with Sqrt(d) Dimension Dependence and First Order Convergence for Langevin Monte Carlo beyond Log-Concavity

Bin Yang, Xiaojie Wang

ICML 2025
2
citations
#78

Lightweight Contrastive Distilled Hashing for Online Cross-modal Retrieval

Jiaxing Li, Lin Jiang, Zeqi Ma et al.

AAAI 2025
2
citations
#79

Sensing Surface Patches in Volume Rendering for Inferring Signed Distance Functions

Sijia Jiang, Tong Wu, Jing Hua et al.

AAAI 2025
2
citations
#80

Bounds on $L_p$ Errors in Density Ratio Estimation via $f$-Divergence Loss Functions

Yoshiaki Kitazawa

ICLR 2025
density ratio estimationf-divergence loss functionsl_p error boundsvariational representations+2
2
citations
#81

STraj: Self-training for Bridging the Cross-Geography Gap in Trajectory Prediction

Zhanwei Zhang, Minghao Chen, Zhihong Gu et al.

AAAI 2025
2
citations
#82

Learning multivariate Gaussians with imperfect advice

Arnab Bhattacharyya, Davin Choo, Philips George John et al.

ICML 2025
2
citations
#83

Efficient Diffusion Models for Symmetric Manifolds

Oren Mangoubi, Neil He, Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

ICML 2025
2
citations
#84

Fast unsupervised ground metric learning with tree-Wasserstein distance

Kira Michaela Düsterwald, Samo Hromadka, Makoto Yamada

ICLR 2025
2
citations
#85

A duality framework for analyzing random feature and two-layer neural networks

Hongrui Chen, Jihao Long, Lei Wu

NeurIPS 2025
2
citations
#86

Learning from Aggregate responses: Instance Level versus Bag Level Loss Functions

Adel Javanmard, Lin Chen, Vahab Mirrokni et al.

ICLR 2024
2
citations
#87

Rethinking the Uniformity Metric in Self-Supervised Learning

Xianghong Fang, Jian Li, Qiang Sun et al.

ICLR 2024
2
citations
#88

Point-supervised Panoptic Segmentation via Estimating Pseudo Labels from Learnable Distance

Jing Li, Junsong Fan, Zhaoxiang Zhang

ECCV 2024
2
citations
#89

LightLoc: Learning Outdoor LiDAR Localization at Light Speed

Wen Li, Chen Liu, Shangshu Yu et al.

CVPR 2025
2
citations
#90

Conformal Inference under High-Dimensional Covariate Shifts via Likelihood-Ratio Regularization

Sunay Joshi, Shayan Kiyani, George J. Pappas et al.

NeurIPS 2025
2
citations
#91

How Not to Stitch Representations to Measure Similarity: Task Loss Matching Versus Direct Matching

András Balogh, Márk Jelasity

AAAI 2025
2
citations
#92

From Variance to Veracity: Unbundling and Mitigating Gradient Variance in Differentiable Bundle Adjustment Layers

Swaminathan Gurumurthy, Karnik Ram, Bingqing Chen et al.

CVPR 2024
2
citations
#93

Mean Field Theory in Deep Metric Learning

Takuya Furusawa

ICLR 2024
2
citations
#94

Algorithms and SQ Lower Bounds for Robustly Learning Real-valued Multi-Index Models

Ilias Diakonikolas, Giannis Iakovidis, Daniel Kane et al.

NeurIPS 2025arXiv:2505.21475
multi-index modelsstatistical query lower boundsadversarial label noisepac learning+4
2
citations
#95

Finsler Multi-Dimensional Scaling: Manifold Learning for Asymmetric Dimensionality Reduction and Embedding

Thomas Dagès, Simon Weber, Ya-Wei Eileen Lin et al.

CVPR 2025
2
citations
#96

Rethinking Losses for Diffusion Bridge Samplers

Sebastian Sanokowski, Lukas Gruber, Christoph Bartmann et al.

NeurIPS 2025arXiv:2506.10982
diffusion bridgesloss function analysislog variance lossreverse kullback-leibler loss+4
2
citations
#97

AMD: Adaptive Momentum and Decoupled Contrastive Learning Framework for Robust Long-Tail Trajectory Prediction

Bin Rao, Haicheng Liao, Yanchen Guan et al.

ICCV 2025
2
citations
#98

Dense Match Summarization for Faster Two-view Estimation

Jonathan Astermark, Anders Heyden, Viktor Larsson

CVPR 2025
2
citations
#99

Advancing Loss Functions in Recommender Systems: A Comparative Study with a Rényi Divergence-Based Solution

Shengjia Zhang, Jiawei Chen, Changdong Li et al.

AAAI 2025
2
citations
#100

Limited Memory Online Gradient Descent for Kernelized Pairwise Learning with Dynamic Averaging

Hilal AlQuabeh, William de Vazelhes, Bin Gu

AAAI 2024arXiv:2402.01146
pairwise learningonline gradient descentkernel pairwise learningmetric learning+4
1
citations