Statistical Learning
Mind the Gap Between Prototypes and Images in Cross-domain Finetuning
In cross-domain few-shot classification (CFC), recent works mainly focus on adapting a simple transformation head on top of a frozen pre-trained backbone with few labeled data to project embeddings into a task-specific metric space where classification can be performed by measuring similarities between image instance and prototype representations.
Scaling Continuous Latent Variable Models as Probabilistic Integral Circuits Gennaro Gala 1, Cassio de Campos 1 Antonio V ergari 2, Erik Quaeghebeur
Probabilistic integral circuits (PICs) have been recently introduced as probabilistic models enjoying the key ingredient behind expressive generative models: continuous latent variables (L Vs). PICs are symbolic computational graphs defining continuous L V models as hierarchies of functions that are summed and multiplied together, or integrated over some L Vs. They are tractable if L Vs can be analytically integrated out, otherwise they can be approximated by tractable probabilistic circuits (PC) encoding a hierarchical numerical quadrature process, called QPCs. So far, only tree-shaped PICs have been explored, and training them via numerical quadrature requires memory-intensive processing at scale. In this paper, we address these issues, and present: (i) a pipeline for building DAG-shaped PICs out of arbitrary variable decompositions, (ii) a procedure for training PICs using tensorized circuit architectures, and (iii) neural functional sharing techniques to allow scalable training.