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SuperVLAD: Compact and Robust Image Descriptors for Visual Place Recognition

Neural Information Processing Systems

These features are suitable for large-scale VPR and robust against viewpoint changes. However, the VLAD-based aggregation methods usually learn a large number of ( e.g., 64) clusters and their corresponding cluster centers, which directly leads to a high dimension of the yielded global features. More importantly, when there is a domain gap between the data in training and inference, the cluster centers determined on the training set are usually improper for inference, resulting in a performance drop. To this end, we first attempt to improve NetVLAD by removing the cluster center and setting only a small number of ( e.g., only 4) clusters.






Controlling Multiple Errors Simultaneously with a PAC-Bayes Bound

Neural Information Processing Systems

Current P AC-Bayes generalisation bounds are restricted to scalar metrics of performance, such as the loss or error rate. However, one ideally wants more information-rich certificates that control the entire distribution of possible outcomes, such as the distribution of the test loss in regression, or the probabilities of different mis-classifications.




Optimizing over Multiple Distributions under Generalized Quasar-Convexity Condition

Neural Information Processing Systems

We study a typical optimization model where the optimization variable is composed of multiple probability distributions. Though the model appears frequently in practice, such as for policy problems, it lacks specific analysis in the general setting.