Customer-obsessed science

Various Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models (e.g., CLIP, BLIP) have sprung up and dramatically improved the benchmarks of public general-domain datasets (e.g., COCO, Flickr30k). Such models typically learn the cross-modal alignment from large-scale well-aligned image-text datasets. Adapting these models to downstream applications in specific domains, such as fashion, requires fine-grained in-domain

Quantile regression is a fundamental problem in statistical learning motivated by a need to quantify uncertainty in predictions, or to model a diverse population without being overly reductive. For instance, epidemiological forecasts, cost estimates, and revenue predictions all benefit from being able to quantify the range of possible values accurately. As such, many models have been developed for this

Automatic song writing is a topic of significant practical interest. However, its research is largely hindered by the lack of training data due to copyright concerns and challenged by its creative nature. Most noticeably, prior works often fall short of modeling the cross-modal correlation between melody and lyrics due to limited parallel data, hence generating lyrics that are less singable. Existing works

Information explosion has brought us a wide range of data formats and machine learning keeps in constant evolution to develop mechanisms to extract knowledge from them. Modern models in the Deep Learning space have proven to be very successful in multiple applications, yet in the tabular space they fail to provide consistent competitive performance. However, in this work we claim model selection can become

Object instance segmentation is a key challenge for indoor robots navigating cluttered environments with many small objects. Limitations in 3D sensing capabilities often make it difficult to detect every possible object. While deep learning approaches may be effective for this problem, manually annotating 3D data for supervised learning is time-consuming. In this work, we explore zero-shot instance segmentation