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Zhongyu Wang

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AAAI Conference 2025 Conference Paper

SSC-VAE: Structured Sparse Coding Based Variational Autoencoder for Detail Preserved Image Reconstruction

  • Hao Wang
  • Lu Wang
  • Zhongyu Wang
  • Lixin Ma
  • Ye Luo

Discrete latent representation techniques, such as Vector Quantization (VQ) and Sparse Coding (SC), have demonstrated superior image reconstruction and generation quality compared to continuous representation methods in Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). However, existing approaches often treat the latent representations of an image independently in their discrete representation space, neglecting both the inherent structural information within each representation and the correlations among them. This oversight leads to coarse representations and suboptimal generated results. In this paper, we address these limitations by introducing correlations among and within the latent representations of individual images in the latent discrete space of VAEs using sparse coding. We impose two-dimensional structural information through adaptive thresholding, enhancing local structure in image representations while suppressing noise via parsimonious representation with a learned dictionary. Empirical studies on three real benchmark datasets, including a clinical Ultrasound dataset, BSDS500, and mini-Imagenet, demonstrate that our proposed model preserves fine-grained details in image reconstruction and significantly outperforms baseline models of SC-VAE and VQ-VAE across objective and subjective image quality metrics. Particularly noteworthy are the substantial performance improvements observed on the ultrasound dataset, where structure information is crucial. Specifically, we observe significant performance improvements of 7.68 % and 17.03 % in SSIM, 3.25 dB and 6.58 dB in PSNR, 0.15 and 0.24 in LPIPS, 45.38 and 84.05 in FID over SC-VAE and VQ-VAE, respectively, indicating the superiority of our method in terms of image reconstruction quality and fidelity.

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AAAI Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Learning with Noisy Labels Using Hyperspherical Margin Weighting

  • Shuo Zhang
  • Yuwen Li
  • Zhongyu Wang
  • Jianqing Li
  • Chengyu Liu

Datasets often include noisy labels, but learning from them is difficult. Since mislabeled examples usually have larger loss values in training, the small-loss trick is regarded as a standard metric to identify the clean example from the training set for better performance. Nonetheless, this proposal ignores that some clean but hard-to-learn examples also generate large losses. They could be misidentified by this criterion. In this paper, we propose a new metric called the Integrated Area Margin (IAM), which is superior to the traditional small-loss trick, particularly in recognizing the clean but hard-to-learn examples. According to the IAM, we further offer the Hyperspherical Margin Weighting (HMW) approach. It is a new sample weighting strategy that restructures the importance of each example. It should be highlighted that our approach is universal and can strengthen various methods in this field. Experiments on both benchmark and real-world datasets indicate that our HMW outperforms many state-of-the-art approaches in learning with noisy label tasks. Codes are available at https://github.com/Zhangshuojackpot/HMW.

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