2019

Excessive Invariance Causes Adversarial Vulnerability

Uses bijective networks to identify large subspaces of invariance-based vulnerability and introduces the independence cross-entropy loss which partially alleviates it.

Scaling and Benchmarking Self-Supervised Visual Representation Learning

Demonstrates that scaling up self-supervised methods along data size, model capacity, and problem complexity enables them to match or surpass ImageNet supervised pre-training on a variety of tasks.

On The Power of Curriculum Learning in Training Deep Networks

Demonstrates the benefit of curriculum learning with different scoring and pacing functions on various small datasets.

ImageNet-trained CNNs are biased towards texture; increasing shape bias improves accuracy and robustness

Evaluating object recognition performance of humans and CNNs on images with varying levels of shape and texture cues reveals contrasting biases, which can be partially alleviated by training CNNs with stylized images.

High Fidelity Video Prediction with Large Stochastic Recurrent Neural Networks

In line with Rich Sutton's 'The Bitter Lesson', the improvement of video prediction performance as model capacity increases leaves an open question about how far we can get by finding the right combination of maximal model capacity and minimal inductive bias.

A critique of pure learning and what artificial neural networks can learn from animal brains

Development of artificial neural networks should leverage the insight that much of animal behavior is innate as a result of wiring rules encoded in the genome, learned through billions of years of evolution.

Entity Abstraction in Visual Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

The Object-centric perception, prediction, and planning (OP3) framework demonstrates strong generalization to novel configurations in block stacking tasks by symmetrically processing entity representations extracted from raw visual observations.

Control What You Can: Intrinsically Motivated Task-Planning Agent

The Control What You Can (CWYC) method learns to control components of the environment to achieve multi-step goals by combining task planning with surprise and learning progress based intrinsic motivation.

Challenging Common Assumptions in the Unsupervised Learning of Disentangled Representations

A large scale, comprehensive study challenges various assumptions in learning disentangled representations, which motivates demonstrating concrete benefits in robust experimental setups in future work.

Compositional Video Prediction

Novel method for video prediction from a single frame by decomposing the scene into entities with location and appearance features, capturing ambiguities with a global latent variable.