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Learning Deep Parsimonious Representations

1 Dec 2016NeurIPS 2016 12archive 2025-07-28

Renjie Liao, Alex Schwing, Richard Zemel, Raquel Urtasun

In this paper we aim at facilitating generalization for deep networks while supporting interpretability of the learned representations. Towards this goal, we propose a clustering based regularization that encourages parsimonious representations. Our k-means style objective is easy to optimize and flexible supporting various forms of clustering, including sample and spatial clustering as well as co-clustering. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on the tasks of unsupervised learning, classification, fine grained categorization and zero-shot learning.

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ClusteringFew-Shot Image ClassificationGeneral ClassificationZero-Shot Learning

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Few-Shot Image Classification CUB-200 - 0-Shot Learning Sample Clustering Accuracy 44.3% #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report

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