VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Rafal Kurczab
dblp:128/7153
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2022
0000-0002-9555-3905ORCID · verified
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Representation and self-supervised learning · 56% Generative modeling · 44% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning › representation learning › disentangled representation learning › disentanglement
attribute disentanglement |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | PluGeN: Multi-Label Conditional Generation from Pre-trained Models · AAAI 2022 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model
conditional generation |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | PluGeN: Multi-Label Conditional Generation from Pre-trained Models · AAAI 2022 |
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning › latent space
latent space manipulation |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | PluGeN: Multi-Label Conditional Generation from Pre-trained Models · AAAI 2022 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling
generative adversarial network |
0.2 | 1 | 2022 | PluGeN: Multi-Label Conditional Generation from Pre-trained Models · AAAI 2022 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling
variational autoencoder |
0.2 | 1 | 2022 | PluGeN: Multi-Label Conditional Generation from Pre-trained Models · AAAI 2022 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
normalizing flow · 0.6latent space transformation · 0.6
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | PluGeN: Multi-Label Conditional Generation from Pre-trained ModelsabstractModern generative models achieve excellent quality in a variety of tasks including image or text generation and chemical molecule modeling. However, existing methods often lack the essential ability to generate examples with requested properties, such as the age of the person in the photo or the weight of the generated molecule. Incorporating such additional conditioning factors would require rebuilding the entire architecture and optimizing the parameters from scratch. Moreover, it is difficult to disentangle selected attributes so that to perform edits of only one attribute while leaving the others unchanged. To overcome these limitations we propose PluGeN (Plugin Generative Network), a simple yet effective generative technique that can be used as a plugin to pre-trained generative models. The idea behind our approach is to transform the entangled latent representation using a flow-based module into a multi-dimensional space where the values of each attribute are modeled as an independent one-dimensional distribution. In consequence, PluGeN can generate new samples with desired attributes as well as manipulate labeled attributes of existing examples. Due to the disentangling of the latent representation, we are even able to generate samples with rare or unseen combinations of attributes in the dataset, such as a young person with gray hair, men with make-up, or women with beards. We combined PluGeN with GAN and VAE models and applied it to conditional generation and manipulation of images and chemical molecule modeling. Experiments demonstrate that PluGeN preserves the quality of backbone models while adding the ability to control the values of labeled attributes. Implementation is available at https://github.com/gmum/plugen. Maciej Wolczyk, Magdalena Proszewska, Lukasz Maziarka, Maciej Zieba, Patryk Wielopolski, Rafal Kurczab, Marek Smieja |
AAAI | 6 |