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For many large undirected models that arise in real-world applications, exact maximumlikelihood training is intractable, because it requires computing marginal distributions of the model. Conditional training is even more difficult, because…

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We develop an algorithm for systematic design of a large artificial neural network using a progression property. We find that some non-linear functions, such as the rectifier linear unit and its derivatives, hold the property. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Saikat Chatterjee , Alireza M. Javid , Mostafa Sadeghi , Partha P. Mitra , Mikael Skoglund

An artificial neural network is usually treated as a whole system, being characterized by its ground state (the global minimum of the energy functional), the set of fixed points, their basins of attraction, etc. However, it is quite natural…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Leonid B. Litinskii

We present a method to solve initial and boundary value problems using artificial neural networks. A trial solution of the differential equation is written as a sum of two parts. The first part satisfies the boundary (or initial) conditions…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 I. E. Lagaris , A. Likas , D. I. Fotiadis

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have proven to be a promising method for the rapid solving of partial differential equations (PDEs) in both forward and inverse problems. However, due to the smoothness assumption of functions…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Guoqiang Lei , D. Exposito , Xuerui Mao

Physical neural networks are artificial neural networks that mimic synapses and neurons using physical systems or materials. These networks harness the distinctive characteristics of physical systems to carry out computations effectively,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Weichao Yu , Hangwen Guo , Jiang Xiao , Jian Shen

The operations used for neural network computation map favorably onto simple analog circuits, which outshine their digital counterparts in terms of compactness and efficiency. Nevertheless, such implementations have been largely supplanted…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Jonathan Binas , Daniel Neil , Giacomo Indiveri , Shih-Chii Liu , Michael Pfeiffer

With growing investigations into solving partial differential equations by physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), more accurate and efficient PINNs are required to meet the practical demands of scientific computing. One bottleneck of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Tianchi Yu , Yiming Qi , Ivan Oseledets , Shiyi Chen

Neural networks (NN) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various applications. Unfortunately in applications where training data is insufficient, they are often prone to overfitting. One effective way to alleviate this problem is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Hao Wang , Xingjian Shi , Dit-Yan Yeung

This work presents an adaptive activation method for neural networks that exploits the interdependency of features. Each pixel, node, and layer is assigned with a polynomial activation function, whose coefficients are provided by an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Jinhyeok Jang , Jaehong Kim , Jaeyeon Lee , Seungjoon Yang

We propose and systematically evaluate three strategies for training dynamically-routed artificial neural networks: graphs of learned transformations through which different input signals may take different paths. Though some approaches…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-14 Mason McGill , Pietro Perona

Stochastic neural networks are a prototypical computational device able to build a probabilistic representation of an ensemble of external stimuli. Building on the relationship between inference and learning, we derive a synaptic plasticity…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-10-23 Luca Saglietti , Federica Gerace , Alessandro Ingrosso , Carlo Baldassi , Riccardo Zecchina

Active learning, an iterative process of selecting the most informative data points for exploration, is crucial for efficient characterization of materials and chemicals property space. Neural networks excel at predicting these properties…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-02 Sarah I. Allec , Maxim Ziatdinov

We give a highly efficient "semi-agnostic" algorithm for learning univariate probability distributions that are well approximated by piecewise polynomial density functions. Let $p$ be an arbitrary distribution over an interval $I$ which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Siu-On Chan , Ilias Diakonikolas , Rocco A. Servedio , Xiaorui Sun

Bayesian neural networks utilize probabilistic layers that capture uncertainty over weights and activations, and are trained using Bayesian inference. Since these probabilistic layers are designed to be drop-in replacement of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Daniel T. Chang

Neural networks are high-dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems that process information through the coordinated activity of many connected units. Understanding how biological and machine-learning networks function and learn requires…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-13 David G. Clark , L. F. Abbott , Ashok Litwin-Kumar

Deep networks realize complex mappings that are often understood by their locally linear behavior at or around points of interest. For example, we use the derivative of the mapping with respect to its inputs for sensitivity analysis, or to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Guang-He Lee , David Alvarez-Melis , Tommi S. Jaakkola

Physiological signals, such as the electrocardiogram and the phonocardiogram are very often corrupted by noisy sources. Usually, artificial intelligent algorithms analyze the signal regardless of its quality. On the other hand, physicians…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Jorge Oliveira , Margarida Carvalho , Diogo Marcelo Nogueira , Miguel Coimbra

Artificial Neural Networks form the basis of very powerful learning methods. It has been observed that a naive application of fully connected neural networks to data with many irrelevant variables often leads to overfitting. In an attempt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Gitesh Dawer , Yangzi Guo , Sida Liu , Adrian Barbu

Attentional Neural Network is a new framework that integrates top-down cognitive bias and bottom-up feature extraction in one coherent architecture. The top-down influence is especially effective when dealing with high noise or difficult…

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