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Intelligence necessitates memory. Without memory, humans fail to perform various nontrivial tasks such as reading novels, playing games or solving maths. As the ultimate goal of machine learning is to derive intelligent systems that learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Hung Le

Understanding the dynamics of neural networks in different width regimes is crucial for improving their training and performance. We present an exact solution for the learning dynamics of a one-hidden-layer linear network, with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Yizhou Xu , Liu Ziyin

Deep learning is very effective at jointly learning feature representations and classification models, especially when dealing with high dimensional input patterns. Probabilistic logic reasoning, on the other hand, is capable to take…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Giuseppe Marra , Francesco Giannini , Michelangelo Diligenti , Marco Gori

Prediction tasks over nodes and edges in networks require careful effort in engineering features used by learning algorithms. Recent research in the broader field of representation learning has led to significant progress in automating…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Aditya Grover , Jure Leskovec

Deep learning methods employ multiple processing layers to learn hierarchical representations of data and have produced state-of-the-art results in many domains. Recently, a variety of model designs and methods have blossomed in the context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Tom Young , Devamanyu Hazarika , Soujanya Poria , Erik Cambria

Most representation learning algorithms for language and image processing are local, in that they identify features for a data point based on surrounding points. Yet in language processing, the correct meaning of a word often depends on its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Anjan Nepal , Alexander Yates

Neural network architectures have been extensively employed in the fair representation learning setting, where the objective is to learn a new representation for a given vector which is independent of sensitive information. Various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Mattia Cerrato , Marius Köppel , Alexander Segner , Stefan Kramer

In this paper we investigate a neural network model in which weights between computational nodes are modified according to a local learning rule. To determine whether local learning rules are sufficient for learning, we encode the network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Jonathan Baxter

The current deep neural network algorithm still stays in the end-to-end training supervision method like Image-Label pairs, which makes traditional algorithm is difficult to explain the reason for the results, and the prediction logic is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Yishuang Tian , Ning Wang , Liang Zhang

Understanding neural networks is challenging in part because of the dense, continuous nature of their hidden states. We explore whether we can train neural networks to have hidden states that are sparse, discrete, and more interpretable by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Alex Tamkin , Mohammad Taufeeque , Noah D. Goodman

A model of sensory information processing is presented. The model assumes that learning of internal (hidden) generative models, which can predict the future and evaluate the precision of that prediction, is of central importance for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Andras Lorincz

In this brief paper, a learning algorithm is developed for Deep Learning Neuro-Skin Neural Network to improve their learning properties. Neuroskin is a new type of neural network presented recently by the authors. It is comprised of a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Mehrdad Shafiei Dizaji

Continual learning, the ability of a model to adapt to an ongoing sequence of tasks without forgetting earlier ones, is a central goal of artificial intelligence. To better understand its underlying mechanisms, we study the limitations of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-21 Hossein Taheri , Avishek Ghosh , Arya Mazumdar

This paper presents the input convex neural network architecture. These are scalar-valued (potentially deep) neural networks with constraints on the network parameters such that the output of the network is a convex function of (some of)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Brandon Amos , Lei Xu , J. Zico Kolter

The success of machine learning algorithms generally depends on data representation, and we hypothesize that this is because different representations can entangle and hide more or less the different explanatory factors of variation behind…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-24 Yoshua Bengio , Aaron Courville , Pascal Vincent

Though modern neural networks have achieved impressive performance in both vision and language tasks, we know little about the functions that they implement. One possibility is that neural networks implicitly break down complex tasks into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Michael A. Lepori , Thomas Serre , Ellie Pavlick

The beneficial role of noise-injection in learning is a consolidated concept in the field of artificial neural networks, suggesting that even biological systems might take advantage of similar mechanisms to optimize their performance. The…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-06-04 Marco Benedetti , Enrico Ventura

It is commonly believed that the hidden layers of deep neural networks (DNNs) attempt to extract informative features for learning tasks. In this paper, we formalize this intuition by showing that the features extracted by DNN coincide with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Shao-Lun Huang , Xiangxiang Xu , Lizhong Zheng , Gregory W. Wornell

Encoding models are used for predicting brain activity in response to sensory stimuli with the objective of elucidating how sensory information is represented in the brain. Encoding models typically comprise a nonlinear transformation of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-03-13 Umut Güçlü , Marcel A. J. van Gerven

Embedding learning, a.k.a. representation learning, has been shown to be able to model large-scale semantic knowledge graphs. A key concept is a mapping of the knowledge graph to a tensor representation whose entries are predicted by models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Volker Tresp , Cristóbal Esteban , Yinchong Yang , Stephan Baier , Denis Krompaß