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The introduction of convolutional layers greatly advanced the performance of neural networks on image tasks due to innately capturing a way of encoding and learning translation-invariant operations, matching one of the underlying symmetries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Nicholas Guttenberg , Nathaniel Virgo , Olaf Witkowski , Hidetoshi Aoki , Ryota Kanai

Understanding how biological constraints shape neural computation is a central goal of computational neuroscience. Spatially embedded recurrent neural networks provide a promising avenue to study how modelled constraints shape the combined…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Cornelia Sheeran , Andrew S. Ham , Duncan E. Astle , Jascha Achterberg , Danyal Akarca

Owing to success in the data-rich domain of natural images, Transformers have recently become popular in medical image segmentation. However, the pairing of Transformers with convolutional blocks in varying architectural permutations leaves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Saikat Roy , Gregor Koehler , Michael Baumgartner , Constantin Ulrich , Jens Petersen , Fabian Isensee , Klaus Maier-Hein

Convolutional Neural Networks have revolutionized vision applications. There are image domains and representations, however, that cannot be handled by standard CNNs (e.g., spherical images, superpixels). Such data are usually processed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 David Hart , Michael Whitney , Bryan Morse

Transformers have achieved great success across a wide range of applications, yet the theoretical foundations underlying their success remain largely unexplored. To demystify the strong capacities of transformers applied to versatile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Chenyang Zhang , Qingyue Zhao , Quanquan Gu , Yuan Cao

Over the past decade, deep learning research has been accelerated by increasingly powerful hardware, which facilitated rapid growth in the model complexity and the amount of data ingested. This is becoming unsustainable and therefore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Damian Owerko , Charilaos I. Kanatsoulis , Alejandro Ribeiro

Transformation groups, such as translations or rotations, effectively express part of the variability observed in many recognition problems. The group structure enables the construction of invariant signal representations with appealing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-17 Joan Bruna , Arthur Szlam , Yann LeCun

Transceivers used for telecommunications transmit and receive specific modulation patterns that are represented as sequences of complex numbers. Classifying modulation patterns is challenging because noise and channel impairments affect the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Jakob Krzyston , Rajib Bhattacharjea , Andrew Stark

The transfer of a robot skill between different geometric environments is non-trivial since a wide variety of environments exists, sensor observations as well as robot motions are high-dimensional, and the environment might only be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Peter Englert , Marc Toussaint

Computer vision researchers have been expecting that neural networks have spatial transformation ability to eliminate the interference caused by geometric distortion for a long time. Emergence of spatial transformer network makes dream come…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Chang Shu , Xi Chen , Qiwei Xie , Hua Han

This paper presents an efficient module named spatial bottleneck for accelerating the convolutional layers in deep neural networks. The core idea is to decompose convolution into two stages, which first reduce the spatial resolution of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Junran Peng , Lingxi Xie , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Tieniu Tan , Jingdong Wang

We present a novel resizing module for neural networks: shape adaptor, a drop-in enhancement built on top of traditional resizing layers, such as pooling, bilinear sampling, and strided convolution. Whilst traditional resizing layers have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Shikun Liu , Zhe Lin , Yilin Wang , Jianming Zhang , Federico Perazzi , Edward Johns

Convolutional neural networks are witnessing wide adoption in computer vision systems with numerous applications across a range of visual recognition tasks. Much of this progress is fueled through advances in convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Felix Juefei-Xu , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti , Marios Savvides

We study the adaptation of convolutional neural networks to the complex temporal radio signal domain. We compare the efficacy of radio modulation classification using naively learned features against using expert features which are widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Timothy J O'Shea , Johnathan Corgan , T. Charles Clancy

Transfer learning has recently become the dominant paradigm of machine learning. Pre-trained models fine-tuned for downstream tasks achieve better performance with fewer labelled examples. Nonetheless, it remains unclear how to develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jonas Pfeiffer , Sebastian Ruder , Ivan Vulić , Edoardo Maria Ponti

Despite their impressive performance, contemporary neural networks often lack structural safeguards that promote stable learning and interpretable behavior. In this work, we introduce a reformulation of layer-level transformations that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Saleh Nikooroo , Thomas Engel

In this paper, we introduce a novel spatial attention module that can be easily integrated to any convolutional network. This module guides the model to pay attention to the most discriminative part of an image. This enables the model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Hai-Vy Nguyen , Fabrice Gamboa , Sixin Zhang , Reda Chhaibi , Serge Gratton , Thierry Giaccone

The superior performance of Deformable Convolutional Networks arises from its ability to adapt to the geometric variations of objects. Through an examination of its adaptive behavior, we observe that while the spatial support for its neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Xizhou Zhu , Han Hu , Stephen Lin , Jifeng Dai

An important goal in visual recognition is to devise image representations that are invariant to particular transformations. In this paper, we address this goal with a new type of convolutional neural network (CNN) whose invariance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Julien Mairal , Piotr Koniusz , Zaid Harchaoui , Cordelia Schmid

Transformers for language modeling usually rely on deterministic internal computation, with uncertainty expressed mainly at the output layer. We introduce variational neurons into Transformer feed-forward computation so that uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yves Ruffenach