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This paper proposes a novel hue-like angular parameter to model the structure of deep convolutional neural network (CNN) activation space, referred to as the {\em activation hue}, for the purpose of regularizing models for more effective…

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Deep learning is computationally intensive, with significant efforts focused on reducing arithmetic complexity, particularly regarding energy consumption dominated by data movement. While existing literature emphasizes inference, training…

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The method presented extends a given regression neural network to make its performance improve. The modification affects the learning procedure only, hence the extension may be easily omitted during evaluation without any change in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Konrad Zolna

Elements of neural networks, both biological and artificial, can be described by their selectivity for specific cognitive features. Understanding these features is important for understanding the inner workings of neural networks. For a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Nikita Pospelov , Andrei Chertkov , Maxim Beketov , Ivan Oseledets , Konstantin Anokhin

For using neural networks in safety critical domains, it is important to know if a decision made by a neural network is supported by prior similarities in training. We propose runtime neuron activation pattern monitoring - after the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Chih-Hong Cheng , Georg Nührenberg , Hirotoshi Yasuoka

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) has emerged as a promising framework for exploring how quantum dynamics may enhance data processing tasks. Here we investigate Quantum Extreme Learning Machines (QELMs), a quantum analogue of classical Extreme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 A. De Lorenzis , M. P. Casado , N. Lo Gullo , T. Lux , F. Plastina , A. Riera

This article proposes a Universal Activation Function (UAF) that achieves near optimal performance in quantification, classification, and reinforcement learning (RL) problems. For any given problem, the optimization algorithms are able to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Brosnan Yuen , Minh Tu Hoang , Xiaodai Dong , Tao Lu

As modern deep learning architectures grow in complexity, representational ambiguity emerges as a critical barrier to their interpretability and reliable merging. For ReLU networks, identical functional mappings can be achieved through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Kutomanov Hennadii

Transformers have achieved remarkable success in sequence modeling and beyond but suffer from quadratic computational and memory complexities with respect to the length of the input sequence. Leveraging techniques include sparse and linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Tan Nguyen , Richard G. Baraniuk , Robert M. Kirby , Stanley J. Osher , Bao Wang

This paper investigates the learnability of the nonlinearity property of Boolean functions using neural networks. We train encoder style deep neural networks to learn to predict the nonlinearity of Boolean functions from examples of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Sriram Ranga , Nandish Chattopadhyay , Anupam Chattopadhyay

Active learning strategies respond to the costly labelling task in a supervised classification by selecting the most useful unlabelled examples in training a predictive model. Many conventional active learning algorithms focus on refining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Djallel Bouneffouf

We propose a Newton-based scheme, initialized by neural operator predictions, to accelerate the parametric solution of nonlinear problems in computational solid mechanics. First, a physics informed conditional neural field is trained to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Kianoosh Taghikhani , Yusuke Yamazaki , Jerry Paul Varghese , Markus Apel , Reza Najian Asl , Shahed Rezaei

The choice of activation function can have a large effect on the performance of a neural network. While there have been some attempts to hand-engineer novel activation functions, the Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) remains the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Garrett Bingham , William Macke , Risto Miikkulainen

In this work, a method of random parameters generation for randomized learning of a single-hidden-layer feedforward neural network is proposed. The method firstly, randomly selects the slope angles of the hidden neurons activation functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Grzegorz Dudek

A quantum computer needs the assistance of a classical algorithm to detect and identify errors that affect encoded quantum information. At this interface of classical and quantum computing the technique of machine learning has appeared as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 P. Baireuther , M. D. Caio , B. Criger , C. W. J. Beenakker , T. E. O'Brien

Activation functions play a decisive role in determining the capacity of Deep Neural Networks as they enable neural networks to capture inherent nonlinearities present in data fed to them. The prior research on activation functions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Jamshaid Ul Rahman , Faiza Makhdoom , Dianchen Lu

The design of fluid channel structures of reactors or separators of chemical processes is key to enhancing the mass transfer processes inside the devices. However, the systematic design of channel topological structures is difficult for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-07 Chenhui Kou , Yuhui Yin , Min Zhu , Shengkun Jia , Yiqing Luo , Xigang Yuana , Lu Lu

In end-to-end learned image compression, encoder and decoder are jointly trained to minimize a $R + {\lambda}D$ cost function, where ${\lambda}$ controls the trade-off between rate of the quantized latent representation and image quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Alberto Presta , Enzo Tartaglione , Attilio Fiandrotti , Marco Grangetto

Neural operators are promising surrogates for dynamical systems but when trained with standard L2 losses they tend to oversmooth fine-scale turbulent structures. Here, we show that combining operator learning with generative modeling…

Machine learning model weights and activations are represented in full-precision during training. This leads to performance degradation in runtime when deployed on neural network accelerator (NNA) chips, which leverage highly parallelized…