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Methods exploiting sparsity have been popular in imaging and signal processing applications including compression, denoising, and imaging inverse problems. Data-driven approaches such as dictionary learning and transform learning enable one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Saiprasad Ravishankar , Anna Ma , Deanna Needell

A practical limitation of deep neural networks is their high degree of specialization to a single task and visual domain. Recently, inspired by the successes of transfer learning, several authors have proposed to learn instead universal,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi , Hakan Bilen , Andrea Vedaldi

The design of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to accurately process sequential inputs with long-time dependencies is very challenging on account of the exploding and vanishing gradient problem. To overcome this, we propose a novel RNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 T. Konstantin Rusch , Siddhartha Mishra

In the article, we discuss the architecture of the polynomial neural network that corresponds to the matrix representation of Lie transform. The matrix form of Lie transform is an approximation of the general solution of the nonlinear…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Andrei Ivanov , Alena Sholokhova , Sergei Andrianov , Roman Konoplev-Esgenburg

Barren plateaus, which means the training gradients become extremely small, pose a major challenge in optimizing parameterized quantum circuits, often making the learning process impractically slow or stall. This work shows why using neural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Zhehao Yi , Rahul Bhadani

Gradient-based interpretations often require an anchor point of comparison to avoid saturation in computing feature importance. We show that current baselines defined using static functions--constant mapping, averaging or blurring--inject…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Ching Lam Choi , Alexandre Duplessis , Serge Belongie

This paper explores the application of the parameter-shift rule (PSR) for computing gradients in unitary optical neural networks (UONNs). While backpropagation has been fundamental to training conventional neural networks, its…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Jinzhe Jiang , Yaqian Zhao , Xin Zhang , Chen Li , Yunlong Yu , Hailing Liu

Neural ordinary differential equations (Neural ODEs) propose the idea that a sequence of layers in a neural network is just a discretisation of an ODE, and thus can instead be directly modelled by a parameterised ODE. This idea has had…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Christina Runkel , Ander Biguri , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

A recent strategy to circumvent the exploding and vanishing gradient problem in RNNs, and to allow the stable propagation of signals over long time scales, is to constrain recurrent connectivity matrices to be orthogonal or unitary. This…

We establish an algorithm for a criterion of the diagonalisability of a matrix over a local field by a unitary matrix. For this sake, we define the notion of normality of a $p$-adic operator, and give several criteria for the normality. We…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Tomoki Mihara

The coincidence between polynomial neural networks and matrix Lie maps is discussed in the article. The matrix form of Lie transform is an approximation of the general solution of the nonlinear system of ordinary differential equations. It…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Andrei Ivanov , Sergei Andrianov

Consider the following optimization problem: Given $n \times n$ matrices $A$ and $\Lambda$, maximize $\langle A, U\Lambda U^*\rangle$ where $U$ varies over the unitary group $\mathrm{U}(n)$. This problem seeks to approximate $A$ by a matrix…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Oren Mangoubi , Yikai Wu , Satyen Kale , Abhradeep Guha Thakurta , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Our work addresses two important issues with recurrent neural networks: (1) they are over-parameterized, and (2) the recurrence matrix is ill-conditioned. The former increases the sample complexity of learning and the training time. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Cijo Jose , Moustpaha Cisse , Francois Fleuret

Recently deep learning surrogates and neural operators have shown promise in solving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, they often require a large amount of training data and are limited to bounded domains. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Zhiwei Fang , Sifan Wang , Paris Perdikaris

Recent investigations suggest that the discrete linear unitary group $U(N)$ can be represented by interlacing a finite sequence of diagonal phase operations with an intervening unitary operator. However, despite rigorous numerical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Matthew Markowitz , Mohammad-Ali Miri , Alexey Ovchinnikov , Kevin Zelaya

In learning with recurrent or very deep feed-forward networks, employing unitary matrices in each layer can be very effective at maintaining long-range stability. However, restricting network parameters to be unitary typically comes at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Bobak Kiani , Randall Balestriero , Yann LeCun , Seth Lloyd

Learning to learn has emerged as an important direction for achieving artificial intelligence. Two of the primary barriers to its adoption are an inability to scale to larger problems and a limited ability to generalize to new tasks. We…

It is well known that it is challenging to train deep neural networks and recurrent neural networks for tasks that exhibit long term dependencies. The vanishing or exploding gradient problem is a well known issue associated with these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Eugene Vorontsov , Chiheb Trabelsi , Samuel Kadoury , Chris Pal

Recurrent neural network is a powerful model that learns temporal patterns in sequential data. For a long time, it was believed that recurrent networks are difficult to train using simple optimizers, such as stochastic gradient descent, due…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Tomas Mikolov , Armand Joulin , Sumit Chopra , Michael Mathieu , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

Barren plateaus are a notorious problem in the optimization of variational quantum algorithms and pose a critical obstacle in the quest for more efficient quantum machine learning algorithms. Many potential reasons for barren plateaus have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-02 Ankit Kulshrestha , Ilya Safro