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Deep neural networks (DNN) are black box algorithms. They are trained using a gradient descent back propagation technique which trains weights in each layer for the sole goal of minimizing training error. Hence, the resulting weights cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Daniel Goldfarb

The goal of event classification in collider physics is to distinguish signal events of interest from background events to the extent possible to search for new phenomena in nature. We propose a decay-aware neural network based on a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-12-20 Tomoe Kishimoto , Masahiro Morinaga , Masahiko Saito , Junichi Tanaka

The backpropagation algorithm remains the dominant and most successful method for training deep neural networks (DNNs). At the same time, training DNNs at scale comes at a significant computational cost and therefore a high carbon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sander Dalm , Joshua Offergeld , Nasir Ahmad , Marcel van Gerven

A major task in particle physics is the measurement of rare signal processes. Even modest improvements in background rejection, at a fixed signal efficiency, can significantly enhance the measurement sensitivity. Building on prior research…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-30 Luc Builtjes , Sascha Caron , Polina Moskvitina , Clara Nellist , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Rob Verheyen , Zhongyi Zhang

The NEXT-100 detector will search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{136}$Xe using an electroluminescent high-pressure xenon gas TPC filled with 100 kg of enriched Xe. An observation of this hypothetical process would establish a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 D. Lorca

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are susceptible to backdoor attacks during training. The model corrupted in this way functions normally, but when triggered by certain patterns in the input, produces a predefined target label. Existing defenses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Wanlun Ma , Derui Wang , Ruoxi Sun , Minhui Xue , Sheng Wen , Yang Xiang

The tracks recorded by a gaseous detector provide a possibility for charged particle identification. For searching the neutrinoless double beta decay events of 136Xe in the PandaX-III experiment, we optimized the convolutional neural…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-12-27 Shangning Xia , Suizhi Huang , Kexin Xu , Tao Li , Xun Chen , Ke Han , Shaobo Wang

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which dramatically alter model output using small input changes. We propose Neural Fingerprinting, a simple, yet effective method to detect adversarial examples by verifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Sumanth Dathathri , Stephan Zheng , Tianwei Yin , Richard M. Murray , Yisong Yue

Recently, it was found that many real-world examples without intentional modifications can fool machine learning models, and such examples are called "natural adversarial examples". ImageNet-A is a famous dataset of natural adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Xiao Li , Jianmin Li , Ting Dai , Jie Shi , Jun Zhu , Xiaolin Hu

Data inconsistency leads to a slow training process when deep neural networks are used for the inverse design of photonic devices, an issue that arises from the fundamental property of non-uniqueness in all inverse scattering problems. Here…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-09 Dianjing Liu , Yixuan Tan , Erfan Khoram , Zongfu Yu

Conventional deep learning-based image reconstruction methods require a large amount of training data which can be hard to obtain in practice. Untrained deep learning methods overcome this limitation by training a network to invert a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Carlos Osorio Quero , Daniel Leykam , Irving Rondon Ojeda

Toward a deeper understanding on the inner work of deep neural networks, we investigate CNN (convolutional neural network) using DCN (deconvolutional network) and randomization technique, and gain new insights for the intrinsic property of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Kun He , Jingbo Wang , Haochuan Li , Yao Shu , Mengxiao Zhang , Man Zhu , Liwei Wang , John E. Hopcroft

Hardware imperfections in RF transmitters introduce features that can be used to identify a specific transmitter amongst others. Supervised deep learning has shown good performance in this task but using datasets not applicable to real…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-21 Cyrille Morin , Leonardo Cardoso , Jakob Hoydis , Jean-Marie Gorce , Thibaud Vial

Backdoor attacks pose a significant security vulnerability for deep neural networks (DNNs), enabling them to operate normally on clean inputs but manipulate predictions when specific trigger patterns occur. Currently, post-training backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yanghao Su , Jie Zhang , Ting Xu , Tianwei Zhang , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

We present a theoretically grounded approach to train deep neural networks, including recurrent networks, subject to class-dependent label noise. We propose two procedures for loss correction that are agnostic to both application domain and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-23 Giorgio Patrini , Alessandro Rozza , Aditya Menon , Richard Nock , Lizhen Qu

Deep Learning has revolutionized machine learning and artificial intelligence, achieving superhuman performance in several standard benchmarks. It is well-known that deep learning models are inefficient to train; they learn by processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Fartash Faghri

The field of RNA secondary structure prediction has made significant progress with the adoption of deep learning techniques. In this work, we present the RNAformer, a lean deep learning model using axial attention and recycling in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Jörg K. H. Franke , Frederic Runge , Frank Hutter

Despite the success of neural networks in computer vision tasks, digital 'neurons' are a very loose approximation of biological neurons. Today's learning approaches are designed to function on digital devices with digital data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Celyn Walters , Simon Hadfield

Establishing dense semantic correspondences between object instances remains a challenging problem due to background clutter, significant scale and pose differences, and large intra-class variations. In this paper, we address weakly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Yun-Chun Chen , Po-Hsiang Huang , Li-Yu Yu , Jia-Bin Huang , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Yen-Yu Lin

The paper proposes a new testing approach for Deep Neural Networks (DNN) using gradient-free optimization to find perturbation chains that successfully falsify the tested DNN, going beyond existing grid-based or combinatorial testing.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Clemens Otte , Yinchong Yang , Danny Benlin Oswan