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We show that Residual Networks (ResNet) is equivalent to boosting feature representation, without any modification to the underlying ResNet training algorithm. A regret bound based on Online Gradient Boosting theory is proved and suggests…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-27 Chapman Siu

Residual networks, which use a residual unit to supplement the identity mappings, enable very deep convolutional architecture to operate well, however, the residual architecture has been proved to be diverse and redundant, which may leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Yang Hu , Guihua Wen , Mingnan Luo , Dan Dai , Jiajiong Ma , Zhiwen Yu

Gated recurrent neural networks have achieved remarkable results in the analysis of sequential data. Inside these networks, gates are used to control the flow of information, allowing to model even very long-term dependencies in the data.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Simone Scardapane , Steven Van Vaerenbergh , Danilo Comminiello , Simone Totaro , Aurelio Uncini

Materials discovery is crucial for making scientific advances in many domains. Collections of data from experiments and first-principle computations have spurred interest in applying machine learning methods to create predictive models…

One of the ways to train deep neural networks effectively is to use residual connections. Residual connections can be classified as being either identity connections or bridge-connections with a reshaping convolution. Empirical observations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Varshaneya V , Balasubramanian S , Darshan Gera

One of the core pillars of efficient deep learning methods is architectural improvements such as the residual/skip connection, which has led to significantly better model convergence and quality. Since then the residual connection has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Gaurav Menghani , Ravi Kumar , Sanjiv Kumar

While Attention Residuals has shown some effectiveness in addressing the widespread issue of unbounded activation growth across deep residual layers, it inevitably incurs significant communication overhead. To circumvent this bottleneck, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhizhan Zheng , Feiyun Zhang , Shuchun Liu , Tian Xia , Xi Liu , Dasheng Hu , Hongquan Zhou

We introduce GateSkip, a simple residual-stream gating mechanism that enables token-wise layer skipping in decoder-only LMs. Each Attention/MLP branch is equipped with a sigmoid-linear gate that condenses the branch's output before it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Filipe Laitenberger , Dawid Kopiczko , Cees G. M. Snoek , Yuki M. Asano

Very deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) yield state of the art results on a wide variety of visual recognition problems. A number of state of the the art methods for image recognition are based on networks with well over 100 layers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-15 Joel Moniz , Christopher Pal

Various architectures (such as GoogLeNets, ResNets, and DenseNets) have been proposed. However, the existing networks usually suffer from either redundancy of convolutional layers or insufficient utilization of parameters. To handle these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Zhiyu Zhu , Zhen-Peng Bian , Junhui Hou , Yi Wang , Lap-Pui Chau

The skip-connections used in residual networks have become a standard architecture choice in deep learning due to the increased training stability and generalization performance with this architecture, although there has been limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Spencer Frei , Yuan Cao , Quanquan Gu

Deep residual networks were shown to be able to scale up to thousands of layers and still have improving performance. However, each fraction of a percent of improved accuracy costs nearly doubling the number of layers, and so training very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Sergey Zagoruyko , Nikos Komodakis

Gating mechanisms are widely used in neural network models, where they allow gradients to backpropagate more easily through depth or time. However, their saturation property introduces problems of its own. For example, in recurrent models…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Albert Gu , Caglar Gulcehre , Tom Le Paine , Matt Hoffman , Razvan Pascanu

The Wide Residual Networks (Wide-ResNets), a shallow but wide model variant of the Residual Networks (ResNets) by stacking a small number of residual blocks with large channel sizes, have demonstrated outstanding performance on multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Liang-Chieh Chen , Huiyu Wang , Siyuan Qiao

We propose a novel architecture for generic biometric authentication based on deep neural networks: RegNet. Differently from other methods, RegNet learns a mapping of the input biometric traits onto a target distribution in a well-behaved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Matteo Testa , Arslan Ali , Tiziano Bianchi , Enrico Magli

Deep residual networks have recently shown appealing performance on many challenging computer vision tasks. However, the original residual structure still has some defects making it difficult to converge on very deep networks. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Falong Shen , Gang Zeng

We study the problem of large scale, multi-label visual recognition with a large number of possible classes. We propose a method for augmenting a trained neural network classifier with auxiliary capacity in a manner designed to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-15 David Warde-Farley , Andrew Rabinovich , Dragomir Anguelov

Very deep convolutional networks with hundreds of layers have led to significant reductions in error on competitive benchmarks. Although the unmatched expressiveness of the many layers can be highly desirable at test time, training very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Gao Huang , Yu Sun , Zhuang Liu , Daniel Sedra , Kilian Weinberger

Recent results suggest that reinitializing a subset of the parameters of a neural network during training can improve generalization, particularly for small training sets. We study the impact of different reinitialization methods in several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin , Hartmut Maennel , Daniel Keysers

Residual connections are one of the most important components in neural network architectures for mitigating the vanishing gradient problem and facilitating the training of much deeper networks. One possible explanation for how residual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Sejik Park