English
Related papers

Related papers: Deep Submodular Functions

200 papers

Our proposed deeply-supervised nets (DSN) method simultaneously minimizes classification error while making the learning process of hidden layers direct and transparent. We make an attempt to boost the classification performance by studying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-26 Chen-Yu Lee , Saining Xie , Patrick Gallagher , Zhengyou Zhang , Zhuowen Tu

Activation functions (AFs) are an important part of the design of neural networks (NNs), and their choice plays a predominant role in the performance of a NN. In this work, we are particularly interested in the estimation of flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Yassine Zniyed , Konstantin Usevich , Sebastian Miron , David Brie

Overparameterised deep neural networks (DNNs) are highly expressive and so can, in principle, generate almost any function that fits a training dataset with zero error. The vast majority of these functions will perform poorly on unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Chris Mingard , Guillermo Valle-Pérez , Joar Skalse , Ard A. Louis

We study the problem of minimizing or maximizing the average value $ f(S)/|S| $ of a submodular or supermodular set function $ f: 2^V \to \mathbb{R} $ over non-empty subsets $ S \subseteq V $. This generalizes classical problems such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Elfarouk Harb , Yousef Yassin , Chandra Chekuri

Deep neural networks (DNNs) suffer from the spectral bias, wherein DNNs typically exhibit a tendency to prioritize the learning of lower-frequency components of a function, struggling to capture its high-frequency features. This paper is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ronglong Fang , Yuesheng Xu

We show that training deep neural networks (DNNs) with absolute value activation and arbitrary input dimension can be formulated as equivalent convex Lasso problems with novel features expressed using geometric algebra. This formulation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Emi Zeger , Mert Pilanci

This work contributes to the development of a new data-driven method (D-DM) of feedforward neural networks (FNNs) learning. This method was proposed recently as a way of improving randomized learning of FNNs by adjusting the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Grzegorz Dudek

Deep neural networks (DNNs) and Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) are popular methods for function approximation due to their flexibility and expressivity. However, they typically require a large number of trainable parameters to produce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Zachary Morrow , Michael Penwarden , Brian Chen , Aurya Javeed , Akil Narayan , John D. Jakeman

We provide several new depth-based separation results for feed-forward neural networks, proving that various types of simple and natural functions can be better approximated using deeper networks than shallower ones, even if the shallower…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Itay Safran , Ohad Shamir

Understanding what kinds of cooperative structures deep neural networks (DNNs) can represent remains a fundamental yet insufficiently understood problem. In this work, we treat interactions as the fundamental units of such structure and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Huiqi Deng , Qihan Ren , Zhuofan Chen , Zhenyuan Cui , Wen Shen , Peng Zhang , Hongbin Pei , Quanshi Zhang

We present Supervised Deep Multimodal Matrix Factorization (SD3MF), an interpretable framework for integrative brain network analysis that generalizes Symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Tri-Factorization (SNMTF) from unsupervised single-graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Amjad Seyedi , Lifang He , Songlin Zhao , Akwum Onwunta , Nicolas Gillis

Submodular functions are relevant to machine learning for at least two reasons: (1) some problems may be expressed directly as the optimization of submodular functions and (2) the lovasz extension of submodular functions provides a useful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-09 Francis Bach

We introduce compositional tensor trains (CTTs) for the approximation of multivariate functions, a class of models obtained by composing low-rank functions in the tensor-train format. This format can encode standard approximation tools,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Martin Eigel , Charles Miranda , Anthony Nouy , David Sommer

Dynamic feature selection (DFS) is a machine learning framework in which features are acquired sequentially for individual samples under budget constraints. The exponential growth in the number of possible feature acquisition paths forces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Javier Fumanal-Idocin , Raquel Fernandez-Peralta , Javier Andreu-Perez

Adapting Foundation Models (FMs) for downstream tasks through Federated Learning (FL) emerges a promising strategy for protecting data privacy and valuable FMs. Existing methods fine-tune FM by allocating sub-FM to clients in FL, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Zhaopeng Peng , Xiaoliang Fan , Yufan Chen , Zheng Wang , Shirui Pan , Chenglu Wen , Ruisheng Zhang , Cheng Wang

The use of distributions and high-level features from deep architecture has become commonplace in modern computer vision. Both of these methodologies have separately achieved a great deal of success in many computer vision tasks. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-15 Junier B. Oliva , Danica J. Sutherland , Barnabás Póczos , Jeff Schneider

Learning sophisticated feature interactions behind user behaviors is critical in maximizing CTR for recommender systems. Despite great progress, existing methods have a strong bias towards low- or high-order interactions, or rely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Yunming Ye , Zhenguo Li , Xiuqiang He , Zhenhua Dong

We introduce a new class of deep neural networks (DNNs) with multilayered tree-like architectures. The architectures are codified using numbers from the ring of integers of non-Archimdean local fields. These rings have a natural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 W. A. Zúñiga-Galindo

In the past decade, deep neural networks (DNNs) came to the fore as the leading machine learning algorithms for a variety of tasks. Their raise was founded on market needs and engineering craftsmanship, the latter based more on trial and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Omry Cohen , Or Malka , Zohar Ringel

Implicit regularization is an important way to interpret neural networks. Recent theory starts to explain implicit regularization with the model of deep matrix factorization (DMF) and analyze the trajectory of discrete gradient dynamics in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Jian Cao , Chen Qian , Yihui Huang , Dicheng Chen , Yuncheng Gao , Jiyang Dong , Di Guo , Xiaobo Qu