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Training RNNs to learn long-term dependencies is difficult due to vanishing gradients. We explore an alternative solution based on explicit memorization using linear autoencoders for sequences, which allows to maximize the short-term memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Antonio Carta , Alessandro Sperduti , Davide Bacciu

We construct custom regularization functions for use in supervised training of deep neural networks. Our technique is applicable when the ground-truth labels themselves exhibit internal structure; we derive a regularizer by learning an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Mohammadreza Mostajabi , Michael Maire , Gregory Shakhnarovich

Hypernetworks are meta neural networks that generate weights for a main neural network in an end-to-end differentiable manner. Despite extensive applications ranging from multi-task learning to Bayesian deep learning, the problem of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Oscar Chang , Lampros Flokas , Hod Lipson

The comparison of heterogeneous samples extensively exists in many applications, especially in the task of image classification. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective coupled neural network, called Deeply Coupled Autoencoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Wen Wang , Zhen Cui , Hong Chang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) form the backbone of almost every state-of-the-art technique in the fields such as computer vision, speech processing, and text analysis. The recent advances in computational technology have made the use of DNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Saiprasad Koturwar , Shabbir Merchant

Training vision transformer networks on small datasets poses challenges. In contrast, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can achieve state-of-the-art performance by leveraging their architectural inductive bias. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Jianqiao Zheng , Xueqian Li , Simon Lucey

Neural network-based methods have emerged as powerful tools for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) in scientific and engineering applications, particularly when handling complex domains or incorporating empirical data. These…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Chuqi Chen , Qixuan Zhou , Yahong Yang , Yang Xiang , Tao Luo

Of particular interest is to discover useful representations solely from observations in an unsupervised generative manner. However, the question of whether existing normalizing flows provide effective representations for downstream tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Shen Li , Bryan Hooi

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) and neuromorphic computing offer bio-inspired advantages such as sparsity and ultra-low power consumption, providing a promising alternative to conventional networks. However, training deep SNNs from scratch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Aurora Micheli , Olaf Booij , Jan van Gemert , Nergis Tömen

Deep neural networks are typically trained in a single shot for a specific task and data distribution, but in real world settings both the task and the domain of application can change. The problem becomes even more challenging in dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Donald Shenaj , Francesco Barbato , Umberto Michieli , Pietro Zanuttigh

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing our lives at an ever increasing pace. At the heart of this revolution is the recent advancements in deep neural networks (DNN), learning to perform sophisticated, high-level tasks. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Nima Dehmamy , Neda Rohani , Aggelos Katsaggelos

Deep learning models hold state of the art performance in many fields, yet their design is still based on heuristics or grid search methods that often result in overparametrized networks. This work proposes a method to analyze a trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Isha Garg , Priyadarshini Panda , Kaushik Roy

In this work, we propose a very simple deep learning network for image classification which comprises only the very basic data processing components: cascaded principal component analysis (PCA), binary hashing, and block-wise histograms. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Tsung-Han Chan , Kui Jia , Shenghua Gao , Jiwen Lu , Zinan Zeng , Yi Ma

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) inherently encode strong inductive biases, enabling effective generalization on small-scale datasets. In this paper, we propose integrating this inductive bias into ViTs, not through an architectural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jianqiao Zheng , Xueqian Li , Hemanth Saratchandran , Simon Lucey

Recent work suggests that convolutional neural networks of different architectures learn to classify images in the same order. To understand this phenomenon, we revisit the over-parametrized deep linear network model. Our analysis reveals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Guy Hacohen , Daphna Weinshall

Despite Deep Learning's (DL) empirical success, our theoretical understanding of its efficacy remains limited. One notable paradox is that while conventional wisdom discourages perfect data fitting, deep neural networks are designed to do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Oria Gruber , Haim Avron

Artificial neural network (ANN) is a very useful tool in solving learning problems. Boosting the performances of ANN can be mainly concluded from two aspects: optimizing the architecture of ANN and normalizing the raw data for ANN. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Qingjiu Zhang , Shiliang Sun

In this short note, we propose a new method for quantizing the weights of a fully trained neural network. A simple deterministic pre-processing step allows us to quantize network layers via memoryless scalar quantization while preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Johannes Maly , Rayan Saab

For image classification problems, various neural network models are commonly used due to their success in yielding high accuracies. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is one of the most frequently used deep learning methods for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ilkay Sikdokur , Inci Baytas , Arda Yurdakul

Appropriate weight initialization has been of key importance to successfully train neural networks. Recently, batch normalization has diminished the role of weight initialization by simply normalizing each layer based on batch statistics.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Pedro Hermosilla , Michael Schelling , Tobias Ritschel , Timo Ropinski