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We study a class of algorithms for solving bilevel optimization problems in both stochastic and deterministic settings when the inner-level objective is strongly convex. Specifically, we consider algorithms based on inexact implicit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Michael Arbel , Julien Mairal

Even though convolutional neural networks have become the method of choice in many fields of computer vision, they still lack interpretability and are usually designed manually in a cumbersome trial-and-error process. This paper aims at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Maria Ximena Bastidas Rodriguez , Adrien Gruson , Luisa F. Polania , Shin Fujieda , Flavio Prieto Ortiz , Kohei Takayama , Toshiya Hachisuka

Deep learning approaches, known for their ability to model complex relationships and fast execution, are increasingly being applied to solve large optimization problems. However, existing methods often face challenges in simultaneously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Zisheng Zhou , Dengyu Zheng , Zirui Chen , Shixiang Chen

Gradients of neural networks can be computed efficiently for any architecture, but some applications require differential operators with higher time complexity. We describe a family of restricted neural network architectures that allow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Ricky T. Q. Chen , David Duvenaud

As recurrent neural networks become larger and deeper, training times for single networks are rising into weeks or even months. As such there is a significant incentive to improve the performance and scalability of these networks. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Jeremy Appleyard , Tomas Kocisky , Phil Blunsom

Deep unrolling, or unfolding, is an emerging learning-to-optimize method that unrolls a truncated iterative algorithm in the layers of a trainable neural network. However, the convergence guarantees and generalizability of the unrolled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Samar Hadou , Navid NaderiAlizadeh , Alejandro Ribeiro

We explore in detail a method to solve ordinary differential equations using feedforward neural networks. We prove a specific loss function, which does not require knowledge of the exact solution, to be a suitable standard metric to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Liam L. H. Lau , Denis Werth

The success of deep neural networks hinges on our ability to accurately and efficiently optimize high-dimensional, non-convex functions. In this paper, we empirically investigate the loss functions of state-of-the-art networks, and how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Daniel Jiwoong Im , Michael Tao , Kristin Branson

The Deep Operator Network (DeepONet) is a powerful neural operator architecture that uses two neural networks to map between infinite-dimensional function spaces. This architecture allows for the evaluation of the solution field at any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Bahador Bahmani , Somdatta Goswami , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis , Michael D. Shields

Artificial neural networks which are inspired from the learning mechanism of brain have achieved great successes in many problems, especially those with deep layers. In this paper, we propose a nucleus neural network (NNN) and corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Jia Liu , Maoguo Gong , Haibo He

Oftentimes, machine learning applications using neural networks involve solving discrete optimization problems, such as in pruning, parameter-isolation-based continual learning and training of binary networks. Still, these discrete problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Hugo Silva , Martha White

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…

We present here, a novel network architecture called MergeNet for discovering small obstacles for on-road scenes in the context of autonomous driving. The basis of the architecture rests on the central consideration of training with less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Krishnam Gupta , Syed Ashar Javed , Vineet Gandhi , K. Madhava Krishna

Theoretical and empirical evidence indicates that the depth of neural networks is crucial for their success. However, training becomes more difficult as depth increases, and training of very deep networks remains an open problem. Here we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Rupesh Kumar Srivastava , Klaus Greff , Jürgen Schmidhuber

While the optimization problem behind deep neural networks is highly non-convex, it is frequently observed in practice that training deep networks seems possible without getting stuck in suboptimal points. It has been argued that this is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Quynh Nguyen , Matthias Hein

Topological learning is a wide research area aiming at uncovering the mutual spatial relationships between the elements of a set. Some of the most common and oldest approaches involve the use of unsupervised competitive neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-03 Pietro Barbiero , Gabriele Ciravegna , Vincenzo Randazzo , Giansalvo Cirrincione

This paper investigates multilevel initialization strategies for training very deep neural networks with a layer-parallel multigrid solver. The scheme is based on the continuous interpretation of the training problem as a problem of optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Eric C. Cyr , Stefanie Günther , Jacob B. Schroder

We present a new distributed representation in deep neural nets wherein the information is represented in native form as a matrix. This differs from current neural architectures that rely on vector representations. We consider matrices as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Kien Do , Truyen Tran , Svetha Venkatesh

Quadratic cone programs are rapidly becoming the standard canonical form for convex optimization problems. In this paper we address the question of differentiating the solution map for such problems, generalizing previous work for linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Quill Healey , Parth Nobel , Stephen Boyd

Diffractive deep neural network (DNNet) is a novel machine learning framework on the modulation of optical transmission. Diffractive network would get predictions at the speed of light. It's pure passive architecture, no additional power…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Yingshi Chen , Jinfeng Zhu