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To better understand and improve the behavior of neural networks, a recent line of works bridged the connection between ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and deep neural networks (DNNs). The connections are made in two folds: (1) View…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Xinshi Chen

Deep neural networks are known to suffer from exploding or vanishing gradients as depth increases, a phenomenon closely tied to the spectral behavior of the input-output Jacobian. Prior work has identified critical initialization schemes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Benjamin Dadoun , Soufiane Hayou , Hanan Salam , Mohamed El Amine Seddik , Pierre Youssef

In this paper we introduce a provably stable architecture for Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) which achieves non-trivial adversarial robustness under white-box adversarial attacks even when the network is trained naturally.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Yifei Huang , Yaodong Yu , Hongyang Zhang , Yi Ma , Yuan Yao

Deep ResNet architectures have achieved state of the art performance on many tasks. While they solve the problem of gradient vanishing, they might suffer from gradient exploding as the depth becomes large (Yang et al. 2017). Moreover,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Soufiane Hayou , Eugenio Clerico , Bobby He , George Deligiannidis , Arnaud Doucet , Judith Rousseau

Deep Graph Networks (DGNs) currently dominate the research landscape of learning from graphs, due to their efficiency and ability to implement an adaptive message-passing scheme between the nodes. However, DGNs are typically limited in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Alessio Gravina , Davide Bacciu , Claudio Gallicchio

We introduce a new family of deep neural network models. Instead of specifying a discrete sequence of hidden layers, we parameterize the derivative of the hidden state using a neural network. The output of the network is computed using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Ricky T. Q. Chen , Yulia Rubanova , Jesse Bettencourt , David Duvenaud

Neural ordinary differential equations (Neural ODEs) propose the idea that a sequence of layers in a neural network is just a discretisation of an ODE, and thus can instead be directly modelled by a parameterised ODE. This idea has had…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Christina Runkel , Ander Biguri , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We introduce OS-net (Orbitally Stable neural NETworks), a new family of neural network architectures specifically designed for periodic dynamical data. OS-net is a special case of Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs) and takes…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Marieme Ngom , Carlo Graziani

Convolutional and Recurrent, deep neural networks have been successful in machine learning systems for computer vision, reinforcement learning, and other allied fields. However, the robustness of such neural networks is seldom apprised,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Biswa Sengupta , Karl J. Friston

Irregular sampling intervals and missing values in real-world time series data present challenges for conventional methods that assume consistent intervals and complete data. Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Neural ODEs) offer an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 YongKyung Oh , Dong-Young Lim , Sungil Kim

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs), a framework of continuous-depth neural networks, have been widely applied, showing exceptional efficacy in coping with representative datasets. Recently, an augmented framework has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Qunxi Zhu , Yao Guo , Wei Lin

Learning solution operators for differential equations with neural networks has shown great potential in scientific computing, but ensuring their stability under input perturbations remains a critical challenge. This paper presents a robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chutian Huang , Chang Ma , Kaibo Wang , Yang Xiang

Deep neural networks have shown remarkable performance across a wide range of vision-based tasks, particularly due to the availability of large-scale datasets for training and better architectures. However, data seen in the real world are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Muhammad Usama , Dong Eui Chang

We explain that the difficulties of training deep neural networks come from a syndrome of three consistency issues. This paper describes our efforts in their analysis and treatment. The first issue is the training speed inconsistency in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Chengxi Ye , Yezhou Yang , Cornelia Fermuller , Yiannis Aloimonos

Neural Ordinary Differential Equation (Neural ODE) has been proposed as a continuous approximation to the ResNet architecture. Some commonly used regularization mechanisms in discrete neural networks (e.g. dropout, Gaussian noise) are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Xuanqing Liu , Tesi Xiao , Si Si , Qin Cao , Sanjiv Kumar , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) have developed into useful tools for probabilistic modelling due to recent advances in variational inference enabling large scale BNNs. However, BNNs remain brittle and hard to train, especially: (1) when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Felix McGregor , Arnu Pretorius , Johan du Preez , Steve Kroon

Using rough path techniques, we provide a priori estimates for the output of Deep Residual Neural Networks in terms of both the input data and the (trained) network weights. As trained network weights are typically very rough when seen as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Christian Bayer , Peter K. Friz , Nikolas Tapia

Deep learning (DL) has had unprecedented success and is now entering scientific computing with full force. However, current DL methods typically suffer from instability, even when universal approximation properties guarantee the existence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Matthew J. Colbrook , Vegard Antun , Anders C. Hansen

In the past five years, deep learning methods have become state-of-the-art in solving various inverse problems. Before such approaches can find application in safety-critical fields, a verification of their reliability appears mandatory.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Martin Genzel , Jan Macdonald , Maximilian März

Neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) are an effective approach for data-driven modeling of dynamical systems arising from simulations and experiments. One of the major shortcomings of NODEs, especially when coupled with explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Allen Alvarez Loya , Daniel A. Serino , J. W. Burby , Qi Tang