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The EM-algorithm is a general procedure to get maximum likelihood estimates if part of the observations on the variables of a network are missing. In this paper a stochastic version of the algorithm is adapted to probabilistic neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Gerhard Paass

Unsupervised pretraining and dropout have been well studied, especially with respect to regularization and output consistency. However, our understanding about the explicit convergence rates of the parameter estimates, and their dependence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Vamsi K. Ithapu , Sathya Ravi , Vikas Singh

Randomization is a powerful tool that endows algorithms with remarkable properties. For instance, randomized algorithms excel in adversarial settings, often surpassing the worst-case performance of deterministic algorithms with large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Johannes von Oswald , Seijin Kobayashi , Yassir Akram , Angelika Steger

A Deep Neural Network (DNN) is a composite function of vector-valued functions, and in order to train a DNN, it is necessary to calculate the gradient of the loss function with respect to all parameters. This calculation can be a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Saeed Damadi , Golnaz Moharrer , Mostafa Cham

Convolutional neural networks often generate multiple logits and use simple techniques like addition or averaging for loss computation. But this allows gradients to be distributed equally among all paths. The proposed approach guides the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Bodhisatwa Mandal , Swarnendu Ghosh , Teresa Gonçalves , Paulo Quaresma , Mita Nasipuri , Nibaran Das

In many data-driven applications, collecting data from different sources is increasingly desirable for enhancing performance. In this paper, we are interested in the problem of probabilistic forecasting with multi-source time series. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Tian Guo

Probabilistic models are a critical part of the modern deep learning toolbox - ranging from generative models (VAEs, GANs), sequence to sequence models used in machine translation and speech processing to models over functional spaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Marta Garnelo , Alhussein Fawzi , Pushmeet Kohli

Predicting business process behaviour is an important aspect of business process management. Motivated by research in natural language processing, this paper describes an application of deep learning with recurrent neural networks to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Joerg Evermann , Jana-Rebecca Rehse , Peter Fettke

When fine-tuning Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to new data, DNNs are prone to overwriting network parameters required for task-specific functionality on previously learned tasks, resulting in a loss of performance on those tasks. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Christopher Angelini , Nidhal Bouaynaya

In this paper we formulate a probabilistic model for class-specific discriminant subspace learning. The proposed model can naturally incorporate the multi-modal structure of the negative class, which is neglected by existing class-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Alexandros Iosifidis

Using backpropagation to compute gradients of objective functions for optimization has remained a mainstay of machine learning. Backpropagation, or reverse-mode differentiation, is a special case within the general family of automatic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Atılım Güneş Baydin , Barak A. Pearlmutter , Don Syme , Frank Wood , Philip Torr

Differentiable programming is the combination of classical neural networks modules with algorithmic ones in an end-to-end differentiable model. These new models, that use automatic differentiation to calculate gradients, have new learning…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Adrián Hernández , José M. Amigó

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful learning machines that have enabled breakthroughs in several domains. In this work, we introduce a new retrospective loss to improve the training of deep neural network models by utilizing the prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Surgan Jandial , Ayush Chopra , Mausoom Sarkar , Piyush Gupta , Balaji Krishnamurthy , Vineeth Balasubramanian

Deep Probabilistic Programming (DPP) allows powerful models based on recursive computation to be learned using efficient deep-learning optimization techniques. Additionally, DPP offers a unified perspective, where inference and learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Jonathan Warrell , Mark Gerstein

The backpropagation algorithm remains the dominant and most successful method for training deep neural networks (DNNs). At the same time, training DNNs at scale comes at a significant computational cost and therefore a high carbon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sander Dalm , Joshua Offergeld , Nasir Ahmad , Marcel van Gerven

We consider reusing established non-probabilistic output analyses (either forward or backwards) that yield over-approximations of a program's pre-image or image relation, e.g., interval analyses. We assume a probability measure over the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Maja Hanne Kirkeby

Machine Learning is a powerful tool to reveal and exploit correlations in a multi-dimensional parameter space. Making predictions from such correlations is a highly non-trivial task, in particular when the details of the underlying dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-30 Christoph Englert , Peter Galler , Philip Harris , Michael Spannowsky

This paper introduces a probabilistic framework for k-shot image classification. The goal is to generalise from an initial large-scale classification task to a separate task comprising new classes and small numbers of examples. The new…

In recent years, model collapse has become a critical issue in language model training, making it essential to understand the underlying mechanisms driving this phenomenon. In this paper, we investigate recursive parametric model training…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-23 Shirong Xu , Hengzhi He , Guang Cheng

Neural networks have long strived to emulate the learning capabilities of the human brain. While deep neural networks (DNNs) draw inspiration from the brain in neuron design, their training methods diverge from biological foundations.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Joseph Bingham , Saman Zonouz , Dvir Aran