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Deep neural networks implement a sequence of layer-by-layer operations that are each relatively easy to understand, but the resulting overall computation is generally difficult to understand. We consider a simple hypothesis for interpreting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Richard D. Lange , Devin Kwok , Jordan Matelsky , Xinyue Wang , David S. Rolnick , Konrad P. Kording

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have significantly advanced machine learning, with model depth playing a central role in their successes. The dynamical system modeling approach has recently emerged as a powerful framework, offering new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Jinshu Huang , Mingfei Sun , Chunlin Wu

This paper proposes a novel framework for recurrent neural networks (RNNs) inspired by the human memory models in the field of cognitive neuroscience to enhance information processing and transmission between adjacent RNNs' units. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Xi Chen , Zhihong Deng , Gehui Shen , Ting Huang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has revolutionized computer vision, but training very deep networks has been challenging due to the vanishing gradient problem. This paper explores Residual Networks (ResNet), introduced by He et al.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Xingyu Liu , Kun Ming Goh

Knowledge tracing---where a machine models the knowledge of a student as they interact with coursework---is a well established problem in computer supported education. Though effectively modeling student knowledge would have high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Chris Piech , Jonathan Spencer , Jonathan Huang , Surya Ganguli , Mehran Sahami , Leonidas Guibas , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

Originally inspired by neurobiology, deep neural network models have become a powerful tool of machine learning and artificial intelligence, where they are used to approximate functions and dynamics by learning from examples. Here we give a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-04-12 Nikolaus Kriegeskorte , Tal Golan

Residual Network (ResNet) is the state-of-the-art architecture that realizes successful training of really deep neural network. It is also known that good weight initialization of neural network avoids problem of vanishing/exploding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Masato Taki

This work proposes an algorithm for explicitly constructing a pair of neural networks that linearize and reconstruct an embedded submanifold, from finite samples of this manifold. Our such-generated neural networks, called Flattening…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Michael Psenka , Druv Pai , Vishal Raman , Shankar Sastry , Yi Ma

Recent work has studied the reasons for the remarkable performance of deep neural networks in image classification. We examine batch normalization on the one hand and the dynamical systems view of residual networks on the other hand. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Jingfeng Zhang , Laura Wynter

This book develops an effective theory approach to understanding deep neural networks of practical relevance. Beginning from a first-principles component-level picture of networks, we explain how to determine an accurate description of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Daniel A. Roberts , Sho Yaida , Boris Hanin

Residual networks (ResNets) represent a powerful type of convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture, widely adopted and used in various tasks. In this work we propose an improved version of ResNets. Our proposed improvements address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Ionut Cosmin Duta , Li Liu , Fan Zhu , Ling Shao

Over the long history of machine learning, which dates back several decades, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been used mainly for sequential data and time series and generally with 1D information. Even in some rare studies on 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Nguyen Huu Phong , Bernardete Ribeiro

Deep learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a data-driven method that uses multiple layers of interconnected units or neurons to learn intricate patterns and representations directly from raw input data. Empowered by this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Mohd Halim Mohd Noor , Ayokunle Olalekan Ige

Data arrives at our senses as a continuous stream, smoothly transforming from one instant to the next. These smooth transformations can be viewed as continuous symmetries of the environment that we inhabit, defining equivalence relations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 T. Anderson Keller

Determining the optimal depth of a neural network is a fundamental yet challenging problem, typically resolved through resource-intensive experimentation. This paper introduces a formal theoretical framework to address this question by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Qian Qi

Long short-term memory (LSTM) and recurrent neural network (RNN) has achieved great successes on time-series prediction. In this paper, a methodology of using LSTM-based deep-RNN for two-phase flow regime prediction is proposed, motivated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Zhuoran Dang , Mamoru Ishii

The layered structure of deep neural networks hinders the use of numerous analysis tools and thus the development of its interpretability. Inspired by the success of functional brain networks, we propose a novel framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Ben Zhang , Zhetong Dong , Junsong Zhang , Hongwei Lin

In recent years, using a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) as a feature encoder (or backbone) is the most commonly observed architectural pattern in several computer vision methods, and semantic segmentation is no exception. The two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Venkata Satya Sai Ajay Daliparthi

The recently proposed generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are a method of training a policy to sample compositional discrete objects with probabilities proportional to a given reward via a sequence of actions. GFlowNets exploit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Daniil Tiapkin , Nikita Morozov , Alexey Naumov , Dmitry Vetrov

Deep generative models such as flow and diffusion models have proven to be effective in modeling high-dimensional and complex data types such as videos or proteins, and this has motivated their use in different data modalities, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ege Erdogan