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Deep neural networks have emerged as powerful tools for learning operators defined over infinite-dimensional function spaces. However, existing theories frequently encounter difficulties related to dimensionality and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jianfei Li , Shuo Huang , Han Feng , Ding-Xuan Zhou , Gitta Kutyniok

Covariance Neural Networks (VNNs) perform graph convolutions on the covariance matrix of input data to leverage correlation information as pairwise connections. They have achieved success in a multitude of applications such as neuroscience,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Andrea Cavallo , Zhan Gao , Elvin Isufi

Training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) usually requires a large number of computational resources. In this paper, \textit{SparseTrain} is proposed to accelerate CNN training by fully exploiting the sparsity. It mainly involves three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Pengcheng Dai , Jianlei Yang , Xucheng Ye , Xingzhou Cheng , Junyu Luo , Linghao Song , Yiran Chen , Weisheng Zhao

We propose a new method to create compact convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by exploiting sparse convolutions. Different from previous works that learn sparsity in models, we directly employ hand-crafted kernels with regular sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Chun-Fu Chen , Quanfu Fan , Marco Pistoia , Gwo Giun Lee

Reconstruction tasks in computer vision aim fundamentally to recover an undetermined signal from a set of noisy measurements. Examples include super-resolution, image denoising, and non-rigid structure from motion, all of which have seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Nathaniel Chodosh , Simon Lucey

Hyperspectral imaging systems collect and process information from specific wavelengths across the electromagnetic spectrum. The fusion of multi-spectral bands in the visible spectrum has been exploited to improve face recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Fariborz Taherkhani , Jeremy Dawson , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Inspired by the robustness and efficiency of sparse representation in sparse coding based image restoration models, we investigate the sparsity of neurons in deep networks. Our method structurally enforces sparsity constraints upon hidden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Yuchen Fan , Jiahui Yu , Yiqun Mei , Yulun Zhang , Yun Fu , Ding Liu , Thomas S. Huang

Whereas CNNs have demonstrated immense progress in many vision problems, they suffer from a dependence on monumental amounts of labeled training data. On the other hand, dictionary learning does not scale to the size of problems that CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Parker Koch , Jason J. Corso

Machine learning problems involving sparse datasets may benefit from the use of convolutional neural networks if the numbers of samples and features are very large. Such datasets are increasingly more frequently encountered in a variety of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-21 Baris Kanber

Convolutional networks are the de-facto standard for analyzing spatio-temporal data such as images, videos, and 3D shapes. Whilst some of this data is naturally dense (e.g., photos), many other data sources are inherently sparse. Examples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Benjamin Graham , Martin Engelcke , Laurens van der Maaten

Deepening and widening convolutional neural networks (CNNs) significantly increases the number of trainable weight parameters by adding more convolutional layers and feature maps per layer, respectively. By imposing inter- and intra-group…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Kevin Bui , Fredrick Park , Shuai Zhang , Yingyong Qi , Jack Xin

With the increasing demand to deploy convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on mobile platforms, the sparse kernel approach was proposed, which could save more parameters than the standard convolution while maintaining accuracy. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Kun Wan , Boyuan Feng , Shu Yang , Yufei Ding

Phenomenally successful in practical inference problems, convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely deployed in mobile devices, data centers, and even supercomputers. The number of parameters needed in CNNs, however, are often large and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Jongsoo Park , Sheng Li , Wei Wen , Ping Tak Peter Tang , Hai Li , Yiran Chen , Pradeep Dubey

In sparse coding, we attempt to extract features of input vectors, assuming that the data is inherently structured as a sparse superposition of basic building blocks. Similarly, neural networks perform a given task by learning features of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Deborah Pereg , Israel Cohen , Anthony A. Vassiliou

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been tremendously successful in solving imaging inverse problems. To understand their success, an effective strategy is to construct simpler and mathematically more tractable convolutional sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Tianlin Liu , Anadi Chaman , David Belius , Ivan Dokmanić

In this paper we propose a convolutional neural network that is designed to upsample a series of sparse range measurements based on the contextual cues gleaned from a high resolution intensity image. Our approach draws inspiration from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Shreyas S. Shivakumar , Ty Nguyen , Ian D. Miller , Steven W. Chen , Vijay Kumar , Camillo J. Taylor

This work introduces a new training and compression pipeline to build Nested Sparse ConvNets, a class of dynamic Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) suited for inference tasks deployed on resource-constrained devices at the edge of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Matteo Grimaldi , Luca Mocerino , Antonio Cipolletta , Andrea Calimera

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have led to many state-of-the-art results spanning through various fields. However, a clear and profound theoretical understanding of the forward pass, the core algorithm of CNN, is still lacking. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-02 Vardan Papyan , Yaniv Romano , Michael Elad

The learning capability of a neural network improves with increasing depth at higher computational costs. Wider layers with dense kernel connectivity patterns furhter increase this cost and may hinder real-time inference. We propose feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Sajid Anwar , Wonyong Sung

LiDAR depth maps provide environmental guidance in a variety of applications. However, such depth maps are typically sparse and insufficient for complex tasks such as autonomous navigation. State of the art methods use image guided neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Laurenz Reichardt , Patrick Mangat , Oliver Wasenmüller