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We show how neural models can be used to realize piece-wise constant functions such as decision trees. The proposed architecture, which we call locally constant networks, builds on ReLU networks that are piece-wise linear and hence their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Guang-He Lee , Tommi S. Jaakkola

We develop a diagrammatic approach to effective field theories (EFTs) corresponding to deep neural networks at initialization, which dramatically simplifies computations of finite-width corrections to neuron statistics. The structures of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-12 Ian Banta , Tianji Cai , Nathaniel Craig , Zhengkang Zhang

Graph domain adaptation (GDA) is a fundamental task in graph machine learning, with techniques like shift-robust graph neural networks (GNNs) and specialized training procedures to tackle the distribution shift problem. Although these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Ting-Wei Li , Ruizhong Qiu , Hanghang Tong

This report extends the Spectral Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning (Spectral NSR) framework by introducing three semantically grounded enhancements: (1) transformer-based node merging using contextual embeddings (e.g., Sentence-BERT, SimCSE) to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Andrew Kiruluta , Priscilla Burity

We consider conducting inference on the output of the Classification and Regression Tree (CART) [Breiman et al., 1984] algorithm. A naive approach to inference that does not account for the fact that the tree was estimated from the data…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-19 Anna C. Neufeld , Lucy L. Gao , Daniela M. Witten

Recent years have seen a surge in research on deep interpretable neural networks with decision trees as one of the most commonly incorporated tools. There are at least three advantages of using decision trees over logistic regression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Łukasz Struski , Tomasz Danel , Marek Śmieja , Jacek Tabor , Bartosz Zieliński

Deep learning models have proven to be exceptionally useful in performing many machine learning tasks. However, for each new dataset, choosing an effective size and structure of the model can be a time-consuming process of trial and error.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Roozbeh Yousefzadeh , Dianne P O'Leary

We investigate the problem of active learning on a given tree whose nodes are assigned binary labels in an adversarial way. Inspired by recent results by Guillory and Bilmes, we characterize (up to constant factors) the optimal placement of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi , Claudio Gentile , Fabio Vitale , Giovanni Zappella

Bayesian Additive Regression Trees [BART, Chipman et al., 2010] have gained significant popularity due to their remarkable predictive performance and ability to quantify uncertainty. However, standard decision tree models rely on recursive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-20 Stamatina Lamprinakou , Huiyan Sang , Bledar A. Konomi , Ligang Lu

We propose Nester, a method for injecting neural networks into constrained structured predictors. The job of the neural network(s) is to compute an initial, raw prediction that is compatible with the input data but does not necessarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Paolo Dragone , Stefano Teso , Andrea Passerini

Convolutional Neural Networks experience catastrophic forgetting when optimized on a sequence of learning problems: as they meet the objective of the current training examples, their performance on previous tasks drops drastically. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Davide Abati , Jakub Tomczak , Tijmen Blankevoort , Simone Calderara , Rita Cucchiara , Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely studied for graph data representation and learning. However, existing GNNs generally conduct context-aware learning on node feature representation only which usually ignores the learning of edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Bo Jiang , Leiling Wang , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

We introduce the Distributed-order fRActional Graph Operating Network (DRAGON), a novel continuous Graph Neural Network (GNN) framework that incorporates distributed-order fractional calculus. Unlike traditional continuous GNNs that utilize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Kai Zhao , Xuhao Li , Qiyu Kang , Feng Ji , Qinxu Ding , Yanan Zhao , Wenfei Liang , Wee Peng Tay

We study a mathematical model of biological neuronal networks composed by any finite number $N \geq 2$ of non necessarily identical cells. The model is a deterministic dynamical system governed by finite-dimensional impulsive differential…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-11-19 Eleonora Catsigeras

While deep neural networks have achieved impressive performance on a range of NLP tasks, these data-hungry models heavily rely on labeled data, which restricts their applications in scenarios where data annotation is expensive. Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Ziqi Wang , Yujia Qin , Wenxuan Zhou , Jun Yan , Qinyuan Ye , Leonardo Neves , Zhiyuan Liu , Xiang Ren

We introduce a novel Dynamic Graph Neural Network (DGNN) architecture for solving conditional $m$-steps ahead forecasting problems in temporal financial networks. The proposed DGNN is validated on simulated data from a temporal financial…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-10-31 Matteo Citterio , Marco D'Errico , Gabriele Visentin

All industries are trying to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on their existing big data which is available in so called tabular form, where each record is composed of a number of heterogeneous continuous and categorical columns…

We introduce the FRactional-Order graph Neural Dynamical network (FROND), a new continuous graph neural network (GNN) framework. Unlike traditional continuous GNNs that rely on integer-order differential equations, FROND employs the Caputo…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Qiyu Kang , Kai Zhao , Qinxu Ding , Feng Ji , Xuhao Li , Wenfei Liang , Yang Song , Wee Peng Tay

Graph-structured data ubiquitously appears in science and engineering. Graph neural networks (GNNs) are designed to exploit the relational inductive bias exhibited in graphs; they have been shown to outperform other forms of neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Veronika Thost , Jie Chen

In this paper, we propose a novel activation function tailored specifically for graph data in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Motivated by the need for graph-adaptive and flexible activation functions, we introduce DiGRAF, leveraging…