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Scaling network depth has been a central driver behind the success of modern foundation models, yet recent investigations suggest that deep layers are often underutilized. This paper revisits the default mechanism for deepening neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yilang Zhang , Bingcong Li , Niao He , Georgios B. Giannakis

Many transformations in deep learning architectures are sparsely connected. When such transformations cannot be designed by hand, they can be learned, even through plain backpropagation, for instance in attention mechanisms. However, during…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-23 Peter Bloem

This work attempts to interpret modern deep (convolutional) networks from the principles of rate reduction and (shift) invariant classification. We show that the basic iterative gradient ascent scheme for optimizing the rate reduction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Kwan Ho Ryan Chan , Yaodong Yu , Chong You , Haozhi Qi , John Wright , Yi Ma

In the stereo matching task, matching cost aggregation is crucial in both traditional methods and deep neural network models in order to accurately estimate disparities. We propose two novel neural net layers, aimed at capturing local and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Feihu Zhang , Victor Prisacariu , Ruigang Yang , Philip H. S. Torr

Sparse connectivity is an important factor behind the success of convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks. In this paper, we consider the problem of learning sparse connectivity for feedforward neural networks (FNNs). The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Xiaopeng Li , Zhourong Chen , Nevin L. Zhang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) increase depth by stacking convolutional layers, and deeper network models perform better in image recognition. Empirical research shows that simply stacking convolutional layers does not make the network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Rui-Yang Ju , Jen-Shiun Chiang , Chih-Chia Chen , Yu-Shian Lin

Despite their unmatched performance, deep neural networks remain susceptible to targeted attacks by nearly imperceptible levels of adversarial noise. While the underlying cause of this sensitivity is not well understood, theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 George Cazenavette , Calvin Murdock , Simon Lucey

The trend towards increasingly deep neural networks has been driven by a general observation that increasing depth increases the performance of a network. Recently, however, evidence has been amassing that simply increasing depth may not be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Zifeng Wu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Although sparse neural networks have been studied extensively, the focus has been primarily on accuracy. In this work, we focus instead on network structure, and analyze three popular algorithms. We first measure performance when structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Maxwell Van Gelder , Mitchell Wortsman , Kiana Ehsani

There is currently a large gap in performance between the statistically rigorous methods like linear regression or additive splines and the powerful deep methods using neural networks. Previous works attempting to close this gap have failed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 James Enouen , Yan Liu

Existing approaches to increasing the effective depth of Transformers predominantly rely on parameter reuse, extending computation through recursive execution. Under this paradigm, the network structure remains static along the training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yao Chen , Yilong Chen , Yinqi Yang , Junyuan Shang , Zhenyu Zhang , Zefeng Zhang , Shuaiyi Nie , Shuohuan Wang , Yu Sun , Hua Wu , HaiFeng Wang , Tingwen Liu

Sparsity in the structure of Neural Networks can lead to less energy consumption, less memory usage, faster computation times on convenient hardware, and automated machine learning. If sparsity gives rise to certain kinds of structure, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Julian Stier , Harshil Darji , Michael Granitzer

Deep learning techniques have been successfully applied in many areas of computer vision, including low-level image restoration problems. For image super-resolution, several models based on deep neural networks have been recently proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Zhaowen Wang , Ding Liu , Jianchao Yang , Wei Han , Thomas Huang

Compression of convolutional neural network models has recently been dominated by pruning approaches. A class of previous works focuses solely on pruning the unimportant filters to achieve network compression. Another important direction is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Tariq M. Khan , Syed S. Naqvi , Antonio Robles-Kelly , Erik Meijering

Deep convolutional neural networks achieve remarkable visual recognition performance, at the cost of high computational complexity. In this paper, we have a new design of efficient convolutional layers based on three schemes. The 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Min Wang , Baoyuan Liu , Hassan Foroosh

Convolutional Neural Networks need the construction of informative features, which are determined by channel-wise and spatial-wise information at the network's layers. In this research, we focus on bringing in a novel solution that uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Jerrin Bright , Suryaprakash Rajkumar , Arockia Selvakumar Arockia Doss

Generally, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) process data on a regular grid, e.g. data generated by ordinary cameras. Designing CNNs for sparse and irregularly spaced input data is still an open research problem with numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Michael Felsberg , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

The rise of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has led to an increase in model size and complexity, straining the memory capacity of GPUs. Sparsity in DNNs, characterized as structural or ephemeral, has gained attention as a solution. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Daniel Barley , Holger Fröning

The over-parametrized nature of Deep Neural Networks leads to considerable hindrances during deployment on low-end devices with time and space constraints. Network pruning strategies that sparsify DNNs using iterative prune-train schemes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Arvind Subramaniam , Avinash Sharma

Capsule networks are a type of neural network that have recently gained increased popularity. They consist of groups of neurons, called capsules, which encode properties of objects or object parts. The connections between capsules encrypt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Josef Gugglberger , David Peer , Antonio Rodriguez-Sanchez