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Continual learning is the ability to acquire new knowledge without forgetting the previously learned one, assuming no further access to past training data. Neural network approximators trained with gradient descent are known to fail in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Rodrigue Siry

Capsule Network (CapsNet) classifier has several advantages over CNNs, including better detection of images containing overlapping categories and higher accuracy on transformed images. Despite the advantages, CapsNet is slow due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Pouya Shiri , Amirali Baniasadi

Capsule networks are biologically inspired neural networks that group neurons into vectors called capsules, each explicitly representing an object or one of its parts. The routing mechanism connects capsules in consecutive layers, forming a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Riccardo Renzulli , Enzo Tartaglione , Marco Grangetto

In deep learning, mini-batch training is commonly used to optimize network parameters. However, the traditional mini-batch method may not learn the under-represented samples and complex patterns in the data, leading to a longer time for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Subin Sahayam , John Zakkam , Umarani Jayaraman

We propose prototypical networks for the problem of few-shot classification, where a classifier must generalize to new classes not seen in the training set, given only a small number of examples of each new class. Prototypical networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Jake Snell , Kevin Swersky , Richard S. Zemel

We exploit a recently derived inversion scheme for arbitrary deep neural networks to develop a new semi-supervised learning framework that applies to a wide range of systems and problems. The approach outperforms current state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Randall Balestriero , Vincent Roger , Herve G. Glotin , Richard G. Baraniuk

In this paper, we propose a capsule-based neural network model to solve the semantic segmentation problem. By taking advantage of the extractable part-whole dependencies available in capsule layers, we derive the probabilities of the class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Tao Sun , Zhewei Wang , C. D. Smith , Jundong Liu

Capsule networks (CapsNets) are superior at modeling hierarchical spatial relationships but suffer from two critical limitations: high computational cost due to iterative dynamic routing and poor robustness under input corruptions. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Canqun Xiang , Chen Yang , Jiaoyan Zhao

In this paper, we formalize the idea behind capsule nets of using a capsule vector rather than a neuron activation to predict the label of samples. To this end, we propose to learn a group of capsule subspaces onto which an input feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Liheng Zhang , Marzieh Edraki , Guo-Jun Qi

Deep learning-based methods in computational microscopy have been shown to be powerful but in general face some challenges due to limited generalization to new types of samples and requirements for large and diverse training data. Here, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-13 Luzhe Huang , Xilin Yang , Tairan Liu , Aydogan Ozcan

Capsule Networks have shown tremendous advancement in the past decade, outperforming the traditional CNNs in various task due to it's equivariant properties. With the use of vector I/O which provides information of both magnitude and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Harsh Panwar , Ioannis Patras

The online learning of deep neural networks is an interesting problem of machine learning because, for example, major IT companies want to manage the information of the massive data uploaded on the web daily, and this technology can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Sang-Woo Lee , Min-Oh Heo , Jiwon Kim , Jeonghee Kim , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Image classification is a challenging problem which aims to identify the category of object in the image. In recent years, deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been applied to handle this task, and impressive improvement has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Hao Ren , Jianlin Su , Hong Lu

We introduce techniques for rapidly transferring the information stored in one neural net into another neural net. The main purpose is to accelerate the training of a significantly larger neural net. During real-world workflows, one often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Tianqi Chen , Ian Goodfellow , Jonathon Shlens

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown remarkable results over the last several years for a wide range of computer vision tasks. A new architecture recently introduced by Sabour et al., referred to as a capsule networks with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-15 Rodney LaLonde , Ulas Bagci

A capsule is a collection of neurons which represents different variants of a pattern in the network. The routing scheme ensures only certain capsules which resemble lower counterparts in the higher layer should be activated. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Hongyang Li , Xiaoyang Guo , Bo Dai , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang

We show that unsupervised training of latent capsule layers using only the reconstruction loss, without masking to select the correct output class, causes a loss of equivariances and other desirable capsule qualities. This implies that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 David Rawlinson , Abdelrahman Ahmed , Gideon Kowadlo

Capsule Network (CapsNet) has shown significant improvement in understanding the variation in images along with better generalization ability compared to traditional Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). CapsNet preserves spatial relationship…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Abdul Rahoof , Vivek Chaturvedi , Muhammad Shafique

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become a key asset to most of fields in AI. Despite their successful performance, CNNs suffer from a major drawback. They fail to capture the hierarchy of spatial relation among different parts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Marzieh Edraki , Nazanin Rahnavard , Mubarak Shah

We use the EMNIST dataset of handwritten digits to test a simple approach for few-shot learning. A fully connected neural network is pre-trained with a subset of the 10 digits and used for few-shot learning with untrained digits. Two basic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Detlef Schmicker