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Measurements acquired from distributed physical systems are often sparse and noisy. Therefore, signal processing and system identification tools are required to mitigate noise effects and reconstruct unobserved dynamics from limited sensor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Omid Sedehi , Manish Yadav , Merten Stender , Sebastian Oberst

For the past few years, Deep Neural Network (DNN) robustness has become a question of paramount importance. As a matter of fact, in sensitive settings misclassification can lead to dramatic consequences. Such misclassifications are likely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Carlos Eduardo Rosar Kos Lassance , Vincent Gripon , Antonio Ortega

Inspired by the adaptation phenomenon of neuronal firing, we propose the regularity normalization (RN) as an unsupervised attention mechanism (UAM) which computes the statistical regularity in the implicit space of neural networks under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Baihan Lin

To be effective in sequential data processing, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are required to keep track of past events by creating memories. While the relation between memories and the network's hidden state dynamics was established over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Doron Haviv , Alexander Rivkind , Omri Barak

Noise injection (NI) is an efficient technique to mitigate over-fitting in neural networks (NNs). The Bernoulli NI procedure as implemented in dropout and shakeout has connections with $l_1$ and $l_2$ regularization for the NN model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-28 Yinan Li , Fang Liu

Today, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are the leading method for image denoising. They are traditionally trained on pairs of images, which are often hard to obtain for practical applications. This motivates self-supervised training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Alexander Krull , Tomas Vicar , Florian Jug

Spiking neural networks are a promising approach towards next-generation models of the brain in computational neuroscience. Moreover, compared to classic artificial neural networks, they could serve as an energy-efficient deployment of AI…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Justus F. Hübotter , Pablo Lanillos , Jakub M. Tomczak

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel in many visual tasks but remain susceptible to adversarial attacks-imperceptible perturbations that degrade performance. Prior research reveals that brain-inspired regularizers, derived from neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Elie Attias , Cengiz Pehlevan , Dina Obeid

Despite the impressive performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) on numerous vision tasks, they still exhibit yet-to-understand uncouth behaviours. One puzzling behaviour is the subtle sensitive reaction of DNNs to various noise attacks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Modar Alfadly , Adel Bibi , Bernard Ghanem

Encouraged by the success of deep learning in a variety of domains, we investigate the suitability and effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) in a domain where deep learning has not yet been used; namely detecting confusion from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Shane D. Sims , Vanessa Putnam , Cristina Conati

In this paper, we study the problem of learning image classification models in the presence of label noise. We revisit a simple compression regularization named Nested Dropout. We find that Nested Dropout, though originally proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Yingyi Chen , Xi Shen , Shell Xu Hu , Johan A. K. Suykens

Data assisted reconstruction algorithms, incorporating trained neural networks, are a novel paradigm for solving inverse problems. One approach is to first apply a classical reconstruction method and then apply a neural network to improve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-26 Yoeri E. Boink , Markus Haltmeier , Sean Holman , Johannes Schwab

Adaptive video streaming optimizes Quality of Experience (QoE) metrics by selecting appropriate bitrates according to varying network bandwidth and user demands. In practice, however, real-world network bandwidth often exhibits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zhiqiang He , Zhi Liu

Finding sparse solutions of underdetermined linear systems commonly requires the solving of L1 regularized least squares minimization problem, which is also known as the basis pursuit denoising (BPDN). They are computationally expensive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Kun Qian , Yuanyuan Wang , Peter Jung , Yilei Shi , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Multiplicative noise, including dropout, is widely used to regularize deep neural networks (DNNs), and is shown to be effective in a wide range of architectures and tasks. From an information perspective, we consider injecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Zijun Zhang , Yining Zhang , Zongpeng Li

We propose an end-to-end model based on convolutional and recurrent neural networks for speech enhancement. Our model is purely data-driven and does not make any assumptions about the type or the stationarity of the noise. In contrast to…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Han Zhao , Shuayb Zarar , Ivan Tashev , Chin-Hui Lee

Methods to certify the robustness of neural networks in the presence of input uncertainty are vital in safety-critical settings. Most certification methods in the literature are designed for adversarial or worst-case inputs, but researchers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Brendon G. Anderson , Somayeh Sojoudi

A large fraction of textual data available today contains various types of 'noise', such as OCR noise in digitized documents, noise due to informal writing style of users on microblogging sites, and so on. To enable tasks such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Anurag Roy , Shalmoli Ghosh , Kripabandhu Ghosh , Saptarshi Ghosh

Certain biological neurons demonstrate a remarkable capability to optimally compress the history of sensory inputs while being maximally informative about the future. In this work, we investigate if the same can be said of artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Zhe Dong , Deniz Oktay , Ben Poole , Alexander A. Alemi

Uncertainty quantification is vital for decision-making and risk assessment in machine learning. Mean-variance regression models, which predict both a mean and residual noise for each data point, provide a simple approach to uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-01 Eliot Wong-Toi , Alex Boyd , Vincent Fortuin , Stephan Mandt