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In this paper we introduce a novel Salience Affected Artificial Neural Network (SANN) that models the way neuromodulators such as dopamine and noradrenaline affect neural dynamics in the human brain by being distributed diffusely through…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Leendert A Remmelzwaal , George F R Ellis , Jonathan Tapson , Amit K Mishra

This paper expresses the structure of artificial neural network (ANN) as a functional form, using the activation integral concept derived from the activation function. In this way, the structure of ANN can be represented by a simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhongkui Ma

Random feature (RF) method is a powerful kernel approximation technique, but is typically equipped with fixed activation functions, limiting its adaptability across diverse tasks. To overcome this limitation, we introduce the Random Feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Zailin Ma , Jiansheng Yang , Yaodong Yang

Despite broad interest in applying deep learning techniques to scientific discovery, learning interpretable formulas that accurately describe scientific data is very challenging because of the vast landscape of possible functions and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Fuchang Gao , Boyu Zhang

Achieving fully autonomous exploration and navigation remains a critical challenge in robotics, requiring integrated solutions for localisation, mapping, decision-making and motion planning. Existing approaches either rely on strict…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Daria de Tinguy , Tim Verbelen , Emilio Gamba , Bart Dhoedt

Artificial neural network (ANN) is a very useful tool in solving learning problems. Boosting the performances of ANN can be mainly concluded from two aspects: optimizing the architecture of ANN and normalizing the raw data for ANN. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Qingjiu Zhang , Shiliang Sun

In the architecture of deep learning models, inspired by biological neurons, activation functions (AFs) play a pivotal role. They significantly influence the performance of artificial neural networks. By modulating the non-linear properties…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 M. M. Hammad

A CORDIC-based configuration for the design of Activation Functions (AF) was previously suggested to accelerate ASIC hardware design for resource-constrained systems by providing functional reconfigurability. Since its introduction, this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Omkar Kokane , Gopal Raut , Salim Ullah , Mukul Lokhande , Adam Teman , Akash Kumar , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

Deep learning at its core, contains functions that are composition of a linear transformation with a non-linear function known as activation function. In past few years, there is an increasing interest in construction of novel activation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Koushik Biswas , Sandeep Kumar , Shilpak Banerjee , Ashish Kumar Pandey

Activation functions (AFs), which are pivotal to the success (or failure) of a neural network, have received increased attention in recent years, with researchers seeking to design novel AFs that improve some aspect of network performance.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Moshe Sipper

We study the influence of different activation functions in the output layer of deep neural network models for soft and hard label prediction in the learning with disagreement task. In this task, the goal is to quantify the amount of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Peyman Hosseini , Mehran Hosseini , Sana Sabah Al-Azzawi , Marcus Liwicki , Ignacio Castro , Matthew Purver

Despite its great success, backpropagation has certain limitations that necessitate the investigation of new learning methods. In this study, we present a biologically plausible local learning rule that improves upon Hebb's well-known…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Hongchao Zhou

The activation function plays a crucial role in model optimisation, yet the optimal choice remains unclear. For example, the Sigmoid activation is the de-facto activation in balanced classification tasks, however, in imbalanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Konstantinos Panagiotis Alexandridis , Jiankang Deng , Anh Nguyen , Shan Luo

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are rapidly being applied to safety-critical domains such as drone and airplane control, motivating techniques for verifying the safety of their behavior. Unfortunately, DNN verification is NP-hard, with current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Matthew Sotoudeh , Aditya V. Thakur

A wide variety of activation functions have been proposed for neural networks. The Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) is especially popular today. There are many practical reasons that motivate the use of the ReLU. This paper provides new…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-19 Rahul Parhi , Robert D. Nowak

The use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) as a classifier of digital spectra is investigated. Using both simulated and real data, it is shown that neural networks can be trained to discriminate between the spectra of different classes of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Daya M. Rawson , Jeremy Bailey , Paul J. Francis

We introduce our project, AGNSTRONG (Active Galactic Nuclei and STaR fOrmation in Nearby Galaxies). Our research goals encompass investigating the kinematic properties of ionized and molecular gas outflows, understanding the impact of AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-16 Huynh Anh N. Le , Chen Qin , Yongquan Xue , Shifu Zhu , Kim Ngan N. Nguyen , Ruisong Xia , Xiaozhi Lin

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are bio-inspired models of neural computation that have proven highly effective. Still, ANNs lack a natural notion of time, and neural units in ANNs exchange analog values in a frame-based manner, a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Davide Zambrano , Roeland Nusselder , H. Steven Scholte , Sander Bohte

Supervised classification is the most active and emerging research trends in today's scenario. In this view, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) techniques have been widely employed and growing interest to the researchers day by day. ANN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Arijit Nandi , Nanda Dulal Jana

Deep Learning has revolutionized vision via convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and natural language processing via recurrent neural networks (RNNs). However, success stories of Deep Learning with standard feed-forward neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Günter Klambauer , Thomas Unterthiner , Andreas Mayr , Sepp Hochreiter