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We study the performance of stochastically trained deep neural networks (DNNs) whose synaptic weights are implemented using emerging memristive devices that exhibit limited dynamic range, resolution, and variability in their programming…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-13 Anakha V Babu , Bipin Rajendran

Training a neural network (NN) typically relies on some type of curve-following method, such as gradient descent (GD) (and stochastic gradient descent (SGD)), ADADELTA, ADAM or limited memory algorithms. Convergence for these algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Michael A Kouritzin , Stephen Styles , Beatrice-Helen Vritsiou

In recent years, deep neural networks have achieved great success in the field of computer vision. However, it is still a big challenge to deploy these deep models on resource-constrained embedded devices such as mobile robots, smart phones…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Yiming Hu , Siyang Sun , Jianquan Li , Xingang Wang , Qingyi Gu

Although Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have exhibited the powerful ability to gather graph-structured information from neighborhood nodes via various message-passing mechanisms, the performance of GNNs is limited by poor generalization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Zhaoliang Chen , Zhihao Wu , Ylli Sadikaj , Claudia Plant , Hong-Ning Dai , Shiping Wang , Yiu-Ming Cheung , Wenzhong Guo

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been proven to be effective in solving many real-life problems, but its high computation cost prohibits those models from being deployed to edge devices. Pruning, as a method to introduce zeros to model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Fei Sun , Minghai Qin , Tianyun Zhang , Xiaolong Ma , Haoran Li , Junwen Luo , Zihao Zhao , Yen-Kuang Chen , Yuan Xie

This paper proposes a hardware-oriented dropout algorithm, which is efficient for field programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation. In deep neural networks (DNNs), overfitting occurs when networks are overtrained and adapt too well to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Yoeng Jye Yeoh , Takashi Morie , Hakaru Tamukoh

Deep neural network (DNN) generally takes thousands of iterations to optimize via gradient descent and thus has a slow convergence. In addition, softmax, as a decision layer, may ignore the distribution information of the data during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Rui Zhang , Ziheng Jiao , Hongyuan Zhang , Xuelong Li

Deep neural network (DNN) based approaches hold significant potential for reinforcement learning (RL) and have already shown remarkable gains over state-of-art methods in a number of applications. The effectiveness of DNN methods can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-01 Henghui Zhu , Feng Nan , Ioannis Paschalidis , Venkatesh Saligrama

During the forward pass of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), inputs gradually transformed from low-level features to high-level conceptual labels. While features at different layers could summarize the important factors of the inputs at varying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Haoliang Wang , Chen Zhao , Xujiang Zhao , Feng Chen

This letter proposes a deep neural network (DNN)-based neuro-adaptive sliding mode control (SMC) strategy for leader-follower tracking in multi-agent systems with higher-order, heterogeneous, nonlinear, and unknown dynamics under external…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Khushal Chaudhari , Krishanu Nath , Manas Kumar Bera

Large neural networks are typically trained for a fixed computational budget, creating a rigid trade-off between performance and efficiency that is ill-suited for deployment in resource-constrained or dynamic environments. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Paulius Rauba , Mihaela van der Schaar

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable performance on diverse graph mining tasks. Although different GNNs can be unified as the same message passing framework, they learn complementary knowledge from the same graph. Knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Zhichun Guo , Chunhui Zhang , Yujie Fan , Yijun Tian , Chuxu Zhang , Nitesh Chawla

Despite the notable success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in solving complex tasks, the training process still remains considerable challenges. A primary obstacle is the substantial time required for training, particularly as high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Viet Hoang Pham , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Deep neural networks (DNN) has received increasing attention in machine learning applications in the last several years. Recently, a non-asymptotic error bound has been developed to measure the performance of the fully connected DNN…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-15 Kejin Wu , Dimitris N. Politis

Recently, DNN model compression based on network architecture design, e.g., SqueezeNet, attracted a lot attention. No accuracy drop on image classification is observed on these extremely compact networks, compared to well-known models. An…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Chunpeng Wu , Wei Wen , Tariq Afzal , Yongmei Zhang , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

To deal with various datasets over different complexity, this paper presents an self-adaptive learning model that combines the proposed Dynamic Connected Neural Decision Networks (DNDN) and a new pruning method--Dynamic Soft Pruning (DSP).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Xinyu Fan

Deep neural networks are among the most widely applied machine learning tools showing outstanding performance in a broad range of tasks. We present a method for folding a deep neural network of arbitrary size into a single neuron with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Florian Stelzer , André Röhm , Raul Vicente , Ingo Fischer , Serhiy Yanchuk

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are so over-parametrized that recent research has found them to already contain a subnetwork with high accuracy at their randomly initialized state. Finding these subnetworks is a viable alternative training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Ángel López García-Arias , Masanori Hashimoto , Masato Motomura , Jaehoon Yu

Standard deep neural networks (DNNs) are commonly trained in an end-to-end fashion for specific tasks such as object recognition, face identification, or character recognition, among many examples. This specificity often leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Raphaël Achddou , J. Matias di Martino , Guillermo Sapiro

Developmental plasticity plays a prominent role in shaping the brain's structure during ongoing learning in response to dynamically changing environments. However, the existing network compression methods for deep artificial neural networks…

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