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Probabilistic inference is a fundamental task in modern machine learning. Recent advances in tensor network (TN) contraction algorithms have enabled the development of better exact inference methods. However, many common inference tasks in…

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Neural Networks (NNs) have provided state-of-the-art results for many challenging machine learning tasks such as detection, regression and classification across the domains of computer vision, speech recognition and natural language…

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This paper presents the concept of "model-based neural network"(MNN), which is inspired by the classic artificial neural network (ANN) but for different usages. Instead of being used as a data-driven classifier, a MNN serves as a modeling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Yi Jiang , Tianyi Zhang , Wei Zhang

Probabilistic power flow (PPF) plays a critical role in power system analysis. However, the high computational burden makes it challenging for the practical implementation of PPF. This paper proposes a model-based deep learning approach to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Yan Yang , Zhifang Yang , Juan Yu , Baosen Zhang

We present a numerical scheme for computation of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) weights, which stems from the Universal Approximation Theorem, avoiding laborious iterations. The proposed algorithm adheres to the underlying theory, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Nikolaos P. Bakas , Andreas Langousis , Mihalis Nicolaou , Savvas A. Chatzichristofis

We propose a novel class of neural network-like parametrized functions, i.e., general transformation neural networks (GTNNs), for high-dimensional approximation. Conventional deep neural networks sometimes perform less accurately on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Xiaoyang Wang , Yiqi Gu

Compared to point estimates calculated by standard neural networks, Bayesian neural networks (BNN) provide probability distributions over the output predictions and model parameters, i.e., the weights. Training the weight distribution of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Philipp Wagner , Xinyang Wu , Marco F. Huber

Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and its variations such as Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), have become standard building blocks for learning online data of sequential nature in many research areas, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Enmao Diao , Jie Ding , Vahid Tarokh

Considering a probability distribution over parameters is known as an efficient strategy to learn a neural network with non-differentiable activation functions. We study the expectation of a probabilistic neural network as a predictor by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Louis Fortier-Dubois , Gaël Letarte , Benjamin Leblanc , François Laviolette , Pascal Germain

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are a class of neural networks used in sequential tasks. However, in general, RNNs have a large number of parameters and involve enormous computational costs by repeating the recurrent structures in many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-25 Takashi Furuya , Kazuma Suetake , Koichi Taniguchi , Hiroyuki Kusumoto , Ryuji Saiin , Tomohiro Daimon

An artificial neural network is presented based on the idea of connections between units that are only active for a specific range of input values and zero outside that range (and so are not evaluated outside the active range). The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-15 John Loverich

We present PFNN, a penalty-free neural network method, to efficiently solve a class of second-order boundary-value problems on complex geometries. To reduce the smoothness requirement, the original problem is reformulated to a weak form so…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Hailong Sheng , Chao Yang

The process of training feedforward neural networks (FFNNs) can benefit from an automated process where the best heuristic to train the network is sought out automatically by means of a high-level probabilistic-based heuristic. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Arné Schreuder , Anna Bosman , Andries Engelbrecht , Christopher Cleghorn

Among interpretable machine learning methods, the class of Generalised Additive Neural Networks (GANNs) is referred to as Self-Explaining Neural Networks (SENN) because of the linear dependence on explicit functions of the inputs. In binary…

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Infinitely wide or deep neural networks (NNs) with independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) parameters have been shown to be equivalent to Gaussian processes. Because of the favorable properties of Gaussian processes, this…

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Approximate computing offers promising energy efficiency benefits for error-tolerant applications, but discovering optimal approximations requires extensive design space exploration (DSE). Predicting the accuracy of circuits composed of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Ondrej Vlcek , Vojtech Mrazek

Artificial neural networks (NNs) have become the de facto standard in machine learning. They allow learning highly nonlinear transformations in a plethora of applications. However, NNs usually only provide point estimates without…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-11 Marco F. Huber

The limitations of purely neural learning have sparked an interest in probabilistic neurosymbolic models, which combine neural networks with probabilistic logical reasoning. As these neurosymbolic models are trained with gradient descent,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Jaron Maene , Vincent Derkinderen , Luc De Raedt

In many real-world problems, there is a limited set of training data, but an abundance of unlabeled data. We propose a new method, Generative Posterior Networks (GPNs), that uses unlabeled data to estimate epistemic uncertainty in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Melrose Roderick , Felix Berkenkamp , Fatemeh Sheikholeslami , Zico Kolter

After observing a snapshot of a social network, a link prediction (LP) algorithm identifies node pairs between which new edges will likely materialize in future. Most LP algorithms estimate a score for currently non-neighboring node pairs,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Indradyumna Roy , Abir De , Soumen Chakrabarti