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Tabular datasets are widely used in scientific disciplines such as biology. While these disciplines have already adopted AI methods to enhance their findings and analysis, they mainly use tree-based methods due to their interpretability. At…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Salvatore Raieli , Nathalie Jeanray , Stéphane Gerart , Sebastien Vachenc , Abdulrahman Altahhan

For many types of integrated circuits, accepting larger failure rates in computations can be used to improve energy efficiency. We study the performance of faulty implementations of certain deep neural networks based on pessimistic and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Jean-Charles Vialatte , François Leduc-Primeau

Small neural networks with a constrained number of trainable parameters, can be suitable resource-efficient candidates for many simple tasks, where now excessively large models are used. However, such models face several problems during the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Alexander Kovalenko , Pavel Kordík , Magda Friedjungová

Neuroevolution is a promising area of research that combines evolutionary algorithms with neural networks. A popular subclass of neuroevolutionary methods, called evolution strategies, relies on dense noise perturbations to mutate networks,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Tim Whitaker , Darrell Whitley

Hierarchical neural networks are exponentially more efficient than their corresponding "shallow" counterpart with the same expressive power, but involve huge number of parameters and require tedious amounts of training. By approximating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Bálint Daróczy , Rita Aleksziev , András Benczúr

Deep learning models are yielding increasingly better performances thanks to multiple factors. To be successful, model may have large number of parameters or complex architectures and be trained on large dataset. This leads to large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Jean-Roch Vlimant , Junqi Yin

Deep convolutional neural networks have proven to be well suited for image classification applications. However, if there is distortion in the image, the classification accuracy can be significantly degraded, even with state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Minho Ha , Younghoon Byeon , Youngjoo Lee , Sunggu Lee

Sparse neural networks are mainly motivated by ressource efficiency since they use fewer parameters than their dense counterparts but still reach comparable accuracies. This article empirically investigates whether sparsity could also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Antoine Gonon , Léon Zheng , Clément Lalanne , Quoc-Tung Le , Guillaume Lauga , Can Pouliquen

The performance of trained neural networks is robust to harsh levels of pruning. Coupled with the ever-growing size of deep learning models, this observation has motivated extensive research on learning sparse models. In this work, we focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jose Gallego-Posada , Juan Ramirez , Akram Erraqabi , Yoshua Bengio , Simon Lacoste-Julien

Neural networks have achieved remarkable performance in various application domains. Nevertheless, a large number of weights in pre-trained deep neural networks prohibit them from being deployed on smartphones and embedded systems. It is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Shibo Yao , Dantong Yu , Ioannis Koutis

The deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained edge devices such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) requires a careful balance of latency, power, and resource usage while maintaining high accuracy. Existing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Binglei Lou , Ruilin Wu , Philip Leong

Deep learning uses neural networks which are parameterised by their weights. The neural networks are usually trained by tuning the weights to directly minimise a given loss function. In this paper we propose to re-parameterise the weights…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Michael Fairbank , Spyridon Samothrakis , Luca Citi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are computationally/memory-intensive and vulnerable to adversarial attacks, making them prohibitive in some real-world applications. By converting dense models into sparse ones, pruning appears to be a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Yiwen Guo , Chao Zhang , Changshui Zhang , Yurong Chen

Deep learning has powered recent successes of artificial intelligence (AI). However, the deep neural network, as the basic model of deep learning, has suffered from issues such as local traps and miscalibration. In this paper, we provide a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-03 Yan Sun , Wenjun Xiong , Faming Liang

The unwavering success of deep learning in the past decade led to the increasing prevalence of deep learning methods in various application fields. However, the downsides of deep learning, most prominently its lack of trustworthiness, may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Holger Boche , Vit Fojtik , Adalbert Fono , Gitta Kutyniok

The compression of deep neural networks (DNNs) to reduce inference cost becomes increasingly important to meet realistic deployment requirements of various applications. There have been a significant amount of work regarding network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Tianyi Chen , Bo Ji , Yixin Shi , Tianyu Ding , Biyi Fang , Sheng Yi , Xiao Tu

Pruning of deep neural networks has been an effective technique for reducing model size while preserving most of the performance of dense networks, crucial for deploying models on memory and power-constrained devices. While recent sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Andy Li , Aiden Durrant , Milan Markovic , Tianjin Huang , Souvik Kundu , Tianlong Chen , Lu Yin , Georgios Leontidis

Deep neural networks have seen enormous success in various real-world applications. Beyond their predictions as point estimates, increasing attention has been focused on quantifying the uncertainty of their predictions. In this review, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Chengyu Dong

Sparse tensors are prevalent in many data-intensive applications, yet existing differentiable programming frameworks are tailored towards dense tensors. This presents a significant challenge for efficiently computing gradients through…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Amir Shaikhha , Mathieu Huot , Shideh Hashemian

While CNNs naturally lend themselves to densely sampled data, and sophisticated implementations are available, they lack the ability to efficiently process sparse data. In this work we introduce a suite of tools that exploit sparsity in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Timo Hackel , Mikhail Usvyatsov , Silvano Galliani , Jan D. Wegner , Konrad Schindler